People Are Sharing Their Best Work Comebacks And They’re Hilariously Passive Aggressive
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One of the many joys of working in an office is having to deal with passive-aggressive emails from your co-workers. Perhaps they sit right opposite you, or maybe they work in a different office completely, but as long as they’re hiding behind their computer, there’s no limit to the saltiness and secret comebacks that they can unexpectedly drop into your inbox.
DC-based writer and marketing consultant Danielle René (known on Twitter as @DeeRene_) knows all about these funny insults, which is why she recently asked people to share their best comebacks after tweeting her own go-to roast phrase for problematic colleagues. Her tweet clearly resonated with people everywhere as many were quick to respond with their own funny comebacks, all of them professional yet at the same time secretly sassy. Scroll down to see for yourself. Do you have any office-related best roasts? Let us know in the comments below.
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This Twitter user is encouraging people to share their favorite professional clapbacks
People responded by tweeting their own passive-aggressive office comebacks
One person even had an entire story to tell!
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The word "clapback" needs to die. It's a reply or response.
Thank god for that explanation- I was wondering what the hell a clapback was
I don't get why people keep making new stupid nonsense words when we already have a word for the one they made up. Fetch is not going to happen.
Isn't that the American language in a nutshell, hence synonyms......literally the word for having other words. But for your info it's AAVE and you're welcome not to use it.
As much as language custodians try to pretend otherwise, language is fluid and dynamic. It evolves over time. Old terms become antiquated as new terms become vogue. It's far from a new phenomenon, and it's not unique to any one language. Urban vernacular tends to set the trend nowadays. It starts as colloquial slang, and then it'll be featured in a song or some celebrity will be heard using it, and before long it'll gain mainstream acceptance. The process is even faster now with social media. No amount of pissing and moaning will ever change that. Deal with it.
Funny thing about language, it's always changing. Weird, right? Always evolving. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach? Let's just all start speaking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are words for it already, right? Get outta here. Fetch never happened (except in a movie), clapback has already BEEN a thing that you were unaware of. Maybe you're just out of touch. I swear some of you snooty intellectual types are worse than children.
It is changing, bigly! Just ask Trump.
Although I agree with you unfortunately we can't stop them, remember Shakespeare invented over a 100 words not that I'm comparing him to this new generation. Lol at mean girls reference.
I believe Linda Gulley was saying, just because you can make up a new word does not mean you should. Just because you can get some others to use said word does not make it brilliant.
Language is a thing, it's a thing that always changes. Funny how it evolves. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach? Let's just all start talking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are already words for these things. Get outta here.
A "clapback" is not simply a reply or response. It doesn't solely pertain to email either. It's most like a comeback to a rude comment. I think it's a great word/expression, it evokes the visual of a very angry woman up in someone's face, with a very angry response, while making angry clapping at them.
If some angry person were yelling & clapping at me, I believe I'd be inclined to clap them across the face with my hand.
If all else fails, use a cat meme for an email response.
Professor here. I get a lot of simple questions that the kids can answer on their own, so I start emails with "As I posted on the course Blackboard page..." or "As the syllabus states..."
After repeating something a few times (I'm a high school teacher), when I've had it I'll just say, "Ask someone who listened".
As a student I attended so many courses in which I just wanted to stand up and scream "It is on Blackboard! Learn to read and follow instructions!" Which is probably why I have a degree in education but do not teach.
The word "clapback" needs to die. It's a reply or response.
Thank god for that explanation- I was wondering what the hell a clapback was
I don't get why people keep making new stupid nonsense words when we already have a word for the one they made up. Fetch is not going to happen.
Isn't that the American language in a nutshell, hence synonyms......literally the word for having other words. But for your info it's AAVE and you're welcome not to use it.
As much as language custodians try to pretend otherwise, language is fluid and dynamic. It evolves over time. Old terms become antiquated as new terms become vogue. It's far from a new phenomenon, and it's not unique to any one language. Urban vernacular tends to set the trend nowadays. It starts as colloquial slang, and then it'll be featured in a song or some celebrity will be heard using it, and before long it'll gain mainstream acceptance. The process is even faster now with social media. No amount of pissing and moaning will ever change that. Deal with it.
Funny thing about language, it's always changing. Weird, right? Always evolving. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach? Let's just all start speaking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are words for it already, right? Get outta here. Fetch never happened (except in a movie), clapback has already BEEN a thing that you were unaware of. Maybe you're just out of touch. I swear some of you snooty intellectual types are worse than children.
It is changing, bigly! Just ask Trump.
Although I agree with you unfortunately we can't stop them, remember Shakespeare invented over a 100 words not that I'm comparing him to this new generation. Lol at mean girls reference.
I believe Linda Gulley was saying, just because you can make up a new word does not mean you should. Just because you can get some others to use said word does not make it brilliant.
Language is a thing, it's a thing that always changes. Funny how it evolves. Does the word clapback need to die... or just your approach? Let's just all start talking Olde English again, right? Let's just get rid of all synonyms because there are already words for these things. Get outta here.
A "clapback" is not simply a reply or response. It doesn't solely pertain to email either. It's most like a comeback to a rude comment. I think it's a great word/expression, it evokes the visual of a very angry woman up in someone's face, with a very angry response, while making angry clapping at them.
If some angry person were yelling & clapping at me, I believe I'd be inclined to clap them across the face with my hand.
If all else fails, use a cat meme for an email response.
Professor here. I get a lot of simple questions that the kids can answer on their own, so I start emails with "As I posted on the course Blackboard page..." or "As the syllabus states..."
After repeating something a few times (I'm a high school teacher), when I've had it I'll just say, "Ask someone who listened".
As a student I attended so many courses in which I just wanted to stand up and scream "It is on Blackboard! Learn to read and follow instructions!" Which is probably why I have a degree in education but do not teach.