We Work It Out

Jen's "Jesus meter" is running dangerously low this week as she navigates customer chaos, lazy coworkers, and a revolving door of call-outs and quitters. From a grown man on a skateboard getting scolded by his mom to a sweet customer who nearly sparked a church revival in the store, Jen has stories for days. She also praises her newest cashier for handling a big mistake with integrity, breaks down the real consequences of quitting without notice, and digs into the trickle-down laziness problem plaguing her workplace. Dagda chimes in on his own coworker dynamics, and the two wrap up with gaming updates and a fond memory of a local deli.

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Transcript

Welcome

SPEAKER_00 0:03

Welcome to Everyday Life. Thank you for joining our podcast, Conversations Over Classics. My name is Janet, and we're going to hit you with the explicit content for these right off the bat. This podcast does include adult situations and adult language from time to time.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

I'm an angel. I never fucking test.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Okay. Anyway, you ready to go?

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

But you know, that's because I'm a picky bitch. I'm not, I'm not really picky, but I have to be in the mood for it. And anybody who would see this setup would be laughing because it's like, why do you have a glass of flavored water filled with ice and then just brewed hot coffee? Because I how you doing today? I'm doing all right. How are you doing? So thankful to Jesus and his disciples that I don't have to go to my other job today. I ran out of Jesus by Thursday. Not my Thursday, but like the actual Thursday. So what day would that be for me? My Tuesday. I completely ran out of Jesus by my Tuesday. I had no more Jesus, and the Holy Spirit did not come see me. And uh I have had more interactions with the local police department because everybody else makes me call them. That I think I'm having a amentable bro fair with them, like go get them robbers, bro. Um, yeah. And what's super funny is the one guy, uh the one officer I looked at him and I said, if I was 28 years old, I would give you a hug, and that way I could defend myself from your wife kicking my ass, you know, because he's a young, he's a young buck. And but he's not wearing watering now, and I'm just like, I could hug you, but I'm not gonna. So I like fist bump because I don't find it, I don't want to be on their body camera that this this older lady is so thankful that you caught the robbers. So yep, I ran out of Jesus on a Tuesday. Normally I make it to my Thursday.

SPEAKER_03 2:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:14

Normally I make it to my Thursday, and then I get a little Holy Spirit in the on the morning of my Friday. Did not happen this week. How about you?

SPEAKER_02 2:22

How'd your Jesus hold out? Uh mine's usually good.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Yeah. There was one day we're putting stuff out on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 2:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

And this Asian lady came over and was digging through bins. Although this wasn't my bin, but uh she took out a a puzzle and started to open the box, and I was thinking, bitch, I'm gonna fucking stab you.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Yeah, yeah, you know, you kind of have to go, please don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

There was uh you know, I feel really bad because this younger generation that's coming up, they look much older than they are.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Yeah, they're aging like milk.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Yeah, they're yeah, they're spoiled after seven days. But um, you know, and I feel bad, so I don't want to point that out. But um I feel horrible in a way because somebody just said somebody put out some kind of a skateboard thing. It's an adjustable, it's got two parts to it, and it's like a waveboard skateboard thing or whatever. And this dude who was too old to be on a skateboard got on a skateboard, and I'm like, please don't do that in my store. That's not safe, that's dangerous. And I shit you not. His mom goes, I'm sorry about that. Smacks him on the back of the head and says to him, How many times have I told you you're almost an adult now? You need to think before you do these kinds of things. You could have got hurt. This is concrete. When I tell you he looked like he was approaching 40, I actually mean that. Wow, it's uh yeah. And his his mom looked well, I mean, she definitely looked older than me, but she wasn't. You know what I'm saying? And I was just like, so so my brain, of course, goes, okay, is she just saying that to her boyfriend or husband to be kind of a smart ass? Or is this genuinely her kid? And I feel bad if he has like disabilities and that's why, and you know, I run through the gamut and I'm like, thank you, ma'am. And he no shit, the guy's just like, sorry. I'm just like, got fucking 30-year-olds at work around me, they're like, my bag's broken, I gotta go to the emergency care facility. Like, what the fuck is going on?

