The Great 'Reply-All' DWAN Fiasco of 2017

[Vell]

I think it was about 2017 when an innocuous survey on the DWAN lead to an immense reply-all fiasco where everyone from the lowest NCMs to highest officers got tied up in an accidental DWAN-wide reply-all email chain complete with memes, jokes and just a dash of extremely unimpressed (and unusually ignored) very upper leadership.

If anyone still has that chain and is willing to post it here, it would be greatly appreciated. I moved on to civilian IT but the memory of that email chain lives on!

 

[dapaterson]

Cooking classes offered by the NCR Officer's Mess earlier this month enter the chat...

 

[Staff Weenie]

Amateurs - some time in 2006 or 2007, somebody who was retiring in Dec just before the break sent an email out to everyone in the address book noting their enjoyable career and wishing everyone the best. And of course, in full silly season festive mood, everyone hit reply all. Apparently that can really chew up bandwidth and cause Admins to have a stroke.

 

[Navy_Pete]

I love when people do something that results in a change of policy.

Much smaller scale, but MEPM now issues ballcaps due to some rogue ones I got made up for the subsection (with some spares) in my last posting, because they wouldn't make unit ones. Small victory (also the ones I had made looked better).

On the other end, there are people whose actions that resulted in warnings on microwaves about not using it to dry your pets, and people who got to provide input on industrial safety warning stickers after mangling themselves (like the hand getting mangled by gearing).

 

[Haggis]

I recall one in the late 1990's about RV parking at the former CFB Ottawa (Rockcliffe) that went CAF wide just before Christmas.

 

[brihard]

I love a good Reply-allpocalypse.

 

[lenaitch]

It got so bad in some early version of MS Office the OPP deleted the 'reply all' function.

On the other end, there are people whose actions that resulted in warnings on microwaves about not using it to dry your pets, and people who got to provide input on industrial safety warning stickers after mangling themselves (like the hand getting mangled by gearing).

 

[RangerRay]

Reminds when I worked for a provincial ministry in northern BC in the early 2000’s, and at least once every couple of months, some numpty in HQ in Victoria would send a ministry-wide email announcing TimBits in the break room, or that the new Victoria bus schedules were out, or something else only of interest who worked at HQ. Usually a few dozen sarcastic reply alls from the Interior would pour in, heaping scorn and derision upon said numpty. But a few months later, some other numpty in Victoria send out another ministry-wide email about something only of interest to others working in HQ…

 

[RedFive]

I remember a E Division wide email inviting all E Div HQ members to go home early to enjoy Christmas break with their families, delivered straight to my police car screen as I slung calls for service over the Christmas break... I think that was 2019.

 

[Baz]

Saw an E-Mail chain at Cheyenne Mountain where all the very senior types argued back and forth about something for quite a bit, and then when they made their decision just forwarded the whole chain to either the entity crew force or the entire station (can’t remember which).

Always interesting when the Airmen see the decision making processes of the Generals.

 

[Kilted]

Saw an E-Mail chain at Cheyenne Mountain where all the very senior types argued back and forth about something for quite a bit, and then when they made their decision just forwarded the whole chain to either the entity crew force or the entire station (can’t remember which).

Always interesting when the Airmen see the decision making processes of the Generals.

I thought that they would be more careful when talking about the Stargate.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Reminds when I worked for a provincial ministry in northern BC in the early 2000’s, and at least once every couple of months, some numpty in HQ in Victoria would send a ministry-wide email announcing TimBits in the break room, or that the new Victoria bus schedules were out, or something else only of interest who worked at HQ. Usually a few dozen sarcastic reply alls from the Interior would pour in, heaping scorn and derision upon said numpty. But a few months later, some other numpty in Victoria send out another ministry-wide email about something only of interest to others working in HQ…

Saw that in DFO, some email about yoga session, where a Fish Cop in some distant place, told them that they should be #@$@ doing their jobs, rather than yoga on company time, with the Karen responding in full Karen mode about how hard things are at HQ and back and forth, all of it using "reply all". With some remarks from the peanut gallery and people replying to all to tell them not to reply to all. Until the Regional Directer stepped in with a cease and desist. Twas glorious, I quietly cheered the Fish Cop, as most of the DFO HQ was useless.