The office 'scolding email' thread

[QueenOfGoths]

To add authenticity I am posting this from the very toilets in question. However I all not the culprit. I just hover and make the seat wet

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

That person has serious fucking issues going on.

I mean, do they not know that you end a question with a question mark?

 

[cybershot]

Nice to see The Sun ignoring people's wishes:


At least he got them back

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Corax]

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I don't get it

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't get it

people have been having a laugh with the work credit card and now the card's keeper is tracking people down

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Not much of a laugh though. This is my work Amex:






Giggles all day long...

 

[Corax]

people have been having a laugh with the work credit card and now the card's keeper is tracking people down

Ah, right. Not knowing what your company is/does, I didn't realise that was necessarily piss-taking expenditure.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ah, right. Not knowing what your company is/does, I didn't realise that was necessarily piss-taking expenditure.

 

[kabbes]

Not much of a laugh though. This is my work Amex:

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Giggles all day long...

Transcorp Hilton Abuja Abuja have charged you twice for the same stay there.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Transcorp Hilton Abuja Abuja have charged you twice for the same stay there.

Two nights, plus a third as meetings over ran. But thanks for spotting, you can be hired to do my reconciliation once you give up your life in the city...

 

[little_legs]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

If you can't steal other people's drinks, whose drinks are you going to steal, can't steal your own drinks? They haven't thought this through at all.

 

[Corax]

If you can't steal other people's drinks, whose drinks are you going to steal, can't steal your own drinks? They haven't thought this through at all.

Perhaps the fridge is also used to store drinks that chimpanzees have foraged from the land. In which case, legally speaking animals cannot own property, so it could be argued that those drinks do not belong to any person, and so are fair game.

But in which case, it wouldn't really be theft, so we're back where we came in.

I think this deserves a lengthy thread from @BarristerSecret

 

[Corax]

 

[Badgers]

 

[killer b]

I guess someone ended up with shitty fingers.

 

[mrs quoad]

Our Year Dinner is a week tomorrow, which means that there are only 8 days left for us to raise enough money for The 2007 Bursary!

...

What’s more, a member of the 1987 year group has kindly agreed to match-fund the first £6,000 we raise, meaning that your gift could be as much as doubled at no further cost to you!

...

There’s going to be a bit of friendly competition with the 1977 year group too, who will be dining on the same night as us. The year with the highest participation (i.e. percentage of people giving to the College) will win an additional glass of champagne each. The 1977 year may be able to afford to make bigger gifts than most of us, but we are sure that we can win when it comes to how many of us give something - every gift counts, no matter the size!

 

[Orang Utan]

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[equationgirl]

I ignore alumni spam too mrs quoad

 

[strung out]

I'm copying below a chain of messages that was sent out in error to a mailing list for all 1,000+ lecturers/tutors at the university:

Please could you change the staff lists for these 3 modules as follows:


1) UPNQ4J-30-1_17sep_1: UPNQ4J-30-1
Remove the following: Jeff XXX; Harriet XXX; Bushra XXX; Jeanette XXX;


2) ]UPNQ4L-30-1_17sep_1: UPNQ4L-30-1
Remove the following: Kate XXX; Kate XXX;Jeanette XXX;


3) UPNQ9P-30-3_17sep_1: UPNQ9P-30-3
Remove the following: Mashael XXX; Jeanette XXX;

Thanks for this.

Best Regards

Jonathan

Hi,

I am not entirely sure why I received this email. Could someone offer an explanation and remove me from a mailing list.

Thank you,

Aida

Yes Aida

It would appear that Jonathan accidentally used the wrong email address when writing to Blackboard and emailed every tutor attached to blackboard (+1000). Easy thing to do I guess.

Ben W

Hello,

Can I also be removed from the mailing list and the modules.

Many thanks,

Alisha

Please remove me as well

Thanks

And me.

Ben

this is not an anomaly, it is a feature…

Please can you not reply all!

Hi,

Can anyone in the list please avoid to reply all or we will be inundated with 1,000 emails. Thank you

I'm bucking the trend here, but I think this list is fascinating - please don't delete me from it!

With appologies to the 1000+ other colleagues receiving this.

If anyone has any questions about blackboard emails please try emailing, Blackboard Support [email protected], rather than the group “Blackboard_Tutors” (don’t “Reply All”).