SPEAKER_02 4:33

I did have one encounter, but one thing that I saw that I was like, oh, that's awesome. There was this lady came in, she had like a baby and a stroller, uh-huh, and then like a five or six son.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Um, and she went over to the toy section, she got some dresses, and then went over to the toy section with her kids. And her son was playing

The Chaos of Customers

SPEAKER_02 5:00

in the toy aisle and destroyed it. But she's standing there putting on dresses over her clothes to try them on. Anyway, when she gets done doing that, because I walked by, saw them doing this, and like then I walked by again as she was leaving, and she had cleaned the aisle.

SPEAKER_03 5:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

She had put everything back. I was like, oh my god, that's amazing. Please come back.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

So, you know, was she a uh Hispanic lady?

SPEAKER_02 5:27

No, she was white.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Wow. So on Saturday afternoon, we had a mixed Hispanic family come in, which is always great because they're always willing to teach me more of the language, you know, because I'm like, look, I I took Espinol in high school, but I also smoke a lot of pot, so I don't I can understand a lot. Like sometimes I'll be walking by them and they'll be talking and I'll kind of I'll catch myself giggling and they're like, Do you understand that? I'm like, kind of. Were you saying something like this? And they're like, Yeah. I was like, I'm not trying to eavesdrop, I promise you, it's just I know how you feel about people who won't get the fuck out of the way when you're trying to look at something, or like there were this particular instance, they were talking about this uh older, not their race lady, um, who literally had a handbasket and a shopping cart, and she had items in both, and she was keeping like she was like using it as blockers to keep people out of her, the aisle she was looking at. And when and I actually observed this because I was actually cleaning up a toy aisle, and I actually observed where this lady uh had seen this particular couple come into the aisle next to her and she raced around like, oh, I haven't been there yet. I gotta look first. Yeah, and so she was being pushy. I mean, me, I picked, I literally picked up the basket and put it on my trolley, and she's like, Oh, that's mine. I'm like, Oh, well, you have a cart, so why don't we just put this all in the cart then? Or do you want to put what's in the cart in the basket, one way or the other? You don't need both. We have a lot of shoppers who need that.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

But so Saturday, it's like seven. Now you know, because we off mic we talked about this. Um, the individual I'm having to work with is a low productive, low production, low productive, not very productive member of the team. They have excuses right now, so we're just gonna accept the excuses. They are where they are, right? So I'm cleaning, I've been cleaning for hours at this point. Okay, and I come around the corner to go back to do the fifth cleaning on the toy aisle, and there is a disaster on the floor, and I'm like, oh, and I literally have this thing that I do out loud where I go, oh, and then I'm gonna go up front because I do not see a parent attending these children, and I'm gonna have somebody call for a parent's attention because now we actually have a physical notice up now. And we're like, as a management team, the the management team, we're so tired of parents like wanting a break from their kids for an hour or two, they're literally making their children get away from them in the store, and that's not how this works. Because at that point, you've literally abandoned your child when you're telling your child, get away from me. I don't want you near me. Yeah, you're abandoning your child. So, anyways, I get about halfway to the front register to go tell somebody, hey, I need a parental call, and I hear it. I deals me, other yelling, including the word fuck. And I turn back around thinking, shit, somebody's stealing somebody's kid, right? Turn back around. And this Hispanic, fixed Hispanic mom is making her two children clean up the mess, and she's literally saying to them, What the fuck is wrong with you? We this isn't your home. Yeah, you treat it like we're visitors, you treat it with respect, clean it up now. Slapped them both on the back of the head, which is something I'm seeing more common now is a lot of head slapping going on. Do people not realize you can actually cause brain damage doing that?

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Breathing can cause brain damage. So slap them.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Don't deprive them a breath, slap them hard, anyways. Yeah, uh, so yeah, my Jesus ran out. It did get refilled a little bit yesterday because I I it it look, I am not highly religious, I am not uh an atheist, I'm just like have my own viewpoints and I leave it at that. But my favorite thing to make people leave me the fuck alone when I'm doing projects, when they want to sit there and talk, because oh, you've got pretty eyes there. Oh, hey girl, I love your boobies, blah, whatever. I don't care what your excuse is, but that's my joke. I ran out of Jesus. So I have this lady. I'm doing my project I'm supposed to be doing, minding my business, and I'm sitting there going, six more hours. Six doing the chat in my head, six more hours, six more hours. Hey girl, how are you doing? I'm fine, man. How are you? Ma'am, how are you? Oh, I'm good, honey. I'm good. Oh, oh girl, I didn't know she was your eyes so pretty. Well, thank you so very much. I get them from my mother. No, she's blind. They didn't get that check, but

