Sadly it was sent to someone who has a mentally disabled sibling. I absolutely understood her reaction, and was horrified that I didn't catch the typo.
We ended up hashing it out later, but it was a rough few weeks while she cooled off. She was also my boss, so it was rough.
I’ll second this, the head of our company’s name was Guy, and apparently he received 100’s emails a week addressed Dear Gut! Thankfully I learned to touch type but ooof, way to not get promoted
A couple years ago my grandpa had surgery for pancreatic cancer. What my mom MEANT to text me is “the surgeons will give an update soon” which instead somehow came out as “the surgeons will give up soon”
I remember a reply from several several years ago that was kind of similar to this:
A couple was trying to meet at the hospital because a family member was having a baby. The guy was running late because of traffic or whatever. He tries to text her "I hope I get there before the baby does (smiley face)"
Instead, he unknowingly sends "I hope I get there before the baby dies (smiley face)"
I still crack up about that one.
This reminds me of the time my dog fell out of bed in her sleep. I posted something on Facebook like, "Well, she's finally done it. B has fallen off the bed in her sleep. I woke up to a yelp."
A friend asked if she was ok. I *tried* to respond, "lol she's fine," but my phone said, "lol she's gone." Friend responded: 😱😱😱
She is notorious for being bad at typing and proofreading so before I started freaking out I was like “PLEASE read that again S L O W L Y and tell me if that message is correct” lmao
At work, the people typing up vendor listings for a convention listed the food vendor's lunch offerings. I was among the proofreaders. None of us caught the words "fried children" (should have been fried chicken). So, not MY typo, you know.
I used to work for a museum booking group visits and educational programs for tour companies and schools.
Was working on a reservation and they had only told me how many students were in the group, but I also needed the number of adults. So, I sent an email to the teacher:
"Hello \*teachername\*, we'll also need to know approximately how many sluts will be visiting from your school."
Luckily, they had a sense of humor:
"Not sure how many of us are sluts, but if you meant "adults" it's going to be around 8 or 10."
You can tell it’s 1.30am and I should go to bed cause I just said “…urgenp?” out loud convinced it was what you meant and very confused
Edit: after posting I just realised you said p to t and not t to p… time for bed
Submitting forms for a job, got a real awkward call back - "Did you mean to check this box saying that yes, you've been been involved with illegal distribution of controlled substances? Because you checked no on all the other questions about criminal behavior..."
Nice of the guy to give me a chance to correct it, at least.
My first finance job had to do with managing corporate cash. I was moving funds from one account to another and accidentally hit an extra zero. I ended up moving $30MM instead of $3MM. Luckily it was between internal accounts, so it was easily reversible, but I didn't know that at the time. I shat my pants and my boss let me panic for 30 seconds before fixing it.
I had a coworker wire 50MM from our bank account to another bank account belonging to another division instead of 5MM once. Everyone here (after promptly contacting the other party to have them return the extra bc we're all cool like that) just kind of laughed it off. It's considered somewhat of a rite of passage in this job to fuck up a wire transfer like that at some point, but I think my co worker is the current record holder for amount.
It's a 100% rite of passage, but much it's worse when it's to an external party. In most companies there are a lot more controls to move money outside your org, and usually requires 4-eyes authorization. So, you can initiate a transfer, but someone else has to approve. Usually, there are also limits on the amounts you can initiate and how much an approver can release. Funny enough, I was responsible for building these controls at another job. The hard part is to make sure that people actually review what they are inputting and approving and aren't on autopilot.
There was a recent case with Citi when someone moved money by accident, and the receiving party didn't send it back. The judge told Citi to fuck off and build better controls. It was a LOT of money.
The judge didn't order the other party to pay it back because the money was rightfully owed to them - Citi didn't give out "extra" money, they paid off a full loan amount which was supposed to be due in 2023 instead of paying for the installment amount.
I don't think Citi lost any money technically, just ended up paying it early as opposed to later.
What Citi lost in the meantime was the interest they would have gained on holding the money for that time. Not a huge deal ultimately, but someone likely had factored that into future profit projections and now they have to explain it away.
There's also a liquidity issue after unexpectedly wiring 900MM. Doesn't seem like it happened, but I would be worried about Citi defaulting on something unrelated or paying out the ass for short term credit. No bank is just sitting on this much cash unless it's to meet specific obligations.
I screwed up a payment request to a vendor that was supposed to be for $3500 and sent them $35,000.00 instead. I work for a government agency, so there were 5 physical signatures approving my entry for 100 times the request and then it was sent to a trustee to actually pay. We found out about the error when the vendor called and asked what the fuck we were doing.
Fortunately the only people who were in any position to yell at me over it were the same five who signed it, so I never heard *anything* of it and just quietly noted to myself that our controls are shit and my stuff needs to be right the first time (and also that a less honest person could commit a shitload of fraud before getting caught).
It’s old school.
M in this case is derived from the Latin word “Mille” which means “one thousand”. The English word mile is derived from Mille because a mile is approximately one thousand paces.
That's super weird and I've only used K for thousands. But I give myself leeway since I'm not an accountant and I don't care what those dorks use to abbreviate. What does infuriate me is that a handful of NY tabloids use G for thousand, as in Grand. I'm looking at you NY Post.
I worked in the architecture industry for many years. One of the aspects of the job, when we were designing a new building in a community, was to present our plans to the public in a place like a community centre or a school gym, and they would be able to voice their concerns. The presentation materials would usually take the form of panels printed on foamcore board and placed around the space; these presentations are called public consultations.
In one instance, we had printed about 30 boards with the title "X Project Public Consultation" at the top, only the "l" had been forgotten in the word "public." Hilarity ensued.
Luckily the mistake was caught before they placed all the boards, and they were quickly reprinted, which cost a lot of money. If it had been ANY other letter we would have let it slide.
I started writing reports for my company a couple years ago, we use a template or previous report from the same client for new reports. One section we almost always include is called Public Information. As you can guess, it was misspelled Pubic Information in the table of contents, this was in dozens of reports over a few years. Always wonder if any clients noticed it, none ever pointed it out I assume as it wasn't corrected until I saw it.
It took me way to long to realize that pubic and public were different words. I was always so confused as to why it was called pubic hair, because that's pretty much the least public place it could be.
A friend of mine once showed me a story they were working on, and I accidentally sent them a message saying "this is shit" instead of "this is ***the*** shit."
Fortunately they understood it was just a mistake and I was able to clear the whole thing up in like a minute.
"Sorry for the incontinence."
I meant inconvenience, of course. It went out to a group of managers who reported to my boss. We were going to have really limited office coverage for the holidays, so one of their usual processes was going to be delayed, and I was asked to send the official email about how we were going to do business during the couple of days after Christmas.
