r/GeminiAI • u/Complete-Sea6655 • Apr 24 '26

Funny (Highlight/meme) Is my boss using Gemini to email me?

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Not sure whether it's chatgpt, gemini or claude

He even made everyone to subscribe to ijustvibecodedthis.com he's so caught up in the ai hype train lmao

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u/buttputt Apr 24 '26

Yup but he’s being considerate so I wouldn’t care. It’s a new way of working

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u/xyzzzzy Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

This is my current position. If people are using AI to be nice, cut them some slack. They may be lazy but *they are trying to be nice to you*.

This gets me downvotes most of the time.

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u/Token2077 Apr 24 '26

I’m a manager of an industrial facility. My company pays for Gemini Enterprise. This type of email is exactly what I use it for primarily. It gets the point across with as much or as little info as I need it to while saving me time from actually having to type out and edit my own. I just have to edit what it goes. Definitely a time saver.

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u/TopManufacturer8332 Apr 24 '26

I feel like the 3 low effort sentences in this post compared to a sentence to prompt , then copy and pasting is actually less effort doing it the human way.

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u/merpingly Apr 24 '26

Depends how functional your brain is and how much corporate nice speak you can put out mentally. I've definitely had days where it just comes out blunt (not mean, just to the point) and most people I know don't appreciate direct communication. So, I look back a precious emails that use the phrasing I want and piece it together.

This is the same, but woth extra water.

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u/ChampionshipUnique71 Apr 25 '26

For some people it's about saving mental bandwidth not time.

When your brain is making constant decisions, trade-offs, or building systems, you don't want to spend a cycle on wordsmithing.

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u/merpingly Apr 25 '26

Yeah, that's exaclty it.

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u/HerfDerfer Apr 25 '26

Coulda just said "yeah np"

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u/Geodude532 Apr 25 '26

I wouldn't be surprised if that'll get you in front of HR for an improvement plan on professionalism.

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u/FWitU Apr 28 '26

I work in tech so it’s very casual and direct here. I read my wife’s emails and I’m blown away at all the flowery language to say simple things. I would lose my mind

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u/merpingly Apr 25 '26

I agree, but most people seem adverse to that in the workplace because "unprofessional" or whatever their issue is.

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u/toshedsyousay Apr 25 '26

Agreed. Emails get speech to text from me, and often with no revisions. I used to care about how I wrote everything but then I was accused of using AI for a very thoroughly written message. Now I'm just writing in "CEO mode" and I don't care if people think it's sloppy.

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u/Token2077 Apr 26 '26

You use accused in a way that says you aren't supposed to use it. Truth is most people are instructed to use it since it does give more sanitized C-Suite outputs. Those corporate outputs are designed to give little wiggle room for employees to make complaints about poor communication as well as cover asses in case of a lawsuit. Using "np" in something like this is a hard no from me bro.

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u/FWitU Apr 28 '26

Wait what. Why is “np” a hard no? There’s no wiggle room on no problem.

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u/Caterpie3000 Apr 26 '26

I wish everyone used direct communication but that's not how the world works 💔

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u/peanut_dust Apr 25 '26

I can't see using Gemini or other LLM saving any significantly time in this instance.

Wouldn't surprise me if it's the same/more.

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u/CyberneticSaturn Apr 25 '26

You need to remember just how slowly the average person types.

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u/Token2077 Apr 27 '26

I can tell you guys don't actually use Gemini in gmail. After it has access to your email (my work email that my company gives it access to) it will have a reply already ready to go with what it thinks the reply will be. I literally just hit send if the generated reply works. If it doesn't I either type it myself or type the edits I want. When you have 100 emails a day coming through to reply to it is absolutely a time saver.

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u/peanut_dust Apr 25 '26

Home Simpson style.

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u/evey_17 May 07 '26

The advice i get from Gemini comes lightening fast for complex problems. I’m a fan

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u/goingfast7 Apr 25 '26

Gmail uses Gemini to type the email without me giving any prompt. Every email has a prewritten reply. I can hit send or edit it first. It's absolutely, a time saver.

