‘She should have seen it coming’: Employee gets back at micromanager by canceling all of her mailing subscriptions

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Mar 23, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

It is bad enough that most people have to deal with their own unwanted mailing list they somehow subscribed to, but to get someone else's emails? That is beyond annoying. And having to deal with that in the workplace? Even worse.

In this Reddit story, an employee was venting about an incredibly self-centered manager who was simply mean to everyone in the office. She would be unhelpful and rude towards other employees, and no one really knew why. But the one thing that made OP (original poster) really annoyed, was that this manager would constantly forward random email lists to employees. No one understood why she did it, it had nothing to do with the work, and it was simply a bother. To make it stop, OP decided to take action…

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    "She should have seen it coming"
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    You want to be rude, I'll unsub you.
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    This occured during the We had a new manager hired (not my manager, but a manager who's job sorted crossed over to my work). In one on one emails, she was always
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    rude and short, being sort of vague in describing what she needs. If you dare send a response asking for clarification, she was beyond rude. No one really knew who she was except by name and the department she
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    worked, but it was clear no one liked this person because of how rude she was and she seemed to push her weight around to get what she wants.
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    One of the other things that really annoyed me about her was her constant forwarding of emails from email lists that she
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    subscribed to, many of which had nothing to do with our work. At least 1 a day at certain times. Well one day, after constantly receiving these email forwards, I scrolled to the bottom to see if an
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    unsubscribe option was available at the bottom of the email. Sure enough, there it was. I clicked on it, and was happy to see her email address appear in the confirmation window to unsubscribe. So I confirmed, and
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    continued to do this for several weeks. During this time, the forwards became less and less frequent, until it ended completely. I can't say for sure,
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    but I like to think I unsubscribed her from all of her subscriptions and this ended her email forwards!
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    sb03733 2 days ago This is hilarious
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    9lobaldude 2 days ago A shame you could not unsubscribe to her mediocre management skills. At least you saved yourself and many more from her useless subscriptions
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    godmode-failed · 22 hr. ago OP could have required her to follow the line of authority, i.e. go via each other's supervisor.
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    • Aiku 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago • I did the polar opposite to our totally corrupt and universally hated HR manager. Every time I flew for work, I got one of those in-flight magazine ad postcards and checked every box, with his name and the company address.
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    These companies also sell their data to similar organizations, so this stuff kept multiplying, and the mail room people kept happily sharing his perceived 'interests' with the rest of the
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    company. The mail-room staffer delivering mail came to my office and showed me a flyer, saying "he's looking at wigs, now" I said "Oh yeah, I signed him up for all that" :) She lost it, but swore herself to secrecy.
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    No-one deserved it more, he was a morally bankrupt corporate lick-spittle.
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    likeablyweird. 2 days ago She was only forwarding stuff she was interested in, yes? For every unwanted forward, I would've unsubbed her and then subbed her to a company that doesn't know
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    the word no. "I've got a friend who is very interested..." Like Ancestry, Salvation Army, Publisher's Clearing House or ASPCA. Or even better go into spam folder and pick an email sender that sends all kinds of every day.
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    ExtremeAthlete · 2 days ago Op, you should subscribe and forward the emails to that manager
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    AJRimmer1971 · 1 day ago Should have replied to one of her emails with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as the reply.
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