I wrote a rude email and it got forwarded

A reader writes:

I was having an issue with a department at my company. I wrote a venting email to a coworker (I know…) and she forwarded it to a number of people to try to get me help with my problem. Unfortunately, it had all of my original email attached. I didn’t call anyone out by name, but it wasn’t a great tone. I was frustrated and it showed.

Needless to say, I apologized to everyone who got the email and assured them that I was being helped. Do I need to do anything further? I’m super embarrassed and have learned my lesson.

I answer this question — and two others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometimes updating/expanding my answers to them). You can read it here.

Other questions I’m answering there today include:

• Everyone has ideas, but no one wants to do the work
• How can I explain declining to recommend a former friend?

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