Blogs are sometimes there for a bit of a rant yes? Just a little rant about the modern day etiquette of delivering bad news via text messages or email (or any other modern day communication!). There has been plenty of stories broadcasted about firms laying off staff through a blunt text message as they’re prepared to set out to work in the morning but let’s hope these stories are the extremes. I’m talking about those little items of bad news i.e., not turning up for a date (or interview), letting friends or colleagues down at the last moment etc where people think it’s OK to send a two sentence ditty and then banish it from their minds as dealt with whilst the receiver wonders if they’ve turned into an ogre that no one wants to talk to anymore.
Where will it all end?
Will the next generation be truly inarticulate when it comes to delivering bad news? Will the professional services in the future (police, nurses, doctors etc) who inarguably have the kind of jobs where bad news figures everyday, be able to adopt text messages and emails as a way of breaking bad news??
The right way to deliver it? Pick up the phone or call in in person – OK it can be hard but eh you’ll feel much better about it in the long run.
OK rant over 
