Absolutely. I write this simply to keep you informed of the situation.. . -Sending important policy/rule updates as an FYI – FYI in my opinion, is meant as “here’s some background info you should know about but read when you have time” not as a way to pass on information that is truly important and must be followed. keep you in the loop.. It's an efficient way of passing information. This was from 3:00-4:30. FYI: KTHV use to have weekly management meetings that was also attended by non-management (secretaries, assistants, record keepers, etc). For your information. “FYI” is only one in a million acronyms that is already existed. Two factual sentences, done. Log In. Seems like there might be a little anger and resentment involved here. But it could easily have been a one time opportunity. we did 10 code, like: Maybe a good idea to be a safe distance away when they open this one! Demeaningly. I wonder if some people are used to seeing it like that and so they balk at it in professional correspondence as well. Not Now . I'm not talking about adding FYI to a subject bar so the #1- I think it depends a lot on how it’s used. #1 reminds me: pet peeve is when people put ONLY “FYI” as a subject line. Or are they just bitter, and trying to drop the mic and knock over the mic stand on their way out? "FYI" is commonly used in email, instant messaging or memo and messages, to flag the message as an informational message, with an intent to communicate to the receiver that they may be interested in the given topic, but does not insist to perform any action. Even the most likeable and well-mannered among us can still look like jerks in an email. My typical one just says “Effective xx/xx/xx, I am resigning my position as (insert title) at companyname. I so envy his ability to do this. or. I see people using FYI in the rude/passive aggressive way online a lot, often in contentious comment threads and the like. On linked in. I do get emails, as well for certain things, but like others have said, I don’t regularly check email for these types of things. Let’s start an AAM instructional video series on making faces! . Anonymous noreply@blogger.com tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243886108200417279.post-5523638533987578326 2012-10-18T19:50:39.270-07:00 2012-10-18T19:50:39.270-07:00 Besides Alison’s example, I can think of 3 ways that would not be an acceptable use of FYI. I’ve wondered since then how we would have ever explained an injury to HR. Fwiw i’m in the uk. Improve this question. or. Does LinkedIn email you when you have a message? OP3: “…it will feel to them like a big shot coming in and essentially proclaiming me their boss.” But isn’t that how it happened? He should have picked a day when everyone would be around. Par for the course at … I would be super upset about missing out on the Hawaii job. They’re probably all waiting to hear what was decided and chances are pretty good the rumor mill has already correctly guessed the outcome. FYI about my experience with a rude interviewee. Card of a woman that says FYI: You're a … I actually didn’t realize it was so particular to the military/gov’t…probably should have though, considering that’s where I learned it. Email is our main form of conversation. I am not his direct supervisor, but I am above him in title and supervise others in the office. Second, your team shouldn’t get upset because you got a promotion. As a teacher I’ve had plenty of cause to practice that look. See more of Rude and Rotten Republicans on Facebook. At Jesus’ ascension—though that wasn’t a huge crowd (Matthew 17:5). I would see that as a co-worker trying to help me out by getting someone what they needed so there wouldn’t be a crisis later. What they have planned to do is completely normal and expected, and you need to get comfortable with this. 10-9 Say again Facts vs Trump. OP #3. jobs before and had never been asked for written documentation that I had voluntarily resigned. Hey, it just came to me, after all these years! 10-20 Advise to location You know, no matter how the potential boss announces it (not just chatting to me about the possibility of changes) i will hear “Look at me. I believe you hit the nail on the head here. But if I got an email that said something like, “FYI, you weren’t available earlier, and Jane came by and asked if that check request had been processed. We work for admissions at a university and while accepted students are protected by law I don’t believe prospects are. If you are part of an organisation, your authority stems from the fact that someone higher up appointed you. How to use FYI in a sentence. It doesn’t have to be long and heartfelt – a simple, “I am resigning from position XX. It’s already a huge jump for me from where they’re sitting: basically from Teapot Representative to Master of Teapots in a very short period of time. I’m pretty sure the OP doesn’t mean to announce it this way, but how awesome would that be! they also could have started this job in their 20’s though and most people could not or would not retire in their 40’s. It depends on your mail