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The awful agony of the misdirected e-mail
It happens to the best of us, but it’s the reaction of the hapless recipient that really counts.
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The misdirected e-mail is one of the most disastrous office blunders, and also remarkably common..
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Pilita Clark
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As far as I know, there is no word in English for the act of writing an e-mail to a friend to moan about a detested work colleague and sending it straight to the detested colleague instead of the friend.
“Idiocy” does not really cover it. “Haplessness” comes closer, as does the thought I always have whenever I hear of such an incident: That could easily have been me.
