What happens when romance collides with corporate formality? For one woman on X (formerly Twitter), it led to an unexpectedly hilarious case of being “colleague-zoned.” X user Julia shared screenshots of an email exchange with her boyfriend that went viral, leaving millions of users laughing at how love can sound like office correspondence. Advertisement

Julia’s post, which has now crossed 6 million views, was captioned: “Sent a document to my boyfriend’s work email so he could print it for me and got colleague-zoned.”

The screenshots captured a perfectly comic contrast between Julia’s affectionate tone and her boyfriend’s overly formal, corporate-style reply. Julia’s original email read: “I love you! Please print this for me! Thanks.”

Her boyfriend, apparently in full professional mod

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