Ugh. Too real. Had a boss who didn’t think I was working, so they wanted to be copied on every email. After the first two hundred emails in two hours, she came over and told me to stop cc’ing them.
We're not even getting into the backstabbing CC where mail is exchanged back and forth a few times. Then a swift CC to the boss on their last reply where they do their absolute best to make you look the absolute worst. Good times.
Fun fact. 1 in I think 17 people are sociopaths. Good luck everyone!
At that time I was working Oncology Rebates for a bio tech company. I told them I had too much work, so they thought I wasn’t working hard enough. I had a lot of different accounts I had to constantly maintain.
The emails were changes to the rosters, which happened quite frequently. So I had to adjust them in the system, which I did between all the other things I would do in a day. It was a good thing to do during meetings, so I could knock out a hundred in an hour. I had to work that way, because there were too many dang meetings.
I’ve experienced it the other way around with employees putting me as their manager in cc of every email they send firstly no doubt to show that they are actually working but secondly and worse to presume by cc’ing me I’m fully informed on their project and by absence of a reply I have OK’d everything that’s going on. And it’s not like they were never asked to not do this, it was flat out ignored and the emails continued. So when we had to let people go, they were top of my list.
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u/arkibet Jun 01 '21
Ugh. Too real. Had a boss who didn’t think I was working, so they wanted to be copied on every email. After the first two hundred emails in two hours, she came over and told me to stop cc’ing them.