Half of the people I work with only know how to Reply All to emails.

[seaglass]

It totally cracks me up.

Today an announcement went out that someone was leaving the company. So all the recipients hit Reply All to wish good luck to the person leaving.

Luckily it's a small company and I don't get a lot of emails, otherwise it would really piss me off.

I was going to reply to each one of them and let them know they sent the email to me in error or get in touch with the person in charge of email to tell them all of a sudden I'm getting messages that are meant for someone else. Instead I'm laughing my ass off about it.

[graywarrior]

1. Do your people include "I love my job" and "have a blessed day" in their emails?

:puke:

[datasuspect]

4. when i was a wage slave

i always enjoyed the semi-literacy of written communication in emails. they were a rich fund of spelling and grammar errors. from mostly college graduates.

[seaglass]

6. Have a blessed day is in the voicemail recording - haven't

seen one yet in an email.:-)

[graywarrior]

10. I did where I worked a few years ago.

[Maddy McCall]

2. One time I hit reply instead of forward on a student's email.

She had emailed me a whole list of woes as to why she couldn't attend class, even though she was taking my class to fix an "incomplete" from another prof's class.

In the email that I thought I was forwarding to the admin assistant in our department, I kinda threw a tantrum, something like, "What the fuck am I supposed to do? Who misses half a semester for GERD? WTF is GERD anyway?"

Anyway, I hit reply instead of forward, and my rant went to the student. She promptly dropped my class.

That was my most heinous email fuck up...I'm VERY careful now of what I forward. :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. I love Reply All.

The potential for merriment is unlimited.

[seaglass]

9. That is true, it made my day.

[pokerfan]

5. About twenty years ago the company I was working for

got internal email. Not the internets, yet.

Anyway, we were running DOS back then and the mail program had a funky faux graphical looking interface using DOS screen codes.

Well, two engineers were playing with their new toy sending rude messages to each other. One engineer got confused and wound up selecting everyone in the company except his intended target. I remember the message was "go fuck yourself" or words to that effect. And everyone in the company received it. Except his intended target, of course.

He had some 'splainin' to do.

[Zywiec]

7. I got thrown off a project for hitting reply to all instead of forward.

I tried recalling the message, but I was unsuccessful. My customer even rubbed my nose in the fact I tried to recall it. The next and last meeting with this customer was very tense to say the least.

Be careful out there!

[seaglass]

8. Doing it once is human error, these people do it all the time.

I swear they have a customized email program with no Reply button, just a Reply All.