Today, someone sent an email and accidentally included a mail distribution list (Something_ALL_USERS) in the 'To' column. As a result, God knows how many thousand employees received this email which was none of their bees wax at all.
What will you do when you receive this kind of email? Do you:
- Ignore and delete it – it’s none of your business anyway and it’s obviously wrongly addressed to a distribution list.
- Hit the ‘Reply to’ button and politely inform the sender that he had made a mistake
- Hit the ‘Reply to All’ button and tell the sender that he mistakenly included you in the email.
I chose #1, ignored and deleted.
I went to the washroom, to the pantry and then back to me seat. I click on my mailbox and this is what I saw:
30+ unread emails replying to ALL, some telling the sender that he had made a mistake, some telling those who ‘replied to all’ to not ‘reply to all’. Some even replying in response the first email by saying ‘me too… by mistake’.
My gosh!!! I wonder whether is this High Level or Low Level Stupidity. If you see something obvious, why do you still hit the ‘reply to all’ button and compound the mistake?
Right now, these silly replies are either from Asia Pac or Europe. I hope when America wakes up in the morning, no one is stupid enough to hit the ‘Reply to All’ again! Else I will be getting God knows how many junk emails in my inbox tomorrow morning.
5 comments:
hahaha..good Aigie, this is the typical example of the misuse of emails nowadays by many people !
Your 1st story up!!!
I think those people who "reply to all" are not managerial position, right?
if Managerial position is still so stupid, Aigie, please leave the company and look for other better job. This is insanely stupid the way they act!
Today is Monday. I can't believe I am still receiving 2 of these 'reply to all' since morning. Dumb asses... brainless people! Can they just STOP!!
hahahhaha
i would've picked the 2nd one..reply to the sender about the error
have ur email stopped? ;P
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