Close to Home by John McPherson for December 09, 2010

Oh how I wish you could take back an e-mail

The original design allowed for the sender to be able to know the status (unread, read) and UNDO (take it back).

UNDO is good concept.

I had a non-IBM & non-APPLE computer with a hard-wired ‘UNDO’ button.

So much for using them for references.

You can take back an email from outlook if it hasn’t been read yet.

We used to have Novell Groupwise at work. When you recalled a message, you could get it back as long as it wasn’t opened, and no one was the wiser. We went to Outlook, which sends a message that you would like to recall a message, which just draws attention to the original message…

Well Lyle, you might as well just go ahead and go postal. The damage has already been done……………..

Honestly Boss it wasn’t me, somebody must’ve used my computer while I was gone excuse.

Actually, maybe that’s WHY the termination notice was rescinded…

Lyle remembered : Always Burn your bridges when you leave a job

yeah. just copy the oops msg he just got, and say the flame notes were sent ¨in error¨, and his attorney will negotiate how many sets of zeros follow the 1 for that oops msg.

Yeah, know the feeling, we had an e-mail carrier with a “forward to all” button, somehow I sent it to everyone with an email address at the college. Thank goodness it was a positive email about a guy throwing starfish back into the ocean, the story basically is: two men walking the shoreline and one is picking up and throwing the starfish back into the ocean, the other guy asks “why it won’t make a difference” and he responds, it makes a difference to that one.” Got a lot of positive responses, even one from the college president who used it in one of his speaches. When I checked 85% of the people opened it within minutes. I did go into the boss as soon as I did it, and he went and opened it up and came in a few minutes later telling me to be more careful. I’m thanksful it was a good e-mail! Never made that mistake again.