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To ask you to tell me your email fails

109 replies

Pandaa · 14/01/2021 21:17

After accidentally sending an email to the wrong person today at work, please tell me your email fails to make myself feel better!

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justineboober · 14/01/2021 21:19

"Kind regards" has become "Kind retards" on more than one occasion.

Radishesandcake · 14/01/2021 21:21

Everyone make sure to wear waterproofs and willies

HintOfVintagePink · 14/01/2021 21:24

I’m always typing the word ‘account’ incorrectly. Luckily I’ve never sent the email before double checking.

Sprockerdilerock · 14/01/2021 21:25

Many tanks instead of many thanks. I work in defence procurement though so Grin

A guy I used to work with had a disagreement with another colleague and sent a moany email about her to one of his work mates... except he accidentally sent it to her Grin

MissMarplesstylecoach · 14/01/2021 21:59

Sent an email to friend and said I hadn't lost any weight despite intermittent fisting for the last two weeks . Blush

Thighdentitycrisis · 14/01/2021 22:01

I reply to myself all the time

itchyfinger · 14/01/2021 22:01

I have missed a letter from the word "count"

dudsville · 14/01/2021 22:02

I almost always type thnaks instead of thanks, and it always makes me giggle.

Ruddyfedup · 14/01/2021 22:03

All the time, email system is set up to work if we type in our employee numbers aswell. 3am ive sent many a wrong email to the wrong person because ive got the number slighlty wrong and came back into work to 'was this meant for me?' Replies

emmetgirl · 14/01/2021 22:07

@MissMarplesstylecoach OMG I love that! Smile

Elbels · 14/01/2021 22:07

A recent one where I was emailing about someone (one of the most senior people in the very large organisation I work) but accidentally copied him as I put his name in cc to check the spelling. Thankfully my email was benign and actually the reply I got from him was far quicker than going round the houses. My email was along the lines of 'really don't think I can email XXX directly, why would he pay attention to lowly ol' me".

Caselgarcia · 14/01/2021 22:07

Best wank instead of West Bank.

CorpusCallosum · 14/01/2021 22:12

I repeatedly type 'not' instead of 'now' and haven't always picked it up so 'I will now do this' becomes 'I will not do this'... to my boss... more than once 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

mygenericusername · 14/01/2021 22:18

Many years ago I worked at a nanny agency.

It wasn’t working out for one family so I sent them a list of potential replacements explaining notice period etc.

I don’t know how but I managed to send it to the nanny herself.

Honestly, best day at work ever Blush

FolkyFoxFace · 14/01/2021 22:22

A very straight laced head of department, who I have never seen smile, was emailing me about a very important change to the department.

His name is Andrew. My autocorrect changed it to Andy. And somehow added an exclamation mark.

Doesn't sound like much, but this is definitely not a "Hi Andy!" kind of man.

unbotheredbutbewildered · 14/01/2021 22:25

'I've been dogging the [insert particular group of people]"

It was meant to say 'I've been dodging the [insert particular group of people]'

Written in an chat at work earlier to my Director and my immediate manager when I was asked whether I had seen a particular person...

PugInTheHouse · 14/01/2021 22:35

Used to work in a nursery setting, had 2 parents who had split up after he had an affair (all very public on SM etc). They were constantly asking us to not tell the dad this, or not tell the mum that. The dad emailed to say we were not to allow the children to go home with the mum the following day (no court order or anything like that, they were literally fighting over the kids). I meant to forward it to the manager of setting saying FFS I am sick of them using us in their fighting etc (probably slightly worse than that but not too awful that I was really rude about him) but I accidently replied to him instead Blush

I just emailed immediately and apologised but he was actually really apologetic and said he realised he was being unfair to us.

Itsabloodybingthing · 14/01/2021 22:38

I once sent a very long email outlining how disappointed I was in how something had been managed at work. There was an email thread below including previous correspondence I’d had with other teams about this particular issue. I cc’d my senior management into it and finished off the email with “please see the email threat below” obviously I meant thread but I’d been a bit scathing so the people receiving the email were probably within their rights to accuse me of openly threatening them.

HermannlovesPauline · 14/01/2021 22:40

“Sorry for any incontinence” rather than inconvenience

Bring waterproofs and willies has made me Grin

shotofchips · 14/01/2021 22:41

I sent an email containing the whole business strategy for the year to our competitors accidentally once.

Fucking awful.

CherryBlossomTree7 · 14/01/2021 22:41

Intermittent fisting Grin

Not as funny or shocking but I often do something like this:
Send an email saying 'The phone number is 111222333'
Then send another saying 'Sorry, it is actually 111222333'
They then respond saying 'That's the same number'
.........................

Shudawuda · 14/01/2021 22:41

Not mine but a colleague, I’d sent the minutes of a meeting to a large client late, she replied to all instead of just to me saying “you shouldn’t have sent them late you know those bastards try to wiggle out of everything”

DEATHLY Grin

Dimpous · 14/01/2021 22:42

Sending emails for (area name) county council and missing the "u" in county...done far to many times!

And emailing a director saying "first things first" instead of first things first! Doh!

Lucieintheskye · 14/01/2021 22:44

Accidentally attached a very inappropriate file to an email to our accountant without realising. The email had a fair few attachments so I didn't realise there was a rogue one. He had to explain to the young lad doing work experience with him that usually clients don't send that sort of thing. I got quite a telling off from him and DH Blush

Amijustagrump · 14/01/2021 22:44

Teacher here with a horrible new habit of signing emails with my real name not surname! Got one back today that said thanks mate.. Hmm

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