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.

I was once talking to a family about the psychotherapy I had just started and that I was 'probably still crazy though!'

Somehow I captured the soundbite as an audio message and sent it to the guy I'd just started seeing.

I messaged him saying 'Please delete the voice message I just sent!' and he never mentioned it, so who knows...

I once copied in a mass mail group on a message that said, if I send an email to this mass email, will they all get it? Like a virtual chicken and egg situation

Not sure what happened that day really

I was pregnant, if that's an excuse

We have a family chat with my brother, sister and their partners and all my kids, nieces and nephews and there partners, we use this to arrange family get together, say happy bday to each other etc
Recently I was away with my sister and BILat their apartment abroad , we were meant to be going to a neighbours party but at the last minute they decided not to come so I went alone ,
later after a few drinks I realised I didn’t have a key so txt in the family chat “ please don’t lock me out bIL “ , unfortunately I didn’t look at my phone again that night as more drinks were flowing, in the morning I checked my messages only to see Id typed “please don’t lick me out BiL ,.
you can imagine the replies I received lol

Yes, you are right. In a group chat the ticks do indeed go blue when everyone has read the message. But only for messages that you send. As I said in my post 😂

You only get blue ticks as the sender, op...
If you just wanted a fun thread of anecdotes you could have said

Hmm, it’s true. You only get the blue ticks on your own messages. You don’t see any ticks on anyone else’s….. 🤔

My ex was knocking the door I sent a message to dd saying don't open the door its ex but I sent it TO MY EX he sends me one right back demanding to know just what the fuck is that supposed to mean? we are horrified and decided to style it out saying as I knew it was him we didn't need to open the door just send ds out in a minute......I think he bought it

My story involves badgers fighting in a sack, but I’m less inclined to tell it, if the OP isn’t genuine.

If any of my friends are on here, I’ve just outed myself with the badgers in a sack reference - everyone knows it….

In the early days of email, one of our male student interns accidentally sent a very vivid account to his girlfriend of what he had done and wanted to do at his next assignation accidentally to the whole department. His shame was like nothing else I had seen before or since. Surprisingly the porno elements of the email I have forgotten but the bit about her wearing the fox tail remains burned into my memory.

Ohhhh my apologies, apparently I have lost my ability to read written words 😳

I was much younger and immature. A girl I worked with was a nightmare, her DM was one of our managers so she got away with murder and acted like management herself. She was also notorious for telling tales and repeating our conversations to management about us all if we didn't do her work. It made for a not nice working environment and everyone on edge when she was in.

So, after one closing shift where she sat "doing paperwork" and left me doing the work, I wasnt too happy. This boiled over when she informed me she had swapped my day off for hers the following week. Despite knowing I had plans with our colleague and we had purchased tickets to an event. I sent a very very large message to the other colleague about her. Using her name multiple times. But instead of sending it to our colleague I sent it to her. It was back in the days where it would say "sending..." and take a few moments. Those moments when you realised you had sent it to the wrong person. I frantically pulled the battery out of the phone and threw it at the floor for good measure. Didnt help, the messages still sent. I then didnt know what to do so followed it up with a "that wasnt for you". As if she was unsure.

When I was 18 ( many moons ago ) I went on a night out , too many shots. I had work the next day , I thought I’d be fine stupidly! The next day came around and I phoned my boss saying I had tummy troubles , throwing up ect didn’t want any body else to catch what I had ( little white lie 🤣 ) few hours later my friend text me saying what a good night she had , I thought I was texting her back and text my boss with tmi on how hungover I was and how I couldn’t cope with going into work because of our night out. He wasn’t best pleased! Believe it or not i kept my job! I was certain I was gonna get the sack! Luckily he did find the funny side a few weeks later. After this I was careful with whom I was texting haha!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1857334-Anyone-who-remembers-MarmaladeTwatkins-PTA-cake-sale-Lemon-Drizzle-arse-of-a-woman-come-here-please

This is an absolute classic of the genre. Very long so you might just want to read OP's posts.

I know of a situation where a HR person sent an email about a staff member to the staff member's boss. Along the lines of plans to make her redundant and saying something unprofessional also about her eg about her appearance. Appalling.

The person in question had access to her boss's emails as his PA. She ended up with a decent payout, afaik - in addition to her redundancy payment.

I once sent a very long message to a friend moaning about how much another friend was annoying me…guess which one I sent it to 😖

A friend WhatsApped me telling me the sad news that her mum had passed away. As I went to reply, my finger accidentally touched a grinning exploding skull emoji sticker that I had recently used in a chat with another person, sending it straight away. I was mortified and so panicked I couldn’t remember how to delete it for both of us.

My landlady once texted me describing her terrible diarrhoea in graphic detail 😬

Years ago at work back when I was very going and also used to use my work email for personal as well (no need now since smart phones and no text messaging limits, only my sister and mum have my work email now) I sent an absolutely foul story about a friend having a one night stand with a lady then turning on the light and realising she’d come on, meant for my best friend but I sent it to a co worker by mistake as he’d emailed me about something. Ran over to him quick asking him to delete it but I bet he didn’t, and tbf we ended up becoming friends and I know he absolutely wouldn’t have batted an eyelid at the story but at the time I was horrified, thought he’d report me to HR etc. My face was so hot and red!

@LavenderfortheBees I’ve only read two of the OP’s post on that thread and felt like I was in an episode of Motherland!

I had an ex-boyfriend named "Michael." My now DH is named "Michael." I sent a slightly mushy, very warm and long email to the ex since he had done something very nice for me and I was feeling nostalgic about the years we spent together. When DH came home from work, he was looking at me a little weirdly and then, quite hilariously, started dropping little things I had written in the email. Horror! Obviously, my email populated with DH "Michael" not ex Michael. I spent the entire evening apologizing and apologizing. We laughed about it, but yikes. I never made that mistake again.

In the middle of a situation, family fallouts with phones ringing and texts pinging, so thank you so much for making me laugh.

*very young

@VenusClapTrap and how DID the speed dating go? 😜😜

Not a message but a phone call from a junior colleague interrupted my Saturday morning lie in.

He told me he wouldn't be able to make it to work and thought he got food poisoning in his grandmother's house the evening before. Went into a long story about how she was getting old & forgetful so maybe she didn't cook everything properly. He also did the very poorly voice and fake coughed several times.

Not sure how wild his Friday night was but he was clearly still drunk as we don't work Saturdays!!!