{"id":11034,"date":"2012-01-16T18:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T10:10:47","slug":"imaginary-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/01\/imaginary-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11035\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/111.jpg?resize=268%2C188\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/111.jpg?w=268&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/111.jpg?resize=96%2C67&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"> An email exchange:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>X:<\/strong> Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the final go-ahead on the design sent last week?<br \/>\n<strong>A:<\/strong> We are all aware that the media kits are a priority and we appreciate your help. However, the tone of your email below is inappropriate and not supportive of a team atmosphere. Please consider your tone when sending an email and, perhaps, consider a telephone call in its place.<\/p>\n<p><strong> S to X later:<\/strong> Your email &#8216;tone&#8217; was okay. You started with a &#8216;Hi&#8217; anyway. Looks like A was in a bad mood? It&#8217;s A&#8217;s tone that is not right! She read her own tone into your words! Tell you what &#8211; call her &#8211; and read from your exact email in a polite tone. &#8216;Hi, this was my intended tone: &#8216;Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the final go-ahead on the design sent last week?&#8217; Or don&#8217;t bother. Just add a smiley and resend to &#8216;show&#8217; the intended tone! :-] What a waste of time &#8211; skirted the original email&#8217;s question too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email exchange: X: Hi, Sales have been chasing for the media kits since last year. Can we have the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-11034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-perception","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}