(01-30-2018 10:43 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I lead a team of four engineers. Every week I ask for a status report because I have to put one together.

They are like 15 minutes of work which, yes, we all hate. But at the end of the day I get why people three levels above me need teams to roll up the status of our infrastructure.

So yesterday I have someone mail me, my boss, my bosses boss, my bosses bosses boss, and yes my bosses bosses bosses boss a note saying how hard the reports are too much, suck up too much time, and should be every other week.

That's right.... He sent a note up the chain of command all the way to the C-level over a 15 minute status report.

You reminded me of another gear-grinder I have. People that reply to an email that is not asking for a response with a "Reply to All".

I work in a large health care system that employees 35,000 people. We are also faith-based. On Veteran's Day one day one of the nuns sent out a company-wide email to honor veterans. At least 150 people responded with a "thanks" or "me too" to everyone in the system. We then got another 75 or so people telling people to stop hitting "reply to all". We then got another 40-50 "sorry about that's" or "my bad's".