Email can be very, very dangerous. I mean, you send the wrong thing to the wrong person and there could be real trouble. And in case you didn’t know, the “recall message” button does NOT work and the original email is still out there.
I learned this the hard way when I had thought I sent an email to a good friend at work when in actuality, I sent it to an employee that worked in an office several states away and knew me as just a name on a conference call roster. After receiving this virtual joke, he would have no idea that I was not really some sort of pervert.
In all honestly, I don’t know why I didn’t think better of using my work computer to send out a digital cartoon of the Tin Man doing fresh things with an oil can. As I chuckled while hitting send, my laughter turned into actual fear when I realized what I had done. I hit recall, and in a state of panic, I Googled how to retrieve messages sent out in error. There were no options! (Why aren’t there options?! Aggghhhh! I can’t be the first person to do this type of thing!) I went into the weekend sickened over the mistake. I was certain I would come back on Monday only to be told I was never working there again. Luckily it was quite the opposite and the recipient also thought the joke was funny. Oh thank God, this guy had a sense of humor…and a heart (how very Tin Man-y).
Months later, I made a mistake of sharing the “Tin Man” with the wrong person again (mental head slap! What the hell is my problem?!). But this time, I didn’t send the actual comic, I just mentioned the story in an email that I was sending to a recruiter. After a few glasses of wine, bringing up the old Tin Man incident seemed appropriate as we had already had several email exchanges and light banter about the pitfalls of email. I know. I know. As I write this, while now sober, I cringe. Drinking while emailing someone for a job? Glorifying that someone made a character from a children’s story into a sexed-up sicko? Not my smartest move. Needless to say I didn’t get a call back for any job from that guy. Such a Scarecrow move on my part - I think I need a brain!
I learned this the hard way when I had thought I sent an email to a good friend at work when in actuality, I sent it to an employee that worked in an office several states away and knew me as just a name on a conference call roster. After receiving this virtual joke, he would have no idea that I was not really some sort of pervert.
In all honestly, I don’t know why I didn’t think better of using my work computer to send out a digital cartoon of the Tin Man doing fresh things with an oil can. As I chuckled while hitting send, my laughter turned into actual fear when I realized what I had done. I hit recall, and in a state of panic, I Googled how to retrieve messages sent out in error. There were no options! (Why aren’t there options?! Aggghhhh! I can’t be the first person to do this type of thing!) I went into the weekend sickened over the mistake. I was certain I would come back on Monday only to be told I was never working there again. Luckily it was quite the opposite and the recipient also thought the joke was funny. Oh thank God, this guy had a sense of humor…and a heart (how very Tin Man-y).
Months later, I made a mistake of sharing the “Tin Man” with the wrong person again (mental head slap! What the hell is my problem?!). But this time, I didn’t send the actual comic, I just mentioned the story in an email that I was sending to a recruiter. After a few glasses of wine, bringing up the old Tin Man incident seemed appropriate as we had already had several email exchanges and light banter about the pitfalls of email. I know. I know. As I write this, while now sober, I cringe. Drinking while emailing someone for a job? Glorifying that someone made a character from a children’s story into a sexed-up sicko? Not my smartest move. Needless to say I didn’t get a call back for any job from that guy. Such a Scarecrow move on my part - I think I need a brain!