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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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I agree, your life sucks (6674) - you totally deserved it (24045)

On 01/30/2010 at 2:21pm - work - by Whoopsx99 (man) - United States (Washington)

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#1 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:11pm by Punderous

stupidd

#6 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:15pm by bhangu023

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congratulations on getting first, i also got a FIRST!!! for the fml below this

#12 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:19pm by caneut

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yeah #12 beat me to it by 2 seconds. literally

#15 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:20pm by 123e3

holy crap …sucks to be you right about now

#33 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:43pm by Newbie21

congrats :)

#34 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:47pm by Punderous

So not only are people screaming "first" but they also feel the need to talk about being first on posts they weren't even first on. What is wrong with the world???

#42 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:14pm by saranottelling

I don't get why people get mad if someone says "first". Just let them be. And if you don't care that the person is first then stfu and leave them alone.

#48 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:30pm by Avenger

u r a bitch

#55 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:44pm by TheCoolGuy3434

thaaank youuu. I agree. who cares if they say first?

#74 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:16pm by KiddNYC10

:D ! Someone agreed with me. (:

#76 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:21pm by Avenger

Today, I got an email by mistake from my boss informing me that he planed on letting me go. I used my lunch break to go home and get my gun. FHL

#80 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:05pm by shatz

when i read that I lol'ed than felt really bad about it....

#92 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:35am by jake

Congrats!!!

#96 - On 01/31/2010 at 2:52am by stickwoman

it's stupid because people waste so much space in the comments writing it (pol who r not first but still write it). If u r going to b first atleast write a comment tht relates to the post.

#104 - On 01/31/2010 at 8:45am by rene22

go go gadget Undo Send... a feature of Gmail

#127 - On 02/01/2010 at 11:09am by theutbk

agree with 76 lol

#140 - On 03/13/2010 at 1:27am by Peacewind

how'd u manage to email everyone and not realize it?

#2 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:15pm by Dopeyrox

Surely that is a MASSIVE breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, likely you're liable for a lot of lawsuits. Also likely you wouldn't be able to "accidently" do something like that, but I'm going to ignore that past.

#32 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:37pm by White667

Data Protection Act 1998 = UK law. OP is in the US.

#46 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:25pm by aegeus

Well being one a therapist and two british all i can reccomend is to write a letter to your branch manager ( if applicable) telling how much of a swine he is and what he's put you through. But do it AFTER you get the sack. peace out x

#65 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:45pm by trickyd

He will probably be in luck on the Federal law side in the US. The US Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009 (comparable to the Data Protection Act) has not yet been introduced to the US Senate. There have been numerous lawsuits regarding personal data breaches like this though - the most recent published at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Hope the company, the employees whose data was leaked, and his bosses have a really good sense of humor.

#78 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:48pm by tisiphone

hope u ain't cheating ur employees...or take care when you enter ur car...might explode...lol

#3 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:16pm by xriley

ouch suckie

#4 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:16pm by love2bu

Dumbass.

#7 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:16pm by Flanker

dumbass

#8 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:17pm by ImaBmyLonurTees

facepalm

#9 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:17pm by KateeJo

ka pow!

#18 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:21pm by ginob

bahahaha

#31 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:34pm by iloveyouindy

more like
/facedesk

#95 - On 01/31/2010 at 1:42am by Disco

That'll make for an ackward next staff meeting...

#10 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:18pm by phara

It was emailed to the entire company... -.-

#24 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:30pm by Back_In_Action

douche

#116 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:55pm by tamtam1

Way to go, douchebag.

#11 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:19pm by buddyboyo

retard

#13 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:19pm by wmertz15

ur next on the chopping block for not paying attention!!!

#14 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:19pm by smrtblkguy

@10- That's what he said he did. Duh. Fail.

