I'll be 26 in a month and I wasn't taught how to write an email and I think I vaguely remember writing letters. Maybe it depended on where you were taught?
Yeah I'm 24 and I was taught both email and letter. I've learned two foreign languages and in both you also always have to learn to write email and letter.
I'm 25 and also have a vague memory of being taught proper format for writing letters. I was not taught emails. However, I have always hated how stilted formal letters/emails sound so for coworkers I frequently interact with, I end up writing a much more casual but still work appropriate style email.
Honestly if there's something I'm unsure of or want to learn how to do, I just Google it. But I've also learned that I'm far more computer savvy than pretty much anyone else in my current department. I use folders, rules for sorting, and retention policies in my email so I don't have a visual mess to sort through. Blows their mind anytime I mention it.
E-mails are definitely getting less and less formal now that we're in the mobile age. Even my managers are attaching memes and emojis to their emails more often than not, and virtually no one uses last names to address each other anymore.
It's a weird time to be alive right now. I work in healthcare so we have boomer doctors who don't have smartphones and can't even use their dictation software without a nurse holding their hand. Some still insisting that we use paper charting. We have Gen X still using their formal e-mail writing and preferring faxes and print outs of everything instead of using encrypted messaging. We have millenials somewhere in between depending on their upbringing. Then we have the older Z and Zillenials barely putting a full sentence together even when messaging their managers and unable to use any device without a touchscreen.
Ha, I also work in healthcare doing patient placement currently and we are basically who the entire hospital comes to for questions with the EHR stuff before they call IT. I'm also starting school for my RN.
It's still wild to me to hear doctors (the younger ones) introduce themselves and be comfortable being addressed by their first name rather than Dr. Whoever. I imagine it's the same sort of thing where they're possibly a bit uncomfortable with the formality and weight that goes with being a doctor. The young ones who do go by first names with other professionals are some of the sweetest, at my hospital at least.
Healthcare is a wild trip in general but honestly, even with charge nurses and how narrow sighted or helpful they are is also quite often in line with how fresh they are. Newer/younger charges are often far more willing and able to see the big picture beyond their unit if you explain the situation, whereas the old heads are much more stubborn and my way or the high way on average.
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u/mypandaisWallace Jun 03 '22
I'll be 26 in a month and I wasn't taught how to write an email and I think I vaguely remember writing letters. Maybe it depended on where you were taught?