Ok this is probably going to be hilarious to all you that didnt do it, and I know I'm going to laugh about it later... but I was shitting my pants about it today.


I work with vendors to get their invoices paid by my company. This one lady kept e-mailing me wondering why she wasnt getting paid, when it was clear that she had a valid deduction from her account that gave her a negative balance. All she needed to do was send me more unpaid invoices (which I told her about 50 times) so I could pay them. This had been going on for about two weeks back and forth.

So I got another email this morning from her asking the same f'in question I had answered the previous 50 times, so I forwarded it to my friend with this caption:

"i want to shoot this lady with the worst gun ever invented.

Why doesnt she fuckin realize that she needs to send me invoices and she's in a fuckin negative balance????"


So my friend comes down during our break and we're having our usual laugh when I go "did you see that email from the stupid bitch I sent you?"

Friend - "uhh no what are you talkin about"

It was at that moment I realized I hit "reply" instead of "forward"... and I was a deadman.

LoL, nice kers.

Maybe she'll actually get the idea now

oops....

I feel bad for you but that is brutally funny.

RECALL! RECALL!

hehe

Sounds like my day so far...minus the homicide threat expressed to the intended victim.

Nice :doh: :doh: :doh:

i threw up in my mouth a little

I think I need to come clean on this one. I got fired for this (deservedly so) in November, and ended up going back to school for one class to finish up my masters in accounting. I just finished the course last week and will graduate this semester, and am applying to better jobs right now.

Moral of the story is you can be a dick as long as you can have a good laugh about it

Wow. That makes this story about ten times funnier. Nice.

Holy shit. I had never read this story...my jaw dropped with the story and then nearly hit the floor with the update.

Awesome. Just awesome.

I think everyone's sent an e-mail they didn't mean to....

That's the most terrible stomach dropping feeling ever.

That's hilarious.

Yea I was a little (read: a lot) embarassed about it for a while because it was such a donk move. Then people would ask me about it or people on here would say "oh are you at work" and I'd just be like ehh...

The thing that killed me though was they waited 2 weeks to do it. I thought I was in the clear. Then I found out about 3 weeks ago (I still talk to a lot of people that I used to work with) that it wasnt my immediate bosses or even the vendor that pushed for me to be fired (the vendor I sent the email to accepted my apology and considered it a dead issue). The corporate office just happened to do a scan of our emails the week I got fired and found that gem.

Kers, I was about to wonder why this wasn't posted in the Sick thread, as it is clearly a work-related clueless moment (clearly qualifies) but now I see that it's an old bump.

My comparable story:
I worked in a call centre for a hotel, taking reservations. I had a travel agent on the line from Hassle-Free Tours, and he might as well have been in a negative balance. Every question he asked I would answer, only to get the question again; nothing I could explain was clear enough for this guy.

Eventually, I had had enough, and was getting steamed. I put him on hold, and turned to my co-worker and said "for a company called Hassle-Free Tours, this isn't hassle-free at all. I am gong to kill this stupid guy."

He laughed, and I breathed deeply while I prepared to go back on the line. Then I heard it, the sound of a throat being cleared. Coming from my phone. My speaker phone. And then, "Uhm, Ouch, I'm still here..."

I had just got a new headset for the phone. Turns out plugging the headset in changes the mute button into a speakerphone button. And not only had I just insulted this travel agent, I had turned on my speaker phone so everyone in the call centre got to hear his response. Luckily, the guy had a sense of humour (or pretended to, anyway) and we all, and I mean all, had a good laugh at my expense. The whole call centre. A little embarassing

I got promoted shortly afterwards. Not sure how I pulled that one off...

i'm glad I don't have to deal with people much, or I'd definately do something liek this at some point.

How did you pull off getting promoted, that's actually pretty impressive. As for kers, hey, I can't think of anyone that wouldnt do the same thing given the circumstances, you know except for sending her an e-mail threatening death. Everything except for that I can see anyone doing.

Well, I did eventually get the sale, and they turned into a respectable bit of repeat business for us. Plus, Mr Hassle-Free always remembered us/me when he was ready to do some business.

I guess he did have a sense of humour. And so, a negative was turned to a positive.

Here is a bad foot-in-mouth story:

Myself and a buddy named Kevin worked in a restaurant as waiters. The parents of a mutual friend of ours named Mat came into the restaurant.

Kevin was their waiter, they chatted a bit. I came out from the kitchen to say hello just in time to hear Kevin ask "So, how's Mat these days?"

Problem with that? Mat was dead from a car accident. And its not like Kevin didnt know, we both had been to the funeral.

It took Kevin about three seconds to realie what he said -- but those three seconds are what the phrase "awkward silence" was invented for. Just a complete brain fart on Kevin's part.

As bad as it was, I couldn;t help but laugh about it once I got back into the kitchen.