All In Your Bizz w/ Reka & Los
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All In Your Bizz w/ Reka & Los
When Blood and Business Mix: The Double-Edged Sword of Working with Family
The delicate dance between family ties and business expectations takes center stage in this thought-provoking episode inspired by recent news about Tyler Perry's workplace confrontation with his aunt. We dive deep into the question: is working with family a blessing or a burden?
On one hand, offering employment to relatives provides valuable opportunities to help those closest to you succeed financially. There's also the benefit of surrounding yourself with people you trust and care about. But what happens when those family connections create complications in the professional realm?
We explore the challenges of maintaining professional standards with relatives who might expect special treatment. Through a revealing role-play scenario, we tackle the uncomfortable reality of having to terminate a family member who violates workplace trust—and how that decision can ripple through holiday gatherings and family reunions for years to come.
The conversation takes an unexpected turn when we debate the ethics of "borrowing" from the workplace. From innocent pen-snatching to more substantial theft, we examine where different people draw the line and how these seemingly minor indiscretions can impact business operations.
Whether you're a small business owner considering bringing relatives onboard, an employee working alongside family, or simply curious about the psychology behind workplace ethics, this episode offers valuable insights into navigating the complex intersection of personal and professional relationships. Share your own family business stories with us at allinyourbizz25@gmail.com—we'd love to hear your perspective!
Welcome, welcome to the real world, kids. Welcome to the Los Enrique Show. Like always, we are all in your biz, let's go. What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up. We all in your biz and we back at you again. We are back at you again. Another one, another one, another, one, another one.
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Speaker 2:Ramos.
Speaker 1:Oh, I like that, I like that.
Speaker 2:So shout out, shout out to you and he is from Round Rock. Yes, we need to look at why that city was named Round Rock is there a rock that's round?
Speaker 1:is it round, tony, can you let us? Can you email us and let us know.
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Speaker 1:But, as always, we're all in your biz and we got some more business for you.
Speaker 2:We need to get in your business All in your business. So I was listening to the radio and I heard that there was a confrontation with Tyler Perry and, I think, his aunt. He had hired her and she was allegedly working for him and then stopped showing up for work or showed up late or, I guess wasn't doing what she was hired to do allegedly. Gotta put that out there. So my question for this week is is it a blessing or a burden to work with family?
Speaker 1:What do you think? Uh-oh, yeah, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Because you know, family is not chosen.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It's who and what you're given. So you know you have the option to work with family or not. So there's some pros and cons with everything.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure this is it depends now.
Speaker 1:It depends. So what do you think? I think so. Let me start off with the blessings. How about that?
Speaker 2:Blessings.
Speaker 1:I think it's a blessing. You, you know, if you are in a position because you'll be able to give, you know, okay, you'll be able to give to you to your family.
Speaker 2:You mean give employment, you know, an opportunity put food on people's table, you know.
Speaker 1:Put money in people's pocket, just you know. I think that's a blessing if you're in a position to be, is it a?
Speaker 2:blessing if it's like a i'ma pay you under the table? No, no, be able to do it. Is it a blessing if it's like a I'm going to pay you under the table type thing? No, no, no.
Speaker 1:I mean if it's under the table or if it's legit with a whiskey.
Speaker 2:Nine and you get a W-2,.
Speaker 1:Either way, it's still a foreign opportunity. So I think that's a blessing. I think it's, you know, it's also a blessing because you have your family around. They can be closer to you, because you can see them every day or however often your business is open.
Speaker 2:Would you like that? Would you like to be around?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that'd be cool with most family members and all Some of them. I'll let them work one day and see them in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2:Or they'll work in the other building.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Maybe twins would like to work together. Do you think? If you're a twin, send us an email and let us know if you would like to work with your twin, whether it's fraternal or identical. Let us know if you all would like to work together. Yeah, so it could be a blessing. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Before we go a little bit further, would you like to work with me?
Speaker 2:No, I don't like working with you.
Speaker 1:Listen, we may need to cut this whole podcast right now.
