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Imagine sending out an email to several people at work who might be able to help with or benefit from the information you have gathered and included in the email. What would you do if another employee came up to you and asked to be included on these emails? Would you include him even if you didn’t think he had any reason to know this information, or would you refuse?

In this story, one employee is in this situation, and he stands his ground, refusing to include the coworker on the email. Not only that, but he was pretty rude in the way he explained his reasoning.

Now, he’s wondering if he really did mess up.

I think he was awfully rude, and his supervisor seems to agree.

Keep reading to see if you agree.

AITA for telling my maintenance supervisor that his job title is at best decoration and at worse seriously irresponsible?

I told my maintenance supervisor “Randy” that him having the title was either purely for decoration or just plain irresponsible on HRs part.

This was prompted after weeks of him bugging me to include him in an email that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with him.

Every week at my job, i do chemical inventory. To cover my butt after a miscommunication issue a year or so ago, i started emailing relevant parties about this chemical inventory.

The relevant parties are my chief operator, my lab director, and my plant superintendent. All of these people have the capabilities of ordering chemicals, contacting vendors, setting out bids for chemicals, etc.

There really is no point in emailing the maintenance supervisor.

My maintenance supervisor is NOT ALLOWED to do any of these things.

He’s not allowed to talk to vendors, he’s not allowed to make orders (especially chemical orders) and he’s hardly allowed to do any big maintenance projects because usually the chief operator and plant superintendent have to go behind him to fix his messups.

So yesterday i sent out my weekly email and he came to me about him not being attached in the email.

I told him this is a hill i am willing to die on. I will not contribute to his self inflated sense of importance by including him in an email he has no business being privy to. If he wants to know what the chemical inventory for whatever reason he wants to, he’s welcome to come to my office and look in the book it’s recorded in like everyone else.

He was pretty rude.

He said that he’s not like everyone else he’s the maintenance supervisor and he needs to know these things.

To which i responded his title is for decoration at best or sheer irresponsibility on HRs part at worst, and that once again if he needs to know he can look at the book like everyone else.

Needless to say, he documented me and i got sent to the plant sups office and was told that while it was he truth i shouldn’t have said it.

I didn’t get in trouble, but he did tell me that i shouldnt have been so harsh with Randy.

Is it that hard to add one extra email address to make the guy feel important? I guess so.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

This person thinks he really messed up.

Maybe the guy does need to be included on the email.

It is weird that he’s so bitter about a coworker’s job title.

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It is really that hard to include him on the email?

Unless there is confidential information included in these emails that Randy shouldn’t have access to, I don’t understand what the big deal is. The guy wants to be included on the emails. Just include him!

It’s so weird to be so dramatic about this. It’s almost like he personally hates Randy for some reason. The guy’s just trying to do his job and maybe, just maybe, the information in the emails would actually be helpful when it comes to doing his job.

There’s no reason to be this rude.