client–I can’t do that (I tried the last time it came up here!). I don’t think that necessarily has to be in person – over email to the team would be fine with me and I think pretty normal – but definitely wait for the boss to tell everyone. I did see that he had viewed my profile (for the second time) literally the day I had sent the LinkedIn email – but I have no way of knowing if it was because he read that email or it was just a coincidence. Sections of this page. In fact, it should not be long or heartfelt. I think it’s a good thing — it provides a written record of the date that you gave notice and of your intended last working day. Alison is right. The obvious answer to this would be “mind your own business”. “We are so, so sorry for our reckless behavior. Still have questions? Yeah, even with the OP’s explained about the situation, I think she’s not realizing how normal this is. I will also add that if someone told me they were in a position of authority over me, I’d probably ask someone to confirm that. Create New Account. How can I watch FYI without cable? Not because I wouldn’t believe them, but I would want to double check. In the movies, having a boss ask for a letter of resignation is actually doing the employee a favor — it means in the employee’s record it will appear that the separation was their decision and that they *weren’t* fired. “Open your books to page three hundred ninety-four.”–Alan Rickman as Severus Snape. A pointed, concerned look is pretty direct; you know exactly what the look-giver is thinking. Not only do you run the risk of exposure, you can also damage your own reputation with the recipient. Maybe it’s my Canadian-ness coming out? I’m more concerned about the need to treat the team with kid gloves. how to become a slacker … with Laurie Ruettimann, my boss sits outside my house for hours, parking woes, and more. I walked into the admissions office yesterday and sat next to another guy and girl before our interviews. No one can side-eye like my cat. “1” Pkg got lost @ SAME HUB w/ Boxycharm Add-On.. Lol. #3 It’s nice that your manager is showing others that you have his/her backing. The more I think about it, the more I think it probably won’t make an enormous difference either way. Boy.. Is there a lot of information missing to answer this… If you work at a Nuclear Power Plant and your manager, and his manager, and his manager have ignored safety concern, than writing an FYI to his manager would be perfectly appropriate. That being said, we do OVERUSE it, which is a problem. Alison is 100% right that this is a cultural thing. In the future, we will stick to a fireman’s carry.”. Yeah, I’m super envious of people who can raise one eyebrow. This guy I rented my turo car from has told me twice.” Forgot account? When they asked me, I was not leaving on the best terms – there were some fit issues and I did not get mesh well with my immediate manager. Facebook. This sort of thing is all part of managing people, so this is a great opportunity to start getting used to that. Letter of resignation = We need it in writing that you’re voluntarily quitting and are doing so on this date. I was going to post something about FYSA too. I think that it really depends on the tone and context it's used in. Wall. Gratuit. I loathe forwarded emails with just 'FYI' from the sender, no greeting, regards or manners. Most of them took it well except for 1, and now, 8 months later, he has finally come around. They do but I sometimes miss them because of the new groupings in Gmail – LinkedIn messages go to the “social” tab and I haven’t figured out how to switch it to the Primary tab. It’s even worse with email threading (which I otherwise love). 8cghck fg fbzbfzfhz. She was really in a bind and needed it right away, so I went ahead and did it. Create New Account. or. Log In. It’s not uncommon for an employer to ask for a letter of resignation. In general, no. I think the adoption of the phrase “FYI” as a way to be rude/passive aggressive in person means that some people forget it’s actually a pretty benign, friendly phrase when it’s written. I’ve had too many people “try to manage me” when they actually didn’t have any authority but what was in their own mind. #4 A couple of years ago someone offered me a gig in Hawaii. Those announcements never struck me as odd or blindsiding, or at least not any more than they would’ve been if they’d come in person or from someone other than the head of our division. OP3 is the boss, not their buddy. should we let an employee resign instead of being fired? “FYI: subject here” which contrasts nicely with other instructive subject lines like “Please Review: subject here” or “action required: subject here”. Para su información : Bloom es el resultado de mal temple chocolate. I always felt that it was to my advantage as well to document that I’m providing x amount of notice prior to leaving, so no one could claim that I blindsided my employer by just up and leaving. And when I get that look from an interviewer it usually means “WTF do you mean?” instead. I think that is pretty much always Email. And