He got fired over and email

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According to Lindy’s Stat Chat – on Mondays at least 30% of office workers spend almost half their day doing something they shouldn’t:

So if they spend only three and a half hours doing actual work, then how much time is missed ignoring emails that they should be attending to? The Smile Breakfast team might be guilty of this:

We got a call from someone who also sent a passive aggressive work email, but the consequences were a little harsher:

There are 2 lessons here – don’t EUI (email under the influence) and always remember that some words can and will be misinterpreted in emails.

Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.

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