Subject: "Re: Here are the Q3 assets" Body: "Is this a joke?"
Don't drag and drop files named "MyFamilyPies 21 11 30 Sybil" into an email to your boss. Just delete the file. Burn the hard drive. Run away. Have you ever sent a text or email to the wrong person? Make me feel better in the comments. Please.
For those of you who don’t speak timestamp, that’s November 30, 2021. A simpler time. A pre-holiday chaos time. I clicked it open out of morbid curiosity. MyFamilyPies 21 11 30 Sybil I Accidentally Sent...
In my caffeine-deprived stupor, I clicked it. I dragged it. I dropped it into the attachment bar.
You know that feeling when the floor drops out of your stomach? When the air in the room gets physically cold, and your ears start ringing? Subject: "Re: Here are the Q3 assets" Body: "Is this a joke
I open my file explorer. I click on the external drive. My brain goes on autopilot. I right-click the "Q3_Assets" folder, hit "Compress," and drag it into Outlook.
Let me translate that for you: Janet, the thimble collector, just attached a Sybil-centric adult film to an email addressed to a woman named "Carol" in Human Resources. It’s been two days. I have a meeting with HR at 3:00 PM today. My resume is updated. I’ve already cleared my desk of personal items. Run away
My heart stopped. I scrolled up to my sent message. There it was. The file name. Her name. Next to that name.