To ask you to tell me your email fails

[Pandaa]

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

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who puts someone in CC to see how their name is spelt and then forgets to remove it

I wrote an email to a colleague talking about something someone else had done and how I didn't think it was helpful. He replied and for some unknown reason copied in the person we were talking about. He was mortified when I phoned a few minutes later and said WTF?

Strange what your brain does when you're thinking about someone without you even realising!

Someone I knew had a big falling out with his daughter when working in the same company as her. He wrote a long email about how he felt, their relationship and why he was upset with her etc then sent it to practically everyone in the company accidentally instead of just her.

I meant to forward an email from my team leader to my colleague who was a good friend - moaning about how awful his grammar was and how he couldn't even put a basic sentence together - but I accidentally somehow replied to him instead of forwarding it 🤦🏼‍♀️

Have a great shit instead of have a great shift

I offered a very important client 'a significant discocunt on our fee'.

A discocunt sounds very 80s.

Not my fail but in a previous job I was looking at a public email folder and found a spreadsheet listing the salaries of everybody in the company. I read it all.

Ha ha yes. 'Dear important client, attached is our invoice and, as promised, John Travolta'.

@Ginmaker

I offered a very important client 'a significant discocunt on our fee'.

Ha ha ha! I love the disco cunt

My work often involved doing work for other departments, to fit in to their projects. There was a general culture of the department bosses blaming pretty much anyone but themselves when things went wrong but taking all the credit for successes- whilst at the same time trying to come across to the underlings as easy going and friendly. At one point my boss was imploring me to put in silly hours to meet unreasonable deadlines in his projects (all on the basis that my hard work was not going unnoticed/looks good for promotion etc) and said he had agreed extra time to compete work for another department. The person I owed work to for another department was seemingly very reasonable- acknowledging that our team were understaffed and saying a few more days would be fine.

In the middle of this my boss cc'd me in to a very innocuous e-mail about arranging a meeting. Unfortunately attached to this was a long thread of messages between him and other department bosses basically slating me, blaming me for delays in their projects and agreeing that they would all have to accept delays whilst boss dealt with my underperformance (plus loads of dick waving from my boss about how he'd do that).

Boss tried to claim it was all taken out of context, but it explained all the times he had quite aggressively shouted me in to a private meeting room then just seemed to want a pointless chat.

Working fairly, but not crazy late, one evening had been going back and forth with an internal client on something. Was also emailing my flatmate. At some point, I emailed her re our dinner plans for that night as we'd decided to go out rather than cook. Email said something like, "I think we should get scallops tonight" Except... I didn't. I'd emailed the client. Even worse, he clearly thought I'd invited him out. More embarrassingly for me, he was enthusiastic and responded with "I'm afraid I can't do tonight but would love to have dinner another night." The whole thing was beyond mortifying.

On another similar note, for whatever reason in an email trail with someone I detailed the short but embarrassing story of my worst date ever. I work in PR. I had, in fact, sent it to an editor at the Wall Street Journal. I was, of course, embarrassed. But he (typical journalist) was curious and wanted to know more!

I was in charge of lovely team of young men and women in our office in the Philippines. They’d all welcomed me so nicely that I thought I’d make an effort to address them in Tagalog in my first group email. Turns out my ‘trusty’ Tagalog dictionary wasn’t so trusty because instead of starting it off as ‘Hey guys!’ I apparently said ‘Hello Whores!’. They were so sweet and polite they actually had a meeting to decide which one of them was going to discreetly break it to me. Luckily they took it well and after so many cock ups over the years, I’m embarrassment proof.

I've also called ended an email with "kind regards" and once, most embarrassingly I ended a rather stern email giving a bit of a telling off with:

Retards,

Squirrel

More recently I was drafting a number of emails to the CEO's for the different countries of the organisation I work for. To save time I was taking the last email drafted and changing bits to suit and saving in a folder. It went spectacularly wrong and I got lots of PA's (thankfully) emailing me saying the got someone else's file. I could have died.

