To: The Company
From: The Desk of the Boss
cc: Everyone
bcc:You Asshole
Subject: Re: Re-ing
To whoever just hit "reply-all" on that company-wide email....I wish you a long, slow death in hell.
Every day, I pray that my CEO sends out this email.
Reply-all is the bane of my office existence. Plenty of things bug everyone at the office - ornery printers, pens running out of ink, unhelpful co-workers - but this is the one thing that really gets me.
Do people just not pay attention when they do this? Do they not care? I can only think of one, maybe two, instances in the entire history of accidental reply-alls when someone apologized for their error, thus easily saving themselves from utter disgrace.
Do people just not pay attention when they do this? Do they not care? I can only think of one, maybe two, instances in the entire history of accidental reply-alls when someone apologized for their error, thus easily saving themselves from utter disgrace.
HE CLICKED......POORLY.
When you hit reply-all, you're admitting defeat to the easiest facet of the computer age. Imagine if the U.S. Government admitted defeat to the Symbionese Liberation Army (Patty included). Well, imagine no longer. You have outdimwitted yourself in a manner that neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs could have possibly imagined when they harnessed the power of electronic witchcraft so many years ago.You know what? While you're at it with this "I don't really understand technology and it's shockingly obvious, but my ignorance is such that I don't even realize I should care" thing, go ahead and book your ticket to a room at Rose Hills, where you and Jessica Tandy can eat pumpkin pie and talk about what life was like when you had AOL and first heard of hamsterdance.
Though you may very well think Tandy is the computer you're using.
You, 5 minutes ago
Does anyone really check their emails before they send them out? Is it not a coincidence that this only happens to people over the age of 30, who, in replying (unnecessarily, to begin with), unwittingly clue everybody in to some inane, private joke they have with their pal? And how much would you be willing to bet that their pal goes by "Doober"?
You do know that Jessica Tandy has been dead since 1994 right? but I agree.. woeful ignorance of technology is a drag... my boss for instance.. a moron. He doesn't type and he's not that old. younger than mom and dad... yet he is still able to book theatre tickets online.. i dont know. he literary believes computers are like voodoo. hence our crappy website. keep bloggin brotha!
ReplyDeleteoh, yeah, she's been dead for a while. but she was with it more at the end of driving miss daisy than techno-fools ever will be.
ReplyDeleteyikes, your boss? that's just rough.