📧 Email Etiquette Crimes We Need to Retire in 2026

(because we deserve better, truly)

As freelancers, producers, creatives, humans just trying to survive on caffeine and hope… we deal with a lot of emails.

Some are helpful.
Some are confusing.
And some… absolutely belong in prison. 😅

So in the spirit of entering 2026 with clearer inboxes and fewer emotional breakdowns, here are:

Email Crimes That Must Be Stopped. Immediately.

1️⃣ “Per my last email…” passive agg as it gets!

The corporate equivalent of “meet me in the car park.”
We KNOW what it means.
You KNOW what it means.
Let’s all stop pretending it’s polite.


2️⃣ CC-ing the entire world for drama

If you CC 10+ people, I assume:
a) you’re starting a fight,
b) I’m in trouble,
c) the UN should be involved.

Sometimes we just want to fix a projector, not debate it in a global forum.

3️⃣ “Circling back…” five minutes later

I haven’t even finished reading your first circle.

Let me breathe. Let me sip my coffee.
Let me just… exist?


4️⃣ No subject line. None.

This isn’t mysterious. It’s chaos.
My inbox is not an escape room and I will never find your email again!


5️⃣ Writing novels when a paragraph would do

If your email scrolls longer than the average script for EastEnders, we have a problem.

Give me: • the task
• the deadline
• the context
• the end

Not the backstory, the extended universe and the emotional journey of the spreadsheet.


6️⃣ “Thoughts?”

On what, Darren? The universe? The document? The budget? Life?
I have thoughts, but they’re not safe for email.


7️⃣ Sending meeting invites 30 seconds before the meeting starts

I am many things.
A mind-reader is not one of them.


8️⃣ The midnight email dump

Look, we’ve all done it…
But maybe 2026 is the year we start scheduling those drafts so we don’t terrify the team at 00:03 with “URGENT!!!”
(…when it’s absolutely not urgent.)


🌟 The 2026 Resolution:

More clarity.
Less panic.
Fewer inbox-induced heart palpitations.

Let’s all agree to send emails that help, not haunt.

Our cortisol levels will thank us.

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