For those of you that remember this ...remove the "reply all " function from all GE employees in outlook. I remember that brilliant cost out idea. You know too many emails cost the company money.
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This was Charlene Begley's big obsession as CEO of GE Transportation. She had GETS IT disable the button and menu option for reply all, but a quick "Ctrl + Shift + R" keyboard shortcut got the job done. When she was named CEO and made this her signature contribution to GETS, that's when I knew GE leadership was a joke and my "career" became "just a job". Finally left a few months ago after 18 years. I miss the work I did and many of my co-workers, but not GE corporate.
"Is this working as intended? Ditch it" - GE in a nutshell
Over half of the emails I am copied on don't require me and everyone uses the reply to all button as often as they check this site.....20 emails later I am still on this email chain for some reason. Seems more like the number of recipients should be restricted than the reply to all button. This would make people actually stop and think who the emails really need to be sent to.
my bad, that was my idea, sorry...
Yes, it truly did occur. I recall taking about 30 seconds to research how to put that button back on my outlook upper task bar. At the time I had 40 people on a single email of emails that were going out to clients and our ITO and OTR teams. Think about replying to all without that function. That dumb A$$ maneuver cost the company millions of dollars. Why, because GE employees will do whatever their leadership tell them. Flannery is the reason the company going to do nothing. It is more the same bull$hit. I am not to happy with him selling off profitable businesses to generate short term cash. These are desperate moves. The company needs to bring in some outsiders to run company not rehash six sigma and lame a$$ cost out ideas.
For those who work (or worked) at GE this has to be the funniest and saddest post as you know it is true (and pathetic)
Ever used Slack? That's how the digital world rolls these dates. Better than email for dealing with ad hoc teams like customer support or commissioning questions.
Try it.
OP - I laughed, even if others missed your joke.
Note to others - the use of the word "remember" implied that it actually happened a while ago.
You know too many dumb ideas cost the company money. You must be from CAS.
Are you stoned or just stupid? That is just the worst idea ever.
So, now if you have a large project team you are suggesting that it will take forever to craft and send emails to them especially when many are external contractors.
Please think through all the consequences of your ideas before stating them.