Thanks and best wishes, (and welcome back from holiday to my academic colleagues),

Barney

All these replies are filling my inbox up and ive only got a little one. Please reply ndirect to the sender. Thankyou, Dan

Dan,

I like your style!

How people respond to these things is great indicator of character!

Nick

PS : This is my one and only contribution to this fascinating exchange….I shall just carry on deleting!

Dear all,

Just to be clear for the benefit of all those requesting to be removed from the BB-tutors list, it is not an email list but a necessary feature of Blackboard. Jonathan should simply have emailed his staff list query to his faculty SAT team and not this address as this is the procedure for changing staff on Blackboard modules.

It is not usual for the BB-tutors address to be necessary for anyone to use so provided everyone stops replying to all, or even just to the BB-tutors one alone it should never happen again.

I hope this helps everyone and ends the circular.

Best wishes,

Chris

Hahaha I never reply but it is getting interesting. I wonder why I’m in the blackboard tutors list

Can people please stop replying to all

Steve

Round of applause for Steve! (hopefully this will be the last of it)

Hi All

Apologies for replying to all but... could you please direct any further correspondence to [email protected] not [email protected]. There are 2 Phil XXXXX's at XXXXX and we often get confused for each other via email - unfortunately I can be of no help to you at this particular moment.

I have forwarded on your emails to the most helpful of the Phil's and have copied him in for further reference.

Good luck;

Phil XXXXX (the other one)

So let me get this right, we are NOT supposed to reply to all.

Ok, got it.

With regard to the Phil dilemma, how do we distinguished the helpful one from the other one?

Can people please stop replying to this message chain!!!

Hi

I am nothing to do with this course list please remove me

Roz

Hi there,
I am currently a PhD student at XXXXX and not tutoring anymore. Could I please be removed from this list?
Thanks and have a nice day,
Angeliki

Hi,

Please remove my name from this mailing list.

Regards,

Jianxiang

STOP REPLYING!!!!!!

Hi, I hear there’s an exciting new Social Networking Experiment known as “RE: Course Lists – Staff” does anyone know how I can get involved?

Sorry, you're not invited.

Whatever you do, please do NOT remove me from this mailing list.

It's too much fun.

all best to at least 1000 people.

Phil

 

[dervish]

I'm getting looks from colleagues for giggling at my desk now.

That's excellent.

 

[kabbes]

Have people never heard of the "ignore conversation" feature? Good grief.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[strung out]

Someone's just made the same mistake and it's started again:

hello!

i don't know if you are the right people to ask but...

i am trying to find the photos of the current students in blackboard.

i can't find them anywhere - any ideas?


thanks for your help.


luis. - animation.

I doubt I am Luis. E-mail blackboard support, they will help you out

Best

Tim

Can we try and keep this reply-all thread running a bit longer than the last one? I was disappointed when it faded out.

But then everyone needs to do their part.

what a genius!

please all ignore my previous e mail.

a rookie mistake - thinking "BLACKBOARD TUTORS" meant those folks who teach blackboard.

NOT EVERYONE IN THE UNIVERSITY!

So apologies everyone - feel free to point and laugh at me if we cross paths.

i will be wearing my idiot t shirt and bowing my head in shame.

l.

I shan't be accused of shirking my responsibilities!

How is everyone's day going?

It’s good to be back!

I was getting lonely.

Best to all

Phil

Luis,

I’m leaving XXXX on Friday, so my opportunities for mocking you will be limited I’m afraid.

However rest assured that in the interests of making myself feel extra smug and self-satisfied, I would have participated in this with some glee!

As it is, I shall just have to stay at my current level of smugness and self-satisfaction.

I’m bowing out now before the tsunami of “Stop replying to this e-mail” e-mails start to fill up my in-box!

Thanks for all the good times and the memories.

Nick

Everyone does it at least once...some are slower learners so may do it for a second time!! Not naming names of course.

Welcome to XXXXX

PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIFE!

 

[cupid_stunt]

PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM THIS LIFE!

 

[Schmetterling]

Someone's just made the same mistake and it's started again:

That 'someone' was you, wasn't it?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Not so passive-aggressive frowny smiley action

 

[Badgers]

I think I might print that out and put it on the fridge at work just to cause problems here

 

[Pickman's model]