The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Two cousins, Maria and Leslie, discussing wild personal experiences in relationships, current events, and just life. We are sharing our experiences for relatability and entertainment. There will be laughs with a lot of gasps and we will also get down to the very intimate and raw details of the dating world and life lessons at every turning point.
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The C.H.O.D.E.S. Podcast
Two Tales of Career Paths! (part 1)
Ever wondered whether to let your guard down or build walls on social media? Our latest episode celebrates a significant milestone with 250 downloads, and we've got a spicy take on the friendships that flourish (and sometimes falter) online. As your hosts, we get real about the sting of betrayal and how it shapes our circle of trust. We also acknowledge your calls for more intimate revelations from us, weighing the thrill of openness against the value of privacy. Plus, we debate if the daring name of our podcast could be scaring away potential listeners or if it's the magnet that draws you all in.
Join us as we recount tales of career transformations amidst the global pandemic whirlwind. These stories aren't just about job titles; they're about the human experience behind them and the thread of resilience that runs through every career shift.
We wrap up with an honest chat about the stress desserts served up in various industries. From the office to the service counter, we dissect the unique flavors of job-related pressure, healthcare compensation myths, and the sharp zest of age dynamics in the workplace. We're prepping you for next week's topic, too: finding joy in our jobs. For now, bid farewell to the humdrum and tune in for a generous helping of candid discussion on work-life balance, economic ripples, and the pursuit of satisfaction in the place we spend so many of our waking hours.
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Hi everyone, welcome to Cousin's, honestly, openly Discussing Everything Spicy.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Chotes.
Speaker 1:You added a turf.
Speaker 2:It was. It was an honor of one of them. You know, one of our favorite people. Since she's not talking to me, I have this I have to send smoke signals. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Dedicated to our besties.
Speaker 2:Hey babe, how you doing.
Speaker 1:Good guess what.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Already done this for a month and a half.
Speaker 2:No, for real. It feels like oh, I don't know how I mean, I'm stressed.
Speaker 1:She's like.
Speaker 2:I'm stressed. Yeah, like I feel like this kind of takes a lot of time. That I didn't take into account when I had the idea to have a podcast. But I'm pretty happy because you know, after 10 years of saying I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it, we finally are doing it. And yeah, six weeks is. It's an accomplishment.
Speaker 1:It is. How do you feel this is your baby. Oh, this is your baby girl, like I know you're putting in time and dedication to it. I mean, I like it. It's fine we get to discuss things that we normally discuss, but you know, now we have people, outsiders listening into it. You know they're getting to know us a little better. They're finding out things about us that maybe they shouldn't have known, but now they know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean we did say it since the beginning, like if you know people are going to listen, they're going to listen. It's out there for a reason you know. Once you put something on the internet, it's there for forever. And I have news for you. I got an email today from bus sprout that we have 250 downloads in six weeks.
Speaker 1:Oh nice Yay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's pretty. That's a pretty good amount, I think, right.
Speaker 1:I mean, we don't have a lot of followers on Instagram, but I don't know why we have a lot of dramas. The haters.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:So some people are they're out there. They're out there, that's funny.
Speaker 2:But the haters are your biggest fans usually, you know like they follow you because they want to see what you're doing. I know it's the fake friends we got to worry about, girl. Speaking of fake friends, I have a friend who I met at a house party a long, long time ago and it was literally the only time we saw each other, but we kind of talk on the Instagram every now and then. Right, and then she posted a thing saying that her page got banned because she was trying to sell something, something on her private stories, like on her close friend stories. Girl, tell me why. Somebody reported her page and she was like I can't fucking believe this, like it really comes from within, because who else could have reported her page other than her close friends, you know, right, so gotta watch out for that man if she considers them close friends and they go and rat her out on her hustle.
Speaker 1:Fuck that, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:That's fucked up. That's why I don't have close. I mean I have close friends, but I never post there, I just post on the yeah, like on Instagram, you know.
Speaker 1:I really like it. I have close friends. I have close friends. Yeah, yeah, I know, I kept my known haters out.
Speaker 2:I was very smart of you.
Speaker 1:Come on, next is but.
Speaker 2:Like girl. For me it's crazy because over like 150, 80 people watch my stories and like I'll get, I'll get like two likes, three likes, or like when I post questions or engagements and stuff like that, it's always the same three people that are talking, talking back, you know, like commenting something or something, and it's people that I would have never expected. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure, no, usually I have those yeah.
