Sending text to wrong person

this happened to me the week before last

I was doing a rather large tender for equipment for a government department (that they really don't need) on Friday afternoon in work,when I got distracted from that email and didn't get to finish it off before going home.
now as it turns out I was starting jury duty on the Monday so wouldn't be able to finish it in person on Monday morning and this department were going mental looking for this tender as it's getting near the end of year and they need to use up the remainder of their budget for the year ASAP

so I decided to do the tender from home on Sunday night and emailed the rough draft to the lads in work so they could make it look a bit more formal and send it on from the work account,Colm is particularly good at this stuff so i sent it on to him...done and dusted!

now,we are a big bunch of nerds in work,and we are definite font Nazi's when it comes to our generally tasteless clients

so I titled the mail "Tender draft;I did it in Helvetica-just for you Colm"

I then wrote in the mail instructions "send quickly! they're in a hurry to piss away our money!"
of course another of the lads opened it first,didn't bother to read it at all and hit forward to the department without editing a single thing

Que me spending 48hrs ****ting it that the tender would be lost and my boss would have my balls on a plate for losing big money

...but strangely enough we got the contract!

EMF2010 wrote: »

Oh yeah...especially when the person who accidentally receives it is your father. Turns out 'Dad' and 'Dave' were beside each other on the phone...the worst was realising AS I SENT IT and desperately trying to cancel it. I avoided him for about a month.

How did Dave react after the month of avoiding him?

Friend told me last night, that he was recently talking about the Sopranos with his friend over text and he him sent a quote saying something along the lines of 'I ****ed guys in prison better looking than your mother.' The word mother being subconsciously on his mind, he sent it to his own mother.

Dean820 wrote: »

Some good stories there. There should really be a pop up message that asks 'are you sure you want to send it to this person?' Could save a few blushes.

Not the same thing really, but facebook, twitter and myspace are getting a program to prevent drunken posts, and gmail already have it to prevent drunken emails. I heard about it on the radio a few weeks ago. Found a link about it here: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/new-tool-helps-stop-drunk-posting-on-facebook-twitter-120542

So you never know, in the future there might be something to prevent accidental texts!:)

Good one I heard, not sure if its been posted. In the pub, when one of your mates heads off to the jacks, grab his phone and change your name in his phone to his girlfriends. Head off to the toilet yourself and text him saying "I'm pregnant". Cue hilarity.