Personal Email sent to whole department by mistake

[MuppetsGalore]

I've ducked up and worried about potential outcomes of this faux pas

An was sent to staff with platitudes about Caroline flaks suicide which I found infuriating, I've also been really annoyed by comments on social media about suicide ect

I thought I'd hit forward on the email but got reply and got distracted by other work and used it for writing notes and during my shift also wrote a bit of a rant for my diary

Anyhoo fast forward to the end of the night I'm knackered and in a rush to head home i just hit send on a couple of the emails i had open only to realise i sent my ramblings onto the whole department 🤦‍♀️

Worst case scenario i get fired for being a trouble maker best case scenario they all have a good laugh at me 🤦‍♀️

Aibu to be mortified by this?

Besides, who puts TLDR on their OWN personal diary entries?

I thought that

("Too long didn't read" for the poster who asked)

@TSSDNCOP

TLDR - Too Long Didn't Read

@TSSDNCOP stands for Too Long: Didn't Read, it's a brief summary of what's been written.

God that’s nothing I would eye roll and think you abit of an odd bod. At my old firm the personal views of management on all the partnerships applicants was sent to the entire staff of thousands. Now that was interesting....

"Accident" 😂

This really reads as though it wasn't a mistake, you considered carefully what to say, you're proud of your 'diary entry' and have reposted it here for likes.

I would totally eye roll 🙄 if I got this at work, and would lose a lot of respect for the sender. And I'd never believe it was an "accident".

It reads like a slightly poorly written, self important virtue signal intended to garner likes tbh.

This really reads as though it wasn't a mistake, you considered carefully what to say, you're proud of your 'diary entry' and have reposted it here for likes.

When I was an angsty teen and life was SO UNFAIR I would leave (what I thought were) carefully crafted treatises about my woeful existence and how precarious my survival was, somewhere my mum would "accidentally" find them, realise the error of her ways and I would be globally acclaimed as the wisest, most perceptive 14 year old ever. I cringe looking back at myself then.

Except this reads like an attempt to tap into the collective morally superior handwringing zeitgeist about CF and get laurels by being that 14 yo genius I thought I was.

Well, you're coming across as smug and self-satisfied on here, but then so have lots of posters on here in recent days, as they've tried to make Caroline Flack's death about them. I assume, as a 40ish white middle class female, lots of MN identify considerably more than the farmers mentioned up thread.

The fact your office sent out an email jumping on the bandwagon of her death probably means that you will be OK, though.

I’m starting to think you sent it on purpose. You seem like a virtue signaller to me.

I dont think anyone would believe it was an accident. Probably best to own it and not send out any more. I agree with the message, but the way you wrote it felt like a telling off somehow. Probably got some folks talking. They'll forget about it by next Monday.

OP do you work for ITV?
If not why on earth would management send staff an email about a celebrity's death?

What you wrote was fine, though rather preachy. Not your place to preach at everyone in the department.

However, I agree with TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross. Sorry, but I’m not buying your story that this was “personal ramblings”, which you then sent out “by accident”. I would advise you against saying that to people at work because it’s completely unconvincing and people don’t like being lied to; it insults their intelligence. It also, to be honest, makes you look a bit dim for expecting people to believe something implausible.

So I think the best way forward at this point, if anyone mentions the email, is to admit that you sent it deliberately and say that you sent it because you feel strongly about these matters but that you now realize it was rather preachy and regret it. As PPs have said, I would also ask IT to try to recall it.

I wouldn’t worry about it, the content is fine, is in keeping with the original email.

Don’t blow it out of proportion in your mind- tell your boss the semi-truth- you hadn’t meant to press send as you hadn’t finished editing your response.

There is nothing in there to be overly worried about.

Put it behind you and focus on improving your performance at work.

Personally I'd send an apology email to everyone saying "oops sorry, that was an email to myself, just rambling, please delete and ignore"

Yes it's inappropriate in the workplace, all you can do is apologise, explain the error and attempt to brush it under the carpet.

Clearly you wrote this deliberately and now you’ve come on here to be smug and gain validation.

It’s not possible to send an email to an entire department without first selecting the entire department address. If you had been writing this in an email to send to yourself you would have put in your own address or better, written it in a word document and forwarded it to your personal email.

Given you are already under management for poor performance if I were your manager it would be added to the issues already under review. And I’d be considering where we went from here even in terms of whether your position in the company should be reconsidered given you’re already under-performing and clearly not taking that seriously given you’re still using work time to write personal rants at the office rather than doing the work you’re already doing badly.

I foresee the OP suddenly fearing being outed and asking MN to delete this....

To be fair Bobbly, unlike some “identifying” posts that refer to a husbands younique hobby, this one is totally outing if any of the OP’s colleagues are on MN

I’ve just read a brilliant comment responding to the Love Island opening tribute to CF where the writer says “the bad often out ways the good”.

Thank you all for the responses

It's been really helpful to know what people really think and realise there's no telling how people will react

I've apologised to my manager as soon as i realised what i did and did the recall but and will send an apology to everyone else asking to ignore previous Email

Not back till next week so will what their reactions are

I doubt that this was something you sent accidentally at work. You just wanted an attention-grabber on here to get people to read it.

You're so "mortified" you felt the need to share the email here too?

Whilst I sort of agree with what you wrote, there's no way you sent that by accident.

I had a colleague once who sent way worse in the past to my whole department so I really wouldn’t worry- she sent herself an email of her vaginal prolapse and piles to her work computer accidentally from her phone, her personal home email was attached to her work outlook and she clicked send to all when trying to delete and it sent to our whole department. She was new to her iPhone and was trying to delete her photo and somehow clicked share to outlook. Big disaster , but she didn’t lose her job 😂

@AlternativePerspective

My first thought too when I read the perfectly coherent and structured email sent out!