AIBU to think that I have to quit my job over this typo?

[Trills]

I sent out an email to tens of thousands of people with "bring" instead of "being".

Should I quit in shame?

I once invited people to order a "book singed by the author".

Many people thought it was a book burning session!

butterfly we recently got a request from scouts to send kids with their willies for the gardening night!

Cate16 exactly!

@cate16 exactly

Once had a manager who emailed the office about "getting all my dicks in a row ".

Trills darling I see what you were doing there and I think it was very fanny.

Ha ha ha ha ha! Too funny some of these...

When I was doing secretarial stuff as a holiday job at a chartered surveyors, a typing error meant I accidentally referred to a 'dull marketing report' rather than a 'full marketing report' in the Director's correspondence. Luckily he noticed the error before it was sent to the potential client. Given the nature of surveying, it wasn't an entirely inaccurate statement though...

I sent an email to a major funder saying I had attached our daft accounts instead draft accounts

I have a dear friend called Cynthia, twice I have accidentally used the letter U (it's next to it on the keyboard) instead of Y, when sending her an email.

Fortunately she is a very good friend.

I used to have to regularly type addresses on envelopes for various places in Hampshire. Far too many times I managed to type HampSHITE.

I think I corrected them all

Trills. 😁😁

I used to regularly type letters to people in Hampshite and Wiltshite

Fairly often signed off emails with "if you require further assistance please do not contact me" instead of do not hesitate to.

Oh and the dictation of a letter which came back for signing addressed to "Mr Clark-Witherny" - tape had said "Mr Clarke (with an E".

Oh I have a corker. I type very fast, and I'm (usually) a demon proofreader so it was extra brilliant for my colleagues:

"Please make sure that it's the right hand pile of DVDs you count."

Prize for working out which letter I omitted in my haste.

It's a good job I work in a sector where the, ahem, vernacular is not just tolerated but pretty much expected.

Client had a deficit, was unfortunately sent as Client had a defecate

I sent an email to some important people about an event called Big Walkies.
Only I called it Big Wankies.
Oh. The. Shame 😩

in my old job, someone had their out of office on saying "I am currently on anal leave instead of annual leave" I still laugh at that

I once emailed a lovely Asian colleague of mine from my phone once while my laptop was down, her name is Naz and my phone decided to autocorrect, first line of email read
Good morning Nazi
And of course I didn't check my spellings before I hit send...
I was horrified

A few years ago I was working in sales and had an offer on recordable disks, I sent an email out to over a thousand customers offering them "recordable d1cks". I had to go to the MDS office to explain myself. I nearly died. I can honestly say my coworkers milked it for months with the jokes x

Trills am lolling more at you being hinted at being a random troll than the actual post!

We missed the L out of public in a news story.

However, I don't think it got past the final proof otherwise I'm sure I'd remember us all being screamed at and sacked.

DH has just reminded me of a corker, it was in the Watford FC newsletter, apparently they put the immortal line that as it came towards the end of the season the players would be selling their shits to the fans. Oh the embarrassment the omission of one small letter can cause...

A regional boss of a bank I worked at was called Norman, unfortunately my fingers were incapable of typing that, choosing to type Normal instead! (Every flipping time I had to write a letter from our manager to him!)

Dear Normal,

Oh the shame!

All of these stories reminded me.

When you see a typo, do you automatically look at your keyboard to see if the letters are close?

For example shut = shit. That's nearby.
Shut = shat. That makes no sense.

Sometimes, I've types an a instead of a s for example. The i instead if the u only came up because I have a client whose business involves plantation shutters and I nearly managed to put that.

The previous one, I kicked myself for not proofing as thoroughly as I should. I've not made any for a while, and none funny for ages.

I shall be proofing my work very thoroughly tomorrow indeed!