The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread

[The Family Cyclist]

My daily 'breakfast' is a protein shake comprising milk, protein powder and bananas.

We're out of bananas. I thought I'd use some frozen mango chunks we have in the freezer.


It tastes rank. It was butternut squash.

While I realise one shouldn't laugh at another's misfortune that just made me laugh out loud

[mrcharly-YHT]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

[PaulF]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

[citoyen]

My daily 'breakfast' is a protein shake comprising milk, protein powder and bananas.

We're out of bananas. I thought I'd use some frozen mango chunks we have in the freezer.


It tastes rank. It was butternut squash.

While I realise one shouldn't laugh at another's misfortune that just made me laugh out loud

+1

Didn't see the punchline coming at all.

[ian]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

Immoralized aboard my last mothership as #reutersreplyallgate

[PaulF]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

Immoralized aboard my last mothership as #reutersreplyallgate

The same incident I believe. I mean it could only happen once couldn’t it?

[The Family Cyclist]

Wasn't half the problem when the NHS computers got taken out a few years back by the I love you virus everyone replying saying remove me from this

[Kim]

I expect any mail system inhabited by more than a few users who lack either common sense, an ability to read or an understanding of exponential growth has suffered this problem at some point.

When I was a PSO, the entire Brizzle Uni mail system ground to a halt after someone worked out how to CC all the course mailing lists into a message advertising their event, and people kept reply-alling to the reply-allers telling them not to reply-all.  Those of us whose email was stored on the better-resourced engineering faculty server got to watch the fall-out in slow motion...

[ian]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

Immoralized aboard my last mothership as #reutersreplyallgate

The same incident I believe. I mean it could only happen once couldn’t it?

I pretty sure it probably did, but that one was epic, especially when 'more senior' people piled on telling everyone to stop. I got popcorn to watch it unfold. I believe they had to ban people talking about it on social media.

[PaulF]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

Immoralized aboard my last mothership as #reutersreplyallgate

The same incident I believe. I mean it could only happen once couldn’t it?

I pretty sure it probably did, but that one was epic, especially when 'more senior' people piled on telling everyone to stop. I got popcorn to watch it unfold. I believe they had to ban people talking about it on social media.

Yes it was fun to watch, seem to rember someone running round our floor telling us not to respond because the system was so clogged up that the official instruction couldn’t get through. It was shortly afterwards that they limited access to the global address lists

[mrcharly-YHT]

Once I'd cleaned my breakfast off my keyboard (thanks, fboab), I want to nominate Every Single Person (all highly paid and 'presumably' intelligent engineers) who replied All to an email to the entire company.

FFS

Presumably followed by a flurry of emails to everyone saying please don't use reply all? A similar cascade actually brought the email system to a grinding halt at a place I used to work. And for once I wasn't involved

Immoralized aboard my last mothership as #reutersreplyallgate

The same incident I believe. I mean it could only happen once couldn’t it?

I pretty sure it probably did, but that one was epic, especially when 'more senior' people piled on telling everyone to stop. I got popcorn to watch it unfold. I believe they had to ban people talking about it on social media.

The cascade begins . . .

There are now more "stop replying to all" emails than people saying "Why did I get this email".

One light in the darkness; it is only going to 4300 people, not the entire company.

[PaulF]

Here it is https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reply-all-email-catastrophe-hits-thomson-reuters/

I’m not Vince and neither is my wife

[ian]

Here it is https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reply-all-email-catastrophe-hits-thomson-reuters/

I’m not Vince and neither is my wife

For the record, neither am I.

[T42]

ISTR another one of those back in the late 90's or early naughties.

[ian]

Also, I don't work there anymore, so if it happens again, it's still not me either.

[Mr Larrington]

Serves 'em right for sending my job to India

[Mrs Pingu]

I haven't seen a 'don't reply all' email for years.

Also +1 to fboab thanks for the chortle.

[ian]

Did half this group work for Thomson Reuters? If so I might have been literally your Tidy Haired Thought Leader™.

It is possible I made them do it. I can't remember what I was doing there in 2015, but you probably say that of any year.

[Mr Larrington]

They were still plain Thomson when they sent my job to India in June 2006.

[ian]

I joined Thomson in, erm, summer 2006. Involuntarily mind.

[Mr Larrington]

I started working for MAID in 1997 and ended up (not) working for Thomson, having also worked for Dialog in the middle.  All without changing jobs.

[PaulF]

Neither my arrival at Thomson, nor my departure from Thomson Reuters were entirely voluntary either.

[TheLurker]

Wasn't employed directly, but my job  went to Thailand in 2003 when it was decided that the software we wrote for Reuters could be better handled by cheaper people. 

[robgul]

I started working for MAID in 1997 and ended up (not) working for Thomson, having also worked for Dialog in the middle.  All without changing jobs.

Ah - with Dan Wagner . . .  I recollect meeting him sometime in the MAID or Dialog days when he turned up wearing a bizarre waistcoat printed with a cartoon picture of a penguin.  WTF?

[ian]

Worked for a start-up that got acquired by Thomson, which became Thomson Reuters, then I ended up in the healthcare and science division that was hived off and bought up by the usual bunch of bankers and given a name that sounded like a spot cream (branding goal unlocked!)

Not without some irony, that bit of ex-Thomson has now re-acquired Dialog.

Thomson had the best parties in Florida every January though.