Rant: cc

[go birds]

Don't do it when it's not necessary.

but if you're going to do it when it's unnecessary, please review the rest of the thread before CCing.

nevermind, just don't do it when it's unnecessary which is all the time.

CC and BCC are really two things that just need to go away.

I've never been been CC'd or BCC'd on anything that's ever been important.

[Swirls]

The only time I've ever felt carbon copy was beneficial is when I just start out at a new job and don't know what I'm doing. I tend to copy my mentor on damn near everything I send out in case it's wrong, so that way he/she can correct the error.

[Jocephus]

i agree..cc/bcc can be very dangerous. some co-workers and my dad are particularly bad about it.

[sighyoung]

I use cc rarely, but it helps when I'm serving on a committee and writing three or four people, or am contacting an administrative assistant who keeps track of certain records. I also cc my wife on correspondence of mutual interest/importance (such as doctors' appointments, children's events, and so on).

I have used bcc on rare occasions when I'm dealing with crazy students and colleagues at work, and I want responsible parties (such as the chair of the department, officials responsible for academic discipline) to know what is going on. This has been incredibly helpful, since I have to report abuse/arguments/plagiarism to others, anyway.

[Popeye_Card]

Interesting. Cc: is a tool we use on pretty much every email at work.

To: means you need to pay attention and/or follow up.
Cc: means FYI.

When you have to sort through hundreds of emails per day, it is nice to be able to glance at the heading to determine how quickly you can skim the content.

[jim]

What popeye said.

[JL21]

As far as I'm concerned, cc: is a tool to cover my ass and not much more.

Or, I have one particular client whose brain is 95% peanut butter. So when I request stuff from her on emails, I'll dirty-bomb half her department with cc:'s just to be sure that SOMEBODY will know that what I'm asking for needs to get done. If I didn't include everyone else, the peanut butter brain chick would never follow through and her projects wouldn't get done.

Still, it's rare that I use it other than with that one specific client.

[docellis]

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.

[Jocephus]

id do her

[docellis]

id do her

I actually bet you wouldn't.