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Writer's Block: Misdirected Mail
Dec. 22nd, 2008 02:43 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Many a time, alas. I frequently draft a reply to an annoying or policy-related question and then send the reply to my manager for review. I've had the embarrassing case occur that I forgot to drop the original sender from the mail, thus exposing them to the draft process. (Luckily, this time I did not have the phrase "will this shut the *** up?" in there).
I quickly responded by sending the incorrect CC a mail of the form "you see our review process in action" so no real damage was done.
Then there's the wurk email address auto-complete system. The risk here is that new people get hired with a name similar to people I'm used to mailing, and show up earlier in the auto-complete list. This you generally only find out if they respond by "Huh?" or "wrong recipient" and then you re-send.
Many a time, alas. I frequently draft a reply to an annoying or policy-related question and then send the reply to my manager for review. I've had the embarrassing case occur that I forgot to drop the original sender from the mail, thus exposing them to the draft process. (Luckily, this time I did not have the phrase "will this shut the *** up?" in there).
I quickly responded by sending the incorrect CC a mail of the form "you see our review process in action" so no real damage was done.
Then there's the wurk email address auto-complete system. The risk here is that new people get hired with a name similar to people I'm used to mailing, and show up earlier in the auto-complete list. This you generally only find out if they respond by "Huh?" or "wrong recipient" and then you re-send.
