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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Yummy_Castoreum on 2026-08-05 00:41:53+00:00.

Due to recent downsizing at my organization, I'm now doing 4 people's jobs and am a little frazzled. One of the responsibilities I recently took on is creating e-learning courses.

Our courses ask for your name on the first page, so they will address you as whatever you type in. I was endlessly testing and revising the course, and to amuse myself I put in the name "asshole" so it would say "Welcome, asshole." I showed the page to my coworker and said "I think it's tired of all my revisions, it's cursing at me now!" We had a little laugh. Eventually I finished, published the course, and emailed all 750 employees the link to the course, noting that it was mandatory.

Little did I know that whatever you type into the name field during testing is saved to the file as the default text unless you erase it. So 750 people opened up a course that greeted them as "asshole."

I started receiving screenshots from supervisors immediately.

You can't delete a course file from our LMS, you can only replace it. And this file is huge, so once fixed it took a few minutes to recompile and re-save over the original. I frantically recalled the email but it was too late, the thing was out there.

Apparently I'll be hearing from the Director tomorrow. Wish me luck.

TL;DR: Accidentally called 750 people assholes, dreading the impending consequences.