I haven't updated in ages, but I need to vent!!
Scenario:
I'm in contact with a networking community via my alumni association. One member asks me to organize the next meeting by contacting the group members via email to schedule the next meeting time. When I ask where the addresses are, he/she advises that I use the Forwards sent through the group and pull the email addresses from the list.
Person A sends a FW about job search related information via the email forward.
Remembering I need to organize the meetings, I pull the email addresses from this list and then draft a polite email asking everyone if they would be interested in rescheduling. NOTE: I WROTE NOTHING ABOUT MEETING TO DISCUSS JOB SEARCHES. I get back this angry response with censored names from Person A. (paraphrased to hide from Google searches):
"How dare you use my contact list to forward this email! I did not want people on this list to get information about my job seeking priorities and I no longer wish to be included in this correspondence. This is the last message you will get from me! Thank you for the help you've given me so far I am no longer interested in receiving anymore and will no longer be participating!"
Naturally, I was shocked. I wrote back a polite response careful to avoid directly apologizing, because I felt that I did nothing wrong:
"I'm sorry if you are upset. I was advised by fellow alumni to use the email addresses from these forwards to organize for the next meeting."
Person A responds back:
"Thank you for your apology good luck blah blah blah."
I'm pissed off. I feel disrespected for something that I do NOT feel was my responsibility. I've gotten emails before where people did not want all of the addresses used and they would NOTE not to use the addresses. In fact, I discovered that I didn't even know WHO this individual was or how they got my contact information, except that they got it through a mutual alumni connection.
I know it's trivial, and I suspect that the triviality of this exchange is what has me pissed off so badly.
Honestly sometimes I could just throw someone through a window. I really wanted to type FUCK YOU in giant caps in the reply! In fact, I'll type it here:
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU YOU'RE A BITCH AND AN ASSHOLE FOR PRESUMING TO SPEAK DOWN TO ME WHEN YOUR BITCHASS SENT THE WRONG FUCKING EMAIL TO SOMEONE YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE AND YOU CAN GO DIAF. BITCH! AND BY THE FUCKING WAY THAT WASN'T AN APOLOGY, THAT WAS A I'M SORRY IF YOU RAN INTO THE RAIL AND THE POST HURT YOU BECAUSE YOU ACTED LIKE A DUMB ASS. NEXT TIME DON'T SEND A MASS FORWARD IN A NETWORKING FUCKING FUNCTION YOU STUPID BITCH.
There, rant over! As you can see the job search has given me a good deal of rage.
I'm in contact with a networking community via my alumni association. One member asks me to organize the next meeting by contacting the group members via email to schedule the next meeting time. When I ask where the addresses are, he/she advises that I use the Forwards sent through the group and pull the email addresses from the list.
Person A sends a FW about job search related information via the email forward.
Remembering I need to organize the meetings, I pull the email addresses from this list and then draft a polite email asking everyone if they would be interested in rescheduling. NOTE: I WROTE NOTHING ABOUT MEETING TO DISCUSS JOB SEARCHES. I get back this angry response with censored names from Person A. (paraphrased to hide from Google searches):
"How dare you use my contact list to forward this email! I did not want people on this list to get information about my job seeking priorities and I no longer wish to be included in this correspondence. This is the last message you will get from me! Thank you for the help you've given me so far I am no longer interested in receiving anymore and will no longer be participating!"
Naturally, I was shocked. I wrote back a polite response careful to avoid directly apologizing, because I felt that I did nothing wrong:
"I'm sorry if you are upset. I was advised by fellow alumni to use the email addresses from these forwards to organize for the next meeting."
Person A responds back:
"Thank you for your apology good luck blah blah blah."
I'm pissed off. I feel disrespected for something that I do NOT feel was my responsibility. I've gotten emails before where people did not want all of the addresses used and they would NOTE not to use the addresses. In fact, I discovered that I didn't even know WHO this individual was or how they got my contact information, except that they got it through a mutual alumni connection.
I know it's trivial, and I suspect that the triviality of this exchange is what has me pissed off so badly.
Honestly sometimes I could just throw someone through a window. I really wanted to type FUCK YOU in giant caps in the reply! In fact, I'll type it here:
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU YOU'RE A BITCH AND AN ASSHOLE FOR PRESUMING TO SPEAK DOWN TO ME WHEN YOUR BITCHASS SENT THE WRONG FUCKING EMAIL TO SOMEONE YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE AND YOU CAN GO DIAF. BITCH! AND BY THE FUCKING WAY THAT WASN'T AN APOLOGY, THAT WAS A I'M SORRY IF YOU RAN INTO THE RAIL AND THE POST HURT YOU BECAUSE YOU ACTED LIKE A DUMB ASS. NEXT TIME DON'T SEND A MASS FORWARD IN A NETWORKING FUCKING FUNCTION YOU STUPID BITCH.
There, rant over! As you can see the job search has given me a good deal of rage.