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?
(Score: 4, Funny) by maxwell demon on Friday March 27 2020, @09:41PM (4 children)
I just asked for some laughter at the pharmacy, but only got strange looks. Maybe I need a prescription for laughter?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Friday March 27 2020, @09:51PM (2 children)
Try making a coronavirus joke.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:15PM
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
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
10cc's of the giggles, stat
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex