Bizarre Work Emails

[Vowels]

Granted; this is niche. 
 

What’s the most bizarre work email you’ve ever had ?

 

I once received one in a previous job where I was asked by someone not even senior to me to stop prefacing questions in meetings with ‘riddle me this…’ and threatening me with a written warning if I persisted. 
 

 

[bovril]

I lolled 

[Dunge]

A colleague once tried to send me a picture of a rather unpleasant gashed leg but accidentally sent it to another colleague with a similar surname.

[ithuriel]

Well, the firm I work for have lost major customers.

Redundancies were announced and I was put on gardening leave as there is hardly any work to be done.

Was told a letter would be sent by HR.

Days later, was sent an Email asking me to return to work on the following week and would I kindly tick one of three boxes, chatted with a couple of the guys still there and they say no work still and everyone has had gardening leave cancelled.

The three boxes were, two saying yes in slightly different ways and one saying no.

Baffled but not surprised, just gonna turn up, hope they have enough brooms to occupy everyone for a couple months 

[Dunge]

Has anyone else experienced the near infinite loop of:

 

1. Someone accidentally sends a message to the whole company;

2. Someone replies to all “Please remove me from this mailing list.”

2a. See above

2b. See above

…

2n. See above

3. Someone else replies to all “Stop replying to all!”

3a. See above

3b. See above

…

Edited 1 March by Dunge

[SecretPro]

We had an email from a very senior person, she was known for being fierce, which said 'please can everybody make sure their email signatures are uniform in Colour, either black or blue'.

 

I changed every single letter to a different colour (and its a long email signature, several lines of text) and forwarded it to a colleague for a laugh...

 

Except I'd clicked Reply, instead of Forward. Panic set in. 

 

Got a response a few minutes later:

 

'LOL. Very funny.'

 

[SecretPro]

1 hour ago, Dunge said:

Has anyone else experienced the near infinite loop of:

 

1. Someone accidentally sends a message to the whole company;

2. Someone replies to all “Please remove me from this mailing list.”

2a. See above

2b. See above

…

2n. See above

3. Someone else replies to all “Stop replying to all!”

3a. See above

3b. See above

…

It's a constant. 

 

I remember somebody form the Newcastle office replying to a UK wide round-Robin with something saucy that was clearly an in-joke between her and the sender. She clicked Reply to all, so everybody on the global address list saw it. It was followed later that day with a very sincere apology. 

[Footballwipe]

A friend told the story when she worked for a local council in Leicestershire. A woman sent an all users email (which has all contractors included on the mailing list) complaining about the shit on the floor in the ladies toilets.

 

Problem was she'd also attached a photo of said shit on the floor in the ladies toilets in the ALL USERS email.

 

From what I gather she was given quite the talking to.

[Vowels]

13 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

A friend told the story when she worked for a local council in Leicestershire. A woman sent an all users email (which has all contractors included on the mailing list) complaining about the shit on the floor in the ladies toilets.

 

Problem was she'd also attached a photo of said shit on the floor in the ladies toilets in the ALL USERS email.

 

From what I gather she was given quite the talking to.

That is actually a power move and worth a warning

[StanSP]

My first name is similar to a very senior member of staff. So I've been sent some quite confidential documents in emails because the person sending them has been too lazy to check who they're sending it to . 

 

 

[Zear0]

49 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

A friend told the story when she worked for a local council in Leicestershire. A woman sent an all users email (which has all contractors included on the mailing list) complaining about the shit on the floor in the ladies toilets.

 

Problem was she'd also attached a photo of said shit on the floor in the ladies toilets in the ALL USERS email.

 

From what I gather she was given quite the talking to.

We had a shit incident/email many moons ago. Turned out it was a turf war between cleaners. 

[Libertine]

1 minute ago, Zear0 said:

We had a shit incident/email many moons ago. Turned out it was a turf war between cleaners. 

Or turd war?

[HowardsBulletHeader]

6 hours ago, Vowels said:

Granted; this is niche. 
 

What’s the most bizarre work email you’ve ever had ?

 

I once received one in a previous job where I was asked by someone not even senior to me to stop prefacing questions in meetings with ‘riddle me this…’ and threatening me with a written warning if I persisted. 
 

 

I had a guy try to send a photo of a document into our work...

 

The downside was, there was a glass table, no shoes or socks and his toes were on show. Not a pleasant sight at 8am on a Monday, or any hour for that matter.

[simFox]

6 hours ago, Vowels said:

Granted; this is niche. 
 

What’s the most bizarre work email you’ve ever had ?

 

I once received one in a previous job where I was asked by someone not even senior to me to stop prefacing questions in meetings with ‘riddle me this…’ and threatening me with a written warning if I persisted. 
 

