I just did mine about 45 minutes ago.
Some of my team here at work send around "success Stories." they annoy the heck out of most of us, and we just delete them and whine about it to each other. But on the last shift, we NEVER do it, because we're not into that.
So, anyway, it's a busy night, and our supervisor has stayed a little late. And she writes this friggin NOVEL for her little sale with a guy. So I roll my eyes, and figure it's time for a little rant to two of hte guys who'd agree with me.
So I hit reply and clear out hte TO line (you've GOT To clear out that line, first thing, before you type ANYTHING rant-y). And I send it to two of my buds, and just add something like "This chick is driving me insane." ANd I hit send
But I'm paranoid, so I double check after sending to see who got it.
And that's when I see the CEO's name in the CC field.
After about 30 seconds of panic (I assure you, I have to get new jeans now) I manage to regain the presence of mind to recall the message (thank heavens for Outlook!). Recall only works if the message has not been read by the particular recipient, but Outlook will tell you if it has been successful or not.
Except that Outlook 2002 doesn't report that to Outlook 98 properly. Guess which respective versions my boss and I are using?
Yeah, well, I know he left the building about an hour before the incident, but I know some of the exec's check their mail at home throughout the evening, so maybe.
On the other hand, now that it's been about an hour, and he hasn't called to tell me to get the hell out of Dodge, I'm pretty sure I'm safe, assuming the system works right (we use an exchange server, so I don't think he can use anything besides outlook to read the mail).
But if I'm unemployed tomorrow, because he just wants to do it in person, well, you already know what happened.