Rant

In a group, it makes sense. You want to get someone’s attention in a sea of others all messaging back and forth and make sure they know you’re talking to them, in particular.

But when it’s just you and me…WHY ARE YOU TAGGING ME?! This is a chat with just you and me. There is zero reason to, in effect, yell to call out to me to get my attention.

Yeah and that was how my weekend went.

Hey @you! Yeah, you! What are your plans for this upcoming week?

And I blame companies like Microsoft for enabling this. Why is this even a feature in an individual chat? Who realistically would use this in a meaningful way?

On the help desk, it’s always this one team that does this. I am messaging you already from the help desk email. Why does my direct email need to be CC’d as well? I am clearly getting the emails from you as I am responding back to you, aren’t I? I remove my email from the list and these fucking morons add it back. It was removed for a reason. Leave it off! I don’t need your duplicate emails. This guy went above and beyond today by figuring out it was me because I intentionally left my name off knowing how he is. But these are the same people who think they need to CC every fucking person they’ve ever talked to on a ticket about them needing their password reset…I am not kidding. There are 15 people CC’d on this ticket he submitted.

And he’s supposed to be an engineer……….