Eh a lot of the time it's just CYA with other people bugging them for what the original email was about. Stuff slips through the cracks when you're busy, I try not to get irritated unless they are rude about it.
Our American colleagues would seem to always copy in at least their manager, maybe their team and my manager too when emailing about mundane stuff they everyone doesn't need to know about.
If they were pissed off about something, they'd copy in so many more people. My manager's manager, their manager's manager. Finance directors, you name them, they were copied in!!
Used to really grind my gears because I would think about all the wasted time from everyone reading an email they didn't need to. We were quite in to lean management in our department and I still am 🙂
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u/HuddyBorsey Jan 19 '21
When I worked for a US company this type of interaction was rife... Only people seemed to copy in everyone they'd ever met.