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

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Fraca · 23/11/2023 11:52

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!

OP posts:
MrsMoastyToasty · 23/11/2023 13:10

I would reply with one of the following

"No shits given"

"Are you taking the shit?"

SerendipityJane · 23/11/2023 13:11

CesareBorgia · 23/11/2023 13:06

So tempted to change my username to 'DiscoCunt'😄

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But then you might fall foul of the less intelligent content scanners.

Google "the Scunthorpe problem" if you dare. And pity the poor sod who tried to organise a day trip from Scunthorpe to Penistone. Although I suspect they made a rod for their own backs suggesting Twat as an alternative destination.

CesareBorgia · 23/11/2023 13:13

Nowherenew · 23/11/2023 12:49

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!

I've seen a few of these in my time. Sometimes for 'birthday drinks and cakes for everyone are on Steve's desk by meeting room 4' - you think 'ooh' - and then realise it's from some random in Aberdeen when you're based in Birmingham.

DuckyLuck · 23/11/2023 13:14

Crikey there are some miserable fuckers on here today

MyCircumference · 23/11/2023 13:16

MissMuffetisin · 23/11/2023 12:21

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 .

ha ha
i believe i was part of the email trail.
all those reply all responses were crazy, if amusing

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Fraca · 23/11/2023 13:17

luckylavender · 23/11/2023 13:06

Maybe you need a hobby OP.

And maybe I don't.

Maybe something amused me this morning and made me laugh.

Maybe it's ok that we all find different things funny.

Maybe I wanted to share something that I found funny, in order to potentially make others smile.

Maybe, since we're sharing phrases, I can add one of my own - "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing" springs to mind.

Bloody hell.

OP posts:
WeekWeekWeek · 23/11/2023 13:17

Careful OP or you’ll risk waking a nearby baby.

ErrolTheDragon · 23/11/2023 13:18

I've seen a few of these in my time. Sometimes for 'birthday drinks and cakes for everyone are on Steve's desk by meeting room 4' - you think 'ooh' - and then realise it's from some random in Aberdeen when you're based in Birmingham.

Yeah, one of the downsides of being a long-time WFHer is being reminded of all the cakes, pizza and happy hours I miss.
Otoh I probably shouldn't vaguely enjoy the missives about the A14 being jammed again. I expect there's a German word for that feeling.

ErrolTheDragon · 23/11/2023 13:21

Don't worry, OP. This sort of inconsequential light thread brings a smile to some, and I suspect also perversely pleases the miserable gits compelled to comment.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 23/11/2023 13:31

ErrolTheDragon · 23/11/2023 13:18

I've seen a few of these in my time. Sometimes for 'birthday drinks and cakes for everyone are on Steve's desk by meeting room 4' - you think 'ooh' - and then realise it's from some random in Aberdeen when you're based in Birmingham.

Yeah, one of the downsides of being a long-time WFHer is being reminded of all the cakes, pizza and happy hours I miss.
Otoh I probably shouldn't vaguely enjoy the missives about the A14 being jammed again. I expect there's a German word for that feeling.

Grin I can't think of a clever reply but just wanted to say that this made me laugh more than the OP.

Roussette · 23/11/2023 13:34

I get you @Fraca

Years ago I was trying to get a night shift covered and the email went out saying 'Night shit needed'

It took me a few years to live that one down... people asking how my constipation was etc 🤣

Monkeybutt1 · 23/11/2023 13:38

Some miserable people on here, I love a typo like that. One of my colleagues once sent an email to the whole office with the subject "Dicking station" she meant Docking stations and was the sweetest, innocent person you could ever know. She was mortified and didn't live it down for a long time.

housethatbuiltme · 23/11/2023 13:39

Its really not that funny OP.

If your struggling not to laugh out loud in public at a very common and simple typo then you must be exceptionally easily amused (and annoying to work next too).

As a dyslexic I can only imagine you would be rolling on the floor at some of my mistypings.

StBernie · 23/11/2023 13:40

BoohooWoohoo · 23/11/2023 12:54

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?

I thought the same. Some real grumps on MN sometimes. In real life, OP, many people would laugh about this at work.

SawX · 23/11/2023 13:40

This week we've had nearly the entire company doing "reply all" to say they'll be coming to the Christmas lunch.

When I send an email to more than 10 people I BCC them so nobody can do reply all. Drives me nuts.

Passepartoute · 23/11/2023 13:41

I've had an email from a local authority apologising for the incontinence.

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Squirrelvcat · 23/11/2023 13:43

i once wrote up some minutes from a council meeting & listed one of the attendees as ‘pubic health officer’ (was meant to be public health officer).
Your post made me laugh OP, if that means I don’t have enough going on I don’t care 😂.

Ihaventgottimeforthis · 23/11/2023 13:44

Ah it's a sad world we live in when we can't have a little light-hearted laugh at a cock-up from a colleague in an email, for fear of a disapproving look from some po-faced person.

I'm with you OP, this sort of childish stuff cheers me up!

User0224 · 23/11/2023 13:45

The funniest thing about this thread is all the butthurt comments (and the OP was funny already)

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Fraca · 23/11/2023 13:46

housethatbuiltme · 23/11/2023 13:39

Its really not that funny OP.

If your struggling not to laugh out loud in public at a very common and simple typo then you must be exceptionally easily amused (and annoying to work next too).

As a dyslexic I can only imagine you would be rolling on the floor at some of my mistypings.

It's really not that funny to you. It was to me.

And all I'll say to your second paragraph is be careful of making assumptions.

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goodgriefsean · 23/11/2023 13:48

My colleague once sent an email to someone very senior in a different department asking for his advice and signed off 'Kind retards' instead of regards. She then followed it up with an email to the same person where she misspelled 'count' in the heading, I'll let you guess which letter was missed out. She was utterly mortified.

Clarinet1 · 23/11/2023 13:48

Maybe I’m easily pleased but most of these have had me laughing out loud (albeit in the privacy of my own home).

Clarinet1 · 23/11/2023 13:50

PS - there definitely is a German word for joy at the misfortune or troubles of others - Schadenfreude.

Scottish90 · 23/11/2023 13:51

That reminds me of a similar typo I sent once when asked whether anyone could provide cover for some volunteer work I was doing at the time. I replied to the group chat (after finishing a shift at my paid job) ‘sorry I’m just recovering from a long night shit so will be too tired.’