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Yes but its too long winded to explain and actually quite rubbish ?

Not exactly, but my ex boss was a complete computer illiterate, at some stage some kind soul had sat him down and showed him how to send email, they over reached however and also showed him how to 'send to group'.

For the entire time I worked there, and quite possibly still, every single email he sent went to everyone in his address book....

I have one from me. a few years ago, in the middle of a transaction, i d been emailing back and forth with my then business partner. He had forwarded an email from the other sides lawyers for me to read, and I not only replied to him, but managed to copy the two lawyers in on it as well. We used to call them "tweedle dum and tweedle dummer" and i d put that in the email ?

Ohh some corkers!

I have a FB one, my ex SIL added me as a friend and sent round a joke to everyone. Then one of them started a conversation up about whether I knew some stuff about her not realising that everyone was copied including me!

ex SIL was a liar at times(too long to go into!) and basically made out I had been mean to her and some other stuff. So I sent a message back saying I don't know if you realise everyone is being copied on this. Love ex SIL (those words as I was being referred to as this.

i quickly got removed as a friend ?

<snort> I love these ?

Someone did it to me a couple of months ago - we'd been emailing back & forth, myself & two people in another department, as I patiently tried to explain to them a piece of work that they needed to do (I'd explained it over the phone a couple of times as well). The two of them were basically trying to weasle out of doing it, and were trying every trick in the book when one of them inadvertenly copied me in on an email meant for her chum, saying "do you think she (i.e. me) knows what she's talking about? can we just make out we don't understand and hope she goes away?"

I emailed back sweetly saying "not sure if this was meant for me?"

Then I phoned their boss ?

They hate me still, death stares every time I pass <laughs even harder>

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Some of those are classics..

Weve got an ongoing one here at the moment, an email goes round to everyone who uses a piece of software telling them of an update due in the next few days..

This one person based at a site in France which is shortly closing the dept, keeps replying to all saying 'please remove me from distribution list as I am based at **** which is being closed in June'

I think they have sent it now 4 times to everyone across 4 sites in Europe!!

Hee hee. These are funny. I like Chicken's friend's one ?

I used to work for the Crown Office and honestly I've never known of a whole group of people who didn't even have the most basic of email/IT skills so random emails to everyone in the Global address book and reply alls were a daily occurrence as they didn't know how to email individuals or smaller groups.

One such random email was someone sending a message out about someone's leaving night. I didn't know him so deleted the email. Sadly, someone called "Stacey" omitted to do likewise. She sent a reply all saying "who the fuck is that I've never heard of him" and then instead of doing what any person with 1% of email nouse would do ie recalling the message to minimise the damage, she sent ANOTHER reply all saying "oh shit I can't believe I done that sorry"

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Not quite a "reply all" but I sent an email to someone who works for me ranting about her behaviour (nothing specific, just generally being a fcukwit), when actualy I'd meant to send it to my direct report who manages her. Luckily it wasn't too rude. But an uncomfortable meeting followed. I now check and double check the name in the address box before hitting send. ?

I used to work with someone who one day was sending an email to the whole business advising of something or other business related. She was also writing an email to her mate sat opposite her moaning about how inappropropiate it was that their manager had her belly button piercing on display and it was making her feel sick. You can probably guess who got sent that one....

I've got a good one, I emailed one of our suppliers to explain why an invoice was late being paid - basically they'd sent it to my maiden name @ <large workplace with over 6000 employees> with no other information eg building, department name etc. I explained that as it had had no department name in it hadn't got to me for ages, as I had got married just before the phone books were changed - therefore when it hit the desk in another department, they had no way of knowing who it was for. I wasn't having a go, just explaining why we would be a bit late paying and suggesting she included the department name in future due to the size of the workplace, which is surely common sense. Below is the email she sent back to me (presumably intended for someone in her accounts team):

I never said anything but presume she must have realised at some point, and I'm sure she cringed when she got the email from me booking this year's course ?. How roooode.

Not an email, but I have phoned the wrong person and left a ranty message on their answerphone. The person I called was the person I was ranting about. Ooops.

The boyf and I had a massive falling out last year, I phoned my friend, got her answerphone and was going on and on about what how unreasonable he was. A few hours later he texted me to say thanks for the message, but you might want to make sure you call the right person in future. God, I felt terrible!!

Very funny stories!

My boss was known for being very hot headed and crap at computers, etc. He once received an email from his boss which made him really cross, but one of his 'tricks' to overcome his anger was to never send a reply straightaway and to think on it for 24 hrs. Within this 24hr period he kept writing and re-writing drafts to his boss, each time getting a bit calmer, in the hope that the final copy would be polite enough to send. Trouble was he'd managed to send his boss every single version of the reply, including the first one which was the rudest tirade of swearing I've seen. ?

I wrote an email to a group of friends asking if anyone wanted to go to the cinema to see the 'Golden Compass'. One of my mates replied asking me why it was called that if it was based on the book called 'Northern Lights'. Instead of replying to her, I replied to all explaining that it was because the Amercian audience was too thick so they had to change the name of it. And yes, one of my mates was Amercian. Thankfully my tone was tongue in cheek enough for her to think I had intended her to see it.

Thirdly I have received a text from a (now) ex-BF that was intended to be to his best mate about me. It was quite rude but in a complimentary way, so I didn't mind too much but he squirmed for ages over it ?

We had a guy come and work for us on a bit of a consultant basis. Bascially we share a CEO with another organisation. Other organisation are well known not being up to much, but as we have "their" CEO we are treated as very much the poor relation.