#16 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:20pm by XFlyingxPiranhaX

ahahaha good going, slow down and don't jump the gun next time, that is if you don't get fired LOL

#17 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:21pm by KurouTenshi

dumbass

#19 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:22pm by basketballFMLs

Sorry, not ten. the comments switched while I was writing. the intended target is no longer posted.

#20 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:22pm by XFlyingxPiranhaX

That really does suck.

#21 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:23pm by kuyatan93

you should be fired.

#22 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:24pm by Rooki

damm. that blows. murda1 blood okc suwooo

#23 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:26pm by mattpopspills

ganGtserZ use fml? your hardcore!

#27 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:31pm by OMGFYLHARD

Oklahoma city? that's where I live

#67 - On 01/30/2010 at 8:06pm by kelleyb323

ur a fucking dumbass

#125 - On 02/01/2010 at 3:28am by CrazyInsane

oh,you are SO outta there. THIS might even make it to haunt you in references.

#25 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:30pm by snafu57

who would u have to send that to if u have enough authority to fire ppl? nvm

#26 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:31pm by KiddNYC10

I hope they all kick your ass!

#28 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:32pm by khodges2

lmao

#29 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:33pm by sevlen

fail

#35 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:51pm by 7447

you nincompoop

#37 - On 01/30/2010 at 5:57pm by Omar1297

Haha perfect.

#53 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:40pm by boog

this.

#68 - On 01/30/2010 at 8:10pm by SpaceCoyote

Yes!!! I'm 32nd!!!

#39 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:05pm by Jny

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#40 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:06pm by NorfolkDude

Add yourself to the list of 4.

#41 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:10pm by Kristoffer

good job ;)

#43 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:20pm by jessxoxo28

dumb ass

#44 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:20pm by tekinzdudez

please demote this man!

#45 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:20pm by EnjoiKev

ahh man fired i just cant get a break why does this always happen to me

#47 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:25pm by garuru

poor gil

#129 - On 02/01/2010 at 12:14pm by ohSNAPyall

Lol Good job OP! I guess you're next on the chopping block? Depending on the email system your company uses, you can retract emails that you send before they're opened... I know Outlook allows you to do that. I suppose it's a little late for that advice though ;)

Happy job hunting! Hope that the competition with the other 4 employees isn't too difficult for you!

#49 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:33pm by jinubean

how about fire your stupid ass instead

#50 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:33pm by roxbo

why would he want to fire himself?

#51 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:38pm by abxque

How the hell did you manage that?

#52 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:39pm by PunxsatownyPhil

"Today, I was a retard. FML"

#54 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:42pm by splydoms

LOL, fail.

#56 - On 01/30/2010 at 6:53pm by BlueTwist89

Sucks to be you. how the heck did you manage that one?

#57 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:01pm by Jamaican_Secrets

atleast you have..(or had) a good job :)

#58 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:03pm by px

haha I know how that goes. I'm a teacher and I sent an email to the whole staff about the new code of conduct. it began with "happy new year and Hell to All!" instead of hello to all.

#59 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:08pm by katherinepeters

That's a simple typo. Funny but not at all comparable to something of this magnitude. Bonus points if you work at a church or Christian bookstore though.

#130 - On 02/01/2010 at 12:16pm by ohSNAPyall

I've read this FML before...re-post :/

#60 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:25pm by MissRachieee

lol

#61 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:26pm by loserface7

YDI for conforming and working some crappy office job

#62 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:27pm by waffleslol

Well, at least they knew ahead of time

#63 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:38pm by Danielt104

that's why outlook has a recall function! so that you can recall the email and you will get an alert advising you what nosy dickwad actually tried to read it.

#64 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:39pm by _sourpatchkid

lawsuit-- luckily now the four probably won't get fired.

#66 - On 01/30/2010 at 7:57pm by Vehicle

Wow u need to get friends

#69 - On 01/30/2010 at 8:31pm by 1love420

you shouldt be the boss.

#70 - On 01/30/2010 at 8:38pm by fuzz97

you should get fired you idiot

#71 - On 01/30/2010 at 8:45pm by Jrook

stupid. So do they all hate you now?

