Why your boss now writes like a serial killer

Have you noticed?
Emails are getting creepier.

Not the spammy kind. The perfect kind. Impeccable grammar. Soothing tone. A little too balanced. A little too … AI-generated.

And yet they sign the bloody thing with their name. Sometimes even with a smiley. 🙂 (Which makes it worse if you ask me.)

I might be old fashioned but when everyone starts writing like a self-help robot, we begin to lose something. Not just our voice. But our risk. Our mess. Our human fingerprint.

It used to be that a typo meant: I’m busy. I’m real. I’m alive. Now it means: Oops, forgot to paste this into ChatGPT first.

We are outsourcing not just tasks — but tone. Not just spelling — but sincerity.

And if we’re not careful, the voice people hear from us won’t be ours anymore. It’ll be a sanitized echo. Polite. Safe. Dead inside.

And people can tell. Even when they don’t say it out loud, they feel it in their spine: “This message is flawless. Therefore, I don’t trust it.”

Because real communication has friction. It breathes. It stumbles. It makes someone blink twice and say, “Wait — was that a joke?” It might even offend you. But at least it’s alive.