Speaker 2:But speaking of people talking back to us, have you gotten any feedback?
Speaker 1:Yes, Just that you know, since our name given, our name right. We're openly, honestly discussing everything. We need to be more open. People want more details, you know, in regards to what we talk about. So do you guys want us to tell you, like, what position we were in, how long it took? Because we're at a loss here, because we thought we were saying plenty. Well, I guess we're not saying plenty, Mariah, I mean we're trying, but like, how about you try?
Speaker 2:sit behind a microphone and talk about your life in a way that people are going to interpret the way that they want to interpret? You know, like we know, that doing this is like we agreed to people knowing more about us that they wouldn't have known otherwise. But I remember that one message that we got, like oh, you look like you'd be the one to fuck everybody and you think you're all that Like that's when we weren't even talking about detailed stuff.
Speaker 1:But yeah, we weren't even talking about anything sexual at that point. But now we're getting. We're getting that, we're warming up to you guys, Like we're finally opening up to you guys, we're openly, honestly, discussing everything but. But, we're just kissing it with each other for first. You know, like what do we want the world to know, like we honestly Be enchodes is for discussing.
Speaker 2:Now for details.
Speaker 1:Honestly openly details.
Speaker 2:Details about everything is no Well. Yeah, I also got feedback about our name.
Speaker 1:Right. I was like. That leads to that yeah.
Speaker 2:So you know, like I think for the type of, I personally think right for the type of content that we're putting out there, because we're talking about the people in our lives most of them that we're talking about have chosen right. So that kind of ties up to the name, but I was told that our name is not helping us to get found because people have like a negative connotation to the word, even though we're like trying to make it a what you call it acronym. Is that the correct?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is an acronym. But also, like you guys, I'm sorry to tell you, but we've been called toads all around. I don't know if that's a form of flattery, but I mean, we're not disgusting about shorting it is. Some people don't even know what chose me, so we're just that's been our nickname. So we're like why not Like make?
Speaker 2:it into an acronym.
Speaker 1:But, I don't know. For now the name is sticking, but if you guys have any ideas on names for us like, we're willing to listen. I mean, what? How back in again, we picked chose guys, this is true, this is true.
Speaker 2:And we did say like, because what was it originally? When we started with the ideas, it was like tea time with like with Les primas, and that was taken. And that was kind of taken over lives, the Chodes of our lives, the Chodes of our lives wasn't really taken, but there is a band called Chodes. I haven't listened to their, to their music. Maybe we should contact them and be like hey, do it. Me and my sponsor ask for a little bit.
Speaker 1:My cousin here is like sure I feel like a pigeon. He's doing a Cardi B over here.
Speaker 2:Girl. I don't even know where that came from.
Speaker 1:Honestly, every time I do it different because it just you should listen to my face. I say we should do the video one just to capture reactions. That's great.
Speaker 2:I think that's what people want when they talk about we should do a video podcast. That's another thing that we got on our feedback right. But to do the video podcast, I think let's have a first season. I don't know how many episodes you could do in a first season and then kind of have a little time in between to plan the video part of it. Because that and itself requires, if we're not going to be like in front of the camera, just both of us sitting down, we're going to need like three angles one camera that points to you, one to me and one in the middle. And unless we both take editing courses, girl, I don't have time.
Speaker 1:I know, I know you could do the audio or do the visual. But oh my God, I was thinking that I mean, like, can it be better than the card? And I'm already technologically challenged, so the most I'll do is just play the laptop in the center and be like Mariah get in frame, get in frame, our audio is going to be too shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you also have to think about the audio connecting to the like syncing with the camera. Oh girl, it's a lot. It's a lot. I've done my research and, trust me, it would be cool to do it, but it would be cool if we had, like, the financial means to pay somebody to do it. So that's kind of off my shoulders, our shoulders, and so we'll get there.
Speaker 1:We'll get there eventually, your shoulders.
Speaker 2:I want to be included. You have all the credit, girl you have all the credit I'm like I want to be included.
Speaker 1:You're putting in a lot of time and a lot of hard work, like. I'm here gathering listeners. I'm the advertisement. I'm here. What is it that you're publishing? There you go, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You're better at that, because clearly people on my side are not listening.
