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 got sent an email from my college lecturer once calling me a cheeky cow :) I don’t think it was meant for me

I once emailed a group suggesting that as it was wet outside they might need their willies (rather than wellies). Still not sure how I managed that as the letters aren't even close together...

I emailed a customer back and told
Him cuntomer services would respond directly to him.

When DS was at primary, they had an after-school fitness club called 'Let's Get Physical', but it was forever being cancelled at short notice and I didn't always get the texts saying it was off, so I had a couple of instances of DS sitting forlornly on the school step while they rang me to pick him up. One week I decided to be proactive and check whether it was running, and proceeded to send the very straight-laced school secretary an email with the title 'Let's get physical tonight'

Sandwich van - I don’t think there’s anybody in my city that wasn’t forwarded this email.

Said sandwich van made national press. Slightly mortifying for the sender and boyfriend.

I had an email from a recruitment consultant, he'd obviously accidentally clicked on my name, as the "to" line was basically all his colleagues. It was a very amusing "behind the scenes" type sketch set in a recruitment agency that he'd written. I didn't respond as I guess he would have been mortified that he'd sent it to me!

An ex of mine worked in the IT Department of a national company and had to explain to an annoyed employee in the Finance department that no, her email wouldn’t send, no matter how many times she tried...

...because on the attached spreadsheet, she’d abbreviated ‘cumulative’ and the company’s porn filter was repeatedly flagging up ‘cum’.

When GDPR was coming in I got an angry email from a regional bank manager to her branch managers threatening what she would do to them if they didn’t get themselves GDPR compliant imminently. For some reason she copied in her daughter’s teacher. I enjoyed responding to that email.

Regularly send emails about possession of an illegal shitgun....

I will never forget the first day I worked as a Senior PA in an educational establishment and had not used Lotus Notes before. Nobody mentioned to me it was default set to autocorrect, and I had become the PA to Gladys Steakhouse....

I saw an incredible one once many years ago - a letter from a solicitor, containing the gem ‘in the course of our work you may also be contacted by my colleague [colleague’s name], who will be assfisting me periodically’

@Latenightreader

I once emailed a group suggesting that as it was wet outside they might need their willies (rather than wellies). Still not sure how I managed that as the letters aren't even close together...

Probably wasn't you.

My last phone autocorrected wellies to willies every single time.

I lived in the country so wEllies came up quite a lot (don't want to get that one wrong!).

3 women in one team, sharing an office. Two of them didn’t like the third and sent very bitchy emails about this woman (who was actually really lovely) to each other.

Came unstuck when one of them instead of typing ‘Alison’ type ‘Al’ and spellcheck being a karmic bitch she is decided to default to ALL. 3,000 people saw how much they hated her....which turned out to be highly unpleasant for them.

My ex once sent me a rather lovey dovey email with silly pet names and some interesting suggestions in it. Except he meant to send it to one of his other women, tosser. I enjoyed replying to that one

When ds was in year one I sent his teacher an email which read roughly like this

Dear Mrs X

I'm a bit worried little lists is being bullied by X. I was hoping you could spare time for a chat to discuss the situation.
Many thanks
I love you very much can't wait to see you tonight.
Listsandbudgets
xxxx

DP got one signed kind regards. I've never worked out how it happened

my new guy has dyslexia so he dictates to messenger but he never bothers reading back and it never comes out as he intended, which is often hilarious..
talking about my 'inner pies' rather than inner thighs was one.
I replied with a photo of me naked covered in vegan pies from the freezer. He was completely baffled by it as had not read back what he'd written...

Lists, I'm crying at that!
I once worked in a cattery and had to send a letter to a cat owner.. I finished it with lots of love, Alltoo XXXX
I then got the Tippex out, which made it look far worse!

An HR manager sent an organisation-wide email informing everyone of a colleague’s change of surname. He rounded the email off with congratulating her on getting married.

10 minutes later he sent another organisation-wide email stating the change of surname was a result of divorce and “congratulations weren’t the order of the day”...

Another 10 minutes later the woman herself replied to all saying she was pretty bloomin’ happy about the divorce and would gladly take any congratulations!

I once told someone my manager wouldn’t be available this week as she was very busty Ironically she was quite flat chested

I also recently sent someone a file of screenshits! Also, not an email one, but my manager messaged our team WhatsApp on ultimate boss’s birthday saying ‘Happy birthday! I hope you’re having cocktails!’ Unfortunately in the main WhatsApp window, the preview said ‘I hope you’re having cock...’

I had to email our help desk about something years ago and got the response "have you tried fucking on the desktop?".

Nope. Hadn't tried that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think someone had been autocorrected. 😆

Loving these, I have one for later when I have some time

@SingingSands

I had to email our help desk about something years ago and got the response "have you tried fucking on the desktop?".

Nope. Hadn't tried that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think someone had been autocorrected. 😆

That one has me absolutely crying, brilliant

One of the big bosses had two PAs, a senior one say Joan who was a larger older lady and a young one say Kim who was reputed amongst the younger men (of course not me!) to be a 'goer'.

I emailed Joan looking to schedule a meeting with Big Boss as soon as possible.

She replied

Sorry Maartje but I am VERY BUSTY.

You need to see Kim for a good time

It was a typo, but was probably more true with the typo than without.

There's a funny novel by Matt Beaumont called 'e' and it's written entirely as emails from individuals and company wide, mainly in the advertising sector.

I was once shown an email which was a response to an email from a larger organisation. As GDPR was being implemented, the organisation had emailed to ask if all receipents were happy for their contact details to be shared with each other...only they had forgotten to BCC. Response asked for it to be logged as a breach, obvs