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People that cc your boss on emails for no reason
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IdreamofHIME
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A co worker sent me an email last week accusing me of using his chair while he was out the office, he CC'd the boss into the email.
I then forwarded my reply to eveyone in the office...by mistake
I then forwarded my reply to eveyone in the office...by mistake
I have a coworker who takes credit for others work, it backfires on him when an e-mail he sent taking credit gets cc'd to the people who actually did the work. Once he was caught taking credit for a job over the phone, the guy that actually did the work was nearby and unseen in his high walled cubicle and heard everything.
Yep, they'll get the hint.
There's a guy in our company that just doesn't want to do any work, he's slow as fuck, always complains when you ask him something and is being anal about every little thing.
So once we had something urgent that needed to be done and I came to him 20minutes before he usually leaves and he flat out refused to do it, even though it had to be done.
I just said "Fine.", left his office, wrote up an e-mail, CC'd our boss and hit sent.
15minutes later, that shit was done and on my desk.
Fucking satisfying if you ask me !
But yeah, only do it if people aren't being cooperative, otherwise it's scummy.
So once we had something urgent that needed to be done and I came to him 20minutes before he usually leaves and he flat out refused to do it, even though it had to be done.
I just said "Fine.", left his office, wrote up an e-mail, CC'd our boss and hit sent.
15minutes later, that shit was done and on my desk.
Fucking satisfying if you ask me !
But yeah, only do it if people aren't being cooperative, otherwise it's scummy.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Hahaha
XANDER CAGE
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I have a coworker who always forwards things I was asked to do to my boss without including my responses and work after I've already done the work. It's so annoying.
The Albatross
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Valtýr;111981499 said:
No, work out your issue with the person as best you can. Only bring in their boss when all else has failed.
Their boss, and in effect, your boss, will appreciate it. If you CC their boss and their boss gets involved it's only inevitable that your boss will get involved. If your boss is seeing you as a malcontent who can't deal with the work behaviors of other people, that reflects poorly on you.
As many of us have said already, your boss or their boss may have asked said person to cc them on everything, or everything they send to you or whatever.
It seems a lot of people here are assuming that a cc to the boss is only ever an act of cuntishness when in reality it can be so many other things.
blazeuk
Member
This happened all the time in some of my previous jobs, tens of thousands of people getting emailed something stupid like asking about car park spaces, followed by tons of replies from people saying "This isn't for me", then there would be another email sent out apologising for sending it out incorrectly only for more replies to come through with "No problem". Then the people who looked after the email servers would have to tell everyone to stop replying because it was slowing everything down (most of the time it would kill the email servers for a good while).
As for the CC stuff, hate those people who do it without any reason, I personally wouldn't do it unless it was requested, but if someone does it to me I'll just do the exact same thing back to them, usually they're the ones in the wrong anyway so they end up coming out of it looking worse and sheepishly get out of the conversation as quickly as possible (which is always worth a follow up reply a few weeks later, their manager included, asking whether they've finally understood what they were confused about).
FalsettoVibe
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I hate it when people do this crap. I had a person CC in the VP over our division in a email to me once. I was like......seriously. Fortunately my manager told that person no to do that anymore. 
SteveWinwood
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As long as you get your shit done, it's a minor annoyance at most. There was a guy who always did this to me, but I figured he just didn't know what he was doing and thought everyone needed to be in that specific loop. I'd be more pissed if I were the boss getting tons of useless shit.
Aesius
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This is what I used to deal with.
My boss used to even request that I send emails to her first so she could edit/approve them before I sent them to other people within the company.
She would do this even with simple requests that went out to no more than 4-5 other coworkers who would respond with anything from "sounds good" to "k". But apparently, crafting perfectly-written emails that never contained typos or grammatical errors was very, very important to her.
This. The only exception is when it involves a ton of money that ultimately comes from the boss's bottom line, so I copy them straight out of the gate.
I've had that happen to me previously.
Get your boss to reply to one of their emails telling the other person that they don't need to be CC'd on all emails, generally they don't want to be annoyed all the time anyway.
The few times it's happened to me my boss fires off a reply before I can even ask, problem solved.
Get your boss to reply to one of their emails telling the other person that they don't need to be CC'd on all emails, generally they don't want to be annoyed all the time anyway.
The few times it's happened to me my boss fires off a reply before I can even ask, problem solved.
I think people underestimate how many bosses are happy to get the emails even if they don't read them. A trail is always handy.
I dunno maybe it's a trust and respect thing.
I know my boss definitely doesn't want to be copied into all my emails.
DJ_Lae
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I hate this in particular, and there are a couple of guys who pull that stunt.