Speaker 2:Honestly, you do great work.
Speaker 1:Oh, thank you baby, Thank you you act like you're everybody.
Speaker 2:Now don't mess it up. No, no, no. I'm going to just tell you why I don't like to work with you.
Speaker 1:We live baby, we live.
Speaker 2:You act as if you're everybody's supervisor and you're not mine. Like you come and you're in my business, you're in your business, you're supervising and managing everybody and nobody likes that, like nobody likes a micromanaging. So do I like working, I like the end result. I think we work great as a collaborative team, but just not together.
Speaker 1:Listen.
Speaker 2:I want to be in the same building, you in. No, I don't, we're going to work it out. I am a loner. I like to work as an individual. I don't care for teamwork. I I'll do it, but it's not my thing. So I like to be productive in my own right, and then we come together and have a finished product that's me I'm glad you told me that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that you felt that way every time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's there's no secret.
Speaker 1:Well, I would love to work with you, okay, okay, it'd be a lot of kissing and you know, stuff like that going on no, because when I'm on the job, when I'm working, that's what I'm doing. When you're on the job. Listen. When you're on the job, we together, we on the job.
Speaker 2:No, we get things done, we're going to talk about this later. Next topic Go ahead. We're going to talk about this later.
Speaker 1:So it'll be good to see family that you haven't seen in a while. However, then they um come to the job and you see them on a regular basis, so that can be a blessing, okay, um, now the downside about this? Okay, the downside about this is not everybody does not have the same work ethics, so it may be a problem. Maybe, working with me now, I'm gonna just put the task out there and then I expect even family members to make it happen, just like if it was somebody random off the street.
Speaker 2:You know, because at the end of the day I know that's your favorite word- hey, if you say at the end of the day I completely turn off, at the end of the day it's still a business, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, so if we didn't have the business then we wouldn't have an opportunity to, you know, to have family come and work. So you got to keep okay you know the work ethics. You got to keep the standards. You got to hold family members even to the same bar. I mean, you may give them an extra chance or two and all, but you can't just let family members show up when they want to.
Speaker 2:Let me ask you do you think a family member would like to work with you or for you? Do you think any of your family members would?
Speaker 1:I mean sure.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:You know. But I'm going to tell you this right now out the gate. That business is sure, Okay, but I'm going to tell you this right now out the gate, that business is business.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what are your expectations?
Speaker 1:My expectation is the same thing or the same expectations that I put out again. I compare to somebody random off the street.
Speaker 2:Okay and my family Okay. So if they say, hey, being on time, you know how I am about being on time.
Speaker 1:Stop and get me a little bit no make, uh, okay well, you can stay there and see if they they make hiring okay I gotta get me a little bacon, egg and cheese. No, and that's why I think the rules have to be set for okay at the beginning what about a coffee like no, no, no need to get coffee 8 o'clock. If we start at 8 o'clock then you may want to be there at 7.50.
Speaker 2:But am I getting paid for those extra 10 minutes? You're not.
Speaker 1:Because if you late at 8.01, I'm pissed.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Because time is money. It's better to be pissed off than pissed off, okay Well, and I will cut not only people off the street off, but I'll put family members to the side. You know, listen, we'll have a one-on-one talk and say, hey, I need you here at this time because this will time business start rolling, you know like. And then we we do that way because the people that are not family members, they looking, yeah that's true, you know I'm saying then they're gonna start doing it before you know.
Speaker 2:No, man, man, man, listen this. No, I'm saying I don. They're going to start doing it before you know it.
Speaker 1:Nah, man, man, man, Listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 2:No, I'm saying I don't think this my bacon was in the air fryer, I had to take my shower. I had to do my edges. I had to iron my shirt.
Speaker 1:My shirt was dirty, no now I may have some leniency. You know, along the way You're doing your job, you know like my niece, you know like you can say like my cousin's sick or something like that. You know I get it, but don't you know.
Speaker 2:But don't make it a habit of showing up late, don't?
