I'm hoping for validation here but I'm prepared to be in the minority because where I work, apparently I am in the minority.

For example: someone passes a licensure exam, someone wins a job, someone is having a baby, whatever--someone has a great accomplishment. I don't mind the companywide email announcing and congratulating that person. I'm glad to be informed about it. I'm frickin' irritated getting the congratulations reply-all emails for the rest of the day. If I want to separately congratulate that person, I'll reply to that person individually. Am I wrong about this?

You are correct. The entire list doesn’t need to see individual responses to such emails.

BCC is your (their) friend when sending those type of messages.

I've passed that advice along a few times at work, especially on company wide emails.

Happens all the time in the organization where I work. Yes it’s annoying and ridiculous. But the purpose isn’t the congratulations itself, it’s so all the little kiss asses can be seen saying congratulations.

Not so bad where I am now, as it’s a small company.

Where I used to work, this is an example. It happened many times.

“Billy Jim Bob was just promoted to Sales Manager of the I-5 corridor Territory. Blah, blah, blah.”

This was sent to “all employees” (group in Active Directory). So 450 people received the email.

Never fail, there was a whole huge group of gladhanding baby kissing fuckers that hit reply all. Over the next 48 hours, everyone would receive a reply from AT LEAST HALF of these fuckwits. 200 goddamn emails saying “congratulations fuckface, glad you make more $$$”... Actually is was more friendly and ass kissy than that.

When I left that company, after 14 years, out IT director took over my computer/login. At one point he texted me because he had never seen anyone with hundreds upon hundreds of “rules” setup in outlook.

See, the first time some douche was promoted, I would set a rule to the subject line to simply mark as read, and trash an all emails with that subject.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
See, the first time some douche was promoted, I would set a rule to the subject line to simply mark as read, and trash an all emails with that subject.

I'm so glad I made this thread!

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Originally posted by mojojojo:... But the purpose isn’t the congratulations itself...

Anonymously desk bomb the prolific responders, with those tiny travel size hand-lotions and tissues, every time they do it.

Fangs out!

Reply All is for nitwits and kiss-asses.

I once got an email from a superior on the board who was chewing this dude's ass out, basically calling him a moron in front of the entire company. He had sent it to the entire organization. Proof read your emails folks!

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Originally posted by Keystoner:

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Originally posted by Beancooker:
See, the first time some douche was promoted, I would set a rule to the subject line to simply mark as read, and trash an all emails with that subject.

I'm so glad I made this thread!

Well, I’m very glad to be of service.

At a previous job, the company used Outlook. A female employee who sat at a desk in the next room sent an email to "group". Fine so far, but she clicked the magic button to notify her when the email was opened -- with a "ding".

For months we would all laugh outloud whenever her ding - ding - ding - ding started.

Reply All can be very dangerous

At my company a few years ago, someone sent out an email to a distro they thought was 30-40 people and by mistake COPIED THE ENTIRE GLOBAL ADDRESS LIST (100,000+ people total) and the resulting Reply-All Storm of people replying-all to tell people to stop...replying-all actually brought down our network and I could not get a damn thing done for the rest of the day.

I get scolded for not replying to all. Luckily my group is only 30 people or so as everything is site specific. Annoying as hell.

The right thing is for company wide emails to be sent out bcc.

In my last company, people were stupid as f*ck. Like the boss would send out an email to everyone in the department two or three levels down. Than a supervisor will reply to all saying, "Thanks for letting us know."

Or a company-wide email would be sent out that wasn't supposed to be sent out. Then people up and down the hierarchy including VPs would reply to all saying, "Please take me off this email chain." And each one generates a cascading set of reply backs from people asking to be taken off the distribution list.

There's some stupid people out there.

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Originally posted by Keystoner:
I'm hoping for validation here but I'm prepared to be in the minority because where I work, apparently I am in the minority.

For example: someone passes a licensure exam, someone wins a job, someone is having a baby, whatever--someone has a great accomplishment. I don't mind the companywide email announcing and congratulating that person.

We prohibited them. Period. End of story.

At one point that started to get out of hand. I warned management they best nip it in the bud. They disregarded my counsel, not agreeing with my assessment of the inevitable harm it would do to the utility of email.

That lasted until a couple important official corporate announcements went out and hardly anybody noticed them. Why? Because people had begun to ignore their email due to the broadcast email noise.

A directive went out and I was weapons free to bring it to a halt. And I did. With a vengeance

Years later the company changed hands and we went through the whole process all over again.

Group texts suck!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yes they do

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Originally posted by P250UA5:
BCC is your (their) friend when sending those type of messages.

I've passed that advice along a few times at work, especially on company wide emails.

Absolutely. I'm always surprised how many people haven't caught on to this and use it for any and every email that they don't want to turn into a group chat.

Heck I even use it with our owners to purposefully AVOID that on topics that might be inflammatory to one or more and keep them from easily firing off a WTF reply to the whole group.

When y'all send a mass BCC email, who's the 'To,' yourself?

 
When I was still working, one of my tasks was to prepare the master image for all the desktops in the company. That image was used to ghost an install for new employees and to "nuke and pave" any PC that someone had screwed up downloading crap, etc.
 
In making that image, my little strike against Reply to All was to remove that icon from the Outlook toolbar. The function was still available via the main menu, but most of the idiots were just icon punchers and never even looked at the main menu.

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Originally posted by henryaz:
 
 
...In making that image, my little strike against Reply to All was to remove that icon from the Outlook toolbar....

You sir, are a hero.