... to resign in embarrassmnet and emigrate to Timbuktu? *mortified*

[ShuckThisFitThough]

NC because ... well, technically, I guess I wouldn't have to: I'm going to have to change my name and emigrate anyway after this.

I've accidentally messaged my bloody boss in a way that was ... unintentionally sort of suggestive. Which I totally did notice - roughly about 10 seconds after hitting "send".

What it was actually about: fellow manager being an utter moron who's been the cause of several people resigning in frustration and me categorically refusing to work a role that makes me dependent on that guy because I actually like my job and was planning on keeping it (so long as it allows for me to ignore the moron as much as possible).

How I phrased it: iteratively, from direct, using a lot of NSFW terminology, going towards cleverly chosen metaphors:

When I accidentally hit "send": at the point when the aforementioned metaphors were about 3 revisions from being actually sendable and revolved entirely around royal mistresses of all things.

The self-identified king is going to read this totally wrong, isn't he?

What I meant is: I don't want to work for or with this person, no matter what.

What I probably actually said - albeit unintentionally - is: "I'm totally down with going to bed with the boss, no strings attached." And there are two potential bosses in this story, one of whom I've just complained about lengthily (hence the text) - the other one being the recipient.

I'm going to have to leave my home, family, job and friendships behind and start a new life where nobody knows me, aren't I?

Please tell me it's salvageable.

Bruce Springsteen? You want to bed Bruce Springsteen! ?

Well, that would be my cover up story anyway....

I don’t understand any of so hopefully he won’t. Or just shag him and get it over with.

Agree best way forward is just to shag your boss.

@Stilllearning0234 I do this too!! Too worries I'll phrase something badly and it will go to the wrong person. I also make sure I haven't touched a drop of alcohol before contacting anyone from work. Can't deal with the cringe moments!

All I can add is be careful not to say anything ludicrous when one of your children is annoyed and holding your phone, or they might Whatsapp said stupid comment to a group of your friends from church, er or your boss.

Blame it on the wine

Write a book - become a successful author - say goodbye and become self employed :-)

OP I was moaning to my boss about how busy I was etc in the morning then 2pm in the afternoon accidentally sent him a video of me in bed (I work from home) ringing a bell that said ring for sex on it” my DP and my boss had the same name! I sat for 15 minutes in bed wondering why my partner who was down stairs and also works from home hadn’t replied!

@poppy54321 There's definitely a backstory behind that!

@Havana7 Oh God no, that must have taken some getting past.....

If it makes you feel better, I drafted an email of all my grievances against my boss (featuring many expletives) that I wrote in a pregnant rage on a day when he had spent 5 working hours in the pub, leaving me to see his clients (regular occurrence). Turned out I accidentally typed his email address into the “To:” box and hit send. Cue awkward meeting the next day. But somehow we still manage to be friendly to this day (possibly helped by the fact he resigned 2 weeks later). What seems like a huge deal to you often isn’t anything to others, I wouldn’t worry.

Well,someone’s swallowed a thesaurus and wants everyone to know about it or Russell Brand has joined Mumsnet

Pretentious nonsense.

I once told my boss in an email I was “too busty” to do a task he asked me to do and signed it with love and three kisses (had been messaging dh-to-be a lot just beforehand). He wasn’t the sort of boss who had a sense of humour and he didn’t reply. Things were never the same with the old eye-contact after that. I think he was just confused.

I think I would suddenly text him again "Good Lord, how utterly embarrassing, I've just realised my previous text should have read I'd totally go to BAT for my boss, meaning you have my loyalty etc,but it's auto corrected to BED. I'm so sorry. See you tomorrow"

Well,someone’s swallowed a thesaurus and wants everyone to know about it or Russell Brand has joined Mumsnet

so very true

Don't overthink it... it will be fine. Use the email as a springboard to sort out the real problem & person at work - and get something useful out of the awkwardness!

Well,someone’s swallowed a thesaurus and wants everyone to know about it or Russell Brand has joined Mumsnet

What, because they have mentioned Anne Boleyn? It's fully explained on Horrible Histories!

You can laugh about it, but someone stole my thesaurus and I can't tell you how sad, depressed, tearful, down in the mouth, melancholy, upset, grief-stricken I am....

I've forgotten, slipped my mind, can't remember, gone blank too

I think you should follow up your messages for clarity:

I want you to understand that you, to me, are Christian VII. You may think I think you are Johann Friedrich Struensee, but you are wrong. I won't be bearing Princess Louise Augusta and being banished then dying of scarlet fever. So let's go forward on that basis, hmm?

There is a third alternative here op. You don't need flirty metaphor or sweary halfwit, you can just aim for factual and professional.

I haven't rtft, but my view is that you fancy your boss and enjoy your history buff in-jokes. Your friendly relationship has emboldened you to behave really quite unprofessionally, because I think that if you have complaints about your co-worker then this really isn't the way to raise it. Your boss's brief reply suggests he knows what you're on about but finds it tedious.

If it's out of character, blame alcohol. If you always talk like that, time for concerted effort.

I'm no Bertha von Suttner, but that should clear it up, thigh.

Definitely don't resign, from the twaddle you wrote I'm astonished you even have a job.

Naked well obviously, unless he's Meinertzhagen in which case he'd only obfuscate the facts.

Message recall rarely ever works:

Outlook sends a request to receiver after email has been received and can only be recalled if receiver has not opened message. By the time he/she sees request they're probably curious and will read the original email anyway! And this only works in Outlook on Exchange, and only within your organisation - it NEVER works out with external emails.

www.howtogeek.com/161762why-you-cant-undo-sending-an-email-and-when-you-can/

Good luck OP.