Worried about work tomorrow

re14796

Basically on Friday I sent an email with a lot of confidential information to a few people but as I was messaging someone with the same first name but different surname as the person who I was meant to send the confidential information to. I can’t stop thinking that I sent it to the wrong person. I am going to get fired.

jonnygee2

I'm sure everyone does this at one point in their career. I once sent an email to a major contractor we we with our entire negotiation strategy, including our upper range. Pretty embarrassing.

Was it internal or external? What kind of information?

nyc_451

It happens...all too easy to click on a wrong email address!

Might get a warning but I struggle to believe you'd get fired, unless the boss wanted to get rid of you anyway...

TELLIT01

re14796 wrote: »

Basically on Friday I sent an email with a lot of confidential information to a few people but as I was messaging someone with the same first name but different surname as the person who I was meant to send the confidential information to. I can’t stop thinking that I sent it to the wrong person. I am going to get fired.

First thing to do is to check if you actually have sent it to the wrong person. If you have, let your boss know before somebody else does. Outcome could be anything from "don't do that again" to the sack for gross misconduct, but that part is in the hands of management.

74jax

You have a whole day ahead of you. I appreciate your worried but..
You can't do anything about it now
You can't change who you sent it too
You can't check today

Try and have an enjoyable day. Worry about it tomorrow morning if you must.

Go in. Check. Deal with it then.

Worrying today won't change the situation. Just make you lose a day off.

sportsarb

I have a similar name to someone that worked high up in Child Support (Whatever it was at the time: Division, Agency etc.).

I used to get asked for my input on high level reforms etc. and had to politely reply back that I was an extremely low level civil servant that had nothing to do with what they were doing and that they should send it on to the right person.

I don't think anyone ever got sacked over it and it happened on multiple occasions. It won't stop you worrying but it happens more than you would think.

eamon

Get in to work early and do a message recall and if that fails email the person and ask him/her to delete the message.

General_Grant

eamon wrote: »

Get in to work early and do a message recall and if that fails email the person and ask him/her to delete the message.

A Message Recall doesn't actually delete the message from the recipient's email box, does it? It simply asks them to delete the original. So a phone call (in addition) might be best in any case.

sportsarb

General_Grant wrote: »

A Message Recall doesn't actually delete the message from the recipient's email box, does it? It simply asks them to delete the original. So a phone call (in addition) might be best in any case.

Only actually recalls if the person clicks on the recall message before the original message.

Assuming we are all talking about Outlook.

robatwork

General_Grant wrote: »

A Message Recall doesn't actually delete the message from the recipient's email box, does it? It simply asks them to delete the original. So a phone call (in addition) might be best in any case.

It can, but depends on a particular (rare) alignment of the planets.

If they are using an Exchange server AND outlook AND they don't look at outlook AND recipient's outlook processes requests automatically it MAY get deleted without them seeing it.

WibblyGirly

Depending on where you work, you may need to notify your data protection officer but it depends on the content of the email. If there is any personal information.