Rant: cc

[Jocephus]

i just feel lucky to have witnessed a doc post pre edit

[jim]

email, like all electronic forms of communication, is a lousy way to communicate with people. I try to avoid it as much as possible, just today I started trying to compose an email to a colleague who runs another department. We both respect and like each other, we've worked together 15+ years, and he is one of the very few at work I would almost consider a friend. My people are being dicks and his people are being idiots, and I tried for probably 10 minutes to word the email the way I wanted. It was touchy, even though we have a good relationship. Then it hit me - why don't I just walk down and talk to him?

He was busy but he must have known what I was there for, so he told me to come on in. We talked, decided that we needed not just the chiefs but the indians too in the same room, and decided to do that tomorrow. Easy as pie.

[jim]

The person that caused me to start that "When you HATE someone you work with thread" did this to me a month or two ago.

We are both independent contractors reporting to the owner of a very small company. I have been an IC with the company for almost 3 years. This woman, 3 months or so.

I've never had a title, never cared. I just handle marketing coordination, website updates, graphic design and some tech support.

She wanted the title "marketing director" and she got it, and that really does not bother me at all - but what did bother me was that every email she sent me for the first 2 months she mentioned something like "UPON MY AUTHORITY you will upload this to our facebook page" and "AS MARKETING DIRECTOR you will not make a single change to anything without consulting me first".

It was so annoying. Just give me a task and stfu.

One of her tasks was for me to fill our blog section with "in the news" type stuff. So I was doing that, and stltoday has "share" buttons. One was "share to wordpress" so I tried it and it didn't work. So I tried "share to facebook" just to see if that worked and it did.

The next morning at like 7am I get an email and she CC'd the owner of the company doing all that "UPON MY AUTHORITY ALONE will you post things to facebook" crap and it was like 4 paragraphs long.

I replied back to her: "Hey now. Let's not do that again. No need to CC Mary on an issue this trivial. And from now on, let's also stop with all this "UPON MY APPROVAL" crap. If you are seeking to maximize my productivity, you're doing it wrong. "

She knocked that off, apologized, and hasn't gotten uppity with me since, no she sends me stupid emails with tons of misspellings, uncapitalized and with lots of exclamation points.

I am going to delete this in a minute but look at her. Who chooses this type of "look" for their professional photo on the company website? What the [expletive] is she looking at?



And this is her "art portfolio". I mean one of those things isn't AWFUL but calling it a portfolio is pretty pretentious.

You should tell her that she is Assistant to the Marketing Director and see how red she gets.

[pioneer98]

Not a CC issue, but similar. A guy wrote an email to a high level manager about a trivial issue that had to be cleared up, which I'm responsible for.

I share a cubicle with this guy. He sits 3 feet from me, and never said a word to me about it. Nope, rather than actually speak to me, better to take it way up the ladder via email and have it roll back downhill. What a joke.

[Secret Weapon]

So did anyone else get the email from the Metropolitan Sewer District in St. Louis where you could see every customers email address?

Whoops...

Dear MSD E-Bill Customer,

Yesterday, Tuesday August 6, 2013, we sent out a standard email notification to a segment of our customer base as part of our annual rate communication. Normally, addresses are placed in the BCC field when these emails are sent. However, through human error, the email addresses were placed in the “To” field. This is not part of our normal operations.

The email did not contain any personal account information.

We deeply apologize for this error and are taking corrective steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Service Department at 1-866-281-5737 or billingquest@stlmsd.com.

[Popeye_Card]

So did anyone else get the email from the Metropolitan Sewer District in St. Louis where you could see every customers email address?

Whoops...

Dear MSD E-Bill Customer,

Yesterday, Tuesday August 6, 2013, we sent out a standard email notification to a segment of our customer base as part of our annual rate communication. Normally, addresses are placed in the BCC field when these emails are sent. However, through human error, the email addresses were placed in the “To” field. This is not part of our normal operations.

The email did not contain any personal account information.

We deeply apologize for this error and are taking corrective steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Service Department at 1-866-281-5737 or billingquest@stlmsd.com.

I got it, and deleted before I even noticed. I haven't had a MSD account in over 2 years.

This is what happens when you let interns send mass emails.

[Radbird]

So did anyone else get the email from the Metropolitan Sewer District in St. Louis where you could see every customers email address?

Whoops...

Dear MSD E-Bill Customer,

Yesterday, Tuesday August 6, 2013, we sent out a standard email notification to a segment of our customer base as part of our annual rate communication. Normally, addresses are placed in the BCC field when these emails are sent. However, through human error, the email addresses were placed in the “To” field. This is not part of our normal operations.

The email did not contain any personal account information.

We deeply apologize for this error and are taking corrective steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Service Department at 1-866-281-5737 or billingquest@stlmsd.com.

I got it, and deleted before I even noticed. I haven't had a MSD account in over 2 years.

This is what happens when you let interns send mass emails.

That means you can't be part of the class-action lawsuit.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

I wonder how many reply alls there were?

[sighyoung]

So did anyone else get the email from the Metropolitan Sewer District in St. Louis where you could see every customers email address?

Whoops...

Dear MSD E-Bill Customer,

Yesterday, Tuesday August 6, 2013, we sent out a standard email notification to a segment of our customer base as part of our annual rate communication. Normally, addresses are placed in the BCC field when these emails are sent. However, through human error, the email addresses were placed in the “To” field. This is not part of our normal operations.

The email did not contain any personal account information.

We deeply apologize for this error and are taking corrective steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Customer Service Department at 1-866-281-5737 or billingquest@stlmsd.com.

I got it, and deleted before I even noticed. I haven't had a MSD account in over 2 years.

This is what happens when you let interns send mass emails.

That means you can't be part of the class-action lawsuit.

I'd better check this out. I pay my mom's bills, so I may have received something that induces pain and suffering. I feel a Fred Sanfordesque panic attack and tightening of the chest coming on.

[Secret Weapon]

I wonder how many reply alls there were?

ha i have to say i was tempted