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One of the many reasons passive-aggressive use of things like punctuation in digital communication sucks is that I am incredibly earnest and apparently I write things that read as malicious _all the time_.
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Look, if I’m pissed, YOU WILL KNOW. Just see all my past performance reviews critiquing my “tone”.
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I’m always just one stressful email away from adding “the above email is written earnestly, any passive-aggressive undertones are purely unintentional” to my email signature.