Email

[Gothicnightmare]

Very busy period at work, got email from colleague asking if I could do X thing, I replied and politely said I don't have time and could he ask (other colleague) to do it.

Next thing I get a reply to that but it was from MY manager! Anyway, it took a few seconds for me to realize, he must have blind cc'd my boss and that's why she replied to me... Felt quite WTF and annoyed about it, quickly followed by a feeling that they don't trust me and paranoia that perhaps this is maybe a "thing" and what other emails has my boss (or someone else) been copied in on without my knowledge?! Not that I send anything bad/dodgy but really, secretly copying in my boss on a regular work email?

Anyone else experienced this? I've worked there for years and this is the first time I've come across this, It left a nasty feeling in my mouth.

Maybe they had forwarded it?

At least you were polite

I did wonder that, but there was no FW on the previous email and I can't see my boss wasting time to edit it to look like it wasn't forwarded.

BCC only works once - the BCC doesn't go to the other recipients (or it wouldn't be blind!), so your reply was not BCC'd to your boss.

Your colleague has manually forwarded your response to your boss. This is entirely normal for the situation, I'd say - he's asked, you've said "no time", he's bounced it to your boss to ask if she can rearrange your priorities because he think's it's necessary, she's come back to you. Some mail apps (Apple Mail for example) have 'redirect' which is like forward without the FWD: and the extra text.

Do with this information what you will, but you're way overthinking the situation. All you needed to do was demonstrate how overloaded you were and your boss would either ask you to carry on, or shunt stuff to later and do your colleague's request. Part of her job is to prioritise your workload.

Agree with SpoonBlender. X sends an email to Y with a BCC to Z. When Y replies their reply will go to X. It will not go to Z. Your colleague has forwarded your email to your boss.

I understand now, thanks for explaining.