I wish I hadn't sent that

flangeman

I'm the IS Manager here at a firm in London.

And I've just replied to a 'leaving email' with some degree of silliness, of course I did a reply to all and everybody in the org has it now.

Not as bad as it could have been.

I'm taking solice in that.

Here's the text.

You popped up on my wee list of 'leavers' last week alright.

Sorry to see ye go, but I can only assume its for pastures much more greener.

Drinks will be had.

Does this mean you will not be accepting anymore spam, or virus emails?

Regards

Paul

I'm cringing in my office here, but I'm just going to pretend it was deliberate.

Any other scare stories to help me out of this hole?

Stephen

ah that's not too bad. just looks "friendly".

flangeman

Their English, it's different here, over a 100 users will have a more nasty impression.

:dunno:

Gawd, I'm an ejit

ToxicPaddy

ohh i can better that one by a mile...

A girl in our office got a promotion in the sales dept and her boss sent out an email
telling everyone in the company about the promotion and congradulating her.

I went to forward the mail onto her with the extra addition:

"ahh congrats (girls name) on your new promotion
Hope they are paying you more money for all the extra sh*te you are going to be
dealing with"

Except I clicked reply and sent it back to her boss instead..

The first I knew about it was when I got an email back from him saying:

"EXCUSE ME!!!!"

and nothing more..

Now thats something to cringe about..

Tox

pork99

A paranoid interpretation

Originally posted by flangeman


Sorry to see ye go, but I can only assume its for pastures much more greener.

yes this company is a nightmare

Drinks will be had.

Knowing you and your ongoing struggle with sobriety

Does this mean you will not be accepting anymore spam, or virus emails?

you also want me to delete the record of all the adult sites you have visited from the server log?

tba

drinks will be had

now that your gone

hostyle

Originally posted by flangeman
I'm cringing in my office here, but I'm just going to pretend it was deliberate.

Have you never been out for an office piss-up? Don't you and your colleagues ever have a good aul laugh? Get over it FFS.

If anyone asks tell them you were drunk, then pull a nagin of JD and about 5 shot glasses out of your drawer and ask them if they fancy a tipple. Its only work-time after all.

I've seen people accidentally announce they were leaving their company on a public mailing list that their boss/associates reads - before they told him/them. Now that something to cringe about.

Badbonez

Originally posted by flangeman


Drinks will be had.

Meaning: Thank god you've left, we will celebrate with drinks!

Polish that resume!

Mac daddy

It is done now nothing that you can do about it- if you send a mail saying blah blahblah i didn't blah blah mean it sorry- they willl think even less of you then they already do.

Just leave it and stick to your guns

Sleipnir

yeah I've had a two bad ones that I can remember.

One was where I f*cked up, emailed the customer blaming the vendor and gave out about how crap they were.
only things was I sent it to the manager of the vendor and he wasn't impressed.

another one where I forwarded a stupid customer's email to a work collegue saying
"what is this twat on about?"

but I clicked "reply" instead of "forward"

OUCH!

Praetorian

lol, move to humour

MarcusGarvey

And you're the IS Manager ? Jesus. I'd be worried for my security if my IS Manager didn't know difference between the 'Reply' and 'Reply All' button.

bug

my god thats nothing! Ive done it twice in my job,
once we got an email from IT to say that they were auditing our equipment and I meant to forwarding it onto my collegue stating..."better check out all the PC's for illegal software so" and sent it back to the IT dept.

then I also recently said to our IT guy to put a something on my bosses PC but sent the following to my boss rather than IT:

at some stage when you get a minute can you install "X" for "X"?
"x" is doing my head in
If "x" says "we" must remember to do....
outloud again I think I might just commit murder.
So save a life.
I think if "x" has it "x" wont have to say everything out loud, or so is my theory

Boss just came in to me and said "nice theory" and smiled.
Phew.

Mac daddy

Originally posted by bug
my god thats nothing! Ive done it twice in my job,
once we got an email from IT to say that they were auditing our equipment and I meant to forwarding it onto my collegue stating..."better check out all the PC's for illegal software so" and sent it back to the IT dept.

then I also recently said to our IT guy to put a something on my bosses PC but sent the following to my boss rather than IT:

at some stage when you get a minute can you install "X" for "X"?
"x" is doing my head in
If "x" says "we" must remember to do....
outloud again I think I might just commit murder.
So save a life.
I think if "x" has it "x" wont have to say everything out loud, or so is my theory

Boss just came in to me and said "nice theory" and smiled.
Phew.

LOL lucky escape there

harney

In the company I work for someone sent out an email to an internal distribution list with the title:

You are Gay

10 minutes later there was an apology email from that guy to about 30,000 people on the list expalining how it was really meant for a client and that there is no reason to take offence. :rolleyes:

I would love to have been there when he realised what he had done

Evil_Bilbo

Yeah - I once sent a text slaggin off my bird to my brother - only I sent it to her phone by mistake - and she was sitting RIGHT beside me when I sent it - no escaping that.

OUCH - no sex for about a week (well, 5 minutes).

Capt'n Midnight

Originally posted by harney
In the company I work for someone sent out an email to an internal distribution list with the title:

You are Gay

10 minutes later there was an apology email from that guy to about 30,000 people on the list expalining how it was really meant for a client and that there is no reason to take offence. :rolleyes:

I would love to have been there when he realised what he had done

Was the customer named Gabrial ?

(in Exchange - Actions Recall - sometimes works for internal emails only )