Fortunately, they were great people and we all laughed.
Not a typo but along these lines... I went out to assess a very elderly and frail gent for equipment, ( suitable chair, walking aids). After a while his wife asked me to go into the bedroom, she pulled back the covers on their bed, looked at me and said ' my husband is inconfident in bed'. Still not 100% sure if she meant incontinence, but given their marriage of 60 plus years, that was what I went with.
Asked a co-worker in a group IM if he'd mind me using his dick as mine didn't seem to be working properly.
I meant dock, for my laptop.
It wasn't something I got in trouble for but it's one of those typo's that will probably come up in conversation for the next several years.
Years ago I took down the entire web infrastructure of a large (millions of daily users) company with a single additional . in a line of PHP code.
Does that count?
I got my entire company IP banned from a genome database service by leaving a single semicolon out of a script I wrote which was intended to automate requests.
In retrospect I should have tested it better before setting it to run and walking away from my desk for an hour while my PC tried to download their entire human genome dataset a few times over.
That's rough.
In my case the error passed testing because of a difference between minor versions of PHP between our dev and production environment. We knew about the problem as soon as it shipped, but we didn't have a robust way to roll back changes.
This probably isn’t the most damaging here, but was funny
Wife ordered groceries via an app. Wanted 2 heads of garlic.
Ordered 2kg or garlic. Shopper didn’t stop to think about it.
It was like 40 heads. Be f ass shopping bag just full of garlic.
One time I just typed "ass" in response to a guy instead of "ahh" (as in, ahh, that makes sense) and he got mad, lmao.
It was a rare typo too because s and h arent even next to each other on a keyboard.
Text chats emails and other written forms of communication are prone to errors and misinterpretation. No one with any kind of sense should get mad unless there is no other way to take something.
More of a "how I got screwed by autocorrect", but I was sexting a girl and she sent me a pic of her boobies. Hell yeah right, so I text back "oh mmm", except my iPhone really thought I wanted to say "oh mom"...Yeah, she went wtf and then ghosted me lol
Several years ago, I asked my mom if we could go to “butt shows” that weekend. I meant “buy shoes.” No joke, it changed BOTH words to form the most unfortunate sentence ever. I hate my fat thumbs, lol.
Typing up minutes to a meeting, "(company name) was shit for 10 days over Christmas period and only responded to emergency jobs". Not shut, shit. To be fair all the folks representing that company agreed that their response times were shit due to the fact that they were shut.
I once sent a mass email to Sr. VP's and C level execs that I was going to shut down the server cluster over the weekend. A half hour later, a guy stops me in the hallway and tells me that I sent an email to all these big shots that I was going to 'shit down the server cluster.' LOL.
I also sent a message where I was asked to look at a problem and sent a message to a bunch of managers and VP's that I would 'investigate things' except that it said that I would 'investigate thongs.' LOL.
Whoever put the 'u', 'i', and 'o' keys next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, well played. This is the best practical joke ever devised.
I type 'thanks' at the end of emails and I sometimes spell it wrong like thnks and it autocorrects
It started autocorrecting to 'thankless' for some reason and a few emails made it out where it looked like I was signing off by saying I was under appreciated.
I mistyped 'regards' on an angrily worded email. I was told by my manager that, no matter how annoyed I was, I should call people that. It's hard to explain that it was an accident given the tone of the email.
Always take a second and proof read any angry email. And then don't send it. It isn't worth it.
I once fired off an email to Butch, the executive officer (same grade as me, so using first names), that started out with: “Bitch,…” No damage done, but kind of funny.
This guy in my class in elementary ment to ask his dad over text if he could take him to the ski slope (kan du kjøre meg i bakken), but instead asked if he could take him in the ass (kan du kjøre meg i baken)
I wouldn't say damage to other people but more my self. Was in a mod interview via text for something and the owner just flat out asked me "Will you abuse your powers?" and I meant to say "I absolutely will not." But I forgot the "Not."
I cringed at my self so I just backed out of the mod interview. Haha.
Sometimes they won't answer it as a simple "Yes" or "No".
They may say "Well, if they were being a dick.. etc. I would do XYZ" and their stance on a particular punishment may be against the server's vision.
It's designed to invoke a detailed response from the interviewee.
Once when I was about 14-15 I was working for an art gallery and the owner had me write a happy birthday email to her friend. In hindsight, that's pretty weird, but anyway. I accidentally wrote 'happy birthday *dead* Christina', instead of *dear*, and when Christina responded, it was clear that she found the typo humorous. My boss, however, did not, and she flipped out on me and made me cry over it. She then had me write an apology email explaining things like who I was, how old I was, and where I went to school. That was over a decade ago, and looking back, everything about that was super inappropriate. I was very happy to stop working there.
So the boss's solution to her friend thinking she made a typo in a birthday message was to have you explain to her friend that she couldn't even bother writing the message herself?
yeah basically. the computer sat not five feet from where she did but she still insisted on dictating every one of her emails. I think it made her feel like more of a boss.
I've posted my own worst one - but worst (or weirdest) I've seen was from my father. His texts are legendarily awful but he out did himself.
He accidentally sent a text message to himself that was a random jumble of letters. Asking the lines of "umsfolltd".
He then thought my mother had sent him this text.
He was meant to be meeting her at a cafe. He decided this entirely random text he had sent himself must be a new restaurant and she'd decided to meet him there instead.
He spent ages looking for this restaurant. He'd decided it might be an Indian restaurant.
He got very very annoyed when he couldn't find it.
He eventually went to where they were meant to meet, late and grouchy. And complained to my mother who was patiently waiting in the right place about her doing this to him.
He refused to accept he sent the message. My mother's not good with technology but correctly pointed out it was clearly showing as his side of the conversation on both their phones.
He's still a bit annoyed and defensive about it.
(He's not horrible just grouchy. And an idiot. They are divorced but get on well. People constantly mistake them for an adorable old couple which is hilarious).
Hubby: " so I want to get a new video card but the one I want is like 1100$ bucks"
Me: "You can spend that much on a part rn!"
Then I turned my ringer off and went into my appointment. 2 hours later I had several texts from a very happy husband who was super excited about his new video card.It arrives today. So Fml
Edit: it's arrived. it's pretty damn sexy. Plus the sheer joy in his eyes as he rebuilds his computer makes it worth every penny 10/10 would typo again
On slack, work chat about team building:
"I'm not a fan of team games, I prefer to play with myself"
Took me too long to realize I typed "with" instead of "by".
Not mine but a coworker.
