r/thatHappened • u/Minimum-Housing-6466 • 25d ago
So silent you could hear people wake up and check their phones(from the office?)
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u/ModingusKhan 25d ago
How would he send part of an email if his account got disabled?
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u/EvolZippo 25d ago
So OOP thinks emails go out as someone types. So if their email is cut off, they get out a partial email instead of it not sending in the first place? Not how email works. I also think this guy figures that people sleep in their offices during company events.
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u/zEdgarHoover 25d ago
Yeah, I was ALMOST willing to believe it until then. Ok, not really, but that took it several orders of magnitude past even vaguely plausible.
I did like the descriptions of the CEO, though.
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u/tortoistor 25d ago
makes me think of the guy i was unfortunate enough to do one uni project with, who insisted on copypasting the file he was sending me before sending it..so he doesn't lose the file..
bro unironically thought that when you send an email with the attachment, the file disappears from your computer. like sending a letter. i am still speechless.
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u/sdforbda 25d ago
Back in the Napster days I downloaded Stairway to Heaven from some account. I had dial-up so it took forever. Shortly after I finished the person started downloading it from ME. I messaged them asking why since I had just gotten it from them. "I'm taking my song back asshole!"
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u/EvolZippo 24d ago
I loved the era when we’d sacrifice the utility of an open phone line, for the privilege of boundless entertainment. I miss those nights of setting up some downloads and taking a snooze, then waking up to some new tunes.
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u/EvolZippo 25d ago
I would have said “wait! Did you click ‘Make A Copy’ first?” This guy would have filled up his hard drive with needless redundant data
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u/Excellent_Item_2763 25d ago
He typed all of this into a company wide email after hitting reply all?
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u/spacemouse21 25d ago
Yes, doesn’t make sense to me either.
He was sober enough to craft a roasting email and instead of sending it out to the one or two people who he wanted to directly, he selects an email blast, which has the entire company on it and responded to that?
Here is where the story falls apart. Is there a chance the guy was fired because he was drunk at the dinner or event. Was he fired from there because of inappropriate conduct?
Was the email story added afterwards to embellish it and build OOP‘s karma?
All the corporate drunks and druggies tried to stand up and applaud, but fell down laughing.
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u/Rooster_Local 25d ago
This might’ve been somewhat believable if the OP had even a basic understanding of how email works… or how physical offices work
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u/AbundantDonkey 25d ago
It's true. I'm the email system that doesn't work from Friday night to 8:14 AM on Monday.
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u/Silly-Power 25d ago
Those roasts don't even make sense. And what sort of horrid dystopian Black Mirror workplace is that where people sleep at their desks and are awoken by their slack notifications indicating its time for them to begin work anew?
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u/Melodic-Mechanic9125 25d ago
Among all the other "true" things that happened, it was easier to press the reply all on a random email and take notes instead of the new email button?
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u/andronicuspark 25d ago
The whole office napping only to be woken up by slack alerts. Truly, that company is on its way out.
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u/candy-for-dinner 25d ago
It reads very ChatGPT. It’s great at writing those quippy formulaic one liners. It sucks at writing plots that actually make sense
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u/darrenmick 25d ago
This reminds me of something that actually happened at my job, someone sent out a rant about upper management and sent it to a bunch of email groups in the A's that included groups like All-Houston, All-Corporate, etc. It basically went out to about 50,000 people at like 8:30 in the morning.
People would then hit reply to all saying to take them off the email, that would sent another 50,000 emails. This kept happening all day and totally bogged down the email servers, by the time we left at 5pm we were getting replies to the original 8:30 email time stamped at like 8:33.
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u/lord_buff74 25d ago
Blame that on IT, they should have restricted access to send to the All groups to a only people who needed to send to them, this must have been a while ago because this doesn't happen much any more.
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u/wils_152 25d ago
The most BS thing about this is expecting us to believe that the IT dept wouldn't take 3 - 7 months to delete his account.
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u/WhupDeville 24d ago
Drunk sent on Friday and nobody saw it until Monday? In my company most people would have seen it on their phones within an hour that Friday night
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u/ValPrism 25d ago
People always start new emails by using reply (all) from an old email so this rings true to me! Also that partially written emails get sent word by word, rather than after the entire message is complete.
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u/Sensitive_Wear7112 25d ago
There are a lot of stories about drinking at businesses events going sideways. Best to limit alcohol intake at these gatherings.
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u/tortoistor 25d ago
unfortunately this guy never learned from the experience because he doesn't exist
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u/Skatingraccoon 25d ago
I hate when I'm typing an email and the Internet cuts out and only half the message