I’ve erroneously received two emails from a _high-end_ dental surgeon in the US today, one a rather stroppy “get your head out of your arses, minions” message about a meeting, and the other about sick pay and follow-appontment. Needless to say, these aren’t meant for me.

Looking for suggestions for a proportional response to Dr Nobhead to say I’m not the droid they’re looking for, which won’t get me GDPRed.

Internet points for best reply.

by JamesWormold58

30 comments

  1. What an absolute fuckwit. If they’re so hung up on an agenda, they should write one themselves.

  4. My gut instinct is to reply to call him a nobchops and let him waste a day trying to figure out which of his staff he needs to fire. My only hesitation is the risk he may actually fire somebody.

  5. “Despite your lack of attendance we carried out the staff meeting as scheduled. You will be able to see from the minutes enclosed that a vote on if you are a total wank stain was passed unanimously

    Regards ‘the staff'”

  6. “Yes Dr you’re right, no point adding to the shitshow that this place already is.”

  8. Just replying that he has sent it to the wrong person should get Dr Nobhead’s arse twitching because he dun fucked up

  9. Agenda for next meeting:

    Point 1 – Talk about fixing teeth an that for a bit.
    Point 2 – How to make money from point 1?
    Point 3 – Biccies and early finish.

  10. Dear Dr Dick,

    As requested please find the agenda for our meeting.

    1. Discuss staff issues
    2. AOB

    We look forward to your attendance. Failure to attend in light of this detailed agenda will be seen as misconduct and will be reported to _your mum_

  11. I’m with him on the agenda.
    We did have a rule at work for a while that if there was no agenda before the meeting then we wouldn’t have a meeting.
    Makes a lot of sense – otherwise you just have meetings for the sake of them.

    How have they made the email error though?

  13. Reply all

    Agenda for the next staff meeting: questions regarding the sending of confidential internal communications to random strangers and the consequences to organisational security. Furthermore, the necessarily to escalate this issue to leadership for resolution.

  15. I think I’ve missed something. Dr I is a bit off with his tone towards the end of this message but basically I agree with him and wish more people would bail on lame meetings.

    In the past I’ve just emailed the team and asked if anyone has anything pressing they want to discuss or shall we can the meeting? A cancelled meeting = Down time/Catch up time. Everyone wins.

    In answer to OP, however, I’d remain on his mailing list and wait until he’s dug himself a much larger hole before calling him a knob chops in front of his whole staff. I think they’d appreciate it.

  16. Im sorry but myself and rest of staff here are as close is we ever want to get to you.

    I mean if you had it your way , we would all be pulling our dentures out of your arse.

  17. “a high-end dental surgeon”

    I don’t think there’s any other kind. Your bottom teeth are actually in your mouth…

  18. Evening to you all (send this about 9pm)

    We have collectively agreed agenda for next meeting to be at 05:00am tomorrow.

    1. Discussion on why doctor keeps missing early meetings with robust agendas.
    2. Discussion on whether or not it’s professional to keep missing meetings. Doctor hasn’t turned up to a single one.
    3. Discussion on whether or not only medical doctors should refer to themselves as doctors. Clips from the TV show friends will be shown.
    4. Discussion on pay, are we all being paid equally and fairly? should we join union?
    5. Double check email recipient list. Ensure doctor who keeps unprofessionally (or is it? see agenda point 2) missing meetings is on the list and nobody unintended is on list.

    ​

    With a bit of luck doctor dickhead turns up at 5am completely riled up.

  20. Good morning Dr I,

    I don’t see any robust checking going on before you send your emails, so I don’t think you should send any more emails.

    Thorough proof reading and communication awareness drives data protection and lack of it is not constructive.

    Let’s aim to not fuck up the simple shit.

  22. Why is that a stroppy email? What’s the point in having a meeting with nothing meaningful to discuss?

  23. “Well tickle my tits ’til Tuesday, that really IS good news!!”

  24. You won’t get any GDPR push back if you just reply, it’s not you that breached data confidentiality. And he’s in the USA so I doubt there’s any data protection legislation there that covers this so he’ll be fine too.

  25. Does the US have a GDPR equivalent? I’d expect it’s not as strict as our regs anyhow.

  27. I have to say the amount of meetings I attend are absolutely pointless I would LOVE my boss to send me an email like this about the 1 million meetings we have a year ! There is a chronic problem of people just having meeting for the absolute fun of it and if it has no purpose I ain’t going !

  28. Greetings from Nigeria, Dr D!

    I seize this opportunity to send my unalloyed compliments of the new season to you and your family.

    As my father once said to Prince Philip, I feel that we can speak as equals.

    Do you believe in fate, Dr?

  30. Agenda:

    – Track down the one dentist out of the 10 of us that doesn’t recommend Colgate

    – establish why we say teeth and not tooths

    – IT and security concerns of doctor nobhead

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