Dumbest co-worker email ever?

[notfred]

I got this email this morning, here's an excerpt:

Hello Mr. X,

Can you please take just a moment to clarify why I was bcc'd on this email? I appreciate that you are very busy and have many responsibilities, but it seems strange that I would be bcc'd on an All Employee Email and I wonder if it was unintentional or if there is an specific reason.

Note that she replied to the same list that the message was originally sent to, that being the one that contains (surprise) *All our employee's email addresses*

ugh....

 

[Fausto]

*sigh*

"Reply All" should be an advanced-only option on MS Outlook. I can't tell you how often three or four emails between two people (with the entire CDC staff cc'd in, of course) will go back and forth before they figure it out.

 

[pyonir]

I see things like that at work ALL the time. People do NOT understand the global address book concept.

 

[Cuda1447]

woah...

 

[StinkyMeat]

bcc is a tough concept to grasp for some people.

 

[BooGiMaN]

well why did u?

 

[AstIsis]

ROFLMAO...I hope she is not in management!

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

outlook is the devil. I almost lost my job because i sent an email to a few of my friends here and one of them, computer inept will forward, anything and everything they get, and will include the names of anyone they can think of, including VPs and CEO's.
and lets just say my original messages was a rant on the quality of management at my work place.

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
well why did u?

i don't think he did, he was just on the list of the All Employee group

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: vtqanh

Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
well why did u?

i don't think he did, he was just on the list of the All Employee group

Yeah, don't tell me that you can't understand the concept of "All Employee Email" either, BooGiMaN.

 

[Nitemare]

I like the ones that my co-workers forward to our department that they got forwarded from a friend warning us on deleting a system file because it is really a virus....this always makes my day

 

[Looney]

I see that happening ALL the time.

 

[JSClark]

I remember a couple times I got bcc'd on a couple employees talking smack behind my back about an issue at a place I used to work at. Well, being the IT person there, I hopped onto Exchange and read the whole conversation (took about 1/2 hour). I got the last laugh, because I took the convo and forwarded it to my IT manager, who in turn taught these boys a valuable lesson in maturity. Revenge is sweet

 

[edmicman]

is it really easy to reply to all in outlook? i personally use eudora and have never had a problem, ie., the buttons aren't really that confusing, but this isn't the first time i've heard of such a thing. i've seen quite a few flame fests start when a mass email or newsletter goes out, and someone replies to everyone, and then everyone replies to that saying "stop emailing me" which in turn goes back to everyone else, starting a crazy cycle. just wondering if its really easy to do in outlook and the like.

 

[Quixfire]

Not funny, why are you making fun of someones mistake.:disgust:

Oh wait, I did this yesterday.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Heh, what about the person who was complaining that a coworker emailed them AutoCAD (when they asked), all 250MB on the CD of it. And THEN the next day proceeded to ask me to email him a 71 minute long audio CD I had made (for myself). He didn't grasp the concept of "No f'ing way.". This person also proceeded to email me w/ 11MB of joke attatchments.

Email should require a license.

 

[Hammer]

reply to all needs to be banned

 

[spidey07]

Your company actually allows people to send to the "all company" address?

The e-mail admin needs to be shot.

 

[sygyzy]

I am confused. There was a company wide email to All and the lady was also on a BCC list? That makes no sense. Why would they go through the trouble of emailing her twice?

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Your company actually allows people to send to the "all company" address?

The e-mail admin needs to be shot.

when you hit reply to all on an "all employees" email, that email will be sent to all employees. We don't have permissions to send a new email to all employees though. i wasn't aware there was a way to not allow reply to all to include the all employees list.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: spidey07
Your company actually allows people to send to the "all company" address?

The e-mail admin needs to be shot.

when you hit reply to all on an "all employees" email, that email will be sent to all employees. We don't have permissions to send a new email to all employees though. i wasn't aware there was a way to not allow reply to all to include the all employees list.

You restrict who can send to that group or how many individual addresses and e-mail can contain, etc. Imagine if I sent a 20 MB attachment to "everybody". melt down.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Btw, the best response I've ever given:

When sent 11MB worth of files with the question "do you need to modify these?" (just the numbers+description would've been fine). I replied with 3 characters: "no."

 

[Cfour]

How about this one (sent to whole tech division, probably about 30 people):

Whoops!

Funniest goof evAr?

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: spidey07

You restrict who can send to that group or how many individual addresses and e-mail can contain, etc. Imagine if I sent a 20 MB attachment to "everybody". melt down.

(bear with me, i know nothing about email administration)

But what i don't get is how can you restrict the people so that they can't send a new email to "All employees" but they can reply to all and send it to all employees. That doesn't make sense to me.

 

[Ime]

Where I work I have a few email lists open to all.

One of the more mentally challenged users tried to send an email advertising their home business at work. This user was so stupid she sent it to the "#HR VP and assistants" group. Which I keep open so people can send their HR questions to a group of users in HR.

I was in the HR office when the email came in... the HR VP was on the phone to the user's supervisor so fast I barely had time to laugh.

Someone got a real butt-chewing about that one, that's for sure!