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Sweeet! I've often thought of doing that myself, as an reductio ad absurdum. (The only logical concept I remember from college ...)
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I wasn't. This is probably the tail end of a change in attitude from the guy who's now telling people to CC his secretary; if it wasn't this, it'd be something else.
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That's because each one of those people were exempt from the rule because they were enforcing the rule for the "benefit of all"; except for the small percentage who were just doing it to clown the rest.
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C'mon, aren't you just dying to know how the professional, courteous, customer service oriented, boss looking over shoulder help desk guy replied to that aloe vera email?
Let's give it a try, shall we?
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Please remove me from this mailing list.
Thanks! :-)
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You don't know the context. For all you know it might be a company with six people.
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It's like talking to a chat-bot.
Where I work, you have to configure your own junk mail filters. No, I'm not talking about filtering out mails for V1@gra and the King of Nigeria: I'm talking about INTERNAL junk mail with all sorts of announcements copying huge email groups. "RUNNING INVOICING ON TEST ACCOUNT #8843", "CLOSING FILES ON ABC AT 2:43", etc. Oh, and every log message (on prod) gets set to email. Also, they have disabled the ability to turn off the popup on Outlook, so I have had to configure it to flash as briefly as possible. Worse still, you are always connected to a CISCO system, so you can not even turn off Outlook to get rid of the reminders. I was in a meeting one time and I got an email from the wife about blood in her stool. In another meeting, the salary for the guy running the meeting flashed across the screen. The list goes on.
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Although to be fair, many of them wouldn't find theirs with both hands, so this is probably a fake.
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This makes me laugh. I've been in "snowball" fights, where each reply warrants another two recipients.
"I'll see your Mary, and raise two Bobs and a Phil."
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Not sure how do it in Outlook, so I installed Thunderbird.
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FTFY
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Problem solved.
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Sure, why not?
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What is the actual website called that stores the WTF?
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As you aware of Lim”s Problem, I am sending you this e mail reference to message as “The Instruction at “0 X 00427603”, Reference Memory. This is the message we are getting every day so often. Please do something, as required to do for the solution forever. This is important for our minute to minute tight schedule.
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That would be Mass WTF of course.
Which is where the folks who wrote some of the code that has been featured on this site should go.
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From: RandomDev To: CEO of 50k Employee Company SUBJECT: WHERE IS MY LAMP?
What happened to my lamp? It was on my desk when I left yesterday and is now gone.
-RandomDev
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AGGHHHHH!!! They just started another one!
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I did that once during my studies.. Those who knows me would probably be surprised to hear that it only happened once. I am extremely absentminded, and also spent most of my days in the uni drunk. :) Though, I did buy the prof a beer afterwards. Heh.
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Seems to me that he is trying to gain some time.
I've already seem students that "forget" the attachment but they don't really have anything to send.
Them, days later, they come with an excuse like "Sorry, I forgot the attachment that day.. here's my work".
If it's the case in this history, I can see it's the first time this students tried to do the "trick". Beginners...
Captcha: appellatio. Joselito's italian parent? (If you live in Brazil you'll understand)
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TRWTF has very little to do with the medium (email)--TRWTF is normally standard company policy.
In a SOFTWARE company, part of the procedure is to fill out PAPER forms around here. I purchased a typewriter on eBay and found some carbon paper at Staples and brought them in one day for 5 minutes of hilarity in filling out forms (I was also tempted to bring in an ashtray and smoke a cigarette as I was doing so). I got a fairly-immediate CND as I was "irritating" my co-workers. As if the guy a couple of cubes over with a hearing problem and a love for the speakerphone was not irritating enough.
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Why not just have the students keep their work under source control on the school's computers? Then there's no question of "turning in" the work - you grade what's in the repository on the due date. As a side benefit, you can follow their progress, and know where they're having difficulty as they're doing it, which allows you to tailor your lectures to their actualy progress, or to grant extensions if they're actually trying and not getting it. As a side benefit for the student, they learn how to use source control....
(sending a programming assignment in by email? There's a bonus wtf for today...)
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I'm going for my MSCS right now and I just had to snail mail a "project" for a distance learning class. The name of the course: "Internet and Higher Layer Protocols"
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At least you were doing work, of a sort. I got bozos shooting foam darts over my head all day long instead doing what they should be at work to do: Work. And when brought up to chain of command, it was blown off. At least your highers care enough to keep the distractions minimized. Of course, the lack of progress on my front may be because my manager's manager is one of the prime instigators ... which is the TRNERWTF. (The real non-email related WTF.)
