1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 2: Now, this is going to be fun. Stick with me. 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 2: Here we go. We're going to hear from Debbie in 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 2: Dundas and I have got a great story about when 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: you have received or sent something that shouldn't have gone 6 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 2: to that person to and it's very awkward, and we 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,920 Speaker 2: hear these stories all the time. But it's just worth 8 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 2: double checking before you reply all. 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 3: I naturally do a reply all. That's the concerning part. 10 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 3: I'm always a reply all guy. 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 2: I'm surprised you haven't been in this kind of well, I've. 12 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 3: Never inappropriate, so I don't know why that suggests I 13 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 3: should be canceled. 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 4: I love to run the gauntlet sometimes, write the text 15 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 4: messages quick as you can. There's a lot of confusion 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 4: as you do it. 17 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: And then you just said that shoot it off and 18 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: now okay, okay. What this guy did initially is like mortifying, 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: but his excuse is the way he's tried to talk 20 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 2: himself out of it is amazing. All right, this guy, 21 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: he's in the office and he has sent well he's 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 2: been sacked. Sorry, I'm getting so confused because I'm a 23 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 2: bit excited about the story. He's suing the San Francisco 24 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 2: DA's office after losing his job because of an accidental 25 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 2: reply all email. He's been sacked for six months and 26 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,080 Speaker 2: it's come around and he's thought, well, I've been dismissed, 27 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: but it's not fair and I'm going to talk my 28 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: way out of this, and I want people to hear it. 29 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 2: So he sent a message to He asked a married 30 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:34,680 Speaker 2: I'm getting excited. 31 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 3: Part of it. 32 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 2: He's basically done a reply all to the office and 33 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 2: has asked a married woman within the office what color 34 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: her underpants were. 35 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 5: That's not the wording. 36 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: Well, I don't like that word, and I don't yeah panties, 37 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 2: what color her panties were, before profusely apologizing in a 38 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: follow up seconds later. Now those three seconds I would 39 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: imagine when when he realized he sent the message. Oh, 40 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: the blood would run from your body, wouldn't it? Okay? 41 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: He then he's done it from the work, you know laptop. 42 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 2: I mean everything about it means. And this has been 43 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: his excuse. He was saying, this is what his lawyer 44 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 2: is telling the courts. He shouldn't be sacked because he 45 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,360 Speaker 2: accidentally sent that message to the office and asked the 46 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: married woman about the color of her nickers. But what 47 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 2: he was actually doing was he was in a text 48 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,919 Speaker 2: conversation with a friend of his who had recently lost 49 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 2: his father, and to lighten the mood about the death, 50 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: he just threw out because they are old school friends, 51 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 2: the way they normally talk to each other, what color 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 2: are your panties? 53 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 4: That's not like, excuse I love it. 54 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 2: This is the lawyer. This is the wording. It was 55 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: purely a text to friend and it was a whiz 56 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 2: whimsical question that was part of the plaintiffs standard jocular 57 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 2: repertoire with his friends. 58 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially after someone's died. I know any friends of 59 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,079 Speaker 3: mine that have lost their father's hostess fire off? What 60 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 3: color are open? 61 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 5: Yeah? 62 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 2: Rather than saying, how are you going? What are your undies? 63 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 4: I would have gone I would have gone spell checker, 64 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 4: I would have gone wouldn't that's changed? I was asking 65 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,799 Speaker 4: what color are your parties? Or could you have gone 66 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 4: down another road? I know you've got to think quick 67 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 4: because you've seen it out there, You've thought, well, this 68 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 4: is my job on the line here. 69 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 2: I don't think he thought it much. 70 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 3: Rhyme with much either. 71 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 5: Do they. 72 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 3: Check that is that's a really tricky one. 73 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 2: Should we speak to Debbie and dundask because I think 74 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 2: she's had a very similar what happened encounter by guys? 75 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 4: Are you? 76 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 5: Yeah? I received the chext message one weekend. It was 77 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 5: actually received a text message from a staff member and 78 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 5: I opened it up and it was a full frontal 79 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 5: nudity taken in by a selfie in the mirror. 80 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 4: Paster mirror, Debbie, do you were close to this person? 81 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 5: No? No, no, no, he's one of my staff. I was 82 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 5: his boss. So I just set back a message saying 83 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 5: I really don't think this is an appropriate photo. Just 84 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 5: send to your boss. There was quite a weight between 85 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 5: the reply message from him saying sorry, wrong person, and 86 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 5: I just set back another text saying this will never 87 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 5: be spoken of again. 88 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 4: From how much over time did you give him, Debt? 89 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 3: Was he looking for a payrise, Debbie? 90 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 5: Or the third Monday morning back was very awkward? 91 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: How do you recover from that kind of thing? 92 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 4: See, this is what I love about Debbie, and that 93 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 4: could be instant dismissal without a doubt. But Debbie understands 94 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 4: that this is a mistake. 95 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's between one like that between two people, 96 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 2: and you can and you can never speak of that again. 97 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 2: If you've accidentally sent it to the offer. 98 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 3: You know what, You've got that over that person the 99 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 3: entire time. 100 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, give us a call if you have a similar story. 101 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 4: Georgia in the Oaks, you receive the wrong message, Georgia, Yes. 102 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: I received a message from a customer one night saying 103 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,360 Speaker 1: I love you. 104 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 2: Okay, So do you work in retail or somewhere. 105 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: I work in the heavy vehicle industry with truck and 106 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: I know he was very intoxicated at the time. 107 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 4: So, Georgia, there was an element of truth to it. 108 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 5: Did you find out afterwards? 109 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: I feel like it was. And I got to text 110 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: the next morning saying I'm sorry, wrong person. 111 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 2: Well it is you go to excuse Yeah, I mean 112 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 2: it's sometimes better to say I didn't mean to send 113 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 2: that to you rather than explain it. I love the person. 114 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 3: Yeah, And Georgie, do you think he was attracted to 115 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 3: Do you think he was attracted to you? 116 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: There is a possive. 117 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 3: Georgia. 118 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 4: Do you still give him the old you know, when 119 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 4: you drive past him on the truck do you give 120 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 4: him the old thumbs up? Or no conversation at all? 121 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,040 Speaker 1: Now, Georgia, It was very awkward for about two weeks, 122 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: but I have to see him every couple of days, 123 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: so it's kind of died down now and it's not 124 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: as awkward. We tried to forget about it, Georgia. 125 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 3: If I don't know whether you're in a relationship or not, 126 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 3: but is there any chance, I mean, would you consider 127 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 3: this guy if you're possibly single, would. 128 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: There be anything? I'm happily engaged. 129 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 3: We all say that until the Hen's night, if you 130 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 3: know what I mean, Georgia. 131 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 4: I've always thought about truckies in love, and you know, 132 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 4: finding love at truck stops. 133 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: And do you want to find a trucky. 134 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,840 Speaker 4: You've got that beautiful, comfortable a bit behind you as 135 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:47,679 Speaker 4: well in your truck. 136 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 3: It's just magnificence is the weirdest thing I've ever heard since. 137 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 3: Whip with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast great shows 138 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 3: like this. Download the Nova Player, find the app store, 139 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 3: m