But please, nothing about Hillary. That would be rude.
A guy I worked with - pretty stuffy and self-important - his last name was Reinecke. It would ALWAYS correct his name to RedNeck . He was anything but.
My turn.
15 worse links ever sent on FR that have a paywall or adblocker interrupts.
In my work, I type a lot of email, and always end with “Regards,” but for some reason, I type more than there is any logical reason to make a mistake, “Retards,”
One of these days, one of them is going to make it out the door.
Might be good for a laugh, but I don’t disable my adblocker for any site.
These are just not believable.
It wasn’t an autocorrect, but about 20 years ago, I sent an email to the key contact at the largest customer of the company I worked for.
I don’t remember what it was but it was one of those things that couple be taken two ways. I wrote something and he read something completely different.
A couple hours later I got a panicked call from my boss wondering just what I told the guy.
This was before smart phones and I was gone for the day. I had a pretty sleepless night trying to figure out just what I wrote.
The next day, I reread my sent email and realized how he took it. As soon as time zones allowed, I called him to clarify. He told me that he re-read it and realized what I was actually trying to say. All was good. but it gave me a life lesson that it’s not always possible to convey style and vernacular on an email or text.
A few years ago I was dating a very nice woman.
One day, her granddaughter fell and hit her head.
She went to the ER to make sure she was ok.
The texting with my GF went like this:
GF: I hope she recovers soon.
Me (auto correct) I hope she DIES.
Autocorrect had changed my “DOES” to “DIES.”
I came within a nanosecond of hitting send before I saw the mistake.
phew
In the early 1980’s I was 26 years old and had just started a job as a full time business professor at the University.
A very well endowed beautiful blond asked a question and I meant to respond “Did you test your answer?”
What came out of my mouth was “Did you chest your answer?”
The 40+ students in the class lost it, laughing at me. I turned red and was speechless, had to walk out in the hallway to regain my composure.
After the class, I profusely apologized to her.. She smiled back and said it was ok.
Big sigh of relief!!!
I have a guy on my team whose last name is “Fu”. You can only image the fun that name has had with autocorrects.
Some of these had me in tears.
There was a real estate ad once which was supposed to say, “Big deck in back yard.”
Instead, it came out, “Big dick in back yard.”
To make matters worse, the ad featured a female real estate agent standing in front of the house was a big smile on her face!
Eh, I don;t have too many issues with autocorrect, I tend to read my text as I write it. The only really annoying thing is that my phone ALWAYS changes “we’ll” to “well”, and “well” to “we’ll”. Every time. Those two words always switch from the one I type.