I had just gleefully sent off the fruit of my long labour, as approved by my VP, to a client duly cc'ing the MD when, seconds later, the MD buzzes the intercom asking to see me briefly. Fully expecting a pat on the back and perhaps some scotch and a cigar. He proceeds to hand me a heavily marked up print out of the aforementioned fruit telling me to amend and run the final draft by him before sending to the client. Clearly, and by all interpretations, I'm f-ed. After hysterically praying to the gods to spare me, I'm now resigned to my fate; as I have now received the dreaded "Message Recall Failure".
If it is not too much trouble to ask, anyone have and be willing to share similar horror stories? Complete with punishment where applicable...
Merci infiniment.
You should almost never recall messages. Draws way too much attention and is rarely ever successful given issues with device sync.
Best course of action is to just send out a new email with the corrected document advising everyone to ignore the earlier draft.
Also: 1. I would throw the VP under the bus 2. This happens more often than you would think
Wish I had a silver banana for you based on the following:
This has never happened to me, but there have been plenty of times where a client or another banker forgets to mute his/her phone and says something stupid. That always provides a nice chuckle.
please elaborate by providing examples..
taking a piss for one
funny... i was just talking to a colleague about a couple of folks around our office who seem to do that repeatedly.
I was on a call once where someone went beyond pissing and was full on taking a crap. And he was one flatulent motherf'ER. The problem was no one could figure out who it was out of the 8 or 10 people on the call.
Clients usually just say random things. One started screaming something about snakes once. Bankers are the best, though. We were on the line with a potential buyer, and this one associate goes "Man, these guys are a bunch of $%!#ing idiots......crap, did I forget to mute that?". The buyers either did not hear it or ignored it, but the MD in the room certainly did.
I was at a White Castle once with several friends. We were sitting next to two cops who had their walkies on. The dispatcher accidentally left her line one while she turned to her colleague and goes "I'm going to go take a crap," All of us almost died of laughing when we heard "plooooop". One of the cops goes "Dispatch, I think you left your line on." She never turned it on again while we were there.
The guy operating the mute button is arguably the most important person in the room. On a 30 min call he might toggle back and forth 100 times.
So your MD reviewed it and couldn't see that he was cc'd on the email? Look, you're all missing something upstairs if you, your VP and your MD can't figure out how to send an email.
I was on a conference call where one of the people speaking has a thick accent. Senior MD on the other line didn't mute his phone and says to the other bankers in his room, "I can't understand him."
that's nothing man - i once accidentally copied my boss in an email where I was telling my buddy from another company what a hot piece of MILF ass that same boss was and got into some detail describing the various things I would love to do to her (i mean vivid stuff). i didn't even realize i did it until she called 5 minutes after i sent it. She said: "I think you must have accidentally copied me on this note!" I thought I was a goner so I took that mentality: "I am sorry I copied you I said - you shouldn't have seen that - it was unprofessional of me to put that in an email." She asked: "you mean you are sorry I saw it but not that you wrote it?" "No ma'am," I said, "i meant every word!" She paused for like 10 sec and then asked me to her office to talk about the upcoming meeting with the exec committee. to this day I can't believe that she didn't fire me.
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