The one time I can’t have a drink
Hooooo boy.
Let’s say there’s this pretty prestigious, high-visibility project you’re on, and there’s a listserv for the purpose of communicating with many people all over your organization about the project.
Let’s say you send an email to that list, and you accidentally make an error in it.
Let’s say your colleague notices the error, and he sends a reply correcting that error. He meant to send it privately to you but accidentally sent it to the whole list.
Let’s say you don’t notice and reply with the text “Go**amn stupid everything,” only without asterisks. Your reply also goes to the whole list. Let’s say your boss and your boss’s boss subscribe to that list.
I haven’t had morning sickness at all in this pregnancy, but right now I want to puke.
Tis ok, if it makes you feel any better, I once wrote in a Reply-to-All message that the VP of Marketing was a brainless twit who would be better off flipping burgers at McDonalds with the rest of the morons in the world.
Zoinks! Thank God this is all hypothetical.
Ugh! I hate when that happens! I feel like throwing up FOR you!
One time, when I worked at the public library and email was new and exciting to me, I accidentally sent an “all” message that said, “Jamal, you are my rock and roll sweetheart. I like you like cool whip.” (In a clever parody of the Wesley Willis classic, “Liz Phair,” see?) The next day, library staff were explicitly instructed not to use the email system for personal messages. No one ever confronted me personally about it, though. (I later learned that most people assumed my current co-worker/girlfriend at the time had written the email. Which makes sense, cuz seriously, what dumbass would write that note to themself?)