Ha, I have to tell you all an embarrassing story.* I whittled the application for that work leadership course down to 10,000 characters and submitted it Tuesday night. On Thursday my supervisor chatted me that she just finished reading my application and how proud she was of me and excited to write her recommendation. I thanked her and told her I really needed to hear that this week. Then she went on to say how she’s seen so much growth in me, especially in tough weeks like last week. Or something like that.
Whatever she said made me feel really good so I took a screenshot of it to email to myself and put in my “KUDOS” folder, a folder I keep of nice things like that at work to look at when I’m feeling low.
About 30 minutes later I realized I never got the email I sent to myself with the screenshot. I was like, “Oh shit, where’d it go?!”
Sigh.
My supervisor has the same first name as me. Even though I was trying to be careful and select my email, I sent it to her.
So, she got a screenshot of a conversation we had, with the subject “Kudos from Kimberly.”
I felt dumb for about a minute then responded to the email with an “LOL” and told her I meant to send that to myself for my kudos folder because what she said made me feel so good. I told myself “hey, at least now she knows her words are making an impact!”
And thankfully she responded that she figured as much and liked seeing that I was sending it to myself. Or trying to. Ha.
Seriously though. Come on Kim. Last week was so hectic. I need to SLOW DOWN this week. Take my time. Think things through. Double check things.
*Not as embarrassing as the time you thought Lulu’s was a Italian place, Stephany. Like, OMG.
This is too funny. There have been times when Outlook did me dirty with autofilling emails. I’ve had some very close calls.
Always check twice, or thrice, right?!
Oh, who hasn’t done something like this? I once sent an email that was supposed to go to a former colleague, updating him on how well my office plant was doing at my new job. The man who was helping me refinance my mortgage was a bit surprised to get a photo of Seymour!
I also called someone whose name was in my phone, and who shared a first name with my hairdresser, and neither of us could figure out how we even knew each other! Why did I have her number in my phone?
Ha! That is amazing about the plant! It makes me think about how my husband texted his freezer repair guy George his flight plan for this weekend instead of his instructor, George.
Whoa! Now that is bizarro!!!!
But, like, IMAGINE thinking Lulu’s was a Thai restaurant! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I have the same first name as a woman who is in the C-suite and sometimes I get emails that should have gone to her and I’m like, “I think this decision is above my pay grade???” Lololol. Or “why am I being sent a meeting invite for this thing I know nothing about?!” It’s fun.
I cannot. That is too ridic!
Oh funny! Just attend and they’ll be like, wtf? Yesterday I got an invite for a different Kim that doesn’t even work at my company anymore (or so I thought) and was making fun of it to Steven then said “wait, I literally just wrote a post about emailing the wrong Kim.” Oops. Also, that Kim is back! So many Kims.
I LOVE that you have a kudos folder. Everybody should keep one… it’s important to remember the kind things other people have said to us for the low moments in life when we’re questioning our worth!
Yes! I need to put a reminder in my calendar to open mine at least once a week lol. Or more.