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.

I once wrote a report on erratic network performance. A company was suing another company who had put the network in as it didn't work properly. I accidentally did a search and replace all and changed every occurrence of erratic to erotic. Then i sent it to the client. They saw the funny side luckily.

We used to use an acronym in my work for proof of ownership- POO- but only internally.

I once emailed a customer without thinking and asked if she could please send me her poo.

I ended up with a very confused customer on the phone, luckily she saw the funny side.

Accidentally emailed some colleagues asking for a shagging list rather than a snagging list!

This cheered one of them up, who’s never got over emailing colleagues enquiring whether any of them wanted an extra shit on the floor (should’ve been shift)!

These have got me crying with laughter, hope they’ve made you feel better OP!

I was an intern in Germany whilst a student for a large global firm. Was given a company email account which was still a bit of a novelty at the time. Spoke (attempted to speak) German all day with colleagues and conducted my work in German so didn’t think twice when emailing my friend in English moaning about my supervisor and using a few choice words…until I got a bounce back email from IT saying due to foul language detected the email had been flagged. I was absolutely terrified every time my supervisor’s phone rang for the rest of the placement!

I once sent an invitation to a seminar about Christianity to what I thought was a small group of work friends. Unbeknownst to me, IT had recently grouped the mailing list together with many many other internal mailing lists that they had deemed defunct.

My invitation was sent to hundreds of people across our global company. I received very angry messages from people who did not care for religion for weeks afterwards. Luckily my boss was very understanding.

Samsung autocorrect is a law unto its own its currently correcting "to" to "yo" and I DONT KNOW WHY 😂

I once went out for lunch and emailed the entire off to say 'I was just pooping out for lunch'. I was so mortified!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I once signed off an email apologising for any inconvenience.

Except I wrote 'apologies for any incontinence caused'

Emailed very important client called named Angus bit missed our the "g".. Still cringe thinking about it..

Not exactly me but……

Looking back my password was too easy to watch/workout/learn.

A pupil learnt mine and emailed all my colleagues with a picture of a huge turd, late one night.

First thing I knew of this was being hauled in front of the, slightly insecure, deputy head who thought I’d sent it just to her.

Others saw the funnier side of it all.

I once wrote to a "Dear Anal". 🫢😩

Haha that made me laugh.

Not an email, but i work in marketing for a fashion company. I published an item of clothing live on the website and accidentally wrote "fuck egg blue" instead of "duck egg blue". Only realised when a few customers emailed saying theres a rude word on our website.

I once had this awful boss. He looked like Mr Bean, but Mr Bean is more competent. We were not allowed to speak in meetings unless he spoke to us. One day sent a really rude email to me that said 'are you really that stupid'. I meant to forward it to colleague to show them and had a bit of a rant. I pressed reply not forward....

When I worked in marketing I wrote some copy for a brasserie that had recently opened. I unwittingly spelt it brassiere throughout the whole article. The client was very kind in correcting me but I felt like a complete tool.

I sent an email to my manager complaining about a new consultant and how incompetent they were, and accident sent it to the consultant!! For some reason because he was on my mind I put his name in the "to" field

I sent an email to about 50 staff members reminding them to plan their shits around the busy times of day. I meant shifts!

Not me but a colleague on a very boring and drawn out Teams call where senior management were really coming across as incompetent. Said colleague was using the chat function to slag off presenters to her team mate. One of the managers said oh perhaps (person) could share the spreadsheet with us now. Of course when she shared her screen the first thing that came up was the full chat convo. She was desperately trying to close her screen and move to the spreadsheet but it took at least a minute to load. The comments were brutal but not without substance

I was writing to a senior manager named Chris outlining something that had gone badly wrong and what we were going to do about it. All very professional, except for the typo which meant the message began with the exasperated exclamation “Dear Christ”.

I signed off an email to an important client "Kind retards" instead of regards. 🫠

@tillytoodles1 and @Littleworkaholic have me crying with laughter 🤣

A few years ago we had a manager who was a complete cow, but was leaving. A colleague emailed me stating that she was 'counting down the days until bitchtits leaves, she probably stomps round at home in a pair of jackboots while cracking the whip over her husband '
Unfortunately everyone, including the manager was copied into the email.
Fortunately, everyone including the higher manager thought it was hilarious.

When DS was in primary, they had a sports club called 'Let's get physical' one evening a week. One day, I wasn't sure whether or not it was on because it had been cancelled the previous week, so I emailed the slightly terrifying school secretary to ask. As I was hitting 'Send', I realised that the subject line read 'Let's get physical tonight' 😳

Years ago I had a colleague who was nice enough personally but professionally was a bit of a twat - a total jobsworth who would always push back if you ever asked her for help with anything. She sent an email to all staff about something small and petty that she had taken umbrage to that most people wouldn't have given a fuck about. Her Director was obviously meaning to forward the email to HR but hit reply to all instead with the message "Dear <name of HR BP>, we need to talk again about x and how we start the process of terminating her employment." Funnily enough it was the Director who had their employment terminated once the entire company received her email.

Omg I am
Actually crying with laughter at this