Speaker 1:make it a habit. I mean, what do you say? You're going to just let your girls come in, whatever it is, because y'all cool and they're going to do whatever. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 2:No, I think there should be an expectation for everyone, you know. I don't even think if I'm related to someone that I, that works for me. I don't even want anyone to know, like if they? If they don't know that, they don't need to know, because I want to set the same same standard for everyone.
Speaker 1:What if everybody knows that?
Speaker 2:if everyone still knows and then I still have to hold them accountable to the same standard. It has to probably even be higher. Because you're my relative does not mean that you can show up late, doesn't? Mean that you can't be professional Does not mean that you don't meet your quota. Doesn't mean that you leave early or you take an extra smoke breaks and things of that nature.
Speaker 1:So no, Would you let them go?
Speaker 2:Yes, I have no problem Because business is money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, you're right you're right, and then it's just, and then, when you think about it, it'll be good to be in a place where you can offer you know, like people jobs, especially family members, but you also have to think that this could start some bad blood right, I have a proverb because no one wins no one wins when the family feuds nobody.
Speaker 2:Yeah and yeah, that could be some tension. I saw on a couple of uh, reality shows where a family member worked for someone and they got fired because they weren't, you know, living up to the standard. They wasn't, they weren't showing up on time, production was low, and then they got mad when they got fired. But the owner didn't know how to fire this person because they felt bad because it was a family member let's talk about it.
Speaker 1:Do you so? How would you fire them?
Speaker 2:I don't, honestly. I don't think there is a family member that would work for me to be honest if you had a family, just if you had a family right. If I had, would you?
Speaker 2:call them offline, or would you be a in the store or wherever you say yeah, I would never I don't think I would fire someone in front of people, unless it was like something, a situation where it had to be handled right there. I would pull them to the side respectfully and let them know the reason respectfully, and let them know the reason and let them know that they're being terminated.
Speaker 2:And I would pay them for that day, unless there was a situation where somebody's in there stealing, fighting, smoking, cussing out someone. Then it's like, hey, we need to go to the bat right now. That type of situation. Or just say, hey, you have to go Like it's not working. If it were that type of situation, I would do that, yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, so would you? Okay, so would you give them a little bit more leniency than someone that was not your family, that worked at your business?
Speaker 2:Would I give a family member more leniency than my non-family? It? Just depends, because sometimes you can have a great employee that's not related to you and it's like I understand your situation.
Speaker 2:You're a single mom, you're a single dad, you have a sick child. You're sick. You know situations as such that I would take into consideration if they do great work. There's always exceptions, you know when things are favorable, but I would also let them know like, hey, you know do your best or you know we'll figure something out, but I need to know if I'm not in the know. And you know they show up 20 minutes late or they don't show up.
Speaker 2:That no show, no call, no show thing. No, because I think that's respectful. Like that no show, no call, no show thing. No, Because I think that's that's respectful, Like let someone know if you're not going to be able to make it. That way, we know how to to move around and we can replace you or we can, you know, have someone else work in that spot. But if you just choose not not to call, then just choose not to show up the next day.
Speaker 1:Wow, but I can imagine it can get a little bit deep. Yeah, if especially if they're, if it's family members and say, for instance, it was your brother right and you and you know he got kids which are your nieces, your nephews, and then, if you let him go, you know that's going to affect their auntie rica.
Speaker 2:Because of you we didn't have christmas, so thanks. I mean, can you imagine like you fire someone and then you're at the, the picnic, or you're at the family reunion or christmas or thanksgiving, and everybody's looking at you like you ruined christmas, you know? You look at me however you want I said, but it's a but, it's a business, it is, it's at the end of the day that go your favorite word it's still a business.
Speaker 1:I get it, you know, and it's almost disrespectful to have a family member work for you.
Speaker 2:And then it's like they kind of play you to play you to the right, taking advantage of exactly because we're relatives, yeah no, you don't do that, you know so the the penalties will be steep if you're stealing you know being dishonest and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That mean you stealing from me yeah the business yeah you know. So I'm gonna fire you and bang you just like anybody off the street and it may be even harsh like I don't want you at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't if you, if you're stealing from me, oh, that's the worst okay, because that's a trust. That's a huge trust huge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but how can you tell me this? Give me an example of how could you find a family member. Tell me a short little conversation like what would you say?
