‘CEO sends dozens of emails every day’: CEO demands employees responds to all the emails he sends, leading to office dispute when employees can't get any work done other than answering emails

Are you familiar with the saying 'This could have been an email'? For those of you who don't, this saying refers to times when employees are asked to attend a meeting that could have definitely been avoided by simply sending an email about the topic. Well, as much as that saying can be true on some occasions, the amount of useless emails people get from their colleagues is unreal sometimes, and we could all agree that answering them can be the most annoying part of the work day.

This brings up to this malicious complience Reddit story about an employee whose boss would send them 30 emails a day. And not only would the boss send them, but they also demanded the employee answers every single one. The employee decided to comply, which led to them spending their entire work day answering meaningless emails and not getting any work done.

This led to a whole office dispute, so scroll down to read the full story. After you are done, click here for a story of an employee who got fired because his gifriend broke up with him.

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