Delete The Emails

The ultimate damage control

Implies something just done was so heinously illegal and immoral that who did it should just delete their emails before they are hanged for treason and shamed by history.

When asked by her most trusted assistant how she could assist covering up their role in the death of Americans at Benghazi and the systematic destruction of Libya and Europe Hillary Clinton calmly told her, "Delete the Emails xD"

by Hillary4Prison June 11, 2016

email fork

When your coworker does not respond to the latest reply of an email thread, the discussion becomes forked between his reply and the latest. The fork is more severe when an email volley is accumulating participants, and you get left out. in which case, you'll hope someone will loop you in. the fork could be unintentional if the forker is just a slow-ass chicken pecker. but if he has a rep of being a habitual threadjacker, it is probably not

To avoid an email fork of the thread with a client, Becky sent Chad a DM that she was drafting a response to the client's latest questions.

by DirtyWaterbury March 12, 2019

email mute

A person that doesn't responds to email within a reasonable amount of time.

Email a question to a person. If that person doesn't respond within a reasonable amount of time then that person can be considered an email mute.

by Michael Kruger December 9, 2008

roadkill email

When you receive an email you know is going to be so bad, you don't want to look but have to.

Monica: That guy is pissing me off. I know he's going to have sent a stupid email back, I and don't want to read it!

Phoebe: That sucks! But you better get back and read that roadkill email, so you can get back to him.

by StupidGirl43 June 27, 2010

Alabama email

Spitting tobacco on someone’s computer

I didn’t like the way the rental agent talked to me so when he stepped away, I sent an Alabama email over the counter.

by VSTN January 7, 2021

Email Hero

A person who writes an aggressive and/or offensive email to one or multiple people, pointing the 'finger of blame' and/or undermining them, then when they see these people in person, they act as if nothing has happened.

Jo sends an email to Kate stating:

"Hi Kate, Your suggestion for the end of year celebration sounds boring so we're going to go with my other idea. Jo."

Then when Jo walks into the kitchen at the same time as Kate, Jo acts like Kate's best friend, "Hey Kate, How are things in your area today?"... Kate thinks Jo is an idiot and coward.

Jo has been an Email Hero - Tough in email, gutless in person.

by OrgSavvy June 11, 2013

Email relay

When one person sends an email to another person, but they don't know the answer so they forward on to someone else they think is the right person to deal with the problem, that person in turn also doesn't know and once again forwards the email on to another person. This chain keeps on going until someone with the knowledge and expertise gets the forwarded email and eventually answers the question or sorts out the problem. All other people in the email chain are simply part of the relay of getting the baton (the email) to the last person who can cross over the finish line

The CEO Pierre sent an email to Antoine asking him for some figures for his work. Antoine doesn't have this information but thinks Gisele in Performance team might know and forwards this email on to her. Gisele also doesn't know but forwards the email onto Elena in Reporting team. Elena also doesn't know but forwards it on to Gary in Data Admin. Gary does in fact have a list of the figures Steve is requesting and so answers Pierre with the information required and thus finishing the email relay

by gekko January 8, 2013