Fed-up director of Italy’s world-famous Uffizi Gallery lays out rules for email etiquette
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That does it!! Fed up director of Italy’s world-famous Uffizi Gallery sets staff rules for email etiquette
- Eike Schmidt told museum employees that bold characters were unacceptable
- However, he added that some words were allowed to be underlined, where appropriate.
- The spokesman said the policy was “the talk of the day for many employees.”
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Misuse of grammar among staff may well be a sign that standards are failing.
So it’s no surprise that the director of Italy’s Uffizi museum issued a staff statement outlining his email etiquette.
Eike Schmidt told museum employees in Florence that bold type was unacceptable, though underlining was allowed where appropriate.
“You should also avoid entire sentences in all caps,” Schmidt wrote.
Eike Schmidt told museum employees in Florence that bold type was unacceptable, though underlining was allowed where appropriate.
‘As far as punctuation is concerned, it is necessary to completely avoid, as always, only where possible, exclamation marks, while with both question marks and exclamation marks, only one is needed at the end of a sentence. prayer without repetition.’
While his note may have lacked the color of Dante, often cited as the father of the Italian language, Schmidt was clear with his rules.
Capital letters should be limited to proper nouns and when Italian grammar requires their use.
Ellipses, where words are omitted but understood, should be avoided.
He added that work emails should always be “clear, explicit and never allusive.”
Tommaso Galligani, spokesman for the Uffizi Galleries, said: ‘It was the talk of the day for many employees in the corridors, at the water cooler or in the cafeteria.
“The tendency to view email exchanges as completely informal, like a WhatsApp chat, and as a direct outlet for emotions of all kinds is now widespread, and I think the director’s intention was to contain this problematic trend.”