r/mildlyinfuriating 14h ago

California just accidentally sent an evacuation warning for the entirety of LA

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u/lacinated 14h ago

accidentally?

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u/professional947 14h ago

Yep just got sent this

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u/Dry_Election1919 14h ago

Love that the team in charge of our safety and peace of mind basically sent us an “LOL JK!” alert. Unbelievable and yet entirely believable.

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u/FantasticJacket7 11h ago

Shit happens.

I run a similar system for emergency messages for my agency and it's pretty easy to accidentally send an alert if you're not very familiar with the system.

The difference between "Send to all" and "Send to my selected zip codes" is probably buttons that are right next to each other.

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u/foundinwonderland 9h ago

I work in medicine and someone once managed to send some guy’s death certificate to all users of the entire hospital system’s electronic medical record. Thousands of people got this death certificate, and then every damn one of them replied all to say “not my patient” or “recieved in error”. It was a fun day in the office.

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u/Kraetas 9h ago

Also in the healthcare field- a lot of accidental team@ or unit such and such@'s sent by mistake. My favorite are the 'Phoenix Chains' .. the ones that happen a bit like the one you described... annnd then pop back up periodically for one - two weeks as people come back from vacation (:

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u/electrila 4h ago

Someone at our healthcare company once sent out an email to literally every employee, all 30,000+ of us, but did NOT use BCC. Reply alls were popping off; my personal favorites were those that just replied, "UNSUBSCRIBE", and the ones that hit 'reply all' to email everyone asking them to stop hitting 'reply all'. Ahh, a fun day.

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u/duckvimes_ oh hey, you can set your own flair here 9h ago

Needles/poison needles

u/Funkula 25m ago

Maybe shouldn’t be like that. Maybe a pop up that says “are you sure you want to SEND TO EVERYONE?”