I work with at least 20-50 complete idiots

[Connoisseur]

I learned this lesson in the hardest possible way. This was my first year on the job out of college so I wasn't too smart yet with the email etiquette. Was trying to organize a paint ball trip with office people and added (what I thought was) the New York distro list (a couple of hundred people). Turns out I added the nation-wide list instead. Got a bunch of replies like "hur hur, wish I could make it. Pay for my flight?" After about the 5th or 6th reply people started getting annoyed. Especially my good buddy who was also on that recipients list who worked at another company. He replies (and only names were changed to protect the innocent):

"If one more person I don't know replies all to this email, connoisseur gets it in the ass".

This went out... nationwide... to all the senior managers (who're just below C level). Suffice to say, it was a long day and I was fairly certain i was getting fired. But I didn't and now i've learned my lessons:
> Be very careful who you're emailing (review the distro list)
> Practice punching someone so you're hands don't hurt as much when your fist meets your buddy's face.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I don't understand how people are so stupid... I'm in the Air Force, and everyone in my career field basically has to pass an IQ test, and yet at least 15 people in my building reply all to mass messages that require a response.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Part of my job involves occasionally sending out e-mails to 600+ people in our company (including all executives and senior management). Due to the way Outlook is set up and the need to constantly add people to the lists, I know that my day is coming where I accidentally send something to the entire list instead of an individual.

 

[xSauronx]

I work for a large engineering group. About twice per year, some idiot puts the distribution list that sends an email to everyone on the TO or CC line. Every single time, someone replies "take me off the distribution list" or something to that effect.

That creates a series of people replying to all saying the same damn thing. Then it turns into idiots replying to all and saying, "Please stop replying to all as it includes a distro list". Around and around we go. This latest one started about 9am this morning and is still going with about an email every 20 minutes or so.

I would blame the IT department for allowing people to send to a distribution list like that but unfortunately there are reasons people need to use it. Therefore I have to deal with the idiots that don't know how to put a distribution list on the BCC line and the idiots that reply to all.

I have been here for about 8 years and I see this happen at least twice a year. Bunch of retards I tell ya.....

some fuckhead in IT sent an email IT wide a couple of months ago...with a 100mb attachment

of course, everyone in IT gets notifications that they have an email, so 250 people opened it at the same time, and the groupwise server had a seizure.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

some fuckhead in IT sent an email IT wide a couple of months ago...with a 100mb attachment

of course, everyone in IT gets notifications that they have an email, so 250 people opened it at the same time, and the groupwise server had a seizure.

Ugh, don't get me started on that kind of stuff. Our accounts are limited to 200 megs. That would be plenty; however, it seems like everyone feels the need to send out 6 meg power point slides that basically have one sentence in them for every little thing that happened/happens/is happening soon/some distant date.