The Customers We Want

SPEAKER_01 10:00

whatever. And they're like, So, how are you doing, honey? You look a little stressed today. You got that sweat going on. She goes, but you got this nice glow, and brilliant ass, what's going on? I'm like, I'm I'm working, and this is what happens when you work hard doing a you know, three-quarters of my job is actually physical. Like, I got some more guns building up. Look at all these bruises everywhere. You yeah, you should see, like, ladies and gentlemen, you should see it under the shirt. I've got bruises everywhere. And and I said to her, I was just like, Well, you know, I ran out of Jesus like three days ago, and I was hoping that the Holy Spirit would come see me yesterday, because yesterday, I was like, Saturdays are usually my Fridays, but not this week. This week, today's my Friday, and uh she was she was so sweet, and she goes, you know, she goes, praise for being honest that you ran out of Jesus. She goes, I appreciate that warning. I said, I think the Holy Spirit just visited me. I thought we were gonna have a church revival in the store because she didn't get that. I was trying to make the point that no matter how you phrase it, we all run out of patience. And sometimes we are struggling to get the patience back. Yeah, but she was really sweet about it because my newest cashier, she gives a pep talk. My newest cashier comes over, she goes, Hey, so cute, she's down across the aisle for me. She's like, Hey, I'm like, she's like, How you doing? I was just like, What do you like? So I did this thing and it was an accident, and you remember the community, and she didn't say what it was. And I'm like, Oh, because yeah, I did that thing again today. I'm like, okay. I was like, it's an accident. No, it was like it's easy to do when you get in a hurry. Because my one cashier, and she is a trooper, she's my newest cashier. This, this, this cashier did almost four thousand dollars in sales by herself. Yeah, she did really good, she did fantastic. So mistakes are gonna happen. She really follows into that 2% rule that you expect to see error-wise. And the funny thing about it is so when you're in retail, they expect a two to three percent error. Fast food is like three to four percent because it's a rushed environment. Retail is two to three percent error, one one direction or other, either you're gonna be over or under. And she's actually stayed within like 0.12% error rate at the end of the day, because I fixed the problem. The problem was a very fixable problem. No big deal. Yeah, so but this lady who's been trying to revive my Jesus, giving me some Holy Spirit, says to her, She goes, Once long ago, before you were ever even thought of in your grandparents' eyes, and I'm like, Yeah, this lady is kind of old, but you know, my cashmere is very young. She said, I worked for this company and I had up in Seattle, and I had somebody come in, and it shows you the difference of the story. Will show you the difference in business between now and then. She goes, he came in and he says, I need, I need 18 of these sweaters. They're cashmere sweaters. So back in the day, they were like $200 a piece, yeah. You know, which is like now like $600 or something, maybe $700, whatever. And he said, Here's my card, here's my list. I expect it to be all gift wrapped and ready to go tomorrow by three. She said, Okay, she set about, she picked them, she like literally did every single thing and gets it all together, rings his total up, he picks his package up the next day, he comes back the day after that and he looks her and he goes, I'm gonna tell you something. She goes, What's that? And she goes, he goes, You're cute. And she goes, Oh, well, thank you. You're pretty good looking for an older guy yourself. And he goes, You're not $52,000 cute, though. And she goes, What? And he goes, You put an extra zero on this. I do need you to correct this. She'd receive commission. Now, this is how it used to be retail sales, you would have a base plus commission. And so her commission, the store she was working at, was uh 15%, which is very massive even back in that day. But 15% on $52,000, she didn't think anything about it because they were just like, she just she just like thought she got a bonus or something. She was telling me, she goes, She goes, I literally thought I got a bonus. She goes, because it was uh $7,700 bonus to be coming on my check. It was written on the log and she goes, and the red shirt was great. It was it was $750. But uh so so she looks at my cashier and she goes, sweetheart, we all make mistakes. She goes, it's how you handle it with integrity that makes all the difference. Yeah, and and I and I agree because it literally had just happened, and I was just like, that's the best thing about my newest cashier, is she does the same thing I do. If she makes a mistake, she owns it immediately. Like I did it, totally me, you know. So I did get a little revival of Jesus, but not enough. So it's it was it was a long week. I think I walked an average, which a lot of people are gonna be like, Oh, that's not a big deal. Listen,

The Holy Spirit Revival

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Linda, it is a big deal for somebody who spent an average walking 3,500 to 4,500 steps a day to now walking 10,000 plus. Yeah, it is it is huge, it is a big difference because I know that it is 75 steps from this door to that door, and it's like literally, if I go from one wall of the company's building to the other, I think it's a hundred and fifty five or something like that. So don't, and it's and it's not because I'm tiptoeing, it's because I have short legs, I have short stride. So, and I know that I'm doing these steps. I need to get a new pedometer or whatever, but I know I'm doing them because the person I worked with had their step counter going this week. And uh she goes, This is really weird. Like, what's up? I've been up since eight o'clock this morning. Yeah, and it's saying I only did 1800 steps. I'm like, oh, okay. That doesn't seem right. She's like, I know you're like running circles around me and everything, but this doesn't seem right. So of course it was a ha ha. That's what she'd done on her two days off was 1800 steps. She'd forgotten to reset it, but thankfully she's got a cloud save. So when she pulled it down, she was actually at 2800 steps.

unknown 16:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

And uh, and she's just like, oh my god, you're I said, Yeah, I need to get a step counter going or whatever. She's like, she's like, you've literally done four times. It's the only admittance, one of the only two admittances she gave me this weekend that I'd literally been working hard. And I'm like, Yep, I know. Everybody's off the chain with I don't want to work anymore. We had people quit, and then they were offended that we didn't say, Oh, please don't quit, darling. It's like, bye.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

You have been the problem for a while now. Thank you for leaving.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

Thank you for not participating. Get the fuck out. And that's actually it actually led to it's thank you, don't come again. Thank you, never come again. Don't breed either. Uh, anyways, my bird. It's something that we've been taught, like we'd been trying to pin, I've been trying to pinpoint the problem for a while because there's a duality in problems that we've been having at the shop. Okay. And that, and it's not, and it's it's you've got one member of the management team that's lazy. So where you have this trickle-down effect in management, you also have this trickle up effect, you also have this puddling of laziness. Yeah. And it really did start with culture. Right. Well, it's just like you've got this one particular manager who does like they have a lot of health problems. So I give them a lot of grace on that. But it's just like, you cannot get better if you don't try.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

It's like, am I a size zero? Fuck no. Would I ever want to be a size zero? Fuck no. I see them girls come in and they're like, Oh, I'd really love to have a cheeseburger, but I just throw it up. Like, they're like, I can't even do desserts because it's too much sugar. I have seen size zero diabetics.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

Yeah. Just because you're skinny doesn't mean that you don't have diabetes.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

I'm cold. I'm hot. I'm too cold. I'm too hot. I literally watched one grab onto her partner because we had a strong wind come through the building. But, anyways, so apparently this one manager got into this lazy kick because they noticed the store manager wasn't doing blah blah blah. And it's like it's really interesting because it's like this particular individual does not like the store manager, but they've got a fake game that's strong. Their fake game is so strong. I know that this gal has reported our store manager at least three times since I've been there for non-participation of work, for uh non-participation of management and non-participation of leadership. So, what does that mean? It basically means that bitch sitting around, she ain't doing nothing, she's nothing, she's not teaching us anything new, and she's throwing everything at us and not helping. And I can tell when these reports are done, besides the fact of her telling me that, oh, I called redacted and let her know that this bitch is like only at 82% sales score capacity. And it's like, first of all, you're being petty. Yeah, you're being super petty, and I don't do petty pennies. I don't, I can't stand it because it makes me want to be a petty penny.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Oh, you want to play this game, do you?

