Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I discovered my ex has been signing my email up for various newsletters. I knew I was getting a lot of spam, but didn't know why. It became apparent when one of these emails had his name in it. FML
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 realised that Gmail has been sending lots of important messages directly into the spam folder, where I never saw them. All were from people who I had either contacted myself, or had regular contact with in the past. One address even had a filter on it, specifying, "Never send it to spam." FML
Today, due to a change in our internal system, I set up an email filter at work that sent all incoming messages to spam. My boss had been sending me urgent updates all day, and I only realized when she came over and asked why I’d “gone radio silent.” FML
Today, I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so much spam in my professional email. My own mother thought it would be a hilarious “prank” to sign me up for a ton of random mailing lists. I missed an amazing job opportunity due to her bullshit. FML
Today, I found out there’s a university email platform I never knew about. I’m a freshman and I’ve been using my personal email to communicate with the lecturers. Now I’ve got a pile of assignments to do and most of them are overdue. FML
Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML
Today, I typed an essay on my friend's computer, so she forwarded it to me in a email and she made the subject "here bitch" as a joke. I then went to email the essay to my teacher. I forwarded it thinking nothing of it only to realize that I didn't change the subject name. 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, I got a letter saying I was no longer a student at my college and my current work is void since I had ignored and refused to pay my tuition bill. Over the past month I've been deleting these pesky emails saying 'FINAL WARNING regarding payment' thinking it was more spam. They weren't. FML
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DocBastard 40
I see the meeting going something like this: Professor: I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you an F. OP: No! I'll lose my scholarship! Isn't there SOMETHING I can do? Professor: Well, there is ONE thing. OP: Oh, professor! Your shirt is so tight... Baw wah oh waoh wah oh wah /bad **** music poorly transliterated
marinus_fml 20
Shit, that sucks man! at least you should still be able to prove you had sent the email with the attachment! I'm sure if you show it to them, they might let you off the hook!
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tttiffany 0
that completely blows. show your prof. or something, it's better to fail trying to solve this than not attempting to solve it at all!
MrRawwr84 0
wooah you're soo pretty ;o model??
A_beautiful_mind 0
Massachusetts huh? I'd be willing to bet money that the OP doesn't attend MIT.
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
Wait... why was it filtered as spam? Wouldn't you have added what you thought to be the right address to your contacts, or set incoming replies from that address to be accepted? It seems like it should have been a known address, even if it wasn't the right person's.
RAUN 8
Mail with an attachment might get sent back by the server (e.g.: [email protected]), not the account to which it was addressed (e.g.: [email protected]).
Zebidee 9
A very similar thing happened to me, where I had an assignment go missing before my uni changed to a better system. All I did was contact my course facilitator and CC'd the head of department, explained the story, provided the evidence, and they sorted it out. If you're doing a course where stuff is submitted by email and you're not in enough contact with them that they'd ask, chances are you're in something like a distance course, where you're too much of a cash cow for them to fail you without very good reason. As with all things in life - just go talk to the people. It won't always work, but it IS always worth a shot.
SadinSherman 16
You don't have a high school or college email.
TailsThePrower71 4
That sucks OP. But let that be a lesson to you. Check your spam folder once a week.
obri98 10
Didn't you notice your grade dropping op??
doglover100 29
You didn't check your grades?
fantasyworld 39
Why didn't you check your grades?