alt Hacker NewsMy dev friends used to do this as a sort of inside joke around the office. If you were cool and hip, you wrote emails like this as a way to sort of thumb your nose at the establishment.
I did it for a while until I was considered a "senior" dev and one of the VP's pulled me aside and said it reflects poorly on me when I'm not using proper grammar. He said as a senior dev in the org, I should hold myself to a higher standard. At which time, I started using proper grammar.
Always puts a smile on my face when I see this is still a thing in certain circles. Nonconformity isn't quite dead - and that's a good thing.
Everywhere I’ve worked, there’s a funny phenomenon where the people just under the real decision makers use formal language, start emails with salutations and sign them, etc. Whereas the actual decision makers send emails like “can u look in2 this? thx”