Comments on: My Blunder of the Day http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TrvlngDrewhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26771 TrvlngDrew Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:05:55 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26771 I really do wish that we could recall email quasi instantaneously.. Would really help. Sometimes if I thought about my reply it would be a bit more cogent.. Being in a leadership position can't dash off anything Secondly, we need to be able to email to a group of people without displaying the names. BCC seems so cowardly and its really a workaround not a capability.. I really do wish that we could recall email quasi instantaneously.. Would really help. Sometimes if I thought about my reply it would be a bit more cogent.. Being in a leadership position can’t dash off anything

Secondly, we need to be able to email to a group of people without displaying the names. BCC seems so cowardly and its really a workaround not a capability..

]]> By: Douglas Moranhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26742 Douglas Moran Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:14:01 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26742 I had an employee who was in their period of "evaluation," after a formal reprimand and before a final decision on whether to terminate their employment. Part of this required me to document every interaction with this person--every meeting, phone call, email, and so on. After one particularly bad phone call, I typed up the details of it and went to send it to my boss. I used Eudora at the time, and relied a lot on Eudora's address completion utility. Unfortunately for me, the employee and my boss both had the same first initial, and instead of sending the info to my boss, I sent it to the employee. D'oh! That was a bad one. I had an employee who was in their period of “evaluation,” after a formal reprimand and before a final decision on whether to terminate their employment. Part of this required me to document every interaction with this person–every meeting, phone call, email, and so on.

After one particularly bad phone call, I typed up the details of it and went to send it to my boss. I used Eudora at the time, and relied a lot on Eudora’s address completion utility. Unfortunately for me, the employee and my boss both had the same first initial, and instead of sending the info to my boss, I sent it to the employee. D’oh!

That was a bad one.

]]> By: Judie Lipsetthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26711 Judie Lipsett Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:59:19 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26711 <blockquote>Oh, and my favorite blunder - which I think is the worst actually - is when companies in my industry send out an email and instead of bcc: they use cc: which exposes ALL the names of the people on the list. This is bad for the sending company because usually they’ve just sent out their entire email list…</blockquote> Not just your industry. I have been in on mail-outs where the PR person included everyone in a cc, and some of the angry "reply alls" sent back were quite entertaining (and enlightening). :-P

Oh, and my favorite blunder – which I think is the worst actually – is when companies in my industry send out an email and instead of bcc: they use cc: which exposes ALL the names of the people on the list. This is bad for the sending company because usually they’ve just sent out their entire email list…

Not just your industry. I have been in on mail-outs where the PR person included everyone in a cc, and some of the angry “reply alls” sent back were quite entertaining (and enlightening). :-P

]]> By: Wayne Schulzhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26698 Wayne Schulz Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:27:52 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26698 I have this type of think happen usually once or twice per year. The last time it was with a prospective client and I was doing the same thing you did - attempting to forward some off-the-cuff remark and instead of forward I hit reply. I've seen a few of the "talking about the person" situations -- which are embarrassing when the subject is right around the corner. Some day they may come out with a working "take back" function within all emails...that would be an interesting tool. Oh, and my favorite blunder - which I think is the worst actually - is when companies in my industry send out an email and instead of bcc: they use cc: which exposes ALL the names of the people on the list. This is bad for the sending company because usually they've just sent out their entire email list.... I have this type of think happen usually once or twice per year. The last time it was with a prospective client and I was doing the same thing you did – attempting to forward some off-the-cuff remark and instead of forward I hit reply.

I’ve seen a few of the “talking about the person” situations — which are embarrassing when the subject is right around the corner.

Some day they may come out with a working “take back” function within all emails…that would be an interesting tool.

Oh, and my favorite blunder – which I think is the worst actually – is when companies in my industry send out an email and instead of bcc: they use cc: which exposes ALL the names of the people on the list. This is bad for the sending company because usually they’ve just sent out their entire email list….

]]> By: slockenhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26664 slocken Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:24:10 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26664 This did not happen to me but one to one of my co-workers. We use Outlook for our corporate email and I being the sysadmin have tried setting things up for ease of use. I have global distribution lists so employees can send email to everyone in the company without having to pick each person's name. Well, this fella and with Outlook being so intuitive had typed the first few letters of one of his friends and did not pay attention that Outlook finished the name - with the corporate distribution list name :!: So he's apparently having a relaxed day and all, getting emails from his friends. One of them contains pictures that are supposed to play tricks on your eyes and another was a very sexest joke. :roll: He found enough fun and humor from these that he decided to forward them onto his buds. So about five to ten minutes later, phones were being picked up and called to a very embarrased :oops: guy who just thought he was sending his friends some funny reading material. This did not happen to me but one to one of my co-workers. We use Outlook for our corporate email and I being the sysadmin have tried setting things up for ease of use. I have global distribution lists so employees can send email to everyone in the company without having to pick each person’s name. Well, this fella and with Outlook being so intuitive had typed the first few letters of one of his friends and did not pay attention that Outlook finished the name – with the corporate distribution list name :!: So he’s apparently having a relaxed day and all, getting emails from his friends. One of them contains pictures that are supposed to play tricks on your eyes and another was a very sexest joke. :roll: He found enough fun and humor from these that he decided to forward them onto his buds. So about five to ten minutes later, phones were being picked up and called to a very embarrased :oops: guy who just thought he was sending his friends some funny reading material.

]]> By: Joel Mclaughlinhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26659 Joel Mclaughlin Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:09:39 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/2008/03/21/my-blunder-of-the-day/#comment-26659 Nope. Never did that. My blunder seems to be hitting delete too early! :lol: Nope. Never did that. My blunder seems to be hitting delete too early! :lol:

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