Speaker 2:okay, so let me say so, let me be your cousin.
Speaker 1:You could be my cousin, tron, yeah I'm gonna be the cousin, so my name is tron just call me at the office here, call me the office tron, can I?
Speaker 2:I need to see you in the office now harika.
Speaker 1:What's up, what's up, what's up tron um how you doing today girl, I'm cool, you know, like how's everybody doing, how my niece doing.
Speaker 2:She's good. She's good, is your stomach full, you full today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm good. You know. She said I stopped and got me something to eat before I came to work and everything you know. You want a biscuit. I got an extra biscuit in there.
Speaker 2:I'm okay, I like them shoes.
Speaker 1:Those are. Those are nice. Yeah, I got these yesterday.
Speaker 2:You know how your mama doing yeah, she good, how your mama doing she good, that's her new purse. I saw you post her new purse. Yeah, she liked it, she, she was she loving that purse. I tell you that's what's up. So, um, no, what's up. Oh yeah, so, um, the cable. Um, the cable bill came in today and I happened to just look at some some video footage of the warehouse and you know, just checking things out and I see trying, like what is our policy on backpacks in the warehouse? Oh, you're talking about me. Yeah, the Jordan backpack that you got that red one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, like you know like what is the policy? Or you don't have to tell me, I'll tell you. The policy is that you don't have to tell me, I'll tell you. The policy is that you don't bring your backpacks into the warehouse.
Speaker 1:We have lockers before we come into the warehouse Because you tripping, no, no, no, because this is little Ronnie's boot bag, because we was late for school and I just, you know, just brought it in. Were you doing?
Speaker 2:homework. It's your nephew's backpack. I understand, but you were carrying his backpack and the policy is no backpack, so let me just share with you what I saw. I saw your backpack being unzipped and some product put into your backpack and then you clocked out. And then I saw on your social media that you were selling wigs, bundles and iPhones. Yeah, so you, and iPhones. Yeah, so you had a sale. Yeah, you had a Juneteenth sale on wigs, wigs and bundles.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry. I'm sorry too. It's not what it looked like. I'm sorry too.
Speaker 2:So what it looks like is inventory is down, it's not accounted for, so you know how I feel about stealing. If you would have needed anything you could have asked for extra hours. It's 3 o'clock.
Speaker 1:You know, I got that birthday party coming up.
Speaker 2:I understand them bundles and them wigs and those iPhones. You may want to sell those. I'm going to have to let you go, tron. It's just not working.
Speaker 1:Riga. Are you serious?
Speaker 2:I'm serious have to let you go Tron, it's just not working are you serious? You can let me, I'm serious as as we family we are, and that's why I'm letting you go. Have a good day.
Speaker 1:Thanks, tron well, that was a a hearty way of getting rid of somebody it was straight to the point.
Speaker 2:We don't need to beat around the bush we saw it, it's on video now you don't want.
Speaker 1:Do you want that them products to come back?
Speaker 2:no, that's his birthday, the birthday party money. He. He needs to work really hard to sell those those items, like he'd work really hard to bring nephew's backpack in to steal them but you see how that can start easily so now y'all got that family reunion coming up, so do you still talk to the family member the same way now if he don't say nothing?
Speaker 2:then that's okay. You, I mean, how is it fair for him to be upset with me if he stole from me and I'll let him go? It's not it's not so. If he chooses not to speak, that's on him, you're not.
Speaker 1:So I think the penalty it has to be maybe even a little bit tougher.
Speaker 2:What would you do?
Speaker 1:I would, I would, I would do it the same way.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, I would have said it the same way.
Speaker 2:It's disrespectful, I would have.
Speaker 1:When he came in, I would have called him in and had the video playing.
Speaker 2:Like hey, have a seat. Well, let's watch this, let's watch it.
