Last week we ask for your worst stories ofaccidentally hitting Reply All , those frightful import when you realize that the matter you meant to send one person just move out to the whole office ( or company , or family reunion yarn , or other chemical group of mass containing at least one person who is plump to be offend ) .
Most of the stories we got back were from office mischance , and all of them make it exculpated we ’ve got to find a way to make “ Reply ” and “ Reply All ” more distinct :
I once accidentally hit ‘ respond All ’ to my full company – a Brobdingnagian medium conglomerate , with G of employees across the country – with an email that simply said , “ Jeremy Piven . ”
I could explicate more , but I consider the story is good this way . -Katanma
My first major screw - up . One of my coworkers who had been in my group sent his goodbye email . The email proceed to the vast bulk of our office as well as directors and VPs in the companionship . This was my accidental “ Reply All ” :
in truth sad to see one of the good people I have ever foregather . I mean that not just in the calibre of work and adaptability , but also in your personal and professional ego . Most especially the latter .
You are a steady reminder to be a skilful somebody by mere representative .
- will be awesome . This joint is like WWI deep war . Its no real place for a caring father with many diminished children . That , and I could see you were n’t that well-chosen in your new division , * * * * * * * * . 🙂
-StacyG
I amount out of the closet at body of work via ‘ answer all ’ .
I was a member of a GLBT Chorus and on a commission . I had apply them both my oeuvre and personal atomic number 99 - mail , and I ’d welcome an e - ring mail asking us all our feelings on a venue for the next performance . I read it in my employment e - mail and hit ‘ answer all ’ with my thoughts .
The chorus line ’s outbound statistical distribution list was the CC on the e - mail I received . The first word of the tilt match my ship’s company ’s local distribution leaning – everyone based here for the manufacturing plant and office . So rather of everyone in the chorus getting my e - ring mail , everyone I worked with did .
The words “ Oh shit ” were utter by me after the first duet of replies .
My boss foretell me into his billet and said “ I get an vitamin E - postal service from you I do n’t reckon you mean to send to me . I just need you to know , you have nothing to be concerned about . If anyone gives you hassle , account it to me straight off . ” So that was adept . -Timbales the Friendly Ghost
Not a personal screwup , but was interning at the largest global bank ( 250k employee ) in 2006 when some miserable drone in another office mistakenly CC’d the companywide distro email address in a annotation to his / her boss . blackberry had just become a affair at the prison term so reckon 250k people not used to mobile e-mail encountering this for the first sentence .
Cue the next six time of day of blackberry buzzing day-and-night and Outlook hanging thanks to just being capable to litigate multiple emails every few second gear of :
1 . “ Hello , please take me off this chain ” ( x 1,000 from offices all over the universe )
2 . “ Hey everyone , please stop replying all ” ( x 1,000 , ditto )
3 . “ Hey you idiots telling them to block ‘ replying all , ’ you ’re part of the problem ! ” ( x 1,000 )
4 . “ Hey everyone , just finish send out emails ! ” ( decade 1,000 )
5 . “ Everyone , please hold on answer all to this email ! ” ( disco biscuit 1,000 )
6 . “ Hey you ’re “ everyone please stop replying all to this email ” was a response to that e-mail , idiot ! ”
7 . “ Yours was a response too , just stop ! ”
This went on for hours before either the whole system give way , or they incapacitate Exchange or something . We ’d still intermittently get emails the next 24-hour interval saying “ please take me off this lean ” from people returning from vacation .
The unadulterated bankruptcy of so many people to realize that to give up the answer - all mountain chain was to NOT send a response all was jaw - dropping . I have absolutely no mind how they survive the 2008 crisis . – JohnInLa
The call heart I worked for at the time was sharing the building with other tenants , and at one point building direction email all the tenants to complain about some damage that had been done to one of the stalls in the ladies ’ convenience .
