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...but the following examples take some beating.
Wired.com reports on the rise of the misdirected email - a problem made worse by the continuing boom of office workers using their workplace email for personal correspondence. Here are some of Wired.com's most toe-curling clangers:
* Marketing executive Alex Clark once mocked his company's CEO and his inability to properly attach a document to an email message, only to discover he had sent the missive to the chief executive himself. "Working with the IT department and the CEO's personal secretary," said Clark, "I attempted to intercept the message before it reached his inbox - to no avail. Later that night, I received the response. The CEO made his outrage abundantly clear in the most scathing email I have ever received." Clark saved his job only through "the most sincerely apologetic, pleading-for-mercy note of my life".
* When Peter Shankman, CEO of boutique public relations firm The Geek Factory, clicked to open an email from a client, he wasn't expecting to find a topless photo of her inside. The email was intended for her significant other - who was also a "Peter S" - but Microsoft Outlook had filled in the blanks with Shankman's name instead.
* A female employee bad-mouthed a job candidate as a "suck up" in an email she then accidentally sent to that prospective employee. He was hired as her boss.
* An employee jokingly signed an important document with her manager's name and the tag "who sits on her ass and does nothing all day". When she mistakenly forwarded the note to her boss, she was fired.
* When an employee at one company quit to launch her own competing firm, she failed to update her address book. A misfired message about how her business had dried up unintentionally shared valuable competitive intelligence with her former employer.
( ...the rest is also 'interesting' )
Wired.com reports on the rise of the misdirected email - a problem made worse by the continuing boom of office workers using their workplace email for personal correspondence. Here are some of Wired.com's most toe-curling clangers:
* Marketing executive Alex Clark once mocked his company's CEO and his inability to properly attach a document to an email message, only to discover he had sent the missive to the chief executive himself. "Working with the IT department and the CEO's personal secretary," said Clark, "I attempted to intercept the message before it reached his inbox - to no avail. Later that night, I received the response. The CEO made his outrage abundantly clear in the most scathing email I have ever received." Clark saved his job only through "the most sincerely apologetic, pleading-for-mercy note of my life".
* When Peter Shankman, CEO of boutique public relations firm The Geek Factory, clicked to open an email from a client, he wasn't expecting to find a topless photo of her inside. The email was intended for her significant other - who was also a "Peter S" - but Microsoft Outlook had filled in the blanks with Shankman's name instead.
* A female employee bad-mouthed a job candidate as a "suck up" in an email she then accidentally sent to that prospective employee. He was hired as her boss.
* An employee jokingly signed an important document with her manager's name and the tag "who sits on her ass and does nothing all day". When she mistakenly forwarded the note to her boss, she was fired.
* When an employee at one company quit to launch her own competing firm, she failed to update her address book. A misfired message about how her business had dried up unintentionally shared valuable competitive intelligence with her former employer.
( ...the rest is also 'interesting' )
