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It sure does suck sending an e-mail and then regretting it.

Roger WilcoRoger Wilco Registered User regular
edited February 2011 in Social Entropy++
We've all had one of those days!

I'm a Mason and the guy in charge of our mail list is an old man who loves Fox News. He sends us Glenn Beck videos, fox news chain letters, etc.

So today I got a new one saying all true patriots need to help keep the flag in the class room! And telling me to go vote on some Fox News poll.

I hate Fox News. The only terrorist organization America needs to fear is Fox. So I sent him an e-mail, telling him what I think about him and his Fox News. There may have been one or six curse words in there, I went into detail about why I hate Fox, and I told him I was embarrassed for him because he takes Fox seriously.

I'm now regretting being so rude and blunt. I don't regret telling him off, but I regret how I did it.

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  • FandeathisFandeathis Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Oh man, I do this all the time with women. Usually after we have been broken up a bit, and then I tell them what I really think about them. I'm not friends with too many of my exes haha.

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i am so paranoid about this

    which is why it takes me 45 minutes to send a three line email reply

    making sure i didn't say anything wrong

    or had a curse word slip in by accident

    (only in professional contexts, not if i'm emailing like my friends or family)

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Fandeathis wrote: »
    Oh man, I do this all the time with women. Usually after we have been broken up a bit, and then I tell them what I really think about them. I'm not friends with too many of my exes haha.

    that sounds awful

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2011
    Roger Wilco wrote: »
    We've all had one of those days!

    I'm a Mason and the guy in charge of our mail list is an old man who loves Fox News. He sends us Glenn Beck videos, fox news chain letters, etc.

    So today I got a new one saying all true patriots need to help keep the flag in the class room! And telling me to go vote on some Fox News poll.

    I hate Fox News. The only terrorist organization America needs to fear is Fox. So I sent him an e-mail, telling him what I think about him and his Fox News. There may have been one or six curse words in there, I went into detail about why I hate Fox, and I told him I was embarrassed for him because he takes Fox seriously.

    I'm now regretting being so rude and blunt. I don't regret telling him off, but I regret how I did it.

    You should send him a follow up email saying that you apologize for using such strong language and you understand that it was inappropriate to do so. You can say that you should have just expressed your opinion, but not taken it to a personal level with this guy. Mostly just say you're sorry and that your actions were inappropriate. If you truly feel bad about the way you disagreed with him, just say so.

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  • Caveman PawsCaveman Paws Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ubik wrote: »
    i am so paranoid about this

    which is why it takes me 45 minutes to send a three line email reply

    making sure i didn't say anything wrong

    or had a curse word slip in by accident

    (only in professional contexts, not if i'm emailing like my friends or family)

    Ditto. Work emails tend to be written, deleted, re-written, etc. Though I've found that habit slowly seeping into my personal emails/messaging, even here on the forums, I constantly find myself editing msg's for tiny errors that no one would care about. But what if they really do!?

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    no wait, blame it on your cat walking on your keyboard

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Tell him a gay communist broke into your computer and was trying to undermine your relationship
    Or just don't be a douche

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    There's a Google Labs feature for gmail that gives you a five second regret period to unsend an email

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i've never had this problem because i'm so worried about how awful it would be if i did something like this that i end up rereading anything i type at least a bazillion times to make sure i'm not about to make myself look like a dick/an idiot

    (i've been proofreading this post since yesterday)

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    send a reply email with pictures of your dong

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ubik wrote: »
    i am so paranoid about this

    which is why it takes me 45 minutes to send a three line email reply

    making sure i didn't say anything wrong

    or had a curse word slip in by accident

    (only in professional contexts, not if i'm emailing like my friends or family)

    Same. It takes me fucking forever to hit send.

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    there are built-in ways in outlook to delay the sending of emails

    you can put an automatic timer on the outbox, so if you're like, oooo shit that's wrong
    you can get it back

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  • SupraluminalSupraluminal Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Sign me up for the Obsessive Editor's Club. I share the tendency to put perhaps more thought and care than is strictly necessary into composing, proofreading, and re-writing emails and even dumb ol' forum posts.

    Oh well, it beats coming across like a sub-literate baboon.

    e: For example, so far I have edited this 3-sentence post twice. (Yes, counting this edit.)

