Tell me your work email disasters - make me feel better.

[Craicademic]

I just signed off an email to a group of about 15 people - including three members of my senior management team - with "Enjoy weekend head".

Fuck.

When I realised my mistake, I just ran away and closed my emails down for the weekend. I'm now drinking wine.

I keep going all hot when I remember my mistake.

Please make me feel better.

That's properly tickled me

I tend to email myself to do lists, one time I was quite stressed and sent myself one with the subject URGENT JOBS!! and a load of bullet points in red capital letters, then accidentally it to a client.. I couldn't decide which was worse, they would either think I was a nightmare boss sending that to a junior, or the truth that I was a nutter shouting at myself via email 😏

An old facilities manager emailed all staff (1000+ people) with an email titled "willies needed"

... She meant wellies (they were dealing with some kind of flood in the basement)

Expressed my opinion of a change the IT Dept had insisted on us making in somewhat unflattering terms. Managed to send it to the entire company (4,000+) instead of 2 or 3 colleagues. That was Friday PM. Saturday morning we left for 2 week holiday in Ireland. Spent most of it wondering what would be facing me on my return.

Came back to work to find (i) an instruction from IT that company wide emails had now been disabled and (ii) a "don't you ever do that again" email from my rather understanding boss.

My friend sent out a WhatsApp message to her office inviting them to a charitable event. In it she apologized for the WhatsApp message, explaining that she'd kept licking herself out all morning and was now stood outside her house waiting for a man to sort her out!

i was in the receiving end of one which still makes me laugh.

Emailed someone to invite them to speak at our regional event. Immediately after my email i got an email back saying something like - wowsers Pam look at this - shall I say no and hold out for the [huge international annual event which wouldn't have local groups like that anyway]

i cringed and laughed alot

I once ended my email with best retards to senior management

I also wrote Best Retards at the end of an email.

I once emailed my whole team for 40 Customer Services Agents asking for their shift preferences. The title of the emails was “Shit Preferences.”

Not me but during the height of COVID I worked in a hospital and a hospital-wide email about fit testing for surgical masks called it Tit testing 😂😂😂 it was wonderful, still makes me laugh now

Me too. To directors of a multinational bank 🥵

I was having a discussion with a close friend at work about who and who not from the team to invite to a social event (and why) and accidentally cc'd it to the whole team. Recalled it but fairly sure that at least some of them got it!

No but if it makes you feel better I once sent a ‘suggestive’ text to my own aunt as she had the ‘female’ name of my then boyfriend (ie Daniel and Danielle). Fucking mortifying, she’s not the type I could laugh it off with either. We just pretend it never happened but whenever I remember I go 🤦🏼‍♀️

Supplier was being a pain about something so I whinged to her contact in the office about her general unreasonableness.

Sent it to her instead of colleague. Thankfully I didn't write what I was thinking about her, which was a lot more robust than what I actually said in the email.

She sent a frosty 'I don't think you meant to send this to me.'

Not me but my boss (CEO) thought he had emailed me, but he had hit reply instead of forward and said “Does Workshy John ever do anything right? He has completely cocked up this simple task. I know he’s not bright, but even an idiot like him should be able to manage this. Can we get rid of him?” Boss found out what he had done and told me to call Workshy John “and not apologise”. I called WJ and gave him a Priti Patel apology - I’m sorry you saw that email. Thankfully he left shortly after and is now someone else’s problem.

'Could you please stop at my desk to take a look next time you're pissing?'

I sat on the end desk en route to the toilets as well. This was to a very proper woman who must have been horrified. I apologised, she pretended she hadn't noticed.

I received an email from a celebrity client ranting and raging and demanding the impossible within an unrealistic deadline. I forwarded the email to my boss saying "will the world really end if (name) doesn't get what she wants". Except I didn't press forward, I pressed reply.

In a building that was changing to mixed ownership - 2,000

Please ensure pubic areas are tidy and you keep things confidential.

I once had a secretary that emailed each of our top customers the other one's pricing

Both buyers had the same first name
It cost us a lot of money and she was fired

That is way worse than you missing off 1 letter of a word!
Enjoy your weekend and don't worry

Oh my god that’s one of the funniest and most mortifying things I’ve ever read 😂😂😂

I sent a group e mail suggesting that we should sack the accountant and copied in ... the accountant.

He's gone.

Two memorable ones at places I have worked: Dept head was having an affair with a member of staff. We found out when he sent a flirty email about what he’d like to do with her to the whole department. Closely followed by another email saying DO NOT READ THE PREVIOUS EMAIL!!! So of course, then everyone did.

Second was when the head of the institute sent out a have a good summer email at the end of term and one person, instead of sending a comment to her friend managed to send it to all 500 employees in the institute telling us all how she was looking forward to her beach holiday as she thought her new bikini made her boobs look great. Cue hundreds of people replying with 👍🏻.

I managed to mash together ‘don’t hesitate to contact me’ and ‘please do get in touch’

so it turned into an email signed off with ‘if you have any queries please don’t get in touch’

I have received an email for something that said to bring my willies to new my feet dry!!

@QforCucumber - I thought that was going to come out as 'please don't hesitate to touch me'!