Sending an email last June to everyone in the trust instead of one person, like 20,000. Now it's January and I'm still getting replies saying 'I don't think I'm meant to get this email'

Luckily it was just an email to cancel a meeting and not confidential

I often mention being very busty

Clearly mean busy. Makes me laugh anyway.

Not an email but I text my hairdresser to see when she could book me in for a blow dry which autocorrected to blow job

@MissMarplesstylecoach

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

Good thing you sent it to your friend and not your PT at the gym 😂😂😂😂😂

This thread has made my day, please keep them coming.
Only thing that has made me smile in weeks.

Not me but a senior partner sent an email to everyone (around 150 people) about an upcoming charity run he was taking part in with an attachment for further info....the attachment was a scanned copy of his driving licence complete with recent points for speeding!

I'm living vicariously through a woman who can't seem to remember her own personal email address, and keeps giving mine out instead.

The first few times it was personal stuff (booking squash lessons for her son at the local sports centre, etc.) so I assumed it was the senders fault for getting the address wrong, but then it started to be automated stuff like amazon orders, her sky account, her searches on rightmove, ebay etc. - things she would have had to enter the email address in herself. Every time I get an email from a real person discussing their book group, school reunion, holiday plans I reply and say 'I'm really sorry, but you've got the wrong email address, I'm sadeyed, not badeyed' and they ALWAYS get the arse with me saying 'no, badeyed gave us this email address!' To which I reply 'yes, I know. She gives EVERYONE this email address, but I'm not her!' They never reply to that. I am yet to discover what her actual email address is so I can politely ask her to stop giving the wrong email address to people.

@sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea

I'm living vicariously through a woman who can't seem to remember her own personal email address, and keeps giving mine out instead.

The first few times it was personal stuff (booking squash lessons for her son at the local sports centre, etc.) so I assumed it was the senders fault for getting the address wrong, but then it started to be automated stuff like amazon orders, her sky account, her searches on rightmove, ebay etc. - things she would have had to enter the email address in herself. Every time I get an email from a real person discussing their book group, school reunion, holiday plans I reply and say 'I'm really sorry, but you've got the wrong email address, I'm sadeyed, not badeyed' and they ALWAYS get the arse with me saying 'no, badeyed gave us this email address!' To which I reply 'yes, I know. She gives EVERYONE this email address, but I'm not her!' They never reply to that. I am yet to discover what her actual email address is so I can politely ask her to stop giving the wrong email address to people.

I get this for some woman in Mid west USA. Have for several years.

I get her dental reminders, car service information, e- Christmas cards. I was even invited to baby shower this morning.

After the 5 th or so year of getting the an e Christmas card from same person I did email them to advise them.

Think confusion is from middle initial being l and it being mistaken for i. Even so though....

When I worked in insurance I emailed a very important broker about a county court judgement one of their clients had - but left the ‘o’ out of county 🤦🏻‍♀️

Colleague sent out an email to all users of a system we operated- several thousand - he forgot to take off his read receipt and auto response/auto forward. It created a total nightmare cycle crashing the whole company email system. 2 days later he did it again!!

Partner A at work sent an email to all staff advising of a minor change in procedures. Partner B replied, querying the reason for the change. Partner A replied, absolutely laying into partner B, accused him of undermining management team etc, but of course accidentally replied to all staff. How we sniggered (All 200 of us)

@DustyVenetian I often find myself wondering how many 'AIBU to feel left out?' threads are linked to people like badeyed who never get the email invites sent to them... because some random woman 300 miles away is being invited to the parties, baby showers, reunions, book club meet ups, general catch up drinks instead.

A senior person at work contacted me about a very serious matter. I suggested we get together to discuss the problem in person rather than converse by email. He agreed so I sent a message saying, why not pop over here, then thought this was a bit too informal so I decided to change the sentence to "do you want to come to my office?" Somehow I got distracted and ended up sending an email saying "do you want to come over me?"