Jackassery Award of the Day, Vol. 3
Today’s Jackassery Award of the Day goes to an entire group. This group happens to be a crap load of Microsoft employees and vendors.
All the beta/RC testers for Windows 7 received an internal newsletter on feature highlights for the new operating system. Cool, I appreciate that. What I don’t appreciate is the fact that people started replying all to this massive distribution with thousands of people on it.
First suggestion: Don’t reply all. This is really email etiquette rule number 1. The “Reply All” button in Outlook, or any other email client, should be renamed “Annoy the holy hell out of people by clicking this stupid, worthless button”.
Second suggestion: Don’t reply all about the whole not-replying-all thing. This action makes you look like a bigger jackass then those guilty of violating the first suggestion. When you and all your colleagues send more “stop replying all” and “please take me off this distro” emails than those who originally replied all, you are way more annoying than the first jackass who was simply asking a question.
Third suggestion: Take this Jackassery Award of the Day and shove it up your own ass. Maybe it will make you cringe enough to disable you from typing any more replies. Everyone else can thank me later.
Jackassery!
This happened at WM once but the person emailed the Neiman Marcus cookie email to everyone in the company. All 100,000 + of them. Then all the idiots out there hit reply all to tell the stupid girl to not email stuff like that to them. I received probably about a 1,000 reply all emails that day. I’m still wondering if she got fired for that.