Have a Nice Day!

I did something completely embarrassing at work on Friday. I blame it on a lack of sweet nectar of the gods, and the evilness of spell checker.

When I got to work on Friday, I had an email from a guy in the Fresno office (a pretty high up guy in Greg's division of the company). He was emailing me to let me know that he had received a suspicious email from me and wanted to double check and make sure that I had not sent him a real email and let me know that there may be a virus on my computer. I had not sent him anything (never met the man, actually), so I responded by thanking him for letting me know and that I would get my computer checked out by the tech guys. The only problem came when I apologized for any inconvenience. The problem is that I can't spell inconvenience. But that's what spell checkers for, right? So, I hit send, and spell checker popped up. I knew that my spelling was close, so I hit "change" for the first option. The email was immediately sent.

As soon as I hit change, I knew I had made a mistake. Instead of changing the word to the correct spelling, I changed the word to something completely unintended.

I apologized to the guy by saying "sorry for the incontinence!"

oh God!

I quickly sent a second email notifying him of the word that I meant to use and he responded by saying "no problem...happens to me all the time...not being able to spell...not incontinence." I figure he's probably laughing his ass off and everyone in the Fresno office now knows my name.

Fortunately, they're all probably mispronouncing it.