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By absense - 16/03/2016 07:43 - United Kingdom

Today, after returning to work from a week-long sickness, I sent out an apologetic email to all of my clients to explain my lack of communication due to absence. I realised afterwards I had put the subject line as 'Absense'. And sent it to all of my clients. FML

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Today, I sent an important email to my entire team, but I accidentally left a shopping list as the subject line. They responded with grocery items they needed. Nobody mentioned the email content. FML

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By Girl With a Cold - 08/02/2012 18:46

Today, I was sick, so I emailed my co-workers with a list of my hours, asking if anyone would be willing to cover them for me. I only got one hour covered, and that was during a day I don't even work. FML

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By SomeExplainingToDo - 04/09/2017 04:30

Today, I sent a polite yet strongly-worded email to one of my corporate clients in which I expressed my irritation at being asked the same question by the same team for the 4th day in a row. I ended it with "Regards!" but accidentally swapped the 'g' with a 't'. FML

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By Oops - 14/01/2010 15:55 - United States

Today, while at work at a maternity and baby clothes store, I was supposed to send out an email about our "Beat the Clock" sale. After it was sent to over 500 people, I realized that I'd misspelled the subject line. It read, "Beat the Cock Sale." FML

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By Whoopsx99 - 30/01/2010 19:21 - United States

Today, I accidentally emailed the entire company everyone's salary, sales history, and the names of four people I intended to fire. FML

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By Anonymous - 21/04/2015 15:40 - United States - Ann Arbor

Today, despite having a stomach bug, I went into work, as my boss is overseas and had warned me not to take any sick leave until she returned. After 4 hours and vomiting twice, I left. She found out and sent me an email bitching me out for coming in sick. FML

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By Farah - 26/09/2016 14:42 - Bangladesh

Today, I e-mailed an employer to ask about a job I had applied for earlier. The employer in question was on vacation. The person who replied had the position which I had applied for mentioned in their signature. FML

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By Laura - 28/04/2021 11:01

Today, I sent a reply-all email to my entire company that said "Go tit" instead of "Got it". FML

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By Anonymous - 14/12/2012 23:16 - United Kingdom - Bridgwater

Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML

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Never cross the streams

By FiredAF - 20/02/2024 00:00 - United States

Today, I was emailing my department about a huge meeting we’re going to have. I was also emailing back and forth with another colleague about office gossip. I absentmindedly replied to the wrong email. I hit reply all to the meeting e-mail, saying that the new supervisor of X department was "so fucking retarded." FML

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Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:02

At least you didn't type Absinthe

cheshirecat13242 32

Wednesday 16 March 2016 14:59

Oops. Not fully recovered?

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cheshirecat13242 32

Wednesday 16 March 2016 14:59

Oops. Not fully recovered?

neilstinston111 1

Wednesday 16 March 2016 14:59

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Big_Bear99 19

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:00

Still a very important topic to talk about OP.

stryder9090 28

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:02

At least you didn't type Absinthe

lexiieeex3 32

Thursday 17 March 2016 10:11

Hey, it is St. Patrick's Day

Lenora_Cain 25

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:03

just a typo op, you'll be fine

lexos 16

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:03

Always check important emails before you send them

fakedsincerity 32

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:07

when they reply just put a quick line apologising for the typo. no big deal. if your messages are usually full of good grammar and spelling they'll know it was just a mistake. (:

HyperTek 16

Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:09

Absense means nothing, it's a simple typo why is that a FML?

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Wednesday 16 March 2016 15:16

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GhostFox 33

Thursday 17 March 2016 0:47

After spending who knows how long writing and reviewing something, small errors like this can be missed because your brain is hyper aware of what you meant, and automatically corrects it as you read. Meaning you think you did things right until you take a break and come back to it, which isn't an option in some cases, like when the document you are writing is an apology for your already troubling lack of communication.