Food for thought - would anyone of you be offended by your manager if they ask if you ever had or led client communication? Like icky pick on the framework of an email sent to the client?

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I mean it certainly would be the manager’s responsibility to find this out *before* the email gets sent to the client. During the interview, to that matter lol.

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