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TIFU by sending a resignation email to the entire company

So this happened two days ago, and I’ve barely slept since.

I’ve been working at my current company for almost five years, and I recently got an offer from another place with better pay and remote work. It wasn’t an easy decision, but I decided to take it. I wrote up a polite, professional resignation letter, attached it to an email, and meant to send it to my direct manager and HR.

Except I didn’t.

Instead of typing in my manager’s name, I clicked “All Staff” which, for some reason, is not only still an active mailing list, but also includes everyone in the company worldwide, including executives, people I’ve never met, interns, and the literal founder.

So I sent it. Subject line: “My Resignation”

Body: “Hi [Manager], attached is my formal resignation letter. Thank you for the opportunity, and I wish you and the team all the best moving forward.”

Thirty seconds later, I start getting pings.

Not from my manager.

From… everyone.

Coworkers I haven’t spoken to in years messaging me “???” One person just replied with “congrats???” Someone from IT in Singapore asked, “Is this a phishing test?” A guy from Finance I’ve never met replied-all with “Best of luck!” which then triggered 15 more reply-alls. At one point someone replied-all with just “UNSUBSCRIBE” in all caps.

Then my manager messaged me: “Hey, did you mean to send that to literally everyone?”

I wanted to crawl inside my laptop and die. The CEO didn’t respond, but I know he saw it because someone on his team forwarded it to him thinking it was a comms issue.

HR called me that afternoon. They weren’t mad, just very confused. Then they told me this now counts as my “official notice,” and I had basically started my resignation timer a week earlier than I’d intended.

So now I’m scrambling to wrap things up sooner, coworkers I haven’t spoken to in months are asking where I’m going, and I’ve accidentally created the impression that I rage-quit publicly, even though my actual letter was the most vanilla, polite exit email ever written.

TL,DR: Meant to send my resignation letter to my manager, sent it to the entire global company instead, caused a reply-all chain, HR confusion, and now I’m leaving a week early while half the company thinks I rage quit.

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