This is why you shouldn't read your emails in public

[Fraca]

Just received an email from a colleague - the email was entitled "Shits Today". She's sent it to approximately 100 people and I wish, more than I've wished for anything in a long time, that I could see a) her face when she realises what she's sent, and b) read the replies she gets.

Im in a cafe and am trying very very hard not to laugh out loud!

Is it how many she's done today because she's not well?
Or is it a list of people who are in her bad books?

I wish I knew! I will interrogate her later!

I don't get it. She's read her emails in public and has sent an email because of it, or...?

Why would have to try not to laugh in a café at a funny email subject line? I mean, it's not like you're at a funeral or chairing a board meeting! Laugh away!

I meant I shouldn't have read it in public because I can't stop giggling to myself.

I don't get it either. Was it a typo? Or an email to a mate she's accidentally sent to loads of people? What's the thing about being in public?

Was it an email meant for many with a typo or was it a personal email correctly titled accidentally sent to many?

Yes it was a typo on her part. And I meant I shouldn't have read it when in a cafe because I can't stop laughing

An email sent to many people with a typo

Ah, that could be worse then!

Control yourself. It's just a typo.

It's a typo. I'd just think oops! and scroll on.

Right you are then

I'm curious 😄what was it supposed to say?

It was meant to say "Shifts Today".

Shifts Today I imagine

This reminds me of an enjoyable afternoon for myself and colleagues in the NHS . Someone from a random trust sent an e mail, which obviously wasn’t meant for me - boring admin stuff, nothing confidential. We quickly realised the whole department had it. Then we started receiving e mails from across England, replying to the original. Some were polite, some snarky - and the penny began to to drop that the sender of the original had “ sent to all” - but had somehow sent it to every e mail in the nhs , not just her group. The people replying had also pressed “ reply to all “ - and some helpfully added a read receipt. It got more and more heated as people got angrier and angrier with all these unwanted replies to an e mail that wasn’t for them to start with! We’d cottoned on by this point and were reading out the more batshit angry replies to each other , before sadly the whole system crashed .

I once sent an email to several people concerning an employee (nothing horrible, just updating some info), and my subject heading was (names being changed here)

John Smith - Shite Manager - Hythe and Folkestone area - updated information

He was actually one of our best Site Managers!!!

That’s it? That’s the one thing wrong with the email that led to you being unable to stop laughing and starting a thread around reading emails in public?

I think I might have received that one too, along with the million other NHS employees. grin

I think the phrase that springs to mind is “little amuses the innocent even less the fool”. But hey.

I (plus around 80 others) received an email from a manager once saying “could anyone else come in and work this shit today”.

Best email ever, he wasn’t even wrong. The work that week was shit. But he meant shift.

Guilty.

'Shite Manager' 😂

A local charity that I follow on FB once thanked the volunteers after a particularly busy period and gave a special mention to one volunteer who, assisted by her husband, managed an extra shit.