Emails. You can't avoid them. Bosses. You can't avoid them either. What makes the two even more unavoidable is when you combine them and add ALL-CAPS.
JUST
placed scattered along the email...
IMPORTANT
in case I needed a reminder.
PLEASE
a solitary plea or a grateful gesture?
Are you shouting at me? Do you think that I don't understand? Are you excited or annoyed? Do you think I need an appointment with the Opthamologist?
It's one thing to use caps every once in a while, say, when your niece is born (HOORAY!) or your sister is promoted (YIPPEE!) or your brother wins the state champs (WOOOHOOO!). Well, you get the idea. Even then, I prefer the understated prose in calm lower case. In a city full of noise, couldn't the written word of email be silent so that I can at least angst over reading between the lines? Oh bother. TIME TO GO HOME - now those words deserve a loudspeaker and a !!!!!! Happy night.
