Well this tends to be the result of a population comprised in large number of short sited, ignorant, lemmings. Which in a nutshell is why we are in the predicament in the first place.
*shrug* welcome to America pal.
What like about this post is its calm matter-of-fact delivery... not a hint of anger to be found. Party on Garth!
5. Threatening employees with adverse action for something you should have trained them to make impossible: priceless.
Exactly, they should have deployed the "invisible fence" shock collars used to discipline dogs to all employees along with a webcam to monitor employee activity. Each successive use of the reply-all feature delivers a more substantial shock until *ZAP*
Now that is negative reinforcement training that would work!
The really good thing though is that you are not bitter at all.
Eh, spelling, grammar, correct configuration of your mail system... who can be bothered with trivial things like those?
Do no rule out the impact of poor implementation either. Even a decent system can be me made to respond poorly if mis-configured.
Rather than put the onus on the client application or the client desktop you could just limit who can send to company wide distro-lists or do some sort of server side throttling on how the server responds to submissions to these lists.
This is the sort of thing that listservs seem to do pretty well.
The reply-all button is kind of like that big red button in your server room labeled "data center wide kill switch."
You are not sure why that is there either but you know someone is going to push it with all sorts mayhem ensuing.
The article mentions e-mail queues "becoming backed up" from the extra volume imposed the reply-all messages. I would think the mail administrators could have simply dumped these messages from the queue to get mail flowing again, then disabled the list temporarily to prevent further damage.
Some people claim long hours when actually they are chatterboxes - standing around at the water cooler talking nonsense or spouting verbal diarrhea on the phone or on meetings and having to come in on Saturday to finish their work.
Exactly, these sorts of people drive me to distraction!
They saunter into the office around eleven, spend a good hour making the rounds chatting with everyone about inane no-work bull$hit or make take a "meeting", head out to lunch for a good one and half to two hours, come back either take another pointless meeting, or maybe just spend the afternoon playing on-line games for several hours... but they make damn sure you know they were at the office until 6:30pm or 7pm putting the "long hours." Hell they even have the nerve to make comments about me (who has been in the office since 8am) leaving early when I decide to take-off at 5, as if putting in a solid 8 or 9 hours of productive time is somehow insufficient. These same people always seem to have an excuse why their work is not done.
Bah... a pox on them.
While pouring hot grits down your trousers?
i can ride my bike with no handle bars...
I am boycotting the 21st century. Maybe if it gets better I'll participate but until then I'm sticking with my tomes, and abacus.
Ha, if you think Tennant is good, check the older incarnations of Dr. Who such as Tom Baker!
Wow, I bow my head in respect to all those who's mastery of Whovian lore far exceeds mine!
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle. -- Steinbach
