The Email (Part 2)

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• Part 3 is here.

"Are you serious?" I asked in shock.

"That's what Jamie (this is NOT her real name, of course) said." replied Armon.

I was speechless for a few seconds.

"I put the entire testing team on the CC line. Maybe YOU GUYS should ask why all the tech team is men and all the testing team is women?" I replied back angrily.

"Look John. CALM DOWN. There's no way this can go anywhere." said Armon, "Just put her name on the TO: line and she'll be happy."

I shook my head in disbelief. "Fine." I said finally.

So the subsequent emails look like the following:

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TO: [JAMIE], John, Joe, James, Jason, Eddie, Chris ... (+10 more people)

CC: Grace, Tammy, Sue, Christy ... (+10 more people)

Subject: MORE Blah Blah..

Hello everyone,

MORE BLAH BLAH BLAH ..

Best regards,

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At lunch that day, I went up to Jamie in the cafeteria to say hello as I didn't want there to be any issues with us.

"Hi Jamie, how's it going?" I asked. "All okay today?"

"Hey John." replied Jamie. "Yes, thank you SO MUCH. I feel much better." she replied with a smile.

OK good. Issue resolved.... Or so I thought.

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That afternoon, I had my daily tech meeting with the tech Linux geeks.

Now this company's IT department is a bit unique in 2022 in that it has apologetic, disgusting geeks. Most IT staff nowadays do have some regard for personal hygiene nowadays, but not at this site. Here, the sysadmin have contests to see who can go longest with showering. They also have minds of 5 year olds....

The meeting went fine until we got to the last bullet item titled: EMAIL ISSUES.

"All right." said Ruben (one of the SysAdmins). "The last item... EMAIL ISSUES. So John.. What's going on with you and Jamie?"

"Huh" I said in shock? "What the hell do you mean?"

"John we all saw her smiling at you during lunch." replied Ruben with a sinister smile.

Sometimes I forget that most sysadmins have the mentality of a 4th grader. Apparently me saying hello to a girl immediately started a new round of gossip.

"Jesus man, I just said hello to her." I shouted back.

Come on John." replied Ken. (A kickass sysadmin that also happens to be a really weird fat slob that only showers once a week. He also breathes really loudly like Darth Vader) "Don't lie, there's definitely something going on. Christ, she's the only one whose email you put on the TO line. All the other women are on the CC line ... "