An office bookkeeper, who was sacked after accidentally sending a text message to her boss calling him a "complete dick", has failed to convince a tribunal that it was just a light-hearted insult.

Louise Nesbitt lived out a workplace nightmare last year after mistakenly sending the text to her employer instead of her daughter's boyfriend who had been contracted to conduct plumbing work at her office.

Texting an insult to the boss had disastrous consequences Credit:Silvia Izquierdo

In the text message of January 12, intended for the plumber, Ms Nesbitt described her boss as a "complete dick", adding, "we know this already so please try your best not to tell him that regardless of how you feel the need".

She immediately realised her mistake, and frantically sent an apologetic follow-up text, saying: "Rob, please delete without reading. I am so so so sorry. Xxx."