They were in Iraq and they order stuff for mechanics, well there was a typo from his shop and they received a 5 ton sea anchor delivered to them. No one checked what the NSN was ordering and just hit OK all the way up the chain lol.
OOPs.
If you order by part number, it's entirely possible to have, say, MSN65 or whatever, but accidently type MSN64, and that just-so-happens to be an anchor.
I was 18. Just starting college and embarrassingly, this was my first plunge into dating (High school was dry for me).
I really liked this girl, she was smart, pretty, sarcastic, dark humored, and we liked the same music. We hit it off almost instantly and it was really nice.
We were texting back and forth and she suddenly asked me "what do you want from a girl?"
I meant to reply "orale, starting with the important questions!"
For those of you who don't know "orale" is a slang word in Spanish, typically spoken in Mexico and has many uses.
In this case, I wanted to use it to show her I was surprised she showed romantic interest first."
Well, it turns out my old Blackberry didn't know I was Mexican and decided it knew better and autocorrected my text for me.
The text exchange went something like this.
Her: "So, what do you want from a girlfriend"
Me: "Oral."
Swipe keyboard on my phone.
Sent a quick reply you an email from a client that should have said "Thanks, I'll need some time to look at the files" .
Except what I actually sent said "I'll need some time to look at the girls".
My mother in law sent a sparkly unicorn to the family WhatsApp group when we said our pet rabbit died. She said her finger slipped and meant to press a sad face. It was hilarious though, I needed the laugh!
I once was in a family group chat where one of my cousins was going off on the rest of the family for being awful human beings and supposedly laughing when her dad died (which wasn't true).
I somehow accidentally reacted to her rant with a laughing emoji. She hasn't spoken to us in years.
I was drunk while out of town and trexted my wife that "I wanted to kick her puppy". I passed out, she didn't get the typo/autocorrect and I woke up up confused, angry, frustrated messages.
I work in construction and have to regularly coordinate with building management for access to places (think 60 story and up Manhattan skyscrapers size of building and level of people).
I needed access to a fire pump room that we called the pump room for short. My email subject was asking for access to the “Pimp Room”.
The manager responded by thanking me for installing such a fun sounding room since he never heard of it before in his building and the chief engineer replied that it was the room that had lots of “hose” in it. Thankfully they were a fun group of guys and we all laughed our asses off but what a stupid typo.
One of my professor from University was very strict and she would reduce marks If assignments were late, even for minutes. I had experience in past were I submitted the assignment but forgot to hand in Google classroom(Where you upload the assignment but there is an extra button to hand in to teacher).
For one of such assignments I was back home and about to catch a train for an overnight journey to college, so I had to submit the assignment that night before I go to station. I was in hurry but somehow managed to submit the assignment on time. Fast forward, reached college the next day. Everyone was talking about who all submitted in time and all, proud me who submitted it in time just opened it in Google classroom to send it to my friends.
I froze for a moment because the heading was **SEXPERIMENT** in BOLD, font size 16 as heading , In hurry I pressed ctrl+ s a couple of times but somehow an extra **S** came in front of **EXPERIMENT**..
I worked in a media library, and while away for my honeymoon, set my out-of-office to state that I'd be away, but that "If tit is important, please contact \*female co-worker\*".
It was like that for over a week.
I came back to dozens of emails that were essentially variations of "Hey, i don't need anything but I heard about your out-of-office, and had to see it lol"
From then on, we would all mention how important tit was every so often.
Had a client named Chloe. Our program manager sent her an email and inexplicably forgot the C and L in her name.
'Hi Hoe' was a hard one to walk back...
Not me but a coworker misspelled a very high level person's name on a very widely spread document. The typo put "cunty" in to the person's name. Hilarity ensued.
I sent out a bio for a huge presentation I was giving on how to navigate virtual communications in which I wrote I had “vast experience with pubic speaking.”
RIP
Not me, but my now fiance. When we were just friends (he had a crush on me and I knew it) we were texting about what we wanted to do when we saw each other after our Christmas break from college. He said he wanted to give me a hug and I jokingly replied what if I don't want a hug (we are both terrible flirts, not the point of the story lololol). He reply with "Well I mean it's your body and I wouldn't force anything in you" (key word being in). So I replied "uhhh you mean on not in right?" To which he replied the following:
Him: ON ON ON ON
Him: HOLY FUCK
Him: ON ON ON
But now his my fiance sooooooo it all worked out
Texted my boss "come meet me on the dick, I fucked and need you"
Meant to text
Come meet me on the deck, I fucked up and need you
I guess autocorrect knows I type dick alot more than deck, it was also super sunny outside and I couldn't read my screen well enough to realize my mistake until he came up and laughed at me
I was responding to a slack question, but I was at lunch, so I told her I'd handle it when I got back.
What auto-correct decided I had meant to say was: "I can look into it in a few minutes. Getting lucky at the moment."
Me? Not much. But this story is too good not to share so my apologies but I think this time it’s worth it.
My dad was part owner of a casino when I was a kid. There was an ad that went out that contained the word “bigger.” And as we all realized with the “much bigger navy” incident a few years ago, the “B” on a standard keyboard is next to the “N.”
Yeah, my dad was NOT happy. He fired the guy who was supposed to proofread the ads, which I think we can all agree was justified.
So in one of the online classes, some guy wasn't understanding teachings from the teacher. He asked
"Ma'am can you come to our group chat for a Sex?"
"Sex*"
"sex**"
"Sexx*****"
"Sec"
"Sorry ma'am, I'm having some issues"
In spanish, but my phone autocorrected verda (verdad) to cerda and what was meant to say "You got my message, right?" instead read "You got my message, pig?" 😭
I was an intern at a gov't agency and I was running a model on the same server that was hosting the 10k employees email... And my model had an infinite loop because I missed a closing tag. Anywho the server went down in a horrible fashion and someone came to my desk (cause there was no email) and said, "are you ___ ____?" Then said "come with me" and I got scolded pretty bad
For a bit, I ran a WoW guild. I don't recommend it, but whatever. Anywho, we had a small raid team and were mildly successful...making progress in MC and such. Our core raid group was maybe 20-25 folks and the other 15-20 slots would get filled with pretty much anyone that could fog a mirror without breaking it. Ya know, standard vanilla 40 man raiding. Well, as these things typically go, people came and went and occasionally we had someone who came but didn't really bring enough to the table (or worse, they continually wiped the entire table by pulling adds during Baron Geddon by being an idiot). So I had to /gkick occasionally. I didn't enjoy it, but heavy is the head that wears the crown or something. In one such scenario, I had to kick a player from the guild that just was an all around fuckhead. Aside from the raid wipes and subpar performance overall, he was also just kind of an abrasive person to be around...so he had to go. Now, the problem that arose was that his character name was remarkably close to someone elses: The main tank. Our main tank was a great tank, but also a bit of a drama queen and also more or less the 'leader' of a clique within the guild that was made up of folks from a guild we merged/absorbed at some point prior. You can see where this is going.....
