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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 1: Accidentally sent an email or a text message to the

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Speaker 1: wrong person. It's nothing worse. You've commented on the wrong boat.

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Speaker 2: You reverse it now, isn't there? Do you have to

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Speaker 2: get onto it pretty quickly? Can you delete a message?

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Speaker 1: I think you can delete a text message. You can

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Speaker 1: delete an email if nobody's seen it. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're in an organization like what happened to this bloke.

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Speaker 1: This has actually turned out well for him fits because

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Speaker 1: basically he's come out and said, I had two hours sleep,

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Speaker 1: I needed to send an email to my boss, and

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Speaker 1: I sent a group all. But what he wrote was

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Speaker 1: he had to give some updates on some numbers because

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Speaker 1: he's a financial analysis. So he just wrote to his boss,

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Speaker 1: nothing big, just use your numbers, they're on track. I'll

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Speaker 1: up you update you later. By the way, I've resigned. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: he started getting all these comments, emails, firing back. Somebody

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Speaker 1: else sends flowers to the house saying things, so much

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Speaker 1: for your time. He then got a phone call from

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Speaker 1: the boss going what do you mean you've resigned. He

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Speaker 1: meant to write, I've re signed. He gets a call

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Speaker 1: into the next day. He's march straight up to what

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Speaker 1: they've called the President's office and sat down, and the

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Speaker 1: President's gone, why are you leaving? Please don't leave. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a promotion to make you stay.

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Speaker 1: And before he got a chance to say it was

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Speaker 1: a typo. He's taken a promotion at the business or

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Speaker 1: because he accidentally typed having not slept, that he'd resigned

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Speaker 1: instead of.

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Speaker 2: Recess, so it's actually been beneficial for him. This happens regularly,

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Speaker 2: mattin Bargo, tell us about your email file.

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Speaker 3: Matt, yeah, I get that, guys. Brought up a couple

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Speaker 3: of years ago is when I was a team leader

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Speaker 3: in an office environment and I always used to send

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Speaker 3: kind of recaps of my conversations to myself after any meeting.

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Speaker 3: That was just to make sure I had everything documented.

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Speaker 3: This particular conversation was a pretty bad performance performance based

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Speaker 3: one was a bloozy, The guy was rude, antagonistic, there

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Speaker 3: you go, just pretty much an idiot. So I recapped

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Speaker 3: the conversation like I always do, but I included what

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Speaker 3: I thought of him, and instead of sending that to myself,

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Speaker 3: I sent it to him.

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Speaker 2: Any expletives in there, Matt.

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Speaker 4: Yes, So it ended up going down the whole HR

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Speaker 4: complaint road show dragged out for a week. Then I

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Speaker 4: don't say to say I don't do that anymore. I

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Speaker 4: don't send recap emails to myself anymore.

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Speaker 1: And what was the first contact, Like the moment you

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Speaker 1: realized you'd sent it to him? Did he write back?

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Speaker 4: He wrote back and c seed the HR representative into

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Speaker 4: the email.

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Speaker 1: Bought a beauty, brought a beauty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.

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Speaker 1: I was in a car with guy once. There was

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Speaker 1: a new bloke that had started at work. Anyway, someone

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Speaker 1: sent a message to him saying, what's the new book?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 1: He wrote back. He then typed, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: he did it. He typed to the new guy and

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Speaker 1: said the new bloke is a half back flanker which

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Speaker 1: rhymes with winkra, and sent it to him. So he

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Speaker 1: then had to He tried to fix the issue by

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Speaker 1: suggesting that that was the most crucial man on a

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Speaker 1: football field, the half back flanker, and every team needs

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Speaker 1: a strong half and just dug himself into an absolute hole.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jamie's given his kill from Richmond. You've got an

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Speaker 2: E fail email fail what happened to you, Jamie?

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Speaker 6: Yes, I do. I'd put in leave about six months

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Speaker 6: in advance, and he got declined by my boss. So

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Speaker 6: I had email the coworker of mine, or so I thought,

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Speaker 6: could be about my leaving the client. Yeah, and pretty

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Speaker 6: much just saying that if the leaves not approved, I'll

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Speaker 6: be calling sick anyway, I will not be at work

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Speaker 6: that day.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, did you use any words describe.

