Reply to post: ignored emails

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

Valeyard

ignored emails

We had HR in our big consultancy send out a spreadsheet to everyone.

Naturally everyone's reaction was to delete it because they sent out so much corporate buzzword rubbish everyday it was just noise to us. Until a few minutes later an email recall request came through, so everyone retrieved and opened the spreadsheet which actually contained all the salaries of the local office. Cue lots of comparing and managers flooded with meeting requests

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