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    closest thing i've done to this was accidentally sending someone a completely blank reply

    i like tabbed and then hit enter or something and instead of jumping a line down i hit send

    i was like

    noooooooooooooo

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Ubik wrote: »
    i am so paranoid about this

    which is why it takes me 45 minutes to send a three line email reply

    making sure i didn't say anything wrong

    or had a curse word slip in by accident

    (only in professional contexts, not if i'm emailing like my friends or family)

    Same. It takes me fucking forever to hit send.

    Me too. Just hovering over the send button, knowing that you've made a fool of yourself somewhere in there, but being unable to see where.

    Then whoops, it turns out that the part that made you a fool is that you sent it late.

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Funnily enough though, it is really easy for me to make forum posts where my foolishness is on display to all.

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  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    This is the one thing I appreciate having to use Outlook at work for

    Right click->Recall Message, and if they haven't read it by then, they never will

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  • -smash-smash Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I agonize over every forum post.

    It doesn't really help the ol' post quality.

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  • FandeathisFandeathis Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Tossrock wrote: »
    There's a Google Labs feature for gmail that gives you a five second regret period to unsend an email

    You can set it to 30 seconds now, which is what I have it at. It's saved me from enraging a couple exes already.

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  • -smash-smash Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Ledneh wrote: »
    This is the one thing I appreciate having to use Outlook at work for

    Right click->Recall Message, and if they haven't read it by then, they never will

    This is hilarious to see as a Thunderbird user.

    "Oh, you sure would like to take that one back, wouldn't you?"

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The Geek wrote: »
    Roger Wilco wrote: »
    We've all had one of those days!

    I'm a Mason and the guy in charge of our mail list is an old man who loves Fox News. He sends us Glenn Beck videos, fox news chain letters, etc.

    So today I got a new one saying all true patriots need to help keep the flag in the class room! And telling me to go vote on some Fox News poll.

    I hate Fox News. The only terrorist organization America needs to fear is Fox. So I sent him an e-mail, telling him what I think about him and his Fox News. There may have been one or six curse words in there, I went into detail about why I hate Fox, and I told him I was embarrassed for him because he takes Fox seriously.

    I'm now regretting being so rude and blunt. I don't regret telling him off, but I regret how I did it.

    You should send him a follow up email saying that you apologize for using such strong language and you understand that it was inappropriate to do so. You can say that you should have just expressed your opinion, but not taken it to a personal level with this guy. Mostly just say you're sorry and that your actions were inappropriate. If you truly feel bad about the way you disagreed with him, just say so.

    Then! Send a third email that is just a picture of you sleeping with his wife

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Oh man we had an issue like this at work. My friend Sarah was working with this guy Brad on a job.

    We're auditors and one of our clients was a GLBTAU Center. Brad, the supervisor, is a born again Christian. He's been through an exorcism that cleansed the demons out and now he's super hardcore religious. Well they were out at the client and Brad just kept talking about how this place is an abomination and how these people need to be saved. Sarah kept telling him no and that its a bad idea and not professional. Anyway, they found out at lunch that the CFO is gay (or transgendered, I forget which), but then when Brad and Sarah were alone, he kept venting. Then he got into Sarah's religious beliefs and tried to get her to be saved, but she kept politely turning it down.

    Anyway she got annoyed and went to send me an email saying how she didn't want to get saved and that she's tired of hearing about all his exorcism and born again stuff.

    Problem is that my last name and his last name are very similar. When she began to type mine, it autocompleted with his and she sent it.

    She realized what she did and just flat out said "Look. I sent you an email just now and I'm sorry, but this is how I feel. It wasn't meant for you but it is what it is now"

    He read the email, sat back, and was like "God intended for you to send this email to me. Let's talk about it. Why don't you want to be saved?"

    Now they never work on jobs together.

    tl:dr Hilarious email story dealing with religion and being saved. Whoops.jpg

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    welp, you smarted off to a mason.

    prepare to have your wacky crab-god eat your soul.

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    i don't email people

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  • StaleghotiStaleghoti Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    best way to get something off your chest is to write something and not send it

    Abraham Lincoln taught my friend who in turn taught that to me

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  • AdusAdus Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Fandeathis wrote: »
    Tossrock wrote: »
    There's a Google Labs feature for gmail that gives you a five second regret period to unsend an email

    You can set it to 30 seconds now, which is what I have it at. It's saved me from enraging a couple exes already.

