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One things I don't like about my job...

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IHAVEAQUESTION

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Nothing. Just want to get this off my chest before leaving work.

This client of mine just emailed asking whether I've entered into the system the information given to me last week (Of course, I did). I am fine with him checking, but what annoys me is that he always CC my boss while conveniently excluding his boss and colleagues in the email. So if anything goes wrong, my boss would know and blame me but his office will never know a thing he did wrong.

I always think of CC as a For-Your-Information type of feature. I didn't know it could be used as a weapon until this job...

Not impressed.
 
You can also use it as a smoke screen.

CC your boss on a few business e-mails on a slow week and it gives the appearance that you're working.
 
I cc everybody, including client's boss on every email. It's a trail of accountability, and if the clients takes off their boss in the next response I cc their boss back in on my reply.
 
That is why when he fucks up, you add his bosses email to the CC on your reply.

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FUCK HCR beat me by a minute!
 
Printer Bandit said:
CC his boss on your reply to him.
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This. No brainer.

I am in a big office environment now. One thing I have noticed is how dumb people are. They stand in the hallway and talk. One on each wall. So when you walk down the hallway, you have to walk between them. WTF? Stand together on the same side like us intelligent, normal people do.
 
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Amazing how all the people saying they would never betray others in the office thread are all talking about how they would set the stage for failure or payback for others in office politics and backstabbing.
 
oldsmoboat said:
I am in a big office environment now. One thing I have noticed is how dumb people are. They stand in the hallway and talk. One on each wall. So when you walk down the hallway, you have to walk between them. WTF? Stand together on the same side like up intelligent, normal people do.
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Did you check Outlook before taking that route? Perhaps they booked that hallway for a meeting and you are the dumb one that keeps interrupting it...
 
Sophitia said:
Amazing how all the people saying they would never betray others in the office thread are all talking about how they would set the stage for failure or payback for others in office politics and backstabbing.
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CYA is not the same thing as snitching.
 
Oh yeah I've gotten that before. Best thing to do is CC his boss as someone else has mentioned. F'ing annoying but what can you do.
 
BoberFett said:
I cc the whole company. On everything. Just to be sure.
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http://www.clientcopia.com/quotes.php?id=8129

I was called in to help a company that was unindated with e-mails. People couldn't get work done. And where did the e-mails come from? They were sending the e-mails to themselves.

Here's the background. It had been corporate culture for people to send e-mails to huge lists that covered entire departments, even if the e-mail was not applicable to 99% of the people on the list. I have always found this to be a huge waste of time, and a serious security breach, but you have managers that start this "in case someone needs this" and "so I don't have to send it again".

So people were already used to dealing with high volumes of e-mails that were irrelevant to them, but not everyone was technologically savvy. It would appear that most people did not know the difference between the "reply" and "reply all" button on their e-mail programs.

Now the fun begins. One employee thinks it is acceptable to use the company e-mail to solicit people for his multi-level marketing side-business. He sends the e-mail to about 500 people initially. A trip wire goes off for someone as they have had absolutely enough of useless e-mails.

She responds "please take me off this list!!!" but instead of hitting "reply" she hits "reply all". 500 people get the e-mail. Someone else responds "take me off this list too" and also hits "reply all". 500 people get this e-mail.

Someone responds "why are all these people asking me to take them off the list? I didn't send them anything." 500 people get this e-mail.

One guy, just to be a wise-guy, responds to everyone "OK, I took you off the list". 500 people get this e-mail. Someone else responds "please take me off too", and 500 people get this e-mail. Several other people respond "you haven't taken me off the list. I'm still getting these e-mails". Thousdands and thousands and thousands of e-mails are bouncing around this company like the most evil game of ping-pong you could imagine.

It is so bad, that people are reporting e-mails from their own company as spam. These people are not getting the e-mails they need.

These people are too naive to understand that they are causing their own problem. An e-mail sent to everyone about the cause of the problem is met with surprise, surprise, some people responding ... to all ... that this doesn't seem to be helping.

We have to schedule small group training sessions with about 5 to 15 people in each session to show them how to effectively use their e-mail. And definitely to know the difference between "reply" and "reply all". This takes three days. Three days!!
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MotionMan
 
clamum said:
Oh yeah I've gotten that before. Best thing to do is CC his boss as someone else has mentioned. F'ing annoying but what can you do.
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How about calling him and asking why he keeps cc-ing people who do not need to receive such e-mails (It is in that conversation that you could also mention that e-mails that are important enough for one boss are probably important enough for both bosses).

Follow up the conversation about appropriate cc-ing with an e-mail cc-ed to both bosses. 😉

MotionMan
 
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