The addition of please advise feels demanding and bratty and of course redundant. I like it because they might actually need something before they complete and return the thing I need; if not, its a memory jog that doesnt automatically assume theyre not on the ball. He told me it was standard while he was in the military. This is the other circumstance where I use Please advise.. I find it offensive and passive-aggressive. Thank you in advance! I worked at a hospital with thousands of employees and some erroneous email went out to the entire hospital listserv (I dont even remember the original email), and for DAYS we kept getting emails from people saying Please take me off this email chain! and Please stop hitting reply all! DAYS OF THIS. Which is a lot, because I think its a super useful phrase. One other thing that occurred to me is that it comes across as robotic or cold in some situations. I read it as deferential. All afternoon we received hundreds of emails remove me from email list and please do not reply all. Senior c-suite exec was pissed and scheduled everyone who responded to that email for a session on email etiquette. But if I am looking for something from the other person, I totally feel the need to have the very last bit of the email reflect that. Words only mean things in their contexts, though. Please let me know when it is completed. From the Cambridge English Corpus His preferred option is theory of mind ability, which underpins processes of cultural learning and cultural accumulation and transmission. its the abrupt Please advise. end of statement that grates on me. Monday . Although to be honest, if Im sending my boss an FYI email I usually indicate that. To me the gentle reminder reads as Pease dont be mad at me, but I need to remind you of [xyz]., How about friendly reminder? Check availability now! Quick is fine, its the gentle. Like Im reminding you in a gentle way, when you know its really not. In Taiwan, the one that was odd to me was addressing people as dears whether in the email salutation or in person. Im saying heres the situation, tell me what to do.. I hear this about bless your heart all the time. Most of the time its more junior staff and they dont realize the annoying-ness. as is brekky, I think. It is a way of warning people to stay in the order they came. Nor could she understand why having a staff member walk 500m in the dark would be a problem. To me, please advise means please write back something. 2. I had a coworker that used to ignore my emails about half the time so one day I asked her why. Oh, of course. I love the Urban Dictionary definitioncorporate jargon for WTF :D, Oh yes, I absolutely have seen it used this way, this is a really good translation haha. + Read the full interview, I love TextRanch because of the reliable feedback. I dont really like the gentle reminder phrasing, but I guess I dont necessarily see a way around sending reminders. And Id hope that someone would cut me some slack should I unknowingly pick the wrong set of words. This is so interestingI recently had a discussion about this very phrase with a coworker and we had completely different opinions on it. I suspect part of the reason for our culture being this way is that we have a fairly open floorplan, so if we were to routinely talk at our desks, it would be disruptive. I moved from big city to mid-Michigan and West Michigan though. 1st Option: Be the student who only gets average marks in every SAC and exam (50-60% in everything) and have a strong social life, while having fun memories at school. YES!!! Iris. I use it in much the same way, and Ive never been told to cut it out (directly or indirectly). It was impossible not to notice. :). In mine, please advise is typically used when someones pretty irritated with you. However, I also think that in many cases, people like to use fancier language in writing because they think it makes them look smarter or more professional or something. One of our experts will correct your English. All Rights Reserved. If the question has been asked, I will answer it. Or let someone else unemployed for months have your job instead? Its really good to conserve on Es, so that future generations may have some. In international travel forums British nationals often ask a question about hotels or restaurants or whatever with I require a XYZ to me I require sounds demanding and entitled and always evokes mild hostility in me. I use please advise or let me know. I want the recipient to know I need a response and that it is not just an fyi. Unfortunately, if I dont use those phrases, I dont get an answer/response. If its just an FYI, and theres no action, I dont put that, or any other question. If you'd prefer to cancel your membership placed through Shipt by contacting our customer support team, you can call our dedicated line at (205) 259-7798 between 8 am - 8 pm CT. . I agree with the response, the person is merely probably wrapping up the email. I explained it a third time, very slowly, and very carefully. Its funny, because to me, Please advise means exactly the same thing as Id appreciate your input on this. It really is a Know Your Office thing, I guess. If we didn't meet your expectations, we'd really like to know more. Yes! Aaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhh! Ill email her to call me. This. I dont like What do you think? because Im not asking for thoughts or ideas, Im looking for explicit instructions on what to do next. So Ive taken to using Thanks, Dana every.single.time. Yes, person