Tell me your horror stories of wrongly sent/forwarded messages to help me cope.

ShitlandIslands · 2022-10-10T15:33:08+00:00

I'm dying of cringe here. I feel so tense.I didn't even do the crime but I've got palpitations here. My mate just sent our Cookery WhatsApp group a photo of her boyfriend proposing to her. Another member of the WhatsApp group forwarded the photo to a different WhatsApp group, let's say a Jigsaw WhatsApp group, with a not-so-complimentary message. Unbeknownst to the forwarder, the newly engaged mate is also in the Jigsaw WhatsApp group. The Jigsaw WhatsApp group is very quiet. Eerily quiet. Oh my god. My actual heart. [WhatsApp groups aren't actually Cookery and Jigsaws - invented to protect the identities of those involved]. I don't have anything to relate this experience to. The worst it got for me was when I once text my boss a picture intended for DP. DP was, say, Dave in my contact list and my boss was, say, Davey. The picture was of a terrible, terrible, non-risen, beige stodge-fest of a cake I'd made on my day off with the accompanying message "I'm a shit head". After I'd reassured my boss I wasn't having a breakdown (just bad a baking), it was all fine. I changed DP's name in my contact list very soon after.

TimeforZeroes · 10/10/2022 16:36

Just following because this is such a good thread. I once butt dialled a colleague whilst I was in the car getting off with our other colleague. And it was all secret.

AriettyHomily · 10/10/2022 16:37

I texted the school whatsapp group instead of DH to say 'thank goodness xxx didn't get the same school as DD'

That didn't go down well.

Gubu · 10/10/2022 16:39

About 15 years ago, a former colleague forwarded a customer's credit card details to a contact list of about 50 people. She literally ran around the office squealing in horror when she realised what she'd done.

hopeishere · 10/10/2022 16:39

OMG @AriettyHomily I'm dying for you.

I think someone once said something less than complimentary about me on a WhatsApp but deleted it quickly so I didn't know what was said.

BusySittingDown · 10/10/2022 16:40

What was the "not very complimentary message"? [Nosey]

I've never done this but live in fear of it happening!

I've had it done to me but nothing major/juicy, just a friend having two BusySittingDowns in their contacts and they asked me what time a work meeting was. It was nothing to do with me and I just said "whoops, wrong Busy!" Laughed about it and moved on.

MarshaBradyo · 10/10/2022 16:40

Oh my that quietness is what’s getting me

Funny but also bad

Karrots · 10/10/2022 16:41

In a previous role many years ago we all used IM in the office to communicate with each other.

My colleague was complaining about another colleague whilst also on a chat with our boss (who I sat next to) - what could go wrong? He asked her a question and meaning to post a rhetorical question on the other chat she replied with "WHY DON'T YOU DO SOME FUCKING WORK?!!"

He jumped up from his chair. It was a very funny day.

Bikeybikeface · 10/10/2022 16:46

I sent a very snobby judgy message, disparaging my OHs mother to my OH instead of my friend. It was rude and I had a lot of apologising to do, rightly so. Me and the mil get on fine now that I’ve grown up and she realised I’m here to stay.

somebody2lava · 10/10/2022 16:46

I once grounded my teenage daughter for some typical teenage thing and she took great offence. She went into my phone directory and changed about the names of a few of my contacts. Following morning I was slightly hung over. I thought I was texting my boy friend of the time a saucy message in response to his " is everything ok today ?" Message. I thought he was being lovely about me having to cancel the previous night out as my daughter was being a pain. But no. I was actually messaging the woman whose dog I'd just taken into foster after her husband collapsed and had a life changing stroke. She was enquiring about THE DOG and how I was coping with him and I basically replied saying thatI couldn't believe I was lucky to have such an understanding partner and I needed a bloody good shagfest at the earliest possible opportunity.

Thankfully she was very understanding and even laughed about it but even now I want to die just thinking about it.

Pollydon · 10/10/2022 16:48

Yup, "slagging" my boss off ( in her mind, I was actually trying to text my mum to ask if I'd be reasonable to go to HR about her trying to stop me from going to hospital appointments on works time. I was on the 2 week pathway for suspected breast cancer).
I remember feeling physically sick when I realized what I'd done. She screeched into my office shouting and screaming, another colleague actually called HR down to calm things.
She was in trouble with HR because she hadn't informed them of my situation and had gone against company policy in denying me time off for appointments, so it actually worked out well. Also I hadn't used any bad language or made any personal remarks about her.

xogossipgirlxo · 10/10/2022 16:52

somebody2lava · 10/10/2022 16:46

I once grounded my teenage daughter for some typical teenage thing and she took great offence. She went into my phone directory and changed about the names of a few of my contacts. Following morning I was slightly hung over. I thought I was texting my boy friend of the time a saucy message in response to his " is everything ok today ?" Message. I thought he was being lovely about me having to cancel the previous night out as my daughter was being a pain. But no. I was actually messaging the woman whose dog I'd just taken into foster after her husband collapsed and had a life changing stroke. She was enquiring about THE DOG and how I was coping with him and I basically replied saying thatI couldn't believe I was lucky to have such an understanding partner and I needed a bloody good shagfest at the earliest possible opportunity.

Thankfully she was very understanding and even laughed about it but even now I want to die just thinking about it.

😂

lilroo87 · 10/10/2022 16:54

I once went to send an email to a colleague bitching about the colleague who'd sent me the email but replied to original colleague instead. It was awful and they went to HR and I had to issue a big apology. They didn't speak to me for months

PolkaDotMankini · 10/10/2022 16:56

I'm also nosy and want to know what she said!

