Reply-All Guy finally replied to the wrong all
Eleven thousand inboxes, one very personal opinion.
Reply-All Guy has been building to this for years. He replies to birthday threads. He replies to fire drill notices. He replies to say thanks in a font nobody chose. So when the reorg announcement lands, he does what he always does, except this time the thread is the entire company and his message is one line long and it is about his manager. There is a pause of maybe nine seconds. Then a sound goes across the floor that is not laughter and not silence. He tries to recall it. The recall notice also goes to everyone. By lunch he has more calendar invites than he has ever had in his life, and none of them are the kind you want.