#72 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:07pm by cybra

hqhahahah

#73 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:10pm by bonnieandclyde

how?? retard!

#75 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:18pm by cameron1793

You should be fired. Everyone will be pissed at you now.

#77 - On 01/30/2010 at 9:38pm by FarSide

this is why outlook will be moving the 'reply all' button further away from the 'reply' button. apparently ppl don't check the 'to' box to make sure before they hit send.

#79 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:00pm by wes85

so? whats the big deal except for the people u were gonna fire

#81 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:13pm by SnickerVonBicker

idiot

#82 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:14pm by cutegurl2

dumbass

#83 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:24pm by basilisk454

asshole

#84 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:50pm by Paradise_babe

Would you mind sharing your salary history with us? Seems like everyone else has already seen it, and you won't be using it much longer.

#85 - On 01/30/2010 at 10:56pm by ohSNAPyall

And you are supposedly the head of the company? Paradoxical!

#86 - On 01/30/2010 at 11:22pm by Phallus

you should get fired instead

#87 - On 01/30/2010 at 11:24pm by nine17NYC

Save yourself some time and e-mail yourself a lay-off notice.

#88 - On 01/30/2010 at 11:27pm by dirtgrinder

yea op I can tell your personal life sucks worse than pinky the pornstar

#89 - On 01/30/2010 at 11:32pm by itspimpz

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#90 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:12am by jj79242

jackass

#91 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:13am by drumhellermd

How is this bad information for the employees to have? It seems like it would be useful to them. I don't understand.

#93 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:40am by autistic_pride

It's confidential information. Most places aren't supposed to talk about wages. If you have 5 people working the same job/position and they're all making different ammounts of money.... that's going to cause problems.
Same thing with sales numbers. As a lead it's your job to act professional and confidential.. not sharing information like this....

#111 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:13pm by corme

Who were you emailing it to? Why the hell would you even need to do this?

#94 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:51am by Shutsuji

smart ass......

#97 - On 01/31/2010 at 3:01am by 510lobita510

hahaha ur a legend

#98 - On 01/31/2010 at 3:33am by dugumit

I don't get it, in order to do this, you would have to make a whole document with this information, click send, select every address, and then click send again. You're a fucking moron.

#99 - On 01/31/2010 at 3:52am by yourefreakindumb

No, its possible. That he was sending this document to another manager or something and that is why he put it up, and more than likely they have a mailing list with the whole company listed under it for when they need to send out newsletters, memos etc ... and then instead of typing in the person they were sending to they selected the mailing list ... Tiny and very easy to make mistake. This is the reason I triple check all my emails before sending. I have like ... serious paranoia about it.

#100 - On 01/31/2010 at 6:14am by unFmyLife

Smooth...

#101 - On 01/31/2010 at 6:15am by Yatta

that's your fault.

#102 - On 01/31/2010 at 7:23am by 302inhere

oh, this one is funny

#105 - On 01/31/2010 at 9:28am by laserlast

Your name wouldn't happen to be Michael Scott would it?

#106 - On 01/31/2010 at 9:52am by theSman

tard

#107 - On 01/31/2010 at 10:24am by allsome50

Kudos to you. Contrary to popular belief there is no reason not to be transparent about salaries. Bit of a nasty one on the people you intend to fire though, I assume they were unaware...

#110 - On 01/31/2010 at 11:41am by The_Great_Zucchi

Maybe where you work, most of my jobs you would get in a bit of trouble for talking about salaries... something this extreme at my job would most likely get you terminated :(

#114 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:25pm by corme

I work for a company where our hours are usually billed to customers. As your billing rate is tied to your salary everybody has a general idea how much you make. Very transparent and very honest system. If a customer is willing to pay your rate, your salary is fair.

I just don't see why it's a big deal. The only reason I can think of is if the salaries are very unfair or there's a very big variation between different people doing the same job. All situations where it is not in the interest of most of the employeees to keep salaries a secret...

