I'm pretty sure if they even notice they will just correctly assume its a typo, I don't think its reasonable to assume it was intentional

This cracked me up even though the use of that word makes me hot under the collar. This was a true typo and accident. If you get called on it, just tell them the truth. It's very plausible.

Managers at my company have been fired for less. A director was fired for charging his time on his timecard to the wrong account on the first offense.

Yeah, that's the plan for now.

Just tell your HR rep that you’ve spent too much time in WSB

I think you’ll be fine.

If you get fired for this, that's a company you shouldn't want to work for anyway.

You know you can recall a message, especially if you caught it quickly.

>A director was fired for charging his time on his timecard to the wrong account on the first offense

I can almost guarantee this was that they officially fired him for, but there was probably much more going on before.

I did not know that...how?

Go to sent items, click on the email and look for "recall " if you can't find it, Google is your friend

Time cards directly effect billing and payroll and on DoD projects can be a big deal. So if someone’s making changes that could actually fuck up your contract. Transposing the wrong letter in a word where the keys touch is a LOT less severe and it’s easy to show there wasn’t intent.

For outlook it depends on receivers policy as well, otherwise they get a request to recall; which makes them look closer at the email, best way is to add a 2min+ delay on all outbound emails (known as the career saver) so you can delete it when you accidently send.

What I like to do is fully type the email and read it before even putting the recipient in the address bar. Reduces sending a message prematurely

Another thing for this specific issue, put "kind regards" in your signature, won't make this mistake again

Especially when ctrl+enter sends, I've had more than one colleague send a half finished email because they managed to hit ctrl...

I've been working dod contracts for my whole career, making corrections is standard and billing has a lag to the government. Now intentional miss charging is the only thing I've seen someone get walked out for immediately. So I do agree it can be serious, I just doubt it was "one simple mistake and fired" especially for a director

Which is why I think OP can breathe a little. If the manager got fired it was more intentional than a typo.

I just read that there's a shortage of engineers to hire in a lot of places, so, if your company is smart, they'll keep you on.

Oh yeah, agreed.

“Never go full regard”

The G and T are quite close on the keyboard, you should be fine

That's way worse.

Doesn’t always work. And the recall message makes people look more carefully at the email than they otherwise would

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One of my buddies at work had Outlook suggest this typo to him, so... Yeah definitely don't sweat it

Who hasn't done this lmao? There's a reason nobody signs emails anymore. I just kinda say what I need to say and hit send, fuck the formality.

That is going to be my full time signature on my work email now. Thanks.

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That's actually brilliant, gonna have to start doing this myself!

*by accident

At least you didn't use Warm Regards.

I set my Outlook up like this after I accidentally caused a data breach. It's saved me multiple times.

Also I've made this specific typo by accident so many times, but thankfully always spotted it! I've switched to "best wishes" now. Much safer.

Or best regards....

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