My favorite corporate thing of all times has to be the "I am going to email you and cc someone because I don't have the guts to actually say what I am about to say to your face" email.

It's the nasty cousin to the "I am going to email something flirtatious to you that I would never say to you in person, and hopefully that inspires some chemistry" email that we all did in our single days.

The only difference is that the first has someone in a cubicle twisting their moustache thinking "Ooh I got them" while the second has someone at their cubicle trying to somehow coerce an email mention of Grey's Anatomy into a witty invitation for drinks at O'Hara's Olde Tyme Pub. Either way it is the act of the desperate.