e-mails that you regret .......
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I've got to say that the bloody predicitve text thing is VERY easy to do. I've mad a few gaffs with that. None spring to mind but there has definitely been a few. I think I'm fairly safe with the email so far :touchwood:
alan_driver said: I was texting a lass once, she sent me her email address. I ment to reply 'I will add you when I get home'. the daft predictive text came up with 'I will bed you when I get home' I didnt realise until several days later she gave me a dodgy look!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2787019.stm
Hmmmmm - top secret Pentagon emails and not even encrypted. I think someone's telling porkies!
At my old job I was incharge of the stationery, anyway one day someone took the key and didnt bring it back.
So I sent out an email asking for it back but I sent the message to the global address.
I got into work the next day to find emails from Oz, NZ, North Korea, South Korea, Canada, America, China etc. saying they don't have the key.
North Korea was blaming South Korea and copied them in on the email, then South Korea sent one back blaming the North and copied them in...it was nearly WW3...!!!
About a week later I started getting packages of spare keys that these people had sent...I ended up with about a hundred keys.
Anyway I found the key, a very embarrased designer brought it back, so I sent out another email saying dont send anymore keys as we have found it.
Caused a lot of amusement for a while.
Claire
So I sent out an email asking for it back but I sent the message to the global address.
I got into work the next day to find emails from Oz, NZ, North Korea, South Korea, Canada, America, China etc. saying they don't have the key.
North Korea was blaming South Korea and copied them in on the email, then South Korea sent one back blaming the North and copied them in...it was nearly WW3...!!!
About a week later I started getting packages of spare keys that these people had sent...I ended up with about a hundred keys.
Anyway I found the key, a very embarrased designer brought it back, so I sent out another email saying dont send anymore keys as we have found it.
Caused a lot of amusement for a while.
Claire
plipton said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2787019.stm
Hmmmmm - top secret Pentagon emails and not even encrypted. I think someone's telling porkies!
Mmm, glad to see that I am not the only person who thinks that this is suspicious at the best. Anyone who has dealt with the military on this type of problem knows that they dont normally use standard email for the disemination of confidential / secret or top secret information..... if this "Royal Navy" officer has sent this information via this method then he risks not getting a state pension.....
I think that it is stretching the truth a little (especially in these current times). Oh, and recent surveys of CESG (Cheltenham) email suggests that something like 90% of emails sent contain nothing that is damaging etc... mainly full of stuff that is in the public domain anyway...
Cheers,
Paul
Gaffer said: So I sent out an email asking for it back but I sent the message to the global address.
A guy at my old company did a global email begging for sponsership for something or other, anyway the firm at the time was charged about 25p per email by it's robbing IT supplier, and to say Rolls Royce has quite a few people on it's email list is an understatement, his department got the bill which ran into thousands and he got a written warning!
I once meant to send 'Its dangerous being as fat as you are, you could get fallen arches, heart disease or even harpooned!' to a mate. Unfortunately due to user error on my part I selected the wrong name in the list...
...and sent the message to a girl in HR...
...who had an eating disorder
Matt.
>> Edited by plotloss on Monday 24th February 17:01
...and sent the message to a girl in HR...
...who had an eating disorder
Matt.
>> Edited by plotloss on Monday 24th February 17:01
Girl at a PR place I was doing some design work for, was trying to get hold of an MP for a quote about some government scheme to put in a press realease. The lazy tw@t was probably with some whore or necking back the vino and she couldn't get hold of him via email, only his secretary.
So, she sent an internal email to her boss with the reasons why this press release wouldn't make the post - calling the esteemed MP all the names under the sun etc - which she then sent back to the MP's secretary by mistake ...
Suffice to say she had to get another member of parliament to give a quote instead (eventually).
So, she sent an internal email to her boss with the reasons why this press release wouldn't make the post - calling the esteemed MP all the names under the sun etc - which she then sent back to the MP's secretary by mistake ...
Suffice to say she had to get another member of parliament to give a quote instead (eventually).