Speaker 1:Hey, kick up a seat. Let me show you this.
Speaker 2:It's called Tron Steals.
Speaker 1:Exactly yeah, because I think that's disrespectful to the next level.
Speaker 2:Because then if you do that, if he did that, then it'll be more.
Speaker 1:There'll be a next time.
Speaker 2:Yep, you know, and then it's like it won't stop.
Speaker 1:No, it won't. It won't, yeah, so I agree, I think we agree on that.
Speaker 2:No, so there you have it, it's not easy, but it's like you have to do what you have to do because that's costing you money. So you stole something and you getting paid for the day.
Speaker 1:Exactly, you're winning. You double, you got to double up. Yeah, you got to double up. Now would you hire this family member back?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:So is it a wrap.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's done. We've had our experience together. You know I wish him well somewhere else.
Speaker 1:Now what if your auntie called you? I'll tell her the same thing.
Speaker 2:If Tron wants to steal from you, auntie, that's between you and Tron.
Speaker 1:But as for me and my warehouse.
Speaker 2:we will not deal with Tron. Yes, Wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:I feel that Trust is key.
Speaker 1:So that was pretty easy, then that was pretty easy then so to all my family members out there. Just know that I love you and all but business is business. Business is business, you know. So I don't want you to steal from not only me, but you're stealing from the business. Yeah, you, you just steal from not only me but you're stealing from the business. Yeah, you know. So that's, that's a double. A double negative, okay, and it's not a positive. So let me ask you.
Speaker 2:let's talk about stealing from work. So uh, is it petty like a petty crime If you're stealing like pins and and uh, sticky pads and highlighters and stuff that's?
Speaker 1:petty.
Speaker 2:Your kids have them in their backpacks for back to school, like that kind of stuff. Is that normal thievery? Or if you're stealing a rim of copy paper and taking it to the house.
Speaker 1:So you're trying to say does it have levels?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Is there levels to the office supplies that you could steal? Now I know people steal chairs um telephones fax machines yeah, big stuff like that. But let's talk about like the stuff that uh, or even hoarding. I know that people hoard like copy paper, staplers, pins and highlighters because they just don't want to run out, and then you know it takes some time for the supply cabinet to be replenished. So what do you think about that?
Speaker 1:Okay, so how about you answer? I'm asking you, asking me a question. I'm going to give it right back to you.
Speaker 2:Oh, you don't want to answer it. No, I'm just saying it's your business. Okay, what you wanted to, I'm going to give it right back to you. Oh, you don't want to answer it. No, I'm just saying it's your business, okay, what you wanted to steal it?
Speaker 1:No, what I'm saying if it's your business, okay, and you're buying these supplies, and would it matter to you if it was just pens, papers factories?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because then I still have to reorder that stuff, no matter what it was.
Speaker 1:you may think it's petty, but it still come out of your inventory somewhere I see that's why the supply closet is locked often, so you know that's my. That's the answer. Yes, I would be.
Speaker 2:I would be ticked so what if you saw? If you pass somebody's desk and you saw like two packs of copy paper?
Speaker 1:in their backpack when they come back. It's gonna be one and none, because I won't put it back in the closet.
Speaker 1:It's still like copy paper is expensive get expensive yeah, you know uh fax machines missing all this stuff, toner's missing computer keyboards. You know I'm like you didn't build the whole system at the house. So yeah, I have a problem with that. If it's my business, it can be. If, listen, you supposed to have one pair of scissors and I see like three or four, you know I got a problem you have a problem, because what are you cutting that you need ain't cutting nothing, you know you going home doing projects for your kids and everything off my supplies.
Speaker 2:No don't get high, it ain't gonna happen okay you know toilet paper going.
Speaker 1:Whatever, I know we ain't running through all this toilet paper I do know people that have stolen has it been you?
Speaker 2:no, no, no. I like a certain type of toilet paper, so okay, they had your type that office. Let me see if they had. Let me see what I would possibly take from the office.
Speaker 1:Let me think hold on.
