New Year, New Ways to Communicate

The New Year comes along and everyone makes resolutions to work more productively at the office. My boss decided that one way to help cut clutter was to restrict the number of brokers that sent him e-mails. When one of the companies on his Do Not Contact list sent him e-mail, he sent the following response.

Dear X:

Due to severe constraints on my time and limited resources to pay brokers, I have significantly cut back on the number of brokers with whom I am willing to take meetings going forward. Your firm did not make that cut. Please take me off all e-mail distributions from your firm in the future.

I mentioned to a co-worker that it would be great if people were always this direct, especially when it came to potential relationships. I usually just don’t return people’s calls if I don’t want to see them again after a first date. I just assume that they will get the point – sometimes they just don’t get it. In an attempt to be a better communicator, I have made some changes to the letter above and will be sending this out to guys that I no longer want to date:

Dear X:

Due to severe constraints on my time and limited resources to pay for dates, I have significantly cut back on the number of people with whom I am willing to go on dates with going forward. You did not make the cut. Please do not send me e-mails in the future.

Best,
Pablo

I think this should work well, how about you?