A Kansas City station’s traffic report ‘out sick’ email went viral

By Matt Collins Article may include affiliate links

Every day thousands of people call in sick to work — but when Kansas City traffic reporter Nick Vasos sent an email saying he’d be out sick, his email ended up being sent to Nexstar Media Group newsrooms around the country.

• It appears that an email with the subject line “Nick our (sic) sick” was sent to a group listserv for breaking news that is sent to employees all over the country by accident.
• That triggered a slew of well wishes from Nexstar stations across the country and the hashtags “#PrayersForNick,” “#NickIsSick” and “#NexstarNick” began showing up online.
• It was spread next to the “#NexstarNation” hashtag as well.

https://twitter.com/AustinKellerman/status/1197699510941704192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197699510941704192&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbc4i.com%2Fnews%2Fu-s-world%2Freporter-accidentally-emails-entire-company-to-call-off-work-entire-company-responds%2F

Never been more proud to manage my inbox #NickIsSick #GetWellSoon #NexstarNation #NexstarNick pic.twitter.com/AH3Gb24nsr

— Grant Lodes (@GrantLodes) November 22, 2019

The entire @NexStarMedia footprint is wishing some dude named Nick “get well wishes” on the breaking news chain. It’s incredible. Every station is chiming in. #PrayersForNick

— Dan Gross (@DJG_Music) November 22, 2019

• Eventually, Nexstar IT (and self proclaimed “party pooper”) had to jump in and shut down the group in order to avoid flooding the system with “thousands” of emails.
• The note also requested that workers stop replying to the email so the list could be restored and used for its rightful purpose — communicating breaking news.

https://twitter.com/Holtzue/status/1197703239950569472

• Vasos’ station, Fox affiliate WDAF, even set up a “shrine” to Vasos.

https://twitter.com/AbbyEden/status/1197917446793048064