Speaker 1:I got another thing to all our listeners coming from my work area, which is this episode is going to you guys too.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you guys very, very much and the few on my side.
Speaker 1:I don't want to bash all of you.
Speaker 2:I got another thing said to me that they're like oh, just let your cousin be happy that she's in a relationship. Like, why are you hating? I was like, what the fuck? Like I'm not hating on her because you know last episode.
Speaker 1:I was like you got that Because I have to keep some stuff.
Speaker 2:So this is you know you get my authentic reactions. So right now my wife yeah, somebody told me and I was like dude, like that's just how we play around, Like literally no hate, Like I'm very happy for you. I mean I hope you know how many years?
Speaker 1:12 years, it's almost yeah.
Speaker 2:And the 12 years I was just sticking around.
Speaker 1:You were in a relationship and I was over here. Why can't you be single to join my team?
Speaker 2:She was not in a relationship for 12 years. I was on and off the streets. It would be clear no.
Speaker 1:I was. I know I was single for 12 years, that's all I'm saying. But you were in little relationships here and there.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah but somebody said that and I was like bro, like you clearly don't know us. No hate over here.
Speaker 1:That's okay, people will understand our dynamic. I think this is why it's it's interesting, right that we're doing this, because not a lot of people are close with their family members for, say, let alone cousins like this has a lot to do with me and you not having sisters and we were what in the way, raised by boys because our brothers yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and our brothers were friends when they were little.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we knew, we knew how to get bullied, and you know we're going to talk about that in another episode. Girl Bullying is necessary in life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, we'll get there. We'll get there because that normal. That also has to do with work, but we'll get to the next episode.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, this is going to be a two part episode just FYI, and you had this idea for us to talk about work, so I'm going to let you lead me into the conversation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to tell you, tell us, mariah, for those that don't know what you do for a living, kind of go in detail. Not so much I know because of our work and our accompanies. We work with there's NDAs here, you know. So just let us know what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you mentioned it before, but I mean yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2:So I I'm just going to say this because I think it's important to the reason why I'm here. I moved to California when I was 17 and I went straight into high school and when I turned 18, I was like, fuck this, I don't want this. So I went and I turned in all my books and then I got a high school diploma, like at a night school, and then I went to what do you call those? Technical school, the UI. I went to UI and so I got a medical billing and coding certificate and so when I got that, somehow I ended up on the other side. Instead of sending out the bills, I ended up receiving the bills.
Speaker 2:So I'm a medical claims examiner and I've been doing that for about 12 years. I started when I was 18. I was going to turn 19, I think. So, yeah, my job is basically a lot of numbers. It's like the way I like to explain it to people is, if you have health insurance, your doctor has to bill someone right and so that someone would be the company that I work for and my job is to do research on that bill If all the services were authorized and they get paid and kind of what the contract states to pay and just make sure that we're paying according to regulations and guidelines by the state of california and, um, I don't know how much like I don't know how much more you want to know about my job.
Speaker 2:No, that's good yeah um yeah, it's because I don't know how to explain it, like in a way to not give too much out there.
Speaker 1:You know I think that's very self-explanatory, and and that, but so you've been doing that the whole time, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, for different companies, but for the past 12 years I literally like the only other thing I've done in my life is I worked at a pharmacy when I lived in Guatemala for like a month. My first sale was condoms of all things. And then another thing I did when I was going to school for medical billing and coding. I worked at a meat market and then at a sock factory, but that was like month, two months tops, and then, other than that, my entire professional career has been healthcare and that's what you were doing before pandemic, during pandemic and after yeah all right.
Speaker 1:No, the reason why I ask is because, for me, well, I've been in the customer service department, I've been working in, well, quite food, um, but for because I've been in food, that's all I've done. Um, since I was 11, I was working for, um, this family that lives down the street. I used to do their laundry and after doing their laundry and getting paid five dollars an hour for doing their laundry um, I know I was I was hired to be their cook. I think I was 17, 17 at that time, like, or 16, probably younger, but I got hired to be their cook, getting paid 12 dollars an hour, uh, and what I just have to do is just make them dinner and kind of like meal prep for them, because they were trying to lose weight and stuff and be healthy can I hire you what?
