OT: E-mail goofs

cazzy

Have you ever had an e-mail goof that just made you immediately face palm?

For instance, this morning, I reply all'd to an email and didn't notice my Director added someone.  My response lacked some tact and I wouldn't have been so candid had I known he was added.  Being in IT, I'm fully aware how dangerous Reply All can be.  The walk of shame to apologize to him wasn't fun.  LOL

About 10 years ago, I pulled the lemme e-mail the person I am talking about hack.  Thankfully he was my boss and I had access to his e-mail.  I remotely accessed his e-mail, deleted the evidence and went about my day.  Definitely a close call.    

Do you all have any face palm stories?

lkapigian

It's why I never hit Reply All

cazzy

lkapigian said:

It's why I never hit Reply All

I'm batting about .998 with it, so it hasn't been too bad.  I'm usually pretty cautious, but it got me today.  

BYS1981

I have never, but a co-worker of mine sent out a chain letter to all of Tyndall AFB, including the base general, when I was enlisted. LMAO

Eggcelsior

One of the doctors I work with was going back and forth with another in the practice and a doctor from another hospital who was coming to speak at a conference. The guy was being a douche and my doc meant to tell my other doc this via email but accidentally cc'ed the douche doc as well. Gotta love bending over backwards for douchebags.

TNegg

No email goofs here.... but my best friends boyfriend sent her a sexy message in what he didn't know was a group text.  It was soooo funny.  I still tease them about it! 

tarheelmatt

@cazzy, I do not have an email goof, but a IM goof.  We use a IM program globally called WebEx.  Many tasks are done with this program as well as just general banter between people.  Me and my good friend and co-worker sometimes vent to one another.  It was one of those days man, something in the air where it left you feeling like WTH is going on.  Got an email from someone about an issue and I went off.  I said in the IM to my friend "If that isn't nice, I just got F'ed in A hole there"... Usually, its not that bad.  I was wondering why he didn't respond.  I went back and looked, and I sent that to my assistant, which is about to retire (upper 50's lady).  I look up where she sits and didn't see her there.  I went to her cubbie and saw my message blinking.  I deleted that so fast.  

I actually did tell her.  She is a good sport as my team are all guys.  She thought it was pretty funny, but at the time I was thinking I was headed to HR.  

cazzy

My buddy Miah did this one.  It was hilarious...he thought he was toast.

tarheelmatt

cazzy said:

My buddy Miah did this one.  It was hilarious...he thought he was toast.

His butt probably puckered so much he could crack a pecan.  

MJG

Instant messaging got me in trouble. Sent an IM to a colleague asking him when he was presenting to "all those tools"...he was sharing his screen to a bunch of folks in a conference room, as well as online, but recovered nicely by saying he was showing them the tools at that moment...

tarheelmatt

@MJG, thankfully, on WebEx, it shows "IN A MEETING" or "SHARING A SCREEN".  

cazzy

tarheelmatt said:

@MJG, thankfully, on WebEx, it shows "IN A MEETING" or "SHARING A SCREEN".  

My wife and I work for the same marginalization. We use Microsoft Lync and her status ties into her calendar.  If she's "In a Meeting" or "Webex - Sharing Screen", I don't even bother messaging.  

tarheelmatt

cazzy said:

tarheelmatt said:

@MJG, thankfully, on WebEx, it shows "IN A MEETING" or "SHARING A SCREEN".  

My wife and I work for the same marginalization. We use Microsoft Lync and her status ties into her calendar.  If she's "In a Meeting" or "Webex - Sharing Screen", I don't even bother messaging.  

Yeah, I guess we have the same here too where the calendar is linked.  

Egghead_Daron

Not email goof but did have VP standing at door of my office venting about a warehouse employee. About 5 seconds in, said employee walks up behind him. VP continues, "I can't even walk back there cause I want to punch him" So employee says "Go ahead, I'm right here". Not a good moment for VP.

SmokeyPitt

I'll tell you a goof...I was just looking and that picture from outlook and I clicked on the "X Delete" on the ribbon...in the picture after I was done reading it. 

k" done and apparently she was self conscious about it.  Her sister and my wife had the same name.  

cazzy

Egghead_Daron said:

Not email goof but did have VP standing at door of my office venting about a warehouse employee. About 5 seconds in, said employee walks up behind him. VP continues, "I can't even walk back there cause I want to punch him" So employee says "Go ahead, I'm right here". Not a good moment for VP.

#-o )

Egghead_Daron

VP is also owners son. It was glorious!

theyolksonyou

I was once complaining about one of my employees to my assistant mgr and saying I needed to bust his ass over something. Well, of course I sent it to him rather than the mgr. Luckily, it was worded so that he thought I was complaining about someone else to him so I blew it off. I felt so bad I didn't have the heart to bust him.

fletcherfam

At my former company a manager hit reply all to an email that included a subcontractor. In the email he plainly said the sub was an A-hole. The sub got the email, came in and when the manager went to apologize about it the sub said "its ok , you're right, i am an A-hole."

evie1370

Mine was an IM goof too...we were on a conference call, and were discussing a major issue that would take many IT/Analyst hours to fix. I IM'd the speaker "Who was the idiot who f'd this up"? I forgot he was sharing his screen so it popped up...man was that embarrassing! I was lucky though, no trip to HR for me!