SPEAKER_01 19:34

Well, like, listen, bitch. Let me illuminate you on how it's I have I have an older sibling who was tough on me. Let me tell you what, my pity game can be strong. Um yeah. I don't she's just she's just a petty penny. That's the best way I can say it. She's just so petty. I and you know, and life just isn't life isn't fair to any of us.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

If if life was fair,

The Mistake with Integrity

SPEAKER_01 20:00

uh uh one of my parents wouldn't be going through the health issues they are. My stepparent wouldn't be having to deal with what they are. I would uh, you know, my I would have siblings that felt at all times good in health physically and mentally. I I would feel good in health physically and mentally. You know, I wouldn't be no size zero, but uh, you know, I'd be like a size 10 because I think that's like 10, 12 is like a really good curvaceous size to be when you're short. Okay. Uh life's not fair to any of us. It's how you let it go and and do things to better yourself. Like, like we all know, they all know from listening to me chatter and you chatter. Me chatter, egg to chatter, right? They're they're used to it because you didn't want to give up Losagnians, spaghetti, and meatballs, and all this delicious carb heavy shit that turns into sugars, but you had to for your better health, you had to really change your your game about it. Yeah, because we all we all let's not lie, we we all know how delicious a uh Carl's Jr. double bacon cheeseburger is, yeah, which I haven't had for a very long time either. It's like I thought about stopping and getting a burger the other day, and I told my partner, I was like, you know, I thought about stopping and getting a burger coming home. Why didn't you? First of all, just to get a hamburger is a is a minimum of $12. Yeah. To get a decent hamburger. Now, Jack in the Box, I'll promote them all day. I I loved working for them except for the one manager who was the manager who was stealing. But, anyways, uh their slider burgers are is is pretty good. They're delicious, salty as fuck, but delicious, right? So the partner says, Why didn't you stop yourself burger? I said, Well, because I didn't want to get myself a burger knowing this was my budget. Because I'm trying to do really good with my budget since it's full time work, but I'm not working 40 hours a week.

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Thank god. Because I'd be because Should the because I have the like the last three weeks, I've essentially worked almost 40 hours a week.

SPEAKER_04 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

And it's I don't have a strong enough mental health. My mental health is not strong enough yet to deal with the public and the personalities that much. Like if I could do everything that I've been doing in the last week, uh, but just notch it back by 25% on the physicality, because my back, like it's not even my back, it's like the back side of my hip. Like, you know, when you grow muscles, you feel swole, and then sometimes it pinches stuff if you're already overweight. Do you know what I mean? Like on the back side of my the socket for my hip joint is what's sore. And sometimes it's downright painful. And what I've been told is like it's really close to sciatic nerve. So I'm probably out of alignment. I probably need a chiropractor, but I don't have like all this extra money to go get an evaluation done by finding a new chiropractor and then the $60 of treatment, and I just don't. It's one of those things where it's like when your knee hurts and it's like you know, you're like, oh, if it if it would just pop, it would feel so much better. Yeah, that's what it feels like. Only it's painful. Yeah, so if I could do 25% less of a physicality, I'd be okay with working 40 hours a week, but I can't because I have to do somebody else's physicality. And all these people have been like, Oh, why are you sweating today, honey? It's called work, it's called a G O B. I had an employee say to me, she goes, Oh, you're sweating. And I said, Yeah, redacted, it's it's called I'm working. Why are you working that hard? They don't pull us enough money. Yep. I don't know. Things are about to go. Somebody came into work apparently and had an attitude problem because my back hurts. I've got to go to the emergency room because I think my chiropractor fucked me up. You went to the chiropractor six days ago, bro. How are you just now figuring it fucked you up? My manager also says, Oh, we've also got a call out from redactant. Oh, yeah? That's weird. Yeah, apparently he's shitting everywhere and has to clean up the shit. And as he's cleaning up the shit, it's making him sick and he's shitting more. I'm like, what? Apparently he's had ongoing diarrhea for like two days. I'm like, oh, well, he's some of that lettuce. He ate some of that nasty lettuce, I guess. I don't know. And then we had another person call out that I actually really needed to work because I was just like, if I've got this individual, I can make these last seven hours of my work week, it'll be fine. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. He couldn't come in because he was having diarrhea everywhere. Well, I I guess he had two excuses. I got the diarrhea. Oh, wait, no, that's not diarrhea. I'm throwing up. So I don't know what she was. Uh if you don't know what it's coming out of, I don't know what's wrong with you. Got the map the ass disease. I'm telling you. But on the bright side, you know, like I wish everybody well, even the employee who just quit

