Why do people click "Reply All"?

Big Battery

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

kellercl

Because people are stupid.  

Soda Popinski

why are people included in an email that do not need to know the response? 

kellercl

Soda Popinski said:

why are people included in an email that do not need to know the response? 

Because people are stupid.

dave44

kellercl said:

Soda Popinski said:

why are people included in an email that do not need to know the response? 

Because people are stupid.

I’m sensing a trend, here?

mplspug

Like when HR sends something and someone replies all **** about a policy

captbonefish

Many an idiot has gotten in big trouble hitting reply all.......

conchydong

I dislike the "group" texts even more. I hate when your phone starts going off with replies, sometimes from numbers that you don't even recognize who it is. 

4WARD

Why do people NOT click reply all?
Especially when it takes 6 phone calls and more private emails to get everyone up to date.

Sorry, soar subject right now. Half our company is too scared to leave the couch. Getting real tired of holding hands and covering for .... I’ll leave it at that.😇

mplspug

I still like the old we just had a 1 hour meeting that could have been one email.

micci_man

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

dave44

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

I feel that way too. They need my approval and it gets the ball rolling through the whole place. It’s also Insurance that everyone knows I want the ball pushed.

AC Man

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say reply all? Nothing that I've come across.

AC Man

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say reply all? Nothing that I've come across.

Tarponator

He's talking about email, AC.

cadman

I assumed they were not familiar with their email program and hit the wrong button, especially the times when the reply was a personal issue and not directed at the group. 

Big Battery

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

Not really.  A sender is asking if everyone is available for a date to hold a meeting... he/she only needs a reply from each person, not a reply all from each person.  The other participants in the email dont need to know your answer. I dont need extra emails from people with their answers to feel important, it just needlessly clogs up the inbox. I dont care what the other answers are, that is the responsibility of the sender to sort that out.

Reply All is SPAM

jcbcpa

Big Battery said:

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

Not really.  A sender is asking if everyone is available for a date to hold a meeting... he/she only needs a reply from each person, not a reply all from each person.  The other participants in the email dont need to know your answer. I dont need extra emails from people with their answers to feel important, it just needlessly clogs up the inbox. I dont care what the other answers are, that is the responsibility of the sender to sort that out.

Yep, what micci said. If I send an e-mail to several people, it's because I want all of those people to know what's going on with a certain job or jobs that's going on and I want them all to know everyone's responses. Did it all day yesterday with a couple of partners and a couple of staff members on one job. 

kellercl

Big Battery said:

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

Not really.  A sender is asking if everyone is available for a date to hold a meeting... 

That is another pet peeve of mine.  Getting an email asking what date/time I am free....  Outlook has a scheduling assistant that will show when people are free and it is really easy to use.  

I also love it when my boss writes an email telling me to schedule a meeting with him,  when it would have been faster for all parties had he just simply scheduled the meeting in the first place.  

And of course you have to combined to two above points.  Being told to schedule a meeting, doing so and using scheduling assistant (e.g. everybody is free), only to be told you picked a time that doesn't work and the person who told you to schedule the meeting hasn't updated his calendar.    

Tarpon65

AC Man said:

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say reply all? Nothing that I've come across.

AC, it is when you receive an email and multiple people are included (CC'ed) in on an email, not just yourself.  If you just hit "Reply", your answer goes only to the person who sent the email, but if you hit "Reply All" then everyone on the email chain sees your reply.  

If someone sends me an email with others included, I assume they want my reply to go to all listed.

micci_man

I hope y'all don't have any real problems come up. 3 homes were destroyed yesterday evening from tornadoes 30 miles from me. I bet they would all rather get extra mail in their inbox vs loosing their homes.  

kellercl

micci_man said:

I hope y'all don't have any real problems come up. 3 homes were destroyed yesterday evening from tornadoes 30 miles from me. I bet they would all rather get extra mail in their inbox vs loosing their homes.  

And yesterday people died of cancer.  I bet they would have rather lost their home than died of cancer.  How dare people complain about losing their house when people died of cancer!!!  

*see how silly your argument is?  The idea that only the very worse off people can complain is stupid.  Complaining, also known as venting, is good for mental health.      

Big Battery

jcbcpa said:

Big Battery said:

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

Not really.  A sender is asking if everyone is available for a date to hold a meeting... he/she only needs a reply from each person, not a reply all from each person.  The other participants in the email dont need to know your answer. I dont need extra emails from people with their answers to feel important, it just needlessly clogs up the inbox. I dont care what the other answers are, that is the responsibility of the sender to sort that out.

Yep, what micci said. If I send an e-mail to several people, it's because I want all of those people to know what's going on with a certain job or jobs that's going on and I want them all to know everyone's responses. Did it all day yesterday with a couple of partners and a couple of staff members on one job. 

Then YOU should indicate in your email for everyone to reply all or the content of YOUR email should indicate that is your expectation. Otherwise, Reply All is just another form of SPAM.

mplspug

I use reply all the time in our department because usually a email with multiple people is a discussion.  Then one day I got a company email from HR and I did a reply all. I had to go back and make sure I didn't swear or have a smart **** comment in it. I did apologize to the HR person because my email sparked other people to reply all. 

Big Mak

I hit reply all, if I bother replying, but not before I add a few other people on my own.

cracker4112

My biggest issue with reply all is with personal email, not business.  Generally in my work reply all is used as a collaborative discussion tool.  Its with the kids teams, classes, parent groups that really irritates me.  For instance, the kids coach says that practice is Tuesday at 10.  I don't need all the responses clogging up my inbox with "little Johnny cant make it", "We will be there", etc.  Only the coach needs to get those responses.  Just annoying, not the end of the world.

jcbcpa

Big Battery said:

jcbcpa said:

Big Battery said:

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

Not really.  A sender is asking if everyone is available for a date to hold a meeting... he/she only needs a reply from each person, not a reply all from each person.  The other participants in the email dont need to know your answer. I dont need extra emails from people with their answers to feel important, it just needlessly clogs up the inbox. I dont care what the other answers are, that is the responsibility of the sender to sort that out.

Yep, what micci said. If I send an e-mail to several people, it's because I want all of those people to know what's going on with a certain job or jobs that's going on and I want them all to know everyone's responses. Did it all day yesterday with a couple of partners and a couple of staff members on one job. 

Then YOU should indicate in your email for everyone to reply all or the content of YOUR email should indicate that is your expectation. Otherwise, Reply All is just another form of SPAM.

No, I really shouldn't. I don't have to, everyone that's included in my e-mail already know that they NEED to be included in all replies. We are swapping information about the jobs we are working on and it's crucial that everybody knows what everybody else is doing. 

pottydoc

micci_man said:

Big Battery said:

On a message meant to only reply to the sender?

Not sure about you but if I get an email that has multiple people included it means everyone was asked/informed and a reply should go out to all included. 

I get multiple person e mails and texts every day. Stuff like “Who needs inspections for tomorrow?” I don’t need to know who else needs inspections, but most of the morons who answer click the reply all option. Because it’s my work phone, I have to look every time it goes off. I hate the reply all option

mplspug

Reply all is the digital equivalent of "Look at me"!

Soda Popinski

i have to reply to all for my job but only people required to read and respond are included.   You have a shipper or a receiver a dispatcher, customer service rep, customer all on one email and everyone needs to know when something will be picked up and delivered.  

jcbcpa

Soda Popinski said:

i have to reply to all for my job but only people required to read and respond are included.   You have a shipper or a receiver a dispatcher, customer service rep, customer all on one email and everyone needs to know when something will be picked up and delivered.  

Exactly, everybody that's included have a part in what's going on and need to be.