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re: When "Reply All" Goes Wrong. Laughably Wrong.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:41 am to Funky Tide 8
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:41 am to Funky Tide 8
We were having a conference call with our regional manager. During this call me and my buddy would text snide remarks. Well I had to respond to our manager about something during this call.
I made an offhanded remark about our manager and sent it to what I thought was my buddy, forgetting my last reply had been to my manger and sent it to my manager of course.
He never responded back but know it was received.
I made an offhanded remark about our manager and sent it to what I thought was my buddy, forgetting my last reply had been to my manger and sent it to my manager of course.
He never responded back but know it was received.
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Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:44 am to JohnnyKilroy
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Negotiations take a turn when your dumbass client emails my client directly and includes your internal discussions and deal points lol.
Always blind copy my clients to emails like that so they don’t accidentally do this.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:45 am to Funky Tide 8
I worked for an organization that required confidential voting on certain changes to procedure or overrides of policy.
Admin would send out an email with the proposal, then write in big, bold, underlined, red letters: "Please reply only to me with only a YES or NO. Do NOT provide any additional commentary and do NOT reply all."
Inevitably, a half dozen supposedly very smart, successful people would reply all with their votes and the reasoning behind them.
I don't know if they were just playing dumb while influencing office politics, not caring and influencing politics, or they actually were just dumb, but either way it was really annoying.
ETA: Thankfully haven't had to deal in my work life with the chains in the hundreds or thousands like others.
Admin would send out an email with the proposal, then write in big, bold, underlined, red letters: "Please reply only to me with only a YES or NO. Do NOT provide any additional commentary and do NOT reply all."
Inevitably, a half dozen supposedly very smart, successful people would reply all with their votes and the reasoning behind them.
I don't know if they were just playing dumb while influencing office politics, not caring and influencing politics, or they actually were just dumb, but either way it was really annoying.
ETA: Thankfully haven't had to deal in my work life with the chains in the hundreds or thousands like others.
This post was edited on 1/25/23 at 1:47 am
Posted on 1/25/23 at 12:58 am to JohnnyKilroy
quote:That's also a dumbass lawyer who doesn't read their clients the riot act about communications with the other party without them.
It's only January and I've already gotten 2 such emails.
Negotiations take a turn when your dumbass client emails my client directly and includes your internal discussions and deal points lol.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 1:10 am to Funky Tide 8
It’s the reply all group text responses I can’t stand. No one gives a damn why you can’t do x, y, or z. Just don’t respond if you’re not available.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 1:37 am to Funky Tide 8
Why even write that?
Never write anything in a work email you wouldn't shout from the rooftops.
Never write anything in a work email you wouldn't shout from the rooftops.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 2:22 am to Funky Tide 8
I worked for a company with just over 100 employees and HR would email the entire company every time it was somebody’s birthday.
With 100+ employees, we’d receive these mass emails about every 3 days, and then we’d get replies all day wishing this random person happy birthday. It was awful, I eventually set up a filter for the word “Birthday” that would just file them away from my inbox.
With 100+ employees, we’d receive these mass emails about every 3 days, and then we’d get replies all day wishing this random person happy birthday. It was awful, I eventually set up a filter for the word “Birthday” that would just file them away from my inbox.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 3:16 am to BoogaBear
This is why I always tell me team not to just share the fricking screen. It’s not suppose to pop messages but I’ve seen teams and emails pop up on a screen.
We had people that their only job was to present this data tool and show its functions and they would share the screen. Then sitting in a big meeting you see email and messages pop up. Since then our team doesn’t use them.
We had people that their only job was to present this data tool and show its functions and they would share the screen. Then sitting in a big meeting you see email and messages pop up. Since then our team doesn’t use them.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 3:42 am to Funky Tide 8
Had a high up HR person send an email out which she accidentally included my team distribution list. Lots of details about why the internal candidate for a job was not qualified but carry on with interviews so they can practice. She really wanted a specific person who was external and at another major company and proceeded to outline his list of wants for the contract. She tried to recall it but several of us already read it. And they did not fire her but we never hired her candidate either.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:31 am to Big4SALTbro
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not to just share the fricking screen.
I don't really have a choice due to my job, I share probably half the day. I now make sure teams at least shows that I am presenting. My team knows now if I'm presenting, text me. If someone from outside my team does it, oh well
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:52 am to Tortious
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I had a boss who worked at another area who came over to our area. Everyone feared him at first (turned out to be a great boss). First day he sends out an email saying how he expects efficiency, work smarter not harder, and how he loathes people who reply all automatically. Went on to say it should be used judiciously, etc. You guessed it several people replied all with duly noted, understood, agree, etc
The boss is also an idiot for sending the email with recipients in the "To:'" field. You should "BCC:" everyone. Then they CAN'T reply all. The real fault is with the senders of these emails.
Anytime one person can solve a problem, that would otherwise require multiple people to solve, it is incumbent on that one person to solve it.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:52 am to Funky Tide 8
I always say that companies should use that as a cleansing exercise. If you are that stupid then you shouldnt work for said company.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 7:53 am to baldona
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Who drops the F bomb in a company email like that? Lol
This guy!
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:00 am to Bubb
I work for a large international company and this never happens to us.
I guess sort of amazing considering the numbers and multitude of cultures, personalities, ages, etc….
Maybe then again we don’t hire complete idiots.
I guess sort of amazing considering the numbers and multitude of cultures, personalities, ages, etc….
Maybe then again we don’t hire complete idiots.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:01 am to SlapahoeTribe
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I work for a company with over a million employees globally; someone with corporate access about a year ago sent out a mass email to every employee…
Then the “reply all” armageddon began. I awoke to thousands upon thousands of emails in my inbox. Things got so bad that they had to shut down the system for a while and so some massive purge before starting it back up almost a day later.
You work for Chevron?
Had the same thing happen when I was with them but it was a few years ago. Woke up to 2500 emails.
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:05 am to SlapahoeTribe
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I work for a company with over a million employees globally; someone with corporate access about a year ago sent out a mass email to every employee…
Then the “reply all” armageddon began. I awoke to thousands upon thousands of emails in my inbox. Things got so bad that they had to shut down the system for a while and so some massive purge before starting it back up almost a day later.
This made me legit lol
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:13 am to Funky Tide 8
That is glorius 
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:19 am to Tbonepatron
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:38 am to WhiskeyThrottle
Had the same thing happen on a company wide email to literally several thousand people. He replied all calling everyone "Moron's" but spelled it maroon. To this day literally everyone in the company including our CEO calls people maroons on emails lol
Posted on 1/25/23 at 8:49 am to 3nOut
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I was at a Fortune 500 company’s HQ yesterday and sitting next to a gen z kid and he was shite talking about coworkers and making inappropriate jokes on slack the entire meeting. VP was in there and I was thinking “holy hell.” Incredibly unprofessional.
It has its uses. I watch our analytics throughout the day. The moment I see the public chat die off and the private chat ramp up, I start looking for issues.
It's a bat signal that someone has fricked up and is trying to hide it from management
I have no problem with someone messing up. I have no problem with someone hiding it. But the reason for hiding it needs to be that it is fixed so well no one will ever find it.
This post was edited on 1/25/23 at 8:50 am
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