I haven't actually done this but I have two people with the same name. One works for a company we're going to sack. Another works for a huge customer. I have to be very careful to double-check emails before sending.

PuppyMonkey · 10/10/2022 16:56

Somebody I once worked with did the classic and “replied to all” slagging off the big boss when he thought he was replying to just the original sender of a message. Big boss was amongst those who saw the tirade, along with the rest of us. Colleague got the sack.

Sux2buthen · 10/10/2022 16:58

I once text a coworker to complain about another. Sent it by mistake to the one I was moaning about. Unfortunately I was sitting right next to her.
It didn't feel good!

VenusClapTrap · 10/10/2022 16:58

A long time ago I worked in a central government department. I was drafting a briefing and required some info from another team, so sent the document to my friend, who happened to work in that team. She edited it to add the data, and emailed it back to me.

I then forwarded the email chain including the document to my line manager, for her to check, as I was quite new. Line manager decided it was excellent and forwarded it to the whole department, with some kind of comment suggesting it was useful reading for everyone.

What I hadn’t spotted, and what my line manager hadn’t spotted, was a PS at the end of my friend’s email to me, asking “How was the speed dating?”

I only discovered this at a whole-department meeting later that afternoon, when the eagle eyed director, who didn’t miss a trick, ended the meeting with “And of course what we’re all dying to know is, how did Venus’s speed dating go?”

asitwere · 10/10/2022 17:00

somebody2lava · 10/10/2022 16:46

I once grounded my teenage daughter for some typical teenage thing and she took great offence. She went into my phone directory and changed about the names of a few of my contacts. Following morning I was slightly hung over. I thought I was texting my boy friend of the time a saucy message in response to his " is everything ok today ?" Message. I thought he was being lovely about me having to cancel the previous night out as my daughter was being a pain. But no. I was actually messaging the woman whose dog I'd just taken into foster after her husband collapsed and had a life changing stroke. She was enquiring about THE DOG and how I was coping with him and I basically replied saying thatI couldn't believe I was lucky to have such an understanding partner and I needed a bloody good shagfest at the earliest possible opportunity.

Thankfully she was very understanding and even laughed about it but even now I want to die just thinking about it.

Jesus!

The “I’m a shit head” tale really made me laugh.

Remainiac · 10/10/2022 17:01

During lockdown when our group was doing zoom quiz nights, one of the women messaged one of the others very disparagingly about a third woman. Unfortunately, instead of messaging privately she posted it on the group chat under Everyone and an almighty row ensued which was never resolved, not least because the messagee refused to own up that she was the intended recipient thus leaving the messenger twisting in the wind.
So embarrassing 🙈

ChilliBandit · 10/10/2022 17:06

I was once part of a whole office zoom meeting, about 400 of us. The presenter was wittering about carbon off setting when one of the directors started going on about corporate greenwashing bullshit in the whole team chat. For about 10 minutes we got to hear what he really thought before of the other directors made him realise what was happening. I mean we were all thinking it anyway…

Growlybear83 · 10/10/2022 17:07

I had a mastectomy and DIEP reconstruction when I was diagnosed with breast cancer several years ago. A few months later, I had minor corrective surgery to tidy everything up, including liposuction around the scar across my stomach/hips. The bruising a couple of days later was quite spectacular - I was black, purple, and yellow from just below my hip to just below my breasts. I took two photos and thought I had sent them to my daughter with the title 'look at my magnificent buttocks'. Except my finger slipped on my contact list on my phone and I actually sent it to the headteacher of a large secondary school that I worked for at the time. Thankfully he was very discrete 😂

PuppyMonkey · 10/10/2022 17:10

@Growlybear83

ordinarilyordinary · 10/10/2022 17:12

I had invited some friends of my uncle's round for dinner. Had never met them before, and they were American. I was planning a big Scottish feast of scallops/Venison wellington/haggis etc. the works. I emailed them to ask about dietary requirements and they replied they were vegetarian.
I forwarded their email onto my husband moaning and frustrated text along the lines of "Aghhh! And all the hard work I've gone into, not to mention the expense ! Grrr" ( actually I hadn't bought any of it yet, and a vegetarian meal was easy to prepare.) I was more frustrated at the last minute nature of the response.
But didn't I copy in the original couple.
Omg. There was no wriggling out of that one.

We got on really well, and the email was never mentioned so they took us out for dinner a few days later.
They ate meat that night... 🧐

Bumpsadaisie · 10/10/2022 17:13

What did the Jigsaw group person say that was not complimentary? We MUST know!

C1N1C · 10/10/2022 17:17

I was at uni doing a postdoc and was dating at the time. I was in the lab and sent an "I love you" email to my girlfriend... only to get a string of question marks from my boss a few seconds later...

I replied very quickly that was was so sorry and it wasn't meant for her... after which she ran into the lab in tears of laughter!

CorvusPurpureus · 10/10/2022 17:20

We were taken over by Scary Big Boss.

Colleague & I were happily chatting about something harmless on the whole staff chat, whilst bitching on a private convo about SBB & other stuff.

Colleague asked a question - something like 'what are the arrangements for X conference?'

I replied: 'my understanding is we all get our drinks spiked so they can tattoo "Property of Scary Big Boss" on our arses. Well, except <insert name of departmental brown noser>. She'll just drop her pants & bend over.'

Colleague had not been posting in our private chat.