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Have you ever made a serious breach of office etiquette that made you want to call in sick? This hilarious conversation on Twitter has people sharing their stories of times they’ve screwed up in the workplace and ended up looking pretty unprofessional.

One user named Maurice started off the story round with a time he was annoyed when a business contact spelled his name wrong, so he called them out only to be told that they were just following his lead, and to take a look at his own signature. A lot of people were reminded of their own fails, and this thread was born.

Some of them can be blamed on Autocorrect, which has been “ducking” us over since its invention. It’s usually fairly benevolent when you send an unintentionally crude message to a friend and you both giggle like you’re 12 years old, but when you send it to the whole office, it can feel like the equivalent of having your pants rip while you’re giving a presentation. As much as we resent autocorrect, though, we’re not much better off without it. When you simply mistype, forget words, or send an email to the wrong person, unfortunately, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is pretty correct. I find that most men tend to fall into one of these categories ... ;-)

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In 2018, the United States Embassy in Australia accidentally distributed an email titled “meeting” inviting recipients to a “cat pajama-jam” with a picture of a cat wearing a Cookie Monster costume and offering a plate of cookies to illustrate. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the email also contained a section of Latin (the trusty sample text Lorem Ipsum, perhaps?) and a RSVP button. The public affairs counselor described the mistake as a “training error” made by a new hire learning their way around the email newsletter procedure.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had the same problem! Only realised my mistake when one of my professors said he got an inquiry from an odd email account... I was mortified!

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If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t notice your mistakes until the moment you’ve pressed the send button, it might be worth turning on the “undo send” feature on your email. Just make sure you don’t get too comfortable with it, or else you’ll start not noticing your mistakes until the buffer time has passed and it’s really sent.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Then the drug test came upon your return. "You know our anti-drug policy here, D."

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A colleague once sent an email to our Client, instead of saying 'the ship is on the water' she typed 'the s**t is on the water'. Fortunately he had a sense of humour

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thankfully, some messengers have the "unsend" option. Life saver.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom once sent an email to her boss to make him aware that "orders can be released now". Nothing autocorrect worthy, right? But we're brazilian, and the phrase goes "pedidos podem ser liberados agora". Instead of typing "pedidos", she typed "peidos"... which roughly translates to "farts can be released now". Stinks

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Zanda, I could be annoyed by "sry" but that would be silly. 😉

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ahhhhh, this is such a common evil! I always double-check everything, and once I'm done.. I check again.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A colleague who is very dear to me is called Mirella Marinaki. Why do I seem to always refer to her as Marinella???

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been awhile since I laughed so hard tears ran down my legs. ☺

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well, everybody has certain needs, although i can only wish to have day off from work for that :D

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The natural follow-up to this, of course, would be a significant number of those 2,200 people hitting "reply all" to say "don't send this to All".

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just assume your Italian background and pick up the accent, I guess?

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I podcast and one of the ертпы шт the check list my boss gave me was ask beforehand how a guest's name is pronounced to avid this embarrassment

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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did she have a foreign keyboard? In some countries in central Europe, especially German speaking countries, 'Z' and 'Y' are exchanged when compared to the standard English layout (QWERTZ instead of QWERTY). Otherwise such a typo would be strange because 'Y' and 'Z' ar pretty far apart.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no! Your colleague should also NEVER put that in writing.

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why parents shouldn't fk with spelling just to show off their "uniqueness" at having a child. It's the child who has to spend the rest of their lives dealing with this s**t.

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