One of my absolute horrors in business, is when people use capital words to emphasize how strongly they feel about something . How wild it makes them feel. How much they want you to do something for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I get a nervous fit everytime I see it. To me it’s like two people standard across from each other, having a conversation and then a really annoying person comes over and starts to SHOUT at them. Something not in context. Something really important to the person, but that the two other people don’t really care about. You wouldn’t do that at an event, but apperently some people feels like it’s ok to shout at other people on the internet. Please don’t be that person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It isn’t ok to shout at people – especially if you don’t know them that well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because I feel so strong about this, I decided to do the “league against the use of capital words in communication”. Everybody who’s in say “Aye”!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ps. the answer to the question is a HUGE no! use your creative communication skills instead of pressing Caps Lock if there’s something you feel strongly about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pps. I am thinking about doing a “only speak in caps lock” day as a part of this process – what do you think? good idea ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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