Apparently semiconductor engineers don’t know how corporate email works (or maliciously, they pretend they don’t).

If you work in my company (multinational corporation) you might already know what I’m referring to.

Today a new engineer sent an email to a group of 10,000+ fellow employees from all over the world because he had a problem with the system. It took about 4 emails to solve the person’s problem. End of email chain, right?

Wrong. Enter this American engineer who replied to the group (paraphrasing), “Hi, I don’t think I’m supposed to be contacted, can you remove me from the mailing list?” To the group of 10,000+ engineers across all global sites.

They were followed by about 10 other engineers all the way from India, China, Italy, other American sites who were replying to the email chain like, “Me too!” “Remove me from the mailing list too!” etc. Remember, these messages made it to the inboxes of 10,000+ employees including me.

It only ended when one senior engineer from Italy went:

PLEASE, STOP REPLYING TO THIS EMAIL CHAIN, YOU ARE SPAMMING!!!

^thanks

Welp, STEM professionals might need some email etiquette training.