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Explain it Peter
by /u/Responsible_Dot_2619 | 110 comments | 2026-06-16T08:43:17+00:00 Central
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| /u/Asfisav2049 The guy in the web dev team must have made it so that the other coworkers didn't see the email and only he did |
| /u/skibbin Web Dev here, we have no control over internal email |
| /u/Icanthearforshit That sounds just like what a web dev that does have control over internet email would say... |
| /u/Strange-Spot-3306 System Engineer here. We don't let some Web Devs get control of our servers. |
| /u/Thor_800 Web Dev here. There are ways. 👀 |
| /u/Le_mehawk I'm here... and i have no control over my life |
| /u/StayJigglyPuft My name is Dev and I am on the web |
| /u/ceadagamdulamach I'd give that comment an award but unfortunately I am not on the web. |
| /u/IndividualEye1803 [r/threadsofgold](r/threadsofgold) with "usual reddit silliness" flair |
| /u/Exact-Psience Im guessing that's short for Devid? |
| /u/stestagg It's how we get them, Devid and conquer |
| /u/iPisslosses na mines dev too, just that |
| /u/TapProfessional5146 Devon actually... last name Web. |
| /u/MrGua Support employee here. Have you tried turning it off and on again? |
| /u/wannacumnbeatmeoff Support engineer here; The files are "In" the computer! |
| /u/OtherwiseFlamingo448 Cybersecurity analyst. I know everything about everyone. I just dont care. |
| /u/Hadrollo Security tech here. I can break into heaps of places if I wanted to, I could totally just steal your onsite servers. It's just that I can't really do much with them if I did. |
| /u/pawlik187 System Engineer here, most stuff is in the Cloud nowadays with 2FA. There are ways but is it worth to rob a mud hut. |
| /u/darknekolux seeing how web devs have no understanding of their apps, networking and computers in general... #doubt |
| /u/G1cin Hi im here too my name is Cole |
| /u/Freyr_Tuck https://preview.redd.it/vtz2r10q9m7h1.jpeg?width=500&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab53a0696fb105297d9eb5ea5926bb59b68 a5e3c |
| /u/git_push_origin_prod Once you learn react, is basically a secret key, a back door which bypasses RSA encryption |
| /u/Standard-Pepper-6510 A "back door" you say... I'm interested... |
| /u/wannacumnbeatmeoff Thats what your wife said! |
| /u/SeriousinSeattle_326 Infosec here. We know. We are just watching you dig your own hole |
| /u/fennecdore Sysadmin here. We don't let Web devs do things period. |
| /u/Shoddy-Marsupial301 sysadmin are so so cool, jk |
| /u/EternalLucius SysAdmin here. Stop using fancy, fake titles for doing the same sh!t we do |
| /u/Strange-Spot-3306 Well - it's just the name we use in my country - or rather used. in theory i shoudl be calling myself 'Platform engineer' now - which has a different meaning in other countries... |
| /u/MjolnirTheThunderer The 15 person company probably didn't have a systems engineer |
| /u/Strange-Spot-3306 well... and a 15 people company probably also doesn't have a lot of people that like hiking that much or can be so spontaneus as to agree to a weekend hike on friday... |
| /u/MelinaSeeDee Nah. I can confirm. WebDev is useless. They're glorified interior decorators when you need a carpenter. This is a joke. I'm sure there are useful web developers out there. I just haven't met any. |
| /u/elboyoloco1 Email here.. I've never once seen web dev. |
| /u/PlentyOMangos And when you control the mail, you control... information! |
| /u/IAmRules Yea he would need to be a sysadmin running their mx server and even then acting very quickly. Or he just liked her and showed up. |
| /u/Winjin And even if he did, it's very dangerous because she could mention it to people in person or talk about the hike and everyone would be like "I received nothing" At best he could try holding the emails and releasing them like, five minutes before the arranged time. But that doesn't mean she didn't make arrangements with at least someone in person. So I'm just with the idea that he showed up for hiking and it's genuine |
| /u/timoumd To be fair, in a company of 15 being a sysadmin isn't crazy. But a single email the day before is probably the reason. |
| /u/piratewaffles https://preview.redd.it/g6krj2tw0m7h1.jpeg?width=320&for mat=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d2105998464b0c1c3eff964fff141ec5bf 6a016 |
| /u/Easy_Dystopie small company - so the web dev ist the whole IT-department! ; ) |
| /u/reverendmalerik Can confirm, have been this on multiple occasions. To be honest I have also been the IT department in companies with an IT department. I am right now. |
| /u/Undietaker1 She sent it via the contact us web page. |
| /u/Sheila_Monarch Yeah, but in a company of 15 people, to even say "web dev team" seems a bit of a stretch. Unless the whole company was for a web-based operation, it's likely the web dev guy was also IT admin, tech support, and every other loosely related thing. |
| /u/TalkersCZ And as likely it was IT company, where you had CEO, 1 admin person who managed offices, contracts etc, 1 sales person, +-10 developers and some testers and support people. With this phrasing I would argue that its pretty much guaranteed. Most likely he invoked bro code and agreed with everybody not to come. |
| /u/dirkman242 IT admin here: you're absolutely right. Let's say he kept all mail on the spool until he personally approves it, that would break so many ethical rules. If HR got a whif of that, oh boy. |
| /u/GlitterLippy Plot twist: she was HR |
