Email SNAFU
So I took a vacation day today and drove out to Rockler in Buffalo to take a look at the store as well as attend to some personal business out there. I get back home around 2:30 and decide to email someone at work about a meeting tomorrow morning to confirm the time. We use Lotus Notes as our email system at work. It sucks. That's all you ever need to know about it.
So, I use the address lookup function to add this persons email address to the 'To' field in the email, type my message and hit send. Fair enough I thought, that should be that.
Ummm, no.
You see, in it's infinite wisdom, Notes somehow added a Distribution List for an employee survey to the email recipients list. So now, instead of just one person getting the email, EVERYONE GETS IT.
Ok, so no harm there, the content was harmless and professional. All that means is that over a thousand people got the email. And that would have been that except that human nature dictates that when you get an email incorrecly addressed to you, you very nicely reply to the sender letting them know of there error. I'm all good with that, my mistake, I'm ok with deleting all the replies. All 782 of them. My bad, fair enough.
Except that for some reason, some people have to reply to all, which means that now everyone on the original list also gets the email. And the next one. And the next. And so on. And then people get pissed at more emails coming in so they reply to everyone saying 'STOP REPLYING TO ALL'. I mean, my God, how dumb is that? Yes, I'm the idiot who sent the original one but even I had the brains to not reply to any of the messages in order to stop more going out but some people just don't get it!!!
Anyways, it took our email system down and now I'm infamous. All on my day off....
Really looking forward to going to work tomorrow.......
So, I use the address lookup function to add this persons email address to the 'To' field in the email, type my message and hit send. Fair enough I thought, that should be that.
Ummm, no.
You see, in it's infinite wisdom, Notes somehow added a Distribution List for an employee survey to the email recipients list. So now, instead of just one person getting the email, EVERYONE GETS IT.
Ok, so no harm there, the content was harmless and professional. All that means is that over a thousand people got the email. And that would have been that except that human nature dictates that when you get an email incorrecly addressed to you, you very nicely reply to the sender letting them know of there error. I'm all good with that, my mistake, I'm ok with deleting all the replies. All 782 of them. My bad, fair enough.
Except that for some reason, some people have to reply to all, which means that now everyone on the original list also gets the email. And the next one. And the next. And so on. And then people get pissed at more emails coming in so they reply to everyone saying 'STOP REPLYING TO ALL'. I mean, my God, how dumb is that? Yes, I'm the idiot who sent the original one but even I had the brains to not reply to any of the messages in order to stop more going out but some people just don't get it!!!
Anyways, it took our email system down and now I'm infamous. All on my day off....
Really looking forward to going to work tomorrow.......
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