The Cen-Tex Smoker

tarheelmatt said:

cazzy said:

My buddy Miah did this one.  It was hilarious...he thought he was toast.

His butt probably puckered so much he could crack a pecan.  

Oh wow. That is a good one. I called a customer a "whinny pu**y" in an email that got forwarded back to him from someone else in the company about 7 years ago.

He called me all mad and I said "well it's true". He called my boss to try to get me fired and he laughed. The guy was a real ass and what he didn't know is that we were about to cut him off anyway. We were the only company that could fill his needs and he had a multi Million dollar contract that hinged on us. Once we told him that if he didn't stop acting this way we would cut him off he settled down quite a bit. Turned out to be a good thing. I never apologized.

berndcrisp

I 'dumb thumbed' an e-mail two years ago and have been out of work ever since.

Hibby

No real face palms but as a previous IT Manager, I have had fun sending emails to a specific person only but modifying the "have replies sent to:" field to include others. That way when the recipient decides to be an ass with his reply, everyone I included gets to see it unless he pays attention to his header before hitting Send.

Egghead_Daron

berndcrisp said:

I 'dumb thumbed' an e-mail two years ago and have been out of work ever since.

Damn dude that sucks. Must have been a bad one.

JohnInCarolina

Academics are the worst for this kind of thing.  I don't know what it is - the fact that some of them are older or if people are just unusually oblivious.  But it happens ALL THE TIME.  Probably almost once a week some numbnut hits reply all.  Just goes to show you that having a PhD doesn't make you immune to idiocy.    

We get announcements about conferences all the time - most of them are ones we have no interest in attending.  Most of us have email addresses that are posted publicly and so they get picked up by spam bots.  Whatever - most of us just file this stuff right to trash.

But we had one not long ago and the conference organizer sent the email out twice.  It was a huge list of people on the email - thousands of academics at various colleges and universities.  So one faculty member at I don't know Susquehannah State or something replied to the email asking to be taken off the mailing list.  So we all saw his request - everyone on the original message.  Then someone else did the same thing.  Then a third.

Then some bright fellow told these guys that, they probably didn't realize it, but by replying to the email they were copying us all, inadvertently spamming us.  This would be great except that, in the process of telling them they had screwed up, he also hit reply all.

This, my friends, is why they don't give us access to the nuclear codes. 

stemc33

Replying to all is not my problem, but sending out a group email when pissed off definitely has it's embarrassing moments. Even though an email is embarrassing or has unintended consequences, the majority of people get a good laugh, so it's all good.

SmokeyPitt

JohnInCarolina said:

Academics are the worst for this kind of thing.  I don't know what it is - the fact that some of them are older or if people are just unusually oblivious.  But it happens ALL THE TIME.  Probably almost once a week some numbnut hits reply all.  Just goes to show you that having a PhD doesn't make you immune to idiocy.    

We get announcements about conferences all the time - most of them are ones we have no interest in attending.  Most of us have email addresses that are posted publicly and so they get picked up by spam bots.  Whatever - most of us just file this stuff right to trash.

But we had one not long ago and the conference organizer sent the email out twice.  It was a huge list of people on the email - thousands of academics at various colleges and universities.  So one faculty member at I don't know Susquehannah State or something replied to the email asking to be taken off the mailing list.  So we all saw his request - everyone on the original message.  Then someone else did the same thing.  Then a third.

Then some bright fellow told these guys that, they probably didn't realize it, but by replying to the email they were copying us all, inadvertently spamming us.  This would be great except that, in the process of telling them they had screwed up, he also hit reply all.

This, my friends, is why they don't give us access to the nuclear codes. 

I have an email account set up at one of my clients that has over 70,000 employees and someone goofed and accidentally added "all employees" to a distribution list that was supposed to be much smaller.  I think it brought down the exchange servers for a while because so many replied to all asking to be removed from the list.  The really comical part was the number of people that replied to all stating "Don't reply to all!!!"  "Stop replying to all!!".  It was crazy...there literally thousands of emails commanding everyone to stop replying to all.  It was as though each person thought that their email would be the one that finally got the message across.  

Pro tip:  Open the message in outlook, Home Tab, Ignore Conversation.  

NPHuskerFL

Nice ) #-o

gerhardk

So i had to go to London yesterday to run a few errands.  While in London I went to my favourite BBQ place this side of the border, so I sent Cherie an email of my lunch, I found her response funny.  I guess she thought I should be home helping with the domestic chores.

Gerhard

[IMG]

Her response

then my response