Netizens Call Her The 'Best Boss' For Her 'Perfect Email'

Ever since ‘work from home' has become the new normal for us, the only medium of job-related communication has been phone calls, emails and text messages. In such a scenario, an innocent ‘CALL ME’ text from your boss can cause you to break out in cold sweat, literally.

It is very usual for individuals to get worried after reading such emails, with millions of negative and dizzy thoughts racing through their heads. “Did I do something wrong?”, “What is this all about?”, “Am I fired?” and a slew of other worrisome thoughts. While you’re on the edge of your seat, panicking about what mess you could have gotten into, your boss might want to have no more than a breezy chat.

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Perfect Boss’s Email

In a recent instance, a Tik-Tok user called Jess published a video revealing an apparently similar email that she received from her boss. It contained lines like 'call me’, but, however, proved to be actually relaxing in her case. This email from her boss may even be described as the ‘ideal mail’ of the era. Yes, you read it correctly. 

She begins the video by saying “Anxious? Me? Not at all!” Then she displays a screenshot of an email that she got early in the morning that day. “This is a normal email that every boss sends to their employee,” Jess explains. The email goes along the lines of, “call me when you have the chance”. However, as we go further, we are pleasantly surprised to find that the email is not as frightening as it might seem at first. Her boss goes on to say- “Nothing is wrong! We haven’t spoken and I wanted to see how your holidays were. Please do not read anything else into this request.” Hereby, she calms her employee by making sure that she has nothing to fret about.

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Interestingly enough, Gabriella Cázares Kelly, a TikTok user, responded, claiming to be the boss mentioned in the email. She commented “I’m the boss. It’s common for me to call staff members and say, ‘can you come to see me in my office? You’re not in trouble.”

How to be the IDEAL Boss?

In the aforementioned case we saw how, through an additional but simple gesture, the employer was able to form a smoother connection with her employee by placing her in a comfortable circumstance. There are surely other ways as well that can help a boss seem a little less intimidating and a lot more amiable. Here are some of them:-

1. Be appreciative

Who doesn't enjoy being praised for their hard work? Naturally, when you tell an employee how wonderful she is, she will be more willing to contribute and work more energetically. Besides, she will be likely to receive criticism better and will be eager to learn more when you tell her what she needs to improve upon. So, it is altogether better to be more appreciative of your employees.

2. Build a relationship

Many managers believe that in order to be considered seriously, they must be isolated from the team and refrain from discussing personal matters at work. However, this is a misconception. Consider how you might engage in a range of professional settings. Don't you but discover some common ground while conversing with a new networking associate or a client? Isn't it pleasant when someone asks how your vacation was or how your family is doing before diving into work? People are more inclined to desire to work hard for someone who recognises their shared humanity than for someone who is all business and she does is assign tasks.

3. Be understanding

Employees despise an extremely inflexible boss. The one who tells you that you must utilize paid leave for an early morning doctor's appointment instead of allowing you to make up the hour by staying late. The one who doesn't show any sympathy when you have a family emergency or when your car broke down. This is someone you wouldn't want to turn into. So long as we're sensible, we want a manager who will be reasonable and portray some flexibility in times of need.

4. Serve as a role model 

Be a boss who balances her work life and family well. You may assist workers who are dealing with work-family balance by teaching them how it is done. Make it a practice to discuss your family's activities at work and to inquire about theirs. Over time, these talks may transform your workplace culture from one in which family time is to be concealed to one in which individuals are respected and family obligations are legitimized.

The cliche "Employees seldom quit a firm; they quit their boss" is correct, and research backs up this claim. For decades, researchers have studied the elements that influence employees' commitment to their businesses and their motivations for leaving a job. The most often claimed cause is a lack of effective leadership and support from their boss. Fostering positive attributes will assist a boss’s leadership abilities and motivate the colleagues to accomplish their best work. This results in a happy employee and, as a result, a more profitable firm. Everyone wins.

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