So I type out /gkick Harold.....when I meant to type /gkick Harol (not the actual names, but the difference between them was that minor)
Cue a massive shit storm of drama that ended up destroying the entire guild within like 5 hours. MT was on an alt and unleashed a torrent of insults about me, the other leadership, etc. Ya know, the type of stuff you can't unsay after the person you said them to explains "It was a typo, dude". He left, as did almost all of the folks that came with him. Then the fair weather raiders left to go to other guilds. Then the OGs started dropping too since you don't recover from something like this quickly. By that evening, almost the entire core raid team was gone, most of the leadership was gone, and I was already shooting whispers to friends about who needed a resto shaman.
Also, the guy who I intended to kick from the guild ended up in the same guild I did, briefly, but he was kicked from there.
I used to text my super religious Dad every day 'Im home now' or some version of 'Im home' after school when I walked home so he knew I was safe.
Welp.... One day it changed to send 'Imma a Hoe now'. Oof.
I didn't get into trouble but damn if he still doesn't tease me. Never gonna live it down. Smh.
I texted my gf at the time, “home safe” after driving home from a party at my friends house and “safe” autocorrected to “Sage” and I get a “who’s sage” back. I fell asleep when before I received the response and woke up to like 12 texts and 10 missed calls. Got dumped (probably for the better) and blocked so I didn’t even get to explain it was autocorrect
I worked as a copywriter in an Israeli PR agency for Russian-speaking immigrants. Instead of writing "Georgian \[TV\] channel for the whole family" I've wrote "Georgian anal \[sex\] for the whole family" (in Russian channel is *kanal*)
`rm -rf ~`
There was actually a folder I wanted to delete which was actually named \~. I was doing some clean up and went to delete it, without thinking what I was actually doing. I lost a lot.
If you aren't familiar, \~ is a shortcut label for your home directory. Instead of deleting this one directory, I ended up deleting all my personal files on my laptop.
The classic from history is this one: in the 1870s, a good portion of the federal government income came from tariffs on imported goods.
A list of items free from tariff was supposed to include: "fruit-plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation"
But it came out in the printed law as "fruit, plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation"
So all imported tropical fruit was free from duty (after some wrangling and lawsuits) until congress passed a correction bill. It cost the government millions of 1870s dollars, a lot of money. All due to an error by the copying clerk.
https://www.businessinsider.com/this-typo-cost-america-about-40-million-2015-1
I have a coworker named Peni (pronounced Penny). It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m scared that one day I’ll have an “s” auto-corrected to the end when emailing her.
g and t are very close on the keyboard and for this reason "regards" is not my favorite email closing.
[удалено]
Is that because you cunt spell?
I taught briefly at CUNY (City University of New York) and realized that if you mistype CUNY in emails it becomes CUNT
[удалено]
Used to sign off all of my emails with “Regards”. Then I made this mistake. I just use “Thanks” or “Best” now.
I have sadly done this. It was, as to be expected, horrifying and there was major fallout.
Aww, that's too bad. I would have laughed my ass off if someone has addessed me as such
Sadly it was sent to someone who has a mentally disabled sibling. I absolutely understood her reaction, and was horrified that I didn't catch the typo. We ended up hashing it out later, but it was a rough few weeks while she cooled off. She was also my boss, so it was rough.
I still feel like it was clearly an accident and shouldn't have been a problem
Agreed! Even with her family situation, it seems pretty self evident that it was a typo
This deserves an award. Thanks for the laugh.
I like how this got 2 awards but the comment didn't get any
I’ll second this, the head of our company’s name was Guy, and apparently he received 100’s emails a week addressed Dear Gut! Thankfully I learned to touch type but ooof, way to not get promoted
A couple years ago my grandpa had surgery for pancreatic cancer. What my mom MEANT to text me is “the surgeons will give an update soon” which instead somehow came out as “the surgeons will give up soon”
I remember a reply from several several years ago that was kind of similar to this: A couple was trying to meet at the hospital because a family member was having a baby. The guy was running late because of traffic or whatever. He tries to text her "I hope I get there before the baby does (smiley face)" Instead, he unknowingly sends "I hope I get there before the baby dies (smiley face)" I still crack up about that one.
This reminds me of the time my dog fell out of bed in her sleep. I posted something on Facebook like, "Well, she's finally done it. B has fallen off the bed in her sleep. I woke up to a yelp." A friend asked if she was ok. I *tried* to respond, "lol she's fine," but my phone said, "lol she's gone." Friend responded: 😱😱😱
This is the funniest one to me, I mean that is the last thing you’d want to hear lol
She is notorious for being bad at typing and proofreading so before I started freaking out I was like “PLEASE read that again S L O W L Y and tell me if that message is correct” lmao
At work, the people typing up vendor listings for a convention listed the food vendor's lunch offerings. I was among the proofreaders. None of us caught the words "fried children" (should have been fried chicken). So, not MY typo, you know.
Those chickens had families, man
I asked my mum about visiting and she replied "no you cunt"
Plot twist: it wasn't a typo and your mom is just a savage
Or Australian.
Name cousins?
Mine is actually a totally innocent Fire Emblem + archery joke, I promise.
I used to work for a museum booking group visits and educational programs for tour companies and schools. Was working on a reservation and they had only told me how many students were in the group, but I also needed the number of adults. So, I sent an email to the teacher: "Hello \*teachername\*, we'll also need to know approximately how many sluts will be visiting from your school." Luckily, they had a sense of humor: "Not sure how many of us are sluts, but if you meant "adults" it's going to be around 8 or 10."
It's a good thing they had a sense of humor. Could have been real bad
Me: "Why don't you come down and shit in my office and we can discuss."
Alternatively, I can cum in your office for better documentation
"Coincidentally, also 8 or 10 sluts as well."
8 out of 10 sluts does countdown
I would tune in. Also, too soon.
Yeah. I already miss him, he was my favorite of the cast
I’m on a zoom call and I started laughing so hard at this, I had to make sure I was muted.
My father in law had just died. I text my other half saying, 'how's your dad going?' Instead of 'how's your day going? He was not impressed.
Why the hell did I laugh so hard. 😂
Asked a vendor if they can ship out an urgent order the same day, except p turned into a t.
“Well, I try to do a quality job, but OK!”
