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!

25 years ago, I suggested a tweak to what was then the Microsoft Mail client, whereby it would warn you before you tried to send an email to more than <configurable> recipients. I had a lovely reply from the product team saying "thanks, we'll look into it."

The rest, as they say, is history.

Wasn't there a famous email that a school once sent out to the parents of kids who were doing forest school, after heavy rain had left the ground really muddy, urging them to "make sure that children bring their willies in to school tomorrow"?

I sent a Teams message to my entire work chat, saying that I have given my previous patient ‘the POO’ and then left my desk to go and make a drink, came back to a string of gifs and laughing emojis.

I had meant to type ‘the POP (mini pill)’!

I’m easily amused too OP, don’t worry we’re not all bah humbugs!

No wonder the NHS is going down the pan

We have an ‘all staff’ button which sends the email to all staff.

One member of staff sent an email to a colleague slagging off another colleague but accidentally sent it to all the staff instead.

I laughed a bit but it was so brutal that I was just in shock.
Later when he realised he retracted it and then sent everyone an apology email but most people would have seen it by then.

Yours sounds hilarious and hopefully the sender won’t be too embarrassed!

Reminds me of the email sent out in the 90s by a UK marketing firm who accidently sent out an email to lots with the placeholder "Dear rich bastard"

I think this is a fairly common typo, I was recently sent an invite to a training session for Microsoft Shits.

Was it about 5 years ago? I’m sure I was on that day and the whole of NHS mail crashed as a result!

My friend and colleague in an old job sent an email about 'Loud Shits Day' when you could wear your patterned or brightly coloured shirts for a charity donation. Still makes me giggle when I think about it.

Sorry you got a lot of miserable replies.

Maybe it was funny because the person never swears so you know that they are going to be mortified?
Maybe it was funny because the company culture is very stiff and formal so swearing on an email never happens?
Maybe it was funny because it’s the sort of company where nothing happens so a little thing like this becomes a big deal?

Had a manager once who sent an email to 10,000 customers with the typo "disco c*nt" (discount)

She's in a cafe also so I am surprised she didn't spit her coffee out whilst laughing uncontrollably.

Tbh I would have read it and possibly screenshot it before it was recalled

Ahh and I so wanted her to have sent 'shits'today to a 100 instead of the one.

There are some miserable people on this thread!
A senior member of staff once made the same typo on an email sent out to our whole department about the new "Shit Pattern" - cue a swift apology email but we agreed with the first one!

It's just not side splittingly funny though. At best it's a "ha!" Email

I used to be a local councillor and would get all sorts of typos in emails both from public and internally

We would often receive a "daft report". Complaints about "Problems in pubic areas" were fairly commonplace. One lady sent us one with the subject line "fuck in the street" (meant muck). We had a senior council officer who would always abbreviate possible as "poss" and we'd receive emails like "piss Poor Outcome next month" (sure that one was deliberate!) I received the occasional invitation to a "bored meeting"

Reply it may be shit to you but it’s my bread and butter.

Thank you for sharing similar email gaffes, made me smile.

No spitting out of coffee I'm afraid, just lots of stifled giggles.

We have an ‘all staff’ button which sends the email to all staff.

Seriously ? Or do you mean an "all staff" distribution list ?

Maybe you need a hobby OP.

So tempted to change my username to 'DiscoCunt'😄

Recalls aren't guaranteed outside the server that sent the mail. And certainly not across domains.

Something quite a few senior managers - and politicians - struggle with comprehending.

Aren’t there some humourless miseries on here 😁 it would have made me laugh, not belly laughs but it would have given me a chortle.

Would rather I received that email than the one I got on Sunday. Tears flowed and it wasn't of laughter..