I just did a really stupid thing at work

[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

[Pam]

SAS there is a good lesson in this for all of us and that is to check once, twice or even three times before we click *send.* Unfortunately my own sister-in-law learned this the hard way. Several years ago I received an e-mail from her and it was obvious that it wasn't meant for me. It could almost be considered x-rated and unfortunately it wasn't mean for her hubby at the time either. Shortly after she hit *send* she realized what she had done and called me crying and told me it was a joke. Of course I wasn't born yesterday and even I know that when you tell a joke it doesn't make you cry. It turns out that it was meant to go to a guy she worked with with whom she was having an affair. Apparently our names were next to each other in her address book. She said she was even thinking to herself *don't make a mistake and send this to Pam,* and that is exactly what she did. Update on her: She and my brother-in-law divorced a couple of years later and she didn't even wind up with the guy who was the object of the steamy e-mail.

[RICHARD]

learn to recall messages!

Microsoft Outlook has a dandy feature that allows you to recall messages that are unread....you have to pray that they aren't on line at the moment.

P.S.
I do that do my boss,
I send a blank message then recall it.......it drives her mad.

[Cincy'sMom]

I replied all on an email about a co-worker's 30th birthday, saying I didn' think he would be in on the day of. What I didn't know was 1. that he wasn't offically taking the day off, but planning on calling in sick, and 2. that our boss was on the email! I tried to recall, but it was too late!! Oh well, our boss at the time is one of my good friend, and didn't care so much if people used their sick time as personal time. The chemistry manager ismore strict about that!


I also sent an email to several friends at work telling them there was cake atmy desk to stop by and get some. I accidentaly also sent the email to one of our reps in Isreal. Although she never replied, I'm sure she wondered how she was supposed to come downstairs and get some cake fromwhere she was!!

Our email also has an option of All users, All Ohio users, All California users, etc. It is amusing when people send out an email warning of traffic problems, or vcation to all users. Somehow I don;t think people Georgia will be affected by the same Northbound 75 traffic jams, as us in Ohio.