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

[ShitlandIslands]

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.

@ThirtyThreeTrees

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When I was younger I did some online dating. One date was with a man who I found particularly undesirable. He was not a terrible person but he had dodgy ethics and views and I got the Ick in an extreme way. Anyway I wanted to fill in a friend on the experience and listed all his shortcomings as I saw them in an email… which I sent by accident to the man himself instead of to my friend (they had similar first names and the auto complete in the email program jumped to the wrong conclusion). Needless to say he was not impressed. I still hang my head in shame about it today.

I did learn a lesson from it—not to slag people off as you never know who is listening (maybe even the person concerned) and it can so easily backfire and make the slagger off (in that case, me) look lower than the low.

@zen1 that's awful but hilarious

😂 this is too much

You shouldn't have laughed at someone even though they were correct and you were actually wrong, then possibly you'd have not been laughed at back.

Same. I’m getting the cold sweat cringe just reading some of these

I had a message accidentally sent to me once, it made me want to bleach my brain 🤮

It was ex FIL, meant for his new girlfriend. It was an extreme sext. Found out he had a latex fetish.

I forwarded it to ex, he had to suffer too. He phoned him and told him what he'd done 😂

Director A at work sent an email to all the other directors with some proposed changes to the business. Director B replied, completely undermining A, some quite personal criticism that was uncalled for, and accidentally sent the reply to all staff, not all directors

Joking apart, it's awful to see yourself criticised. It happened to me once and my relationship with that person was never the same again

Currently on maternity leave, and DP working from home. Baby and I woke up and I wrote a WhatsApp saying “Are you on the phone? Fancy a nappy change? 😬) and sent it to my boss instead of my DP.

So awful!

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I have been the recipient of a email sent to me by mistake ( or was it?) Slanging me off.

My local authority. Asking for dirt on my parenting ( I was doing a SEN tribunal against the LA) I had just given birth and most of the staff at school was happy to slag me off "IncessantNameChanger was ten minutes late to pick up!" Five days after giving birth with pre eclampsia. I died a thousand deaths inside. Then my lovely helper told me to get over myself. I used it as evidence in my case, brazened it out and won. My whole case was about school and the LA lieing. So they did me a favour. Imagine their faces when it came up in my evidence?

So thank you arsewipes, you unknowingly transformed my sons life.

I once sent my boss details of a gynae op I was having but accidentally sent it to my daughter's friend's dad who had a similar name. I apologised for the oversharing.

You probably gave her a much needed laugh at just the right time. 😀

A friend going through a restructure / redundancy process a few years ago messaged me to say how badly her boss was managing the whole process, she's clueless sort of thing. She sent it to her boss by mistake. We spent ages trying to disect if boss would have seen it before she deleted it. Tests, timing of blue ticks etc. She did lose her job and never knew if that had contributed.

A parent shared porn links in a cricket club parents WhatsApp group.

My friend is a vicar and has the same first name as a young woman in the congregation. Young woman's boyfriend (also part of the church) sent his girlfriend a text, detailing what he'd like to do to her that evening. Sent it to my friend the vicar instead.

It was beyond mortifying so my friend just deleted it and pretended it never happened! The boyfriend never brought it up either.

I accidentally sent a girl a picture of my 💩 who I was constantly messaging through our PhD thesis. That was horrifying.

I copied an argument via TEAMS chat with my CEO to a colleague with the caption - 'I'm going to fucking swing for him in a minute' but accidentally pasted it back into the very chat I'd copied it from....cringe.

Yes, how come you saw the blue ticks @ShitlandIslands if you weren't the sender?

I sent a picture of myself trying on a new bikini to my sons scout leader. So very embarrassing and I think he thought I was flirting with him despite him being horribly unattractive and very camp (and married!)

When I used to game, I put out a public server-wide message intended for my guild mates about how the team I was in was utter shit and I couldn't wait to be done with it. My guild mates and the people in public chat found it hilarious, I was mortified 🙈 I would have been able to live it down if the team hadn't been so lovely, (they just were properly shit at playing). I thought they'd kick me out of the team, but they didn't, I was their last hope to complete the mission, nobody else would do it because they were that bad.

We'd already been trying to complete this half hour mission for over an hour, we finally scraped through several hours later. Ended up staying friends with one of them long after that and was really glad to have met her. I was humbled even further when I found out she was a bilingual cardiac doctor, much smarter and more successful than I ever could be.

I am also confused about the blue ticks...? Shame as this thread is quite funny but it's annoying when it's a fake post

I'll be optimistic and think it was the OP who did this and wants support through knowing others have done the same. I did think it strange they were so anxious ('My actual heart') if it was someone else.

Seems silly on an anonymous forum but you never know.

I former neighbour of ours had obviously been creating a spreadsheet of all his passwords, which he then inadvertantly emailed to a few people instead of the doc he intended to send. Cue a lot of panic calls and emails!

I found some intimate photos of my husband fucking another woman ( he thought he had hidden them in an album on the laptop). I wrote an enraged message to my friend about how I was going to confront him, sent it to OH by mistake.
He shat his pants and I could not plan my revenge……

When I worked in investment banking, one of the analysts used to send a weekly email to all of our clients setting out corporate developments and industry news in the sector.

He'd called this mailing list a name and, while trying to email his mate, inadvertently sent it instead to all of our clients with the headline: "Tiger in anal sex shocker" and a link to the article in The Sun.

Mass panic and arse-covering ensued but my favourite client reply was: "So much more interesting than the usual boring crap you send us".