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I guess shooting darts is one way to pass the working day, and another is burning it posting to thedailywtf. I notice that you have had time to write 6 of your own, kingsnake.
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Do you have a picture of HITLER on your desk?
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I'm sorry, if you say "of an ask", you're already lost. Please get off this site and go find MBA WTF, or whatever site people who say "ask" instead of "question" use for WTF posting.
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plz email me teh codez
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You try concentrating under those circumstances.
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Interestingly enough, GMail will stop you from doing this. If the body of an email includes phrases like "I have attached stuff" it will warn you if you try to send it without attaching anything.
I haven't tried to 'reply all' to eight hundred people in GMail yet, but I hope that it will somehow use bluetooth to smack me upside the head if I do.
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I don't think "question" is the right word to substitute for "ask" in this case. He wasn't asking a question, he was making a request.
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Like God? O_O
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No blame for you. However, the dead time I've been subjected to (Traffic Jam Development Methods) have led me to become very well acquainted with the articles on this site. So much so, that I know that the problem you are reporting http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Lyle-Can-Do-Anything-Better-Than-You.aspx]has already been addressed.
I would put the link up, but apparently WTF thinks a link back to its own website is spam.
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While "question" may not be the right word to use, the phrase "too much of an ask to get people" is just so much marketing-speak, where they can't be bothered to use the proper words to form sentences. Instead, they could have said "too much to ask from people".
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To: Bill Smith; All Users Cc: Carrie Jones.
TRWTF is that Carrie Jones isn't on the "All Users" mailing list.
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I love mailing lists.
Every now and again, perfectly legitimate posts get a reply along the lines of "please stop emailing me".
No matter how many hoops you make someone jump through to get on to a mailing list, there's always siomeone who will immediately forget they signed up, and start complaining that they're getting email.
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It's not that much of an ask to get people to CC some other person when they send e-mails to the boss.
Sure it is. If he wants all his emails to go to Carrie, .forward is his friend. Or just give Carrie access to his inbox. There are plenty of ways of arranging to have all his emails go via his secretary without asking everyone he ever deals with to remember to copy her.
If it's private, don't send it to his corporate email.
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Anyone outside the company isn't going to know that company policy is that customer emails have a 50/50 chance of being read if they're not CC'd to the secretary, while anyone in the company just has to remember a "policy" that only exists to cover up the fact that no one knows how to give the secretary access to the boss's email.
Not to mention the complaint is that the request is isolating the boss from the rest of the company. If that's the intention, there are stille asier ways to let the peons know that the boss is too busy to read their email.
The smart way to do it is to have the secretary just read his damned email. You can even use the "from" and "sent by" headers correctly for a change.
You don't address snail-mail to the secretary, you address it to the boss and the secretary opens it. You do the same with email.
Anything so confidential that the secretary can't be trusted to not read it shouldn't be sent by unencrypted email, anyway. There's a better than 50/50 chance that it will be CC'd to the wrong mailing list instead of being sent to the boss anyway. And if the boss is requesting that only confidential stuff is emailed to him personally, then admiting that he probably won't even read it is pretty stupid.
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Personally, I always use the 'Reply All' button, especially on all-in emails - so long as my name is heard throughout the company often enough, I'm bound to move upwards.
But seriously, I always use 'Reply All' so that important things notify all people required. If this means I frequently annoy people by replying to a mass email (it's rare that I would reply, I suppose), hopefully they'll direct their anger at the person who sent the original mail, not me....
I remember one of my co-workers used to reply all to a daily reminder to change backup tapes (sent to a rather large number of people across much of the globe). He received a 'Please do not reply all'. He copied in everyone who had been on the original list, and sent a reply "Sorry, I didn't realise it annoys people. I won't do it again"..... And then accidently forgot not to reply all the next day....
In a nutshell (as I think you were saying) the problem is that people are allowed to use organisation wide distribution lists that all users can see.
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If you're that insecure, don't trust the interwebs at all...
I absolutely hate people who ring me the second they've sent an email - email is not an instant technology. If you want instant, you can ring, or come see me, or use IM or something. The idea of email (like ordinary mail) is to send something that can be addressed in the OP's own time + why bother emailing (other than it's easy record keeping) if you're gonna discuss anyway....
email sux dogs balls