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9 common passive-aggressive work emails and how to neutralize each of them to still get what you want
Passive-aggressive workplace emails might give you a headache. Fortunately, there are some key phrases you can use to neutralize passive-aggressive situations and still get what you want. Keep reading to see what they are.
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How are those phrases in particular helping anyone achieve a goal of getting someone to “visibly act out anger they have been concealing”?
Also angry and concealing emotional state is technically exhibiting traits of passive aggressive behavior
I mean, come on. If you receive an email asking for a follow-up on a discussion you had IRL and you perceive that request to be an act of hostility because you are concealing anger - is it really fair to say that the email is passive-aggressive rather than the recipient?