I just did a really stupid thing at work

[Barbara]

Oh Sas! I am so sorry. I would be red in my face like a if I ever saw that guy.

I have done something similar one day when the phones were not so luxurious as they are now: My assistant was covering the phone with her hand when she asked we whether I wanted to talk to Mrs X and I said: "I am not in the office." which she overheard

I had a lot of talking to do until I convinced her I had said that only because I had something very urgent for my boss and had to concentrate on that.

But you may be comforted by the following story: A lady from our call-center forwarded a mail and in Outlook hit the first of the address list which in our company is a list called AB1 which is all the heads of the departments. The mail she forwarded was a pornographical one!

This could have never happened to me - but how easily could I have forwarded cat related mails

[Edwina's Secretary]

Do you know the story of the executive at Boeing who was brought out of retirement to "bring ethics back" and then had to be fired for an extra-marital affair with a coworker?

I had heard how he was caught before but two weeks ago I had a teaching assignment at Boeing and confirmed the story.

Boeing, to protect itself and prevent abuse, has an email filter that filters for certain words.

He was sending emails to his paramour using these words. (I think we can safely assume him to be a less than articulate lover as well as a general scumbag.) He triggered the filter sending red flags and reading of his emails.

Caught .....there IS a moral to this story.

[king2005]

When I was back in Ottawa I had a co-worker named Rob (as many of you know my ex was named Rob aswell)... I was chatting to both on msn.. my ex was going to bed so I wrote, "love you sweety & good night".. I sent that to my co-worker!!! He sent a message, saying... ummm Jess thanks, but I don't think that was ment for me lol.. OMG I went soooo red in the face!!

[zippy-kat]

We have a regular pain in the arse client whom I always try to "kill with kindness." This guy is so incredibly frustrating for many, many reasons. At any rate, he called one day (a Monday in the truest sense of the word) and I was bending over backwards to help him. At the end of the phone call, he said, "Thank you for xyz."

Now. What I MEANT to respond was, "Thank you, no problem."
But what I said was, "No thanks, you're problem." ARGH!

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Then there's the time I was running late on my lunch break and decided to grab something out of the fridge before I headed back to the office. I grabbed what I thought was a diet coke....

Once at the office, my boss comes walking thru, "Uh, are you going to drink that?"

"Yep." Previously, he'd lectured me about drinking diet sodas, so I didn't think too much about it.

"You think you could, uh, maybe wait until after work?"

I turned around to see what the heck was so wrong with my diet coke and was absolutely mortified to see a can of Coors Light sitting on my desk.

Opps.

[king2005]

We have a regular pain in the arse client whom I always try to "kill with kindness." This guy is so incredibly frustrating for many, many reasons. At any rate, he called one day (a Monday in the truest sense of the word) and I was bending over backwards to help him. At the end of the phone call, he said, "Thank you for xyz."

Now. What I MEANT to respond was, "Thank you, no problem."
But what I said was, "No thanks, you're problem." ARGH!

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Then there's the time I was running late on my lunch break and decided to grab something out of the fridge before I headed back to the office. I grabbed what I thought was a diet coke....

Once at the office, my boss comes walking thru, "Uh, are you going to drink that?"

"Yep." Previously, he'd lectured me about drinking diet sodas, so I didn't think too much about it.

"You think you could, uh, maybe wait until after work?"

I turned around to see what the heck was so wrong with my diet coke and was absolutely mortified to see a can of Coors Light sitting on my desk.

Opps.

hehehe you made me LOL at work heheh...

[Killearn Kitties]

Oh SAS, I have done that very thing, and it is a terrible, terrible feeling. I very rarely commit such thoughts to email, purely because of how traceable digital messages are, but there was one day I sounded off about a co-worker who was getting on my very last nerve, and then sent it to her by mistake! I had to fly through to her desk and got there roughly the same time as the email. Some very quick thinking was required, but I did get out of it.

I think you are doing the best thing by just engaging with him for a while.

[Cataholic]

Look at the bright side, maybe he will change his laugh?

I had one of the partners send me an email in response to something I sent, and it said, "did you mean to send this to me"? Of course, I panicked, and it took me an hour to figure out what he was referring to. My girlfriend had referenced adoption, as in rescue pet adoption, and I had circulated the email far and wide! I guess he thought I was looking to adopt a baby? LOL. As if that would have been 'racy' or something to send out? LOL. I still think it is funny. He assured me he hadn't read it and deleted it immediately once he saw the content. LOL.

[Daisy and Delilah]

OMG!! I'll bet you were downright nauseated after that one. Maybe he won't annoy everyone with that obnoxious laugh so much anymore