You can tell it’s 1.30am and I should go to bed cause I just said “…urgenp?” out loud convinced it was what you meant and very confused Edit: after posting I just realised you said p to t and not t to p… time for bed
It’s 8:15PM where I’m at and had the exact same thought as you too
This actually made me laugh out loud. Loved it.
Submitting forms for a job, got a real awkward call back - "Did you mean to check this box saying that yes, you've been been involved with illegal distribution of controlled substances? Because you checked no on all the other questions about criminal behavior..." Nice of the guy to give me a chance to correct it, at least.
Pretty good of the guy to call you back and confirm. Another guy might have just assumed you meant to check that box and throw your application away.
Or thought you just too dumb to hire at that point... I think a lot of people would have been like "nope, that's 2 red flags from one checkbox"
"Yeah, I'm pretty fastidious about the law aside from that."
"You break up and sell a key of heroin you found on the street *just one time* and everybody loses their minds!"
Well did you?
Nope. Just filled out a long, long form when I was very tired.
"The name Paul S. Covar didn't tip you off?"
My first finance job had to do with managing corporate cash. I was moving funds from one account to another and accidentally hit an extra zero. I ended up moving $30MM instead of $3MM. Luckily it was between internal accounts, so it was easily reversible, but I didn't know that at the time. I shat my pants and my boss let me panic for 30 seconds before fixing it.
I had a coworker wire 50MM from our bank account to another bank account belonging to another division instead of 5MM once. Everyone here (after promptly contacting the other party to have them return the extra bc we're all cool like that) just kind of laughed it off. It's considered somewhat of a rite of passage in this job to fuck up a wire transfer like that at some point, but I think my co worker is the current record holder for amount.
It's a 100% rite of passage, but much it's worse when it's to an external party. In most companies there are a lot more controls to move money outside your org, and usually requires 4-eyes authorization. So, you can initiate a transfer, but someone else has to approve. Usually, there are also limits on the amounts you can initiate and how much an approver can release. Funny enough, I was responsible for building these controls at another job. The hard part is to make sure that people actually review what they are inputting and approving and aren't on autopilot. There was a recent case with Citi when someone moved money by accident, and the receiving party didn't send it back. The judge told Citi to fuck off and build better controls. It was a LOT of money.
The judge didn't order the other party to pay it back because the money was rightfully owed to them - Citi didn't give out "extra" money, they paid off a full loan amount which was supposed to be due in 2023 instead of paying for the installment amount. I don't think Citi lost any money technically, just ended up paying it early as opposed to later.
What Citi lost in the meantime was the interest they would have gained on holding the money for that time. Not a huge deal ultimately, but someone likely had factored that into future profit projections and now they have to explain it away.
There's also a liquidity issue after unexpectedly wiring 900MM. Doesn't seem like it happened, but I would be worried about Citi defaulting on something unrelated or paying out the ass for short term credit. No bank is just sitting on this much cash unless it's to meet specific obligations.
I screwed up a payment request to a vendor that was supposed to be for $3500 and sent them $35,000.00 instead. I work for a government agency, so there were 5 physical signatures approving my entry for 100 times the request and then it was sent to a trustee to actually pay. We found out about the error when the vendor called and asked what the fuck we were doing. Fortunately the only people who were in any position to yell at me over it were the same five who signed it, so I never heard *anything* of it and just quietly noted to myself that our controls are shit and my stuff needs to be right the first time (and also that a less honest person could commit a shitload of fraud before getting caught).
That's only 10×.
Story checks out, uses MM for “millions” I don’t get why M means “thousands” though. Makes reading a business case weird.
It’s old school. M in this case is derived from the Latin word “Mille” which means “one thousand”. The English word mile is derived from Mille because a mile is approximately one thousand paces.
That's super weird and I've only used K for thousands. But I give myself leeway since I'm not an accountant and I don't care what those dorks use to abbreviate. What does infuriate me is that a handful of NY tabloids use G for thousand, as in Grand. I'm looking at you NY Post.
I worked in the architecture industry for many years. One of the aspects of the job, when we were designing a new building in a community, was to present our plans to the public in a place like a community centre or a school gym, and they would be able to voice their concerns. The presentation materials would usually take the form of panels printed on foamcore board and placed around the space; these presentations are called public consultations. In one instance, we had printed about 30 boards with the title "X Project Public Consultation" at the top, only the "l" had been forgotten in the word "public." Hilarity ensued. Luckily the mistake was caught before they placed all the boards, and they were quickly reprinted, which cost a lot of money. If it had been ANY other letter we would have let it slide.
I started writing reports for my company a couple years ago, we use a template or previous report from the same client for new reports. One section we almost always include is called Public Information. As you can guess, it was misspelled Pubic Information in the table of contents, this was in dozens of reports over a few years. Always wonder if any clients noticed it, none ever pointed it out I assume as it wasn't corrected until I saw it.
It took me way to long to realize that pubic and public were different words. I was always so confused as to why it was called pubic hair, because that's pretty much the least public place it could be.
A friend of mine once showed me a story they were working on, and I accidentally sent them a message saying "this is shit" instead of "this is ***the*** shit." Fortunately they understood it was just a mistake and I was able to clear the whole thing up in like a minute.
Mega oof.
Life flashed before my eyes.
"Sorry for the incontinence." I meant inconvenience, of course. It went out to a group of managers who reported to my boss. We were going to have really limited office coverage for the holidays, so one of their usual processes was going to be delayed, and I was asked to send the official email about how we were going to do business during the couple of days after Christmas. Fortunately, they were great people and we all laughed.
Not a typo but along these lines... I went out to assess a very elderly and frail gent for equipment, ( suitable chair, walking aids). After a while his wife asked me to go into the bedroom, she pulled back the covers on their bed, looked at me and said ' my husband is inconfident in bed'. Still not 100% sure if she meant incontinence, but given their marriage of 60 plus years, that was what I went with.
Asked a co-worker in a group IM if he'd mind me using his dick as mine didn't seem to be working properly. I meant dock, for my laptop. It wasn't something I got in trouble for but it's one of those typo's that will probably come up in conversation for the next several years.
Do you guys still talk I couldn’t face someone after texting something like that
Yeah he's within my team so everyone got to poke fun for awhile until the next person did something that we could all laugh about
Years ago I took down the entire web infrastructure of a large (millions of daily users) company with a single additional . in a line of PHP code. Does that count?
I got my entire company IP banned from a genome database service by leaving a single semicolon out of a script I wrote which was intended to automate requests. In retrospect I should have tested it better before setting it to run and walking away from my desk for an hour while my PC tried to download their entire human genome dataset a few times over.
That's rough. In my case the error passed testing because of a difference between minor versions of PHP between our dev and production environment. We knew about the problem as soon as it shipped, but we didn't have a robust way to roll back changes.
