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Post by SockMonkey on Sept 5, 2019 15:30:22 GMT
Omg I am so sick of people replying all for stupid reasons. You do not need to reply all to say thanks or to answer a damn question that each person has to answer. Reply all should never be the default. That shit should have a password, two step verification and you should have to type in the answer to "is there a purpose for replying all that does not include annoying the shit out if people." My boss loves and encourages the reply all, including when it’s just a thank you for sending an email. She drives me crazy! Your boss should be tried as a war criminal.
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Post by LiLi on Sept 5, 2019 15:44:46 GMT
My son's teacher sent out an email check to the parents in the class. So far 6 have used reply all. 🤦🏻♀️
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Post by stampinbetsy on Sept 5, 2019 16:00:02 GMT
We use reply all frequently at work (but usually there are only like 3 people on the email), but I'm volunteering for an event, and a whole bunch of people are using it to tell the volunteer coordinator when they are available. Ugh. I don't want to see all your individual times!
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Post by baylorgrad on Sept 5, 2019 16:20:50 GMT
I turned off notifications for a certain group text because the main sender would text around 11 p.m. or midnight. So I don't see anything until I wake up in the morning!
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Post by craftymom101 on Sept 5, 2019 17:23:17 GMT
I accidentally “replied all” to a school-wide e-mail a couple of weeks ago and immediately felt like an idiot. On my phone “reply all” is the default reply button for the email we use, but I didn’t realize that until I had already sent the email. Ugh! Thankfully no one harassed me and I no longer reply to emails on my phone.
I promise I learned my lesson!
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Sept 5, 2019 17:52:08 GMT
This is why I hate group texts. One person does a group text and invites everyone(or the majority of people) on their contact list to an event, gathering, something, etc.... or expresses sentiments/wishes for whatever Holiday it happens to be.
Then I (and all the other recipients on the contact list) receive multiple, sometimes hundreds.... of reply texts. The majority of the people, in which I don't know. It's not just the yes or no RSVP reply....sometimes conversation flows. I have not figured out, a way to "opt out" of the group texts. It's so annoying!
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Post by shevy on Sept 5, 2019 19:01:04 GMT
As a corollary, why the heck can’t people figure out bcc’s? This eliminates the reply all issue when sending to a big group. And I don’t necessarily want every one of those 300 people to have my email address. And...What on earth should the header take 3 pages to read through for a one sentence statement that could have taken half a page?
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Post by freecharlie on Sept 6, 2019 0:23:45 GMT
This is why I hate group texts. One person does a group text and invites everyone(or the majority of people) on their contact list to an event, gathering, something, etc.... or expresses sentiments/wishes for whatever Holiday it happens to be. Then I (and all the other recipients on the contact list) receive multiple, sometimes hundreds.... of reply texts. The majority of the people, in which I don't know. It's not just the yes or no RSVP reply....sometimes conversation flows. I have not figured out, a way to "opt out" of the group texts. It's so annoying! I know on my android, I can click a button that says replies only to me.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 6, 2019 0:44:54 GMT
We use reply all frequently at work (but usually there are only like 3 people on the email), but I'm volunteering for an event, and a whole bunch of people are using it to tell the volunteer coordinator when they are available. Ugh. I don't want to see all your individual times! Yes! This misuse of reply all makes me the "stabbiest" (to quote the Peas, lolol)... I've already replied with the dates I'm available. I don't need to see all of yours because if the coordinator chooses a day I'm available then I'll be there. If the coordinator chooses a day that I'm not available then I won't be there. So I have no need to know when you can or can't attend.
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Post by mollycoddle on Sept 6, 2019 0:48:04 GMT
It’s as irritating as those folk who put F for following on Facebook posts. Use notifications, people! If a technically challenged grandmother knows this, it can’t be that difficult. Amen!
