I accidentally sent my password to slack channel!!

I have deleted it and changed my password of course, but it still doesn't make the embarrassment go away. Especially because my password is something ridiculous like :

Materialisticbitch88$$$

Some people have already seen it!!
RIP my reputation.
:/

I once thought I was assigning an email to a colleague of mine and added an internal message that said something like "we are not going to do this shit, go ahead and tell them". As you can already guess, this was not an internal message, but was an email that I sent to a list of almost 15 thousand people.... Oops.

Shit happens, but don't feel embarrassed about it. You are probably the only one who really cares.

A good take away from this experience is "Don't use embarrassing password!"

I also remember the time when my supervisor ask me for my password to login into my account in the server to install something (I know it's not best practice, but I had no other choice). Thankfully I have 'normal' password for that one! :-P

hunter2

see? all asterisks...

tip: use a password manager so you can just set random strings as your password

@koes
Always write emails with quoting in mind.
Colleagues are quoting or forwarding what you wrote.
They aren't always checking whether it is a good idea to do so.
So better choose your wordings wisely...

People will have a quiet chuckle to themselves and move on ☺️

If you @here the channel instead though, you'll get all the rage 😉

A while back I sent some very personal, embarrassing and flat out stupid emails onto an industry mailing list, while I was drunk and pissed off by political correctness, renaming, yada yada... Half a year or so later I'm still ashamed of it, especially since that list has government representatives, very high-profile computer scientists and whatnot in it.

It's permanently archived in public, and cannot be removed. I like to believe that people have forgotten about it and won't look for it again 😅

At least is an honest password, right?

I was CC'd on an email confirming a candidate come in for work the first day.

I didn't realize it wasn't an internal email.

I hit Reply All.

I sent "Neat, fresh meat."

I was listening to music with headphones, couldn't hear anything. Appx. 5 seconds later I feel the vibrations of Zeus and Jesus entwined in harmony, manifested through the form of my manager's fist hitting my desk.

"THAT WENT TO THE CANDIDATE"

I learned my lesson that day.

@wicho

But .. but.. I have a reputation to keep!

I am trying to keep an appearance of this cute, innocent, down -to-earth, shy girl when in fact I am not :-P

I will lose several admirers in the office over this...

:/

@junon 😂
I honestly would have found that even more hilarious.

@JustThat I did something similar with the CEO of Hell while he was on the call. I thought it was just myself and a sales guy, and said something not so nice about him. He screamed at me. I think I said something like “oh hi, I didn’t know you were here.”

I also inadvertently told him his designs looked like a child’s drawings (in front of literally everyone) thinking they were just quick sketches rather than full, serious mock-ups. He was taken aback and silent for a few seconds, and said something like “I’m a mature adult. I can take the criticism.” 😅 oops.

@cho-uc time to change to your next big job position

@Nanos Did they get the job though

Think of it this way - you made someone's day. I'm sure many laughed mildly cringed, and the truth is, it's all too relatable to be anything but.

Haha this reminds me of the time when HR sent the contract of the new Director of Engineering to the whole company, so now everyone knows how much he makes.

I remember once some manager in my previous company wrote something like this while welcoming a new employee.

He is xyz , who has previously worked at abc and is married to my wife since past 12 years.

This spread on whatsapp across Bangalore.

As nanos said, at least it wasnt a porn link. I had colleague which, on his last day attached dozen or so links in main comany channel so this respectable comapny could see everything :) But you know what, nothing really
Happened, and nobody cares. People do nit care that much you know