| /u/ryanCrypt I'll play along for the the humor. But web dev usually means writing web pages, and these people don't usually manage email servers. |
| /u/DomzSageon yeah, that is usually for the admins, not the developer. (trust me, I'm an IT Support who performs some admin duties.) edit: to clarify, we manage the email accounts, but even I don't think we can block emails from reaching people. |
| /u/RestaurantBusy724 Even if we could we'd have to know she was gonna send it first. |
| /u/DomzSageon True! I was gonna say that too |
| /u/icewrathx You don't need to stop it from reaching people. Just as soon as you see it arriving in your own mailbox, delete it from the others. New-ComplianceSearch -Name $search -ExchangeLocation all -ContentMatchQuery '(c:c)(subject:"X")(from:"User@mail.net")‎' Start-ComplianceSearch -Identity $search -verbose New-ComplianceSearchAction -SearchName $search -Purge -PurgeType SoftDelete -Force -Confirm:$false -Verbose |
| /u/rejvrejv this guy unfortunately sysadmins |
| /u/Rainmaker526 You don't need control over the mailserver. You need control over your colleagues. https://xkcd.com/538/ |
| /u/SadITSupporter People keep saying this whenever this gets asked, and for the sake of the joke sure. But as the guy who manages the email server: The web Devs have no actual way of doing it, heck, even the sysadmins would have a hard time blocking a specific email that we don't know is coming. It doesn't make any sense. Not to talk about it'll cost you your job if caught. |
| /u/CuriousTech24 This s Is the biggest thing. He would literally have to be stalking her and reading every email of hers that she sends out the moment she sends it. And then have had s plan I n mind that when she randomly invited everyone he would delete the rest of the emails. |
| /u/RohelTheConqueror That's not even technically possible lol |
| /u/wallabee_kingpin_ It is technically possible if you're the email admin, but it's unlikely he would've been able to do it before the email was sent or before it was downloaded by other employees' email clients. Some servers (like Exchange) allow fully yanking an email out of someone's inbox even after they've downloaded it, but it's still very unlikely a web dev would've had that access and abused it. |
| /u/HousingNo4084 1) Web dev guys don't have any access to mail servers. 2) A so small company doesn't maintain a their own mail server. |
| /u/testtdk You really think that's more likely than everyone just being lazy? There are very few people in the jobs I've worked I'd want to go hiking with. |
| /u/ptvlm Extraordinarily unlikely. First off, web devs aren't sys admins, they'd have no direct control over email. Second, a company with 15 employees is very unlikely to be running their own mail servers in the first place, they'll almost certainly be using GMail or Outlook on Office365, so no broad server rights or scripting. Third, unless he somehow knew beforehand that the mail was going to be sent out, he'd have to go into each mailbox separately and delete the email after it had been delivered, and do so before anyone saw the email and without anyone noticing randomly disappearing emails. No, it's way more likely that most of the employees just don't want to go hiking in their downtime with a random co-worker, and this guy just happens to share that interest enough to have turned up. No conspiracy here, just a case of most people having better things to do. |
| /u/ghigo2008 Is there even a joke here? Web dev is not that type of job, I think its just a story |
| /u/MagYkHeap Tell me you don't know anything about IT without telling me. |
| /u/Spinning_Sky now the question is: crazy romantic or mad creepy? |
| /u/suesuesueveeyo Depends how good he is in bed |
| /u/Positive_Lychee_7736 The joke is probably about the guy pulling some shit so the others didn't see the email, since he already liked her and wanted alone time with her, but I don't think his job as a web developer really fits for that kinda thing |
| /u/Sea_Life4 He might not have developed a website for the sabotage, but maybe he had enough computer knowledge to pull off the task |
| /u/Simple_Magazine_3450 It's not the knowledge, it's a permissions issue. I know how to do it but I can't because I'm not the system admin. Then maybe he just asked his friend to help. |
| /u/PrivateJokerX929 or, call me crazy here, but since the company was only 15 people, bro just had to ask maybe 5 people who were thinking of showing up, to not show up so he could get some alone time. |
| /u/SwordfishIcy1171 no, he hacked the mainframe. |
| /u/Piideri "If he's in, then I'm in!" |
| /u/Daniel_Monti Or is not that crazy that in a 15 person group only two like/were available to go hiking. |
| /u/PrivateJokerX929 probably the most likely answer tbh |
| /u/Sea_Life4 Not* but yeah, your answer makes a lot more sense than mine. I also agree with your last point |
| /u/Acceptable-Size-2324 Only the companies hackerman came |
| /u/supaikuakuma The joke is the person writing "who's going to tell her" doesn't know what web devs do. |
| /u/timoumd Plus with just 15 people is not crazy none are interested. Any that have kids might not. Some might not like hiking, especially if it's long. Some might be guys with a SO that didn't want the appearance of going on a date with a coworker of it seemed like the attendence was low. |
| /u/Thea-the-Phoenix Some may just not like hanging out with coworkers that much. I have several I'm friendly with at work that I really wouldn't want to spend time with outside of work. |
