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Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm

posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 27 2020, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-I-reply-all-to-get-removed-from-the-list? dept.

martyb writes:

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm:

Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor

[...] Microsoft is right now groaning under the weight of a 52,000-person internal Reply-All email storm.

The Register understands this one started with a new offer from Microsoft's internal store about discount software deals. While that offer was generous, it didn't apply to all Microsoft staff everywhere, which prompted an early Reply-All message asking why not. And then the snowball started rolling, and nothing could stop it.

We understand the mail went throughout Microsoft – enterprise, cloud and even Xbox folks found it in their inboxes.

Our Microsoft sources tell us staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it, posting frivolous messages that celebrate the ridiculousness of the situation.

Laughter is the best medicine?

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday March 27 2020, @09:41PM (4 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday March 27 2020, @09:41PM (#976474) Journal

    Laughter is the best medicine?

    I just asked for some laughter at the pharmacy, but only got strange looks. Maybe I need a prescription for laughter?

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Friday March 27 2020, @09:51PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday March 27 2020, @09:51PM (#976476) Journal

    Try making a coronavirus joke.

    Don't do that, they'll charge you with making terroristic threats.
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    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:15PM (#976502)

      I heard that if you wear a Cubs jersey you won't be able to catch anything.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2020, @12:59AM (#976536)

      as the weather warms here in north America, the ticks will become active again. but you'll be able to get some Lyme to go with your Corona!

      I'll be home all week, folks...

  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday March 27 2020, @10:01PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday March 27 2020, @10:01PM (#976479) Journal

    10cc's of the giggles, stat

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