I fucked up an email sent to potential investors. My MD gave me shit and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be out the door before this day ends. I owned up to my mistake, but was it really that bad? Like, would a potential buyer not look into a teaser just because the header of the email has a typo?
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Start up your McDonald’s application, boy.
Srs note: If you get nixed for one typo, I’m not sure that you’d want to work for said employer in the first place. Relax. Pay more attention next time, but it’s not the end of the world.
Lol. I guess that doesn't help my case.
Is you serious??
I don’t think you should be, but let us know what happens.
Got through the biggest shitstorm with the MD. But I'm still here, so there's that.
LOL I felt some relief on your behalf haha
why are you the one emailing potential buyers as a junior analyst in the first place? Should be associate or vp doing that.
This was my question as well...probably need to install a few checks in this process.
Is it possible the MD was actually giving you shit for using the word "Dear" in your emails at all (not the singular/plural grammatical issue)? This may be a language/cultural difference, but typically you would not use the greeting "Dear" in a professional email (at least not in the US). Generally, you would just write "Hi Name," or just "Name," to start a professional email - writing "Dear" seems overly formal and personal.
He was the one that instructed me to open the email with a "Dear". Cultural differences I guess.
Send him this:
"Dear MD,
Please don't fire me.
XOXO,
rodochoa"
Didn’t in the og post you said something about using plural ‘dear’ vs singular. But dear is a greeting so I’m not sure what you mean by plural or singular form. If anything he’s mad because you made the bank look like it doesn’t know simple English. Royally silly mistake. But as long as you’re still breathing just learn from it.
In English, yes. In other languages, Dear can be expressed as either singular or plural.
On a buyside, we saw a kid from the sellside send a Q&A response for one buyer to all the buyers, without BCCing or redacting names. Had a chuckle about what an idiot he was and went back to work. Don't think he got fired, though didn't see any more emails from him.
As silly as you look for having a typo in the subject line, they would look more silly for firing someone for that. Its different if you do this kind of thing on the reg, but as long as this isn't the latest in a series of stupid mistake then your fine, relax and learn from it.
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