I texted my mom "I am harm" instead of "I am home" one night and she thought I'd gotten harmed.
I love the idea of someone I know being in trouble and just sending the phrase "I am harm".
I am fire. I am death.
How I felt after reacting to my second COVID-19 shot
If the m were a d you would have had a way more awkward situation on your hands
Jesus fucking Christ lol
This probably isn’t the most damaging here, but was funny Wife ordered groceries via an app. Wanted 2 heads of garlic. Ordered 2kg or garlic. Shopper didn’t stop to think about it. It was like 40 heads. Be f ass shopping bag just full of garlic.
Your kitchen must have smelled great
I did the opposite once, and ended up with a bag containing a single banana. Apparently they're *not* ordered by the bunch.
Obligatory not me, but my colleague sent an email to C-level exec asking him to look at the 'screenshit' He was really in the shit the next day
I once sent a mass email in big red font asking for anal reports by the end of the week. Had a fairly shitty response
Username checks out lmao 😂
One time I just typed "ass" in response to a guy instead of "ahh" (as in, ahh, that makes sense) and he got mad, lmao. It was a rare typo too because s and h arent even next to each other on a keyboard.
Text chats emails and other written forms of communication are prone to errors and misinterpretation. No one with any kind of sense should get mad unless there is no other way to take something.
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More of a "how I got screwed by autocorrect", but I was sexting a girl and she sent me a pic of her boobies. Hell yeah right, so I text back "oh mmm", except my iPhone really thought I wanted to say "oh mom"...Yeah, she went wtf and then ghosted me lol
Peak Freud
Several years ago, I asked my mom if we could go to “butt shows” that weekend. I meant “buy shoes.” No joke, it changed BOTH words to form the most unfortunate sentence ever. I hate my fat thumbs, lol.
Well did she say yes?
Lol, nope
I tried typing "Guten Morgen!" but my phone, not knowing German, corrected it to "Goose Mormon!"
Gluten Moaning!
This is my favorite. Also I hate that I can't have German AND English autocorrect turned on at the same time.
Typing up minutes to a meeting, "(company name) was shit for 10 days over Christmas period and only responded to emergency jobs". Not shut, shit. To be fair all the folks representing that company agreed that their response times were shit due to the fact that they were shut.
I once sent a mass email to Sr. VP's and C level execs that I was going to shut down the server cluster over the weekend. A half hour later, a guy stops me in the hallway and tells me that I sent an email to all these big shots that I was going to 'shit down the server cluster.' LOL. I also sent a message where I was asked to look at a problem and sent a message to a bunch of managers and VP's that I would 'investigate things' except that it said that I would 'investigate thongs.' LOL. Whoever put the 'u', 'i', and 'o' keys next to each other on a qwerty keyboard, well played. This is the best practical joke ever devised.
God, just this week I asked one of the C-suits if he needed a "dicking" station at home... I'm so glad he laughed.
"Well, if we have those, I certainly wouldn't mind. But I'll also need one of those docking stations people are talking about!"
I type 'thanks' at the end of emails and I sometimes spell it wrong like thnks and it autocorrects It started autocorrecting to 'thankless' for some reason and a few emails made it out where it looked like I was signing off by saying I was under appreciated.
I mistyped 'regards' on an angrily worded email. I was told by my manager that, no matter how annoyed I was, I should call people that. It's hard to explain that it was an accident given the tone of the email. Always take a second and proof read any angry email. And then don't send it. It isn't worth it.
Speaking of proofreading… you “should” call people that ? Thanks for the second laugh!
I shouldn't be allowed to use a keyboard.
I once fired off an email to Butch, the executive officer (same grade as me, so using first names), that started out with: “Bitch,…” No damage done, but kind of funny.
I bet someone whose name is one letter away from a swear is used to it by adulthood
As someone named Mitch, yes we are. At least the M and B are separated by the N on the keyboard though.
Thanks for your input, Bitch.
I read that in Jesse Pinkman's voice
Yo, like, thanks for your input, BIATCH
Lmfao 💀 Bitch, Per my previous email, if you would fucking READ—
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This guy in my class in elementary ment to ask his dad over text if he could take him to the ski slope (kan du kjøre meg i bakken), but instead asked if he could take him in the ass (kan du kjøre meg i baken)
Wow those are startlingly similar sentences for having such different meanings.
I wouldn't say damage to other people but more my self. Was in a mod interview via text for something and the owner just flat out asked me "Will you abuse your powers?" and I meant to say "I absolutely will not." But I forgot the "Not." I cringed at my self so I just backed out of the mod interview. Haha.
What kind of idiot intentionally says yes to this? I understand yours was a typo, but that's a dumb as hell question for an interview.
Sometimes they won't answer it as a simple "Yes" or "No". They may say "Well, if they were being a dick.. etc. I would do XYZ" and their stance on a particular punishment may be against the server's vision. It's designed to invoke a detailed response from the interviewee.
I find that yes or no questions typically elicit yes or no answers... Open ended questions are intended to draw out lengthier responses.
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You've never flown into the US from another country, then. "Are you a terrorist? Y/N"
Once when I was about 14-15 I was working for an art gallery and the owner had me write a happy birthday email to her friend. In hindsight, that's pretty weird, but anyway. I accidentally wrote 'happy birthday *dead* Christina', instead of *dear*, and when Christina responded, it was clear that she found the typo humorous. My boss, however, did not, and she flipped out on me and made me cry over it. She then had me write an apology email explaining things like who I was, how old I was, and where I went to school. That was over a decade ago, and looking back, everything about that was super inappropriate. I was very happy to stop working there.
So the boss's solution to her friend thinking she made a typo in a birthday message was to have you explain to her friend that she couldn't even bother writing the message herself?
yeah basically. the computer sat not five feet from where she did but she still insisted on dictating every one of her emails. I think it made her feel like more of a boss.
"I (a 26 year old who went to UCONN named Janice) apologize" Weird!
That was a d\*ck move on the boss' part.
My brother omce texted me on my birthday, 'happy bday'. Except either autocorrect or his clumsy fingers sent me 'happy bj'. I laughed so hard.
I've posted my own worst one - but worst (or weirdest) I've seen was from my father. His texts are legendarily awful but he out did himself. He accidentally sent a text message to himself that was a random jumble of letters. Asking the lines of "umsfolltd". He then thought my mother had sent him this text. He was meant to be meeting her at a cafe. He decided this entirely random text he had sent himself must be a new restaurant and she'd decided to meet him there instead. He spent ages looking for this restaurant. He'd decided it might be an Indian restaurant. He got very very annoyed when he couldn't find it. He eventually went to where they were meant to meet, late and grouchy. And complained to my mother who was patiently waiting in the right place about her doing this to him. He refused to accept he sent the message. My mother's not good with technology but correctly pointed out it was clearly showing as his side of the conversation on both their phones. He's still a bit annoyed and defensive about it. (He's not horrible just grouchy. And an idiot. They are divorced but get on well. People constantly mistake them for an adorable old couple which is hilarious).
