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Email Etiquette: When Being Impolite at Work Pays

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When one writer dismissed with the niceties in emails to colleagues, her work life improved.

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For years, I tried to be a very nice person at work—a dream colleague, a team player, the sort of woman who gave women a good name in the workplace.

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