A can say 'I shall let you know how it went', and person B can say 'Please let me know how it went'. THIS! Being English, I wish we would adopt wee because it is such a warm word. Erm, your phone doesnt make outbound calls? If I have to remind you more than once youre probably on my nerves more than I am on yours. Then the email request gets ignored by everyone thinking someone else will do it until the LW actually points a finger and say, that means YOU, Wakeen. More popular! (FWIW, I was hired for job X and ended up doing job Y much more time consuming, and punching well above my pay grade because the work is a PITA, and I didnt know any better. I didnt expect so many people in the comments to agree with the OP but here we are. How should I handle your request? That comes off as way more snarky/passive-agressive than please advise. I dont usually go for five opening questions before my real question, especially in instant messaging. The Guardian. Didnt know this was such a well known meaning! The second option sounds like the sender is fed up. Some people might use this with no intent of being rude. Please advise if you require further information. I realize that it sounds more formal than please let me know.. Do you want to build a SNOWMAN?. In my job, emails are often used as official business communiques. Me too. If you reply only to the sender, anyone else on the group email who is going to reply all to advance the discussion wont know to remove you. Please let me know whic h way of pay ment you prefer - whether a ba nk transfer (I'll. I hate the phrase. I work with people in India a lot and they do say Please do the needful which is quirky English but not offensive or particularly grating to me. For example, I can write, "The doctor advised me about taking supplements" or "I advised him to eliminate the angry tone in his writing." Some usage experts accept advise in place of inform or tell. That would make me investigate accordingly and resolve as applicable and reply with details of any action taken. It is a broad, general term, however, it can be very meaningful and thorough. Did we actually want to purchase this item? So you took the time so send an email to tell me to call you and thats easier than just picking up the phone and calling me yourself? Have you booked that hotel I only asked you about on the phone 30 seconds ago? Its the opposite of passive aggressive its direct. She did not last very long in that job anyway. Except with the way you worded it, youre implying that your boss *has* to go with one of the three options you came up with as opposed to coming up with their own idea. If you want a man to treat you like a priority, you have got to prioritize yourself. We have enjoyed serving you for the past five years. The only person Ive known to use this constantly is one of my least favorite people. If I was having the chocolate tea pot situation I would write, Please let me know which option you prefer. I feel like more time is wasted when people try to save time on words and instead use please advise. I admit Ive never heard of this interpretation of that closing. I have to add something along the lines of Please let me know xyz or Let me know if there is anything else, or I might even cordially thank them for their help in advance. It really is the nude pump of email etiquette. No errors on these teapots. where a I truly dont know what to do, please help me is completely warranted. I used to work with someone who always put clear as mud? at the end of emails that were, in fact, quite clear. I think the phrase Please advise means Define my problem, then solve it for me. As such, I think its a pretty irritating/lazy way to ask for help. I would be happy to hear irritating, stupid stuff all day, if I was getting paid. I also find that, when replying all, it helps to specifically address the people who need to take some sort of action or provide an answer. Let me know if you can. Please advise (your dept.) I had a co-worker who would do that! E is the most used letter in the English language. I typically would just say, This is a/Another reminder to please make sure you have X and Y done today. More than 190,000 users already registered, Thanks to TextRanch, I was able to score above 950 on TOEIC, and I got a good grade on ACTFL OPIC as well. yeah I agree. person: call me at (phone number) . Thats probably my own bias, though. Me: I havent heard back about who should be the signatory on this document. Thank you in advance is completely fine when Im being asked to do something that I actually can do. I dislike the gentle reminder it feels patronizing to me. In his defense, hes like 70-something, but whoo boy. I dont typically send reminders because I figure you are a grown-up and you can (should be able to) manage your own deadlines. Ive been using it to mean HALP, but it seems that in other places its more like Do the thing already! Why did the author use "prefer"? I think in the emails in this discussion the term is almost used out of context due to the monkey see, monkey do concept. Thanks!. If you feel the organization is still interested in my application, please let me know as soon as possible and we can discuss how best to move forward. No one would ever say, Please advise in conversation. So dont do drugs. This answer would please the interviewer if there was concern about the applicant's dedication to the job or ability or desire to work longer hours. +1. } else if (w.attachEvent) { Use plain language. Hello Dears. But if my