Funniest typo you've made/seen at work?

[AreaCode707]

Not ROFLOL hilarious but I just caught myself telling a coworker I'm "consluting" with a couple of internal customers. Not Freudian, I swear.

You guys probably have some good examples of entertaining fatfinger moments. Spill.

 

[dougp]

SEXI err I mean EXSI ...

 

[Alienwho]

Something funny I heard on Bob and Tom.

A woman was writing an email to the company that talked about an employee who had a family member die. At the end of the email she wrote something like

"Susans Mom died this past week, blah blah... So lets all give Susan our support

Good Luck, Susan, LOL".

The woman thought LOL stood for "lots of love" for some reason. Pretty hilarious.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

I've gotten to where I don't say sec... at all. Not in email, not in chat, never. the C and X are WAY too close together.

"Come see me for a sex"... Although in this case her response was alarmingly positive lol....

 

[mmntech]

Was doing a broadcast news writing class. Someone in my class (not me!!) called the person in the story she instead of a he, despite an obvious name. Teacher pulled him aside and called him a retard. Priceless.

 

[blackdogdeek]

the coo sent out his monthly newsletter about the goings on here. in it he referred to the "1301 pantry" as the "1301 panty".

this was immediately followed by a corrected email which was then followed by an outlook recall of his original email.

 

[Jassi]

Heh. Reminds me of an email that the CEO of my company accidentally sent to everyone. It was in response to an "All in Company" email with some very colorful language directed at new IT policies regarding computer use. I happened to be at the office on Saturday (sent after close of business on a Friday) and saw it. By Sunday night it had been recalled. In hindsight, I should have moved it to a personal folder.

the coo sent out his monthly newsletter about the goings on here. in it he referred to the "1301 pantry" as the "1301 panty".

this was immediately followed by a corrected email which was then followed by an outlook recall of his original email.

 

[Cyco]

In my daily report, instead of stating that we shut down the system, I accidentally reported that we shit down the system.

 

[huberm]

one time i had a boss that always copied these stupid ads he would find on websites and paste them in an email and send them to me. He thought I would find them interesting. They're freakin advertisements!

I was telling a coworker about it one day and how annoying it was. Later that day my boss sent another to me, so I hit forward, typed something to the tune of "why does this moron keep sending me this retarded crap" and sent it off to what i thought was my coworker. Apparently I was in a hurry and accidentally forwarded it back to my boss instead of my coworker. I never received anymore stupid web ads.

 

[Crusty]

The Websex meeting is @ 10AM.

 

[Evadman]

Instead of complaining about incompetence of another employee, he complained about incontinence.

That was good for a few laughs.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My friend almost sent an email to the boss about converting servers to SEXY. He meant to say ESXi but the spellchecker changed it. That would have been hilarious if it went through.

 

[lokiju]

I was IM'ing a reply to a friend but accidentally clicked on a co-workers window and typed something along the lines of...

"OMG STFU SQUEAL!!!!!"

He replies with something like "whats that all about?"

I was slightly embarrassed but he's someone I'm friendly enough with that I knew he'd not be bothered by it.

 

[TuxDave]

It still bothers me that my team uses the acronym STD for store data. I struggle to keep a straight face.

 

[lokiju]

It still bothers me that my team uses the acronym STD for store data. I struggle to keep a straight face.

That's funny, just today I sent a reply to someone and put STD as short for standard (in reference to what version of Server 2008 they wanted).

Right after I sent it I thought it was odd I never realized before that I was doing that for a long time.

 

[Kelvrick]

Resume at the local college campus during "career" day.

Had multiple misspellings on it, not just one and was an overall bad resume in terms of layout.

Had a "Travel Experience" section as filler. No, he wasn't in the foreign legion and traveled across the word or was a foreign exchange student with experience with other cultures. He had traveled to several states on the east coast. I forget exactly, but something like North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia.

He misspelled Virginia. He had recent travel experience to Vagina. Now, to play devil's advocate, I pointed out that spell check would not have caught that. Unfortunately, there were other spelling errors on his resume. As bad as that is, it would almost be worth it just to hang that over his head as a coworker.

 

[Fritzo]

Standard story on this subject:

There was a bug in Word '97 where the spell check replaced "pencil" with "penis". We had some really interesting office supply orders.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

A 350 lb woman who was entered into a computer system as "Fat Poster" instead of "Pat Foster".

 

[Zenmervolt]

Not mine, but I had a co-worker who was in the habit of signing his E-mails "Warmest regards".

I will never forget the day when half the office received an E-mail wishing us all, "Warmest retards".

ZV

 

[kranky]

I probably shared this story before. A customer was mad that we reassigned the lead programmer (Rob) on their project to another area, and the customer wrote an angry letter to our CEO about it. The CEO handed it off to the project manager, told him to put the programmer back on the project to mollify the customer, and let the customer know.

So the project manager wrote a very nice letter apologizing about the "misunderstanding" and how important the customer was to us, blah blah blah. He closed with this:

"And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know we have decided Rob will not be assigned to your project."

That sent the customer into a rage and they called the CEO and ranted and raved about the smart-ass letter from the project manager. CEO calls the project manager and asks if he's lost his mind. The project manager was mystified at what happened.

Because what the project manager meant to write was "And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know we have decided Rob will now be assigned to your project."

... will NOW be assigned.

The kind of typo spellcheck won't catch.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I probably shared this story before. A customer was mad that we reassigned the lead programmer (Rob) on their project to another area, and the customer wrote an angry letter to our CEO about it. The CEO handed it off to the project manager, told him to put the programmer back on the project to mollify the customer, and let the customer know.

So the project manager wrote a very nice letter apologizing about the "misunderstanding" and how important the customer was to us, blah blah blah. He closed with this:

"And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know we have decided Rob will not be assigned to your project."

That sent the customer into a rage and they called the CEO and ranted and raved about the smart-ass letter from the project manager. CEO calls the project manager and asks if he's lost his mind. The project manager was mystified at what happened.

Because what the project manager meant to write was "And I'm sure you'll be pleased to know we have decided Rob will now be assigned to your project."

... will NOW be assigned.

The kind of typo spellcheck won't catch.

Ouch lol! I've actually done that multiple times but I always catch myself a few words later, but one of these days I know I wont notice and it will be in an email to our crazy IT manager. He's insane, I don't know how he'd handle it, probably be fired on the spot depending on the context of the typo. (which I don't care, I'm a contractor ).

 

[Uppsala9496]

Instead of account, I have sent an email or two with accunt.

 

[Mackie2k]

I was in a meeting, where the meeting organzier said "OK, so I need to get you a business justification before you can do that work". "Ok, Tom owes Steve a BJ by Friday".

No one got it except myself and my boss. We literally started LOLing in the meeting and almost had to leave.

We had to explain to the guy what BJ meant because he was indian and had never heard the term before.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

I've seen tons but this thread reminds me of this

 

[Sluggo]

Not so much a typo, but you would be surprised at the number of people who think the stuff you fill minor gaps in construction work is spelled cock. :awe: