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I today committed a horrendous email gaffe by accidently copying in someone on a er... 'not very flattering' email about them which I forwarded to some colleagues.
This is not quite as bad as the fornmer collegue who got an email from a bloke she fancied, who meant to forward thii onto a firend saying "cor, this is the bloke i fancy" but pressed 'reply' instead.
Everyone's done it. So what are people best email gaffes? -
Ace.
I've done that loads.
I was once on the phone to my manager, who was prattling on, changing his mind about things and creating loads of extra work for me. Sitting across from me, my colleague was waving at me asking what I was on the phone about - because it would mean that we would both have to stay late. I tapped out a terse email to him saying "BP is being a complete nob" or something like that.
Then, I sent it to the guy I was talking to.
The ONLY thing that saved me was that BP stood for 'Boy Prince', which was our name for him.
So when he phoned up 5 minutes later, saying 'who's BP?', I quickly composed myself and said it was a personal email I had sent to him that I had meant to send to a friend. -
Not one of mine, but last week at work one of my colleagues sent an outline of a plan for staff reorganisation to the entire company by accident. Nothing too horrid (no redundancies or anything) but it certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons. I nearly did the same last November with a spreadsheet of everyone's salaries and proposed pay rises, but thank god spotted that I'd put the wrong 'list' email address in before I pressed send. Would have caused meltdown, I think.
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Never. I mean every insult I send.
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I have 3 stories ...
1) The CEO of a company I worked for sent round an Excel spreadsheet with a breakdown of costs and forgot to delete a certain column first ... it contained all the salaries for the entire company (60 people) ...
2) My boss at a different company mistakenly sent an email to the girl who sits next to me telling of the bloke she shagged at the pub the night before and asking how she was going to hide this from her husband.
3) My mistake ... replying to an email from a contractor telling him what I thought of his project management skills when I really should have forwarded it to my MD. However, as David said, I meant every word of it! -
Text messages are the worst...
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This is true, especially with my girlfriend and bestfriend's names next to each other in my phone. The amount of times I've missent love to Pedro intended for Petra only to get replies along the lines of _'F**& off, you faggot.'_
Think yourself lucky I don't have your number, Pete.
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Simon B, I would be interested to hear what happened when your boss sent round a spreadsheet of salaries (having nearly done this myself). Any casualties?
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