 

Saved for next meeting. 

 

Though working for a multi national, I'm sure no one understands me anyway so I can pretty much say what I like.

 

"Tickle your fanny with a feather"

 

What? 

 

I said, "typical English weather"

 

Oh, yeah ok.

[Electric Yetis]

I was paid expenses (totalling over £18,000) for someone with the same name based in our London office not once but three times.

 

Each time was followed by a sincere apology and kindly requesting I send the money back.

[Bilo]

I once signed off an email by accidentally mistyping 'regards' with a 't.'

 

Usually embarrassing. 

 

Much more so when it was an email about SEND students to the SENCO.

 

 

[goose2010]

Not an email but been on a massive Teams call when someone obviously thought they were on mute and they start telling a colleague in the same room about how he was having an affair with some one who was on the call. think there was about 50 on the call at the time. 

 

 

[bmt]

3 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Not an email but been on a massive Teams call when someone obviously thought they were on mute and they start telling a colleague in the same room about how he was having an affair with some one who was on the call. think there was about 50 on the call at the time. 

 

 

Hahhaaha is this true?

[FLAN]

Similar to above. Company wide zoom call

some guy in the US suddenly takes off his  T-shirt. He’s an oldish guy so this was a bit odd to see aside from the fact it was a work call. Anyway within seconds he stands up and you see he has nothing else on. I mean zero

whoever was speaking didn’t notice but he was swiftly kicked off the call. 
 

it was never mentioned again and I never found out who he was or what happened to him 

[goose2010]

7 hours ago, bmt said:

Hahhaaha is this true?

Yep, it was probably the most awkward teams I've ever been on but the aftermath was hilarious, about 10 follow up calls with other people asking if they heard it! 

[Vowels]

11 hours ago, goose2010 said:

Not an email but been on a massive Teams call when someone obviously thought they were on mute and they start telling a colleague in the same room about how he was having an affair with some one who was on the call. think there was about 50 on the call at the time. 

 

 

This one is gold.

 

 

[UniFox21]

Email sent from the head of admin to the entire unit (couple hundred people) as someone had drank her bottle of water. Scolding everyone and anyone for taking her things 

[Vowels]

Just now, UniFox21 said:

Email sent from the head of admin to the entire unit (couple hundred people) as someone had drank her bottle of water. Scolding everyone and anyone for taking her things 

This reminds me of another one which was such a colossal waste of time about a missing tuna sandwich. This was sent mid-afternoon and included something along the lines of 'if the sandwich is returned, there will be no further action taken' as if whoever had taken it wouldn't have just eaten it. They inspected everyone's bins for the foil! People were defending themselves 'well, I went out for lunch', 'I don't even like tuna', 'I have a gluten allergy, I don't eat bread'. Guess who was told to use the company credit card to go to the shops and buy her a tuna sandwich and a box of chocolates? Bingo.

 

I later found out that she found the sandwich at home on the side and just hadn't brought it in. There was no follow up email to apologise.

 

Why are people like this? If someone is stealing your sandwiches, its fairly obvious you keep your mouth shut and just make some rogue sandwiches with ridiculously spicy sauce or gone-off meat inside.

 

Unnecessary comment; this woman was the dirtiest, scruffiest person I've ever worked with and if I was in sandwich-stealing mood (I've never stolen a sandwich yet, feel like I haven't lived) then I would definitely not have stolen her sandwich.

[Skidmark]

Not one received, but was part of sending a cracker to my former boss, the Headteacher of a Secondary School.  

 

Someone had dropped a huge poo in the staff toilet by reception. The staff toilets were known for being a nightmare, but this thing was colossal. It wasn't King Kong's finger, more like King Kong's arm, with chunks of sweetcorn inside of it. It was huge. Being a History teacher, this thing was comparable with a bomb dropped on Dresden during World War 2. 

 

Took a photo of the said deposit and went up to IT with my mate, and we crafted a very interesting email to the Headteacher about the state of the bogs. Now my mate being Head of IT had software on his computer that allowed him to check what anyone logged into the network was doing. So we sent the email moaning about the poo with accompanying attachment of the huge log and waited whilst watching what the boss was doing on our screens. 

 

Within a minute of the email being sent, he clicked it and the attachments. I've never seen someone minimise or get rid of something off a screen so quickly. Then over the Site Team radios you heard, 'Caretaker, please could you take a trip to the staff toilets near reception? There's been an incident in one of the male toilets.' 

 

We were crying. 

 

(PS: This isn't how I got my username Skidmark. Wasn't me who left the turd on this occasion) 

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