Copying managers in on emails
May. 6th, 2004 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueI've just had a stinking weasel respond to a tentive query.
I was looking along the lines of 'is there any point in us upgrading your computation servers'.
And his response?
"we pay x per year for Unix. If you need to upgrade the hardware then great.....but at your cost not ours!"
Copied to my manager.
Now is it just me who thinks that this is a stinking weasel tactic? I find it take remarkably pot shots at someone, and copy it to someone else in the department.
Now all fair enough. If there's a discussion going on, that several people are a party to, a conversation that need to be kept up to date, then fine.
But .. I dunno, just replying with a snotty response, and copying it to senior management just strikes me as remarkably irritating.
Especially when the initial message was a 'what would your reaction be to...'.
Bah. Users. Can't put up with them, can't just go postal, get the AEG out of your car boot and chase them around the office screaming "you're a bunch of bloody buggering shits" whilst taking pot shots at them with a BB gun.
I was looking along the lines of 'is there any point in us upgrading your computation servers'.
And his response?
"we pay x per year for Unix. If you need to upgrade the hardware then great.....but at your cost not ours!"
Copied to my manager.
Now is it just me who thinks that this is a stinking weasel tactic? I find it take remarkably pot shots at someone, and copy it to someone else in the department.
Now all fair enough. If there's a discussion going on, that several people are a party to, a conversation that need to be kept up to date, then fine.
But .. I dunno, just replying with a snotty response, and copying it to senior management just strikes me as remarkably irritating.
Especially when the initial message was a 'what would your reaction be to...'.
Bah. Users. Can't put up with them, can't just go postal, get the AEG out of your car boot and chase them around the office screaming "you're a bunch of bloody buggering shits" whilst taking pot shots at them with a BB gun.
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oh yes you can
Date: 2004-05-06 05:52 am (UTC)I think you could you know. You could refer to it as tech support customer service interface hadware with a rapid comunication capability and a point and click interface.
You could up grade their systenm to a logartihmic based processer with sliding scale algorythms and a low friction user interface (a slide rule).
If your message was included in the reply then well it wont be you who looks silly anyway. Person X has just sent a message which could easily be translated as "Hi im a wanker whos harassing you staff and waisting your time"
If he/she/it didnt sent on the original message to you manager.