Oooh, they make me so mad!

So I know I skipped for awhile. Things slowed down a bit, dog-wise. But then today, I am having a bit of a crummy day anyway. And all these FREAK dog people are getting receipts about their emails, so they know that I am deleting them. And they are getting SO MAD about it.

So this person says:

"I would really appreciate a response to my email. I have sent the need to 50 people and they wondering if this is a true case or note."

The dog bitch came out full force.

"I don’t know how I got listed as the main contact on this. I was only CC’d on one of these emails and now have gotten thousands of emails about it. I really have no information. I am trying to get back to as many people as possible, but it isn’t working.
Please spread the word, if you can, that I am not the contact. I truly wish people would look online before sending such things to 50 people.
Please don’t respond, as I am quite tired of getting these dog emails to my work address."

Can this lady understand anything? Apparently not. So I get an answer.

"I am sorry.
I did look on line and nothing came up that is why I sent it out.
Perhaps if you were CC’d on one of these emails you should have responded to that person as to remove your name off the email.
And responding to people who are really concerned that the email is not true would have stopped the process a while back if you would have responded so we wouldn’t send it out further.
This website http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/comments/webmail.asp
Will post that your message association to 2 labs needing a home will stop you from receiving so many emails."

So what do we learn from this:

People in the midwest act like they are all cheese and sunshine. But no. There are seriously screwed up attitudes lurking in there, just waiting to leap out should you ever cross them and there is a dog involved. Make it 2 dogs, and you just better put that address straight in your "always Spam that bitch " folder.

I mean, seriously? She thought that MY name showed up on the original email I was CC'd on and I sat there going "hunh, that's weird. Wonder why I just got an email saying to contact me at work. Funny coincidence." I know she doesn't know me, but I am really not that inept. Frankly, I think that I should just start making flyers and putting HER name and email address on it. Because petty though it is, it would really make me happy to think of her having this problem and having to deal with OTHER bitchy people, like herself. Ha ha. Just thinking of it makes me smile.

We also know me well enough to know that this stubborn attitude can't let something like that go. Someone needs to have the last word all the time.

"I have responded to over 2000 people.
I did report it to snopes.
Obviously, when I was CC’d on it MY OWN NAME wasn’t listed as the contact, there was nobody shown. It was days later, long after it had spread. Someone ELSE when forwarding it saw it truncated and put me down instead."

Then I immediately put her address as spam so I wouldn't have to see anymore of it. I just really don't like people.

It's getting old.

So my new tactic seems to be working pretty well. I answer as many as I can throughout the day, and most people are nice. I should really be the optimistic person here going, "wow, what an outpouring of support. How nice."
But I'm really not there yet. First off, I think that most of these people wouldn't do shit to help a person. I think that animal people love animals so much because they have issues with people. And I get that. People suck. I have a lot of issues with most of the ones I meet, too. It's a lot easier to love the dog you can kick around and scream at that still stares at you with admiration and respect than the person who ditches you after a few screaming matches, or even leaves after nothing but is just tired of you. But still. I can't really respect that "I help animals all the time and do nothing for people." It's just me. I can't.

So anyway, I started answering all emails with this:

I'm sorry, I don't know how I got listed as the main contact on this. I was only CC'd on one of these emails and now have gotten thousands of emails about it. I really have no information. I am trying to get back to as many people as possible, but it isn't working! Please spread the word, if you can, that I am not the contact. I don't even know if this is real or not.
Thanks!

I thought it was nice. Not that I am bragging, but I find it clear, informative, brief and yet decisive. As in "please stop emailing, I know nothing." I still get a lot of, "Wow! Sorry!" replies. But fine. A lot of people have even said, "I will let everyone I know know that." One woman told me she took down the flyer about me. (Which I STILL don't get.)

But today I get the response:

This is a real inquiry about the dogs. I am sorry if my email was a problem. [Someone] listed you as the contact. Should I contact [her] instead?
Thanks,

Seriously? Am I wrong in feeling like, "are you kidding?" I mean, was I not clear enough? Do I need to revise my copy-and-past email to take some of these people into consideration? Am I being too judgmental? Whatever.

My new tactic

I decided to try a new tactic for awhile. I have been pasting in to all the emails I get the same message, basically saying, "I don't know how I got listed as the contact but please spread the word that it isn't me! I have gotten thousands of emails!" I am getting a lot of nice responses, but it's one of those things where I don't really want an answer. I already am getting a ton of messages. Don't answer to say sorry. But still, it's nice of people. I thought maybe it would dwindle down, but today there doesn't seem to be any lesser number of messages. Maybe even more.
This whole thing is so strange.

People are mean.

New message from someone in Chicago:

Re: IF YOU ALREADY FOUND A HOME FOR THE PUPS COULD YOU JUST SAY SO?

Because apparently, she could see that her message was deleted without being read today.

Like after the day I had I could let that go.

"COULD YOU MAYBE RESEARCH THIS ONLINE AND FIND OUT THIS LOOKS LIKE A HOAX BEFORE BARRAGING MY WORK EMAIL WITH USELESS EMAILS??????????"

I am really over the dog thing. I think it's time for a new job.

Do keeps reminding me to look at it from the point of view of the other person, who thinks that they are 1 of, say, 30 people asking about the dogs and it is rude for me to not answer. But they are 1 of 2000. And I really did try to think of it that way. But you don't send someone an email in all caps. It is NEVER acceptable.

come on!

Today I got 3 phone calls. One woman left me a message this morning, and then called back within about 2 hours. I let her know I knew nothing. She basically just repeated everything I said in disbelief.

"Yeah, that's the right Diane but I have NO idea how my name was associated with this. I know nothing about it."
"...you know nothing about it."
"No."
"...you don't know how your name was associated with this?"
"Nope."
"...but you are listed on the flyer."

[side note: WHO THE HELL MADE A FLYER?? Or is it flier? I don't know. BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER NOW. What matters is that there IS one. That SOMEONE made with ME on it.]

"I don't even know if this was ever real!"
"...you don't know if this is real?"
"No. And I got 2000 emails to my WORK email."
"...ok. Sorry to bother you."

Then the radio station emailed me back though saying they took me off their site. They were very nice, and said it is too bad and all that. Then I guess I'm off Craigslist Detroit, too. But it doesn't seem to be slowing down all that much. As of now, I got 130 emails today.

UPDATE! I just got an email from some woman that said "can you please just answer this before deleting it"
I went back to my deleted folder (which, we know, is done automatically) and saw that she did email me at 4:17. This latest email was from 4:53. So basically she was saying that it was rude of me to not answer her within 40 minutes? Because really, she can't know that she was deleted. People from Oklahoma can apparently be quite pushy!
So that one warranted a personalized response.

dog update

So far today, I received 200 emails and 1 phone call about the labs. The caller was VERY nice. But I am still peeved about this whole thing. And then I keep getting people saying, "you shouldn't be sending that from work!" or "No good deed goes unpunished!" But see, I didn't try to do any kind of good deed. I didn't care about the dogs. I don't even particularly like dogs at all. I am not a good deed doer. I am a sit back and complainer. I feel like I just want to go buy a bottle of wine to take home with me. But wait! I can't comfortably go to the wine store. "clink, clink." I need to never go on "dates" with people that work at my favorite stores.

This is what my inbox/deleted items looks like.

Bed

I think I am ready to go into hibernation. Just sleep for a few weeks. Then get up and eat some honey.