# Double check the email recipient!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167 "2011-03-02T04:42:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/21 "2011-03-03T03:26:01Z")
A few years ago, I received an email from my boss. I was trying to figure out what it had to do with me with no luck. Then I noticed the attachment, which had the list of those being downsized that day. (I wasn’t on it.)
My boss came running over and saw that I had the attachment open. He said, “Oh, too late. Well, keep your mouth shut for a couple of hours.”
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/22 "2011-03-03T15:36:31Z")
Received this yesterday, as did about 55,000 of my colleages:
Cxxxxx-
Heard you were looking for me. I was at a doctor’s appointment. On the other line at the moment but will call you.
Thanks-
Gxxxxx
I would very much like to know what it cost the company for each of 55,000 people to spend three minutes dealing with that e-mail.
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### Author:  [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/23 "2011-03-03T22:40:12Z")
I once sent a very dirty, explicit message to my husband - oh, wait, it was actually to my boss, who has the same first name as my husband. Luckily, my boss was a total pervert and he thought it was hilarious.
Now I make sure that I keep the “To:” box empty until I’ve finished writing an email. That way, I have to go back at the end of my email and put the name in - it makes me pay a little more attention.
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/24 "2011-03-05T00:01:00Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> I would very much like to know what it cost the company for each of 55,000 people to spend three minutes dealing with that e-mail.
Three minutes? I’d be more worried about the economic impact of having that many employees with an IQ of 70 using 2400 baud modems for their email connection.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/25 "2011-03-05T00:45:32Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> Three minutes? I’d be more worried about the economic impact of having that many employees with an IQ of 70 using 2400 baud modems for their email connection.
😃 My thoughts, too. But maybe they all went to their favorite messageboard to complain about it afterwards, which could easily push it up to 3 minutes each.
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/double-check-the-email-recipient/573167/26 "2011-03-06T05:03:15Z")
LOL! We discussed it in the kitchen as well. . . and I overheard the topic in the Ladies room at least twice. Not sure whether we lingered over the discussion though, it may have qualified as parallel processing. . .
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