The Email (Part 3)

• Part 1 is here.
• Part 2 is here.

"You are insane" I yelled back at Ken.

Now a couple people messaged me after my last post and objected to the term "fat slob" which I used to describe this guy. Perhaps he is just "weight-challenged?" replied one person.

I disagree... why do I disagree, you ask?

Because after I said that last statement, Ken proceeded to pick his nose, pull out a "nose nugget", flick it onto the floor, then wipe his fat finger on his Atari "Missile Command" T-shirt...

In my opinion, this constitutes a fat slob.

"Am I insane? John. Or am I just SOOOO smart that I see EVERYTHING...." he said sarcastically.

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The next day, I went to the work. Armon from HR called me again. When I went to his office, Jamie was also there.

"John," asked Jamie. "What's going on?" The tech guys are giving me these weird smiles.

"Jamie" I replied. "These are Unix geeks. The only way they know how to smile is weirdly..."

I explained the situation to her and Armon.

"OH MY GOD!!!" shouted Jamie.

Armon was also in disbelief.

"John", said Armon ... "Just put every person on the TO: line .. "

Jamie gives me a nod. "But the women first..." she said with a smile.

So the next email looked like the following:

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TO: Jamie, Grace, Tammy, Sue, Christy ...John, Joe, James, Jason, Eddie, Chris, ... (+20 more people)

CC:

Subject: YET MORE Blah Blah..

Hello everyone,

STILL MORE BLAH BLAH BLAH ..

Best regards,

John

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This shut everyone up .. until the next department meeting.

During that meeting, everything went fine until we got to the very end.

"John," said Tammy, who is the head of the testing group. "you CCed us for a few weeks on all emails, but suddenly you started including us on the TO: line. Was there a reason for that?"

Oh jesus christ ... NOW WHAT??? Think fast, John.

"Um, not really" I replied. "I just got tired of typing names on two lines and thought it would be easier just to type everyone all at once."

"I see." replied Tammy. "But doing so messed up my spam filter rules."

"I'm sorry. I don't understand."

"You see John, We really appreciate you keeping us in the loop on what you and the tech boys are doing. However we don't need to know all this. We just need to know when you want us to start testing." said Tammy.

OH NO. I thought to myself. STOP. DON'T SAY IT!!!

"You see," said Tammy "I had a rule setup on outlook that sent mails from you when I was CCed to go directly to spam. But when you put me on the TO line that messed it up."

ARGHHHHH.....

"So John, from now on, just don't send me or my team any status update emails. Just let my team know when we should start testing."