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Recently, u/Famous-Commission484 asked r/AskUK, "What’s the worst/most embarrassing substance you’ve sent to the incorrect person?" And we thought we'd stock immoderate of the apical responses.
1. "Just got retired of a Teams gathering astatine work. The boss, who's not precise liked anyway, was moving it. The accustomed disorganised tripe frustrated maine capable to substance my colleague, 'hope this dick's not organising the sandwich tally Friday, lol', lone I didn't nonstop it to my mate, I sent it to my boss."
"So I had that unreserved of humor to your feet and went acold whilst trying to delete the connection which, of course, you can't. I did get a effect saying 'noted', truthful I'm definite he's taken it truly positively... Not convinced I'll person a occupation tomorrow."
2. "I erstwhile accidentally triggered the exigency effect happening connected my phone, sending a selfie of myself and a substance for assistance to respective household members and a friend, whilst I was sat connected the toilet having my greeting shit."
3. "Not maine (thank god), but I worked with a pistillate who wrote an email utterly slagging disconnected 1 of the different women successful her team."
"It was truly vicious, particularly arsenic this pistillate she was penning astir was really known for being nice. It was existent Mean Girls bullshit. Anyway, she meant to nonstop it to ‘Allison’, who was the different pistillate successful their team, but she didn’t benignant the afloat name; she typed, you guessed it, ‘All’.
It went to 3500 people, including the pistillate she was slagging off. The CEO and HR went mad. She was fired for bullying that week. She’d been determination little than 2 years truthful it was nary occupation getting escaped of her. Couldn’t person happened to a nicer woman..."
4. "Accidentally sent my then-husband a Whatsapp with a nexus to a divorcement solicitor with a substance on the lines of, 'is this who you used?...'
"It was meant to spell to my person to spot who she utilized to divorcement her husband, whilst readying to permission mine... I styled it retired and was similar 'oh yeah, I met her astatine rotation class, she seemed similar a bitch and the sanction was the aforesaid arsenic my friend's solicitor'. It caused a spot of a problem, but helium was good with my explanation..."
5. "I was WFH, waiting for the pest power idiosyncratic and would request to beryllium distant from my table to amusement him the problem. When helium arrived, I thought I had messaged my contiguous manager, but alternatively had sent a section wide Teams connection that simply read: 'The Rat Man is here'."
6. "As a teen experiencing the joys of beingness for the archetypal clip with my archetypal due girlfriend, I sent a alternatively passionate and elaborate connection to her. Or astatine slightest I thought I had. That thought was abruptly shattered erstwhile my mum came into the country holding her telephone retired with that good known look that astir mums person that translates astir to 'we request to person a talk'."
7. "A pistillate I cognize was successful a narration with a man. She was truly successful emotion with him but it was beauteous evident that helium wasn't that into her. She got a substance from him 1 time that helium had meant to nonstop to his mate. It said, 'Going circular Vicky's location for 1 past shag earlier I dump her'. Suffice to accidental the 1 past shag didn't happen...."
8. "'I curse if helium talks astir that fucking car 1 much clip I'm going to thrust it disconnected a bridge'. I sent it to the feline successful our relationship radical who talked astir his caller car a lot."
9. "A precise elder subordinate of the institution I worked for asked maine for a favour. I had a valid and tenable excuse for not doing it. In my reply message, arsenic I knew helium loved azygous malt whisky, successful my caput I typed, 'Maybe we tin stock a tiny azygous malt to marque up for it 1 time soon.' My sausage fingers typed (and sent), 'Maybe we tin stock a tiny azygous antheral to marque up for it 1 time soon'. Luckily, helium had a consciousness of humour."
10. "I utilized to enactment for my assemblage during unfastened days and had a lecturer's idiosyncratic fig to put shifts, etc. I was messaging him astir the adjacent unfastened time whilst astatine the aforesaid clip texting my friends astir however smarmy and creepy helium was."
"You tin astir apt conjecture what happened – sent a substance to the effect of, 'omg I hatred him, he's truthful disgusting – I don't adjacent privation to bash these shifts anymore'. Cue the feeling of my asshole dropping done the floor... He texted back, 'Did you mean to nonstop this to idiosyncratic else?'. Worst portion is helium was inactive my teacher for the adjacent six months and I genuinely needed the money, truthful I had to support showing up. Makes maine cringe conscionable reasoning astir it."
11. "I sent an email to my brag describing a imaginable lawsuit arsenic a timewaster. Except I didn't, I sent it to the imaginable client. In my defence, helium didn't go a client, truthful I was right... Right?"
12. "I sent a substance to a pistillate workfellow asking if she was 'busty today' alternatively of 'busy'. Thankfully, she had a consciousness of humour astir it but I conscionable died of embarrassment and apologised profusely."
13. "Fucking suggested replies successful the notification shadiness had maine nonstop 'thanks' successful a radical chat wherever everyone was congratulating SOMEBODY ELSE connected getting married. Deleted it ace speedy but idiosyncratic did connection maine separately with just, 'thanks'."
14. "I sexted my aunt alternatively of my husband; I realised an hr aboriginal aft I double-checked due to the fact that helium hadn't responded. Neither of america knew what to accidental and I inactive privation to dice wrong reasoning astir it."
15. "Working successful logistics... I thought I was texting my weed nexus asking for an ounce... Turned retired I was really texting my lawsuit (a bagged flour distributor) by mistake asking for an ounce. Fortunately, helium is simply a apical bloke and replied with a 'we lone bash kilos here'. We person a bully laughter astir it erstwhile we conscionable astatine Christmas astir years."
16. "I erstwhile screenshotted my manager's connection past sent it backmost to him."
17. "Someone sent an email slagging maine disconnected to me. I hadn’t work it yet, but she abruptly jumped up with a agleam reddish look and shouted 'DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO RETRACT AN EMAIL?!'"
"I was new, and precise anxious to delight people, truthful I was similar 'I can!' She conscionable sat backmost down. Then I saw the email, and I went arsenic red.
I got into occupation for making it awkward… but that wasn’t her fault, that was the shitty absorption (I deliberation they assumed I’d seen the email, and past offered to assistance her arsenic a mode to marque her consciousness bad). Her complaints weren’t untrue, conscionable a spot harsh connected an 18-year-old who’d conscionable started moving successful the office."
18. "Directly aft a caesarian, my spouse wanted to spot adjacent up the scar/stitching, etc. So I took immoderate graphic snaps (with the flash on) of her deflated gestation stomach, C-section incision, stitches, iodine staining, etc, truthful she could spot it. I deliberation she adjacent had a catheter in."
"I past included these photos, by mistake, erstwhile sending the approved photos of the birth, getting to the hospital, waiting to beryllium seen, newborn connected the scales, cautiously astatine the bosom successful a blanket, etc to the friends and household WhatsApp radical that were awaiting the updates and photos."
19. "Night retired mode back, each the guys were astatine 1 table, each the girls astatine another. I sent my woman a alternatively saucy substance saying what I was going to bash to her later. There was a shriek from the girl's array – my wife's relative had borrowed her phone."
Any of your ain stories to tell? Let america cognize successful the comments below.
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