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Speaker 6: A different co worker because coworker and boss have the

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Speaker 6: same name.

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Speaker 2: Ah, there you go there?

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Speaker 1: Do you use any bad words to describe the boss?

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Speaker 6: There were a couple of bad words in there. Yes,

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Speaker 6: my children using yes.

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Speaker 2: Did you get the time off? Or did you take

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Speaker 2: the sickness off Jamie?

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Speaker 7: Or what did you do?

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Speaker 6: I did eventually get the time off.

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Speaker 5: He went to it.

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Speaker 6: I asked another manager and they approved it.

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Speaker 2: Well, nice work around, James and camera James. Where did

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Speaker 2: the email go?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 4: Boys?

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Speaker 7: I was working for a client and they were working

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Speaker 7: on a fifty million dollar acquisition to bolts into their business,

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Speaker 7: and I needed to calculate the redundancies on all the duplicate.

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Speaker 2: Control No, no, yep.

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Speaker 7: I had two versions of the worksheet, one to get

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Speaker 7: information from the target company and the other for our

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Speaker 7: own calculations, and I accidentally sent the one that flags

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Speaker 7: all the redundancies to the CFO of that business late

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Speaker 7: on a Friday afternoon when there was no one else

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Speaker 7: in the office but me, and I was kind of

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Speaker 7: reasonably junior at the.

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Speaker 2: Time, and then that would have gone over the whole weekend.

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Speaker 2: You couldn't rectify that, James, could you?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 3: It?

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Speaker 6: Was it?

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Speaker 7: So I was freaking out, had the biggest stomach drop

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Speaker 7: of all times, and I called one of the partners upstairs,

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Speaker 7: who I knows had similar f ups in the past,

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Speaker 7: and asked him how to recall an email. And so

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Speaker 7: what I did was recalled the email and sent it

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Speaker 7: fifteen times again, recalling each time, but each time I

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Speaker 7: added the new attachment. I added the right one. I

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Speaker 7: added the right one, and then I called the CFO

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Speaker 7: and said, look, there's something wrong with my email. Just

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Speaker 7: delete all them. I'll send you the right one on Monday.

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Speaker 2: I just he just tried to muddy the waters, Jim.

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Speaker 7: I completely muddied the waters and the deal went through.

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Speaker 7: But this was a global firm, so I ended up

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Speaker 7: meeting the CEO of the global firm for the first

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Speaker 7: time my life, which was which was interesting, but I

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Speaker 7: lived to fight another day.

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Speaker 1: And you're James the email guy.

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Speaker 2: Very quick on your feet, James, I like it, Samantha

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Speaker 2: and Cabra Matta. Did you send a message to the

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Speaker 2: wrong person?

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 5: So I was a living nanny and Melbourne years ago

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Speaker 5: and I was seeing a guy and I sent him

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Speaker 5: a message, like an explicit message, telling him how great

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Speaker 5: he was, and all the things went into a lot

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Speaker 5: of detail. And he had the same name as my

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Speaker 5: nanny dad, and I accidentally sent it to my nanny dad.

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Speaker 2: Your nanny dad, Ye, who looks after the King?

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Speaker 1: What a moment.

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Speaker 5: It was like. I left it a month later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll do, so you're later. I had a mate

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Speaker 1: who he was going to break up with his girlfriend

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Speaker 1: at the time, and he went around there and they

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Speaker 1: sat on the bed for a while and there was

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Speaker 1: a few tears, and then he broke up with her.

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Speaker 1: He then went to send me a message that said, mate,

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Speaker 1: good news, I'm back in the game. He sent it

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Speaker 1: to her.

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Speaker 6: Oh crush, you idiot.

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Speaker 2: Why would he be sending that to you. It's not

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Speaker 2: like you're a good wing man.

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Speaker 1: I was the Ultimate wing Man. He's a lot better

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Speaker 1: looking than me. Mate. I helped him out many times.

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