This is why an entire country's health care system shouldn't be on the same email list

NHS inadvertently heals our Monday blues with a hilarious Twitter reaction to an email faux pas.
This is why an entire country's health care system shouldn't be on the same email list
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LONDON -- Someone is having a worse Monday than you, and it's an IT contractor working for the NHS in Croydon.

The poor soul accidentally copied the entire NHS staff to a "test email" -- all 1.2 million of them.

Cue an onslaught of "reply-all" emails asking to be removed from the thread, leading to reports that the entire email system had crashed.

Palm, meet face.

Given that more traditional forms of communication had failed them miserably, the NHS staff took to social media to lament their unhappy Monday fate. And the resulting Twitterstorm has made our Monday. We promise we're laughing with, not at, your very relatable pain, NHS people:

Nothing brings employees together quite like the joint pain of a reply-all fiasco.

That, or cake. We prefer cake.

BONUS: What happens when you reply to an email scammer

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