How to make everyone hate you on email - BBC News
When email goes wrong... how it can irritate and annoy everyone in the office.
Stop before you copy your boss into that email.

It's not going to make you look good - it's going to make everyone else in the office distrust you.

That's the finding of research into the pernicious "cc effect", carried out by a professor of management studies at Cambridge University's Judge Business School.

David De Cremer has looked into the emotional undergrowth of office email traffic.

When people keep copying in a manager, it doesn't create "transparency", says Prof De Cremer, but feeds a "culture of fear".

But what about the other unspoken evils of office email clogging up your inbox?

If I keep emailing they'll know I'm still here at work

Where are you sending that email?

What makes you think I'm an attention seeker?