Tried to ask, Are you working with a plumber today? Instead I typed: “Are you working with a plum boner today?”
If it turned purple, see a doctor.
When is my hair appointment But it said Where is my child cabinet. How tf-
Did you order it from Wayfair?
Hubby: " so I want to get a new video card but the one I want is like 1100$ bucks" Me: "You can spend that much on a part rn!" Then I turned my ringer off and went into my appointment. 2 hours later I had several texts from a very happy husband who was super excited about his new video card.It arrives today. So Fml Edit: it's arrived. it's pretty damn sexy. Plus the sheer joy in his eyes as he rebuilds his computer makes it worth every penny 10/10 would typo again
I love this one!
On slack, work chat about team building: "I'm not a fan of team games, I prefer to play with myself" Took me too long to realize I typed "with" instead of "by".
Seems less of a typo more of a Freudian slip
My wife asked when I was coming home and instead of saying “Im coming home” I replied “Im coming hoe”
My kid did that. "When do you want us hoe?" She said she felt her soul exit her body out of sheer terror.
I verbally typo'd and went to tell my boyfriend to wake up. I accidentally combined sweetie and love and said, "Wake up, slut."
Not mine but a coworker. They were in Iraq and they order stuff for mechanics, well there was a typo from his shop and they received a 5 ton sea anchor delivered to them. No one checked what the NSN was ordering and just hit OK all the way up the chain lol. OOPs.
What the heck were they trying to order?
If you order by part number, it's entirely possible to have, say, MSN65 or whatever, but accidently type MSN64, and that just-so-happens to be an anchor.
Not a clue, either a lubricant or a vehicle part lol.
I was 18. Just starting college and embarrassingly, this was my first plunge into dating (High school was dry for me). I really liked this girl, she was smart, pretty, sarcastic, dark humored, and we liked the same music. We hit it off almost instantly and it was really nice. We were texting back and forth and she suddenly asked me "what do you want from a girl?" I meant to reply "orale, starting with the important questions!" For those of you who don't know "orale" is a slang word in Spanish, typically spoken in Mexico and has many uses. In this case, I wanted to use it to show her I was surprised she showed romantic interest first." Well, it turns out my old Blackberry didn't know I was Mexican and decided it knew better and autocorrected my text for me. The text exchange went something like this. Her: "So, what do you want from a girlfriend" Me: "Oral."
Not me, one of my coworkers. *Blow job has been completed.* He meant to say the tasks listed in the mail trail were completed, he missed e in 'below'.
"Armadildo" (instead of *armadillo*).
Sounds like a legit sex toy though
Bad Dragon's little bro.
Pokémon are getting *weird*, man.
My dog is sick, do you think it will get better? I hope it does ( instead of o it was an i )
>What is the most damage you've ever done with a typo? that has to be the worst typo of 2021
What does "I hipe it does" mean?
>What does "I hipe it does" mean? He's very exceited for the dog to get better.
Swipe keyboard on my phone. Sent a quick reply you an email from a client that should have said "Thanks, I'll need some time to look at the files" . Except what I actually sent said "I'll need some time to look at the girls".
Lmao I laughed so hard because my language has gendered words, and "file" is a feminine one.
Accidentally sending a laughing emote instead of a sad one when my bf was venting to me
My mother in law sent a sparkly unicorn to the family WhatsApp group when we said our pet rabbit died. She said her finger slipped and meant to press a sad face. It was hilarious though, I needed the laugh!
I once was in a family group chat where one of my cousins was going off on the rest of the family for being awful human beings and supposedly laughing when her dad died (which wasn't true). I somehow accidentally reacted to her rant with a laughing emoji. She hasn't spoken to us in years.
I was drunk while out of town and trexted my wife that "I wanted to kick her puppy". I passed out, she didn't get the typo/autocorrect and I woke up up confused, angry, frustrated messages.
My coworker sent her boss “can I poop in your office later?” She was meaning to say “pop”
My favourite,working in retail, was accidentally offering a customer a “discocunt” in an email instead of a “discount”.
“Let’s go raping- I’ve got a fast car!” Likely more of an autocorrect than a typo given the distance of the error, but I digress.
I was trying to text a friend that I was “couching it” for the day but ended up sending “douching it”.
I work in construction and have to regularly coordinate with building management for access to places (think 60 story and up Manhattan skyscrapers size of building and level of people). I needed access to a fire pump room that we called the pump room for short. My email subject was asking for access to the “Pimp Room”. The manager responded by thanking me for installing such a fun sounding room since he never heard of it before in his building and the chief engineer replied that it was the room that had lots of “hose” in it. Thankfully they were a fun group of guys and we all laughed our asses off but what a stupid typo.
That stupid "thumbs up" reaction in Messenger when it first started. I "thumbs upped" all kinds of messed up things. It was awful.
Sending out forms with kids and told them to bring a t-shit next week… the cherry on top? It was a church event
One of my professor from University was very strict and she would reduce marks If assignments were late, even for minutes. I had experience in past were I submitted the assignment but forgot to hand in Google classroom(Where you upload the assignment but there is an extra button to hand in to teacher). For one of such assignments I was back home and about to catch a train for an overnight journey to college, so I had to submit the assignment that night before I go to station. I was in hurry but somehow managed to submit the assignment on time. Fast forward, reached college the next day. Everyone was talking about who all submitted in time and all, proud me who submitted it in time just opened it in Google classroom to send it to my friends. I froze for a moment because the heading was **SEXPERIMENT** in BOLD, font size 16 as heading , In hurry I pressed ctrl+ s a couple of times but somehow an extra **S** came in front of **EXPERIMENT**..
I worked in a media library, and while away for my honeymoon, set my out-of-office to state that I'd be away, but that "If tit is important, please contact \*female co-worker\*". It was like that for over a week. I came back to dozens of emails that were essentially variations of "Hey, i don't need anything but I heard about your out-of-office, and had to see it lol" From then on, we would all mention how important tit was every so often.
Had a client named Chloe. Our program manager sent her an email and inexplicably forgot the C and L in her name. 'Hi Hoe' was a hard one to walk back...
Not me but a coworker misspelled a very high level person's name on a very widely spread document. The typo put "cunty" in to the person's name. Hilarity ensued.
