Kim uses “Darling Fascist Bully Girl”.

What does Kim use when he sends you an email?

My guesses:
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“Hey you…”
“Hey woman!”

They considered starting the letter with “dear” and after much debate settled on “Darling Fascist Bully Boy.”

Well of course you do. You ARE a honey!

I like Honey a lot better than Dear LOL! But I rarely put honey in writing. Yes, Dear is just weird.

I enjoyed this post immensely. I’ve been know to use the salutations of “Yo” and “Hey!” as well. “READ THIS NOW!” works too sometimes.

Dear is weird.

Best,
Jay

At times, I like to joke around with my baseball players and have them to address me as Master or Sir Shogun.

As a coach I am one of only a small handful of catching coaches. Most coaches deal with several positions but I deal mostly with the catchers only and help out here and there. It’s basically in my contract, if I have to coach another position, I’m quitting and you’re still going to pay me!

But even then with the catchers, I still don’t teach. I let them teach themselves and I just stand and quiz them. The thought being is if they can teach themselves, they know it! I have a few former catchers whom I worked with earlier in my career who are now returning as coaches and they being former catchers tend to like to work with the catchers so I am kind of gromming them at the same time. I give them the younger catchers and basically talk with the older ones guiding them along the way.

With having former players to come back and coach, I let them do most of the hands on teaching so we joke around that they are more or less like domain leaders while I being the official catching coach am the shogun!

I often use “Hi” or “Hello” as a salutation in emails, blog comment boxes, and texts. “Dear” is reserved for any kind of written business communication that is more formal.

For example, if an agent is communicating with a bank via email in regards to a home seller’s short sale, I would alway recommend using more formal language.

There are also cultural, geographical, socio-economic, and other factors to consider. As Derek points out, if an agent’s client is a high level academic, “Dear” is most likely the norm for a first-time piece of communication, especially if the agent and client do not know each other very well.

Our clients will teach us everything we need to know about how to work with them.

Yes, Dear.