Oh and really, I don't care either.
I know trivial campus news goes around, and I'm kind of ok with that. I really don't care that the Mule Deer Backside Fur Textiles Education Certification Program was approved by the Unofficial Association of Mule Deer Backside Fur Clothiers, but if you want to brag on that, fine. Send your "community wide" electronic message, if you must. Let me know, let all of the students, admins, staff and yes, oh yes, even the campus police (swear to God) know. But...
Why the fuck does the whole god damned campus reply-all congratulations and reply-all "ditto" and "this is really great" and "I agree with the guy three messages back who said congratulations" etc? WHY? WHY? I don't care in the first place, I sure as fuck don't care that Visiting Professor of Crushed Milk Carton Art cares, though I do wonder why the fuck he cares. But curiosity is not the same as concern. So STOP FILLING MY FUCKING IN BOX WITH THIS STUPID SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: It's not that I don't care, it's just that I don't care if anyone else cares.
ReplyDelete> Oh and really, I don't care either.
> I know trivial campus news goes around, and
> I'm kind of ok with that. I really don't
> care that the Mule Deer Backside Fur Textiles
> Education Certification Program was approved
> by the Unofficial Association of Mule Deer
> Backside Fur Clothiers, but if you want to
> brag on that, fine. Send your "community
> wide" electronic message, if you must. Let
> me know, let all of the students, admins, staff
> and yes, oh yes, even the campus police (swear
> to God) know. But...
>
> Why the fuck does the whole god damned campus
> reply-all congratulations and reply-all "ditto"
> and "this is really great" and "I agree with
> the guy three messages back who said
> congratulations" etc? WHY? WHY? I don't care
> in the first place, I sure as fuck don't care
> that Visiting Professor of Crushed Milk Carton
> Art cares, though I do wonder why the fuck he
> cares. But curiosity is not the same as
> concern. So STOP FILLING MY FUCKING IN BOX
> WITH THIS STUPID SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Totally agree. This type of group masterbation via email annoys me too.
Ditto Ben.
ReplyDeleteBTW Wombat, great post. Keep up the good work.
Don't forget the guy who responds with "Why am I getting this email announcement? I am not involved with the Mule Deer Fur Textiles Program. Please remove my name from this email list." Then there's a chorus of "Me too!". Intelligence does not automatically eliminate cluelessness.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just you...it's not just your place. Happens in the big government agency where I work outside of the academy too. Also happens at heartless commercial enterprises. It happens so regularly, that the WSJ online wrote a big story about it earlier this year.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely worth reading:
reply all storms
at a previous job (non-academia) the IT folks did something so you could not do a "reply all" to mass emails.
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