Well, it doesn’t always work
Last night someone in customer support sent an outage escalation to our on-call team. (Turned out to be a non-urgent issue with one of their tools.) I was tickled by the IT employee’s e-mail response to the escalation, which was:
“We will oil at this and get ba do to you.
Sent from my iPhone”
Texting on an iPhone is generally quite easy and the auto-correct usually does its job very well. But just like embarassing situations where a spell check does something like automatically changing your boss’s name “Semmelly” into “Smelly,” every now and then the iPhone oils up.
What’s your most embarrassing typo sent in a work e-mail?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
One of our customers is named Evin, and I called her Erin for about 4 months in emails before someone pointed out my mistake. I about died. I couldn’t even blame that on a typo. Goodlink/Palm is pretty good about not being overzealous on the auto correcting.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:45 am
The only things I can think of didn’t happen with email. A couple of years ago, I answered the phone and said the speech from two jobs prior to this one…luckily it was just someone I knew personally and they just laughed at me. The other thing I did last week was I called one of our accounts payable people Gloria when her name is Glenda. I think it was a reaction to the fact that she can not spell my name correctly even though when she sends me emails and im messages, my name is clearly spelled out for her to copy.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:08 am
My most embarrassing typo was when I asked a female colleague to lunch and accidentally sent it to the whole company of 60 people. Mind you this was waaaay back when local email systems had ‘un-send’ so only the 12 or so sharpest employees ever saw it.
Seriously though, the iPhone’s spellcheck leads to much amusement. So much so that I pre-empively changed my iPhone /sig to “Sent egg freckles iPhone”
June 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Well, the handwriting correction of the original Apple Newton led to the classic “Appel Netwon Fore Sail!” line of rec.humor.funny.
At SGI, someone told the following story. An engineer sent out an e-mail about a photocopier on the second floor getting jammed because someone had tried to copy a stack of papers with a paper clip on it. An admin respond saying, “Yeah, that copier sucks clips like no one’s business.” Except she typo’d the word “clip” by using a t instead of a p. It was said her scream of mortal anguish could be heard throughout the building.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Nathan totally wins this one… I sent out an email to the office, and he accidently hit “respond to all” with YOU ARE HOT! hehe… he just about died. Oh yeah, then the next day we all had flyers in our mailboxes about the appropriate uses of company email
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:17 am
I used to work for the “Public Health Department” but I accidentally sent it out without the “L”.