I work in the development department for a tiny city that’s an enclave for the super-rich. There’s literally no house in city who’s residents aren’t multi-millionaires, and we have multiple very high-profile billionaires. We have city codes for servant’s quarters, and all of us have been confronted by private security forces when making our rounds around town.
Our codes are strict, and our residents entitled, which is an unholy combination.
I track everything, always. It’s beautiful when a billionaire’s lawyer shows up at Council demanding that we’re the problem, and I can pull up logs showing that the contractor they hired to build the 20-million dollar house hasn’t logged into the permitting portal since the initial application was made 8 months earlier, along with the 30 emails we’ve sent the contractor, engineers, architect, homeowner, and the lawyer that’s currently yelling at Council.
One of my most satisfying moments was when my manager’s manager asked me, over a highly populated slack channel, why I had installed an unreviewed external plugin with 6K+ lines of code, to deliver on a simple requirement.
I replied with “?”, and a print screen from the logs showing he had installed that plugin a few months back. “I used what was available”.
My most satisfying email was when some project manager at the business partner company asked me why I wasn’t in a teams meeting to let their team test their software on our machine. This was an email basically everyone in both companies was on. My boss, his boss, that guy’s boss, all the way up the ceo, and her boss and her boss’ boss, etc.
I replied all with screenshots and an email that basically read “hey, you kicked me out of this meeting now twice. I can’t be there if I’ve been removed”.
I got an email back a minute later where she only replied to me with a sheepish “no i didn’t”
Man people that tag the entire chain of command just to complain about a childish non-issue infuriate me
That entire company was like that. Any minor issue, misunderstanding on their end only, or just their own wild incompetence on display always had both companies entire chain of commands on the email list.
I have a long list of complants about this publicly traded company’s dangerous incompetencies.
Personal story:
- Company: you’re fired because you suck and we may sue your ass.
- Me: forwarding all the illegal shit of that company to CEO+HR+managers because I saved it in my personal email and ending with “my friend is a lawyer, I can call him anytime.”
Fun times. Save your emails, especially the bad ones.
Sending company info to a personal email seems like it would be illegal
When I was younger I used to work at a big bank under a team of advisors. I was the main associate for our group, but also lended backup assistance to two other groups. I had a situation where an FA - not the one I worked for - needed me to do a few tasks for him when his assistant was out; nothing crazy time-sensitive. The main way we communicated was through chat/email, and he would get upset when I prioritized my own group’s clients, regularly becoming verbally aggressive.
One day he decided to threaten me with calling HR, so I turned it around on him and replied “Let’s. I’m sure they’d be really curious to know why you think it’s acceptable to talk to me this way.” That one interaction changed his tune quick (apparently he’d already gotten complaints).
Don’t let the older generations bully you in the office. If you’re good at your job, do things by the book, and have receipts, threats are empty.
Do or do not, there is no making actionable threats
I was young and didn’t want to waste my time. I got my paycheck quicker that way with a bonus for being an annoying bastard.
Sometimes it’s not worth going through the courts when you can make it obvious that you’re going to make it more costly than them just rolling over and giving you your money.
Now, that’s not to say that you don’t give those emails to the proper regulation authority afterwards as well, because they still need to stop doing illegal shit.
Working in IT, you learn CYA very fast.
Indeed, nothing quite as cathartic as going “No, U!” and proving it with an email forward.
“No, U!”
That’s clearly unprofessional.
You should write, ‘As I already mentioned in the following email’ if you’re feeling smug. It feels good to type that on a mechanical keyboard.
Or just ‘FYI’ if you’re pissed off.
And you can label FYI to mean ‘fuck you, idiot’.
You should write, ‘As I already mentioned in the following email’ if you’re feeling smug. It feels good to type that on a mechanical keyboard.
I’ve always been partial to the “bitch, can you not read” variant, “As per my previous email”, with a few "see below"s and highlights where necessary in the original email. Tends to get them on the right track. Especially if they were stupid enough to CC half of the management chain for either of you.
My favorite was the day the office golden child tried that because he was feeling froggy (he also didn’t like me because I didn’t put up with his office shenanigans), and he got a “we will discuss this offline” from his direct manager after one of those with plenty of documentation that the fucker was just sandbagging. Asshole was smart enough to never try that shit with me again though!
Not quite the same, but the change in acronym is similar. I have time blocked every Monday morning for FOPFU. Fix Other People’s Fuck Ups.
If you like that, I’m a mail server admin for ~75 companies. I can not only forward a copy of what I sent them, but I can show them that their mail server received it, what folder it was delivered to, with exact time stamps.
“That’s the wrong email, my email is xxxxx@xxxxx . com”
I have a client that just did this to me TWICE. Texts me days later like “why aren’t you replying to my email??”
