Personal Email sent to whole department by mistake

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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?

she sent herself an email of her vaginal prolapse and piles to her work computer

Dear god 😂

Virtue-signalling clap-trap.

I would be mortified.

@itsemily Oh no!!!! Most embarrassing techno mistake ever!!!!

You might want to take down your blog post, your manager will be looking for it.

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

Best advice.

I don’t think the ‘diary entry’ or ‘note to self’ explanation would be at all believable, as not many people would write like this just to keep it to themselves.
I think your best option is just to brazen it out, it’s not like you said anything personal or unprofessional in itself.

In our office it may raise a few eye brows as it comes across as a patronising - but then it would be quickly forgotten about. Every one is busy so no time for individual musings

I've never understood why people put TLDR at the end of the post, so you only read it after you've already read the long paragraphs. Put it at the top!

AlternativePerspective

Good point. How did you manage to tag your entire department if the message was to yourself?

I would go with explaining that send to all was an error; that you had written down your thoughts as the situation is bothering you. Explain that you were wondering what could be done on a practical level, how people could change things and trying to inspire yourself. Ask the manager if the company would be willing to support a fund raiser of some sort for a charity linked to the situation.
Try to turn it to a positive, could be good publicity for your workplace too.

Read OP's posts

She pressed reply instead of forward that's how it sent to the department

I'd think it was a load of horseshit but I would check if you're okay after receiving it.

In my workplaces this would be a surprising email but not something you would in any way be disciplined for. People might talk about it and agree/disagree. In the bigger one HR might feel compelled to ask if you were doing okay, in smaller ones some would high five you and say YES totally agree. If you work in an investment bank the reaction will be different to if you work in a mental health charity. So hard to say. But I don’t see how anyone could be fired for this even if they tell you off. You haven’t sworn or accused anyone of anything. A diary entry could be a lot worse!

Agree with Oysterbabe
You clearly did it on purpose and are a bit of proud of yourself so thought you'd repost here.

@Oysterbabe My very first thought.

I wouldn’t have even read it. Too many jumping on the Flack bandwagon. I don’t want another person telling me what a righteous person they are for being devastated by her death. Of course the death of a young woman is tragic. Just leave her family and friends to grieve. Stop poring over all the details like bloody gannets. For every news article you click you are telling the media source that you are clamouring for more detail, so they dig a little deeper.

OP don't you think that if you've been alerted to poor performance already, using work time on non work related writing like this is foolish?

I'm concerned you don't seem to have acknowledged that being a potentially massive part of the issue with this email from management's point of view?

What @Oysterbabe said. You meant to send it, it’s a massive virtue signal and unless you work at Heat magazine, it’s an absolutely inappropriate use of work time and IT systems. Sending a second all company email to claim a whoopsie is equally unprofessional and equally unconvincing.
It’s cringe.

I’d just say to your boss that you were fine, you’d written it in your lunch hour just to get some thoughts down but accidentally sent and tried to delete. Don’t overthink it.

It's not personally directed at anyone or any company. If someone disciplines you for that then they are jobsworths.

God, this whole Caroline Flack thing is a conundrum, isn't it? Very sad, of course, but I didn't know her work at all so not something that has hit me any more than the sadness of someone her age dying.

However, all these emails/memes/Facebook posts flying around saying how everyone should 'be kind' (that great platitude) - but if ever a post showed that no bugger actually means it, this is it!

Hitting reply instead of forward would only send it to the person who sent it. OP would need to select reply to all to send it to everyone, which on most programmes is hard to do accidentally.

I think its believable that this was an accident simply because its so badly written and clearly just a dump of very jumbled thoughts. You do need to address your lack of focus on your work when you already have performance issues though.

As if. You had a rant and now regret it (or want a pat on the back on here). I don't believe you wrote your "diary entry" complete with TLDR as an email draft.

Whitney it’s this events “thoughts and prayers”. In other words I’ll just type this to show I’m in the bus with the other caring #folk before I run out to get the milk.