Speaker 1:no, I hate it this is why I hate cooking, but I was doing that and then I got into like um, foods right and so like in actual companies and the longest one I've done is being a barista and so I've done that for a restaurant in a high volume place, is that? Is that the correct way to say that?
Speaker 2:like, uh, like uh like, how do you say it when it's like a lot of people coming and going? Is that what?
Speaker 1:yeah, that's, yeah.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of traffic in this particular oh yeah, there's a lot of traffic in this, in this place, uh huh yeah, so, um, you meet a lot of people.
Speaker 1:You know either customers or you know co-workers. But I've been doing that. I've been with this particular company for like 13 years now. But yeah, but before pandemic I was doing two, I was doing that job and I was again a barista in another company too. So I was doing the same thing, but for different companies oh, but a completely different setting yeah, completely different settings.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like one was really nice and then the other one was it was nice too, but it's just like the least place where you would expect there to be a coffee shop per se and the customers that we would have, like we can't get into detail on this, like I'm sorry, I know as much as we want to give details, like just because we don't want to get in trouble at our jobs, because we still need to keep our finances to do this right. So, um, yeah, that's what I was doing before pandemic. During pandemic, I worked at a nursing home convalescent home and I dealt with um. I was the assistant to the director of staff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I was the director of um, assistant to the director of staff, and my role was to do the schedules and things like that and then we did the covid testing because that was, you know, during that time just show, you, just do that I did yeah, so we had to do all the like, all of the protocols, the. There's something else, a fancier term.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the covid testing, the swabbing, the all of those things right, like it was kind of like a like like one of those tents outside or how was it?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah basically that like just testing people and um the essential workers right to make sure that we're all there the essential workers, and that was during the covid time, because we were, everybody was still on for a low or unemployed.
Speaker 2:You were still working right, yeah, yeah, I was still working.
Speaker 2:I. Um, there's a reason I started working from home actually um, because for the company I used to work for, um, it was far, it was in pasadena and, as I've said many times before, I don't drive and so my commute was like three hours every day going and coming. If I didn't get a ride, sometimes I would get a ride or, um, I would pay for an uber, but it got to be um, really expensive, like I was spending like 400 a month, 500 on just ubers, and so I wanted to work from home because, also, the safety measures of that company. They were literally the director of that company. What he said was oh, if we all get it, we're just gonna get herd immunity, when they weren't, they didn't even have vaccines out yet, girl, and so I was like, dude, my mom is older, like I don't want to get her sick and stuff, and so that's why I ended up opting for getting a job working for my house yeah, so we were all working and was it hard for you to like commute during that time?
Speaker 1:because of that, because of what was going on?
Speaker 2:yeah, it was very hard because the buses like look the buses, you didn't have to pay for them, but they were coming one and far and few in between, like if you had to wait normally 20 minutes for a bus during the pandemic, it was like an hour. And then, because I don't know who decided this, but they started taking off benches off of bus stops, then the homeless people and then you know like kind of not right in the head people in the streets were just getting on the buses, in the trains and girl, like I don't want to, I don't want to be mean, but just this stench that you would feel on the buzzer the train. It was really bad. And then I got followed a couple of times by someone that wasn't right in the head and it was scary.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, that's why I didn't want to do that anymore yeah, and for me, the whole, the whole change to working at this nursing home was because you know that's what was needed at the time, like it's the only place where you could work, like the medical field, and I think that's why you you also were there hustling, it was a, it was something necessary, but also I was commuting to la kind of down the street from you, but um I was going down there for work and like at this time, like the only people that you would see on the road were people that you know needed to work essentials slow yeah, the essentials.
Speaker 1:But slowly we started seeing, like you know, more people returning to work, because by then it was people are getting called back to go to work, um, or being able to work.
Speaker 2:Businesses were opening up and stuff um, and then I thought I need to make the transition. Oh sorry, no, I was gonna say it was hard for you to make the transition from, you know, your regular day-to-day work that you were doing, to a completely different setting in healthcare yes, yes, because I was, um, you know, basically not to sound, not to sound like that.
Speaker 1:My job was really easy. I just, you know, I just made coffee and all I had to do was like, do you want milk in that? Do you want to? You know, like the simple questions, and now I was dealing with like, like safety measures. You know like not that we weren't doing that too, but I mean like, um, it was different. You're dealing with patients with real life illnesses. Um, it kind of.
