10 ridiculous failures at work and in business correspondence
Work And Study News / / January 02, 2021
On Twitter, they discuss the funniest and most terrible cases related to work and correspondence on e-mail. A man named Maurice (name is important) started the thread:
most embarrassing email exchange I ever had:
- Sent an email
- They replied & called me "Mautice"
- I reply with a stink about how my name is properly spelled and that it’s actually really important to me
- They told me to check my 1st email
- I had misspelled my own name- Maurice (@ mo87mo87) January 28, 2020
I sent an email, in the reply letter I was named "Motis". I very caustically answered that my name is spelled differently and for me it is very important. Then I was asked to check my original letter - and yes, I sealed myself in my name.
While there was no question about the most ridiculous work stories, there were hundreds of stories in the comments of how people screwed up at school, work - or just email. Here is a selection of the funniest, ridiculous and amusing.
1. “Recently I sent a letter to the manager Mariana, calling her...
marinaroi. Another recent letter was on French, I wanted to sign him “à très vite”, “see you soon”. Instead, I wrote “à très bite”, which translates to “very member” "- givemeyourbagel2. “Once I had to meet at the airport a manager from the main office of the company where I work. And I brought him home to yourself home! Accidentally switched to autopilot and turned home instead of the office, woke up only when he asked where we are "- Sal_Robins
3. “I didn't know that changing your YouTube profile name changes the name in the linked mail. As a result, at a large meeting, it turned out that many people know me only as “Millennial Avocado, Queen of the Unicorns” "- JoninaLee
4. “I stopped by the local bank to find out why my stupid debit card was not working. It turned out that it was a supermarket discount card "- justsnoozing
5. “I answered email from my phone and accidentally sealed myself in my name. Sarah turned into Satan "- ubiquity75
6. “One Christmas I changed my email name to Santa to show my daughter a letter 'from him.' But then I forgot to change everything back, and wrote a serious letter to my son's school with the same account name "- WinterWolf2212
7. "After swearing with the boss I wrote my boyfriend a detailed letter, in which I told in paints what happened, and called her several times. A couple of minutes later, the answer came... from the boss. I accidentally sent that email to her "- mnsortanice
8. “A colleague talked to a client who didn't have very good English and said 'Thank you, great.' Now in every letter he receives the appeal "Dear Wonderful", although many times he introduced himself by his name "- LindsAKennedy
9. “I work in television, and once on the air I mispronounced my name” - RachelCSW_TV
10. "There is nothing worse than when a client sends an email, employees comment on it, and then someone accidentally replies to the client, forgetting to detach the internal message chain" - RichardFoleher
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