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

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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?

Some guy in one of our branch offices emailed everyone in the company (ie not just in his office or his town or even his country but everybody) to tell us that he'd found an orange shit in the disabled toilet and it's on his desk if anyone wants it.

Also, and I don't even know why this makes me laugh but it really does, the woman who hit 'reply all' to some HR announcement with just the letter S.

My husband’s boss once forwarded him an email from a client basically ranting about their spec and how unreasonable they were, and told my husband to put the client off...

Except he didn’t forward, he replied all! I believe they still work with that client so my husband must’ve done some good damage control!

I once emailed a parent and for some fucking reason, instead of writing ‘kind regards’ I wrote ‘love you’

And then put an x

@Tunnocks34 I have a friend who’s a doctor and she once finished a phone conversation with a patient “love you bye”

Not quite the same thing but it made me laugh.

I can't remember why but I showed a colleague how to type a love heart on the keyboard (alt +3).

A few weeks later I had to go into a different colleagues email while he was off. The first colleague and sent an email to him and some of the other guys in the office about going to the pub at lunch.

He'd signed it off with a giant love heart.

@rwalker

One guy I managed transferred to another role I emailed his gaining manager as sometimes training can be duplicated . Meant to say please be aware X has transferred auto correct replaced it with transgender. His new manger told me all pleased with herself that she had done welcome interveiw .Highlighting how diverse and inclusive they are .All the staff had been told about him being transgender and an inappropriate comments or behaviour would not be tolerated and they would be disciplined .

That's soooo funny

AnnaNimmity - what happened to the guy?

@rachb2019

My favourite ones are where somebody uses the wrong distribution list and sends a normal work request to 20,000+ people.

Inevitably somebody then replies all saying "I don't think this was meant for me".

Then somebody replies all saying "Please remove me"

Then another saying "And me please"

Then somebody replies all saying "DON'T REPLY ALL!!!!"

Suddenly there are 800 emails from people getting increasingly angry until the poor email server dies.

Just entertaining to watch.

@rachb2019 Im an Auxiliary nurse for NHS Scotland and this happened to us last summer it was hilarious. Not sure who started it but it kept going round and round every single member of staff from porters, kitchen staff, admin staff, GP practices, domestics etc. It took about a month to sort out.

@cricketmum84

" XXXX has called in sick today with vomiting and diarrhoea. We have asked him to call in before his next shit"

Was absolutely creased 😂

I don't often laugh aloud at posts but I did at this one.

Someone in another office sent a company wide e-Mail meant for her boyfriend asking him to feed their degu with a “love you babe” at the end. Went out to over 3000 people at different sites. Still makes me cringe to this day

Our work give Environmental Leave. This particular year we were doing some tree planting. The organiser sent a message out to everyone not to forget their Willys (he meant wellies).

Not an email, but during the 2012 opening or closing ceremony (can’t remember which) One direction were playing. A colleague tweeted ‘Fuck off Bum Direction’, she meant it from her personal account, unfortunately she accidentally sent it from the work account.

Many years ago a friend had a drunken snog with a lad she knew. She text him asking him not to tell her boyfriend. Unfortunately she sent it to her boyfriend instead.

@RoseLillian, I think you might work for the same organisation as me. I’ve never come across anyone else doing Environmental Leave.🌳

We did IVF at a very well-known Beverly Hills CA IVF clinic. The nurses were all so lovely! Well, to our faces, anyway. Our lead nurse was going on holiday and sent an email to the nurse who was covering for her, about me.

It started "I am so sorry you have to deal with HER." And on it went. Unfortunately she sent it to me by mistake. I was shocked at the absolute hatred she felt for me, it was bizarre. I was feeling pretty shit anyway, as it was our third - and last - attempt at IVF and wasn't going well.

However, it was ultimately successful and we got our beautiful DD, so I can laugh about it now .

