Email bombs --- the kind you can't call back. - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Medmech · #1 07-21-2008, 04:09 PM

Has anyone here fired off an email that they wish they could call back?

More later but I just had to bribe an assistant to delete a message from someones computer.

iwrock · #2 07-21-2008, 04:11 PM

Yeah, I have had some of those....

But being a network admin where I work allows me to delete those messages before they are opened.....

Oh, if you are using an Exchange Server for email, you can go in and recall the message.... I have done that on several occasions.

300SD81 · #3 07-21-2008, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by iwrock

Yeah, I have had some of those....

But being a network admin where I work allows me to delete those messages before they are opened.....

Oh, if you are using an Exchange Server for email, you can go in and recall the message.... I have done that on several occasions.

But that only works when it remains in the Exchange server, once it leaves through SMTP....... My friends passwords are all super simple though...I guessed at least 9 of them.

G-Benz · #4 07-21-2008, 04:52 PM

I did a "Reply all" to an e-mail I was bcc'ed on...uh, oops.

Chad300tdt · #5 07-21-2008, 04:54 PM

At my last job, the owner sent an email to an employee detailing his complaints with their performance. The employee got angry and sent his girlfriend a copy of the email with his reply of what an @ss his boss is and how clueless he is about everything.

The email was also sent back to the owner.

The owner showed me the email and we had a good laugh. The employee had received the email in the final stages of documenting his poor performance and was let go shortly after all this.

Mistress · #6 07-21-2008, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

At my last job, the owner sent an email to an employee detailing his complaints with their performance. The employee got angry and sent his girlfriend a copy of the email with his reply of what an @ss his boss is and how clueless he is about everything.

The email was also sent back to the owner.

The owner showed me the email and we had a good laugh. The employee had received the email in the final stages of documenting his poor performance and was let go shortly after all this.

I wonder if this is what the boss was hoping for? There have been a few times when I let my rabbit as* overload my bull dog brain and couldn't retrieve the letter sent.

Chad300tdt · #7 07-21-2008, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

I wonder if this is what the boss was hoping for?

No ... and it wasn't used as part of his dismissal. He wasn't even told that it got sent to the boss too.

The employee was even given unemployment. I'm not sure, but I think the owner could have used the email as leverage for denying unemployment, but didn't.

What the boss hoped for, was that the employee would quit on his own, since he was obviously disgruntled.

Dee8go · #8 07-21-2008, 04:12 PM

E Mailing something you shouldn't is worse than SAYing something you shouldn't. E Mails are forever.

aklim · #9 07-22-2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Dee8go

E Mailing something you shouldn't is worse than SAYing something you shouldn't. E Mails are forever.

Why do you say that? I agree with it because when I say something to you, I might not be able to deny it but I might be able to put a spin on it. I would not want to put anything in black and white for certain items as much as possible since I don't want others to be able to dredge it up.

cscmc1 · #10 07-21-2008, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Howitzer

More later but I just had to bribe an assistant to delete a message from someones computer.

Hell with that -- more NOW! What's the story?

TX76513 · #11 07-21-2008, 04:57 PM

I prepared a termination letter on an employee for his supervisor a few days before the "chop" date...............and then sent it to the employee ISO his supervisor
OOOppps

Chad300tdt · #12 07-21-2008, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by TX76513

I prepared a termination letter on an employee for his supervisor a few days before the "chop" date...............and then sent it to the employee ISO his supervisor
OOOppps

Hopefully all the info was correct and wouldn't have needed any edits.

TX76513 · #13 07-21-2008, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt

Hopefully all the info was correct and wouldn't have needed any edits.

Unfortunately it wasn't a draft

There was an accounting girl in a small division that sent a hate email out about "whom ever stole her chocolate slim fast from the fridge" Unfortunately she did a SEND TO ALL (GLOBAL) instead of (LOCAL) IT guys said she had about 1500 replies

Botnst · #14 07-21-2008, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Howitzer

Has anyone here fired off an email that they wish they could call back?

More later but I just had to bribe an assistant to delete a message from someones computer.

Did it once in a major way. Ooops. Ouch.

B

t walgamuth · #15 07-22-2008, 07:21 AM

I've done it more than I care to remember. Now I am getting fairly good at hitting reply instead of reply all. That one got me in some trouble too.

Its always good if you are pissed off to resist firing off the prompt reply.

Tom W