That’s when you slip in an email about cat facts…
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My favorite company wide email snafu (for a big company, the subsequent exchanges disabled our global email for several hours) occurred when someone in one office (Denver I think) sent a vicious, petty email attacking another colleague for microwaving fish (or something like that). But instead of sending it to all colleagues that shared that floor or kitchen or whatever, she accidentally sent it to our whole firm somehow (about 25,000 people).
It would have been an inappropriate email to send to anyone because it was unprofessional in the first place, but she sent it to tens of thousands of colleagues.
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Yup that’s what happened here. It started with an innocent email to a distro list, followed up with several people asking to be removed from distro list, followed up with… Now we’re well over 300 emails and they’re still pouring in, so many that legit emails are getting delayed.
Terry, 79, is a retired railroad engineer born and raised in Pittsburgh. For many years, he followed his parents’ habit of hiding money in the basement of their home. When Terry moved out of his family home and into a smaller apartment, he became uncomfortable with keeping a large amount of cash. Last summer, when his daughter Rebecca was home for a family event, Terry asked her to take the money and open a new joint bank account.
With an early flight on Monday, August 26, 2019, Rebecca did not have time to visit a bank in Pittsburgh and chose to carry the money with her on the way to Boston. Worried about flying with a large amount of cash, Rebecca checked online and found out that flying with any amount of money domestically is completely legal. However, during security screening, TSA agents took her carry-on bag aside and made her wait to be questioned by Pennsylvania State Troopers.
While she was eventually allowed to continue to her gate with the money, she was approached again by a trooper and a DEA agent before boarding her flight. After interrogating Rebecca and calling Terry, the DEA agent seized the money without charging either Terry or Rebecca with a crime. Months later, Terry and Rebecca received notice that the DEA intended to permanently keep the money. Rebecca reached out to IJ, a non-profit public interest law firm with experience litigating civil forfeiture cases nationwide, which agreed to take on her case pro bono.
Only the innocent will fight for 6 months to get their money back. System works.
This is my favorite targeted ad I have ever received:
Sonicating AND high shear homogenizing?? Maybe in my college days, but I’m a family man now!
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Email chain update, still going (2.5 hours later) with over 600 responses
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Tech old timers might remember this one from Microsoft:
It took about 2 days of constant work before the email system recovered from this one. When it was over, the team firefighting the crisis had t-shirts made with “I survived Bedlam DL3” on the front and “Me Too! (followed by the email addresses of everyone who had replied)” on the back.
Googling this up I learned that MS still hasn’t figured this out as of Jan 2019…
For reasons that aren’t clear, every time someone hit reply all it re-subscribed every email group, comically overriding attempts by users to mute notifications.
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IT turned it off shortly after. Best guesses were over 70k people on that chain, but could have been more since some “people” were actually other distro lists
The 1970 food pyramid I grew up with.
This has been another episode of Great Moments in Government Bullshit
Unpossible
At my company a few years ago, someone walked into the break room and said “who microwaved leftover fish?” and made a face. The person eating said fish reported them to HR and the harassment complaint is in their permanent record.
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Break room is serious business. Laura doesn’t fuck around.
Offices are just soul crushing. Like right now I work with people I generally like, who are intelligent, who are about the least objectionable possible office mates, and I still spend several hours per day in misery. When I’ve worked in massive organizations I’ve just been in a perpetual state of shock that they achieve anything at all, let alone profitability.
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To be fair, it accurately reflected the state of nutrition science, which was and is pretty bad. I’m pretty sure we don’t even know if the paleo diet works or whether it’s that important to closely monitor proportion of carbs vs proteins vs fat. Wine lowers heart disease? Maybe, probably not. Multi-vitamin helpful? Maybe, but probably not (unless you have low calcium). Take this supplement? Almost certainly not, but maybe if you work out (but probably not).
We do know of plenty of things where if you get 0%, you’re likely in trouble, but it’s really hard to get 0% of those things (e.g., potassium).
Will smoking kill you? Only took 150 years to figure that one out, and it seems like pretty low hanging fruit.
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Microwaving fish at work is nasty, depending on where the microwave is. (Not as bad in a cafe that is kind of removed from the work areas.) I love fish but would never nuke it at work.
When you’re here, you’re racist
Maxwell Robbins, 22, a customer who witnessed the entire ordeal, told NBC News he was so disturbed by what transpired that he documented it in a Facebook post
But not disturbed enough to actually say anything at the time I guess. Profiles in courage.
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So disturbed that he let his pasta primavera get cold so he could document it with his phone? That’s pretty god damn ballsy
I think that nutrition science is pretty conclusive that the “smoking” of food is ultra processed foods. The matter is settled, it just hasn’t reached the public consciousness like smoking tobacco has.
My work blows. Boss asked us to sign up for an AWS online webinar that runs from 8:30 to 1:30. Seems like a good reason to work from home no? No. But she basically told me if I lie and say I’m sick it’s fine lol. I hate that shit.
I don’t like lying because then everyone passively-aggressively asks you if you’re ok when you get back. So it’s not just one little lie to your boss, you have to repeat it 5 times the next day. I feel a tiny piece of my soul die with each repetition of the lie.
This is how you wind up with the Soviet Union.
Not gonna work. I tried nibbling at the edges and just got shot down. However again - I’m perfectly free to say I have the flu once a week. That’s fine. It’s a lot easier for people with kids to come up with some emergency.
It’s my boss’ boss that’s really against it. I think it might have been massively abused in the past. It’s a university so no one works very hard. But making sure your butt is in the seat is one way to keep it from getting totally out of hand I guess. Can’t be wasting those tuition dollars.
Anyway I’m out of here in 1-8 months either way. This just makes it easier to pull the trigger.
Also once coronavirus hits campus they may have us all wfh for a while. Which will be glorious. Can’t quit before that.
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