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To ask for your worst, most shameful misdirected messages/emails?

135 replies

pandarific · 22/08/2015 10:07

At the age of 17, I once sent my other a text meant for my best friend asking 'if we should try and get some gear?' (I thought smoking was uber cool at the time.)

Cue a long, excruciating call, where I managed to half-convince my mother that it was slang for alcohol - still bad, as we were underage, but not as bad.

I'm getting hives just remembering it.

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Floppityflop · 26/08/2015 07:29

One of my colleagues was emailing let's call him a supplier called Angus. Except she wrote to "Dear Anus".

Birdsgottafly · 26/08/2015 07:39

When I was at Uni as a Mature Student, I put a kiss on the end of an email to my younger male tutor, by mistake.

Whilst working in a CP SW setting, I made an enquiry to a U.S. clothing retailer about their sizing and delivery.

Via them, all of my email contacts, mostly Professional associates, were bombarded with hard core sex images/websites/porn. The Emails looked unassuming, with a "this will be of interest" type message. Which was the norm, to share stuff, so the Emails were opened.

We had to get our IT department to do the clean up.

A got a very concerned phone call from a Psychologist that I worked closely with, to check "I was ok".

TiredButFineODFOJ · 26/08/2015 07:43

Was experiencing some bridezilla behaviour so after a flurry of texts about a hen party, I had to text a friend to say that this bride was doing my head in with all the constant changes and demands....naturally I recieved a reply saying "am I?" Because of course I had texted the bride.
Actually I had to style it out and say you're being a bridezilla and you need to stop stressing, and it worked! She chilled the hell out and was fine about it Thank God (I did think she might uninvite me)

moomin11 · 26/08/2015 08:08

I was separated but still living with my ex husband when he accidentally texted me 'I love you endlessly' instead of his new girlfriend. Better still I was stood next to him in the kitchen when he did it so got to see the mortification first hand as did my mum.

var123 · 26/08/2015 08:12

DH was good friends with a married couple before I met him. I found the wife a bit difficult - very protective of DH and selfish. They had young children and so she would only allow us all to meet up (large group of friends) at a time and place of her choosing "because she had children". There was no give and take.

This continued even after our children were born. One day, I was trying to arrange a get together and she emailed with her usual list of demands - mainly that we drive the 100 miles round trip and arrive to fit in with her children's schedule. Everyone else's children could just sleep in the car and have lunch earlier / later.

I forwarded the email to DH with the words "She's doing it again", except I sent it to the "friend" instead. I realised what i'd done the second after i sent it but too late. She never responded and I never heard from her again. Sadly, DH and her husband were very good friends but not being able to meet with wives and families has caused their friendship to wither and die. I think DH still misses him and I feel guilty.

OnlyLovers · 26/08/2015 09:58

var, don't feel guilty. You're not responsible for her behaviour, and her own husband could always have intervened to stop her selfish demands.

TheoriginalLEM · 26/08/2015 10:34

I sent a picture of my fanjo to my DP in order to tempt him up to bed, complete with cup of tea! only i sent it to the chair of the PFA , who then told the school secretary, who then told DD's teacher.

Rainbowlou1 · 26/08/2015 12:18

Oh god the originalLEM!! I would have moved house

LemonySmithit · 26/08/2015 13:03

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SusanTrainTracks · 26/08/2015 13:25

NC as this will massively out me.

When I was 18 I sent a very compromising photograph of me to the whole company (approximately 1,000 employees) I worked for. I meant to send it to a friend 'Aaron' but, in my address book, his name was right before 'All'. It was a photo taken on a girls holiday in Magaluf. I was topless, bent over, some bloke grinding up against my backside whilst I simulated oral sex using a cucumber on a bloke standing in front of me.

Later that year I sent a very explicit description of everything I wanted done to me by a bloke I was seeing. Unfortunately I sent it to my bosses boss instead. Unfortunately he replied saying he had no idea I was interested in him, he really fancied me and would happily do all of those things to me. Me being terribly British about it and a bit worried about keeping my job etc., I couldn't face texting him back to say it was a mistake so I ended up going on a date with him. I had no idea but apparently he was a bit of a dirty dog already and his wife suspected him of cheating and so was following him. A few days later she came into the firm with suitcases for him to move out. I was working on reception and received a very loud tirade about what a trollop I was. Her very loud shouting brought pretty much everyone in the building on to the landing to look and see what was going on.

I think everyone there thought I was a sex-crazed maniac. I left after a year but am still friends with one of my former colleagues who says that even 10 years later after most people have moved on, I'm still a bit of an urban legend there

Klaptrap · 26/08/2015 13:33

I once accidentally outed my friend, who was having a lesbian affair behind her boyfriend's back. I was texting her to tell her she was being unfair to him and needed to come clean and end things with him... but I sent the text to him instead. I was mortified and, of course, no one believed it was a genuine mistake, which it really was! (I think it happened because I was thinking about him when I wrote the text and, as he was on my mind, I automatically sent it to him. It was in the day of old mobile phones when you didn't have 'threads' of text messages you had to choose the recipient each time).

I once also sent a very personal text (about myself) to a colleague by mistake in exactly the same way (I was texting colleague and a friend at the same time and got muddled up).

Basically I should avoid text messages at all costs!

SorchaN · 26/08/2015 16:11

I once received a text from a much younger former employee that said: "I had a great time last night. Wasn't expecting the horsewhip!" It was immediately followed by "Sorry, wrong person."

