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’

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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