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

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[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.

[yagagriswold]

Ah! So, it's only three kinds of unprofessional, instead of four. Sheesh.