Today, at work, I was criticized for mentioning the actual subject of an email in the subject line, as well as using a text marker to make relevant information stand out. Apparently, this is confusing for some people. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML
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
Today, my boss yelled at me for ignoring emails on my day off. Our emails are only accessible from work desktops, so I’d have had to be at my desk to answer it, which I had to explain to him 3 times before he understood. This is what happens when CEO’s promote their nephews to middle management. FML
Today, I made it onto my boss's shit-list, after pointing out that he'd misspelled "customer" as "costumer" 6 times in his report, and "college education" as "collage education" twice. It'd be a dick move on his part even if making corrections like this weren't part of my damn job. FML
Today, I was emailing a government employee at the place I'm hoping to get hired by. I realized too late I had been emailing her with my personal email address, which is rather jokey and unprofessional. She noticed and started referring to me as that. FML
Today, before I could realise what I was doing, I replied-all to an email chain about a huge company issue, saying, "FFS, this is ridiculous and moronic, and so is upper management." I’m still employed, but everyone now avoids me like I’m radioactive. FML
Today, I sent a reply-all email to my entire company that said "Go tit" instead of "Got it". FML
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
Today, my boss chewed me out for correcting several spelling and grammar mistakes in one of his reports. The words "Think you're so damn smart, don't ya?" were uttered. I'm his secretary, and proofreading his shit is part of my job. FML
Today, I found out that absentmindedly correcting my boss's use of the word "whom" could result in my immediate termination. FML
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RichardPencil 32
That would be confusing. Legit emails begin with something like "Make you're PENIS for inches longer -- Without SURGARY!!!" That's how I know I'm not reading spam. Try it!
Grizz8831 14
may sound weird, but plenty of things that make things more organized are hard for people to understand when looking at it. they need to go from simply reading the email for information to reading and thinking about the header and figuring out what the colors mean. sounds dumb, but if they aren't use to it or work in a sloppy company it is difficult to change. it is easier when you already do things to organize yourself, to pick this sort of thing out quickly. or they are lazy and hate change...
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RichardPencil 32
That would be confusing. Legit emails begin with something like "Make you're PENIS for inches longer -- Without SURGARY!!!" That's how I know I'm not reading spam. Try it!
Grizz8831 14
may sound weird, but plenty of things that make things more organized are hard for people to understand when looking at it. they need to go from simply reading the email for information to reading and thinking about the header and figuring out what the colors mean. sounds dumb, but if they aren't use to it or work in a sloppy company it is difficult to change. it is easier when you already do things to organize yourself, to pick this sort of thing out quickly. or they are lazy and hate change...