Read twice, send once

[in_parentheses]

From a vendor's sales rep, after a very polite email from me requesting more information about a product:

Yea,
I have had a lot of issues and communiqué today so ole Sam will have to be a little more patience.
I will get to him later today.

This was followed by automated "Recall! Recall!" messages, but it was too late because that's not how the

Comments

[ruthling]

sounds like a distracted blackberry user. people can't multitask, and yet they think they can!

[imminently]

Yeah, I read something a while ago about the myth of multitasking. Nobody does two things literally at once, you're doing one thing, then the other, then the first thing, then the other, back forth really fast. Neither gets done well, most of the time.

[cnoocy]

Him?

[in_parentheses]

Oh, that happens all the time. It's not an unreasonable assumption -- my gender-neutral name is more often male than female. I enjoy the surprise when people talk to me on the phone for the first time. :)

[yagagriswold]

Yes, but if this was sent to you, shouldn't it be "you"?

[in_parentheses]

No, that's the point -- that email clearly wasn't meant to be sent to me. He's not so crappy a sales rep that he *meant* me to read such an unprofessional email! He replied-all to an email that included his boss, another sales rep, etc.... it just happened to include me as well.

[marginaliana]

Yikes! I had a coworker do this once with an email that was meant to go to me and ended up going to the attorney in question instead. Luckily it was fairly harmless.

[martini_corona]

For some reason I find the "Yea" the funniest.

Yea and VERILY I shall sayeth to this Sam: PATIENCE UNTO YOU