Posting on behalf of CokePokes

I've been on the other end of something like this so let me chime in.

I work in high end application/database development, provisioning, support, and so forth. Every so often, we need to push a message out to certain groups of clients and to do that I'll export the addresses, mark them BCC, and send out the email. Well, I made an honest mistake with it emailing about 10 - 30 customers without BCC. It wasn't a really big deal until someone just Could. Not. Let. It. Go.

I wonder if they were a redditor...

Anyway, the email was sent about 6:45AM local time and by 8:45AM just one customer decided that she would not be having any of it. Apologies? Hah. She wanted a direct, immediate call with the owner of the company to express her EXTREME concern about her private email address being leaked and what we were going to do that PRIVATE information had been sent out without customer permission? Well, this isn't a hack lady. There are no formal notifications necessary when you got the goddamn email in your inbox.

After social media posts, forum posts, and more rabble rousing than anybody should have ever done, I refused to engage her. I would rather be fired and be freed to give my side of the story in public than to apologize to someone like her.

I was ready to burn the world if it meant this pissant fucker who couldn't let something go would have a public answer. It wasn't rational, the job was good, but I didn't care. Fuck' em was all my attitude amounted to.

Is this exactly the same as CokePokes? Probably not. With that said, I see some similarities.

If someone centers on your mistake, calls more and more and more attention to it out of "concern" e.g. whining, you don't necessarily take that positively when you've already apologized, explained, and tried to make it right. Beyond that, fuck 'em.

tl;dr Fuck 'em.

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