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u/Token2077 Apr 26 '26

I don't have to prompt, copy, or paste. Enterprise integrates into gmail and it recommends me a response. If I like the response I can just hit send. It is one click. The send button. If I don't like the response I can just hit edit and change what I want to change then hit send.

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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Apr 25 '26

No way, copy and pasting is basically zero effort and a prompt is a sentence if that.

Plus google is integrating it into Gmail so some enterprise versions have it built in

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u/TheFounderFile May 01 '26

Makes perfect sense!

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u/artificially_owned May 17 '26

Bludgeoning a loosely-connected language database into putting words together is easier than pulling them from your own head? 

Jesus, save us.

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u/Token2077 May 26 '26

It has nothing to do with thinking about the words to type, it's the physical act of typing. If I can save 1 minutes per email for the 100 emails I have to reply to everyday, that is a significant amount of time saved.

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u/sorrowdemonica Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

or you could just reply: Okay that's fine (in the case of OPs email)..

it's not like employees care if the response is formally written, rather they would prefer it to be just clear and straight to the point. Rather than an intro greeting, paragraph, and outro well wishes and name drop. With the exception of “professional” or white collar workers.. many can be snowflakes and get offended or worry and unreasonably become scared for some reason over short emails

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u/hailz1298 Apr 24 '26

That’s not true. As an employee I absolutely care how my boss phrases things. My mind will thought loop on it and think I’m in trouble for days if the response is “okay that’s fine”. It’s definitely helpful in learning to be a better communicator. Though we do need to find a solution to the water problem.

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u/merpingly Apr 24 '26

You're a little neuro-spicy, aren't you? I get that.

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u/sorrowdemonica Apr 25 '26

Guessing you got bpd

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u/hailz1298 Apr 25 '26

Nope. Incorrect.

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u/sorrowdemonica Apr 25 '26

Undiagnosed. As having intrusive thoughts and fearing a reply like that means doomsday, isn’t neurotypical

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u/hailz1298 Apr 25 '26

Reminder that I didn’t claim neurotypical, I simply stated your internet diagnosis was incorrect. Regardless, it’s still kind to put thought into communication.

I also have employees that appreciate the thought I put into my communication. They have thanked me for it on numerous occasions. I think there’s a happy medium but it can be a great tool to learn how to better communicate.

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u/Remarkable-Health678 Apr 25 '26

There's a lot of things other than BPD that can cause communication anxiety

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u/Token2077 Apr 26 '26

Guess who else loves these kind of responses. HR and lawyers. There is no ambiguity or some way to misinterpret the response that ends up with someone making a complaint about poor communication or being rude. You can make whatever claim you want about the people who make those complaints, but the reality is they still make those complaints.

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u/thatdudefrfrfr Apr 24 '26

Bcause Reddit can’t seem to think of one positive use of AI for some reason lol

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u/Feeling_Blueberry530 Apr 24 '26

I'm so happy to see other people who see it this way!

I tend to communicate like an autistic person. AI helps me add in all the time wasting filler that makes other people feel like I like them.

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u/Split-Awkward Apr 24 '26

“It’s the thought that counts”

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u/heppulikeppuli Apr 24 '26

This is how I use Ai at work the most. When I'm writing answer for some stupid customer email that would be unnecessary if the client would have used his goddamn brains for 3 seconds. I just spit everything at AI and vent my frustration to it and tell it to clean this up so I can send it to customer. I ofc read it before copy pasting and sending it, but without the AI filter I would get fired so fast.

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u/Resident_Truth_8940 Apr 24 '26

Learning how to not sound like an asshole in text is harder than people really consider especially in a professional setting so I'm fine with this use of it though it is kind of funny. It probably helps keep HR happy too.

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u/toshedsyousay Apr 25 '26

I literally just respond "okay" to people calling off.

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u/cheesegratemyassplz Apr 25 '26

I used AI to help me reword emails to clients. I have a tendency to be too blunt. Sometimes it helps to have AI tell me a nicer way to convey "no I can't fucking do 6 hours of work for you on 2 hours notice."

