More than 20,000 Utah state government employees saw their email inboxes bombarded with messages last weekend after an otherwise innocuous invitation to an office holiday potluck was inadvertently sent statewide and pulled into a black hole of reply-all responses.
The nightmare scenario familiar to and dreaded by office workers everywhere was documented on Twitter by Joe Dougherty, who fittingly works as spokesman for the Utah Division of Emergency Management. At 10 a.m. Friday he posted a photo of his inbox, showing the many desperate pleas of reply-all victims begging to let off the runaway email train.
So this is happening right now.