Sent a mail to all our associated offices suggesting they remove one of our previous associates from their group mailing list due to the delicate legal proceedings going on and that they were not to be a part of the ongoing relationship. With my usual efficiency I forgot to delete them from my list before sending it!
plotloss said: I once meant to send 'Its dangerous being as fat as you are, you could get fallen arches, heart disease or even harpooned!' to a mate. Unfortunately due to user error on my part I selected the wrong name in the list...
...and sent the message to a girl in HR...
...who had an eating disorder
Matt.
Classic one Matt - exellent
plotloss said: I once meant to send 'Its dangerous being as fat as you are, you could get fallen arches, heart disease or even harpooned!' to a mate. Unfortunately due to user error on my part I selected the wrong name in the list...
...and sent the message to a girl in HR...
...who had an eating disorder
Matt.
Classic one Matt - exellent
just a few..but nothing that can compete with Matts! Were you, like fired??
managed to send out an e-mail, over 4Mb in size, to a fieldforce of 1200 people. It filled up the mail server (old exchange) and then crashed..... unbeknownst to me, the Brussels office were running a mirror service, which merrily copied what we were doing so also crashed...along with every other server in Europe within about an hour. This was the 4th largest company in the world at the time. I was extremely popular!
Accidently sent an e-mail from my bosses computer to the local address list detailing his love of small boys. The send key got hit mid fight...and the recall didn't quite work fully enough...the aftershock from that is still amusing me!
managed to send out an e-mail, over 4Mb in size, to a fieldforce of 1200 people. It filled up the mail server (old exchange) and then crashed..... unbeknownst to me, the Brussels office were running a mirror service, which merrily copied what we were doing so also crashed...along with every other server in Europe within about an hour. This was the 4th largest company in the world at the time. I was extremely popular!
Accidently sent an e-mail from my bosses computer to the local address list detailing his love of small boys. The send key got hit mid fight...and the recall didn't quite work fully enough...the aftershock from that is still amusing me!
At company I did some consultancy work for I recieved a fairly chunky email titled 'Ikea Catalogue'. It was addressed to the whole site (400 people).
I thought this might have been pushing the boundaries of corporate email a bit - but hey... I thought I might as well have a look at the catalogue but got an error.
Since I had made some contacts in the IT dept and they were a few doors away I thought I'd go and wind them up about the strain their email server must have been under.
When I got to IT, their faces were a strage mixture of ash grey and hysterical laughter. It turned out this employee had downloaded porn and instead of sending it on to a few of his mates, he managed to send it to the whole company
Well that's email distribution lists for you...
He was disciplined (obviously). How he managed to keep his job remains one of lifes great mysteries.
I thought this might have been pushing the boundaries of corporate email a bit - but hey... I thought I might as well have a look at the catalogue but got an error.
Since I had made some contacts in the IT dept and they were a few doors away I thought I'd go and wind them up about the strain their email server must have been under.
When I got to IT, their faces were a strage mixture of ash grey and hysterical laughter. It turned out this employee had downloaded porn and instead of sending it on to a few of his mates, he managed to send it to the whole company
Well that's email distribution lists for you...
He was disciplined (obviously). How he managed to keep his job remains one of lifes great mysteries.
My worst one was when I worked at the bank.
I was flirting with a girl at another branch, she had recorded a song, which I intended to play at the Radio Station I do every year.
One evening I dropped her CD back to her house.
I remember she had a Golden Retriever, and I had one too.
The next day I sent an email to her.
I meant to say "I do like your doggy"
But I missed out the "r" on "your" by complete accident.
Gives the sentence a whole new meaning.
I was flirting with a girl at another branch, she had recorded a song, which I intended to play at the Radio Station I do every year.
One evening I dropped her CD back to her house.
I remember she had a Golden Retriever, and I had one too.
The next day I sent an email to her.
I meant to say "I do like your doggy"
But I missed out the "r" on "your" by complete accident.
Gives the sentence a whole new meaning.
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