Paul Reids Sock
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Yep, in Marlow
A very good company to work for and love it. But this has made me take a look at the people around me and see them in a totally different light
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Bell Cheeses at work
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Yep, in Marlow
A very good company to work for and love it. But this has made me take a look at the people around me and see them in a totally different light
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
- 21,052
You poor *******
although saying that talk of Christmas decorations began today.Thankfully I'm bunging the Christmas do in for Leeds at home.
He's been watching too much Mad Men and wants to be Don Draper. If he'd had whiskey in the glass then he might have got away with it. As it is, MASSIVE bell cheese.Wow, I'm torn.
On the one hand, that is obvious weapons-grade bellcheesery. On the other hand, it's so far off the scale that it might actually have swung round to impressive.
Edit: delighted to have got my 5,000th post in the bag on my favourite all-time NSC thread
St Leonards Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2012
- 546
Around 95% of the ones I saw included
"Please remove me from this email".
The other 5% were asking for people to stop replying.
Considering there were hundreds probably thousands of them It went on for quite a while.
Myself I just left it well alone, imagining some poor person somewhere who had accidentally sent an email to pretty much everyone in the NHS, it will be quite interesting if they find out where the original email came from.
Between the 2 of you, you have pretty much summed it up though.
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
You could always a Canadian Trump appreciation society, that'll shut the annoying twonks up.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,830
I worked for a big consultancy firm once, and one of the team in India sent a mail to 'everyone' about a charity cricket match. I think it went to around 55,000 staff. Basically nobody could use their email for a week due to the ridiculous number of 'reply to all' messages - with the two standard responses. The thing I liked the most was that after the dust had settled and we'd all deleted the several thousand messages we'd received, some imbeciles returned from holiday and kicked it all off again.
"What is this? I've got 2,000 messages from this. Please delete me from this thread"
"STOP SENDING ME THESE EMAILS."
"Please remove me as well"
"EVERYONE - stop replying to all"
"please remove me from email"
Etc.
Ninja Elephant
Doctor Elephant
- Feb 16, 2009
- 18,855
It's funny you say that, I had something very similar and before too long we were getting angry reply alls from Directors and Vice President's kicking off about the chain.
One of them sent a scolding response about the irresponsibility of it, and how unprofessional all the all-responders were, and then closed the email by adding, "Whilst on the subject, please also remove me from the distribution list." It was a moment of sheer class.
Superb.
Nowhere near the same level but my boss just committed minor email bellcheesery. I handed in my notice last week and was told not to tell anyone until my client had been informed, which they still haven't as we're working on handover plans. Unfortunately he replied to one of my emails about this plan copying in one of the nosiest developers in the company. LITERALLY two minutes later I get an instant message from said developer which said "are you leaving then?" 
Talking of notice what's the form here chaps. I've potentially got three months to serve. Obviously a true bell cheese would SWEEP DRAMATICALLY through the office, telling EVERYONE and making sure everyone knew how much the company would MISS them. I'm not doing that. But do you sit back and take it easy, giving your non-bellcheese colleagues more to do? Or try even harder in an effort to get everything professionally wrapped up, thus making you look like the kid who's trying too hard and also making everyone wonder why you're packing it in? The fact I'm on NSC at the moment should tell you my current approach.
Talking of notice what's the form here chaps. I've potentially got three months to serve. Obviously a true bell cheese would SWEEP DRAMATICALLY through the office, telling EVERYONE and making sure everyone knew how much the company would MISS them. I'm not doing that. But do you sit back and take it easy, giving your non-bellcheese colleagues more to do? Or try even harder in an effort to get everything professionally wrapped up, thus making you look like the kid who's trying too hard and also making everyone wonder why you're packing it in? The fact I'm on NSC at the moment should tell you my current approach.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,830
That is genius! When I'm the top rat I will get one of these kicked off and then keep a blacklist of anybody that replies - no promotions, pay rises or bonuses for them. And they certainly aren't getting that prize vaunted above all others, that lofty grail that we all strive after... 'Employee of the month'. Also know as the 'person who wants to leave so we will give them a hollow award in a vain attempt to sway them award'
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,830
Ooooh. Did you get employee of the month last month? Hmmm? Did you?
I'm shirking from home today. So I can reply instead of just read
With regards to your predicament, I assume you are permanent, given your notice period - therefore I wouldn't worry all that much about doing the absolute best you can do - the onus is on the people you are handing over to, to ensure that they are happy with everything. And since no matter what you do, you are the scapegoat for at least two months after you've gone it seems silly to work tooo hard.
