A co-worker of mine got an email this morning from a manager in another department that contained a list of items to be discussed in a conference call. One of the items was as follows:
Bwaaaahahahahaha!! ::snort::
The urge to respond with smartassery was very strong, but she managed to contain herself and be content with the knowledge that the email was copied to a number of higher-ups. 
The publishing company I work for (called "EveComCo for purposes of this thread) recently bought a magazine called American [Whatever] (again, for purposes of this thread).
This new was e-mailed to everyone in the company, but the “subject” line on the e-mail was truncated to read, “EveComCo has purchased America . . . .”
Not so much a memo, but on one of our major publications that is distributed statewide, we routinely publish the names of sponsors and affiliates. One of them is a local restaurant. Proudly displayed in bold lettering (for 3 years, before anyone noticed!) we claimed alliance with:
Marie Livingston’s Streak House
A little personal experience here… “Public” very easily becomes “Pubic” and spellchecker won’t help one bit.
'Nuff said about that
We have an extremely attractive gal here that works in the billing department. My PC was on the fritz and I needed her to “put” in my time for me.
However, I emailed her and accidentally asked her to pat me down for 9 hours that day.
Well there was a little typo in a brochure that I created. In touting the experience of our mechanics:
“Our technicians have over 500 combined years of sexperience”
Thankfully that version never made it to the printers.
Somebody at my company once sent out an email with a Christmas party announcement. The email had lots of HTML bells and whistles, and weighed in at about 4 mb.
He sent it to 400 people.
Then he noticed it had a typo in it, so he corrected it and resent it.
3.2 GB of email in about 20 seconds. The guys from the IT department went by his desk and had a little chat with him once they figured out who slagged half our mail servers…
On the applications for appointed counsel that my prospective clients are required to fill out before they get a free lawyer, there is a section where they are supposed to list their charges. I had one guy write “bad checks (Mr. Meaner)”. I had another one attempt to spell “marijuana” several times, mark through all of the attempts, and finally write “possession of weed”. And I won’t even try to tell you how many people spell “burglary” “buggery”.
And **Coward,**, I did get a letter addressed to "The Pubic Defender" once. I took it to the presiding Judge and told him that if I was going to have to do that, I wanted a raise.Someone at work today asked “who has more clot, me or Dan”
Neither are hemophiliacs, but one has a PHD
When I worked at TI a memo went around informing everyone that we were going to have mandatory staff meetings the first Tuesday of each week.
Not a memo, a work related e-mail.
One of our sales guys asked former (big jerk of a) cow-orker to send him a digital copy of a diagram so he could forward it to a client. My (big jerk of a) cow-orker sent him the diagram. The sales guy forwarded it to his client, but didn’t check the body of the message first.
Months later, while cleaning out his Sent Mail folder, he took a closer look. The body of the message, which had been sent along to the client said:
“Here’s the graphic for that f**king putz!”
That explains why we never heard back from our (former) client.
My co-worker, a new intern from Japan, was asked to type up spec notes for a building.
A bad mistake was made when it was sent to the printers without being checked.
everywhere in the set, one could find “Genital Notes”, instead of" General Notes".
:eek:
oh, and how about this one. It’s not quite what the OP asked for, but it fits in:
My husband went to pick up a disk of logos from a client.
He got the cd and went back to the office.
oops.
The cd was the man’s meticulously kept porn collection.
Did either of your coworkers get dismissed for that gaffe?
She said it was a former coworker 
My favorite was from my director at a former employer. The memo was on some new buzzwording initiative, and probably had something to do with integrating synergy with e-commerce (it being the height of “the bubble” and all).
The opening clause went something like this: “In our ongoing effort to make our job less effortless…”
Absolutely beautiful accidental honesty. Less effortless. Inspired!
The gaffe wasn’t discovered until several weeks after he’d been terminated for other reasons.
The sales guy was innocent really. He’d only been expecting a JPG file and assumed the body of the message would be empty. (Now, of course, he always checks first.)
I fill prescriptions for drug studies at my job. About a month ago, there was question as to my counting abilities, because a paitent claimed that the pill bottle they received was short X amount of pills. The situation was resolved through an inventory count, but it made me look like an idiot who can’t count.
Well, yesterday, I sent an email to all of the principle investigators regarding some new information. I had a numbered list of things that needed to be put into effect. How did I number them, you ask? Why, like this!
1. blah blah blah
2. blah blah blah
2. blah blah blah
3. blah blah blah
:rolleyes:
A few years ago my company gave out mouse pads to celebrate our partnership with a new client. The pads had the logos of the two companies on them and in big letters read “Building a Team of Exellence.” Yes, “exellence.” Within a few minutes, a manager came around to retrieve the mistakes. I smuggled mine out the back door and proudly use the mouse pad to this day.
Not quite the same, but I have a textbook that was originally in German. They obviously hired a translator who was a German major and not a chemist or other science major, as the phrase “null modem” in German was translated into “zero modem” for English.