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Worst ever typo

32 replies

Eatmycheese · 25/12/2018 00:19

For a bit of a laugh

I was reminiscing with an old work colleague recently, and we were howling at the email I once sent to a large list of various highfalutin folk. Instead of the sentence reading "I will have to shut down the system at 5pm Friday" it read "I will have to shit down the system at 5pm Friday"

300+ people.

I'm not the only one who has made an utter twat of themselves in this way have ???

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64ChewsBrains · 25/12/2018 00:24

When the Scotsman hotel gym in Edinburgh was sold off and closed down, all of us members got an email apologising for any incontinence it might cause Grin

A few minutes later one of those “The sender has recalled the email...” messages came through. But as far as I can see that has no effect, apart from to make you imagine a person in an office going “oh shit, recall recall recall!”

WTFIsAGleepglorp · 25/12/2018 00:27

Not a typo, but a box check.

I sent an email to 'All'.

Then remembered I had forgotten to take the notifications off.

Over 2,500 notifications to state the email had been received, then read, read and deleted or deleted without reading.

Years later, I was still getting notifications.....

INeedNewShoes · 25/12/2018 00:35

Gleepglorp - this is hilarious. Thanks for sharing your mishap Grin

KeepServingTheFestiveSnogs · 25/12/2018 00:44

Mine doesn't count, because I spotted it before I sent it so I fixed it.

I used to work for for the City Council, but was working on a project with the County Council.

They were pissing me off, but I was trying (through gritted teeth) to be nice.

I sent an email which started "Dear Cunty". BUT I did spot it, and hastily shoved in the "o".

So I don't belong on this thread!

Normalnorman · 25/12/2018 00:47

Sent a text to my MIL arranging to meet with "We'll be at the fuck pond around 4pm"

LEMtheoriginal · 25/12/2018 00:48

Not an email rather a text. An intimate picture of myself sent to the chair of the PFA. "If you bring me a drink up you can have this" ffs i thought i was sendingvto dp to get him to bring me a drink

Normalnorman · 25/12/2018 00:51

Also remember reading about a cooking / recipe book which said "Season with salt and freshly ground black people"

AlexaAmbidextra · 25/12/2018 01:07

Cousin received directions to wedding venue stating, turn left at the T-junction and drive over the bride. 😂

Bottomplasters · 25/12/2018 01:09

I sent a ranty email to team leaders telling them to do their job properly and put:

Shit leads instead of shift leads!

It honestly was a mistake but my subconscious took over

GlitterPixie · 25/12/2018 01:11

Instead of the title Results I sent a group email titled Re sluts

ClandestineAdulation · 25/12/2018 01:13

Sending out an ‘anal’ report instead of an annual one to our board members...

I was mortified. Blush

Oratorio · 25/12/2018 01:17

For me it was a mail merge letter going out to several hundred people,referring to the local Cunty Council.

Freudian slip.

LittleLifeRaft · 25/12/2018 02:56

Not mine, but I used to have a colleague who used to abbreviate things regularly. It was mostly fine until she sent around the "Monthly Analysis" report with the email subject "Monthly Anal" Xmas Blush

CormoranStrike · 25/12/2018 08:56

My secretarial studies o grade paper included a typing section about evening classes, including French cookery.

I typed French cockery through the whole thing.

selkiesolstice · 25/12/2018 09:06

Funny! I'm laughing at the visual of shitting down a company.

Sounds like a thread to take seriously.

SheldonandPenny · 25/12/2018 10:02

This thread is hilarious.

marvellousnightforamooncup · 25/12/2018 10:05

Normalnorman

Sent a text to my MIL arranging to meet with "We'll be at the fuck pond around 4pm" Had you just bought a new hot tub?

WoodBurnerBabe · 25/12/2018 10:10

I often work with the Cunty Council and have made that mistake a couple of times as well.

Kind Retards as a sign off to the mental health crisis team was a belter as well

Hezz · 25/12/2018 10:42

I sent a letter home to 60 parents asking them to sent their DCs willies in a carrier bag for the school trip.

Got a load of stick for that one

ICouldBeSomebodyYouKnow · 25/12/2018 12:20

A recent job applicant provided an email address for a referee. He worked at "Xshite" council. she wasn't selected for interview

ICouldBeSomebodyYouKnow · 25/12/2018 12:20

Bold fail: shite instead of shire , you get the idea...

tccat · 25/12/2018 12:37

Bank accunt instead of bank account, client was busty instead of busy, clit instead of client, defecate instead of deficite, I could go on...

ShotsFired · 25/12/2018 12:56

This is why I NEVER address an email before I have written and double checked it. Far too easy to click send.

ShotsFired · 25/12/2018 12:59

Oh and my MD recent sent an email from his phone as he was boarding a flight. It was only meant to put a rocket under the sales managers, but in his haste he made some typo which basically read as though he'd asked for names of people to fire.

Luckily it was only a short haul flight...

greathat · 25/12/2018 23:10

@Hezz now wondering if you work in my kids school. Although I reckon that one will have been done a few times :)

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