My Blunder of the Day
Posted on 21 March 2008, at 11:06 am, by Judie Lipsett
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…and it took my all of five seconds to type “Seriously!!!! I mean…come ON!” and then forward it to the team.
Except I didn’t hit forward, I hit reply.
D’oh!
So of course I had to let everyone know what I had done when really did forward it to the team:
Your chance to laugh at me…I thought I was sending this to you all, and I had hit REPLY not forward.
ACK.
Hehe
The guy still hasn’t replied to me, and I doubt he will…but he did get coverage that I wasn’t planning on giving him, didn’t he? 
So spill it. I want to hear your stories about accidentally replied to, incorrectly forwarded, and other embarrassing snafus involving email.
I know I am not the only one who has ever enjoyed the taste of foot in my mouth…
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6 Comments For This Post
March 21st, 2008 at 11:09 am
Nope. Never did that. My blunder seems to be hitting delete too early!
March 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
This did not happen to me but one to one of my co-workers. We use Outlook for our corporate email and I being the sysadmin have tried setting things up for ease of use. I have global distribution lists so employees can send email to everyone in the company without having to pick each person’s name. Well, this fella and with Outlook being so intuitive had typed the first few letters of one of his friends and did not pay attention that Outlook finished the name – with the corporate distribution list name
So he’s apparently having a relaxed day and all, getting emails from his friends. One of them contains pictures that are supposed to play tricks on your eyes and another was a very sexest joke. 
He found enough fun and humor from these that he decided to forward them onto his buds. So about five to ten minutes later, phones were being picked up and called to a very embarrased 
guy who just thought he was sending his friends some funny reading material.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:27 am
I have this type of think happen usually once or twice per year. The last time it was with a prospective client and I was doing the same thing you did – attempting to forward some off-the-cuff remark and instead of forward I hit reply.
I’ve seen a few of the “talking about the person” situations — which are embarrassing when the subject is right around the corner.
Some day they may come out with a working “take back” function within all emails…that would be an interesting tool.
Oh, and my favorite blunder – which I think is the worst actually – is when companies in my industry send out an email and instead of bcc: they use cc: which exposes ALL the names of the people on the list. This is bad for the sending company because usually they’ve just sent out their entire email list….
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 am
Not just your industry. I have been in on mail-outs where the PR person included everyone in a cc, and some of the angry “reply alls” sent back were quite entertaining (and enlightening).
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I had an employee who was in their period of “evaluation,” after a formal reprimand and before a final decision on whether to terminate their employment. Part of this required me to document every interaction with this person–every meeting, phone call, email, and so on.
After one particularly bad phone call, I typed up the details of it and went to send it to my boss. I used Eudora at the time, and relied a lot on Eudora’s address completion utility. Unfortunately for me, the employee and my boss both had the same first initial, and instead of sending the info to my boss, I sent it to the employee. D’oh!
That was a bad one.
March 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
I really do wish that we could recall email quasi instantaneously.. Would really help. Sometimes if I thought about my reply it would be a bit more cogent.. Being in a leadership position can’t dash off anything
Secondly, we need to be able to email to a group of people without displaying the names. BCC seems so cowardly and its really a workaround not a capability..