That co-worker who CCs everybody …

During my professional career I tried to be judicious about cc'ing higher-ups: either they were directly involved in the subject already, or I wanted to pull them into it b/c someone else was being unresponsive. In the second (and arguably cunty) scenario, I only resorted to it after several emails and/or calls failed to get a response.

“Per my last email…”

Yes, I understand when they are unresponsive but when they seem to be trying to score points…. Fuckers.

I wonder if they are the same people who have their email set to the default greeting:

“I hope this email finds you well”.

Pet email peeves:

1) Replying all when unnecessary, e.g., can anyone work the night shift next Tuesday?

2) Someone sends an email about an achievement or award to everyone in several departments and then a whole bunch of people "reply all" with a congratulating email. It happens practically weekly where I work. When I'm away for a few days, I spend several minutes deleting these virtue signaling ass kissers.

Usually it only annoys the higher-ups themselves, unless it's clear the cc'er has been trying to deal with this before on his or her own and had no luck.

R4, I love when a big corporation has what Gawker used to call a “reply allocalypse” and half the responses are “quit hitting reply all!” which just makes it worse. They don’t happen as much anymore but some were epic.

[quote]“Per my last email…”

You mean that email you sent me TEN FUCKING MINUTES ago? I'm busy, I'll get back to you when I can. Cunt.

"CC for visibility!"

Hi, I left you a voice mail and I sent you a message on Teams. I'm not sure if you were able to get them, so I'm sending this email too. Sorry for being too much lol!

I DEFINITELY appreciate all your help, but I just wanted to see if you were able to make out the handwritten notes I left on your chair in your cube. Sometimes, they tell me my handwriting is a challenge lol!

And just copying your bosses as an FYI in case my boss reaches out to them.

Truly appreciate your hard work!

Hate hate hate voicemails. HATE them. Message me on Teams, it's 2025 FFS.

If you write “cc” and then draw a body around them, they become a pair of buttocks. Tee-hee.

I have a cunt who will cc my boss (the executive director) about something and talk herself up while making it sound like I neglected something. She will then email me SEPARATELY about the exact same thing with excuses as to why she couldn't do something or arguing why things should be done her way.

I reply to both emails, making sure to drop my boss's name in the one she didn't include him in and say 'I am cc'ing ED as I mentioned him. and ED you may want to weigh in here'. She'll reply to that one - having removed the ED I added. I will reply and re-add him.

She'll start spiraling replying to both sets of emails so she'll then drop the second emails that I keep adding my boss to and teams message me still arguing while super sweetly reply alling to email one. Well fuck you, I will add my boss to the teams message 'whoops ED, I guess we've moved to chat for less emails, let's keep you in the loop'.

One time the bitch had the nerve to call me in the midst of doing that shit because, can't add the boss to the call. I just replied in the chat 'so sorry, I see you just called me but I am on a video meeting. can you please summarize here so I can multi-task?'

Fuck that cunt.

[quote]talk herself up while making it sound like I neglected something.

There's one of these cunts in every workplace. Every last goddamn one of them.

rescue-chick: "I have a cunt"

Yes, we know.

rescue-chick: "who will cc my boss (the executive director)"

Guessing you?

r13, me and my work buddy have teamed up to intentionally drive her clinically insane. It's actually working pretty well. we of. course have put nothing about it in writing. we had her spiraling so hard on July 3rd at 4pm and just ignored her. By Monday morning she had sent me 15 emails, 2 chats and my work buddy close to the same. She didn't even get to enjoy the long weekend. poor thing.

I have a lot of peeves about emails but this was the worst: When the COVID crisis hit, my 40-member office immediately started working remotely. In a feeble effort to build comradery among everyone, my superior started send "knock knock" joke emails to all, which resulted in 5-6 replies to every thread. I already get way too many emails (roughly 100 per day). Her inane joke emails irked the shit out of me. I suspected she didn't have enough to.do. Thankfully, she found another job and left a year later.

r16 you should have set a rule to put any email containing the word knock in a folder called bullshit. I have a bullshit folder. any email coming from the chick I mentioned already in the thread that has been flagged as important by her automatically goes in my bullshit folder. don't even see it.

items she flags with the red exclamation point - replying to an email I sent 6 months ago with a question about what I emailed her about. nope. fuck you, figure it yourself. flag it as important. cunt.

I want to work with rescue chick.

haha, believe it or not I am actually super easy to work with. Always positive, helpful, cheerful, take criticism well. I mentor a few of the younger women. I go above and beyond and just do it all quietly.

but, don't fuck with me. I am only nice at work because I am paid. Cc bitch sees the free me.