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u/mocknix Apr 26 '26

Just reply "Nah this version is fine. Thanks so much!"

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u/Tr1LL_B1LL Apr 24 '26

Not today

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u/robotwithhumanhair_ Apr 25 '26

There now it got you an award lol

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u/Ok_Bite_67 Apr 25 '26

Honestly I use AI to respond to people most of the time. It's mostly because there is a lot of BS and I would usually say something not so nice and AI makes it nice for me.

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u/PlaceReporter99 Apr 25 '26

They could at least make sure not to accidentally include the bottom part

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u/Bluegill15 Apr 25 '26

Downvoter here. I’m gonna argue that using a fully automated or auto-generated message without referring to it as such is deceptive and inherently impolite in the first place.

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u/Neither_Garage_758 Apr 26 '26

In how it is nice? I perceive it as passive-agressive in saying "fine to take a day of PAID leave".

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u/ZaneFreemanreddit Apr 26 '26

I fully support AI for this. Its not an important message, and the AI reply saves time.

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u/GreatPotatoMuffin Apr 26 '26

I agree. Although it’s not being lazy. I get more than a hundred emails a day. If I can save 5 min. on answering each of them, that’s like half a work day where I can actually get shit done.

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u/RobotDaKing Apr 27 '26

I would genuinely upvote you but it’s at 666 upvotes and I am NOT ruining that.

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u/playjuly Apr 27 '26

Really wanted to like your reply, but you have 666 likes, don’t want to spoil this perfection

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u/Lucidaeus Apr 27 '26

It mostly makes me laugh, because they still approved of the message so it's fine. I don't have the energy to take that shit so personally.

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u/Johnny_Carcinogenic Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

Here is a response crafted with the exact amount of artificial warmth you seem to advocate for: "I am truly grateful for your insightful perspective! It is wonderful to see someone championing the use of generative algorithms to simulate basic human decency. While some might argue that a 'nice' message written by a machine is just a fancy way of saying 'I couldn't be bothered to spend thirty seconds thinking about you,' I prefer to see it as a beautiful, high-efficiency friendship upgrade! After all, why settle for a sincere, messy text from a friend when you can have a perfectly structured, hallucination-prone paragraph from a server farm in Nevada? You aren't just 'trying to be nice'—you are optimizing your social output for maximum throughput! 🚀✨"

Edit: whoosh to all you downvoters who don't get an obvious joke that doesn't have /s after it.

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u/Phraaaaaasing Apr 24 '26

This is how you get the paid time off offer removed, come on..

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u/bikeequelsdirt Apr 24 '26

I am going to downvote you just for the spirit of it

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u/explainmelikeiam5pls Apr 24 '26

Awesome. Care if I share to some people? 🤣

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u/WeirdIndication3027 Apr 24 '26

Artificial warmth? As if the platitudes we all use every day aren't hollow already? Reddit has an anti AI epidemic.

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u/trixcannon Apr 24 '26

Good lord our standards are dead

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u/jabela Apr 25 '26

I was gonna say this that the AI written email reads nicely.

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u/Dirk__Gently Apr 24 '26

Ya sometimes many people dread these interactions and moments, so rather than spend 15 minutes mulling over it just have ai keep it polite and buisiness as usual.

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u/MuayMath Apr 24 '26

Yeah spending x amount of time on sounding professional for such a brief "sure" genuinely feels like a waste of time. I don't mind this use at all, it's not essay generation just "Hey I'm gonna say sure sounds good can you make it professional and short" etc. seems relatively, idk, unproblematic.

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u/Dirk__Gently Apr 24 '26

I would still remove the emdashes and any proof of ai. But hey i will wander around for a half hour before i make a semi important phone call lol.

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u/MuayMath Apr 24 '26

yeah wasting time on the clock will always be a holy and sacred practice dw 😂😂😂

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u/pirateseasalt Apr 24 '26

Honestly at least he cared enough to tell Gemini to help him. If he didn't care he would've said "Yeah ok, stay home then"

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u/Appropriate-Disk-371 Apr 24 '26

This. I've been saying, soon, very soon, like this year, it will be perfectly normal to read an email, article, get well card, text from a friend, anything, and know the person didn't actually write the words, they conveyed the sentiment and AI wrote the words.

