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.

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I sent an email to 3 managers and my whole team about how I’d successfully uploaded ‘Booby’s file’ instead of Bobby’s file. It was met with much hysterical laughter.

I am also well known for sending half emails, especially on my work phone. Sometimes the message comes in 2 emails, sometimes 3 or 4 😑

These are so hilarious, the herpes one had me howling.

It wasn't an email I sent but one I received from a solicitor trying to sort contact arrangements.

He wrote something like: "...need to know the proposed times due to having to use pubic transport". 😂

The one that still cracks me up over a decade later was in a school email newsletter:
"Please make sure that your child attends with clearly named willies"
Wellies

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I used to work at a large company where a fellow employee had the exact same name (first name and surname) as my DH. One time I emailed DH waffling on about our forthcoming weekend away, and would his parents be happy to house/cat-sit? Minutes later I received a reply from fellow employee stating that he assumed I'd emailed the wrong person and if my DH's parents couldn't help, his probably could and would be glad to. It did make me chuckle (and die of embarrassment - I was new to the job and had very strong imposter syndrome!)

Someone close to me was pissed off with arrangements for a group activity and sent everyone in the group including the organiser an email with no content just a load of angry & extremely rude expletives in the subject bar. They had quite a bit of explaining to do.

@Craicademic - I had to read it a couple of times to spot it - my brain just filled in the ahead. Wouldn't worry about it 😊

Offered a client a discocunt instead of a discount....

I had a part-time job where my hours and days of work changed from week to week. I used to let the rest of the team know each week when I'd be in. After a few weeks my manager mentioned that he was extremely amused by my email title - My movements this week. Ah. I changed the wording thereafter.

Just love your reply to him🤣🤣🤣
And love the one about the charity team wank 🤣

Is that like one of those pelvic floor exercise machines?

Almost identical thing happened to me 😂

During some really frustrating and drawn out discussion in relation to what was being shared, my colleague flicked onto the chat with me and starts typing "ffs just let us get on with it" - but hadn't realised the chat screen had popped up for everyone on the screen share too 🫣

Not an email... but years ago handbag dialled my boss and left him a voicemail of me weeing loudly, sighing with relief, followed by some tuneless humming and finally flushing the toilet. Fun times.

@Hillsmakeyoustrong - actually laughing right now 🤣

They could have just not let you know. And you could have remained in blissful ignorance of the piss-taking recording!

My first day back from maternity after having my first child, I wrote an email to the head of a huge worldwide company plus multiple other important people cc'd in calling Gloucestershire 'gloucestershite' at least 4 times. The manager of the Gloucestershire branch of the company emailed back with everyone cc'd in correcting me. I was mortified.

@CorsicaDreaming he thought it was hilarious! But he didn't want me to do a repeat!

Yes - he probably didn't want a daily special message from you!! 🤣

I have a friend who worked for a massive US company based over here and e-mailed everyone in the UK database telling them an event had been cancelled. My friend made it into a national newspaper with that one!

We were in the midst of a price negotiation for a big scope of work with one of our clients. A senior partner accidentally sent the client our whole negotiation strategy, including the break-even cost of us doing the work, without margin. That was not his finest moment.

A colleague once sent me an email by accident, about me, but was not intended for me. It was really shit because it was about something I had told her in confidence, and she decided it would be funny to email her work pals and take the piss. It was very hurtful.

I was organising an outdoor activity for a couple of classes of schoolchildren and emailed the teacher asking her to make sure that they brought their willies with them. I had managed to catch the autocorrect in a previous email, but not that one.

Not work, but I was inviting friends to a party and as the details were a bit complicated I copy and pasted the message and then tailored it for the individual. I managed to send a message to a (straight male) friend saying he was welcome to bring his new boyfriend…. I did catch it fairly quickly and sent a follow up saying that unless he had had some major lifestyle changes it was his fairly recent wife I was inviting…

I once worked with a guy who adored himself. He sent out an email reminder about a launch party to everyone in the company. I forwarded to my then boyfriend with a message saying "fancy going to this together before we go back to mine tonight"..except I hadn't actually forwarded it at all. I had replied. Had to do a very quick "sorry not for you" message but I don't think he believed me.

Once had an email from head of department to confirm we wouldn't be getting any bonus that year.
I had to write to her the same morning about something else and accidentally wrote "dear Meanie" instead of "dear Melanie".
Mortified.