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Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Most recently thought I was emailing a colleague directly. Turned out to be the entire defense bar in our county. Fkcu. Wouldn't have been so bad but it dimed out someone that had done some shady stuff to both of us.

Yikes. I sent an email to my old boss 4-5 years ago that "a 'customer' was doing XYZ, blah, blah, blah." It wasn't that bad, I didn't say the customer was a dumbaß or anything like that, but it certainly wasn't something that I would have said to the customer directly. But my boss forwarded the email thread to the customer who had scrolled down enough to see my statement and actually responded to it. It was a learning moment. Don't send anything in email that you don't want potentially anyone else to see even if you think the audience is "safe."
Another time years ago, I wanted to gripe about a coworker and chatted my gripe to another coworker, except that I chatted it to the coworker that I was griping about.
Fortunately, in both cases, the language was matter of fact, not particularly inflammatory, and in both cases, while I'd have preferred to NOT have my statements seen by the folks they were seen by, I was comfortable standing behind both statements if push came to shove.

Originally Posted by matthewb0051

Also made the mistake of talking with a reporter last December after a client died in the county jail. Told him I was only giving him background. MFer quoted me. He is on the top of the dodo list.

Yikes! Never trust the media!