But seriously, this reminds me of a time at my former (FAANG) employer where HR sent out a 40-minute video about not being an asshole and avoiding lawsuits.

12 minutes or so in, they say "as the number of people in a group increases, the number of potential 1:1 interactions increases exponentially." I thought "actually n(n-1)/2 but whatever", and finished the video intending to get on with my life.

My inbox was FULL of engineers who were irate. "HR have proven themselves to be fools!" "I expect the company to never ask me to waste my time on their bullshit again." "Once again non-technical people talking out their asses."

HR sent a global apology for the error, asked everybody to not watch the video while they fixed it, and released a patched version the next day.

[–] chimasterflex@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HR should have replied with a "this was a test on how not to be an asshole and you've all failed. You must take the whole training again"

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

It's a feature not a bug

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds like an HR thing to do frfr

[–] randint@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, cool HR. Why did the engineers send their complaints to your inbox though?

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reply all

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

"Reply all" button should only be available if you have completed the training on not using it for every email, and you have to renew it twice a year

[–] AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In any discussion around Reply All I always think of https://redd.it/420oan

and also the podcast

[–] randint@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I see.

[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But did they use reply all to apologize to all the recipients about their email?

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Please remove me from this mailing list

[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It bugs me that people will call anything with a positive second derivative "exponentially increasing". I can do one better: it increases busy-beaver-y! Is that fast enough for people??