God, I have so many moments to choose from.....I'll have to sift through them and come up with my Greatest Hits compilation.

I'm sure I won't tell it as the story deserves to be told...

Work has been stressful lately, not the least of which has been because of backbiting, inter-branch sniping and accusations of cheating (a la 'anonymous tipster' style, which is pissing me off) in a sales contest. So, after talking with my manager, who then spoke to a director in my company, we got permission to do random audits, and carefully crafted an email giving the branches more time to find any corrections, warning them of the potential audit, etc. At that point everything died down, whether it was because some were calmed by knowing a branch wouldn't be getting away with cheating, or perhaps because they didn't want to attract attention to themselves. There were also a number of other things going on, none of which are a point to the story, but by yesterday, the plot was as thick as cement.

A few hours later, when we least expected it, my boss, the author of the warning email, received a reply:

to which my boss replied

We giggled... He flustered and responded back explaining how he meant to hit forward and was so, so sorry. Only mildly funny, yes, but we'd just got finished talking about another unintended email this morning with another co-worker, who basically got called a b*tch by someone who meant to forward it on instead of reply.



*Names changed to protect the stupid, and because I can't remember...

In a previous outside sales job, I worked out of a home office and was often on the phone (setting appointments, etc.). I used a headset, cuz, well, I like them.

I was on hold for a client when my cat jumped in my lap. She was rubbing up against me, purring and looking up at me wistfully. Just as I pet her and said, "I love you" the client's assistant happened to have come on the line (in time to hear me). With a slightly startled voice she responded, "well, I love you too."

Thankfully, she understood once I explained the situation (and she was always very cheerful with me after that whenever I called).

it's about time you posted your own embarrassing story (instead of mine!)

Well, you give me a lot of material with which to work.

I could have posted worse :D

Ohhhhhh!

You are SOOOO not getting any tonight!

If I don't I WILL post worse. :p

Well, he must have got "some" because he didn't post any bad Gus stories:D

At Satan's Biggest Corporation (SBC) we had an inter-company instant messaging system. It was supposed to be for work related messages only. I once griped about our In-Charge manager...I sent it to that manager instead of the person I was responding to.

There were other instances of people being put on warning of dismissal and suspension for some of their mis-sent messages, but luckily I was not one of them.

So, another story about my wife...