a little story from work

[whiskeytown]

I once offered to get a friend stoned and accidently sent it to his entire group email list - (He was a musician and this was an online mailing list for his music) -

pretty damned funny, actually, as most of the members on the list were church folks - but nothing that would cause me to lose my job -

ah life
RB

[astroglide]

yeah he badmouths you a lot over msn
sorry wrong window

[4_2_it]

The moral of this story kids?

Never commit anything to writing that you wouldn't mind seeing posted on the Internet.

[B Dids]

I had two different girls send things to me that were supposed to be about me.

One was "Why is David being an [censored] today", which I didn't realize was misdirected, just thought it was a good way to make a point that I was being an [censored], which I was.

The other was "How do you tell somebody that they really smell bad today". (I had two identical shirts, one had been worn and was sweaty and nasty- the other was not, I'd grabbed the wrong one) Since I was actually suspecting the same myself, I welcomed the email and changed into a clean shirt.

[RunDownHouse]

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Thats bad, I had someone in my old group do that to a client. I also worked with the girl from this semi famous misdirected email. It was very funny when we were getting this as a forward and realized we knew who the girl was.

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In the "misdirected emails" category, a buddy of mine actually got this one. He goes to Cornell and apparently the emails there are initials followed by a number. He thinks the reason he got this email is because he has the same initials as a recent graduate, and nobody let Doug know she didn't have a Cornell address anymore.

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so this is a really awkward thing for me to write to you, and i almost
refrained from doing so, but i think it would make me feel a lot better to
ask. so i told you about how i'm just starting to get involved with this
girl who is an old friend of mine, her name's andrea. well, i wanted to ask
you, since the other night i remember that i didn't have a condom on for
part of it all, and i know you were on your period, i just wanted to ask you
if you've ever been tested for anything, or even if you know if your
boyfriend has.

i really don't mean this as an insult -- i'm not trying to be a dick here.
i'm mainly just worried since i didn't have a condom on. and like i said i
feel really strange asking... it's just that with me and andrea, we really
haven't done much sexually yet- she lives in brooklyn, and i don't want to
put her at any risk at all. i can tell you that as of last november i got
tested and was totally fine... and since then have had sex with 3 other
girls (2 were girlfriends, one a friend... all of whom were clean as far as
i know) and used condoms.

again i know this is a really [censored] thing for me to ask you, and maybe i'm
overreacting. but like i said i just really dont want to put andrea at any
risk, because i really do care about her a lot.

sorry for killing off the fun of the other night with this, but i'd really
appreciate hearing back from you. thanks danielle

-doug

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My favorite part is how he drops three bombs in one sentence: unprotected sex, on her period, she has a boyfriend. Wow. My friend was kind enough to let him know he got the wrong person (as opposed to not answering and letting poor Doug sweat).

[The Goober]

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I'm so glad I'm still in college and don't have a job yet.

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Back in school I had a friend who was doing a lot of work with this one professor. He was talking about the professor in an email and said "somebody needs to slap her" ...and of course he accidently sent it to her. Took a while for him to live that one down, but he kept working with her afterwards.

[nolanfan34]

Good story.

Also a nice reminder that on a similar note the "reply all" button is the most evil creation in e-mail.

[nicky g]

Close shave: In an old job I wrote a (deservedly) very insulting email about the head of the organisation to one of my friends. A split second before I sent it I realised I'd absent-mindedly typed her (the boss's) name into the "to" box rather than my friend's. I had to go out and have a drink after that one. If I had have realised after I sent it, I think I would have just left and not come back; there'd have been no point in hanging around except to get napalmed by the dragon queen before being fired.

[Notorious G.O.B.]

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oh man i wish this would happen to one guy at our office. he picks his nose with a pencil eraser. soooooo awkard.

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Make it happen.

[ChipWrecked]

Tonight I sent an email hacking on France to a guy in our company I don't know. My coworker with the same name requested it, because I was LOL'ing so hard when I read it.

Looked up the guy in company directory; he's new, and his title is 'director of application security' or some such.

Hope he has a good sense of humor, or isn't French (with apologies to mslif whom I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], but it was funny)

Our email system has no recall feature [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

BTW:

"In response to the recent acts of terrorism and vandalism in their country,
the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror
alert level from "Run" to "Hide". The only two higher levels in France are
"Surrender" and "Collaborate".

The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag
factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability. "