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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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Iamthewombat · 14/01/2021 22:44

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

That is funny.

I once attempted to forward an email from colleague A to colleague B saying, “ignore him, he hasn’t got a clue what he is talking about”. You can guess the rest.

Cuntitinthebin · 14/01/2021 22:45

Hi Gays instead of Hi Guys.

takeyourmarks · 14/01/2021 22:46

Meet you in reception became meet you in erection

Still1nLove · 14/01/2021 22:46

My email dial is that I sent out an email inviting people to my leaving party and another member of staff accidentally sent a response to me, not the intended person. It basically said “who would want to go to her leaving do?”.
I was very upset 😢

Emmelina · 14/01/2021 22:46

One of the kids changed my display name on my personal email to what they wanted their YouTube channel to be called, hoping as it was linked to the YouTube account it would change the channel name (it doesn’t).
I didn’t notice for almost a week, during which time I’d emailed clients, businesses, the bank... as “X’s Minecraft”.
Oh, and there was the time I sent an email to their school about one of the kids. The school named their classes after trees, and they were in Birch class at the time.
I was doing ten things at once, didn’t check the autocorrect and sent “bitch class”.

cautiouscovidity · 14/01/2021 22:47

I've been on the receiving end of an email fail. A man at the council I'd been liaising with on a planning matter sent me an email one Monday morning, inviting me to come to his office for a quick fumble in the stationery cupboard. I replied that it was very kind of him to offer but that I was happily married. It turns out it was meant for his colleague who shared my Christian name an so he'd had an autocomplete error with his email programme.
My planning matter was passed to his colleague to handle thereafter Grin

MsAwesomeDragon · 14/01/2021 22:50

Last lockdown there were a few times I sent the wrong attachments. So year 7 ended up with a worksheet aimed at year 11 at one point, and it didn't match the video, but they all had a go and did what they thought I wanted.

My classes are getting used to me forgetting to send any attachments now. Someone emails me at about 9:30 to say "miss, were you supposed to send us a worksheet as well as the email?"

Mreggsworth · 14/01/2021 22:51

A few months back I was responding to a WhatsApp while I had an email open. The email was semi serious about some outstanding tasks that needed done urgently, the WhatsApp was responding to a jokey comment. I closed the WhatsApp to respond to the email but my brain hadn't switched to the serious tone and ended up responding something along the lines of "apologies for the delay, this will be completed as a matter of urgency haha x"

I realised what I had done the split second I pressed send, sent some weird excuse about it being autocorrect on my phone...if that even makes sense ?

CostaDelCovid · 14/01/2021 22:51

Sent an email to my Mum about (my) bra measurements and how I now need the granny-bra at M&S - complete with link - and accidentally sent it to my Landlord

ktld · 14/01/2021 22:53

I was writing a schedule of the day once for a supply teacher covering my class, at 10:30 I put “give children a light smack after break time”

SNACK. A light SNACK- I was mortified 😂

grassisjeweled · 14/01/2021 22:55

Ah fuck I've loads.

Ccing someone in to see how you spell their name and then not fucking removing them when actually sending the email.

I also sent an email (again in copy) asking who was on the list, but sent it out to all and sundry, I. E everyone in the list Confused Anyway, I looked a right idiot and was sacked shortly afterwards.

MiaMarshmallows · 14/01/2021 22:55

So far....

  1. Hi Gays
  2. Bitch class

Are my favourites Grin

grassisjeweled · 14/01/2021 22:56

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

Grin
CostaDelCovid · 14/01/2021 22:57

@Still1nLove

My email dial is that I sent out an email inviting people to my leaving party and another member of staff accidentally sent a response to me, not the intended person. It basically said “who would want to go to her leaving do?”. I was very upset 😢
Awww that's awful. I hope she was pulled up on it? Thanks
TheYearOfSmallThings · 14/01/2021 22:57

"Dear Shitley" instead of "Dear Shirley".

Quite an important email too ☹️

saintava · 14/01/2021 22:58

My work email constantly autocorrects "shifts" to "shits" 🤷🏼‍♀️

Youngatheart00 · 14/01/2021 22:59

I wrote an email referring to the ‘new development in Derbyshite’ just before Xmas. Oops.

Cloe78 · 14/01/2021 22:59

"Dear Brain"

sbhydrogen · 14/01/2021 23:00

I was once demoing a piece of work I had recently completed, and in doing so accidentally sent a nonsensical email to 117,000 customers.

IliveonCoffee · 14/01/2021 23:00

Our email has a undo function, that you can unsend an email within about 10 seconds of sending it. Absolutely awesome for when you notice that type as you hit send, or want to double check you actually did cc or remove someone. I think it holds it in the out box for the 10 seconds so no-one knows. I don't think I can work somewhere else now though...heaven knows what I'd send.

I'm always the one that references an attachment...that's not attached. Cue all the 'there's nothing attached? Hmm' emails..and having to send 'sorry!' and triple checking I've attached it because one day I definitely will send the 'sorry, see attached' without the attachment.

honeybooboo13 · 14/01/2021 23:01

@MissMarplesstylecoach

Sent an email to friend and said I hadn't lost any weight despite intermittent fisting for the last two weeks . Blush
Hahahahaha this made me laugh out loud @MissMarplesstylecoach
tillytoodles1 · 14/01/2021 23:03

Asking the electrician to tickle me when he arrived . It was meant to say message me.

honeybooboo13 · 14/01/2021 23:03

@FolkyFoxFace

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.

😂😂😂🙈 @FolkyFoxFace
ShockingOutburst · 14/01/2021 23:05

My manager is called Angus. I did unfortunately miss the g out once so wrote Dear Anus. I am tempted to do it again whenever he annoys me

tartantroosers · 14/01/2021 23:08

Martial arts became marital arts. Ooooh errr, missus.

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