Hi Cirus....thanks for posting a thread on behalf of your friend...here are my comments....plz dnt mistake me for if i sound a bit odd but...
Guys…we are all HR Professionals…..please understand our basics….First impressions are best impressions:
I don’t understand why we think “because we are HR professionals we are right ?”
Let’s get back to basics; do we forget how to write a formal letter?
I understand that a person is all excited bout joining a new company and he has great talent, all excited a super man but there is a way to express yourself in formal communication.
An introductory email is the formal first email an employee or HR sends to all employees to let others know who you are and what’s your background.
Tell me one thing, what has certain unimportant things about a person got to do with MD or any senior to know about you?
Lets accept the fact that you have done a mistake that one drafted a email and may be you were not conscious enough to check before sending email to all as to whom you are sending and or you have not properly drafted email…..Lets go back to that introductory email…who ever wrote it I request the person to read it twice and genuinely make an attempt to redraft the same…I am sure a better professional expression would emerge out of it.
Regarding MD firing a person I don’t feel that’s wrong as just think about a situation, now you are with 2 years experience tomorrow you become MD and at the very first beginning day of employment of X person, meets you in office and Dances in front of you and introduces himself as …Heyyyy…Yoooo Mannn….howdy….whts up dude…?
Do you like that case?? And you being boss, will you go to him and take him to your cabin and politely say….hey dear x…this is not the way, that you should talk and introduce yourself…bla la bala…I don’t think so….
Remember one thing when we are in office, not all people of are of our frequency….lets take a look at this other way around…We have nothing to do with MD and one of your Sr Manager has felt bad about your email and has a wrong impression about you and then on the job he tries to torture you on the name of correcting your attitude which is not expected behavior according to him on the job…how will that situation be??
Your kind of excitement of introducing youself might have looked fine with an Ad Agency or Media or Sports companies or may not be……but to be frank, I am concerned about you but you will have to accept your mistake…to day its this company tomorrow what if its your own company?
How much time will it take to check your email before you send it to some one and make corrections in time? Do you expect an MD of the company gets that email and he should Coach you on drafting emails and sending emails?
I fully agree your excitement and your talent and performance far beyond expectations of all …..but the Things Which Matters Least must not be at the Mercy of Things that Matters Most…..i know you all might say …this equally applies to MD too but look at each others positions and responsibilities and judge yourself…..
Sorry I might sound little bit harsh but facts are facts….
Remembers guys…don’t expect for all things that what we do, we should get a chance and then actions. We are grown up and you say that the person is professionals and talented person, if so why does he do silly mistake of sending casual email as a introductory email to MD/CEO and TO All List of the company??? That’s strange….
Introductory note , if you put it in right ways….that should be in such a way that people should come to you to know about you, our Journey in any organization will be great n exciting if we unfold ourselves one by one….its left to people to come to you to know more…..
Patience-Perseverance-Focus on the job-our First Impressions-Objectives- Goals in life makes us the best.
I don’t expect anybody to highlight unwanted things in email rather then what really matters…. I don’t see anything…then what’s the use of introductory letter?
Sorry Sir…I can understand it’s hard on you but sometimes a small silly mistake costs us a lots…..please don’t complain and make issues of MD being wrong….you genuinely soul search yourself….you will find answer……Lets get back to basics if we are not there…..
All i see at that Voting % is that we are all looking from our end....but not ready to correct ourselves.....some times life is too harsh on us that it hardly gives us a chance to correct ourselves......
Regards,