What’s the funniest “reply all” fail you’ve witnessed at work? Our director just sent out an email to the whole team that was meant only for the managers, and now everyone knows they have a Thanksgiving surprise. Guess they have something to look forward to for next week haha.

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An IT person once sent an email to an entire office that started with “I apologize for the incontinence I may have caused you . . .” when I am pretty sure he meant to say “inconvenience”.

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To be fair... I might have had an incontinence issue from laughing so hard if I received that.

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I sent a "genital " reminder instead of a "gentle" reminder to a leadership group.

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Someone replied “all” to a corporate wide email to thousands of people, said they were going to skip out of work all afternoon and signed off “gwendlebug”.

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Personnel list with everyone’s salaries

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I would love to see this.

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Someone at my old job tried to vent about a client only to “reply all,” including the client on the thread! We all held our breath, but thankfully the client had a sense of humor. Accidental announcements are awkward in the moment but make for legendary office stories later.

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Well at least it was something good. I learned to recall emails that one time that I sent private information to a mailing list instead of the printer 🥶

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These are amazing lol

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Maybe it wasn't an accident.... It sounds like morale is up if everyone excited.

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