So I simply reply to them, CC my boss, and re-insert the entire previous set of e-mails below. I think my boss gets a kick out of it, as it's the same group of people he has issues with from time to time (IE, quick to complain when we take more than a day getting back to them but sitting on our requests to them for weeks).
youngplaya21
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This. CCing the boss in definitely lights a fire under someone's ass. My emails usually get ignored when I send them out to everyone, but once the boss also replies saying some shit like "good job. team, let's get it done", everyone else starts jumping in too. I'm guilty of the same thing, too
killdatninja
Banned
Yes, and depending on the issue I usually delete my manager as a CC after that (unless they are needed). Haven't had to confront anyone yet if they re-add them for no reason.
King Endymion
Member
I have a bitch coworker who does this constantly, she even got my sister fired so that our boss could give her son my sister's job.
She always sent e-mails like "Went by your office last Friday and no one was there at 4PM." and CC'd our boss.
She always sent e-mails like "Went by your office last Friday and no one was there at 4PM." and CC'd our boss.
See now that I couldn't handle and I would be confronting her directly asking what exactly her agenda was.
Who's to say you weren't getting a coffee or having a bathroom break anyway...
Not quite the same thing but something that's happened to me working in IT:
- Customer calls in with an issue
- I investigate, find the problem, and try and apply a fix
- Tell the customer what I've done and ask him to check and see if the issue is resolved and to let me know if it's not so I can take another look.
So he proceeds to e-mail my boss directly instead asking why this still isn't working, so I get chewed out by my boss when I'm not even aware this is still an issue. Sigh. This shitheads problems always go to the bottom of the case queue now though, so jokes on him.
- Customer calls in with an issue
- I investigate, find the problem, and try and apply a fix
- Tell the customer what I've done and ask him to check and see if the issue is resolved and to let me know if it's not so I can take another look.
So he proceeds to e-mail my boss directly instead asking why this still isn't working, so I get chewed out by my boss when I'm not even aware this is still an issue. Sigh. This shitheads problems always go to the bottom of the case queue now though, so jokes on him.
BreakerIBS
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I have had this happen on multiple occasions. I enjoy resending the emails with all the things they have erased, and then adding my answer to that one. I also ask why those things were removed from the chain to begin with. I call them out immediately.
The best is when you catch them with something that has already been done, or they have incorrect, and you get the single email back from them, without anyone else attached! CYA +1
Vicetrailia
Banned
For some reason I never mind when this happens. Anything and everything at my job where this applied to was always RIGHT NOW HELP GO GO GO GO GO anyway, so whatever, who has time to keep track (the managers sure don't). I'd love to work at a real job 
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.VistraNorrez
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My boss just has everyone's emails automatically sent to his inbox. That's super great right?
Neko Godot
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I understand bcc'ing someone, but what's even the advantage of cc'ing someone regularly? You may as well just send them the e-mail normally in my experience.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
That moment when your boss's boss hits 'Reply All' to an email they didn't notice they were blind copied on.
Awkward.
Awkward.
MudoSkills
Volcano High Alumnus (Cum Laude)
Yep. If a recipient is BCC'd that means they get a copy, but don't show up on your list of recipients.
ThoseDeafMutes
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I hate E-mail in general.
Our helpdesk software wasn't operational when our MOOC went live so we're handling a cohort of 15,000 students using Outlook as a help ticket system.
Our helpdesk software wasn't operational when our MOOC went live so we're handling a cohort of 15,000 students using Outlook as a help ticket system.
Tawney Bomb
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Just had this happen today...fuck those people.
GoldenEye 007
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Oh... bless your heart.
Squirrel Killer
Member
In my first Outlook training class, the instructor called the BCC field the "Office Politics" field. Truer words were never spoken.
Wow talk about micromanaging your reports... my Boss has trouble working through his inbox for just his e-mail let alone getting all ours as well.
TekGryphon
Banned
As a State Director for a mental health program with 4 Program Managers reporting to me, I get this a lot from other providers and state people we have to work with. Probation Officers are easily the worst.
Unless your boss is an asshole, he's not going to look at it as a reflection of you unless there's a history of poor performance on your part. He's probably just rolling his eyes and moving on to the next email.
breadtruck
Member
I even got some sent just to my boss, which he then has to forward to me.
He laughs it off, knowing full-well the person who did it is an idiot. Sometimes he even gives a slightly snarky reply. I'm a hard worker and he knows it.
It is what it is. Some people are douchebags.
He laughs it off, knowing full-well the person who did it is an idiot. Sometimes he even gives a slightly snarky reply. I'm a hard worker and he knows it.
It is what it is. Some people are douchebags.
DavionStriker
Member
I only do this when I am getting no response. Actually that's not true. I am in management. So I will copy a person's boss when I ask them to do something as a courtesy. It helps them prioritize.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
CCing someone higher up when tasking people has its uses, but more often than not it makes it look like you can't effectively manage your own people.
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