Never forward an email...

[duccarlos]

When you've spent a large portion of the email calling people dickheads and assholes.

My coworker decided that it was a good idea to forward an email to the CLIENT, which included a conversation with me. He called another coworker, who happens to work in a different country, an dickhead. He also added the gem of "make the beast with two backsing Colombians". Of course he forwarded the email to the client in COLOMBIA!! Now the client definitely wants his head and the simple fact that my company has already wasted a shitload of money in moving me down to Chile is the only reason I'm not standing right next to him on the chopping block. I can't post this at all anywhere else, so you guys get to hear the story.

Live and learn.

[Triple J]

That sucks.

A better rule is never say anything in an email that you wouldn't mind being public. Makes email boring, but...

[Grampa]

Columbians can read?





I keed.... I keed

[lethe]

Reply All is the other thing that destroys people

[scduc]

Email will be the destruction of many. Rule 1. make it short, and second write what you want everyone to read.  are everywhere and once something is sent, there's no getting it back.

[IZ]

 

[RAT900]

Reply All is the other thing that destroys people

Agreed...this is often deadly...

especially if the originating idiot buries the customer's email address in the 25 name distro

and does not note in their text that the client is cc'd in the distro

and sends the email out asking why the client hasn't seen their "xyz" yet

[The Architect]

Rule 1:   When writing ANYTHING, write it as if it will appear on the cover of the NY Times.  You never know whose going to read it.


Rule 2:  never write when you can speak, never speak when you can nod, never nod when you can wink, etc......


Follow these two rules and you'll reduce your risk of finding trouble.  And they keep you off of facebook.

[Scooter Montgomery]

I have co workers who forward a whole conversation to a client. I always like when they have been tallking about the client or saying something like "give the option it only cost us $19 but we charge them $325".

[duccarlos]

My past in the email fiasco is relatively small, One jab about me "not being Colombian" and a sarcastic comment about my ability to change a whole solution in the minute I had access to the document. He was the one that made it all personal, but because he was having the conversation with me, then I'm guilty by association. This pretty much means that I'm not getting promoted this year and it will be an uphill battle for the rest of my career in this company. Right now I can look forward to finishing my relocation and then deciding if suffering through it would be preferable if they give me the opportunity to move back to Puerto Rico and earn a better than average existance. The client has escalated the matter, but up to now, my boss has not said anything directly to me. My real evaluation will not come until early next year and they will be asking me to renew my stay, I'm one of the few truly Spanish speakers in the company with this type of experience. This only means that at this moment they need me more than I need them, but it sucks that this stupid email puts me in a disadvantage.

[Jimmy6tring]

That sucks, man.  I'm sure you'll never make a mistake like that again.  Hope it all works out for you. 

Unfortunately, you can't always protect yourself anyway... Facebook, YouTube, the internet in general is a SNITCH!  My brother in law loves to bring his flip cam to parties or any kind of gathering and I hate acting like a celebrity on vacation but "don't point that thing at me, dude!!"

[duccarlos]

My comments were really not out of line, but because I was "involved" in the conversation I am now guilty. I have no chance to clear my name.

[RAT900]

Indeed...an idiot made you complicit by merely presuming he had that level of familiarity with you

your unfortunate failure was to not "reply all" with a repudiation of his cynical remarks

you will know better next time   

[NoisyDante]

I learned the dangers of 'reply all' the hard way as well, and while it was potentially damaging, it turned into a legendary and hilarious tale.  I basically called a friend a derogatory term which was to us an inside joke, but it went to every single person in the company including the upper administration, about 80 people.  One person took offense and wrote me a nasty email lecturing me on work environment conduct and cc'd my bosses on it.  Turns out my bosses liked me a lot better than her, and also thought it was hilarious, and told me to act like it never happened and her request to have me fired was ignored.  The thing that made it particularly entertaining in retrospect is that after realizing my mistake, I sent a followup email to everyone that said, "Wow, that just wen't to everyone, didn't it . . ."

[cokey]

Young aol days..  I started a mass mail "war" of about 100+ people..  literally thousands of emails sent in a day from reply all..  lost a couple "aol friends" cause of it. -shrug-  only one was hot..