<p>We have all experienced that awful feeling after hitting the 'send' button and realizing a copy of a sensitive or confidential email has inadvertently gone to the wrong person.</p><p>Usually, the situation is simply embarrassing. Not so for Maria Fernandes, a Mississauga employee of healthcare communications company Marketforce Inc. In March 2011, she accidentally received an email discussing whether or not she should be fired.</p><p>Court documents allege that Linda Guerin, the company's Director of Operations intended to send the email to the company's lawyers. Too late she realized Fernandes was also on the list and she unsuccessfully sent three recall notices. She also sent an email to Fernandes asking that she delete the message without opening it.</p><p>Fernandes read it, treated the information in the email as a constructive dismissal and hired a lawyer. A few weeks later, she left her job as a Director of Client Services at Marketforce, which subsequently amalgamated with Sudler &amp; Hennessey ULC. Fernandes claimed in a court filing, she had effectively been fired. She had worked for the company for over six years and was earning $145,000 a year.</p><p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/spending_saving/2013/05/07/how_a_reply_all_email_led_to_a_lawsuit.html">Keep reading...</a></p>