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?

“These idiots want to change stuff again....” send from a supplier. Guess she wanted to forward, but pressed “reply all”.
We didn’t work with them afterwards (and we hadn’t been unreasonable in our changes, fairly normal stuff)

When I was in my early 20's I temped in a call centre. It was a small team and everyone was about the same age, apart from this one guy who was in his mid 40's, wore a three piece suit every day so spoke to us all like we were dirt.

He and I did not get along, and one day I was so pissed off I sent an email to my mate stating "John Smith is a fucking wanker"

Except, I didn't send it to my mate, I sent it to John Smith ....

One of the car technicians asked to send a holiday request to his boss from an office email account. The person who’s email account was used decided it would be funny to “help” send the email by sending it to all - 3,000 employees

The request wasn’t the usual “can I have Friday the 5th of April as holiday please” it was very detailed and miss spelt “Boss, its Barry from the work shop. I wunna tak the missus to Bennnydom for her berfday do not tell er cauze she ain’t know yet so I want Friday an Monday of work cheers baz

This caused most people to send a witty reply back BUT they kept sending to all. My inbox was blowing up with pics of donkeys and requests for postcards and every now and then HR would reply to all “stop replying to all, the directors are receiving all at emails” which resulted in all at messages again being sent saying sorry...

I did feel sorry for poor Barry and I hope he got his annual leave authorised.

Autocorrect- I had a senior manager do the same thing. Doesn’t recognise wellies only wellingtons.

My boss (male) in a Church oh England Primary school sent me a link to a Christmas song by Fascinating Aïda which had some very nsfw lyrics. Unfortunately he sent it to all staff by mistake. He then had to get the Head of IT to send out an email claiming the head had been hacked - we even had a staff mtg about how to protect your email

One of the partners in a firm I used to work at included me in an email. It was about a case of his, and he was offering to the intended recipient his opinion of a professional expert witness and why she wouldn't be much good, making very personal comments about her.

There was no need for him to copy me in to this. He'd sent it to everyone in his address book. I noticed too he also sent it to the woman he was referring to.

I rang him to tell him - no one had alerted him to it before then. He got someone to ring her. She wasn't in, and they spoke to her secretary - said there was a virus on the email and she should delete it immediately.

This was in the early days of emails - around 2002.

I once sent an email welcoming Anus to the company (i missed out the G)

It shoud have been Angus

Yes, at my first job, in a huge global company, someone responded to a CEO firm wide email complaining his desk lamp did not work, we then had multiple geniuses replying all, saying it was inappropriate, then further brainiacs replying all saying 'stop replying all'.....they crashed he email server with so many emails flying about.

Just before Fathers Day a couple of years ago, Scout pack leader sent an email invite out for the church parade to the Beavers group - inviting "not just fathers but any other men who have had a positive impact on your Beaver"

My aunt's friend sent her an email having a whinge about an unreasonable email she'd received from someone and had attached the email for reference.

My aunt read the email and replied to the friend agreeing that the email awas uncalled for and the author was obviously batshit crazy.

Except she hit "reply" on the email of question...

Needless to say the originator of the email (who was batshit crazy) took offence.....

Lol another I get those mails too, heading out on a hike and told to dress up warm as 'nobody wants a wet Beaver'

The best one was "give Greg the holiday"

Security guard I think sent his holiday request to the entire global company

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/richardhjames/boss-accidentally-forwards-security-guards-holiday-request-t

Companies were queuing up to give him free holidays and all sorts

Another couple

I used to have a job that involved working with the public..One day I had something from the spam filter saying an email to me had been held because of profanity and to let IT know of I wanted it released. I asked for it to be sent on and found the L had been missed out of public, not once but many times. It was a long and involved email about pubic areas.. from a local vicar I assumed (correctly it turned out).that he'd used a different word, changed his mind and done a find and replace all. He was quite embarrassed.

Another was a summary of a report I received which clearly stated " In this area, most older people live until they die." I responded asking what the other old people do and got a response saying it was meant to say "live in their own homes until they die"

Not email but text, my dd's primary school sent out a text to all parents reminding them to send their dc to the school trip, and not to forget their willies ( she meant wellies)

Working in an office years ago, my friend and colleague emailed me: 'F*%&ing hell I've had it today. Fancy coming out on the lash after? I quite fancy trying to get laid.'

Except she emailed our boss, who shares my first name. A very straight-laced older lady. Who gamely replied: 'What a very kind offer, thank you! But I'm afraid those days are rather behind me.'

I once had an accidental email from a solicitor after going to get some documents notarised. His secretary had the same first name as me and so I received an email about all his impending court dates and gory details of the cases 🙈 including some not so professional comments about the cases and mentioning how he couldn’t be bothered with certain ones as his garden was being landscaped. He then sent me a very panicky email a few minutes later asking if I could kindly delete the email 😂.

I once worked for a company that was trying to remove a senior person in another department, but we all dealt with her.
She was strict but knew her job, they hated her as she was a woman and extremely competent.

An email came out to all of us asking for our "feedback and complaints" about her, obviously hoping to build up a case against her. I thought it was all wrong.

I emailed back a very balanced report, emphasising her good points. I carefully put her name in BC...…

They did get rid of her but she thanked me afterwards for giving her the thumbs up about what was happening so she could prepare herself, and also for my support. I just thought it was the right thing to do at the time.

New director started at the firm I worked at and for whatever reason no one told him that I had access to all the directors emails (I would reply and deal with the low level ones and make appointments etc)

Anyway this guy then signed up for dating agencies and used his work email so I got all these messages from various women along with all his replies etc. Really awkward conversation telling him, esp as he was basically cat fishing.

@BustyBroke Nope, it didn’t happen.
Universities have hundreds of exam board meetings, one convened for every cohort and subject. There’s no way there’d be one single list of everyone’s final results for the entire University.

An email talking about a director's ill health. I will spare details.

About 6 months prior, he had been emailing certain clients offering them a free listing - unfortunately, he happened to offer one client a "free fisting".

Reminds me of an old workplace where someone who ran a lunchtime exercise class sent an email to the whole place with details of when and where etc, and reminded people that they should wear 'loose fisting clothing'.

@LaLoose

Working in an office years ago, my friend and colleague emailed me: 'F*%&ing hell I've had it today. Fancy coming out on the lash after? I quite fancy trying to get laid.'

Except she emailed our boss, who shares my first name. A very straight-laced older lady. Who gamely replied: 'What a very kind offer, thank you! But I'm afraid those days are rather behind me.'

That's the best response to an accidental email I've ever heard of.

Not an email one, but our IT department (who you phone when computer doesn't work) tells you to try web-chat rather than phoning up. If I could web chat I wouldn't need IT help!

In the very early days of the internet, I used a web-based email provider whose Technical Support was only accessible after logging in. Which was fine - except when I needed to contact them because I couldn't log in...

A university course mailing list. The professor emailed exam details, ending the message with "and this is what you need to do to get a passing grade". A female student Replied All with "...or I can just suck you off like the last time".