Reply all. Fucking why?

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Am I missing something or making unfair busy body assumptions?

Why the fuck do I need to know that Jack is going to John's party when I'm Joe's mum?

What the hell is the reply all business shit that goes on, and why is it always a certain type of mother that engages in this.

It almost feels like they're announcing to each other that they'll be in attendance.

I'd usually assume there is some practical reason but it is always the same 'inner circle' or wannabe mum that does this shit. And, it's always the gatherings where parents clearly invite for popularity reasons over their children's actual friends.

Why do they do this? Are there any logical reasons that I'm overlooking?

Am I being harsh or are they the need to get a life twats that I think they are?

Fine if it is reply to all as everyone on the email has been invited to the same event!!! No issue and useful to know who is going to share lifts.

God yes with people I work with. I can even send a message to everyone saying "if you need to discuss this with me, email me privately" and they'll still do it. You can BCC but it's the sort of thing where you need to know who's involved. I think with my colleagues it's just stupidity. The reply to the sender as if it's a private discussion, but copied to everyone.

I have a colleague who does this. There's a regular email sent every few days by the boss, which goes out to about 30 of us. It needs no acknowledgement - just reading and appropriate action. They always reply all saying "Thanks". Every. Flipping. Time.

(Their email etiquette generally is dire, though, and they appear to be a bit thick, so I attribute it to that!)

They shouldn't be able to "reply all" because the sender should have sent it to himself/herself and BCCed everyone else.

People that reply all are my biggest bug bear! I now work in a much smaller company but in my last job people would reply all to emails sent out to the entire UK team. It would go on for days and it was ridiculous!

Not so bad when it's a small company until someone replys all with a rude response and that reply goes to a customer as well....

They shouldn't be able to "reply all" because the sender should have sent it to himself/herself and BCCed everyone else.

Exactly! Really annoys me when someone has sent an email to lots of people and havn't done this, so I can see who else it was sent to, their email addresses, etc. Massive invasion of privacy to make my email public to loads of other people. Never happy at all when some crazy person CC's everyone rather than BCC. If people emailed properly, it would solve this problem as there's be no "all" to reply to - just the original sender. Learn how to email folks!

DH's company has an actual email policy of no replying all unless absolutely necessary, and no replies just acknowledging receipt of someone's internal email. I'm jealous!

I LOVE reply all mistakes in work so entertaining!

• someone sends a company-wide email, ~150k people
• desperately tries to recall
• limited success with this
• people start replying all with 'not sure I was meant to get this, please remove me from the distribution list'
• after about 20 of these, some helpful soul says 'please stop replying all saying this isn't meant for you - clearly sent in error'. In doing so, utilises the reply all option
• continue until everyone has an inbox full of 'not for me' messages

I've got to get my entertainment somewhere!

I agree about not CCing when it's a large group of people who don't know each other - and i always BCC for that.

But sometimes you CC because it's a smaller group, they all know who each other is and have each other's email anyway, and they all need to know who you have included. But they don't all need to read one person's longwinded reply about something that pertains only to them.

It is SO FUCKING ANNOYING

Also people who cc every single possible fucker in an email when it's totally needless

Dunno. I switch off when people chat this shit

Also people who Send All to the entire company, all branches.
No I don't need to know that Sandra from the Glasgow office will be having leaving drinks this Friday, since I work in the Exeter office

Yes- the send all. "The milk in the fridge is for staff on postnatal ward only. We got through 10 pints today!" All 9.000 of us are engrossed in the postnatal vs gastrointestinal milk fridge battle. Thank you for sharing.

Ahhh, I used to have one particular stakeholder who worked in a different (much much smaller, working v closely with us) organisation to me, and every time I emailed her asking for something quite simple and uncontentious she would reply copying in two other random people from her org. Never the same two from one email to the next, never any explanation for who these people were or why they had been added to the email chain, never any follow up response from them. WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE? Why are you putting them in my email for no apparent reason? How can there still be more new names I don't know yet?! She was a really odd and difficult person to work with generally and so it was hard not to imagine some sort of sinister explanation for pretty much everything she did.

There is a particular type of person in a work context who uses reply all to make a point about how busy and important they are.

There is a particular type of person in a work context who uses reply all to make a point about how busy and important they are.

Yes, and they are also likely to both "reply all" and forward it to the CEO, the Pope, the Queen and Mum so everybody knows about the rotten milk and their personal hard work in finding the culprit.

All anyone thinks is: 1) your are under-occupied and 2) you can't use email.

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