Last one from me on this QOTW...
I work for an ad agency, pretty much all the big ones of which are international nowadays.

Up to about 5 years ago, one of our departments used to entertain themselves on a Friday afternoon by picking a random name off the international address book and copying that person on absolutely anything going, ensuring a bemused victim in Santiago, or Reykjavik, or Seoul, was bombarded with a load of completely irrelevant emails (because it was (mostly) good clean work-related stuff it got round any accusations of IT abuse, it was just just annoying and confusing for the recipient).

One day they pick Mr Wu (name changed to protect identity), who does nothing for a day or two and then politely writes to say that his IT Department have informed him it's not a glitch on the system - he presumes they've accidentally included him for some reason, and can they please stop. They keep it up for another day or two then drop it when they get a stern email from our own IT Department.

Anyway, week later, all staff meeting, and there's a big announcement. New CEO.'Will everyone please give a warm Welcome to, from the Singapore Office, Mr Wu!'.

Luckily he saw the funny side, but they were told in no uncertain terms not to do it again.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 15:55, Reply)