Speaker 2:Let me think now, if there's some good pens, instead of me me taking two, I may take a box, okay, and keep it in my desk because I like a good pen. Let me see what else would I take. Maybe some highlighters? Yeah, I like some highlighters. You know what?
Speaker 1:You would take some like no, you know what I really like those Like paper clips. No, no, I really like those like paper clips?
Speaker 2:no, because I. No, I like those rubber fingers, the ones that you stick on your finger when you flip them through pages.
Speaker 1:I do like those I say that'd be like the petty stuff like you'd be taking, like the little mouse. Look, uh the mouse, little pads.
Speaker 2:No, I buy my own because I want my stuff to to match, but I will have a drawer full of those, uh, rubber fingers and certain color rubber fingers yeah, so you can kind of, you know, sort through papers real fast no that's gross, but that rubber finger has a good grip, so you can you ever get paper for me and it got like a little wet spotted.
Speaker 1:This how you know, you know I didn't lick it, that I gave to you. I didn't I. I did that to you a lot of times, so okay, what?
Speaker 2:what would you take?
Speaker 1:I would take nothing because I don't. I'm like, even the petty stuff like that means a lot to me okay so I don't, I'm not, I'm not a taker like that, you know like because I don't want to be there anyway.
Speaker 2:Listeners, please message us and tell us what things.
Speaker 1:What would you take? Pencils Pens? Where's the limit? Where does it begin?
Speaker 2:Hand sanitizer and Kleenex. You got about 10 bottles. It's still wrapped up in the plastic of hand sanitizer.
Speaker 1:So let us know when does it begin and where does it end. Or what have you seen people take from Exactly so don't tell it so like, yeah, let us know when does it begin and where does it end, or what have you seen people take from?
Speaker 2:Exactly so don't tell it on yourself. No, no, no. What have you seen people take? If you've seen somebody roll out a computer desk chair. Let us know. I need to know that. Let us know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, now you know. So, yeah, that's a good question. You know, and you can say it was somebody you've seen, okay it can be anonymous.
Speaker 2:We know dang on. Well, it's probably you, and we know where you work at but yeah, it's cool yeah, if you have a lot of sticky notes at your house, in that kitchen drawer, that junk drawer, you have some um bic pins, the black and the blues let us know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like about two, three thousand. Thank you bags.
Speaker 2:Where you work, at the Chinese restaurant. I know like all these food trays and forks and spoons and tray pans. I did see a guy on social go into Chipotle and you know like where you get your forks and stuff. They have real good sturdy forks and spoons.
Speaker 1:Don't tell me he took them he took a bag full. Now. Is that stealing? I mean technically, it is Now. Wait a minute. How is that stealing when it's there for you to get?
Speaker 2:I mean, do you have 50 mouths?
Speaker 1:But it didn't say you're going to get one or two.
Speaker 2:It does not say but that's common sense, Now you have enough food to feed your. You can take two. If you don't eat all your food that day, you can eat it the next day or later on, but to take a pack of 50.
Speaker 1:It's okay, when does it Okay? Okay, when does it become stealing? You got your food. When it's excessive. Okay, you got your food. You got your food.
Speaker 2:You obsessive.
Speaker 1:Okay, you got your food, got your food, you're going to get your, your spoons and forks and all that. You get like maybe four, two spoons, that's for four. Okay, when does it become stealing?
Speaker 2:I said when it's obsessive okay, I need to say five or more. If you got enough forks for the week, you got enough forks for breakfast, lunch and dinner if you have enough. If you're taking forks, spoons and knives, what are you cutting so?
Speaker 1:okay, so is it still? If it's like free refills and I get like 20 of them, is that still in there?
Speaker 2:okay, if it's free refills for that time that you're there. That doesn't mean leave the store and come back no, no, I'm not talking about leaving the store.
Speaker 1:I'm saying if you're sitting there, and drink if you can drink 20 cups of coke, then you deserve so that's not stealing it's.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, it's insane but it's not stealing no, as long as you're there during that time, and if you can consume without wasting 10 cups of flat coke, go for it but if I leave out and come back, yeah, or if you go into your car like I had a co-worker that would do that like we would go to jason's deli. This person would go to jason's deli every day not to eat, but just to fill their cup up now that's now.
