I love the fact that all the emails I get at work are of a relatively similar style, mood, and format. And because almost all of them originate in Lotus Notes, then they typically have the same look and feel and I love consistency which to me makes them easier to work with.
Now that I'm about to leave IBM I'm having a lot more dealings with people from all kinds of organizations sending me emails from a myriad of different systems and the inconsistency can be staggering. People use all sort of weird fonts, some write them as if they're text messages, some as if they're letters, and other write them in a very officious style, others use a very loose style. This all seems to make some of them quite hard to deal with for some strange reason. I guess it's because I'm used to responding in a consistent style and now I find I need to temper my response to the original email which just slows down the whole process.
Just one of the things I guess I'll need to get used to post IBM!
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