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The last storm I was in had people replying all to tell people to not reply all, followed by people replying all to shame the people who replied telling people
by CatWChainsaw 3y ago
The last storm I was in had people replying all to tell people to not reply all, followed by people replying all to shame the people who replied telling people not to reply all.
Followed by others replying all asking how to mute the conversation, and others replying all with instructions. Multiple times. Which prompted more people to reply all commenting on the increasing recursion of the absurdity of the whole thing.
So you'd get fed up and mute the chain and think you'd think you'd killed the process, but any time someone changed the email subject line and replied all again it came back like a bad penny. Which caused more people to angrily reply all with vulgarities, which caused supervisors to reply all that their behavior was being noted and disciplinary meetings would be had.
And then one day, someone replied-all to one of the child email chains with the entire script of The Bee Movie. Which launched more of all of the above. And did the same thing to every other child email chain, sporadically, for a few months. I think it took over half a year for the last reply-all to quiet down.
I think at least one of those chains lives on for posterity in one of my folders, and now you tempt me...