Well, that’s it. It finally happened. I accidentally replied-all when I should have sent a direct email. Mildly embarrassing but, I suppose it could have been worse. Much worse.
Has something similar ever happened to you? Answered reply-all and included recipients you really wish hadn’t received your email? Do tell.
Well, we’re almost into the Winter deep freeze and I am pleased to be leaving Canada next week, albeit for only two weeks, and only to come back in time to head to the winter wonderland that is Montreal. Still, it’ll be nice to get away somewhere the wind shear won’t make my ears feel like they’re on fire.
Unlike previous years where I’ve booked most of the restaurants, I’ve left this year’s Tokyo/Osaka itinerary to Akemi. So, instead of back to back to back to back Michelin-starred meals, we’ll be mixing it up – a few high-ends, a lot of casual fare, and a few open lunches and dinners where we’ll be playing it by ear. I’m especially looking forward to any of the pistachio-themed desserts and seasonal specials they’ll be rolling out in December. As in previous years, I’ll do my best to update my blog with my daily culinary discoveries – and occasional mishaps.
Could it be? Are my Snow Monkeys about to pull the upset and live to fight one more week in my fantasy football Guillotine League? All I need is 7 points from Minnesota tight end Hockenson and I’ll be duking it out in the finals next week for all the marbles!
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Oh, yes, Joe. At one of my call-center jobs, I made a (rare for me) insensitive comment about a caller’s thick non-English accent, thinking the caller was on hold. She wasn’t.
Further affiant sayeth not. 🤦🏻♀️
My embarrassing story: When my son was born he had colic. Hubby & I were exhausted! So, one of my friend’s visited from out of town and stayed all day. This was the same week my son was born and she brought her kids. One of them had ADHD and was into everything. Can you say frazzled? Well, we left the baby monitor in the room with them while we went to my son’s room. You can guess the rest of story? 😬 Never did that again. Amazing, we stayed friends until her death 11 years later.
Ouch
Working in an office for 37 years, I learned early on in the Email evolution to watch that stupid Reply/Reply All. I’ve told this story before but obviously it haunts me to this day……
I had to sent an email out to several managers of the company explaining a problem. In closing, I said, “Sorry for your inconvenience”, however I can’t spell that word and Spell Check changed it to “Sorry for your incontinence”. I didn’t notice. Luckily I don’t think anyone else did either.
Reminds me of a woman I worked with who had her assistant send out some correspondence on her behalf. For some reason, she misspelled my friend’s first name so the email ended with “Sincerely, Cunthia”.
Now yer talkin’! Bring on all things pistachio!! xoxoxoxo
But what I’m really looking forward to are the Christmas lights displays
and the close up photo Akemi will take with her new Pixel Pro 8 of
your black teeth and tongue after you bite into that black cheese cake ice cream bar
made with bamboo charcoal.
Ma-wah-ha-ha! 😀 😀 😀
Not me for the reply all, but a huge corporation was giving people a chance to make their case for early retirement before lay-offs. It’s pretty demeaning to write an email about why you’re not needed. The engineer who hit reply-all mentored many dozens of engineers, had his place in historic events, influenced the state of the art in his industry and a self-depracating reply-all was his last widespread words to his colleagues.
Um Joe, doesn’t Hockenson have a bye this week? I have him in one of my leagues. in one league I’m languishing in 10th at 4-8, while in the other league I’m first with 9-3. I have a lot of decisions to make.
I can’t recall having an embarrassing reply all. My advice – whenever you’re in a Teams/Zoom meeting, make sure to close all of the unwanted tabs and unwanted files open. You don’t want to accidentally share something confidential. I didn’t do it, but observed it in a meeting.
Cheers, Chef
While working at a company employing many thousands of people I remember several occasions where a person would send something out to a huge distribution list and the ensuing email storm that resulted by many people doing a reply-all asking to be removed from the email. Those replies triggered additional reply-all emails chastising the response and asking to also be removed from the email thread.