boss asks me to remind another professor, Im going to be inclined to put on kid gloves. I generally think thats a fair assessment by the writer, so maybe thats why it rarely annoys me. I usually say please advise when I am not sure what question I am asking. I also accept Venmo, Cashapp, and Zelle as payment, let me know if you have any questions. Yes, just a little reminder at the end of the email that you cant proceed without input. Im having a problem with this and Im not sure what to ask for but this is what we need. Just ask a direct question or make a decision or leave me alone, but quit spouting off please advise and then wait for me to fill the silence. Im going to ask Alison!. you made this easier,thanks or something similar. Please let me know your preferred way of dealing with this. Of course, Id try to say it more diplomatically. Of course I fixed my husband a plate when he was seeing to the kids, or otherwise engaged but otherwise, why would a man not fix his own dang plate. Its never even occurred to me that someone would take issue with it. It is a shame April Fools Day has just been and gone, because you could have sent out a great email I am no longer going to be answering the question Can I ask you a question. Agreed. It took over half the year for the nun to catch on to what all those little slashes in the corners of our papers meant. When my employees come to me, I want them to come with solutions or ideas, not just problems. I only use this phrase when I am generally asking for advice, not in a snarky way. We talked about x but you did y, and Im really confused about how that happened. With furrowed brow and head tilt. whether you prefer. This also leads to confusing subject lines. ooooo! Certainly, sometimes you have a new employee, a weird problem, etc. Yeah, I use it when I cant think of one single question Im asking, but rather Im looking for someones take on how to handle a situation. I thought text is edit by machine, but it's real editor.Stunning! ", Its one of the best way of improving written skills. Oh, the fun we would have with their frequently used terms. It drives me batty. I love this, and will forever now think of it this way every time I type it. Please note that 1-4 phrases are more formal than phrases 5 & 6. TechCrunch. Thats true, now that I think of it. This whole discussion is fascinating to me, because at my current job please advise is used a lot. Ive worked in three different offices, and this phrase was used by nobody at two of them, and then by virtually everybody at the third one. She would ask why I hadnt responded or done X yet, and I would say that I didnt know that I needed to. This answer is: Hide . Is that better? About half my relatives are from the South, and Ive never heard any of them use this phrase in anything other than a sincere way. Certain phrases set me off too. The following dates/times (EST) work for me: Monday, 1/24: 11am - 12pm EST; 2pm - 3pm EST. You could just say its a reminder without qualifiers. If its someone who works for me, I dont want to be notified of a problem without their thoughts/suggestions/proposed solutions. Some of this is probably just cultural (meaning office culture, not overall culture). I made sure I never ever used it in my own emails. I dont mind quickly emailing my boss and saying something like, Laura, did we receive the orders today? But overall, it feels too awkward and informal to not add something after the question, and I think some people who use Please advice are doing so for similar reasons. I totally agree. 7. If you are the disadvantaged party, this is what can we do to make you happy? If youre not, this is what are you going to do for me?. I think Ive probably written Thanks so much in advance too but more when its part of a longer exchange where the other person has already suggested the thing Im now saying Yes, please do that to, not just cold. 2 I am sending a communication to our executive team and will need their thoughts on how to proceed. :). Sometimes on emails its unclear whether its just an FYI or something I need a response on. I use something similar. English (US) "please let me know a time that is convenient for you" or "please let me know what time is convenient for you" sounds more natural, but yes, this is polite. I think it is more to the point to mix up your word choice, dont lean on one phrase or word excessively. Balls in your court. It almost never registers. It openly pisses people off. Watch the video and let me know which one you prefer! Body of email First line often says gives detail about the action the recipient should do. . No. With a little picture of Puss in Boots from Shrek, holding his hat and with The Eyes. I have a lady who has Thank YOU! (note the application of all-caps) as part of her email signature I read it differently but I dont interact with her on a day-to-day basis so I just suck it up. Especially if Im just showing up to help a busy desk (I work at a public library), it seems a lot more annoying to just plonk down behind the station and stare expectantly at the line until someone comes over to me. I guess Im being petty at this point but I think there are so many better ways to communicate with people. Like the OP says: The addition of please advise feels demanding and bratty and of course redundant. I also cant stand all caps in emails. tag.parentNode.insertBefore(s, tag); :). Are they consulting you as an expert who has information they dont have? Please let me know if you agree likewise. This is why I