14 subject lines that will get your email deleted immediately

Checking Email After Work May Be Hazardous To Your Mental Health
Checking Email After Work May Be Hazardous To Your Mental Health


When I check my email today, I found the most inept and self-centered introductory email I've ever received. I may share its full heinousness in a future post, but for now here's just the dreadful subject line: "May I pick your brain please for 15 min?"

Ugh! Anyway, that email, along with a suggestion from my editor, got me thinking about Subject lines so awful that almost everyone deletes them unread. Here, IMHO, are the worst of the worst in alphabetical order:

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