h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A survey out today by Fox's Biscuits found that three fifths of us have made a social gaffe over email at one time or another.

Apart from misaddressed sexy emails to a lover, the worst it uncovered is a manager who accidentally sent his workforce's salary details to 'all staff'. The only way he could rectify this was to set off the fire alarm and delete the mail from each and every desktop while the workforce spent the afternoon in the pub.

Cool...very quick thinking Batman!!!

Thats why he's the boss

We have all done it!!

I read somewhere that an american software company have developed a programme now that extracts a miss sent mail from all recipient clients. It works at leat in Lotus Notes and Outlook Exchange. You just push a button, and the mail you sent is located and prohibited to be sent again or printed. I don't think the programme erases it, though.

Really, you do too much reading young man!

Half the fun of and incorrectly sent email is the squirming you have to do

I always play the "Get Out of Jail Free" card.

Ah, but that card is almost never valid...

I once sent a beaut to a colleague, I hit the reply instead of the forward button and told him exactly what I thought of him in the most graphic language!!!!!!! And the recall button didn't work - he had no sense of humour and reported me to the boss!!!!!!

Tee hee after that he stopped annoying me, gave me a very wide berth I can tell you.

So all in all.... a result!!!

Yeah with the added bonus that his wife wouldn't talk to me either!!
Hee Hee.

Double whammy!!

*makes notes "how to make friends and influence people"*

Soz 4 butting in there but er..
Has any of ou ever sent any sorta 'strange' piccies by mistake?
I did.. and no I dont meen porn! I sent a piccy f me mooning to my m8tes to my mams boss... the vicar..
It was my mams blummin vicars e-address... I have never lived it down :@(
Beware of cyber piccies!!

hey u should of sent it 2 me lmfho

wut does lmfaho mean?

my mum once sent a horoscope of a relatives newborn baby to them, without actually reading it. i read it the next day and found out it was a *very* bad horoscope....

i ended up calling him and telling him he should under no circumstances open the attached wordfile -- there's a macro virus on it.

A friend of mine, lets call him Dave Jones, used to send me very offensive emails, which I used to reply to in kind. It was just harmless fun, until I sent something like ...

"You are a c***!"

to a Dave Lones by accident. Turned out he was VP of marketing for another part of our company.

I wrote to him and explained the mistake, but he never replied and I don't think anything ever came of it.

And another one: A girl I was working with told me her friend was leaving her job to come and work for my company. By accident I forwarded my reply to the girls entire company, hastening her resignation somewhat.