No Sir, I do not understand your email.

I am an intern at a VC firm and I do not understand my boss's emails. I am not talking about a particular email- I do not understand any of them. I have to spend like 2 hours trying to decipher what hell he is talking about.

His emails are extremely short since he loves to help the environment by conserve word use. He tries give me a project to work on and I have no clue what he is talking about. I understand you are busy but you can't tell me what to do on 2 week-long assignment using only like 6 words. He also refers to documents that doesn't exist or at least I have no clue what he is referring to.

When I send him a follow up email clarifying, he often responds by telling me to refer to his original message. ME NO UNDERSTAND in the first place!!!

COME ON MAN, GET IT TOGETHER! As a result, I have to sit at 4AM thinking and trying to decipher your da vinci code email in order finish my project.

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Write him back an email with an explanation as to what you think he is asking of you. That way he can respond with a yes or a no and not feel like he needs to re-explain everything.

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CatchTheDayI am an intern at a VC firm and I do not understand my boss's emails. I am not talking about a particular email- I do not understand any of them. I have to spend like 2 hours trying to decipher what hell he is talking about.

His emails are extremely short since he loves to help the environment by conserve word use. He tries give me a project to work on and I have no clue what he is talking about. I understand you are busy but you can't tell me what to do on 2 week-long assignment using only like 6 words. He also refers to documents that doesn't exist or at least I have no clue what he is referring to.

When I send him a follow up email clarifying, he often responds by telling me to refer to his original message. ME NO UNDERSTAND in the first place!!!

COME ON MAN, GET IT TOGETHER! As a result, I have to sit at 4AM thinking and trying to decipher your da vinci code email in order finish my project.

I say you stab him to death, then play around with his blood. This will clearly show your co-workers that you don't appreciate shitty email etiquette. Problem solved.

 

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