Inadvertently sent email to entire firm?

[Anonymous]

Are there companies that regulate their email so seriously as to consider email offenses to be terminable offenses? I can see it if you send an email showing you're doing something to hurt the company's business or something unethical -- i.e. I took advantage of a supplier; got away with insider trading whatever. But most of the inadvertent emails I see are just stupid chatter -- some of it is mundane work stuff, some may be snarky and could have some mild profanity but never even considered it could be terminable, even if it shows how you really are as a person.

[Anonymous]

Co-worker replied all when he thought just replying to his friend and it included an insult of both a partner in the firm and a female associate he used to bang. It was amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Co-worker replied all when he thought just replying to his friend and it included an insult of both a partner in the firm and a female associate he used to bang. It was amazing.

Did he get fired for it? Sounds like he wasn't too bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Recently someone at my company did a reply all that included the f word AND the n word. He thought he was sending it just to his buddy. I don't know what happened, but I've been wondering if he'll get fired. We're currently going through a reorganization with some layoffs.

Not for the F word - but the N word? Pack your bags, buddy.

[Anonymous]

This happens on "The Newsroom," that misogynistic piece of writing by Aaron Sorkin broadcast on HBO earlier this year.

[Anonymous]

Had a co-worker with a bad coke problem and a large ego. Xmas eve (late) he sent a rambling nonsensical email asking about 20 random co-workers (high up execs and top performers) to join him in some European real estate investments with some political jumbo jumbo thrown in (something about Europe being the next super power after US goes down the tubes with Obama).
Early the next morning we all got an apology email blowing it all off as a celebration with too much egg nog.
It was incredibly embarrassing for him but he didn't seem to notice

[Anonymous]

I worked at *HR* Consulting firm. We were going thru layoffs. Our group "leader" sent an email out to everyone that said "We just had layoffs today, please be respectful of your colleagues as they gather their things" blah blah.

She sent the draft out on a Friday. She meant to send it only to the group that would approve the draft, instead sent it to everyone. Then furiously tried to retract it. THEN had to send an email saying that the layoffs were not until Monday, and an apology. So then everyone had a miserable weekend waiting to be laid off.

She didn't not get fired! She DID however get onto various websites and the incident was in a magazine, too, I think.

[Anonymous]

"she didn't get fired!"

[Anonymous]

Oh my god! That's almost like an episode from The Office

[Anonymous]

Someone had sent an email to 400+ people complaining that someone had taken his cookies from the fridge! I can only imagine that he meant to send it to a few in his office, but still, even that was silly. If you send one, don't send a subsequent apology one, just ignore it and eventyually people forget.

[Anonymous]

haha -- yes. my boss did and it ended up in the NY Post! he was an a$$, but i still felt a little bad for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had a co-worker with a bad coke problem and a large ego. Xmas eve (late) he sent a rambling nonsensical email asking about 20 random co-workers (high up execs and top performers) to join him in some European real estate investments with some political jumbo jumbo thrown in (something about Europe being the next super power after US goes down the tubes with Obama).
Early the next morning we all got an apology email blowing it all off as a celebration with too much egg nog.
It was incredibly embarrassing for him but he didn't seem to notice

Sounds like a Shaun White apology.

[Anonymous]

The firm I worked at a new associate sent out an email asking the entire very large firm to join a basketball playoffs pool. He hag to follow it up with an apology email saying that he realized that gambling was illegal so of course there wasn't really going to be a pool.

One staff wrote an email to a friend bitching about everthing at the firm and accidently printed it off. It sat on the printer and got mixed in with other printed documents that were sent to a client. He got fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We always have older managers who seem to not be paying attention while on blackberry who will reply all to mundane work requests sent to everyone at the firm -- returning forms; saying ok to a request etc. I have never seen anything terrible happen at my firm with reply-all. I am careful not to snark on work email and if I must, I don't hit reply and then take off the unintended recipients -- too much room for error. Usually I will hit forward and type the name of the person who I want to get this so I can say whatever I want. Given that I'm paranoid about emails being searched/pulled, sometimes I won't even do that and I'll just send a new blank email to the person I'm chatting with saying something general like "do you believe that person . . . ." So if IT was spot checking emails quickly, they wouldn't know what I was talking about without having to check a few other emails first.

We have younger newly hired professionals who do the same.