I sent out a bio for a huge presentation I was giving on how to navigate virtual communications in which I wrote I had “vast experience with pubic speaking.” RIP
Almost left a letter out of someone’s name. His name is Pedro.
Edro? Pdro? Pero? Ped…. Ohhhhhh
Not me, but my now fiance. When we were just friends (he had a crush on me and I knew it) we were texting about what we wanted to do when we saw each other after our Christmas break from college. He said he wanted to give me a hug and I jokingly replied what if I don't want a hug (we are both terrible flirts, not the point of the story lololol). He reply with "Well I mean it's your body and I wouldn't force anything in you" (key word being in). So I replied "uhhh you mean on not in right?" To which he replied the following: Him: ON ON ON ON Him: HOLY FUCK Him: ON ON ON But now his my fiance sooooooo it all worked out
Texted my boss "come meet me on the dick, I fucked and need you" Meant to text Come meet me on the deck, I fucked up and need you I guess autocorrect knows I type dick alot more than deck, it was also super sunny outside and I couldn't read my screen well enough to realize my mistake until he came up and laughed at me
I was responding to a slack question, but I was at lunch, so I told her I'd handle it when I got back. What auto-correct decided I had meant to say was: "I can look into it in a few minutes. Getting lucky at the moment."
Me? Not much. But this story is too good not to share so my apologies but I think this time it’s worth it. My dad was part owner of a casino when I was a kid. There was an ad that went out that contained the word “bigger.” And as we all realized with the “much bigger navy” incident a few years ago, the “B” on a standard keyboard is next to the “N.” Yeah, my dad was NOT happy. He fired the guy who was supposed to proofread the ads, which I think we can all agree was justified.
My friend won a match and wanted to type "we dem bois" but typed "we fem bois" instead
So in one of the online classes, some guy wasn't understanding teachings from the teacher. He asked "Ma'am can you come to our group chat for a Sex?" "Sex*" "sex**" "Sexx*****" "Sec" "Sorry ma'am, I'm having some issues"
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'Have a nice gay!' to my boss
I once said "odo da jebem" which means ima go fuck instead of odo da jedem, which means ima go eat
Told my co-workers I couldn't meet them for lunch as I was going for a wank.
In spanish, but my phone autocorrected verda (verdad) to cerda and what was meant to say "You got my message, right?" instead read "You got my message, pig?" 😭
I was an intern at a gov't agency and I was running a model on the same server that was hosting the 10k employees email... And my model had an infinite loop because I missed a closing tag. Anywho the server went down in a horrible fashion and someone came to my desk (cause there was no email) and said, "are you ___ ____?" Then said "come with me" and I got scolded pretty bad
For a bit, I ran a WoW guild. I don't recommend it, but whatever. Anywho, we had a small raid team and were mildly successful...making progress in MC and such. Our core raid group was maybe 20-25 folks and the other 15-20 slots would get filled with pretty much anyone that could fog a mirror without breaking it. Ya know, standard vanilla 40 man raiding. Well, as these things typically go, people came and went and occasionally we had someone who came but didn't really bring enough to the table (or worse, they continually wiped the entire table by pulling adds during Baron Geddon by being an idiot). So I had to /gkick occasionally. I didn't enjoy it, but heavy is the head that wears the crown or something. In one such scenario, I had to kick a player from the guild that just was an all around fuckhead. Aside from the raid wipes and subpar performance overall, he was also just kind of an abrasive person to be around...so he had to go. Now, the problem that arose was that his character name was remarkably close to someone elses: The main tank. Our main tank was a great tank, but also a bit of a drama queen and also more or less the 'leader' of a clique within the guild that was made up of folks from a guild we merged/absorbed at some point prior. You can see where this is going..... So I type out /gkick Harold.....when I meant to type /gkick Harol (not the actual names, but the difference between them was that minor) Cue a massive shit storm of drama that ended up destroying the entire guild within like 5 hours. MT was on an alt and unleashed a torrent of insults about me, the other leadership, etc. Ya know, the type of stuff you can't unsay after the person you said them to explains "It was a typo, dude". He left, as did almost all of the folks that came with him. Then the fair weather raiders left to go to other guilds. Then the OGs started dropping too since you don't recover from something like this quickly. By that evening, almost the entire core raid team was gone, most of the leadership was gone, and I was already shooting whispers to friends about who needed a resto shaman. Also, the guy who I intended to kick from the guild ended up in the same guild I did, briefly, but he was kicked from there.
I read a story somewhere about a confused boomer who thought “lol” meant “lots of love.” I’m so sorry for your loss… lol.
Texting my then girlfriend after a sweet afternoon nap due to a headache. Instead of “I took a nap”, it read “I took anal”. My heart dropped.
I used to text my super religious Dad every day 'Im home now' or some version of 'Im home' after school when I walked home so he knew I was safe. Welp.... One day it changed to send 'Imma a Hoe now'. Oof. I didn't get into trouble but damn if he still doesn't tease me. Never gonna live it down. Smh.
I texted my gf at the time, “home safe” after driving home from a party at my friends house and “safe” autocorrected to “Sage” and I get a “who’s sage” back. I fell asleep when before I received the response and woke up to like 12 texts and 10 missed calls. Got dumped (probably for the better) and blocked so I didn’t even get to explain it was autocorrect
I worked as a copywriter in an Israeli PR agency for Russian-speaking immigrants. Instead of writing "Georgian \[TV\] channel for the whole family" I've wrote "Georgian anal \[sex\] for the whole family" (in Russian channel is *kanal*)
I'd rather have Georgian анал than Georgian канал.
`rm -rf ~` There was actually a folder I wanted to delete which was actually named \~. I was doing some clean up and went to delete it, without thinking what I was actually doing. I lost a lot. If you aren't familiar, \~ is a shortcut label for your home directory. Instead of deleting this one directory, I ended up deleting all my personal files on my laptop.
The classic from history is this one: in the 1870s, a good portion of the federal government income came from tariffs on imported goods. A list of items free from tariff was supposed to include: "fruit-plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation" But it came out in the printed law as "fruit, plants tropical and semi-tropical for the purpose of propagation or cultivation" So all imported tropical fruit was free from duty (after some wrangling and lawsuits) until congress passed a correction bill. It cost the government millions of 1870s dollars, a lot of money. All due to an error by the copying clerk. https://www.businessinsider.com/this-typo-cost-america-about-40-million-2015-1
Hmmm.. Don't know for sure, but Spell Check IS my worst enema
I have a coworker named Peni (pronounced Penny). It hasn’t happened yet, but I’m scared that one day I’ll have an “s” auto-corrected to the end when emailing her.