| /u/timoumd And if her only mention of it was an email the day before is not that crazy. |
| /u/Crane_Train it's good this concept has been flushed out so thoroughly |
| /u/Different_Career1009 all the vagueposters like this one are much less clever than they think they are and far more annoying. |
| /u/vonralls Don't you know that if you are even remotely associated with Technology that you can do anything? |
| /u/guymer-derickt2z55 Right? That would be a sysadmin or IT guy. A web dev is too busy trying to center a div to intercept company emails. |
| /u/thatgirlzhao Also, I'm sorry, but I'm not going hiking with my co workers all weekend-and I actually like a lot of my co workers. |
| /u/ryanCrypt I don't think this is a joke. It's just a wholesome post about meeting someone. The "meme" in the title doesn't mean joke. It means "something that can signify meaning" |
| /u/Spinning_Sky the question isabout the "who's going to tell her"comment above |
| /u/ryanCrypt You're right that I missed that. Only comes up when I expand image. |
| /u/the_bad_religion The old man that likes fluffy boys here. The web dev was a former ex Marine with stealth training. He spent 13 months gaining access to each of the 15 people's houses. He had copies of the keys, floor blueprints, etc. Once he saw the email, he went to each of the houses at night, crawled into their bedrooms, and kiss each of them in the forehead while singing Hurt, by Johnny Cash. After that, he went to the kitchen and prepared a glass of milk for himself. He did the same on each of the houses. Then he went to the meeting with the girl in the photo. He couldn't hold it and told her to time how long he can pee. He peed for about 63 seconds, thanks to all the milk he drank. She was truly impressed and since then they have been together. |
| /u/Lost_Protection3139 So much crucial detail. This must be true. |
| /u/the_bad_religion Plot twist: I was Johnny Cash. |
| /u/Salty-Taro3804 Everybody be like "lol like the web dev has email control" and no one be like "wouldn't she find out the second she actually talks to any of the coworkers about the hike they all didn't go on" confirms the level of socialization of the average redditer. |
| /u/violentmark It's amazing how far down I had to scroll to find this comment. Imagine thinking every real social interaction in reality is like the ones you have with a NPC from a 2000s game. |
| /u/29pixxL_ A lot of people are saying that it probably means that the "Who's going to tell her" guy is implying that web dev guy did something to make the email only reach him, which would be very strange and not representative of what being a web dev is When I first read it though, I kinda thought that it was probably that all her coworkers consciously decided to help their web dev guy get with her by having only him go, and she's unaware of how it was coordinated |
| /u/just_kill_me_pls I hope your theory is the correct one because that would restore my faith in people. |
| /u/GottaUseEmAll Yeah, I'm choosing to believe that that's what happened. |
| /u/incorrectionguy Web devs have absolutely zero control over internal emails. Zero. He did nothing. |
| /u/cowflywins and also that he's not really into hiking but went because he liked her 😃 |
| /u/spaceinvader421 That makes more sense, but I still think the simplest explanation is the best: no one wants to go on a hike with their coworkers unless they're already interested in them romantically. |
| /u/Intelligent-Mango-52 As someone that organised work events for weekends, 13% turn out is pretty good! |
| /u/TunaPablito In Austria guy went hiking with his wife and she was "injured" and he didn't call for help until it was too late. So he planned all that to murder her. |
| /u/Aflockofants What a strange thing to post here. |
| /u/stayoutofthemines This was my thought, too. Everyone's focusing on the web dev thing instead of the hike thing. Don't they call it Alpine Divorce when a man leaves his wife to die in the mountains? |
| /u/BuddelTheWolp But what about a six year marriage anniversary screams "murder" to you? |
| /u/WappieK That's a true story but in this case and other posts about this topic people said that he was liking her long before the hike and therefor showed up. Just innocent love. The best access to a girl/woman you like is let her invite you basically. |
| /u/SixthSunday I thought it was about the 7 year itch and the viral trend of Alpine Divorce, which is when one romantic partner deliberately abandons the other in a remote, dangerous outdoor setting, such as a mountain or hiking trail |
| /u/coolfunnytypoguy I didn't see the "so, who's going to tell her" part and was absolutely fuming at OP posting this here. |
| /u/Foolsbry There's no joke, it's just a wholesome story about two people meeting. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or misinformed |
| /u/BuddelTheWolp Seriously. One half of the people here think he pulled some hackerman shit so the others wouldn't see the mail, and like no And the other half thinks he wants to murder her because they're on Reddit too much |
| /u/Imogynn Why does nobody ever think that maybe she's lying,? She sent one email to ask him out and claimed it was to a whole team. Fourteen typos, one real ask and a lie she's been living with |
| /u/testtdk Because that would just be a cute story, instead of some dark secret. |
| /u/puttputtxreader I mean, it would have come out after he had one conversation with a coworker, so probably not. |