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?

very occasionally post to my personal Facebook page

You post your diary on Facebook?

Jesus there are some nasty fuckers on here. You've posted about how worried and anxious you are about the email and people come along simply to say that it is twee, patronising and poorly expressed, with no constructive input for advice. I despair of horrible people every single day, I really do.

Anyway, I don't know what your work will make of it as I don't know your manager however I think that that even if it resonates with one person and makes that person think how they speak to someone today then it's worth it. I honestly think that you are overthinking it and a few people will just nod their heads and say yeah, fair point. Others won't even bother to keep reading once they see CFs name as they'll think its just another one of those forwarded emails. I'm sure some will roll their eyes and be like ''see what OP is saying" but then those are the types that you just want to avoid anyway.

Did you try to recall the email?

Isn't it just, @TSSDNCOP ... !

It's not even the advice or the opinions on this thread, everyone's entitled to those - it's the tone and aggressiveness of their delivery that are mostly as far from 'kind' as people can get.

Hey ho, sure there will be some new 'news' along soon to distract.

I'd think "here we go again, another unoriginal post using someone else's suicide to preach their own sermon".

Tbh I'd be straight to my manager to explain myself and ask what the next appropriate step is.

Jesus. How patronising, twee and poorly expressed. I'd be somewhere between nauseated and furious if that little screed was sent to me by a colleague.

This and a lot of other really unpleasant posts are a perfect example of what she's talking about though.

I wonder what people get out of putting the boot in like this. I might roll my eyes at a post sometimes, but take the time to put someone down like this? I just wouldn't be bothered to, and I would worry that I might be the one thing that tips someone over the edge that day.
Do you feel superior? Feel like you're making the world a better place? What is the point?

Why were you hitting 'forward' on the original email? If I got the original email, at work, I would have just deleted it tbh.

Gosh - It’s a good job you didn’t do this on a day when you’d written something like “dear diary, my boss and all my colleagues are absolute cunts and I hate them” Isnt it?

Sorry, I thought you had actually posted something sensible about domestic abuse as that seems to have been totally overlooked in the last few days.

Maybe this should be a wake up call OP. You are spending time at work doing stuff at work is not work related and explains why they have you in their sights.

In reply to your boss I would just go with, 'Yes, I'm OK thanks, Just got caught up in the moment'. Then hope they leave it there too and get your head down and crack on with work.

" she sent herself an email of her vaginal prolapse and piles"

Now that is embarrassing.
I don't see what the problem is with this particular email.

As for the people complaining about it being on the work system and in work time, well, so was the email being replied to. I don't see the problem there.

God as long as it wasn't you saying anything bad about her then I think it was fine. You only said true things

I’d think you were being unprofessional.

If you then explained you had ‘typed out some ramblings for your blog and hit send by mistake’, I’d think you were being even more unprofessional.

I honestly think your best bet is to say you got caught up and wrote and sent it intentionally, but have realised subsequently that it was inappropriate and are embarrassed.
More importantly, and in the nicest way possible, I would focus your energy on the performance issues that have been brought to your attention, reflect on whether this episode is one of them, and try to save your diary writing for lunch breaks (and word docs or notes on your phone) and keep your work time and IT use for improving your performance.
I'm sure it will all be fine, these things blow over quickly. I probably would read the first line and delete.

I did this exact same thing. And then the whole bus applauded.

I'm pretty dubious that you sent this by accident to be honest.

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

Yep. Especially as OP didn't reply to this point

I would think you did this deliberately and were dramatic and attention seeking. Sorry but I think that's the way most people will view it.

I did this exact same thing. And then the whole bus applauded.*

will send an apology to everyone else asking to ignore previous Email

I wouldn't bother. They're all grown-ups; they can handle it.

How do you send an email to your entire organisation by accident?
I'm intrigued

OP do you not have any work friends who can feedback to you about how the email was received? I hope you are ok. If I received that from a colleague I would be very concerned about them to be honest. It does read to me as being a cry for help, it doesn't look like an accident at all.