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TIFU by accidentally texting my boss instead of my friend

I was in a very important and large Zoom meeting today at work with my boss, my colleagues, and folks from a high profile account we have. Now, he is the kind of boss that has very high expectations of his employees and will call you out if you are unprofessional or do something he thinks will make him or the company look bad in front of a customer. He is not unreasonable, but if you work for him for any amount of time you learn that he has no tolerance for unprofessional behavior and will call you out on it. In the Zoom meeting it was understood that we, as his team, were to be on our best behavior. My boss also has one of those faces where you can tell everything he is thinking.

The meeting went great, but the look on his face as members of the team were talking was one of “I am watching you closely and you better make us look good.”

I had my camera off as the meeting was wrapping up, so I opened a text to my best friend and basically said “My boss is staring down the team through this zoom meeting like he is trying to use Jedi mind tricks to bring them to the dark side.”

The meeting ended, and a few min later I get a text from my boss. It was then that I realized I had sent that comment to him and not my friend. His reply, “Should I take this as a compliment?”

If you need me, I’ll just be under my desk trying to nurse my dignity back to health.

TLDR talked about my boss in a text message to my friend, except sent it directly to my boss instead. SOS Send martinis and new job opportunities.

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