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You know it's bad when Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson messages you on Slack and says, "Hey, check out this Reddit thread." Since the alternative was finishing the transcription of an interview, I did indeed check out that Reddit thread. Oh boy. Posted in r/AmItheAsshole—protip, if you have to ask, the answer is usually "yes"—the thread centers on the tardy replies the poster receives to the emails he sends out. His solution? Simple: he now CCs the company CEO on any email that goes to a coworker he thinks might not respond the instant it hits their inbox.
"Ahh," you might be thinking. "At a small mom-and-pop shop, that's a little annoying but probably OK, because everyone knows everyone." Well, think again, dear reader, for this fine human being has decided to implement his one-man "email the big boss" policy at a company with more than 10,000 employees.
Part of his problem, it seems, is a general contempt for fellow employees who work in IT:
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