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Passive aggressive CCing
This runs far more rampant in higher ed than any company I've ever worked at. They sure like to try and make people look bad around here. There are a few offenders worse than others. Like if I don't respond to an email within a few hours, they forward the email to me and CC all kinds of higher ups. Who does this???
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Re: Passive aggressive CCing
I can confirm this. I work in higher ed and I have never seen so much CCing in my life. Along with read receipt requests as well.
This happened to a coworker the other day when a contractor wrote a passive aggressive e-mail complaining about not having our cell numbers while a class was running over the weekend (we did give them to her, and they are also written on all of the materials we send for the course), and about not having the proper answer sheets for a test (she had them, and had an e-mail letting her know exactly where to find them in the binder we provided) and CCd our boss on it.
I helped coworker write a calm yet scathing and rather condescending e-mail including copies and dates of e-mails that gave all of the info she claimed not to have. And we made sure the boss was CCd too.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
I CC frequently and request read receipts on everything. But this is mostly because my boss won't respond to anything I email her UNLESS I email her boss too.
It actually made for a funny this morning because yesterday I sent an email to her and her boss asking about how to explain to parents that we will not purchase iPads. Her boss read it yesterday but didn't respond. She responds this morning at 7:14 with a useless deflection of the question. Three minutes later he sends a lengthy well thought out response to my question that he has obviously been sitting on waiting to see if she would actually do her job.
yaaaaaaay bureaucracy.
I'm sorry, but there is nothing on this planet more annoying than when someone inadvertantly sends an email to an unintended group, and every recipient has to REPLY TO ALL with some asinine "Please take me off your list". DUDE, it was a mistaken email. Just delete it. And for the love of all things holy, DON'T REPLY ALL.
Can you see how annoyed this shiit makes me?
Oh yes. This annoys me.
Last year, our network got infiltrated by a spam virus thing. So some people had emails sent from their accounts to their whole contact list with spam. And people responded back reply all on that. I was out of the office sick and came back to hundreds of emails. HUNDREDS
It's true Winged, it can come in handy. I use read receipts and CCing for important e-mails or people who never get back to me.
There is one girl I e-mail with frequently who sends read receipt requests for EVERYTHING though. Like, we had an e-mail thread going back and forth for a day or two and she requested a receipt for every single one, even the one that was three words. "Ok, sounds good!"
It's extremely important that she knows that I know that she thinks it sounds good.
My company was bought by a much larger company a few years ago, and after an epic pissing contest my team remained and took on all the work for the larger company. This has led to some bitterness. In my position I have to communicate with everyone involved with ongoing/past/future projects, which means plenty of emails to me have had the CMO and SVP's cc'ed on them.
They just get pissed that it is another email for them to open.
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Holy hell, you must not send many emails. I would set my computer on fire if I had to dig through read receipts for every email I sent.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
No, I send tons. And I delete the notice of read receipt because the original email keeps record of who read it. Unfortunately, about 80% of the time I need the read receiptIsn't that sad?
So what does that receipt do for you? Either they read it and forgot, or they didn't read all their email. Both are kind of slacking, right?
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
Our team admin does this and it drives me bonkers. I can't imagine what her email inbox looks like.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Most of my emails relate to completing some task within legal timelines for educational rights of the students. It is sad how many people ignore requests for things. I have to show chain of documentation so that the legal accountability doesn't fall on my head. This requires proof that the email was actually received and read by the intended recipient.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
The other downside of where I work: a mass email just went out about a candlelight vigil to pray for Roe v. Wade to be overturned. I think the person who wrote it reads this board.
blahblah invites you to join us in prayer as we light candles for the unborn and their parents, birth mothers who have chosen life, and special intentions.
"As of page 2 this might be the most boring argument ever. It's making me long for Rape Day." - Mouse
One of my job duties once upon a time was organizing my boss' (a VP) inbox.
He never opened 97% of the whiny passive-aggressive BS he was CCed on.
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