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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/EverySection509 on 2026-07-29 02:02:21+00:00.

There’s a big (and fancy) fundraiser gala coming up at work this coming Friday night, with some pretty fancy speakers from NASA, some old money people, etc, etc. And one of my co-workers asked if anyone had an apron or toolbelt for them to use so they could carry around raffle tickets, pens, stuff like that.

Now, I have two kinds of emails I send while at work. I have the normal, professional ones that begin with "Hello (name)," and end with "Best, (name)". Formal. Professional.

And then there are the types of emails I send out to my manager, and a few other coworkers that include gifs and stickers and the like. I'm also the youngest person at this workplace (23F), with the next youngest person being my manager and she is in her early 30's. So there are two types of demographics here- the laid back millennial crowd, and the traditional pen-and-paper notetakers.

So that request email comes from one of the co-workers I am close with. And I, being who I am, decide to send her a half helpful half joking email. Because I do have an apron she could use. It's not super fancy gala type, but it's still technically what she asked for. A brown apron, which I got off amazon vine when I got on a healthy cooking kick in college. It has a cute little crab in the corner. Amazon vine is a service where you receive items on amazon for free in exchange for writing detailed reviews, preferably accompanied with photos/videos. So I have a photo of me in this apron that I took for my amazon review, and put it in this email. Me, making a bodybuilder-esque flexing pointing pose with my crab apron. I send it over, and only after it has fully gone through and sent did I notice it went to EVERYONE.

My boss. My boss's boss. The event planners. Even contracted workers. EVERYONE.

Another awful part is that the people here love to troll. There's this thing called the "Wall of Nate" (Nate is a placeholder name) for a coworker i'm going to call Nate, which is a bulletin board in the common area of photos of him, eating fries, riding a motorcycle, as a fake magazine cover, dressed as a headless horseman. There are photos of other people which get posted to their doors when they're gone, like wanted posters when someone is on PTO.

One coworker emailed me immediately back and said they're now going to be calling me 'Crab Queen'. They also said the photo has gone into a 'database'. I'm so fucked. I just started here a handful of months ago and have not yet been subjected to bad photoshopped photos of myself, and I fear i've placed the first fuel in the fire.

Worst part is, she doesn't even want to use my apron.

TL;DR: I sent a photo of myself in a stupid pose wearing an apron to my entire company and now I fear I am going to be office-trolled for the foreseeable future. Photo in comments.