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Funniest typo you've made/seen at work?

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I was emailing my group about a project that was due, and apparently didn't spell 'regards' correctly. It went like this:

'Hey,

We weren't able to meet Tuesday, do you guys wanna meet on Friday afternoon to fix the end part of the project?

Retards,
- Paul
 
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lol. Have to think of one. I came very close once but I make it a habbit to proof read my messages ten times over before hitting send.
 
Alienwho said:
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.
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Way back in ye olden days I though LOL meant lots'o'laughs.
 
Regs said:
lol. Have to think of one. I came very close once but I make it a habbit to proof read my messages ten times over before hitting send.
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I can't really think of one myself either; I do read over my emails 3-4 times before sending them haha.

Not really a typo per-se, but this is the greatest email I've seen sent to our dev team :awe:
i AM SORRY MY FRIENDS I can not see any changes See attached this report have no chenged for last 3 days
In ticket was cutted bonuses (no tick on TBT box) - till engineers fully reported job and now I gave them bonus and trying to push ticket to the sysmem (no other changes in ticket!!!11 i did not unapproved tickets - only bonus
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"I am sorry to say that XXXXX has been canceled fro Feb 1 & 8... we will let you know when it is rescheduled.
Sorry for any incontinence,
XXXX
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Sorry for the what? inconvenience maybe? She was canceling a meeting. I emailed her back and said thanks for the laugh. She said she hit on the wrong word when spell check came up.
 
lol, I typed "twat" instead of test when sending a test email once in a customers apartment when I was setting up her roadrunner service. It took a lot of explaining to the old bag that the W and A keys are close to the E and S...
 
SpatiallyAware said:
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....
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I do this fairly frequently. I'm an attorney, and fairly frequently refer to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in briefs/motions that I write. Proofreading has helped me out on more than one occasion from plastering SEX all over a pleading filed with a court.


Kinda funny - a coworker here was late to a client meeting in NY. Her Blackberry doesn't have the full Qwerty keyboard - it's one of those auto-complete word models. She sends an email to the client, who is Austrian, that she will be there in a few minutes, she's downstairs in the "can." Apparently she typed c-a for cab but auto-complete saw it as "can." She was fairly mortified.
 
When I first started working here, my company had two websites, one HTML and one text. The HTML website was correct, but no one ever looked at the text website since we used HTML. One of our insurance agents pointed out the typo "Pubic Auto," which should've read "Public Auto."
 
A very dense friend of mine was attempting to get help desk jobs with no luck. I offered to spruce up his resume for him.

After reading his resume, I called him up.

"I have a question about your resume, Tom."

"What's up?"

"What flavor do you use?"

"What?" he asked.

"What flavor are you marinating your servers in?"

He meant to type "maintaining servers" on his resume but instead put "marinating servers."
 
I once had a client end an e-mail with this:

"I apologize for any incontinence."

Hey man, your incontinence is YOUR business, not mine!
 
Full Monty said:
I once had a client end an e-mail with this:

"I apologize for any incontinence."

Hey man, your incontinence is YOUR business, not mine!
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Stupid spell check...I did this one back in the day responding to an unexpected system outage...


was tying up the message fast, hit send, spell check came up for inconvenience and changed it to incontinence...

As I was hitting the 'OK' button I realized what my brain and done...

It took A LONG time to live that one down.
 
One of my coworkers a while back had to install wifi service at a very important client's home. The client was the CEO of the biggest company we do business with and had specific instructions on how he wanted it setup including the SSID. He wanted the SSID to be called "Terminator". The person installed it with the SSID being called "Ternanator". Lets just say the client wasn't too pleased because he though we made fun of his idol.
 
before leaving my job at a large cable company that will remain nameless (even if they change their name), i'd get work orders that looked as if they were entered by a chimp. the best was instead of "megahertz" or the more conventional "MHz" notes included "megahurts". i said "yeah, it mehgahurts, alright. goodbye"
 
My mother publishes the newspaper for our hometown and a few smaller surrounding towns

One week she published a story regarding how the organizers behind a city-wide seasonal event was going to be selling t-shits for $10

They won a press association blooper of the year for that one
 
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