So the consultant B is tasked with updating our intranet. Hes here for 6 weeks before being "removed" and during this time, sends regular updates to the whole company telling them what he has been doing that day. the funniest one was

"I have added X link. You never used to have X link and now you do

Thanks to me"

For months, whenever anyone did anything we'd say thanks to me ?

Things were misspelt, he used forum talk (TIA etc..) and text speak. we also used to get things like "your old internet didn't have this. Now it does. This is what happens in the real world"

It eventually stopped when someone complained about him in a board meeting and it turned out a FB group had been set up in honour of his ramblings ?

Anna* was living with Bob* Unknown to us all at the time was the fact that Bob* was sleeping with Karen* who was also a part of our group. Karen* sent out some e-mail about a party at her house for her birthday, which was fine. Bob* then replied to all, obviously by accident, talking about how he hoped Karen would be wearing the sexy lingerie he bought her at the party and how he was looking forward to seeing her tomorrow. Anna* was also copied in to this e-mail being a recipient of the first one and later told us that he was supposed to be working late the next night, as if the lingerie wasn't a big tip off to start with. That one didn't end happily, not just for the three of them, but for the group of friends either.

*names change to protect the guilty

I always really check my emails as i have not done a reply to all error but have sent to the wrong person before.

I am guilty of sending a text or 2 to the wrong people. This happened a few times during my year of slutdom. Hmm, to say it caused difficulty and embarrassment is putting it mildly. One was sent to my husband, and i knew straight away that i had done it. Not good.

To be fair, if you didn't tell her your name had changed I think her reaction's pretty reasonable ?

MrH's entire company's email system crashed a few weeks ago when someone replied to all on an email to all European staff. Several other people then replied to all saying not to reply to all and it all went a bit mental.

We had one at work yesterday. To cut a long story short, a magazine (who will of course remain nameless) really cocked up a paid-for feature for one of our clients. As this was the fourth big mistake they'd made in as many weeks, we went nuclear at them about it.

Cue an email coming back to us from the editor, clearly meant for the person we'd emailed, but sent to us by mistake: 'Don't worry about this. Just let xxxxx know, they'll have no problem smoothing it over with these lot.'

So tempted to reply with 'er, no, I don't think she will, actually'. F*ckwits.

We had an email round from the FD of the last company I worked for saying we could stay over at the hotel our Christmas party was at and the company would pay. One of the Group Directors replied to all saying "Shagtastic!". His wife works for the company part-time and he had to log into her computer and delete the email before she read it.

I was training him and some of his team on Outlook a couple of months later and he emailed me asking what we could be covering ?

My boss was out of the office and forwarded me a couple of emails to me from her Blackberry to deal with on the phone. I called one of the clients and left a message then thought I should email her to chase her up too.

I manage to forward the email to the right person but neglected to delete the note that my boss had written underneath 'please give her a call about this deadline - i think she's plucked it from thin air. It's just not do-able, unless she moves her arse and sends the brief sometime this year. Which is unlikely.'

Ooops!

It had already changed when I booked the course - I suspect they used the set-up on their finance system from the previous year. Had she used the address on the purchase order we sent, it would have been fine. But sending something to X @ one of the largest universities in the country, with no department or even school name seems pretty stupid to me (bearing in mind this is someone that must be working with large institutions fairly regularly). Even with the correct name I suspect it would have gone round the houses, as my married surname is pretty common.

H's name begins with Da... so he appears just after Dad in my phone.

Needless to say, there have been some embarrassing texting errors.

Spacecadet, that makes much more sense. The way I originally read it was that you'd had a course of dealing with her as **.**********@******.*** then suddenly changed to **.***********@******.*** without mentioning it ?

Someone in our firm sent a rather boring email about something to everyone. My boss knows the lady personally so emailed back a very chatty email saying he knew she liked gambling and any tips on the horses as he was off to the races and sent that reply to all.

I think he was more bothered that no-one gave him any decent tips, despite sending it to nearly 200 people? He blames fat fingers and a blackberry!

Aw, I've just emailed the bloke who called the chef an idiot to remind him and we're meeting up for beers in a couple of weeks. It's been about two years since we last met up.

My ex manager meant to send the following e mail to her friend, instead she sent it back to the person she was talking about . .

'Look at her 2 minutes late and doesn't have the decency to apologise for being late and then sits at her desk eating toast like Lady muck, she can f... right off'

The staff member she was talking about was livid, as she had apologised for being late and was eating toast during her break. The manager spent the rest of the day in tears after a severe b@llocking from the Boss.

A friend and my boyfriend, had been having a long e mail conversation throughout the day, towards the end of the day they copied me to see if I was ok to go for a drink as planned below . . . I scrolled down to read a huge e mail about what hard work I am (true) how if i wasn't ill they would try stop including me in everything as they felt sorry for me. How he loved me, but how she wondered why, and him replying with my virtues ? )

The next second my phones were going mad with them both realising what had happened and that the whole conversation shouldn't have been forwarded on and to ignore it. Then I got an e mail from him, to her with me cc in, calling her all the names under the sun!

It made for a very difficult read, but taught me a lot about myself and also in hindsight made me realise I was being a doormat and helped me to decide to end the relationship (some months later), when I realised he had some how manipulated me into apologising for what i had read.

Waah, I'm so glad you ended it. I read through that thinking "what an arsehole" and fearing (because you refered to him your boyfriend) that you were still together.

It took me a long while and the help of Mr MF for me to see what he was like and find the strength to end it! but he was and most likely still is a stilton flavoured scrotum