to ask what's the best accidental email you've seen?

[travellerist]

Literally an hour ago an email went round to all staff/managers at my work requesting if anyone needed webcams/headphones for remote meetings.

One of my colleagues is friendly with the email sender and I guess he meant to hit reply with his response but instead hit reply all, and his response was...

"That’s the best laugh I’ve had in months…

Web Cams, seriously… have you any idea how ugly half of these people are ? Not seeing them is the best part of working from home… Face Masks are the best thing since sliced bread 😊

Headset, Nah… I’d probably stand up and drag the PC into the kitchen. Don’t suppose you can get ink cartridges though ?"

I'm guessing he's going to hear from HR pretty soon, but it got me wondering if anyone else has some "whoops" email stories?

I'm sure I've read about the work fitness competition on Ask A Manger from the pov of fed up staff the company/manager running the competition got slaughtered in the comments.

First ever conference call in a new role and I hadn’t muted myself like everyone else does. Jokingly said to my team member ‘oh god I hope they don’t ask me anything I don’t know’ in a over dramatic panicky voice...to the 150 people including regional managers on the call. Luckily someone on the call said puppy, we can all hear you. Unfortunately the company is one where confident loud people succeed and no matter how good you were at your job, if you weren’t a glory hunter you didn’t go far! Definitely got held against me.

DIY store and early days of headsets, ones you have to press the button to start and end your speaking. Spoke to one of my colleagues about something work related, they didn’t press their end button so the whole team then heard him discussing with his friend how I’d be do-able if I lost some weight but he’d still give it a go. Erm, thanks 😂

I once emailed our IT department advising them I had a warning about low dick space instead of disk space

I once kept getting emails from an estate agent in California saying things like Hi Seren x has made an offer on y property could you do this etc. I emailed them back a few times saying they’d sent them to the wrong person but they kept coming and I eventually stopped taking any notice. I hope the person the emails were meant for didn’t get sacked for not doing what her boss had asked her to.

I sent an email to all senior managers at a company, which included who would be involved in an upcoming project, with their name and role. The roles were all acronyms, and one of them got auto corrected, so it read (names changed:)

John Norris - BEO
Jane Sanders - TCM
Denise Brown - Whore

Sandwich Van

At the start of the COVID pandemic before lockdown the company dh works for sent out an email about COVID and staying safe, hand washing etc.
Someone obviously meant to forward to his friend but replied all saying "does this mean I need to start wrapping my cock at the weekend then"
They tried to recall it but it was far too late.

My ex had a habit of accidentally texting me very shortly after we broke up, with messages meant for his new girlfriend. The first one was “morning gorgeous. I’m so excited about us going to the zoo today”. I replied “I love the zoo! I want to see the penguins first.”

He did have the decency to apologise, but that didn’t stop him from doing it a few more times. I’m sure it was carelessness rather than malicious and it did make me laugh.

Years ago, I was temping as a receptionist, job sharing with one other. We used the same email address. We were allowed to use it for personal stuff, so I was emailing a friend about our night out plans. We were talking about what to wear and I said something along the lines of, whatever I can fit into cos fatness reigns supreme here, meaning that I'd recently put weight on. The other receptionist read it the next day and made a complaint about me, as she thought I was referring to her. I absolutely wasn't but no amount of explaining would change her view and I was sacked immediately! 😑

I was a private tutor and texted the father of one of my students that I looked forward to seeing him in class - only it spellchecked to It look forward to sucking you in class.’
Just. Mortified.

A business email I was subscribed to, as a customer, sent out the generic email template out instead of email 😂🙈 it
Read like:

Hello

We are just checking in on your WeightLoss journey this week (write something really positive and motivating)

Blah generic email stuff (insert something to make them feel good about themselves)
Etc

😂😂😂