Speaker 1:I was just having this discussion earlier too, but I was in an environment where there were patients that suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia, and if you guys don't know what it's like to talk to people like that, it's, doing that on a daily basis can make you go crazy yourself.
Speaker 1:So I can only sympathize for the family members that have family members in nursing homes and convalescent homes as much as you would say, like, why can't they just take care of them themselves? I totally understand, because it's something like you, when you go for an eight hour job, you're there eight hours treating this person, maybe 16 hours, but you're there and you know that that's not your family member, you know that what they're going through and you know that this is your job to take care of this person. But when it's your family member and like this, to give an example, right Knock on wood, like say me or you, we're going through that, like I don't think we have the patience to take care of each other like that, or see us go through something like that, so I can see why family members find it really hard to take care of themselves, because it's very difficult. So yeah, being in a different environment, because that was a totally different environment.
Speaker 1:But, after pandemic well, not really well, like when people started getting called back. I got called back to go back to my previous to life and I took it because I said, as it is to say what I was doing, I was getting paid the same amount to make coffee, so I wanted a less stressful environment and I wanted more like the pay that I was getting.
Speaker 2:And you were working long hours at that job too. I was there all day.
Speaker 1:I was there from. Well, if you don't count my, if you count my commute, actually I'm there. I was like out of my house at eight in the morning and I didn't get home till 10 or 11 pm. So it was, it was a lot and I was getting paid overtime, but it was kind of like sometimes it's not worth it, especially since I had to commute that way. It was not worth it for the amount that I was getting for my smaller commute over here. But yeah, so I went back. So this is where I'm at. I'm still making coffee After all this, after all this.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think my one of my bosses used to have a saying that when people do what they want to do and we need everybody right. So like every job is important, every job is hard. I know that we've discussed, like the levels of stress of my job and your job. I work long hours. A lot of that is a lot of that, is really my fault because since I I'm on salary Okay, so I'm not on an hourly schedule, so I come into work or I go into work like at eight to eight thirty tonight Sometimes, and I don't get out sometimes till like nine or 10 pm, girl, but it's not because my job is forcing me to do so.
Speaker 2:Like, if I'm being honest, it's because I lose track of time. I end up playing on my phone, I end up scrolling through TikTok or whatever for like a minute or two, and then that adds up and so I get behind myself. But I think every job is stressful in its own way. I've told you multiple times that I could never do what you do Like just deal with people in person. I have no personality to do that and I think giving the chance to switch roles kind of like a Freaky Friday type of situation.
Speaker 1:We both would go crazy. For one, I'm not good with computers and you do it with codes and I deal with different kinds of codes. But yeah, I cannot do that. I can't be in front of a computer and that's kind of what I was doing at the nursing home and yeah, that was another thing, like my eyes were getting messed up. I know how you feel. Your back hurts, like there's a lot of stress factors to you know, having like a office job per se. You know, and I know, like you're saying that you work from home and I know any of us, that if we were to work from home, like some people, you know some people do have focus, but me personally I don't have the focus. I'd be doing the same thing as you. I'd be watching TV, trying to like I feel like I would be chained to the chair and I know I wouldn't be literally, but that's how I feel.
Speaker 2:That's how it feels.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so no, I cannot do that. Yes, what sucks for mine is that I'm standing for eight hours the majority, you know and but I get myself breaks. I get out of work early to enjoy the rest of the sunlight. But yeah, I do have to put up with a lot of personalities, both on the customer and and my co-worker then.
Speaker 1:And yeah, I think all jobs come with their stress factors. Let's just be real. But that's that's how we want to know what you guys do. I know that probably like a good 60% of our listeners come from my place of employment or imprisonment, so I know that we can we can tell you all the stories, but I know some of these guys all have different professions, like, like, one of my friends works for the school district and then there's other ones that are nurse food when bonomath, Like we have a variety here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on my side I have a friend who works also at the school district. There's another one who graduated to be a teacher. I don't know if she's a teacher yet, but you know there's a lot of, there's a lot of professions and each profession has their own thing. But you, so you know how. You said that you went back to being a barista because it was paying you the same amount of money as doing the other thing and the other thing. You would think that because of the setting, like the healthcare setting and all, because people think, oh, you work in healthcare, you must have money. Because you know, like I don't know why they think that healthcare is so well paid, like depending on the position you have in a healthcare industry setting, that's how much money you're making. But you know how, right now they raised the minimum wage for the service industry. Yeah, I don't know if it's like across the border, if it's just for McDonald's, weg Donalds with the W9? Fucking idiots.
