Unfortunate Reply All Disasters

The British National Health Service (NHS) stopped operations Monday, November 14, 2016. A reply-allpocalypse blocked staff and service providers from using email or computers. The massive message spread started with aThe initial email was a misfired test email.An NHS contractor in Croydon, south London, sent the test. The email went to all 1.2 million NHS employees.

Reply-all responses started right away. More emails sent wrongly to all 1.2 million NHS employees followed. The NHS system created an estimated 186 million emails in one workday. Employees used Twitter to show frustration, amusement, and inability to work. Health and community groups linked to the NHS used social media to ask for patience while handling the huge problem.

In 2014, a hapless British Petroleum employee...This employee incited screwball bureaucratic lunacy.Accidentally sending an email to hundreds of employees globally caused equal parts Kafka, Terry Gilliam, and the Marx Bros. The mass email showed a mistake instantly. The reply-all attack began before the error was known. Because BP is global, new people joined the email chain every few hours as operations opened in different time zones.

The chaos grew huge. Responses ranged from angry to confused to funny. Many hate-fueled, all-caps messages like "STOP REPLYING" and "REMOVE ME FROM THIS LIST" appeared. Other messages included cheek-filled content.One employee asked, "Do you have a distribution list that reads 'Everyone in the world'? If so, remove me from that list." Another replied, "Keep calm and keep replying all!!!"

In 2011, a PR firm contacted...The Blogess.The firm contacted the Blogess...The firm asked if she would write about a Kardashian wearing pantyhose.(This was for product placement). She replied:

"Hi."

You received this page because you offered a blogger a photo of a random celebrity standing near a product nobody cares about.

We saw your picture of Harry Connick Jr. near yarn/Tommy Lee Jones using a kleenex/insert-your-weird-pitch-here, and we show you a picture of Wil Wheaton collating paper.

In 2012, a young NYU student tried to ask his mother about filling out an electronic financial aid form. Instead, he emailed 40,000 students. He saw his mistake fast and sent a second email to fix it.

Time, Inc., the US's largest magazine publisher, started 2016 with a reply-all meltdown that nearly broke the company.

The affair began simply. A photo editor...asked about company benefits.The email went to a Health and Wellness Listserv instead of HR. An HR employee replied all. Another employee replied too, asking HR a related question despite being confused about getting the email.

Description of 'Woman Accidentally Tells CEO About Her Genitals' in the list 'Unfortunate Reply All Disasters'I lived through this funny experience.:

A guy in my office, Rasher, got a nickname. People hid 'diaper rash on a stick' products in his office and softball bags. One Friday, a group email circulated. Rasher responded normally. Then, a 30-year-old woman thought it funny. She said she had a bad rash and needed to borrow his stick. She made it gross by claiming it was pus-filled.

Not realizing 'pus' is a homonym, she replied all to an email including senior management and the CEO. She wrote, 'Hey Rob, can you find me your rash stick? I have a horrible, pussy rash!'

In 2015, a joker named Vince...Vince accidentally sent out a mass emailto33,000 Reuters employees. Those 33,000 emails started a reply chain that slowed Reuters's email to a crawl. One Reuters correspondent made lemonade and live-tweeted the whole thing.

The irony. The horror.http://t.co/laAnrMCL3A #ReutersReplyAllGate pic.twitter.com/zMmg6jxbnZ

Some numbskull sent an email to 90,000 Wells Fargo employees. This caused a reply-all response explosion, filling the bank's servers with a backlog of4 million unprocessed email messagesThis reply-all event shut down a Wells Fargo Branch in San Francisco. It caused delays in clearing transactions that needed to finish in one hour, because '...they have regulatory impact.'When responding to an email, especially if you don't grasp reply versus reply all, keep your comments PG-13. A law clerk in New York City

failed to follow this advice.He replied all on a very polite, generic reminder from a Google group with a terrible nonsequitur: 'I f*cking hate her.' Who is 'her'? Tell us how you really feel.Everyone complains about their job. It is your right as a human. However, when you complain,

do not use your company's private email.Use reply all, and for the love of all things sacred, do not use it. An employee at international law firm Morrison Foerster did exactly this when emailing a colleague and over 1,000 lawyers worldwide: 'Why are we both still at this firm.' Awkward. Maybe text or Facebook message next time? to do it, and for the love of all things sacred, don't use reply all. That's exactly what an employee of international law firm Morrison Foerster did when emailing a colleague, and more than 1,000 lawyers around the world, "Why are we both still at this firm." Awkward. Maybe text or Facebook message next time?

When Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died on a hunting trip in 2016, conservatives nationwide mourned the loss of a guy who was basically your grizzled uncle who said awful things at the dinner table. Amidst this calamity of mourning, the dean of Georgetown Law, Scalia's alma mater, sent a mass email eulogizing the polarizing judge

Someone emailed a question about an estate tax return, starting a mutating chain of email responses.The email asked about an estate tax return.A computer glitch occurred at the same time. Every Virginia CPA with an email address entered the mayhem.

An anonymous graphic designer named Z pulled off the scheme. The key to perfect evil is pulling it off without getting caught.Z did the exact opposite.Her scheme never happened. Everyone knew she planned it.

Z planned to sabotage a huge annual order before leaving for another design and printing firm. She emailed her husband her plan; it also went to her whole company. She was fired an hour later.

The Redditor HaveTilFive witnessed a reply-all disaster firsthand.It sounds amazing.The story of 'Boss Replies All Hating on Woman's Story' appears in the list 'Unfortunate Reply All Disasters'.

Redditor Pizzapede posted about a reply-all mishap where a recently fired temp used email to vent.A recently fired temp used email to blow off steam during a reply-all error.

The story of 'Temp Gets Fired, Makes Liberal Use of Email' appears in the list 'Unfortunate Reply All Disasters'.He sent a very angry email packed with colorful language to what he thought was the address for the office's management. The mistake was using the address that sent it to the entire company, management, and the executives up the corporate ladder.

Laurel Touby founded Mediabistro.Laurel Touby founded Mediabistro.Laurel Touby had good intentions when she emailed hunters.Laurel Touby emailed hunters (employees who gather company information) to tell them they did a great job. Her move involved replying all to a press release announcing an acquisition.Replying all to the acquisition announcement caused problems.

The email caused many reactions. Novelist Ian Spiegelman sent a furious response. He wrote, "Interesting purchase for a man who believes in nothing, who hires a millionaire publicist who gleefully makes fun of rape victims while defending millionaire rapists, and who drops to his rotting Aussie knees any time the Chinese Stalinists tell him to..."

In 2011, Iowa University campus conservatives sent a mass email. They asked Republican students to "come out of the closet" (reveal themselves as Republicans) for a kickball game against campus Democrats.

In 2011, Maria Fernandes received an email meant for corporate lawyers about whether she should be fired. Her boss sent the email by hitting reply all on the wrong message. The boss then sent three recall notices and an email to Fernandes telling her to delete the email without reading it.

In 2015, Al Roker's Weather Channel morning show began to end.The show was Wake Up With Al.Al Roker faced an abrupt end after getting into a public email fight with his boss, David Clark. Clark wanted Roker to cover a possible tropical storm instead of the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The argument went like this::The story of 'Al Roker Replies All and Gets His Show Cancelled' appears in the list 'Unfortunate Reply All Disasters'.

"Roker: "Viewers see potential landfall. They aren't stupid.
Clark:Speak up if you disagree with a decision. However, this crosses a line; that is not our procedure.
Roker: Really David. You want to try and spank me in front of people?