a valuable service to the employee, although he may not appreciate it as such right away. I still think you’re wrong about having it come from you. This position means the world to me and I don’t want to start off on the wrong foot with my team or my new manager! I’m still chuckling. Haha, so yours were well-thought out, mine were more like I’m over this, I have to get out of here. . We should firstly think about the situation or the environment where we are. In general, no. FYI. I hate that phrase. There are ways in which it makes sense to coddle a difficult or fractious team, but I’m not seeing this as an occasion for that. Not sure why I all caps’d OVERUSE. OP3, the only possible way to become someone’s boss is for some big shot to proclaim you. Page 3. Ex. I believe the default is to get an email when you get a message, but I shut that off because I had one connection who was blasting spam-like emails to all his connections regularly. Oh thank God, I thought I was the only one! “FYI” is just rude and can easily become a tool in passive aggressive communication when forwarding an email from someone else – “FYI, you should know about this”. Yes, in an email it just means to let you know, keep you in the picture etc. I am surprised it is considered odd. Hurrah for time stamps! Depends on the circumstance and the tone of voice. FYI – Ipsy has acquired BoxyCharm! FYI - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. .. . “FYI dudes it’s fucking rude to tell a woman she looks tired. I wonder if she knows what FYI stands for. General Greeting Card by KissMeKwik. It’s not really passive aggressive. If you can't type out something like, "You need to know" or even "For your information" you are acting dismissive of the receiver. I agree. “FYI” “FYI” is just rude and can easily become a tool in passive aggressive communication when forwarding an email from someone else – “FYI, you should know about this”. It’s just standard business behaviour. What did your father do for a occupation ? Arrgh, the “Re: [last email thread I found from you because I don’t know how to look up addresses]” is one of my biggest peeves. I can definitely think of situations where that would be totally appropriate, but I can also think of ones where she wouldn’t have standing to say that. I wish everyone would be a little more discerning about what they pass on. I am a HUGE k-pop lover, especially bands like BTS, Blackpink, and EXO. But then I can make my face take on a pointed, concerned look that is the equivalent of screaming “WTF are you doing! Maybe she isn’t familiar with FYA (people don’t seem to use this much anyway). I can only picture somebody pulling themselves up to their full height and wagging a finger when they say “For your information.”, I’m late to the party here. Because there are other meanings of it. So I did, and they just offered it to me (hurray)! Tell it like it is with this brutal card. My current job is not asking that I do one. It means “for your situational awareness” and makes clear that no action is required. Hell yeah it does. Would not it be beneficial to *you* to provide a letter of resignation that is signed by you and the employer? I wonder if calling it a letter of resignation is making it sound more formal than it often is. 4. Menu Menu Menu Close Close Create New Account. Fyi, yes. My other option (since logistics in the meantime have gotten in the way, and upper management wants to announce it now without coming in person–this happened without me saying anything to them about it, it was just a timing issue) is basically for this person to send an email out of the blue announcing that I am the new manager. If you don’t want to be rude, don’t share what you don’t want others to know. I get some folks might get a kick out of the dirty look, but if his supervisor is okay with it, let it go. I don’t know how that got thrown into the mix, but it certainly wasn’t the case: my feeling was that they would not react as well hearing it from a corporate structure they neither trust nor care for–primarily because of shenanigans around this very sort of thing in the past–as they would from me. I want to tell them and fyi, you are a tool. American English. Join Yahoo Answers and get 100 points today. They have obviously ignored the 5 other automated reminders they have received from the system, but a little “Action required: You are at risk of our work” in the subject line gets their attention within the hour. updates: the micromanagement, the fertility treatments, and more, the head of my division gave me (and my niece and friend) COVID-19 and no one cares, I resent coworkers coming back from furlough, I took over a colleague’s work, and more. Maybe a good idea to be a safe distance away when they open this one! See more of Rude and Rotten Republicans on Facebook. We must use it properly. Is there any way I can bring this up to my new manager that won’t negatively impact his perception of me? Oh yes! FYI @tmat The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: One of our managers does this – she forwards emails to faculty