# My work spammed itself. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-work-spammed-itself/614423 "2012-03-01T04:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-work-spammed-itself/614423/1 "2012-03-01T04:23:54Z")
I work for the Government of Alberta, there are about 20,000 of us in the various departments. Last night some spammer sent about 10 emails to everyone in the GOA about a fake job. This morning, all hell broke loose. People started replying to the spam, asking to be taken off the mailing list but they would reply to all. So suddenly everyone’s inbox got flooded with “REMOVE ME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST AT ONCE!!” Over and over with minor variations and then some people would reply all to the “remove me…” with “Yeah me too!!” and “I Agree, stop sending me stuff!”. Then we got flooded with “People, stop replying to all! You’re flooding everybody’s inbox!” as they replied to all. It got crazier and crazier with “STOP REPLYING ALL, IT’S GOING TO EVERYONE!!!” This went on for hours. Even people on my own floor were sending the “Remove me from your list!” All over the floor you could hear people shouting “STOP REPLYING!!!” and “WHAT THE HELL, PEOPLE!!!” I got booted out of outlook repeatedly, outside emails couldn’t get in as people kept spamming themselves. It was annoying, then it eventually became so funny. Some of the people were head administrators, executive directors, lawyers… How can so many people be so completely retarded??? Anyway, it made for an amusing morning. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-work-spammed-itself/614423)._