Regretable emails

[Damburger]

Even regretted an email the moment you click send?

As a result of the cubesat I am participating in, I was emailed by a guy wanting to get some quotes from me for a UK higher education website. On of the questions was what sort of opportunities I was hoping for when I graduate.

I basically said that there was no space science of any note in the UK, the government chokes of funding, the public don't care, and I'm going to try and find work abroad.

Given that this site is supposed to promote higher education for young people, something tells me that isn't the kind of comment he was hoping for...

[mfumbesi]

Send another e-mail, apologies and retract the statement on the earlier e-mail.

[Whirlpool]

Yeah I have done that . But it's a letter I made to my ex-husband , I really regretted sending that.

[Damburger]

Send another e-mail, apologies and retract the statement on the earlier e-mail.

The thing is, I think everything I said was true, I just think it might upset some people when they hear I've said these things essentially on behalf of the university. I don't think I have anything to apologise for, I just think there may be consequences. I also am worried that while true my statements might have come across as elitist.

On the other hand, seeing as how the UK government sliced £80m of physics funding, I don't think anyone here will shed too many tears about me trashing their commitment to science.

[hhEb09'1]

I agonized over an email to an MIT professor who'd agreed to serve on my committee. He'd sent me a dataset, and I'd found a discrepancy in it that I then spent hours trying to resolve. I finally sent him an email about four in the morning, and an hour later found my error. I sent another email apologizing and explaining, before he even woke up. He seemed to understand

[Nadme]

No.

Because my rule is I won't say anything to a person via e-mail (or other internet communication OR telephone) that I wouldn't be willing to say to their face.

[tdvance]

I've done it. The moral is, don't send e-mail when:

1. it's 3am and you're half-asleep (I once sent, not a rude one, but an embarrassing one--I reread it the next day and realized I must have been dreaming when I typed it--made no sense, kind of like when you come up with this brilliant idea in the middle of the night, write it down before you forget it, go back to sleep, and the next morning look at the brilliant idea and find that the note says, "To prove Fermat's Last Theorem, just psychoanalyze the TV set.").

2. more generally, if you're anything other than emotionally (and for that matter, literally) sober.

[redshifter]

If you happen to be using Outlook, there is a feature that keeps mail in the outbox for a few minutes before actually sending it out, gives you time to reconsider.

[antoniseb]

...He seemed to understand

Because like you he is human and has done it himself from time to time.

[LotusExcelle]

Drunk emailing is right on par with drunk dialing. Sometimes worse in fact because just typing away at the keyboard means you could say anything whereas on the phone someone can hang up on you.

Not that I've ever done anything like that. Ever. Nope. Not once.

[Neverfly]

1. it's 3am and you're half-asleep (I once sent, not a rude one, but an embarrassing one--I reread it the next day and realized I must have been dreaming when I typed it--made no sense, kind of like when you come up with this brilliant idea in the middle of the night, write it down before you forget it, go back to sleep, and the next morning look at the brilliant idea and find that the note says, "To prove Fermat's Last Theorem, just psychoanalyze the TV set.").

This describes my posting habits on BAUT perfectly.

[RalofTyr]

Never drink and email.

It's bad. You say stuff that you thought was important, but the next day, it was retarded.

[Whirlpool]

Never drink and email.

It's bad. You say stuff that you thought was important, but the next day, it was retarded.

Depends on what kind of "drink" you drank.

[RalofTyr]

A 40 and a 24, finished two hours before the email was sent, with a lot of time to get angry over that fact the years I've been friends with her, she never introduces me to any of the other girls she works with and knows. Enough to get mad that she might be keeping me as a spare.

[Whirlpool]

A 40 and a 24, finished two hours before the email was sent, with a lot of time to get angry over that fact the years I've been friends with her, she never introduces me to any of the other girls she works with and knows. Enough to get mad that she might be keeping me as a spare.

hmmm..

Who's 40 and who's 24? Regardless of age , what matters is who is Mature and who is Not mentally . You know the answer to that .

Anger , frustration are few factors that can drive you to type a novel with full of regretful words.

I'm guilty at that.

A 40 and a 24,

Apologies ..thought its about age.
That says I don't know much about beer .

[djellison]

I basically said that there was no space science of any note in the UK, the government chokes of funding, the public don't care, and I'm going to try and find work abroad.

That is a bit harsh coming from (it seems our shared hometown of..) Leicester. At least le.ac.uk is involved in a few space science projects. Swift, XMM-N, JWST and so on. Generally, though, you are right sadly.

I didn't know we (I work at an le.ac.uk spinout e-learning firm) had a cubesat on the cards though!

We need to chat - drop me a PM

Anyway - yes - I have sent emails I've then thought 'hmm- shouldn't have said that' - but usually they are of the 'shouldn't have sent anything' rather than 'should have said that differently'


Doug

[Damburger]

Leicester does have some nice projects, and some good people, but nowhere near the appropriate level of backing for it. Our country is run by a dour Scottish bean counter with the imagination of a brick, a kind of Brezhnev without the bling, so there is little vision to drive new science.

[BigDon]

E-mails?

Folks, I ran my face here and it got back to the real world and I annoyed a truely scarey SOB. Only annoyed mind you but still very sobering. The fact he is doing life with no parole is not that reassuring to me. I've sent apologies and thanks for the clarification of what really happened back up the line.