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?

[CattyMcCatface]

Also used to type up dictated notes, and type bare with me - instead of bear with me, much to the manager's amusement. I think my fingers have dyslexia.

[2sugarsandadog]

I would wince with you, think 'There but for the grace of God' and quite irrationally like you for it

[ReturnOfTheJewel]

I once emailed our accountant and called him an "acocuntant" in error. Since then I've added it to my autocorrect. Thankfully he saw the funny side.

[Quietvoiceplease]

I once very quickly drafted an email to thank a colleague for his help on a piece of work. "Thanks for your help - am very grateful".
Well, that's what I thought I'd written.
I didn't realise the mistake, until I saw his instant reply suggesting I sounded like a woman in a Bangkok bar.
..I'd written "am very gratefuk".

[Andrewofgg]

I once meant to end as email to a number of people Regards! and put Retards!

I now have an auto-correct so it cannot happen again.

[GinBunny]

I worked in my last company for 10 years and every month the accountant sent round an email with the monthly analysis reports. Although she abbreviated the subject in the email to "Monthly Anal". Every month for 10 years. I've left, she's still there and as far as I know she sends her Monthly Anal emails round...

[FreshwaterSelkie]

Eeeeh, I love a good typo!

I was emailing some stuff to a client for a meeting I was to have with him a little later on. I ended the email with a cheery "see you shortly", only I missed out the "l".

To my client, who was very sensitive about being about 5'2". "See you shorty!" Wow, that was a frosty meeting.

[Andrewofgg]

Anyone remember The Men From The Ministry and the letter which began

Dead Sir or Madman

[Marty85]

I once submitted a funding application for a significant amount of money with the word 'pervert' instead of 'prevent' in several sections including the title. Not sure where my mind was that day. Not sure why I didn't get the money. I just changed my copy and presented it as " just one of those things" at the board. 😯

[barbarossa]

Tell anyone who remarks on your error that you did it on purpose to see if people were paying attention.

[Ganma1]

Shameless piss of advertising for your new show, obviously

[Ganma1]

Oops, meant to type "piece"....

[Janey50]

When I was at college doing a secretarial course many years ago,I did some temping during the summer holidays. My first job was in an estate agents,just general typing and filing. I was typing out a fairly long report on a hotel that was for sale,and when I (thankfully) read through it when I had finished,I discovered that I had typed 'hovel' instead of 'hotel',not just once,but twice!. Just one letter but a completely different meaning. Think the manager would have thought I was taking the piss if that had slipped through.

[Janey50]

Also reminded me of when we were driving through Scotland on holiday a few years ago. Not exactly a typo,but made me laugh all the same. A big sign announced 'Welcome to Nairn. Please die carefully'. Someone had scrubbed out the letters 'r' and 'v' changing 'drive' to 'die'. Oh how we chortled.

[Janey50]

And my daughter started a letter to her university lecturer as 'Dear Normal' instead of 'Norman'. She didn't notice it and sent off. He DID notice but thankfully had a sense of humour!

[Janey50]

OMG CattyMcCatface! You did the 'Norman'/Normal' mistake too! 😂

[Eiram49]

Don't know about unreasonable- but you're certainly being over the top? It's a mistake - it happens; move on.

[ARichVernacular]

In my first job I answered the phone to someone who very politely informed me that he did not live on Shitehouse Lane.

[originalmavis]

Here goes. Part of my job was managing a team who produced pitch documents. Sometimes they were in foreign languages.

One evening an 'urgent' (weren't they all?) One came in and it was in german. The team had left and I was only there because there was a leaving do in the board room.

So I went for swift drink, got plied with gin by the Big Boss (almost joined the Navy reserves - another story) and staggered back to my desk to do the pitch documents. In german. Which I can't speak. Very very slowly and carefully, letter by letter.

I had a highly amused German director at my desk the next morning pissing himself at my attempt. He was a lovely guy and saw the funny side, thank god.

My Japanese attempts were much better, for the record.

[hel123]

I was once in a meeting about licensing for an upcoming children's film. The man presenting in the meeting offered to show me the 'rough cunts' so I could get an idea about the film... I've never seen a man so embarrassed in all my life as he almost screeched across the table 'CUTS, I meant 'CUTS'....

[houghtonk76]

Luckily, though I have had jobs sending emails to teenagers, parents of teenagers & now university students (particularly one organisation with the sign-off Kind Regards), I have managed not to do an email faux-pas.

However, my dear MIL was the victim of surely the worst in-person faux-pas ever when she was asked how her mother was by the chappie driving the hearse. Horrified, she stared at him, then pointed at the coffin in the car.

Now that's it 8 years on we laugh about it; poor bloke. I think she handled it very well, considering. It was like something from a Two Ronnies or Morecombe & Wise sketch.

[houghtonk76]

PS I found it funny Trills, advertising for your company or otherwise.
And I've been to 2 recordings at Pinewood via SRO, both positive experiences.

[LordoftheTits]

I very recently made a hilarious typo while leaving a restaurant review on Trip Advisor. Instead of "my husband and I enjoy BBQ", I wrote "my husband and I enjoy BBW" (big beautiful women). I laughed out loud and almost kept it in

[LordoftheTits]

Janey50

That reminds me of sniggering childishly every time I passed the Edinburgh Uni art college on the bus - someone had scrubbed the sign so it says Edinburgh College fArt

[BrendaFurlong]

Many years ago, the first draft of a mailing for clients described my team (fully qualified but very junior in a profession where experience is everything) as 'young and busy'. Only it actually said young and busty.