I sent my coworker a work email from my work email, and she responded via a text message from her daughter's ipad.

Reply with a pic of your genitalia.

Not surprised. I just got off the phone with a new business contact. I asked what was the best way to follow up, he said shoot me a text. Literally just met the guy. Also, I've had work conversations through Twitter DM's. What's the Bob Dylan line?

This makes a lot of sense, oddly enough.

You can't just be satisfied with the fact this person actually responded to your email, can you?

I use WhatsApp for all my business communications.

a different world wrote:

What's the Bob Dylan line?

Dylan's gone electric?

I'm curious what is so odd about this? Texts are one of the primary means by which I communicate with co-workers - and sometimes clients/prospective clients - regarding business. It's less intrusive than calling their cell, but also more immediate and concise than an email. Most people get 50-100 work emails a day. You really think they are reading all of those? Of course not. If it is at all urgent you've got to text or call.

Oh, and I'm a VP in my late 30's, so it is not just a Millennial or junior employee thing.

Getting Old wrote:

I'm curious what is so odd about this? Texts are one of the primary means by which I communicate with co-workers - and sometimes clients/prospective clients - regarding business. It's less intrusive than calling their cell, but also more immediate and concise than an email. Most people get 50-100 work emails a day. You really think they are reading all of those? Of course not. If it is at all urgent you've got to text or call.

Oh, and I'm a VP in my late 30's, so it is not just a Millennial or junior employee thing.

She sent it via her daughter's ipad, not from her own phone. Are you stupid?

imbecile! this is rubbish!!

Why were you sending e-mails to her daughter's iPad. Are you a perv?

People are truly stupid these days. I try to stay away or help change them.

But how can you change decades of decay?

Public Schrews, Publick Screws have messed up people badly.

Getting Old wrote:

I'm curious what is so odd about this? Texts are one of the primary means by which I communicate with co-workers - and sometimes clients/prospective clients - regarding business. It's less intrusive than calling their cell, but also more immediate and concise than an email. Most people get 50-100 work emails a day. You really think they are reading all of those? Of course not. If it is at all urgent you've got to text or call.

Oh, and I'm a VP in my late 30's, so it is not just a Millennial or junior employee thing.

What industry are you in? (I am assuming financial services.) Does your employer actually NOT have a policy against texting on a personal device for business purposes?

Only one appropriate response wrote:

Reply with a pic of your genitalia.

Finally! The first response is the correct response.

Faith in LRC restored.

this is just unprofessional. that's all

I work with idiots wrote:

She sent it via her daughter's ipad, not from her own phone. Are you stupid?

Well, I’m not the one whose ranting and calling his co-worker an idiot on the inter-webs...

I also still fail to see the issue. Was there something confidential or sensitive in this text? If not, why does it matter that it was her daughter’s device? Last time I checked, I paid for and own all my kids devices. I’ll use them if I dam well please. Clearly you knew who the text came from. Are you planned by on texting your co-workers daughter dick pics or something?

I work with idiots wrote:

Everyone has each other's cell numbers for reasons related to the nature of the work we do. Rather than reply to my email from her email, she responded via a text message from her daughter's ipad, so I randomly got a text message from a number not in my contacts regarding a work email I sent to my coworker. She was not trying to be funny or cute or anything. She genuinely thought this made perfect sense and was not out of the ordinary at all. We are not friends. She is 50.

Pics of daughter?

Which part is supposed to be objectionable?

responding by text? or

responding from her daughter's ipad?

I think one of the questions here is how she got the number to text him.

Did she go to her phone or computer, or even a book she keeps with her work stuff, to get the number, and then go to her daugher's iPad to send the text? Weird if so.

Or did she just remember the number? Borderline creepy, but depends on how often she has to phone him manually. OP could say.

50 - 30 = 20 wrote:

Pics of daughter?