TIFU Was making fun of my Ph.D. co-supervisor over chat and ended up sending the text to a group of professors, including my supervisor and co-supervisor.

Submitted by carefullycalculative t3_108zlfa in tifu

Hi, I am a Ph.D. student living away from my home state. s I was getting ready to leave for the lab, I sent a message to a homie, A.

The thing is end of this month, people from the campus who are from my community will be celebrating a festival unique to our community. This festival has a religious part where we offer offerings to one of the Gods. But we have yet to find a priest who will be initiating the offering. Now one of our friends, M is also a priest. So I texted H that we could call B by simply paying him a bottle of good whiskey. Since he is living in a different state and his sudden visit will cost a fortune, we can ask X (my co-supervisor) to cover the travel cost. You can understand the language of the text was not particularly formal, and I was using particularly decorative words to address X.

After pressing the send button, I had an internal chuckle, only to have my heartbeat stopping with fear. The message, I assumed went to A's inbox, actually went straight to the WhatsApp group. The WhatsApp group with different senior professors including my Ph.D. supervisor, and my co-supervisor. Between the message being sent and my realization of horror, it would be 2-3 seconds and by the time I rushed to erase the message out of existence, the damage had been done. X had already seen the message. And other professors and fellows did not lose the chance to rub salt in my wounds.

One shy of relief is my supervisor, Z is out of town without any access to his phone. I just want to dig a hole on earth and bury myself, because I do not want to go and talk normally with X just in a couple of minutes.

TL;DR: Was making fun of my co-supervisor on chat with a friend, only to realize the message was sent to a group chat with all professors and both my supervisor.

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metalbuttefly t1_j3za82u wrote

With whatsapp, you can delete sent messages. You can delete them just from your chat, or you can delete 'for all'. Id do that pretty soon before they see it 😂

Edit, I didn't read it all, and they saw it. Oh dear! Just come up with a lie, or that you just joke around with everyone. If they say their offended, just apologise and say you didn't mean offence!

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carefullycalculative OP t1_j40ol8y wrote

Yeah, I did apologize. Hoping that my co-supervisor will take it with sportsmanship

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keithreid-sfw t1_j4fgftf wrote

I assume my trainees mock me. It’s fine. I’m a bit weird.

It’s nature’s way. I mocked my bosses. Was it funny?

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