What's the funniest thing that someone accidently sent you/people on at work?

I'm a document reviewer and we get to see a fair number of docs (almost always emails) that are not, uh, "work-related."

The crews (for various cases) that I've been on have found the usual stuff that the secretaries/assistants swap: birthday cards, family photos, weird religious stuff, chain letters, etc.; but also emails that the execs send or receive, including pornography (written, photos, movies), notes arranging extramarital trysts, messages chewing out family members (Alec Baldwin-type chewing out), and diatribes against their employers/supervisors. Naturally, when one of us finds juicy stuff it's shared with the rest of the crew. The original recipients deleted this mail, but of course it stays on the hard drive--so we see it all, when the computer's contents are subpoenaed.

Note: NEVER use work email--sending or opening--for anything that's not strictly work-related. (Your employers can, and do, read your email.) NEVER put anything in an email, whether a work email or a personal email, that you wouldn't want to read about on the front page of the "New York Times." NEVER put anything in an email that you wouldn't want a pathetic Morlockian doc reviewer to be chuckling over, years later.

ex-wife once sent me a full frontal of her, without warning, which i opened with about 5 people standing in my office.

she was only slightly embarrassed when i told her about it (guess why we're not married anymore).

I'm an attorney and I also do the occasional document review. I once came across, and I kid you not, an Excel spread-sheet a guy was using to help decide if he should leave his pregnant wife.

And yes, he left her.

An attachment which when launched maximized the volume on the speakers -- yes they were turned off -- and screamed out,

"Woo Hoo, Hey I'm watching porn over here! Weeeee!"

Needless to say about 10 people -- everyone in the office at the time -- looked over at me and, well, I got into a lot of trouble.

That friend is not longer a friend, jerk.

I'm going to guess that you could not satisfy her because you are so uptight.

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I didn't realise you could opem attachments which could switch speakers from off to on. Having said that, the thought of it did make me laugh - sorry. I can just imagine a silent office and then that bursting out.

wow, good one inchworm.

There was a teacher at my high school who decided she was going to talk a lot of crap on another teacher in her specific department. Instead of sending the e-mail out to just her close friends, she sent it to the entire school. She sent out an e mail later, after she realized her mistake, with the subject heading, "oops"

Decision matrices can be an effective way to decide upon things, I don't blame him.

Did you find the PowerPoint he used to explain it to her?

I set up my totally homophobic cube mate's pc with a start up application that flashed

"I'M GAY!!!"

and it played a loud siren (of course I maxed his speakers while he was at lunch) so the whole office came running when they heard it. Only a certain keystroke would turn it off. He was frantically trying to stop it while the rest of us rolled around on the floor crying our eyes out.

Fun office hi-jinx!