Yeah, so I made a huge mistake this morning.. I sent out an e-mail to someone who I did not intend for it to go to.. I meant to send the e-mail to my friends in the office, but I started typing too fast on the address line in Outlook.. DAMN YOU AUTO COMPLETE!! The e-mail is below.. Amy brought in Taco C breakfast tacos today for the office, I didn’t feel like eating a breakfast taco so it didn’t bother me, but if someone brings in very few why do people in our office take 2, 3 and four tacos at a time?? The fatties around here don’t even leave a few for the rest of the office.. I went in the kitchen to get my drink only after 10 minutes of seeing people run to the kitchen like they haven’t seen food in days and the only thing left was two salsas and an empty box.. I was shocked that the eating machines didn’t eat the box that was left behind.. Crazy.. The person I sent it to was the person who brought in the food.. Her response was nice, but I still feel like a complete tool.. I've never had an e-mail slip up before and I'm really embarrassed by my fatty comment.. I will never use e-mail again for personal thoughts inside the office.. E-mail 1 Davidoff 0
YOU GOT OWNED by the Outlook! I see this situation all the times in the "Appropriate ways to use company e-mail" handbook.
are you friends with her at all? is she a fatty? But that is hilarious, its sad to see adults in the workplace flock to free food like its the freaking gold. I had a text mishap. There was this girl that was "ripe for the picking" but i didnt know if i wanted to hang out with her that night since a buddy was in town visiting. SO i sent a text " i'm not sure if i should call "her name" tonight. It's guaranteed, but I dont know if i want her handcuffing when we are out"...but i sent it to the girl i was talking about! that was a weekend of foot in the mouths situations. There was a waitress at a bar who was pretty cute and there werent too many people there so we were talking all night and it started to get VERY friendly. As she was getting a drink I leaned over to my friend and said "dude, is that a cesarean scar?"...2 minutes later she walks up to me and says "what did you say about a cesarean scar?"
People here on my floor flock to free food like they haven't seen them in years! The food would be gone like 5 minutes! That's how I control my eating junk food. I just sit there and wait like 5 minutes and I walk by, nothing is there anymore.
lol, we have to send multiple emails to get people to eat food in my department. but there is one person that roams around the entire building looking for food. everyone gets annoyed now lol. that person would eat at depeartments she doesn't even know, that's what i heard lol.
It's a small office of 25 people so we know each other well, but she is related to the owner and she is the wife of one of our coworkers She is very nice and a normal lady, but I'm sure she wont take it well..
I only flocked for cake because you want to get a good piece before people start cutting weird slices and leaving the edges.
it was always funny when guys brought in donuts at my last job. they would sit there untouched by the health concious people and then two or three people would devour two dozen of them in a few minutes. it was like watching a scene from national geographic.
awkward! its hilarious! I don't even bother trying to get food either. if i am hungry, i just trail the rear and pick at whatevers left over...no way im getting in front of some of these ladies! Its like people's primal instints take over.
Ah yes, the ol' 'auto complete' has bit me in the ass a few times. We use Lotus Notes here. Me and my email buddies have a very intricate system of code names (Phil Hendrie characters) that we use to avoid such issues. We talk in 3rd person and we switch the gender of anyone we talk about, including ourselves. We have code names for everyone we work with. For instance: "Vernon said that she saw Margaret today and his headlights were on high beams" actually translates into: "I saw [insert real name] today and she was nipping." We've got it down to an artform. No one will ever figure it all out.
how would like to be the guy no one wants to take food from? well, we've got one here. i feel kind of bad for him. he brought in some cake and no one touched it. apparently, he questioned some people about it and no one would give him a real answer.
we have the same thing here at work whenever the company orders lunch for the workplace its the same people lining up near the lunch room before the food is even there and then leaving with 2-3 plates stacked with food. i am a vegetarian (religious cultural reason) and so the company usually orders at least one vegetarian dish for me and anyone else who is and i am not the first one in to grab lunch since i am actually working most of the time when the food first comes in. one time i walk into and all the vegetarian pizza is gone and there are like 5 pepperoni pizzas and i see one of our "firsties" sitting there with i kid you not 4 slices of the veggie pizza and I look at her and she goes "i'm trying to eat healthier" and i think "**** lady you're bigger than I am (thats saying something) thats not going to help you" its funny how stuff likes this happens everywhere i got the email problem when i was trying to forward an email to my roommate about a potential new roommate and I was talking crap about the new potential guy...I accidently hit reply instead of forward. poor guy emails me back apologizing that he would not be that sort of guy...oh well
I never insult anybody in business email, ever. Even if it's sent to just a close co-worker, you never know when that relationship will go sour, and that person ends up with some nice retaliation ammo. Email NEVER goes away....