Coworker accidentally replied to everyone with an inside joke about a D&D character he ’d make refer “ Dildor the Destroyer . ”
Imagine the phone of fifty people ( it was a pretty little call center at the time ) all gasping and accommodate their breathing spell all at once . -Jack A.Naples
I worked ad a pattern firm . One project we had was designs for an apartment complex that was in a homosexual vicinity and most of the ads represent that . One of the designers , as an internal antic , made a serial of ad that featured GAY SEX , lol . I inadvertently sent an e-mail to the node because I had n’t realized they were part of a previous email ribbon . gratuitous to say , the client shout out us forthwith . Whoops ! ! Anyway the customer had a great sense of humor and in reality print them out to be posted around their part . -barry.george
I did n’t do it ( thankfully ) but my conscientious objector - worker did a middling funny version while I was out of work grisly one day ( listen about it the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after ) . He had found a funny picture of a guy in our program who was shirtless but was holding his hands in front of his bureau to hide any … minute of physical body that could possibly offend someone . However , part of the gentleman ’s thumb happened to attend like one of those offensive bits of physical body , so my co - worker look at a concealment shoot and emailed it to the whole office with the dependent contrast of something like “ HERES NIPPLE ! ” .
Now , our office was n’t that bad and was reasonably lay back , so it would have been an hunky-dory e-mail to commit around . Too bad he selected the global statistical distribution list , so every single person in the company ( CEO and overseas workers include ) catch to see a endearing picture of a shirtless man presumably showing one of his nipples . My co - doer ’s supervisor catch him first and made a few calls for damage controller while the poor guy was terrified for most of the 24-hour interval that he was going to be fired . Thankfully the CEO has a sense of humor ( if I name - dropped you ’d recognise why ) and co - worker only receive a stern talking to .
It was a pretty shady story for me to hear the next day after I had check my e-mail . – Redheadkitten
A couple of year ago my daughter had this particular soccer coach who tended to go down these long - winded cony track in his electronic mail to squad parents . My married woman and I both had our email addresses on the statistical distribution list .
too soon in the soccer season , following one particular e-mail from the coach wherein he went off for something like six paragraph on tangents from what form of euphony he listened to , opinions on domestic function , his old career as a fireman , etc . ad nauseum , my married woman accidentally impinge on the dreaded Reply All button on her email client mean me to be the sole recipient of her observation that “ He talks too much . ”
Once the mistake was realize , both my married woman and I volunteer our sincerest apologies in somebody to the coach , but the damage had been done . In reaction to this faux pas , this coach expend the full remainder of the association football season completely mute during matches . In other words , he reject to train the squad when they needed it most . He simply stood on the sideline like some sort of inactive Zen master copy every peer while the girls flounder on the auction pitch . Despite the plea from other parents he refused to alter his approaching , and there was nothing the league could do about it at this percentage point .
The squad finished 2 – 14 for the yr , and it was Reply All ’s fault . -Nebraxican
I worked at an Apple retail store , as a adept for three old age . I would say about four or five times a twelvemonth , Tim Cook , Steve Jobs or another gamy up would mail an all stave email with either an update of the company or an announcement of some sort . Without fail , someone would reply all with something unneeded like “ Thanks , Steve ! ” or “ So unrestrained ! ” . That was n’t really the awful part . Whenever the first reply all came , the gargantuan meme war would start….to the whole company . These emails were going to almost 100,000 hoi polloi , so we could get along back to our inboxes with a couple thousand responds in our inbox . It was pretty entertaining reading the stupid stuff citizenry started saying and it was equally funny consider corporate IT assure everyone to halt replying all . Apparently Apple does n’t have the power to keep out down e-mail threads like that.- Z Lewis
Step 1 : Accidentally constipate the office lav to the full stop of overrun
footstep 2 : Covertly sneak into other bathroom , retrieve speculator , and seek crisis - control
Step 3 : Find that speculator requires harebrained amount of upper arm strength to be used right . dishonourably visit HR rep and Accountant and plead for their help
footprint 4 : controller fixes overflowing toilette
Step 5 : Email both HR rep and Accountant , briefly cite the incident and give thanks them for their assistance
Step 6 : HR repp accidentally responds to that electronic mail by REPLYING ALL to a unlike theread , which include one of the highest managers at a VERY IMPORTANT COMPANY
Step 7 : HR rep calls me in a panic to apologize because now the VERY significant managing director cat has to cognize about “ the BATHROOM INCIDENT ”
stair 8 : Concoct a less awkward version of events to tell him
Step 9 : DIE OF ULTIMATE SHAME- kw25255
Anyone else have a tale that can top these ?
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