Speaker 1:What? Okay? Well, I'll ask you that on the side, because I was like I don't even understand that whole W concept.
Speaker 2:I don't know either, but anyway, the thing is that they raised the minimum wage to $20 now and I'm thinking about it and I'm like I'm not making much, much more than that and that's just like a. I'm not going to say it's an easy job, because I really don't know what it entails to work at McDonald's, but it's relatively easy compared to, like, my level of stress, I think. So I'm like should I just quit and go do that? But then I'm like they don't hire older people now and I'm considered older now. They just hire kids from, like, high school or like going to college and stuff. What do you think about that?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I'll give you, as an ex insider on that company in particular, the reason why they hire the useful ones is because the useful ones are kind of not knowledgeable yet of what the hell is going on. Exhibit A they voted for the wages to go up, but two they don't want to give you benefit. They don't have benefits. No, so like, and they'll hire you. And there's, if you're full time is because you dedicated many, many years of your life to the Golden Arches. If they give you full time Other than that, your part time they like. That's why they like hiring the youth because they hire them as part time, which part time doesn't get benefit. You'll get the $20, the Q$20, you won't get benefit and you will get scheduled like a full timer. So they're getting screwed. But the youth will not know that till later.
Speaker 2:The youths that reminds me of Smith.
Speaker 1:Hence why I left.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, that makes sense. I didn't know that I was learning years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, yeah that's, but you know what? I'll give you this, though. And when I was in that, in that environment, and I was like what, 17, 18, I was fucking bawling. I was paying for my college, I was going to, going out with my friends and stuff and just like we were living life, and I don't know how it was to survive off of the measly 750 that I was getting an hour, but, like you said, it's a different time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because remember when I was making girl, when we used to have those lavish trips to Vegas, I was making like $12, $13 an hour and this is like it's. It's that long ago I was like what 21 to like 10 years ago, 11 years ago, no, 10 years ago. Imagine if we were to make that amount of money right now to plan a trip to Vegas girl.
Speaker 1:How long has it been?
Speaker 2:now, yeah, how long has it been since we haven't gone? And it's because we're like, oh, but do we really have the money to go?
Speaker 2:And we're getting paid more now, mm-hmm, because times have changed. Girl, like okay. So another thing that happened during the pandemic, with work and all, I wasn't going to a supermarket because I had to work and I didn't want my mom to go to supermarket, because my mom fell at her job and she messed up her arm and she had to go through surgery and all that. So she couldn't go to supermarket and carry stuff. So I would order from Instacart or whatever. Girl, back in 2020, even 2021, I would spend maybe $200 in groceries and I was like good, I was stacked. Now I spent $120 on literally just like bananas, bread, ham, milk, like the little things that you consume on a daily basis. Like everything A very minimum, yeah. Like everything it does not get in check in on me or anything like that. Like everything has gone up significantly after the pandemic and the wages are kind of the same. Like for me this year I didn't get a raise or a bonus, but life isn't getting any cheaper. Yeah, thank you to those raises.
Speaker 1:And that's the thing. The rate, the increase in the wages increased everything else. People who voted for this to happen. I think if you don't know the background or the consequences to things, if you don't think it's through, you just say, oh money, let me get the money. Hey, more money means the prices go up to everything. More money to like the starting wait, like the people who are starting out right now at that pay rate. You don't see that, the people that have been in the companies for ages, they're now like you've just caught up to them and it took us a decade to get there. And then you come in with all these entitlements that you want, benefits, you want, you want those $20, like now you got your $20, but now you're just. You just screwed everybody else. I don't know Like.
Speaker 2:To me it's just yeah, it's a very fine line between yeah, it's, it's hard because it's kind of the same concept as, like, the forgiveness of student loans. So like I don't want to say, right that because we suffered and we had to get paid like fucking seven, eight dollars, when, like that was the minimum wage, that these kids should have to suffer the same too, because that's not how it works. You know, like if I win, you win, we all win. But like when people try to make it a win-win situation, these corporations like McDonald's, they have the money to pay the people the way, because McDonald's how many people order on a regular? Like how many people have breakfast at McDonald's every single day? Like they're making the money to pay the people the fair wages, wages and respectable the fair wages, not raise the prices.
