CEO demands to be CC'd on every email sent within the company, only for their inbox to be flooded when HR sends a personalized email to every employee: ‘They caused their own email apocalypse’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Nov 26, 2025 1:00 PM EST

There are two types of CEOs of a company: Those who know nothing about what's going on in their own business, and those who want to know every little detail. There is no in between; either they are overly involved, or they couldn't care less about how their business operates.

The CEO in the story below is clearly a member of the overly involved group. When they demanded to be CC's on every single internal communication within the company, they meant it. They wanted to a copy of every announcement, remainder, and birthday. 

It wasn't long before this request backfired and proved that it's better not to get involved with everything that's going on, even in your own company. That lesson was learned after HR decided to send a personalized email to every employee in the company, and the CEO got every single one of these emails.

We're talking thousands of emails with the same text, only addressed to a different employee each time…

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  • Story my friend told me that had me crying laughing: So apparently the CEO and Head of HR accidentally nuked their own inboxes.
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  • Here's how: A long time ago, both of them said, very seriously: "Please copy us on ALL internal communications." Announcements, reminders, birthday emails, everything".
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  • Fine. Fast forward. One day, HR decides they want to be extra fancy and sends out a request: "This announcement needs to be personalized for each employee.
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  • No more 'Dear Colleague.' We want 'Dear [Employee Name]." Okay, sure. So the HR team hits send on this personalized announcement to the entire company... ...and CCs the CEO and Head of HR, just like they demanded.
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  • You can probably see where this is going. Every employee gets their own unique email. And the CEO + Head of HR?
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  • They get every. single. one. Hundreds. Maybe thousands. Their inboxes basically turned into a slot machine stuck on jackpot mode.
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  • They caused their own email apocalypse and HR was just following instructions Imao
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  • aailajuhichawla Could you please ask the CEO / HR Head to read my emails and tell me if there's something that requires my attention? Thanks.
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  • OP idktbhfamlmao They said you still have pending debts you have to pay
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  • Echo7ONE9ers This line is funny AF. >Their inboxes basically turned into a slot machine stuck on jackpot mode.
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  • OP idktbhfamlmao I'm glad you liked it I was gonna filter it out but got lazy lol
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  • Go_Gators_4Ever The worst email sc wup I witnessed was for a company of about 15k employees when someone sent an innocuous "Merry Christmas" email and had left the "TO:" addressee field blank. Evidently, back around 2005, Exchange had a default setting that automatically sent blank TO field emails to every address in the GAL. The real trouble began when many, many, people kept hitting "reply all" to either say "thanks", or "please remove me from this email"!! That simple email shutdown the entir
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  • scyllafren My favourite blunder, what can happen any time: email to a ticketing system and one of the replies hit a different ticketing system. Hilarity ensures with thousands of emails and support tickets on BOTH SIDES... Good luck closing them....
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  • Zhree1 Company I once worked for used to send emails to all for stuff like: "Please join me in congratulating Jane Smith on her big sale!" Thousands of employees would then join in and reply all with their congratulations. Jane would reply all thanking each one. I'd open my email account to a warning that my inbox was getting full and have to scroll through hundreds of messages just to find my projects and customers who required actual responses. Many of us complained but were told that this was
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  • imgrendel In the early 2000's, a person who set up an All Employee meeting made everyone meeting attendee required. Every time someone declined the meeting because they were not going to be in that day, the system would pop up a window on everyone's computer, giving everyone the option to propose a new meeting date and time.
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  • No_Dot_4123 I started college in 1999 and student emails were the hot new thing, but limiting permissions was lagging a bit behind. Not long into my first semester, someone figured out that any student could email the whole student body and all the faculty/staff. It only took a handful of those viral email chain letters (send this on to 10 people or else) and the IT department figured out that they should only allow faculty to email the whole student body. I can't figure out why no one considere
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  • prettyedge411 We had a new leadership team come in. My employer did this and the entire team started flooding their inboxes. Every email sent and multiple updates to those emails. They couldn't keep up. They cried uncle within a week or two and back peddled. They on,y wanted to see important or new events.
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  • Sometimes you get what you wish for, and you realize you never should have wished for that in the first place, which we think is exactly what the CEO feels at this moment.

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