Heard over breakfast yesterday:
Oglet: My boss sends out emails about once a week, asking who is available for the weekend.
Me: To do stagehand work?
Oglet: Yeah, and other stuff. Helping with sets and sound and etc.
Me: And does he get volunteers?
Oglet: Mostly excuses. Problem is the idiots always hit “Reply all”
Me: So everyone gets to hear everyone’s excuses?
Oglet: Yes. And we really don’t need to know. We don’t want to know that you can’t come because you need to see your doctor because of something you caught at the Christmas party, or you need to get a salve for some rash you got, or you hate to leave your apartment because you suspect your roomate is sexually abusing your dog in your absence.
Me: So they don’t understand whey they hit “Reply all” they’re sending this info to everyone?
Oglet. Nope. And it isn’t as if they’re geezers. These are teensgers who grew up with computers all around. That’s the sort of thing I would expect from Gramma, not kids I go to school with”
A few years ago our e-mail system went to its knees. Someone sent out a company-wide e-mail, basically saying “Reply if you’ll be attending such-and-such an event.” Some idiot hit reply to all, ok, not too bad. People then began doing reply-to-all to ask why they were getting this e-mail (the one with the response to the original). More people replied-to-all to ask what was going on. MORE people replied-to-all to tell people to stop hitting reply-to-all. In the space of a few minutes I got probably a hundred e-mails, all of which went to everyone in the (expletive deleted) company.
Did I mention that I work for a COMPUTER CONSULTING COMPANY? Did I ALSO mention I work for the company (although a different division) that did the Obamacare web site?
Some day’s it’s not worth the effort to chew through the restraints.
sometimes the sharpest tool in the box is a hammer. Nuff said.
See… see… It’s NOT just us… LOL
Now see, if I had a truly evil sense of humor, I’d e mail the link to this article to my entire contact list.
All, in the primary address line, at that.
hehehheheheheh
(not gonna do it, wouldn’t be prudent!)
/41/Carvey
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Mark D,
That sounds a LOT like an incident I got to watch at a previous job.
Also a few years ago….
The primary computer center for a well known manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment.
Took a few days to get things all squared away if memory serves.
BGM