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Nowhere near the same level but my boss just committed minor email bellcheesery. I handed in my notice last week and was told not to tell anyone until my client had been informed, which they still haven't as we're working on handover plans. Unfortunately he replied to one of my emails about this plan copying in one of the nosiest developers in the company. LITERALLY two minutes later I get an instant message from said developer which said "are you leaving then?"
Talking of notice what's the form here chaps. I've potentially got three months to serve. Obviously a true bell cheese would SWEEP DRAMATICALLY through the office, telling EVERYONE and making sure everyone knew how much the company would MISS them. I'm not doing that. But do you sit back and take it easy, giving your non-bellcheese colleagues more to do? Or try even harder in an effort to get everything professionally wrapped up, thus making you look like the kid who's trying too hard and also making everyone wonder why you're packing it in? The fact I'm on NSC at the moment should tell you my current approach.
Get stuck in to the stationary cupboard, stock up for the future.
Also, email all your colleagues asking them for their customer's details; at worst you'll have a load of useless info, at best you get to spend your paid notice period on gardening leave.
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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This, all day every day.
It is GUARANTEED that some shit will happen a week after you leave that will be blamed on you simply because you're not there, regardless of a) any effort you made to handover and b) whether you even worked on it in the first place.
**** em.
Uncle Buck
Ghost Writer
- Jul 7, 2003
- 28,071
Nowhere near the same level but my boss just committed minor email bellcheesery. I handed in my notice last week and was told not to tell anyone until my client had been informed, which they still haven't as we're working on handover plans. Unfortunately he replied to one of my emails about this plan copying in one of the nosiest developers in the company. LITERALLY two minutes later I get an instant message from said developer which said "are you leaving then?"
Talking of notice what's the form here chaps. I've potentially got three months to serve. Obviously a true bell cheese would SWEEP DRAMATICALLY through the office, telling EVERYONE and making sure everyone knew how much the company would MISS them. I'm not doing that. But do you sit back and take it easy, giving your non-bellcheese colleagues more to do? Or try even harder in an effort to get everything professionally wrapped up, thus making you look like the kid who's trying too hard and also making everyone wonder why you're packing it in? The fact I'm on NSC at the moment should tell you my current approach.
With anything other than 4 weeks notice, disruptive is the way forward, so you get sent home and are available for any questions that may come up.
1. Be massively contentious for a few days.
2. They'll expect you to be cruising, so will view this with distrust.
3. You'll be sent home on gardening leave.
4. Play golf*
*other leisure time activities are available.
I knew I could trust you guys 
Our IT department seemed unable to provide an auto out of office response for my use. So I used a feature from the email client instead. I receive hundreds of mails per day usually auto filtered off into appropriate folders so I knew this may have consequences which should then hopefully force the hands of the IT staff in future. What I didn't realise was that one of our suppliers was in a similar position and was also on vacation. Between us our auto answers worked, but only very basically. Instead of recognising that an autoresponse had already been sent to address X or Y and so ignoring it from then on, both clients continued to bombard each other for days on end!
What this actually created was a maelstrom of auto answers over a two week period, resulting in the head of IT picking up all the loose emails into his inbox as two auto answers kept responding to each other at addresses including 'donotreply@blahblah.com'. Over the 2 week period the IT head received many 1000's of emails but could/did not turn them off as he did not know how I had set up the feature on the client, needless to say this problem did not arise a second time!
Ooooh. Did you get employee of the month last month? Hmmm? Did you?
I'm shirking from home today. So I can reply instead of just read
With regards to your predicament, I assume you are permanent, given your notice period - therefore I wouldn't worry all that much about doing the absolute best you can do - the onus is on the people you are handing over to, to ensure that they are happy with everything. And since no matter what you do, you are the scapegoat for at least two months after you've gone it seems silly to work tooo hard.
Sadly no. My toilet wall could have done with a plaque too.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
- 2,830
YOU!
Did you work in the head office at Cannons Health & Fitness about a decade ago? A very similar thing happened whilst I was there, someone went on holiday and had set some client-side rule up to move emails into folders and then forward to their Hotmail account. Their Hotmail account had reached it's 10mb limit, so an unreceived message was sent back from Microsoft, which was then moved and sent back to the Hotmail account. For your info, a fight between Cannons Health & Fitness mail server and the Microsoft Hotmail mail towers of doom lasts less than 10 seconds. Our mail server came crashing down, every time we got it up again it fell over before we could work out the issue. Was a painful Sunday evening, thanks for setting that rule up just before your flight, you bellcheese