We’ve all been there: you’re hurriedly typing a message to someone and, happy with the finished result, you hit ‘send’.
But then your heart stops. You’ve sent it to the wrong person.
When that wrong person is your boss (or anybody who isn’t the intended recipient) it can prove seriously awkward, as these Reddit users swiftly found out...
To the wrong co-worker...
“After drunkenly making out with a co-worker, I sent a hungover text to apologise and make sure we were both clear it was a mistake that none of our co-workers needed to know about.
“I sent it to another co-worker with the same name. The office gossip...”
To the HR director...
“Texted my 50-60-year-old boss (director of Human Resources) instead of my fiancé (then girlfriend) this: ‘MFW [my face when] I eat the pussy so good you punch me in the back of the head.’
“I immediately apologised, tried to play it off as my friends grabbed my phone. She never responded. She never brought it up. Until I came to work following the day of my engagement and my boss looks at me, places her fist on her head, and says: ‘Well, we all know why she said yes’.”