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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Western-Crazy-9150 on 2026-05-04 15:28:32+00:00.

I recently decided to overhaul my professional presence. I wanted my digital signature to look immaculate. I spent an embarrassing amount of time formatting a sleek, professional image with my name and title. I even went out of my way to aggressively compress the JPG down so it would be perfectly between 10-50kb—that way, it would load instantly and wouldn't clog up anyone's inbox as a chunky attachment.

I finally got it perfectly sized, attached it to my email client, hit save, and have been firing off highly serious, professional emails for the last three weeks.

This morning, a client replied and said, "Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Also, interesting choice of sign-off."

I checked my sent folder. I didn't attach my beautifully optimized signature. I attached a heavily compressed, 45kb deep-fried meme of a raccoon eating garbage that I had saved to the exact same folder on my desktop.

I have sent this to 14 different executives, my landlord, and my dentist. I am currently considering changing my name and moving to the woods.

TL;DR: Tried to make my email signature perfectly optimized; accidentally signed off every professional email for three weeks as a trash-eating raccoon.