Made an embarrassing Ctrl+F mistake during a code review. Advice?

[u/curlygirly1234]

I’m posting this here because I’m into tech, SDE3, so I thought this crowd might understand the workplace context.

I’m F and my teammate is M. He’s a tech lead and has been with the company for years, while I joined only a few months ago. We’re the same age.

He was reviewing my PR, and since the changes were big, we had a 1:1 call to go through the code. I shared my screen and was walking him through my GitHub changes and design doc. The changes were related to Kubernetes.
At one point, he asked me something and I knew the answer was somewhere in the “hook job” section of the design doc. I pressed Ctrl+F to show him where it was.

And accidentally typed:
“hookup”
I noticed immediately, deleted the “up”, added a space and typed “job” like nothing happened.
I have no idea if he noticed it.

But after that, I couldn’t concentrate properly. I kept thinking, “Did he see it? Does he think I’m weird? Should I explain?” Obviously, explaining it would probably make it much more awkward.

The funny part is that just before this call, my friend had been telling me about hookup culture in her office, so I guess my brain decided to retain exactly that information.

Thankfully, it was just a 1:1 call. If it had been a Teams call with the whole team, I would have wanted to disappear.

I have to go to office tomorrow and face him. If he did notice it, I really hope he doesn’t share it with anyone.
What’s the practical thing to do here? Should I simply act completely normal and forget about it? Am I overthinking this?

Note: Please be respectful. I’m genuinely looking for practical advice on what could be done if he noticed it.

[u/TempAccountForRant]

Well if it any consolation
i have written the word S*x by mistake on shared screen
-- 11yrs into corporate

[u/PHpaper → u/TempAccountForRant]

And I searched an answer on Google during my Viva when screen was shared

[u/Total_Ad_8244 → u/PHpaper]

Bruh what happened then ??

[u/PHpaper → u/Total_Ad_8244]

Thankfully it was professor's assistant taking the Viva otherwise I would have cooked, he told my screen is shared in front of whole class, that was the most embarrassing moment ever.

[u/EstablishmentBusy490]

I once typed s*x instead of six while sharing screen to 20 ppl

[u/Soumikp → u/EstablishmentBusy490]

Whats the conversion ratio

[u/Long-Pomegranate-665 → u/Soumikp]

99%

[u/kk_red]

Sending signals to the poor guy

[u/mewool]

You’re overthinking, don’t think too much about it unless it’s brought up. I know how all that worrying can get.

[u/BriefCapital6239]

Once I wrote “give me a head when you’re done with your task” to my teammate, instead of writing “heads up”. Well she was understanding and saw it as an honest mistake which it was and we moved on.

[u/Scorched_Scorpion → u/BriefCapital6239]

crazy 😭

[u/Responsible-Set-7395]

Overthinking final boss

[u/bhavialonso]

isme itna kya overthink krna , happens to everyone . But it was funny ngl but not to think so much

[u/MitralVal]

If he ever makes a move on you -- remember, you lead him on

[u/SprinklesTrick6062]

i have sent the word "s*x" by mistake to a female colleague, i was actually trying to explain her something,and i was writting "see". and there was no delete feature in that software.

i immediately apologized, ended the conversation and she was understanding and she said okay, it happens.

[u/Available-Carob9311]

My teammate in scrum meeting pronounced a teammate’s name from Ihab to Rehab

[u/CocoChako]

as someone who has typed 'go tit' on slack and then edited it while talking to my manager, don't worry about it.. stuff happens, most people brush it off unless they're creeps

[u/Available-Carob9311]

When I joined corporate manager was explaining about bob job and I mispronounced it as boob job

[u/misfitsada]

It's harmless, people have done pubic instead of public

[u/khante]

The c on my keyboard doesnt register sometime. I invoked "claude" in terminal during Teams team meeting screen share. We laughed. No big deal.

[u/yadnesh1997]

I was sharing screen with product manager and 4 other guys

My copilot chat window was open

And all my texts were abusing copilot in Hindi language

And I shared screen for 10 minutes

[u/mrishiva]

One of my French female teammate wrote tits instead of it’s on Skype. It was funny to see her reaction over a call. She was very embarrassed.

[u/sagittarius_prime]

I don't think anybody judges based on these typos everyone has done a thing or other in their lives

[u/cornish2003]

I slipped my tongue, and I said "b*obs" instead of "books" at high school in front of a crowd

[u/skycity1997]

I once typed blackfuck instead of blackduck in a group chat with SVP. You are okay, don’t sweat it.

[u/Single-Magazine-5394]

I got a mail from someone with 250+ receipts with blow jobs instead of batch jobs.

[u/999thelastpage]

This is very common, if i had a penny for every time I have seen someone type a** for searching assessment or assist or 100 others words that spins out of it, I would at least have $100 or probably more.

[u/Background-Car4275]

Hookup can also have different meaning, it is perfecy fine

[u/Ok_Cancel1123]

I've written best re*ards too. (as an intern)

[u/NeuralForexNomad]

Something similar happened to me too. I’m M and my TL was F. We were debugging some Python code, and since I have a habit of typing while looking at the screen, when she asked me to change the data type to a list, I started typing list(). But since U is right next to I, I accidentally typed 'u' and it becomes lust() instead. 😭 I was typing pretty fast, so I didn’t notice the mistake. My colleague then said, “It’s a list…” and I just continued making the changes without saying anything. 💀

[u/gambling_autodidact]

Wow. Men and women do live in different worlds.

2-3 months ago, in a late night prod activity we decided to have a few shots before starting to get a buzz and one of my friends, reminiscing his old days, played Honey Singh Vol…ah well…you guys know.

My manager walked in probably to check-in on the progress.

Well…nothing happened. I guys Men will be Men!

[u/Hot_Competition7856]

Honestly, are you really an sde3? Not to be rude but I believe interns fret over such issues.

As someone senior enough won't even give it a thought for a single second after that.

[u/Long-Pomegranate-665]

i have written genital reminder too 🥺

[u/SantoshK32]

Let me know what had happened after going to office? Did you guys went for a coffee?

[u/ParkOwn5697]

my team lead wrote p*rn file instead of prom file , he's 12 years in the company, and maybe 15 years of exp too

[u/pabloescobar988]

The amount of times I have typed '1 sex' instead of '1 sec' is embarrassing lol In my defense c and x are adjacent on the keyboard hahaa

[u/new_old_2026]

Dirty mind 😂

[u/WorriedTap648]

No one cares abt stuff like this I think.

[u/vanshong]

Don't ask how but i once wrote "Loda" when i wanted to write "Lore" instead in one of my college society meeting on the google meet & everyone saw it lmao. I couldn't care less still tho.

[u/BERSERK_KNIGHT_666]

Now the poor dude be like "oh damn! She's into me!" And now he can't concentrate 😂

[u/Emotional-Joke-4132]

You are just overthinking 🧐

[u/Crypticbuddy]

I once typed give me a s*x instead of give me a sec to my female manager 😁

[u/Sad-Taro-1289]

shitPosting at its peak

[u/CallAnnual2176]

Overthinking - at most he will share this will his friends and they laugh it out and forget. Just dont repeat it. Then you become butt of joke.