One of my co-workers in on vacation the next two weeks. As such, other employees are monitoring his e-mail in case anything important/time sensitive arrives while he is away (also because the "out of office" reply function on our company e-mail addresses has been broken for some time).
Last week, a woman e-mailed my absentee co-worker with something quasi-important, and another employee here responded to the e-mail, explaining that the employee was away, and that one of us would be able to help her instead.
Rather than thinking of this as a logical solution, the woman flew off the handle and complained that her e-mail was private and intended for absentee-employee's eyes only and how dare we read somebody else's "private" e-mail. My boss then explained to her that, in an office, with a work account, there is no such thing as "private" e-mail and that even if we here in the office aren't checking, the IT guys in the big building miles away could be checking it remotely if they so chose.
Once she calmed down and realized she was in the wrong, she attempted to send an apology e-mail to the employee here whom she originally lambasted.
But instead she accidently sent it to our direct competitors because she clicked on the wrong address in her e-mail program.
I swear to God, sometimes I don't even have to come up with witty endings to these stories. Sometimes they just write themselves.
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