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

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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.

OHs father was giving him a lift back to my house after he had spent a few nights at his parents. I

I sent a message to his dad saying to make some noise as he pulls up in the driveway as i wanted to "surprise oh when he came into the house ". I was wrestling myself into a fancy bra and stockings. Isent OH a message saying "I can't wait to enjoy you later, I'm not wearing any underwear, missed you xx" but I didn't send it to OH, I sent it to his fathers phone 🙈 and he got the message intended for his dad.

They pulled up quietly into the driveway. He had brought in one bag and went back out to the car for the other bag, his dad was apparently now looking at his phone and was a bit flustered and couldn't wait to get away asap and declined a cup of tea.

OH picked up his phone and stuck it in his pocket and came inside, only then he actually read the text and asked me what surprise I had planned .... Cue my sudden realisation that his dad had got a text, mortified. They are both John's so while I have markers after the name, the system failed me. It won't anymore.

A friend of mine playing it cool after a first date with a lovely man then sent a gushing message to her sister telling her how it went and how she was going to marry him. Her face when she realised she'd actually sent it to him!

This was about ten years ago now, and while they're not married as she'd predicted, they're very happy and have a lovely dd.

@MrsPetty Sorry but how did that reflect bad on your assistant whatever someone send her? This seems very petty to sack someone because they had sex...

A few years ago my son was filming himself in the car singing along to a well know disney song ,
putting every bit of effort and sole into this song full of character trying to reach the highest of notes ( son loves singing but cannot sing at all , so this makes it more funny) proceeds to send to me on watsapp to only realise he has ‘sent to all’
at his work which he was on his way driving too as singing that day ! He was absolutely mortified and he still can’t re watch it back as makes him cringe , wouldn’t be that bad if it was a small office team he worked for but in fact he works for a premiership football team it went to the chairman and coaches and staff everyone in his contact list at this football club 🤣🤣🤣🥸
Everyone found this hilarious (apart from my son of course ) ! x x x x x x

Why was she the one who had to leave and not the colleague who was using work time and computers to send explicit messages @MrsPetty ?

I think the message of this thread is you all need to slag people off less

I texted a rude meme to DP and sent it to a colleague by accident. He was driving to Scotland and his wife picked up his phone and read the message and WW3 broke out in their car for a few mins until I realised I'd messaged the wrong person and sent an apologetic text explaining it was meant for DP 🤦🏽‍♀️

On a recent teams meeting someone was in the middle of a talk and one of the kids was being really noisy. I turned around and said to them ‘will you just be quiet’. You guessed it, I hadn’t muted my mic! The speaker looked a bit sad that I didn’t like her speech but luckily I knew her quite well so just apologised.

Another very funny one was when DH and I just got together. We were sat in the living room when all of a sudden ‘sexy’ pics of his ex-wife came up on his Apple TV. The full works, tits, vag, pouting etc. We couldn’t work it out for ages until we realised that her Apple ID was still synced to the telly (or something along those line) I didn’t really understand it tbh. The worst thing was, when we told her, she didn’t give a shit and the pics came up on our screen regularly for several weeks until DH asked for her phone and did something so that it was no longer synced to our telly.

My boyfriend dumped me and the next day I got a text with just "Hi xx" on it. A few months later, after denying that he was seeing someone else, I found out her name....the same as mine, but minus the "e" at the end of Jane😂
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I had an assistant years ago at work who was really, really irritating. Another member of staff sent me an IM meant for her saying ‘I’m gonna f&ck you so hard you won’t sit down for a week’ 😂 She understood it was best she left with a standard reference rather than have a disciplinary….

That's a bit unfair. Surely it should have been the member of staff who sent the message should have been disciplined. I can't see that she did anything wrong.

This is a great thread, and deserves a place in classics, if it weren't for all the annoying pedantic posts about grey and blue ticks. No one cares

My daughter sent an email to a colleague describing another member of staff as "looking and smelling like a fish" - she accidentally sent a copy to the other member of staff.

I definitely don’t 🥱 🥱

I worked with my best friend and a horrible colleague in a team. BF and I would call on the drive home from work and slag off HC to decompress. After one difficult day I called BF and it rang through to voicemail where I left a horrible message along the lines of "I'm assuming you got caught up in work, hope HC isn't being a dickhead. She was really getting on my tits today talking about her snotty kids in the meeting. No one gives a fuck. Let's catch up later to resume our slag fest." Only it wasn't BF, it was HC's number I'd dialled (car bluetooth, I didn't pay enough attention) realised when I got home and felt the blood drain from my face.

She handed in her notice the following Monday. No bad feelings, she was horrible (blamed a colleague for her miscarriage, 'nicknamed' a client a slur, etc).

I was slagging person A off to person B , but texted person A.
luckily I didn’t use her name as I usually do I do put a nickname we use for her. Deleted and told her I was slagging off a friend 🤥🤣🤣

OP that person who wrote that hateful message clearly is lonely, jealous, bitter and frustrated that they can't get a man to propose to them. Probably can't even get a guy. Jealous Bitter Bitch describes that person. They're a loser and always will be. It must be hard to live in their sad skin.

It was a mistake and not a nude. Your boss defo over reacted

Emailed my deputy to tell her how fucking useless one of the managers had been, he hadn’t actioned anything he was meant to on a project which would fail if he didn’t get a move on. Accidentally sent it to the big boss. Oops. Got a big telling off for it.

Back in the day when it was all brick phones, I meant to send a friend a text about how much I liked my crush but he didn’t like me - can’t remember the exact message but I named him by name (altho im sure he knew anyway) and sent it to him by mistake, bad enough but then I got in a panic and somehow sent to him TWICE MORE, so embarrassing. Luckily he never mentioned it!! But my face was literally pulsing. That would be embarrassing enough now, as a 17 year old it was mortifying.

ohmigod I can't get over this one 😳😂😂

I am also just going to add that I KNOW many Gps are indeed working themsleves into an early grave. But I can speak only of my direct experience with my GP surgery. They have been unimpressive for some time. Covid did not help. I am literally talking about it now with a colleague who uses the same surgery and she has just told me that our surgey has apparently advertised for a locum so hopefully things will look up.

wrong thread!!! Sorry. (Ironic in some ways)

What was the not complimentary message that accompanied the picture share? Looks like someone in both what’s app groups will be getting blocked by the newly engaged person & the one making the not nice message meds to grow up!

It was World book day at primary school and children chose what to wear as a character. I hadn't realised the class whatsapp group had splintered off into sub-groups until a text was sent to the main group being derogatory about some of the children's costumes that were of a genre she and the people in the sub group didn't agree should be represented and had obviously been discussing it. The text remained there with no one posting afterwards for days.

This gave me a much needed laugh, thank you 😊