So…

I was recently promoted at my job. I’ve been doing the tasks for a while now and had been given a list of things they want me to accomplish. They finally announced the promotion Friday making it all the way official. Today was the day to start the tasks on my list I couldn’t do until the announcement went out.

First thing… I needed to email some of our staff about a new procedure. Should be easy enough…. right?

OOOOH no. Not for dopey ole me who was nervous about sending my first official email in my new official role…. I fretted over the details… which.. seriously, there wasn’t enough details to be fretting over! I’m just a bit gun shy I guess having not done this role in a while and wanting to be sure my first “Please do this from now on” email came across positive.

I fired off the email and breathed a sigh of relief, kinda kicking myself for being all nervous about it. It was painless!

[named removed to protect the innocent] from Lunarpages emails me back right away:

Did you accidently send this?

Hope you are doing good

I scratched my head a second wondering why *** would email me back. Then another person from Lunarpages emailed me.. and another. Some were like OMG HI how are you? WE MISS YOU! But I was a wee bit mortified. And the replies to it started coming in faster than I could respond.

Um… OOPS?

So apparently Thunderbird still had a lunarpages email address in the collected addresses area that partially matched the address I was trying to send to. I never even thought to check because I thought I had typed out the full email address of who I was actually trying to email. Heck, I had deleted all Lunarpages addresses long ago. I just didn’t think to look in the collected addresses area. (I forgot that even existed.. as I don’t use Thunderbird much..)

I sent another email to them and said:

Well… Hi!

That was sent in error. Please stop notifying me about it.

Thanks!

~Tracie

At this point, I am thinking I need an alarm system monitoring all the things I do so I can be alerted when I’m about to do something stupid.

Please, feel free to laugh at my expense over this one.