Also, when I was a student I was having a very secret relationship with a senior member of staff in the university. I sent an email to a friend with some details about how much fun I was having. Except instead of sending it to my friend, I sent it to an international discussion forum in my field of study, where it was automatically posted for everyone to see, including all the lecturers in my department and all the other students in my programme. Decades later it still makes me cringe.

NotAJammyDodger · 26/08/2015 21:08

Texted Boss with same name as DP to buy condoms on way home because I was up for it.... He never replied.

AliceMum09 · 27/08/2015 00:17

A friend's husband has the same name as me apart from the last letter, so we must be next to each other in the contacts list of her phone - every couple of months or so I get a text that was obviously meant for him. Thankfully they have always been along the lines of 'can you call at Sainsburys on the way home for potatoes' or similar, I just hope they never take up sexting!

SiobhanSharpe · 27/08/2015 00:54

A friend at work couldn't stand another colleague and was bitching about him on an internal email, saying the bloke looked like a gay Californian gynaecologist. But of course he had brain freeze and sent it to the much-disliked workmate instead. His horror was compounded when the chap replied, asking would it help if he shaved off his moustache?

KeyserSophie · 27/08/2015 06:40

I was whatsapping a friend who wanted to know if I wanted to go for a drink

Her" Drink"
Me" Cant"
her "why not"

Clicked on whatsapp to reply, opened the wrong conversation and wrote "I've got motherfucking yoga" to.......my yoga teacher

Roussette · 27/08/2015 08:12

Two female married work colleagues. We worked very closely together. One colleague about 20 years older than the other. Older female work colleague had a phone that is notorious for glitches, the contact list randomly messed up. (I had same model and ditched it) I received a fairly innocuous text from her to younger work colleague, it went to my mobile wrongly. I told her the once.

Then they started getting steamy and with nicknames (can't even repeat them, totally bleurghhhh). I was completely and utterly gobsmacked at the tone of them and I honestly don't think they were joke texts, they were very close in work but I thought it was like a mother/daughter relationship. Obviously not! I had to confide in another work colleague because it was bloody hilarious completely mindblowing!

Have pity on those who get the mis-sent texts! I couldn't look at these two women in quite the same way!

OhBigHairyBollocks · 27/08/2015 08:51

I have only ever once been the recipient of a mis sent text and it was really boring. I am gutted

CabbageOfShame · 27/08/2015 08:59

I opened the wrong conversation in WhatsApp and sent my dad the following message instead of dh: "hope you're feeling well enough for some rampart babymaking this weekend. Grrrrr". My dad thought it was hilarious

CabbageOfShame · 27/08/2015 08:59

Rampant, not rampart obvs

Pedestriana · 27/08/2015 11:02

I was working on a new procedure to be implemented across international offices. We had input from the various managers/heads of department in those offices.

After a day of email exchanges with the most senior person in one location, where he was constantly asking questions about absolutely everything, I forwarded a mail to my boss, saying, "I can't believe the Head of XXXX doesn't know this..."

Except I didn't

The Head of XXXX was not impressed and rang me to tell me so. My bullshit button kicked in and and I told him that I had meant to hit 'save' not 'send' and if he could give me 5 minutes I'd send him the completed email. Ran in to tell my boss what I'd done who suggested I stop digging myself into a hole.

Added to the email "....it really shows how we should all be working together as it's a great opportunity to share with and learn from each other...." with various other platitudes about the company.

The Head of XXXX rang my boss. To say how well I had explained everything and that he would be happy to implement the procedure.

LauraChant · 27/08/2015 11:20

I did once email my friend in a different company to say "I think my reporters have all taken stupid pills today." Of course I sent it to the reporters in question. Who sat next to me, opposite, and diagonally opposite. I don't know how I did that but I did - perhaps it was a reply to all instead of forward.

Luckily two were out, and I was able to nip across and delete the email from their inboxes. The third was a lovely guy who was sitting opposite me, and I begged him to delete it without reading it and he claimed he did.

ClearBlueWater · 27/08/2015 11:29

Okay.
Was about to attend a meeting with SfLT who had been vile to my ds and v rude to me in playground.

Sent email to my mother describing SfLT as a 'slapped face old dragon with no skills whatsoever who should have retired years ago and stopped receiving money for bullying vulnerable kids, the old bitch'.

I then sent it to the Head Teacher in error (or maybe it was a Freudian slip?)
She replied with : 'I don't think this was meant for me???'

SfLT was somewhat frosty at the meeting (actually, she was rough as a bears behind and I thought she was going to lean across the table and hit me!). Towards the end of the meeting I clocked that HT had obviously shared my email with her.

In my defence though, I was correct.
SfLT proceeded to tell us that ds had 'no issues at all, just an English accent that holds him back - it's 'right English' isn't it, just like yours?'.
She was deeply rural Scottish and HATED anyone who wasn't 6th generation of 'the village' - a proper Royston Vasey type. Hated the English, too.
HT (also a village girl) laughed like a drain.

HT has now left teaching (temporary, I understand).
SfLT is now retired.

Ds is now acknowledged as dyslexic, dysgraphic, dyspraxic and ASD traits.
And yes, he still speaks with an English accent...

chicaguapa · 27/08/2015 12:51

I've done this twice. Once I was complaining about a boyfriend and called him a knob. I sent it to the boyfriend.

And another time sent an email to someone saying 'it's a wonder he gets any work done' to the person who talked incessantly instead of my colleague who was supposed to receive it.

I can see how this happens. You send it to the subject of the text/ email because you're thinking about them.

Now I just don't send emails about people. It's much easier.

mandy214 · 27/08/2015 12:55

Rousette hilarious - just laughed out loud

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