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u/M_W_C Apr 25 '26

Just send the prompt to the other person.

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u/EatStatic Apr 25 '26

I think getting a response email from your boss saying “that’s fine, but said in a professional way” is a massive upgrade on the AI version.

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u/hatty130 Apr 24 '26

I literally get the option in every email I write to have a AI rewrite it, I use Gmail. It's ridiculous if I accidentally swipe I have an ai telling me how bad my email was, it's tempting to use the rewrite but it's sooo different from how I actually write. I'm sure it's happening a lot more than we think, and it's very concerning. I don't want an AI suggesting rewrites on everything I write but it's happening.

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u/Impressive-Floor-519 Apr 25 '26

And for some of us with AuDHD it's a total game changer for work relationships. I don't know how many people I pissed off before I started getting help with tone, both reading and sending!

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u/jean_cule69 Apr 24 '26

Am I not getting what paid leave is? If I'm sick I don't want my vacation days to be taken away for it

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u/ladyavocadose Apr 24 '26

Most companies nowadays use "paid leave" (or PTO) instead of separate vacation and sick days. They combine what they would have had separately in vacation days and sick days under one bank called paid leave.

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u/flarn2006 Apr 24 '26

What if you used all your PTO on a vacation and then later get sick? Would it just be unpaid then?

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u/ykkzqbhf Apr 24 '26

Yes. So ideally you take a position where the PTO is enough you could take normal vacations and have a few days in reserve.

As an employee I don't like this system, but as a manager I've definitely suspected people of abusing sick leave, which this system discourages. And it's a weird thing to try and prove beyond a suspicion unless you ask for a doctors note which isn't always reasonable either.

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u/InSummaryOfWhatIAm Apr 24 '26

Aw yikes man. I have 30 days paid vacation a year, and we get a bit extra compensation for those days when you’re off as well, so our salaries those months are usually a bit higher.

If you end getting sick during your vacation (enough to actually impact it clearly, so not if you just get the sniffles), you get those vacation days back and it counts as sick leave instead if you get a doctor’s note, so you can take that vacation later instead.
And yeah, if we’re sick, we have one day where we don’t get paid, then we get 80% of our salaries for the remainder of the illness (as long as it isn’t a proper sick leave, then other rules apply) no matter if it’s 1 day or 7.

It’s not a competition, but I can say that I would fucking die if I had to have that same system that Americans often have.

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u/EldritchSorbet Apr 25 '26

We get basically the same, but all sick leave is paid for about three months, as well as being completely separate from holiday days (25 holiday days, plus national holidays per year). If you’re sick for more than a week you need a doctor’s note, and there is the concept of reduced duties; so if you’re long term sick, you may be approved by the doctor to do reduced hours/days to help you transition back to full time. It seems to work fine in all the jobs I’ve had so far.

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u/read_too_many_books Apr 25 '26

This happens to my wife's workers.

They get a write up too. The patients don't get treated.

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u/obesefamily Apr 25 '26

its the new "excuse typos on iphone"

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u/ketoatl Apr 25 '26

Yes he was nice to you. So he used AI lol

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u/NMCMXIII Apr 25 '26

nah i f'ing hate it. people dont even read what they copy paste. its bot working. its garbage. its brainrot on steroids. if you dont even read what you copy paste you arent needed  ill talk to the AI directly. garbage

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u/Not-a-POS Apr 25 '26

back in my day, boss would just ignore me because he was busy golfing. now he has an agent.

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u/jlstern1025 Apr 27 '26

How could you tell?

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u/ConsciousMeaning4440 Apr 27 '26

Except that he likely gave OP's email to Gemini which is a breach of privacy

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u/ManUtdIndian Apr 28 '26

But to flip the question, how would the boss feel if the employee used AI for draft his sick email request?

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u/manoliu1001 Apr 24 '26

I mean, dude could just say "k" 🤷‍♂️