#115 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:51pm by The_Great_Zucchi

I wonder if they'll notice anything interesting when looking at salary / sales history, like evidence of the gender wage gap. Hopefully this is not still a problem for your company, but it generally is. If so, expect lawsuits for another reason (in addition to privacy matters).

#131 - On 02/01/2010 at 12:20pm by ohSNAPyall

a disparity in salaries doesn't mean that something odd is going on, but you can be sure that people will get upset about it anyway. If I start a new position where I earn, for ex. $35000 based on prior experience, and my coworker who has worked for the same company for longer than I have makes less than me, say $30k (owing to less experience, though he has more within the company), there is still the possibility of temper flareups and hysterical backtalking- justified or not.

A disparity could also mean that someone got a higher raise than someone else, which also causes problems, since performance evaluations are not public information and someone may feel that another person's raised wasn't justified.

Trust me, we have these problems at my workplace all the time. Salary and performance information should be strictly confidential. It's no one elses business and should remain between employer and employee. I'd be pissed if my salary and performance information were circulated in the office.

#137 - On 02/14/2010 at 10:11pm by _sourpatchkid

this post is a repeat word for word from an fml run-off site. thanks for the originality OP

#112 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:15pm by xn8gx

it happens... fitst fire those 4 immediately. then plan an immediate re-org

#113 - On 01/31/2010 at 12:17pm by Horney4her69

Congrats on making someone elses to be fired list.

You suck at the Internet btw.

#117 - On 01/31/2010 at 1:45pm by 13__Loki__13

"Today, I received an e-mail stating that I make $20 less per hour than my coworker for doing the same job, despite the fact that I've made nearly twice as many sales as him this month. I also found out I'm getting fired next week. FML"

#118 - On 01/31/2010 at 1:53pm by lifeinhd

L2Computer.

#119 - On 01/31/2010 at 2:58pm by Loosicles

Why the fuck would you be sending company info over email in the first place?

#120 - On 01/31/2010 at 8:22pm by MoobyTheCow

I think now you're one of the guys whose gonna be fired. 

#121 - On 01/31/2010 at 9:35pm by alya

uh oh. I guess you should make that 5 people about to be fired

#122 - On 01/31/2010 at 11:47pm by SupaSwaggin

whoops

#123 - On 01/31/2010 at 11:49pm by Gele01

just spam there inbox

#124 - On 02/01/2010 at 2:14am by byronthegrim

play it off as if you were dr. Gregory house...

#126 - On 02/01/2010 at 4:42am by mrmystery96

What are you still doing on the internet? You should stay as far away from computers as possible from now on!

#128 - On 02/01/2010 at 11:17am by Akai

A bit of advice when sending confidential information through email---"Password Protect"!!! I can't stress that enough. That way, even if you did send it to the wrong person(s), they can't open it!

#132 - On 02/01/2010 at 1:38pm by Gloria0416

Also, it's easy enough to accidentally send MY entire company an email if I'm not paying attention. There is a "recipient" in the email address book called "All Groups". If I'm sending my friend Allison an email and the "auto-fill" kicks in, there goes my email intended for just Allison to my entire company.

#133 - On 02/01/2010 at 2:03pm by Gloria0416

this is fake... how can you be dumbass enough to email this... not possible. you must have the IQ of a cardboard box.

#134 - On 02/02/2010 at 9:26am by D3kl3

Enjoy your lawsuit.

#135 - On 02/02/2010 at 12:36pm by drego5

ur probably the management team therefore I hope ur stupidity lands u in jail

#136 - On 02/11/2010 at 3:04pm by nellia

Ass.

#138 - On 03/07/2010 at 4:23am by teknikalit33z

#138 she didn't mean to it was an accident and if your saying that about firing the people sometimes people deserve to get fired

#139 - On 03/10/2010 at 6:21am by bibobobonnor

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