Most ridiculous company-wide emails received?

[ShirleyPhallus]

Had a few gold ones in the last few weeks including:

• making sure for everyone to rinse out their mugs before they go in the kitchen with accompanying photos of dirty mugs (just in case you didn’t know what one looked like)

• obligatory “has someone lost a pass we found it in the ladies toilet” email which then transpires belongs to someone who was in a cubicle at the time and hadn’t actually lost it

• the very predictable phantom pooer which is shrouded in a very polite email asking “colleagues to respect our washroom facilities and use a brush and flush approach”

Anyone got any good ones?

@SpaceCadet4000 love your 'reply all stories 😂

“Lunch orders are in the eatery”

I work across the other side of town so never participate in lunch orders .

“Someone has stolen my lady grey tea, please return it” relevant to only 100 odd people out of 3-400

6 teaspoons had gone missing from the canteen.

When I was a new graduate (and had got up from my desk), one of my team sent round an email from my computer to the team to say that I was leaving to work in the Swedish film industry (basically porn). Then someone else in the team sent it round the whole office.

I think I would have kicked off about that these days but no one thought it was that big a deal in the 90s. I did make sure that I locked my computer whenever I got up from then on.

What's wrong with asking people to wash their mugs?

What's wrong with asking people to wash their mugs?

Nothing at all. But not necessary to have accompanying photos of dirty mugs. I think everyone could imagine what a dirty mug looks like

“The owner’s dog has died”

Followed by: “Please keep this confidential for the time being as we want to announce it on social media”,

"not necessary to have accompanying photos of dirty mugs. I think everyone could imagine what a dirty mug looks like "

Yes, but people take more notice of emails with photos. PLUS some people would recognise their own mug and hopefully be shamed into doing something about it.
You're obviously not the one who ends up having to wash everyone else's mugs when they haven't done it!

I was imagining that they were stock images of dirty mugs, from google.

I recived one about weeks ago ,
Vote for the person wearing the best Christmas jumper , voting ends today.

1st who wears a Christmas jumper in early November?
2nd 70% of our staff work remotely , how are we meant to judge them ?
3rd At least half of our staff have to were uniform so no Xmas jumpers allowed

Very

Yes, but people take more notice of emails with photos. PLUS some people would recognise their own mug and hopefully be shamed into doing something about it.

We have corporate mugs so they all look exactly the same. We also have a cleaner who loads the dishwasher and cleans them. Office management just wants us to rinse them before they go on the pass.

It was hugely amusing to get a very boring email about a customer issue that the sender had managed to send to every single email in the company and the ensuing “I don’t think this is for me” from those who hit reply all.

For reference, I work for a huge high street bank with around 50k members of staff just in the U.K.!

Outlook crashed that afternoon. It was immense

An email requesting us to 'mind our p's and q's' as a client had complained.

Next meeting with said client the sender of the email said shit 8 times, fuck once and bollocks 5 times.

@ActualHornist I think I may have worked for the same bank!!! Followed by “please take me off this chain” and “please stop replying to all”....WHILST REPLYING TO ALL

Also remember one being sent out “Has anyone lost an earring in the ladies loos?”....to around 10,000 employees spread across hundreds and hundreds of premises.

Not a work one but a school one. An email to the entire parent directory about a specific student being excluded for bad behaviour. We got all the details about this poor child

The email was in French (we're in Switzerland) so I had read most of it before understand that it wasn't meant for me. The principal had sent it.

I cannot come close to some of these and thank you for sharing them.

This wasn't a company email as such.

When Peter Kay did his Tony Christie Amarillo spoof, some army guys in Afghanistan did their own spoof of the spoof out there and emailed it back to colleagues in the MOD. Unfortunately, it was a 50MB file, and it started spreading like wildfire. Pretty much crashed the MOD servers that day.

Management decided to ban people from emailing the file, and put it onto our intranet news area so that we could view it if we wanted to, without messing up the servers.

We got an email asking people to stop shitting in the paper towel bin in the accessible toilet 🤢

"Stop replying to all" and about 300 NHS staff got copied in and replied all to say " I do not think that this was meant for me"

One of our key board directors hit reply all to the company Christmas menu email, so the entire company knows his choice of courses. Ridiculous, that guy has committed loads of email faux pas in his time - my favourite was an email discussion between him and two managers about how to handle a very difficult personality on the team and what a fuckwit he was, which evolved into a conversation about a new process.

He decided to have his PA forward the details of the new process onto the whole team...with the slating of said team member still in the trail.

A hot food delivery van plays a loud distinctive tune as it drives around our business park, stopping at each office entrance. Someone sporadically emails the whole building to say "The food van has arrived :) !" like we couldn't hear the loud music and it doesn't arrive at exact same time every day, anyway.

In the council. Dozens of buildings across the town, thousands of employees. Someone emails to say they have gotten married and him and his wife have merged their last names to make a new one. Not a clue who they were.
I wish I’d kept it actually. We spent quite a lot of that day merging our names to make new ones.

@WhoisitnowRalph

I always scroll to the bottom of an email chain, as many a time someone's done similar and you find something juicy.....

I used to work for an organisation which had regular company wide emails imploring the shit painter of the male toilets to stop spreading excrement over the walls.

Now work somewhere where recently had an email from a hetrosexual individual announcing themselves as an ally to the brave trans folk and how in support they will be adding a footer of their preferred pronouns to their signature and could we consider doing the same.