@Harls1969 There's a university in America which last year seemed utterly convinced that I was one of their students. I kept getting emails about exam dates, project deadlines etc. I thought they'd finally forgotten me but this week I suddenly got information from them about postgrad courses, so I must have graduated! Well done me!

Another time I received an email telling me what time I should be on the golf course for the tournament tomorrow - in America! To make it worse it was clear that this was a men's tournament. I had to email them back and tell them they'd got the wrong person, in case the actual intended recipient failed to show up.

@BikeRunSki Quite probably!

I once got a formal "un-written warning" from HR intended for another guy with the same surname and first initial as me.

Ironically, it was for fucking up big time in a job that I also applied for but didn't get!

One of the few times I've enjoyed talking to HR!

@turquoise50 I'm glad it's not just me. Oh, congratulations 😂

I had been involved in an email chain about something or other at work. The next email was a massive rant about my boss from someone in a different dept to my colleague, except somehow he sent it to me only instead of my colleague only.
Obviously not a big problem and I just replied saying I think you meant to send this to X.

I also used to receive quite random emails meant for an academic (I work in a uni) who shares my first initial and surname. I remember getting the ex-tractor fan joke meant for her (random!).
She's left now, but afterwards I was still getting emails about her research projects because people were giving out my email address

I had an email today from the Head of HR from an old post -from a number few years ago............telling the details of the zoom meeting disciplinary for ..........my old line manager was on x day at y time. I don't work there and haven't for years. I wasn't involved in any way shape or form with his disciplinary, I'm not a witness or anything -it's bizarre. It was to my personal email as well. Weird. Def not for me. I am tempted to log in to the zoom call though and say hi! (I won't) and have deleted it.

@WineAndHobnobs

We did IVF at a very well-known Beverly Hills CA IVF clinic. The nurses were all so lovely! Well, to our faces, anyway. Our lead nurse was going on holiday and sent an email to the nurse who was covering for her, about me.

It started "I am so sorry you have to deal with HER." And on it went. Unfortunately she sent it to me by mistake. I was shocked at the absolute hatred she felt for me, it was bizarre. I was feeling pretty shit anyway, as it was our third - and last - attempt at IVF and wasn't going well.

However, it was ultimately successful and we got our beautiful DD, so I can laugh about it now .

Shocking. Did you ever get an apology?

About 15 years ago a member of my team shared his name with a senior manager (who is now one of our directors). Manager's email address was johnsmith@blah and our team mate's name was johnsmith2@blah. John Smith would quite often get emails from us that were meant for John Smith 2 and would reply very politely that we'd emailed the wrong John Smith. Also he worked in our head office about 300 miles away so we'd never met him.

Me and another colleague, Dave, had a conversation one day about having a swear jar on our team. I said we could have a sliding scale, like 5p for a bloody through to 50p for a fuck. Dave immediately emailed our team saying "Despair says 50p for a fuck!" Except of course he copied in the wrong John Smith. Who replied to say "I'll be down in your office next month, I'll save all my 50p pieces up"

Several years ago, my in-laws (who can talk the hind legs off a donkey) sent me an email telling me that an elderly relative of theirs was dying, so they were racing to hospital to be at her side. Then, half an hour later they emailed to say that she had passed away as they pulled into the carpark. I forwarded it onto my friend and said, "a wise move on her part. Can you imagine being 94 and lying on your deathbed, when that pair show up". Of course I didn't forward it to my friend. I had accidentally forwarded it back to them. Oh god. I still cringe to this day. It was utterly horrendous and sooo stressful. Oh, the fall out! They didn't speak to me for weeks and when they finally did, I received the most toe curling long response reprimanding me. I've never felt so small. I still want the ground to swallow me up when I think about it!

email I sent to someone I didn't know autocorrected from wellies to willies - red faced moment

@fromDespairToHere

Hilarious!

@SummerDayWinterEvenings I didn't complain. I was too scared as they literally had all our hopes and dreams in their hands.

@Worstemailever Sorry, but that's hilarious !