and/or staff that do require some kind of action, but she just puts “FYI” at the top of the email. It would be very weird for this not to be introduced by someone higher up. You can mention at that time that upper management asked you to wait until they announced it. fyi Mother of a toddler receives a rude note from fellow diner, gives an apt reply through Facebook Katie Leach, the mother of a 11-month-old baby boy received a rude note from fellow diner. The acronym FYI stands for “For Your Information”. I like your wording there. Maybe in a weekly team meeting that is happening just as the email is being sent a few times. At my office, we use it as shorthand for "for your information; no action needed." Facebook. I just kept repeating FYI in that snotty tone in my head and couldn’t figure out where it was from. Huh, I just googled it and it appears to be a particular bit of Pentagonese. translation formal-language correspondence. You will benefit greatly from the Stamp of Official Approval. Fyi. Yeah when I first started with the federal gov’t, I couldn’t figure out what people were saying as they used a lot and I do mean a lot of acronyms. There will be things that, as manager, the OP3 will need to deal with well before mentioning them to the team. Would not a resignation letter signed by employer be an insurance policy for such a situation? All rights reserved. Sign Up. I wanted them to voice any concerns, and it’s a very small company with a gossipy owner–it was going to get around anyway. Same here. But that’s more about my supervisor, not the use of FYI…. And it’s important to keep those sorts of lines of confidentiality well established. * I did it as a letter because I didn’t want to tell my boss face to face. Log In. Add message | Report | See all. All my retail like positions also asked for a note just to be sure it didn’t get lost between managers since my shifts rarely lined up with the general manager’s. But I don’t think it should come from you. (Not that I’ve ever had an employer claim any such thing, but just as documentation can protect the employer from a wayward ex-employee, it can also protect an individual from a dishonest ex-employer.). Sections of this page. During manager shuffling, I’ve rarely had notice before the official announcement has been made. FYI, Wednesday through Friday, I have a pretty full teaching schedule. Look what happened when he first appeared on a Friday afternoon – Thomas had taken off early for the weekend and when everyone told him what happened, he told them they must have been passing around the Cana Water a little too much. Usually when I forward something that I think might be useful or helpful, but it’s not necessary. Log In. So, instead of writing "For your information" you would simply write "FYI" to get your point across. I like giving a sentence or two of context when forwarding something – e.g. For your information. I know the personalities of the people I work with, and I am just not sure that this will go over very well; I really don’t want to blindside them, and I feel like it may erode their trust in me a bit. What’s the lesson here? I don’t use it now, but in the military FYA, For Your Action, was the opposite of FYI. Oops! Create New Account. But when used in spoken language, it DOES come across more as: “Here’s some information that you didn’t know, you dummy” which is where the problem lies. We get important messages with “FYI” “Please Read” “Memo.” Nothing else. It’s not conducted like a contract where both parties have to sign key documents. Even better, have the managers mention during the meeting where they make an announcement that they specifically asked the OP to wait to say anything to assuage any suspicions that there were some sort of secret shenanigans going on. Well there was the Holy Spirit appearing as a dove at His baptism and saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” I wouldn’t be surprised, though, that when people told about that, the ones that weren’t there said, “How many wineskins were you passing around that day?”. Yeah, at my last job HR was so notoriously disorganized that having a clear summary of exactly when your last day in the office was and if you were tacking any vacation days on at the end was crucial in case they forgot to notify payroll or gave them the wrong info. And in this case she’s already gone. I totally did this the other day. So…I’m really not understanding what’s wrong with just sending out a mass email. I’ve never seen FYA, though. They weren’t for anything I’d be interested in, luckily. It’s true, without being outright rude, these tricky goodbyes can be tough to achieve. I just signed up for it recently to look at it, and it has spammed me daily ever since. But there are always weird workplaces out there where something perfectly normal is considered rude, and if you’re working in one of them, it’s good to be aware of that. I’d gone into a bookstore and one of the owners was RAAANTING at the top of her lungs on her phone in the general fiction room. 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