Early this morning I got an e-mail message about another useless and annoying gas out. All in caps, too. It was addressed to everyone in the company, which probably totals over 10000. All morning it’s gotten replies, which started out as “Great idea, I’ll do it!”, and quickly turned into “PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THIS LIST!” By the time the number of replies (to all, of course) reached about 100, people were sending things like “WOULD WHOMEVER IS SENDING THIS PLEASE STOP?”
Well guess what, genius, I have seen the rectal fuck raisin, and it is you. It’s not being sent by one person to you a hundred times, it’s being sent by squid-fickers like you just once. Yes, you cactus fucker, by being part of the solution, you end up being part of the problem.
I was going to, but only a couple of replies concerned the gas out. Most were complaints about the misuse of e-mail, and were, themselves, misuses of e-mail. The latest missive is this:
WHEN REPLYING TO HAVE YOUR NAME TAKEN OFF THE LIST PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THOSE WHO SENT YOU THE EMAIL PLEASE
THANKS
Which was, of course, replied to all. And the “list” that everyone wants to be taken off of is the company-wide announcement list. Get taken off of that, and you won’t get any e-mails after that.
Well, it might stop them from sending the e-mail in the first place.
We have a policy at work, that company-wide e-mails must be work related. (We’ve lost this a tape with this footage on it, company specials, meetings, etc.) Maybe your workplace can adopt the same policy?
Oh, we already have the policy. And I’d send a global message, but I think that the people that keep responding have already ignored other missives. I think they’re being knee jerks.
A former employee of mine sent this to me yesterday. I replied to all (her entire address book) with: “This is an urban legend. See the Snopes web site.”
I love this. Guess how she replied? (To me and her entire address book.)
"still don’t buy on wednesday - urban legends are just that …
legends.
SO DON"T BUY GAS ON WEDNESDAY!!! Money is money. Let's show 'em
it’s ours."
:smack:
Ya know, when I supervised her I suspected she might not be the brightest bulb in the box… now I’m convinced. I vividly recall going through this the last time gas prices went up. I can’t believe some people still buy into this crap.
As I said earlier, people aren’t even concerned with the gas thing, they’re concerned with getting flooded with e-mail. Trust me, my first thought was to send them the snopes link, but if I did that now, I’d be just as guilty of misusing the e-mail system as they are.
Perhaps if someone replies to all with a “Sounds great, let’s do it”, I’ll consider responding to that one person with the link, but I won’t spam the entire list with it.
Hm, how about going to the right people and giving them the lik to snopes, and asking them if they could get an official policy email globally sent with an actual ‘punishment’ if they do this sort of mass-glurgging, and the recommendation they go to snopes for themselves…or just s formal notification email that this is forbidden and it will be punished in some manner [if the powers that be would actually set some form of punishment … maybe something like public embarassment by ‘newsletter’ or internal company website mention/hall of shame page. Maybe by some form of restriction like a filter that requires them to get a permission to mass email/need to have IT send the mass email for them…?]
Getting this at work would be annoying. I come here to get *away *from spam in all its forms.
When I receive these kinds of messages at home I reply to all, specifically to embarass the sender, with a Snopes or Straight Dope debunk (especially on that golldanged Duck “fact”) and a terse mesage to the effect of:
“Please do not publish my e-mail address in this fashion.
You are crating a spam list.”
Last night on Fox news they had a segment about this. They had short interviews from people around the state, asking what they thought about the gas-out.
“Yeah, this is a great way to stick it to them.”
“My needle is on empty, but I’m not buying gas today.”
“Stick it to the man!”
“Maybe now gas stations will get the message. Over 2.00 per gallon? I’m waiting until prices come down tomorrow!”
And Fox supported this shit!
Oh, Fox, you used to be such a reputable news source! What the fuck happened?