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Post by PNWMom on Sept 6, 2019 2:33:02 GMT
Yes!! And it always seems like the biggest culprits are the ones highest up the ladder like my hospital leadership group emails, where it is like the CEO and CNO and all the letter people doing 'reply all' to congratulate someone for getting a new position or something random. And don't even get me started on the whole 'F' thing for facebook posts. That drives me nuts.
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Sept 6, 2019 4:16:46 GMT
Reply all should never be the default. That shit should have a password, two step verification and you should have to type in the answer to "is there a purpose for replying all that does not include annoying the shit out if people." You are a genius. Seriously. Get this idea to Microsoft immediately and get some kind of compensation for it. My Microsoft recommendation is that the calendar cannot even receive a meeting invite if there are already three (or more) appointments on my calendar during that time. The sender should receive an auto response that there is no way I can attend that meeting. This happens to me several times a week. I have a meeting. Another invite comes in...then another...then another...before I have time to respond to any of them. I have a group text muted that is me and four family members in a time zone that is currently three hours ahead of where I am. They start texting in the morning around 4am my time because that’s when they are all getting up for work and for their day. I used to sometimes text back right before I went to bed but I decided that muting them was easier.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Sept 6, 2019 11:33:56 GMT
OMG. One of my BIGGEST pet peeves at work. When someone accidentally sends out an e-mail to a large distribution list and it's a mistake then it's game on. Last time, the e-mail went to THOUSANDS of people, then people would 'reply all' to say "Please take me off this distribution list" then the other subset of people would 'reply all' to say "Stop replying all to ask to be taken off a distribution list". It was a nightmare. Crashed our server and rumor has it that the person who made the error was fired.
My other pet peeve is when someone does 'reply all' to say "thanks" to the person who originally sent the e-mail. JUST USE REPLY.
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Post by rickmer on Sept 6, 2019 13:01:52 GMT
my old boss (the one who fired me... as i posted here), insisted on reply all for *everything*. it can be downright embarrassing and frankly, people just tune it out because it "nope, that doesn't apply to me". so i don't think it has the intended effect he was going for. he seemed to feel that if he included EVERYONE then they were all "in the know". however, they were actually "in the don't give a crap". i really don't miss that job at all.
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Post by just PEAchy on Sept 6, 2019 18:32:46 GMT
I’ve just found myself in the middle of some “ Reply all” drama and I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it. I belong to a Newcomers group with over 200 members. I’m the POC for a smaller group that does things like movies, plays, dinners etc. Anyone can suggest an activity and just emails the group. Some people will RSVP to just the email sender & some will do a reply all. There have been some grumblings about the reply all’s but no one has actually said anything about. Well, one woman just sent out an email requesting not to do a reply all. Now, other people are emailing me saying they like the reply all because then they know who is attending. I don’t really care one way or the other. My personal opinion is if you don’t like getting extra emails just delete them. If you want to go to an activity, just go, it shouldn’t matter who else is going. That’s the whole point of our club-to meet new people. I don’t think there’s really a way to make everyone happy. Any ideas?
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Post by anniebeth24 on Sept 7, 2019 19:37:05 GMT
I’ve just found myself in the middle of some “ Reply all” drama and I’m not sure how I’m going to handle it. I belong to a Newcomers group with over 200 members. I’m the POC for a smaller group that does things like movies, plays, dinners etc. Anyone can suggest an activity and just emails the group. Some people will RSVP to just the email sender & some will do a reply all. There have been some grumblings about the reply all’s but no one has actually said anything about. Well, one woman just sent out an email requesting not to do a reply all. Now, other people are emailing me saying they like the reply all because then they know who is attending. I don’t really care one way or the other. My personal opinion is if you don’t like getting extra emails just delete them. If you want to go to an activity, just go, it shouldn’t matter who else is going. That’s the whole point of our club-to meet new people. I don’t think there’s really a way to make everyone happy. Any ideas? You could use something like Sign up Genius for people to list their attendance instead of email replies. The organizer would then have a tally and all attendees could see who is coming.
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