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?

Urgh! It can't be undone and can only hope that my work colleagues soon forget or at least get a few chuckles from the cringe element

What I'm struggling with are the few "are you ok huni" replies I've been getting 🙈

We get a lot of down time between busy periods so once the work is up to date we're left twiddling our thumbs, next time I'll just stick to reading a mag or watching YouTube

Just don't use email to comment on work emails. Even if they were not sent to everyone, your bosses could access them anyway...

@downtownabby shit!! How the hell is this trending on reddit???

The original email had been sent to the whole department.

This is why people should use 'bcc' on group emails.

It’s not that bad . Thought it would be awful , it is awkward for you though.

I work for a large corporation and I'm fairly sure I would have to explain myself to aleast my LM and director.

Mistakes are easily made, don't crucify yourself over this OP. You haven't hurt anyone.

Fingers crossed no serous ramifications come your way.

@DesLynamsMoustache those were my initial thoughts too! Me thinks she does protest too much ...

thecatsthecats

I know, this gives me hope and despair at the same time! "Well, if that tripe is getting published, surely mine is better than that! "FFS, why do they get published and I get nowhere?" And worst... "Oh god, maybe I'm actually worse even than the worst writer I've seen published."

OK. This is why I gave up my own plans to 'become a writer' within a year of starting to work in publishing. Just total despair and realising that even if I 'succeeded', it wouldn't be any kind of affirmation, because people really do buy the worst shite.

I got published one way and another in the end (through writing forewords to anthologies, reports, bits and bobs of journalism, a few academic articles) but I fell completely out of love with the dream of seeing my name 'in lights' (mutatis mutandis).

I guarantee you are not worse than the worst writer you've seen published.

There are very few brilliant writers out there: a tiny proportion.

There is a huge amount of nepotism, a lot of ticking the right boxes in terms of whatever is selling well at the moment, and a fair bit of luck.

A lot of 'published writers' (even from good publishers)are terrible - and bear in mind you're seeing the edited version. As an editor, I've had to try to make something coherent out of some of the worst piles of goop you can imagine.

I don't really care that I've been 'lied to' by this scenario - if that is the case. OP may well have some MH difficulties, and thought this was a bold way to express them. It cost me nothing to click on the thread to reply and I'd be mortified if I'd thought this was a good idea and it backfired.

That's a kind attitude that you have. Lots of people feel otherwise, as you can see by this thread. I don't get any impression of MH difficulties from this post (unlike many on here); I think this is someone who fancies him/herself as an incisive commentator and wanted to find an excuse for posting this dross.

The best place for this on Reddit (other than the obvious) would be r/OopsDidntMeanTo: People pretending they didn't deliberately do it.

@MuppetsGalore shit!! How the hell is this trending on reddit???

It's on the front page of Reddit with 220,000 upvotes because people are beside themselves that someone has finally managed to speak the truth and to express themselves so eloquently.

I think the thread title, if you want to look for it, is "She Speaks for Us All, and I for One Will Never Be the Same Again".

There's also a slew of 'reaction videos' on Youtube where popular vloggers record themselves reading your post, and their instinctive emotional reactions.

Be prepared though; it's pretty intense stuff. I've never seen a 35-stone man break down in tears like that before. And seeing that CEO realise how wrong he's been, and throwing his laptop out of the 16th-floor window: powerful.

I think
"Trending on Reddit "
Is slightly over egging it

If I received that message from a colleague, I wouldn’t bother reading it but I’d keep my distance from them as it’s a bit too much for work. If I was your manager I’d have a sympathetic discussion but make it very clear these sort of messages sent during work hours are wasting people’s time and it should never happen again.
If I were you, I’d have called my boss before starting this thread.

It’s a bit too much of a message for work colleagues.. I personally really wouldn’t like receiving an email like that at all but I’m a bit tainted in that I know, me and my family did everything to try and help my fathers depression including trying to get him sectioned after his first suicide attempt. So to me it reads a bit patronising and I’d probably give you a wide berth after reading that.

well my dsis sends emails and messages with 'huni' and 'hun' and she does care and means it, I don't know where she learned that style, it's just her style. Maybe you're a bit quick to judge what is authentic and what isn't @MuppetsGalore - laugh this one off, it'll be ok.

Laugh it off and just be honest about it. I wouldn’t be happy if I was your colleague but it’s not like you did it on purpose.

@ DHOTYA

Send us a screenshot of the email with the time and reply to all OP ....

@ScarlettBlaize

I guarantee you are not worse than the worst writer you've seen published.

Oh, I'm mostly conscious of that! In fact, it was a very relieving moment when I was stressing about adhering to editorial standards. I stepped back and thought, 'nope, I don't have to worry too hard about playing by the rules'. It's as important to me to enjoy the process as it is to succeed.

(I have a friend who's published, and I'd never say it to her, but her writing is just terrible. Really bad, cliche-strewn, can't-stick-to-a-tense-in-the-same-goddamn-sentence drivel.)

There is a huge amount of nepotism, a lot of ticking the right boxes in terms of whatever is selling well at the moment, and a fair bit of luck.

As far as nepotism goes I'm on solid-ish ground to be honest. My mum and aunt are both published authors (my aunt is award-winning), and my dad is an e-publisher. Maybe some day I'll shake enough pride to actually use them... I do get annoyed with myself sometimes that my most saleable plot concepts are the books I never have the impetus to write!

That's a kind attitude that you have. Lots of people feel otherwise, as you can see by this thread. I don't get any impression of MH difficulties from this post (unlike many on here); I think this is someone who fancies him/herself as an incisive commentator and wanted to find an excuse for posting this dross.

Well that's a kind interpretation of my motivations! I'm more indifferent to whether or not my time was 'wasted'. And more than a little sympathetic for anyone who writes and gets rejected. My aforementioned DM has trouble with reality and erratic MH issues. To me, anyone posting that sort of post or reply isn't exactly the full shilling.

Besides, without this thread I wouldn't have had this enjoyable exchange

All it's missing is asking your 'friends' to repost because '97% of [xxxx platform] users won't'.

and the "I think I know who will" PA kicker too.

ScarlettBlaize

Q. What worst than sending a really embarrassing email to a whole department?

A. Posting the exact same thing on a public forum, used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Q. What's even worse than that?

A. It being picked up by an even bigger open forum.

Or...

What's the best way to create a pointless online shitstorm about something that has been discussed in detail already.

Oh oh I know the answer to that!

Or how to actually get exposed for the troll you are?

Oh oh I know the answer to that too! Me, miss, pick me!

How meta.

To everyone... channel Littlefinger.

"Sometimes when I try to understand a person's motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What's the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say and doing what they do? Then I ask myself, 'How well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?'

r/thathappened

Scarlett.... I think I love you.

I’d pretend I was leading up to something and had meant to send it to my boss - like id pretend I was going to ask my boss whether we should start some kind of... fundraising? MH support? In the company? Something like that.