learned to use Would you like to know more (about this)? especially in conversation but it works for emails too. On many email systems, IT folks can lock down the major email lists with a restriction on who can send emails to them. ?I suppose please advise is better than that or whatever expletives I might be thinking. Over the past year you have been a valued customer. im consistently surprised/fascinated by the responses i read here, and its why ill never be able to stay away. Please let us know if gets his speech back. It seems ok to me, and I havent seen it on anyones Grrr list ever. Otherwise, youd phrase it as a question or request, like, Id appreciate your input on this. In other contexts, obviously, the words are used more literally. Important part: Dont say anything you dont mean or that isnt true. I know everyone has pet peeves, but for OP to think that its annoying and childish for using a phrase she doesnt like is a bit over the top. Usually when a situation has gone pear-shaped and I have no clue what to do next. Im more likely to say, Please let me know your thoughts.. I dont use the phrase for one of the reasons Alison mentioned: Its too formal for my taste. If I do that Id feel really small and incompetent. Or something to that effect. It loses the effect and can be irritating/condescending when you use it too often. As in, Attached is the xyz report. Thats a GREAT post, and the comments under it are even better. I cant see it however the email had the comment. Any help would be . update: is my future manager a bigoted jerk? Its my way of succinctly saying Listen up, you pompous twit this is the fifth and last time Im going to respond to something that you were supposed to handle three weeks ago. Interesting. Its work. Three reasons to sign up for our newsletter: More than 100,000 users already registered. I can literally count on one hand the number of times I have received a phone call without advanced notice from a colleague. Im guessing someone will chime in here and have a problem with kind regards. OMG yes please do the needful makes me stabby. I agree it is annoying to listen to. Please advise. Or How do I save a word file? Most people probably don't realize how loaded questions like gender might be on their forms or surveys. Not many of them are productive or helpful ones. Tried to get ebay and paypal details in order send an invoice to me. If it sounds normal and polite out loud, I think its fine to use in an email. Its formal, but thats not the same as passive-aggressive. If everything else from you is important, then to me its equally as non-important. I think we could write Please let me know which you prefer or What do you think? and offend nobody. please give me your knowledge so I can stop feeling stupid. Maybe its worse, but I use This is a reminder that and then This is your 2nd reminder notice that and finally This is your 3rd reminder that.. I do this too most of the time! I admit that I have a visceral reaction to the use of the words please advise (and ALL CAPS and soft reminders and read receipts). Its not the check-in; thats polite enough. I recieve emails like shipping updates a lot of the time and Ive defaulted to saying Thanks! because I dont know what else to say, even though theres not really anything Im thanking them for. Sorry that came across as rude. Exactly! Maybe thats a little too informal for some places, but it generally works for me. Most of the email is explaining the situation, then please advise.. Please let me know what to do.. And finally: you will be intimated, meaning you will be informed. I used to manage a group of volunteers for a Nigerian 419 scam warning website. All rights reserved. I also use it infrequently. We also have to remind ourselves that people from some cultures require *more* personal space than Americans do! It would if they had already asked the questions and this was just a gentle reminder.. Annoyingly, Outlook will put the green squiggle under advise in the phrase Please advise and will suggest advice instead. If I have a specific question, and I know the recipient is either really busy or prone to scanning emails, Ill usually state the question and then bold it. Yes, this is how I use please advise. Far better then the AI tools", This website is fantastic. 3. They also like to use gentle reminder and thanks in advance. I also get please do the needful and gentle reminder. I couldnt make the change because the combination of codes that she wanted me to use wasnt allowed. Editors on TextRanch are super helpful! If using Please advise gets you that upset to spend paragraphs complaining about it, it sounds like you need a serious vacation. But I usually blend the can you do X question with kindly requesting so it reads, Can you kindly read X and do Y and get back to me with Z? Please let me know how you would like to proceed. (I am so immature. It can be At my job only see it used where the person isnt at their regular desk. If you wish to keep things light, you may also get rid of the formalities to make your addressee feel at ease. You can see something similar pretty often in discussions about works of fiction. Doesnt everyone? At my old job, someone forgot and send wrong email to an internal listserv with about 1000 people, she realized the mistake in about 5 mins and quickly sent and apology email and a note to disregard. To me, the two exclamation points read as hey, Im not annoyed, but I really need this info.. let me know if you didn't or let me know if you don't? More than 