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[Cyclonepride]

One of the more horrendous examples of a reply all mistake.

"A man is suing the San Francisco DA’s office after losing his job because of an accidental 'reply-all' email.

Jovan Thomas, 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after the scandalous correspondence in question.

In it, the trained victim advocate appeared to ask the married district attorney 'what color' her panties were, before profusely apologizing in a follow-up seconds later.

Both messages were sent to the entire office, with the staffer's full email signature."

The email city worker accidentally sent to entire SF DA's office

Jovan Thomas (not pictured), 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after the correspondence in question.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[MeanDean]

TL/DR.
What color were they?

 

[Clonehomer]

One of the more horrendous examples of a reply all mistake.

"A man is suing the San Francisco DA’s office after losing his job because of an accidental 'reply-all' email.

Jovan Thomas, 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after the scandalous correspondence in question.

In it, the trained victim advocate appeared to ask the married district attorney 'what color' her panties were, before profusely apologizing in a follow-up seconds later.

Both messages were sent to the entire office, with the staffer's full email signature."

The email city worker accidentally sent to entire SF DA's office

Jovan Thomas (not pictured), 56, filed the complaint Friday, six months after the correspondence in question.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I hope they award the city damages for the expense of having to defend this lawsuit. The intent of the sender means nothing here.

 

[Sigmapolis]

What color were they?

Who said I was wearing any...

 

[MeanDean]

Who said I was wearing any...

Oooh, baby!

 

[Letterkenny]

This part cracked me up:

 

[Rabbuk]

This defense has too many moving parts lol, feels like the South Park episode where Mr hankey blames his insulting behavior on ambien

 

[Rabbuk]

It is too bad one side always tried to get things caved.

 

[ISUAgronomist]

Best one I received was in response to portion of a factory across the globe being down:

"WHAT THE F*** IS AN EXHAUST STACK"

sent to about 120,000 people. Our list memberships were cut significantly after that. Overall a great outcome from a reply all

 

[coolerifyoudid]

He meant to text his friend and instead hit reply-all to a different E-mail?

As far as excuses go, that is one

 

[BoomerClone]

lol. This is funny.

The reply all saga is real for those in the corporate world. Here is how it usually starts.

The IT department sends some email out to the entire 5000 person company. The first idiot replies all with a question. Then 230 idiots reply all as well.

Then come the biggest idiots. Who think they aren’t idiots because they are pointing out the other idiots. These, the biggest idiots, reply all and literally say, “PLEASE STOP REPLYING ALL!” These idiots are the worst. They reply all to tell others to stop replying all. They suck more than the naive emailers who started the whole mess. They only make it worse and they suck.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

lol. This is funny.

The reply all saga is real for those in the corporate world. Here is how it usually starts.

The IT department sends some email out to the entire 5000 person company. The first idiot replies all with a question. Then 2-30 idiots reply all as well.

Then come the biggest idiots. Who think they aren’t idiots because they are pointing out the other idiots. These, the biggest idiots, reply all and literally say, “PLEASE STOP REPLYING ALL!” These idiots are the worst. They reply all to tell others to stop replying all. They suck more than the naive emailers who started the whole mess. They only make it worse and they suck.

I've never done it, but I've gotten looped into an E-mail chain where there were over 100 reply-alls that had nothing to do with me. I can forgive a handful of people doing it, but I was thankful when someone finally scolded others and got the madness to stop.

On the other hand, there was a particular reply-all event on a Friday afternoon that ended up with about 40 reply-all" memes that made for a fun end of the work week!

 

[CycloneDaddy]

"Reply All" Brings Wells Fargo to Knees

www.nysscpa.org

Happy Birthday Holly!!!!

 

[gocy444]

I worked in an insurance claims job right out of college. As part of a theft claim you have to send pics or receipts of the stolen item to prove that you owned it. A woman sent a picture of herself with the diamond necklace and my co-worker, who thought she was sending to a colleague, accidentally responded to the lady making fun of how ugly she was. WHOOPS!!

 

[Joe4Cy]

Years ago, before boards were a thing, I was a member of a listserv for this authoring tool we used, sold, and trained on. One morning, my email is full with messages. Someone had gone on vacay and set an auto-reply.

When the first person posted a question, the auto-reply activated back to the list server. Which prompted another message to all subscribers. And then the auto-reply! To make matters worse, some users then posted “what is happening?!” It escalated quickly until the admins locked it down and blocked the offending user until they returned from vacay!

Good times!

 

[Sousaclone]

Never had a bad one at work, but the ISU listservs that were around in the early-middle 2000s were great. No way to get off them, and you could basically just create one at random. Got on a couple of them that were spamming people left and right. The spam was annoying, they 50+ people replying "TAKE ME OFF THIS LIST" and "HOW DID I GET ON THIS LIST" were annoying as hell.

 

[throwittoblythe]

lol. This is funny.

The reply all saga is real for those in the corporate world. Here is how it usually starts.

The IT department sends some email out to the entire 5000 person company. The first idiot replies all with a question. Then 2-30 idiots reply all as well.

Then come the biggest idiots. Who think they aren’t idiots because they are pointing out the other idiots. These, the biggest idiots, reply all and literally say, “PLEASE STOP REPLYING ALL!” These idiots are the worst. They reply all to tell others to stop replying all. They suck more than the naive emailers who started the whole mess. They only make it worse and they suck.

OMG you nailed it!

Used to work for a F500 company. 15,000 employees across the US.

IT sent an email with subject “Test” and the body just said “test”. Sent it to the entire company.

What you described is exactly what happened. People hit reply all to ask “why am I receiving this?” Then people hit reply all to say “Stop hitting replay all!!!” Then people responded with memes about reply all.

The exchange was so much that it locked up the entire email system for a good hour.

 

[throwittoblythe]

I worked in an insurance claims job right out of college. As part of a theft claim you have to send pics or receipts of the stolen item to prove that you owned it. A woman sent a picture of herself with the diamond necklace and my co-worker, who thought she was sending to a colleague, accidentally responded to the lady making fun of how ugly she was. WHOOPS!!

Had a coworker (Tim) who was PM on a project where we were partnering with a similar firm. Tim worked along side “Alan” who was the PM from our partner. Tim sent his boss an email explaining all the reasons our Alan sucked and how they needed to work back channels to get Alan kicked off the project.

Problem was, Tim accidentally sent the email directly to Alan instead of his boss. Tim and Alan’s relationship did not recover, shockingly.

 

[flycy]

It's sad day that this is all it takes to get someone fired.

 

[Frog]

Nothing cheers me up more after losing a loved one than being asked what color panties I am wearing.