Passions Discussion Group -- LMFAO. The dumbass-ness of corporate America.

Passions Discussion Group

Topic: LMFAO. The dumbass-ness of corporate America.

Topic Posted by: Martimmy
Date Posted: Tue Oct 30 22:09:48 2007
Additional Comments: So, we got this Darth Vader like email from some enigma stating a key server was going to be down. It went down. And then it went up! Yay, cheers amongst the cubicles, right?

Well, it wasn't up and running. AND, all the nimrod art directors and folks who don't know what "REPLY ALL" means kept sending emails, like:

Mine isn't working!
It's still down.
No server.
Me too.
Can't log on.
Can't log on
Server is still down!
Can't log on.
Can't get onto the server
It's broken!
Can't get onto that server you mentioned.
Server has an Error 32.
Can't log on.
Can't log on.
I tried, but I can't.
Server is down.
Something is wrong. It's gone.
I can't log onto the server.

Sick of it? So were we! And apparently all sorts of other people were sick of the fact that others didn't comprehend the "Reply All" concept. So then THIS started to happen:

"What's up with all the Reply All emails?"
"Hey, my email is being inundated with these stupid server emails! Email the IT guy directly!"
"Don't Reply All!"
"Please, do not use Reply All!"
"Email the direct sender, please."
"Don't use reply all to these emails. Everybody can see your response."
"Why the Reply All to this notice?"
'Reply All floods people's inbox when it's not necessary."

I mean seriously, I had to delete a million emails, simply due to this one f***ing issue, which I initially read and nonchalantly thought "OK, I'll work around it." And then 2 million worthless emails come into my box. Deleting those is like trying to swat mosquitos in your Minnesota cabin. Annoying and fruitless.

I think I'm ready for a vacation, raise, or both. And sadly won't be getting any in the near future.

Posted by: Queen Maeve
Date posted: Fri Nov 2 8:07:19 2007
Message:
In my company, the head of an office or someone's supervisor will send out an email to the entire company congratulating someone for bringing in a really great piece of business or completing a special project or something. It's a very nice thing to do.

But right after, there is a string of individuals who also want to congratulate the person, and the morons click Reply to All. So my inbox fills up with 47 copies of "Nice job, Jim!" and "Congrats! You're the best!" I think they do this so that the whole company sees them sending out the congrats. (I work with a lot of egomaniacs.) I have contemplated forwarding them all to Jim, but then I figured it's not his fault everyone is stupid.

Posted by: Evil Charity
Date posted: Wed Oct 31 11:35:02 2007
Message:
And, this is why I removed the "reply all" button from the toolbar in outlook. There are very few instances where it's actually appropriate to use and I don't want to hit is on accident!

Here, we have these lists that are open to office managers and every now and then the office wenches will really get on a roll and the messages come so fast I can't even keep up. The owner of the list had to lay the smack down a few months ago because people were just using it to complain complain complain and spread their bitterness all across campus.

I also tend to be one of the few who doesn't bug the IT guys when something goes down. I figure that there are plenty of others who let them know and the IT guys actually like me and I'd like to keep it that way ;-)

Posted by: farmgirl
Date posted: Tue Oct 30 22:39:09 2007
Message:
you've hit on one of my pettest of peeves. the "reply all" button and the people who don't know how to leave it the Hell alone! I work for the government and there are people who do that crap. it makes me crazy. could i possibly care less about what they're talking about most of the time? no, because it's usually exactly the kind of stuff you're talking about. So yes, i delete it, but you can imagine how many you could get just from a few idiots hitting "reply all" to tell everybody else to stop "replying all" to them. It's totally stupid. It happened today and involved about 100 people. I feel better for venting. Thanks for bringing it up.

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I agree!