150,000 people like you receive our weekly newsletter to master their English skills! + Read the full interview, I love that TextRanch editors are real people who revise the text and provide feedback it makes it so personal. We KNOW that some cultures crowd up and breath down your neck; we KNOW in our heads that it is a cultural difference this does not prevent the visceral reaction to being crowded that people who require more personal space feel. That said, its important to know whos writing it. The phrase that I always hated was make sense? at the end of an email from a former Director. Because it is deferential, I would view it as an obnoxious phrase only if used by a manager to a direct report and not vice versa. Thank you !! That irritates me too. It seems more like the person assumes that an IM is less invasive/interrupting than a phone call, so they want to check in before calling. And as an aside, I really wouldnt mind hitting someone with my shoes. My HTML brain cells went out for a moment. Can you please clarify? Thanks, If I have asked a series of questions, I put a final, actionable question at the end. But I do thank them afterwards too. Could this be confirmed either way to help my order progress please? As part of the ping-pong conversation, maybe you want to say YES. i kind of agree with the letter writer. . Might depend on the person, but that doesnt sound like a power play. Same as something like, what can we do about this? It can be a genuine question or it can be a thinly veiled way of saying I would like you to tell me how to help you not do something like this again.. Me too. There are a handful of people at work who use this on every.single.email. Possibly in red Killer font. I dont think Ive ever written please advise or received an email that ended this way, so it surprised me that so many people have such strong opinions on it. I think please advise is okay when youre asking a question going up the ladder, but coming from a manager to a subordinate it does usually come off as, please advise WTF you were thinking when you did this., Yeah, since someone above you is unlikely to actually want anything that could be called advice from you haha. You might consider using "would be" instead of "is", as well, since the conditional is often more polite than the declarative. Yes. I only had to explain it to him once. I remember coming in that morning to 600+ emails and nearly had a heart attack. Work days are long enough without added stuff. Also, just the sheer volume of email I got made it necessary to adopt some kind of triage system, and people who plainly asked for what they wanted from me always got priority. Is it yes to option 1, 2, or 3? I guess I always thought of it as similar to Thanks for reading this e-mail or something. It doesnt seem mean to me at all. versus From coworker A, I dont give it a second thought. w.addEventListener("load", loader, false); Me too! if you will. Since that is what you actually want to know, couldnt you ask what are the options here? instead of please advise? If there's anything you need at all, just. Ok, now that I think more about it, I dont usually just write, Please advise. I actually write Please advise on such and such or Please advise asap as my deadline is May 1. If I was having the chocolate tea pot situation I would write, "Please let me know which option you prefer." I feel like more time is wasted when people try to save time on words and instead use "please advise". I love it! Yeah, those are not please advise situations! To me, the worst is when I just get an email or text that says call me without any further context whatsoever. What if it is outside their scope? To me, it means You have more knowledge about this thing than I do. Is it possible that your reaction is based off your feelings in your role and the office dynamics? Thank you.. Please Keep Me Up To Date And kind of hilarious. Because it makes perfect sense in Spanish . I am sure we have plenty of equally annoying locutions). TextRanch lets you have your English corrected by native-speaking editors in just a few minutes. A recent fad in my workplace is kindly requesting things. My last supervisor would copy me on everything, and most times the emails didnt have a question directly related to me so I wouldnt respond. Yes, my grandmother who was born in the late 1800s as a young woman worked in the field all day and then at lunch break the men stretched out under a tree while she and other women served them lunch and then everyone went back to work. Me too. Please advise is one of a handful of conventions I use to (hopefully) make my emails easier to read, especially if it is necessary to include a lot of detail in the body: Subject line that indicates what the recipient should do with the email FYI, Action required, Question about chocolate teapot spout training, Advice on incorporating milk chocolate in redesigned teapots, etc. Thank you. or Hi, just following up if X and Y has been done yet? Let me introduce myself. This was meant in response to Katie the fed. I hope not many people feel like the OP about it! The only times it does, its not because of the phrase, its because of the person using the phrase. I just think its a nice transition to end an email. And grammatically speaking, not all requests for a response have to be phrased as a question. }; Yes, but plenty of people use it earnestly: as in, hmm, havent heard back hope they didnt forget but dont want to be a nag. 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