If it makes you feel better…my old boss sent a contractor’s W-9 (paperwork with this dude’s name, address, social security number, and signature) out to a few hundred people on his email list. He meant to attach a different pdf.

Amazingly he didn’t get fired after that - he already had two strikes on his record and I was shocked this wasn’t number 3.

I consulted at a medium-size company (few thousand users) that had to do this because people we spamming the list to sell their Tupperware or other MLM schemes.

If your company makes you use outlook, maybe getting fired would be an improvement 😂

I did that one time, it wasnt major. I just hit reply all to the whole company wide email about taking the sexual harassment training saying I finished it. Was just supposed to tell HR.

Well everyone all day long kept telling me congrats and telling me way to go etc. Pretty funny.

Thanks this makes me feel better

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Guess what. Everyone masturbates. It's not a big deal. Move on.

Dude, seriously? When I lived with my family I was quiet as a horny librarian

Yikes

there are sometimes mails that start with all which has all the companies emails, might be that

Either that or someone did something very similar at one of the sister companies 🤷🏻‍♀️

Don't know if this would've helped in your situation, but I learned from someone how to set a rule in Outlook (not sure about other emails) so that all emails are held in the Outbox for 1 minute (or more). Gives you a small window to cancel if you have an 'oh shit' moment, has saved my bacon more than a few times!

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/recall-or-replace-an-email-message-that-you-sent-35027f88-d655-4554-b4f8-6c0729a723a0#:~:text=In%20Mail%2C%20in%20the%20Navigation,then%20click%20Recall%20This%20Message.

If a company doesn't have their distro lists locked down, then this kind of FU is on the company and not the individual. So dumb

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Too bad no one knew how to recall the email. I know there's a way but I don't know how. Hopefully the AH coworker was let go. Your's was an internal error, their's was done purposely.

How a small world that would be

See now that is scary...and probably someone who could do id theft

i was just reading that.that was a rollercoaster

Haha this is so funny! I think my husband works somewhere under the same parent company as you cuz he heard about this 🤣

Here

i don’t remember seeing this i have to look around.

Ouch!! At least you're manager was nice and understanding and forgiving!!!

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My dude I forwarded an email with my name, date of birth, ssn to a totally different company before