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16 times people accidentally texted their boss

It happens to the best of us.

Andy Moser

on September 9, 2019

We all know the feeling: You think you're typing up a perfectly fine text and you hit send like it's nothing. You wait for your friend/relative/partner to reply. Suddenly, your phone vibrates.

You check to see the response and your heart drops to the floor. You start to sweat as existential panic sets in. You want to just take a sledgehammer to your phone and debate ever owning one ever again if it brings you this much embarrassment and shame.

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That's right, you texted the wrong person. Even worse, it's your boss. Perhaps the only thing that takes even a fraction of the sting out such a humiliating mistake is knowing that plenty of other people have done the exact same thing.

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Hopefully this list can be therapeutic in some way. Either that, or it'll just make you relive your texting misfires all over again. If that's the case, well... sorry in advance!

1. Your boss better have thanked you

2. Could have gone worse

3. I got “ME!” Am I fired?

4. When you’re caught, you’re caught

5. When the boss is a total dick

6. See yo birch ass later, Greg.

7. Not sure you sold this one…

8. That late-stage capitalism life

9. Oops

10. Reader, we never found out why Shawn sounds like an asshole

11. When you really don’t get paid enough for this shit

12. I’ll pitch my Saw parody ideas to anyone who will listen

13. A surprisingly wholesome response

14. Haha jk jk

15. Got caught looking at other jobs

16. Good luck with that

Andy Moser

Andy is a fellow on Mashable's Culture team. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of North Florida in 2018 and moved to New York to pursue journalism in culture and entertainment. He can (and will) talk for too long about Star Wars and movies in general. His fear of stinging insects and 80+ degree weather will keep him inside forever. He wishes he were shorter.