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  • Before you hit "send" on that email...

    ...make sure you have the right recipients.... OR ....don't send scathing emails about other coworkers AT ALL!

    I came back to work yesterday after six days off - WOOT! - There was an email in my inbox that stated the following....

    "WTF is up with Tanisha's hair? It looks like she has a peacock on her head!"

    This email had four call taker names on it and then a category that contains EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE COMPANY'S EMAIL! I mean - EVERYONE! We cover 8 states. There are three call centers and multiples of branch offices. The category covers from entry level call takers to the PRESIDENT of the company.

    So, now, we all know that Laketa in call center A in Michigan believes that Tanisha's hair looks like a peacock on top her head.

    Nice!

    (Names have been changed - of course!)
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    OMFG!!

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    • #3
      I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it again: The e-mail some price accuracy person at one of the stores in my district sent out at Christmastime last year. People in each store use e-mail to reach people in other stores to get ideas, find out how things are at other stores, get questions answered, and so forth. Generally it's the department heads, managers, and few select other people doing this; I have no reason to do so and no access to the e-mail system anyway.

      The message was a big rant about being bothered by customers "who are only looking for help" while trying to do the price changes that kept coming down from corporate because the suits "wanted to cut the price of a friggen' relaxation fountain by $3."

      The e-mail further went on to state that "these jackasses (meaning the corporate honchos) have no idea what it's like to actually work in a store."

      Which is, of course, true, but not the kind of thing you want to send out to EVERY PRICE MANAGEMENT TEAM IN THE COMPANY. I would imagine the sender of that e-mail was sacked in very short order.
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      • #4
        I asked my supervisor what happened to the sender of this email and she said she was not sure and even if she did know...she couldn't tell me.

        There have been several emails with pictures of women or drag queens with peacock feathers on top of their heads that have been floating around my department with subject lines like, "does this look familar?"

        I think it's hilarious...but a serious reminder about what you send via your work email.
        "I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance!" from Saint of Circumstance - Grateful Dead

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        • #5
          At the place I used to work, some time around 2001 or 2, an email failure happened. As soon as I noticed it wasn't intended for me, I deleted it. I'm mostly glad I did, but somewhat sad I didn't.

          I found out later that the email was from one woman to her girlfriend, talking about how she was dressed, how it made the sender feel, and what she wanted to do with said girlfriend.

          It went out to the entire company. I think she was lucky enough not to send it to the parent corporation or the sister companies, but bad enough.
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          • #6
            Reminds me of an incident which I was told happened in the library system some years back - apparently someone had gotten a promotion which would mean transferring to another library in the system, and in an e-mail congratulating them, another staff member said something along the lines of "That's great that you'll be working at "Pine Graphics" branch library, except that you'll have to be working with "Wanda Smith". And of course, the e-mail got sent to everyone in the library system, including "Wanda".

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            • #7
              That reminds me how the last big company I worked at had an e-mail directory that listed everyone alphabetically, and by default it contained EVERYONE not just the people in your plant. My name was by someone else who was a big-shot in another plant. I'd get info, and even accidently added to, groups I shouldn't of been in!

              Of course there was the one "accident" once where I was parsing the printers at our local plant, and accidently (really!) told it to parse all network printers.... which looked for all printers in every site, at like 20 locations throughout the world. But at least it wasn't like an e-mail! (told the IT head that it was accidental, so she could spread the word they weren't being hacked).

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              • #8
                Dumb emails

                Some years back, at the call center I work at, someone sent an email-in Spanish-to someone else.They were not praising our then director, "E", or one of the supervisors, "M". More like burying.

                It got missent. The person who got the email sent it to M to translate. M was from Puerto Rico.
                Someone got smoked.

                More recently, "S" was carrying on with his girlfriend. A spicy email got missent. The recipent complained. S and girlfriend went out the door.

                My thoughts:since email never dies, and can go everywhere, don't write anything you wouldn't want to see on the front page of USA Today.
                Friends help you move. Rare friends help you move bodies.

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                • #9
                  Quoth friendofjimmyk View Post
                  This email had four call taker names on it and then a category that contains EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE COMPANY'S EMAIL!

                  Wow at my call center sending a site-wide e-mail without management approval got you walked off the floor never to return(fired).
                  Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                  • #10
                    Just recently I sent an e-mail to our 2nd cousin company (we're close, but not that close).

                    I was telling them that the company they are using for engineering is way too expensive and that they should use company A.

                    But since A only has certs in limited states they could go with company B who I've used till recently, and their contact guy is...

                    Turns out when I was looking up his e-mail I accidentally put him in the cc box.

                    So company B got an e-mail where I was telling someone I don't use them anymore, which they knew nothing about.

                    So their President, Vice President, and principal engineer all called my boss wondering what they did wrong.

                    Oops.

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                    • #11
                      We used to not have to get approval for sending Library-wide emails. But then a trend started where a lot of emails were sent congradulating people on births, marriages, etc. There was a spat of birth announcements. So a wag decided to reply (I'm paraphrasing):

                      Salutations and Benedictions on all the marriages, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, promotions, and births of kids, grand-kids, great-grand kids, neighbors' kids, 4th grade teachers' kids, and pets.


                      And somone one else added on to that.


                      And now we can't do library-wide emails.
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