    I was gonna say.. 5 seconds sounds like the exact amount of time it takes to process that you did something wrong so by the time you react to hit cancel it gets sent.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Also one that involved me. I was close to breaking up with my girlfriend and was talking to my sister on the phone and told her we were going to try and work things out instead. My sister hangs up and 5 seconds later i get a text that says 'they are still together. fuck'

    That was meant for my oldest sister, not me. The texting sister felt real bad about that one after I called her out on it.

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  • Viscount IslandsViscount Islands [INSERT SoKo HERE] ...it was the summer of my lifeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Yeah I'm very careful with written stuff usually. I'm least careful here I think. But when it comes to work e-mails I usual edit and try to find the right tone that probably only I can hear anyway.

    The one time I really let loose was on my ex-girlfriend and she really, really didn't deserve it. We're friends now and anytime it comes up I apologize profusely and grovel at her feet. Oh and also at some idiot I used to be friends with, but I don't feel bad about that.

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA mod
    edited February 2011
    The Geek wrote: »
    Roger Wilco wrote: »
    We've all had one of those days!

    I'm a Mason and the guy in charge of our mail list is an old man who loves Fox News. He sends us Glenn Beck videos, fox news chain letters, etc.

    So today I got a new one saying all true patriots need to help keep the flag in the class room! And telling me to go vote on some Fox News poll.

    I hate Fox News. The only terrorist organization America needs to fear is Fox. So I sent him an e-mail, telling him what I think about him and his Fox News. There may have been one or six curse words in there, I went into detail about why I hate Fox, and I told him I was embarrassed for him because he takes Fox seriously.

    I'm now regretting being so rude and blunt. I don't regret telling him off, but I regret how I did it.

    You should send him a follow up email saying that you apologize for using such strong language and you understand that it was inappropriate to do so. You can say that you should have just expressed your opinion, but not taken it to a personal level with this guy. Mostly just say you're sorry and that your actions were inappropriate. If you truly feel bad about the way you disagreed with him, just say so.

    You should edit Wikipedia.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Staleghoti wrote: »
    best way to get something off your chest is to write something and not send it

    Abraham Lincoln taught my friend who in turn taught that to me

    You have old friends

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    When I was back home in Texas at my parents last year I went total stormfront on them while they were watching Beck. It's pretty empowering to curse & lecture your parents in their own living room They got the message, they don't watch him anymore, my sister helped provide the calmer perspective.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I feel sorry for your parents

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    When I was back home in Texas at my parents last year I went total stormfront on them while they were watching Beck. It's pretty empowering to curse & lecture your parents in their own living room They got the message, they don't watch him anymore, my sister helped provide the calmer perspective.

    Wait, were they just watching it, or were they trying to get you to watch it or something?

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    MereHappenstance wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    When I was back home in Texas at my parents last year I went total stormfront on them while they were watching Beck. It's pretty empowering to curse & lecture your parents in their own living room They got the message, they don't watch him anymore, my sister helped provide the calmer perspective.

    Wait, were they just watching it, or were they trying to get you to watch it or something?

    Oh they were watching it. And believing it.

    Weaver on
  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Did you try simply talking to them about it?

    It seems watching a show and buying into it (crazy as that man is) isn't really cause to yell at your parents.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Clint Eastwood wrote: »
    i don't email people

    dis right here

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    machete don't text

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    MereHappenstance wrote: »
    Did you try simply talking to them about it?

    It seems watching a show and buying into it (crazy as that man is) isn't really cause to yell at your parents.

    I think I know my parents better than you.

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  • Houk the NamebringerHouk the Namebringer Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    MereHappenstance wrote: »
    Did you try simply talking to them about it?

    It seems watching a show and buying into it (crazy as that man is) isn't really cause to yell at your parents.

    I think I know my parents better than you.
    I don't see how that's possible

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  • MereHappenstanceMereHappenstance Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Weaver wrote: »
    MereHappenstance wrote: »
    Did you try simply talking to them about it?

    It seems watching a show and buying into it (crazy as that man is) isn't really cause to yell at your parents.

    I think I know my parents better than you.

    You don't know man. You don't know! Cuz you weren't there man!

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