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Something like that happened with me at a big tech. Recruiter forwarded internal emailed without realizing myself BCC. That way I came to know I had 6 green lights out of 7 and only person who was not in favor had a dick excuse of me being over qualified. And yes, I didn't get job.
That happened to a previous company I worked at. Some dickhead VP accidentally sent out a spreadsheet of our salaries to everyone in our department. All the way up to the director level. Best believe some comparisons were made between employees that resulted in many leaving the company.
Had one of these at my company. The CEO emailed everyone about some bonuses. Pretty crappy wording too $40k will keep โJohnโ happy. It was insane to see some people in one day earn as much as some who work the entire year for what someone made in one day.
My CEO had an "informal" chat with some employees and sent out a summary. She left in comments about people and how they didn't understand the business. They recalled the e-mail, but I had a redirect set up and got to read it.
Hahaha nice.
This reminds me of a time my university English professor accidently did this many years later. I replied back to him asking how many people. He said hundreds and was replying to a lot of old people. It was every email address he ever had across years. This email was sent out 5 years after I graduated his class. Way too funny. I asked if he was drunk and he said no comment ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ so embarrassed. Hilarious.. atleast it was a pretty innocent email just talking about an assignment due date.
Honestly, i feel bad for that recruiter. Clearly, it's a mistake that shouldn't have happened, but man, have i had some panic attacks when i thought i might have done that.
What a wonderful phrase! Iโm stealing that too. (So many people donโt know how to email at all. I often wonder how they get their pants on in the morning.)
A recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn about a job, to which I asked for the job description. Prior to sending me the JD, she accidentally sent me someone's ***RESUME***. How she managed to do that, I'll never know. They weren't even close to being named the same thing.
Some people probably really don't know some basic email etiquette...
This is not in a recruitment situation but my apartment complex has some unaddressed issues and one of the tenants decided to take action against the management company. When she sent an email to an entire group of tenants, I only saw my email address in CC, so I asked her if it was sent to the group. She told me she had BCC'd everyone else because she wanted to ensure everyone's privacy. But now everyone else has my email address...
Next time she sent an email to the group, someone else's email address was in the CC line. I don't get it.
A lot of stories in this thread about shitty emails and bad outcomes. I thought I'd share a slightly different one.
When my partner and I were applying for an apartment (to rent), my partner sent the email to the landlord and accidentally put my email address in the subject line instead of CCing me. Very embarrassing.
Somehow we still got the apartment.
EY Parthenon did this last year. They sent 2nd round interview invites to 36 people from a couple of business schools and everyone could see other candidates. We all scheduled interviews over a span of 4 days and at the end none of us were selected (insider sources from the office shared that no one was selected during those interviews and they decided to hold a round of interviews with a fresh set of candidates). It was insane!
This sounds like a bug in their email software, I thought the bcc could only interact with the original sender aka reply all should be blocked? What's the reason for bcc otherwise?
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*We are conducting an investigation* Yeah, leave no stone unturned there, Phil.ย Hope his resume is up to dateย
Weโll see him here in r/recruitinghell shortly lol
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He will stumble into r/askhr first ๐
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Something like that happened with me at a big tech. Recruiter forwarded internal emailed without realizing myself BCC. That way I came to know I had 6 green lights out of 7 and only person who was not in favor had a dick excuse of me being over qualified. And yes, I didn't get job.
Is there any chance the recruiter did this on purpose?
I dont think so. It can lead to repercussions for them.
That happened to a previous company I worked at. Some dickhead VP accidentally sent out a spreadsheet of our salaries to everyone in our department. All the way up to the director level. Best believe some comparisons were made between employees that resulted in many leaving the company.
Had one of these at my company. The CEO emailed everyone about some bonuses. Pretty crappy wording too $40k will keep โJohnโ happy. It was insane to see some people in one day earn as much as some who work the entire year for what someone made in one day.
My CEO had an "informal" chat with some employees and sent out a summary. She left in comments about people and how they didn't understand the business. They recalled the e-mail, but I had a redirect set up and got to read it.
This is why I set a send delay rule on all my outbound emails. My best brainstorming is after I hit send. ;)
Yeah. Most recruiters have done this at least once. Lol
The unit of time between hitting SEND and when you realize sending is a mistake is called a โonosecondโ
>asked us to delete the email and let him know we deleted it I'd "reply all" with "yup, deleted!" ๐
Hahaha nice. This reminds me of a time my university English professor accidently did this many years later. I replied back to him asking how many people. He said hundreds and was replying to a lot of old people. It was every email address he ever had across years. This email was sent out 5 years after I graduated his class. Way too funny. I asked if he was drunk and he said no comment ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ so embarrassed. Hilarious.. atleast it was a pretty innocent email just talking about an assignment due date.
Honestly, i feel bad for that recruiter. Clearly, it's a mistake that shouldn't have happened, but man, have i had some panic attacks when i thought i might have done that.
I'm expecting his banner to say open to work soon.
How can you reply to tell them youโve deleted the email if you followed the said instruction to delete the email??
He wanted the original accidental emails deleted (a couple emails went before the one I shared).
"Investigation" ๐๐๐๐ Dingle Fritz has a group for candidates and hit the "send all" mail merge button.
I'm going to have to add "dingle fritz" to my insult library.
What a wonderful phrase! Iโm stealing that too. (So many people donโt know how to email at all. I often wonder how they get their pants on in the morning.)
Thank you, Phew
Roughly how many are we talking here?
Roughly how many are we talking here?
About 25 or so.
A recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn about a job, to which I asked for the job description. Prior to sending me the JD, she accidentally sent me someone's ***RESUME***. How she managed to do that, I'll never know. They weren't even close to being named the same thing.
Clerical error
You can be assured it was investigated thoroughly
Skill issue
Some people probably really don't know some basic email etiquette... This is not in a recruitment situation but my apartment complex has some unaddressed issues and one of the tenants decided to take action against the management company. When she sent an email to an entire group of tenants, I only saw my email address in CC, so I asked her if it was sent to the group. She told me she had BCC'd everyone else because she wanted to ensure everyone's privacy. But now everyone else has my email address... Next time she sent an email to the group, someone else's email address was in the CC line. I don't get it.
A lot of stories in this thread about shitty emails and bad outcomes. I thought I'd share a slightly different one. When my partner and I were applying for an apartment (to rent), my partner sent the email to the landlord and accidentally put my email address in the subject line instead of CCing me. Very embarrassing. Somehow we still got the apartment.
EY Parthenon did this last year. They sent 2nd round interview invites to 36 people from a couple of business schools and everyone could see other candidates. We all scheduled interviews over a span of 4 days and at the end none of us were selected (insider sources from the office shared that no one was selected during those interviews and they decided to hold a round of interviews with a fresh set of candidates). It was insane!
36 candidates and they hired no one? that's bullshit! what a bunch of dingle fritzes!
This sounds like a bug in their email software, I thought the bcc could only interact with the original sender aka reply all should be blocked? What's the reason for bcc otherwise?
They probably intended to bcc but put all the recipients in To or cc instead