Speaker 2:Right, but they don't. They don't Instead it's like instead they put it on us, the customer, to suffer. And it's the same thing with the student loan forgiveness. People were saying like, oh no, I don't want people to get their student loans forgiven because I have to pay for mine. So, because I have to pay for mine, I want everybody to have to pay for theirs. Can you imagine, Like, what kind of mentality is that? But I think like the focus on that is in the wrong direction. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2:That's a different conversation. So now you know well. You, the listener, know a little more about what we do in our professional lives, and we want to know more about you and your work stories. Is that what we're talking about next week?
Speaker 1:Yes, so next week we're going to go into the part two about this Like are we happy where we're at Because our work is basically I know this is going to sound so cheesy and stuff, but our work is our second home. We spend most of our time there, the people who you work with. If you have a good group of people like, that's your second family. Yes, they're co-workers. Yes, they may not know much about you, but guess what? You're spending more time with them than you're spending with your grandma, with your mama, with your kids. That's it. They may not mean ish to you, which is fine, respectable, because we're all there just to get the paycheck. That's fine. But those people see us every day, every day, that's it.
Speaker 2:We have co-workers, girl. In my case, remember when we went to Europe and when we came back I was so sad Like I literally and that's what happens to me every time I go to Guatemala or when we went to Europe, because I'm surrounded by people in my trips and then when I'm back home, my job is literally my home. So I have like 10 steps from my bed to my desk and I have no interaction with human beings, unless it's like a phone call with you or like my mom, because my mom has to go out to work, or one of my co-workers that we call each other every now and then to just vent. But I have no human interaction and you have way too much human interaction Way too much more than I was like.
Speaker 1:And then the worst part is that these people think, like I give it down. There's a handful of things I'm not going to give it down, but the other thing, like the new summers, it's like you guys need to take a seat. We'll get there. If you want to build a relationship, we'll get there, but we I'm getting paid to serve the customers and make sure we work as a team to get them out, in and out Get them out. But see, this is why it's good that me and you have these different perspectives, because I know that a lot of people like 50% can relate to you.
Speaker 1:They work independent, they work from home, they work in offices, they're their own business managers. You know like they're managing their own business. And some people are hybrid. They go in to work a couple of days and some work from home the rest, and then that's their interactions. Like they either interact with people they don't, and in my case, I'm there with people. I have to work with people like it's a team effort, even though some people go in there with, like just the mentality that they just do whatever the fuck they want. But that's what. That's what next week is for that's what next week's episode is for.
Speaker 2:So tell us about your professional life and tell us what stresses you out the most about your job. Do you love your job? If you don't love your job, why? And, if you like, if money wasn't a worry, what would you be doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're gonna post all these questions on the, on the, on the on the page, but on the Facebook page. Facebook Instagram. We're gonna post these on the Instagram guys. We're gonna post it If we get you guys more to like, follow us, tell your friends about us, if you guys think we're like funny, even tell them, like to play us while they're sleeping, put us on mute or something, but just to listen and then they're.
Speaker 2:They're gonna be dreaming about our laughs or Mariah's turn. Oh, oh, girl. Speaking of Facebook, I have a quick update for you. Remember last episode about the dating apps? We talked about Facebook dating and I was like, oh, I'm gonna do it for like research purposes. Oh, yeah, yeah, I did. I opened it. Tell me why. It keeps asking me to for a verification video. And I've done it like four times and they're like we can't verify that it's you. I'm like the fuck. So I don't know, I might have to do my home makeup for it to believe me that it's me, even though I uploaded a picture without makeup. But Facebook doesn't believe that it's me, so it doesn't let me like log in again. But the one day that I did get it what I say, I don't want to do it because of people that I may know. Sure enough, I saw a couple of people that I know and I was like it was not interested Block.
Speaker 1:You're like no answers, but block.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's a little update on that.
Speaker 1:Okay, I guess this was this. Is it for part one on the on the work episode?
Speaker 2:We shall continue this conversation next week. All right, guys, have a good day. Have a good day, have a good week. We'll talk to you later. Bye.
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