Speaker 1:That's killing. It's insane.
Speaker 2:Now that's walk in, fill the cup up maybe even get ice, because you can get an ice cream cone too.
Speaker 1:They have ice cream there. Now that's stealing, it's insane.
Speaker 2:Now that's stealing. Walk in, fill the cup up, maybe even get an ice, because you can get an ice cream cone too. They have ice cream there.
Speaker 1:Now, that's stealing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is, and had no shame. Go in there and fill that cup right on up and just walk out.
Speaker 1:It wasn't, you was it. No, no, okay Because you over there grinning when you said it no, I don't know, I remember it because it was funny. It was funny, or was it you?
Speaker 2:No, no, no, it wasn't me.
Speaker 1:You didn't want to drink it on the.
Speaker 2:Cokes? No, I don't even like Coke, I like Pepsi and sweet tea. They would say, hey, I'm about to go to Jason's Deli.
Speaker 1:Did they offer you that, y'all would say what's up, no, no no, they would just say Because y'all already knew what was going down.
Speaker 2:Big old cup on the desk. Condensation all over the desk, Just you know. Fresh Coke every day. Okay, For free.
Speaker 1:Well, hey, you got to get it, in Got to get while the getting is good. I guess, so they put running tapes, yeah, and then you'd be going down because they didn't charge you for Coke theft. Yeah, well, I think we have it. Then you know, but please give us an email.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let us know Let us know what you think about stealing from the work, off the workplace, and is it a blessing or burden to work with?
Speaker 2:family pros and cons, or if you're a family member that works with another family member. Let us know how that goes. Can you think of I'm trying to think of some family members that we know that were the another family member? Let us know how that goes. Can you think of I'm trying to think of some family members that we know that work? The Wayans family works together, you know, like they do acting and movies and shows, and they seem to have a good time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sure that's what they show A lot of singing families like the Winans, let's see the Marley family. But we don't know the uncut, we don't. But I'm just saying, as far as families that we know that work together yeah, you know, as a collective and it could be a blessing. I think overall it could be a blessing until you get to the red zone and then the red zone can get really bloody and it can yeah, it can be real bad.
Speaker 2:It can go down at the thanksgiving dinner quickly. I couldn't bring my yeast rolls because I was fired.
Speaker 1:Exactly. I didn't have no money because I got caught.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I got caught. You know they'd be cussing and everything, and then everybody looking like, oh, he had a nice job until he got fired.
Speaker 2:Mama's still wearing that purse, so you better take that back.
Speaker 1:Take it back, gather receipt, put it back. Gather a receipt, put it on a marketplace.
Speaker 2:Mothers, if your son comes home from a job and they just hand you over some expensive bag. Ask questions.
Speaker 1:That's all I'm going to say yeah, because it could be hot it could be hot. It could be hot. You put something in it and fall to the bottom. Yeah, it could be hot. Okay, and fall to the bottom Could be hot. Well, I think we came to our conclusion. Then it could be a blessing.
Speaker 2:Maybe what 60-40?.
Speaker 1:Or 70-30? I'm going to say 70-30. That 30 can be real hot. Yeah, it depends, but let us know. Yes, let us know what you think.
Speaker 2:How can they find us, though?
Speaker 1:They can find us in the trap's going down, okay, okay please email us at all in your bizz25 at gmailcom. How about the people in the back? Can you say it one more time?
Speaker 2:all in your bizz25 at gmailcom and Jason's Deli. You may want to put a camera by your ice cream machine and your drink machine, because we know some people that come every day and refill their cups, and they're not eating there. That's all I have to say, all right, well, on that note.
Speaker 1:We thank y'all.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:We appreciate y'all yes.
Speaker 2:Let us know what you think. And if you stealing from Jason's Deli, if you're refilling your cup up every day, shame on you we out of here peace.