Reading this only makes me realize how lucky I am with the organization I work with. CCs make sense, nobody is showboating (too much) in these emails, nobody is ever throwing anybody under the bus, no passive aggressive tones in chats or emails. My department is relatively drama-free. I'm so lucky.

Even more annoying than the over ccers are the people who ask a question in an email and then end it with, "please advise." Bitch, you already asked your question. You don't need to ask it again, even if briefly.

It's usually assistants (AKA secretaries) at the organization I work in who do this.

[quote]That co-worker who CCs everybody …

I hate, HATE, these people with the fire of a thousand suns.

I get so many e-mails (at least 100 a day, but probably 150-200 on average). The majority I don't need (or want) to see.

Some update was made to my Outlook recently where it sorts e-mails between "focused" and "other". I don't know what Outlook uses to determine "other" but the vast majority of them are when I'm CC'd or part of a mailing list. I delete them without looking at the end of the day.

So if you are one of those CC people, chances are the person you CC'd is not even reading it. If it was a paper memo would you make 50 copies and put them in everyone's mailbox?

r22, my bitch would. on red paper.

Another office peeve:

The person who uses chat and just says “hi” and waits for you to respond.

Bitch, just tell me what you need all in one text.

r21 True enough, sometimes people unnecessarily use "Please advise," but other times you're dealing with a recipient who pathologically treats emails as little short stories to read as a bit of entertainment to break up the day and then ignore rather than as something to respond to. In those cases, including a seemingly superfluous "please advise" at the end really means, "Fucker, in the past instead of addressing my questions in these urgent situations you leave me hanging for a week about what to do, so this time I'm including a 'please advise' so that when we lose the Wixted & Blume account because of your laziness and incompetence I can show your supervisor that I pleaded with you for an answer and you're the one who dropped the ball."

"Please advise" is so passive aggressive.

A former manager only used email to send quick messages like “thank you”, etc. if he needed to speak to somebody, he’d call or see them in person. (This was years before people worked from home).

He was part of the compliance team and so was responsible for email retention. He said the stuff you would see in work emails was mind boggling and he said the women were worse than the men. But he never gave concrete examples. Oh how I wish he had.

Again, this was also before smart phones and easy unlimited texting, and when companies blocked personal email accounts so the only way to reach people during the day was via work email.

[quote]That co-worker who CCs everybody …

is despised by every litigation attorney in the world. They can turn discovery into a fucking nightmare.

Years ago I worked with a woman who would be described as a bitch on wheels. If you were being charitable.

Just a nasty, bitter piece of work who enjoyed humiliating those who reported to her or just not as high on the hierarchy. I didn’t report to her. I was her equal who spent a lot of time protecting the people who reported to me from her.

One day she sent me a blisteringly nasty email about some low priority task my team was working on and she copied my boss, my boss was the managing director, so the big boss.

I was too pissed to respond so I said fuck it and went to have a cigarette.

2 minutes later my boss comes out and casually says “how you doing.” I said “lemme ask you something. do you really have time for this bullshit?” He just laughed and said “she’s a bit weird isn’t she.”

I never fucking responded to that email but my boss told her she was on very thin ice and better knock it off.

I only cc at work if the person I am including is part of the project going forward. I don’t add bosses or management. Total dick move.

Meanwhile, my bitch has been cc'ed on a multitude of emails from our auditors requesting information. Either she says nothing or says 'I sent that to rescue chick, she can get it to you'. well bitch, so can you. So, I sent half- the ones that are legitimately requests I should complete and replied all, 'I believe the rest belongs to cc bitch'. I could get them but so can she. the bitch.

There was one cunt who’d cc everyone, including the CEO! She had to be reprimanded before she would stop

Instant messenger etiquette ever since Covid is what's driving my workplace crazy. Oversharing, direct messaging everyone instead of the person they need, people announcing bathroom breaks and when they've returned (!!), and the list goes on. We have a couple people that send a message every time they have a fucking thought. So annoying.

[quote] people announcing bathroom breaks and when they've returned (!!),

This is one I have yet to come across. Wow! Every other retarded thing you listed has unfortunately happened, and continues to.

We have a colleague who will miss a team meeting but email all the participants after asking for a summary, and sometimes become upset about a decision made in her absence.

I also have some external stakeholders who communicate with each other through emails to me and my assistant. Usually about a meeting of individuals that is part social and part business, like introductions to those whose work is related to mine. I feel bad not replying all, and it can seem cold and aloof, I know.