Manager says female employee sounds ‘disrespectful’ in email, so she shows him an identical email from praised male coworker: 'I refuse to be overly polite'

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  Lo and behold, after just several emails, she gets dinged by her manager. What for? Because she was sounding too "disrespectful." This was curious since the almost identical email her coworker sent got praise and was found to be normal. So, she decided to stand up for herself. She took a screen shot of her email and her coworker's, put them side-by-side, and showed her manager. So if she is being "disrespectful" how is her male coworker not? Her manager, luckily, saw the light and even confessed to being embarrassed about it…

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• "Copied my male colleagues’ email style and told I’m being rvde"

  
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