Signs
Want to know how you know when you're too tired?
When you send an e-mail to someone that's about them.
Whoops.
Fortunately, there was no smack talk in the e-mail, just expressing some confusion and a little frustration. But not in a nasty way.
I did, however, immediately close Outlook to prevent myself from doing anything else that could potentially get me fired.
posted by Mandy @ 9:37 PM
5 Comments:
I've found myself double checking email addresses and messages to ensure that I did not send something inflammatory to the person I was ranting about. I've had a couple close calls.
On the other hand, sometimes a reputation as being a brash, tell-it-like-it-is type can help your career.
At my current client, I referred to someone as a pain in the ass (in a positive way, if that can be imagined) while in a 30 person meeting with them in attendance.
They made me an offer to join the company (and leave my consulting company) three days later, and senior management has been asking my opinion on things a lot more recently.
Go figure.
John, sorry, I'm having a really hard time imagining you as a consultant at a meeting. Of course, the picture I have of you in my head is the you from 1994. It's rather funny!
Anice
I did recall the message, but it was sent to someone out of my system, so I don't know if it worked. He didn't, however, make any mention of the e-mail, so either he dismissed it (like I said, there was no smack-talk), or it really did get recalled.
But MAN, I have to pay closer attention.
I actually did this to our government contract officer. Thankfully he is a scientist, so when I wrote him quickly afterwards about how I was just kidding, while owning up to a really strange sense of humor, he responded, "Oh... uh,huh... no problem." He never acted differently afterwards, and so I discovered I had the ability to breathe once again.. Since then, I've been MUCH more careful.
Oh.. did I mention that Mandy is a poopy bu**?? Shhhhhhhhhh.
the older, special k
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