The Steps Count

SPEAKER_01 25:00

with the th of my note, would not give it to the person they were supposed to, because that's one of the things is you're supposed to give it to your store manager if they're there. Yeah. I am not in any way, shape, or form a store manager. I'm an assistant store manager, which means I can help you with your problems, but I have to work twice as hard as the regular employee there. Don't ask me to produce anything either. I don't I don't know how people do that because I get instant angry when I touch anything sticky or dirty because we have so many people come in that want to carry around the somebody spilled ice cream on the floor and smeared it into the floor and then use clothes to try to cover it up. So not only, and this is while our system's down and we can't even fucking mop. So I had to hand clean it, which trust me, I did not get on my hands and knees to clean it. I got me a cleaning rag and I got it covered with cleaner and I put it on the ground and I zooshed it about, and that's gonna have to be good enough because it wasn't found until 7:45 at night. And I've got I have to close this side of the building, then I have to chase all the customers out, and I gotta close out this side of the building because the other manager I was closing with, she she just she can't do it. She's shorter than me, and so it takes it literally takes her 15 minutes to walk from one side of the building to the next. So whatever. So 15 minutes to walk through this part of the building and then another 10 to get to the other. So it's like a half-hour project almost, anyways. Uh, you know, but they so the person just I don't wish anybody bad ill will or anything. I wish everybody well, no matter how, even no matter how you've treated me, I wish you well. I wish you get everything you deserve and more. Get a little bonus going on. So, you know, and the individual can't understand why we don't care. Like, they really thought, I think they really thought by giving it to me that I was gonna be like, oh, please don't go. No, I'm like, okay, cool. When's your last day? And I love and and I like how they thought they were gonna be assie with me and it's an at we'll stay. Oh, okay. And it was funny because I made sure to I made sure to call the store manager immediately and say, um, so this individual just quit. Send them up here. Oh, I tried twice, blah blah blah blah. And that was one of the things, and so so when is their last day? Um the last yeah, the last shift they were, they called out for their last shift. Oh, yes, I know. So they're not coming into their shift today. No, ma'am. I want to know why there's not how is this? I don't understand. I said, I don't know. I have a note for you. I did not read it, and I because it's it's for you. I said, but what they they told me is this is an at-will state, and at their own will, they're leaving the position, and at their own will, they're choosing not to talk to you. At-will state does not mean anything other than the employer at any time can take you away from your job. Yes, you're a human, you have a right at your own will not to. But here's the thing when you quit your job without notice and without cause. So without notice, so say you quit because on August 25th, you're starting a new job. So you are expected today is August, let's say today's August 10th. You tell your employer, uh, my last day is going to be August 24th. That is two weeks. That is what is a general business practice, yeah. Now, here's what happens if you don't give your employer notice. First of all, if you have uh a history with the company, you're no longer hirable by them, number one. Especially in the industry that we're in. You're you're no longer you're no longer hirable by them, number one. Number two, and believe me, it gets out there, it you get known in the retail world as not worth your weight in gold. Yeah, you're not worth your weight in spit.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Unreliable.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

That is correct. And uh, and and even though in our state there's only three questions that can that can be asked about the about the employee, there's one key one, there's one key one that we get to ask, which is a very telling thing. Would you hire them again? Exactly. Hell no. When did they work for you? What was their wage? Would you hire them again? Now I will tell you, my boss, she does not like she does not like making people to where they are not rehirable because she is very much, just because of her history and background, she's very much a, you know, she doesn't believe in second chances, she believes in three chances, three opportunities to make it right. And she's going through a little world of her own thing because one of her very and and nobody really knew for sure because it was rumored. And you know, you don't believe gossip and rumors, but it was actually verified um that her best friend was working for us and then just shit out on the job because of her addiction problems. And uh, you know,

The Accountability Matters

SPEAKER_01 30:00

but that was her third strike. Now she's not hirable. She wasn't hirable after the last time either. Because the last time she was no call, no show for the last seven days of her notice. So, anyways, yeah, it's it's been it's been wild. Uh yeah, and uh it's it's been crazy. Well, what about you? What's the newest thing for you at work? What are are you struggling with anything?

SPEAKER_02 30:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

You like everybody?

SPEAKER_02 30:24

For the most part. I mean, I'm not one of those people that needs to like the people that I work with, it just makes it easier.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

So, how many people there just irritate the fuck out of you every day? I know one manager for sure when she's around.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

Well, that I don't see her every day, so it does it's not that big of a deal. Um Is it the ongoing battles with the boys with the small balls? Yeah, I don't have any problems with any of the guys that I work with. Um even when they're fighting amongst themselves.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

What literally sometimes I just when I come back there, uh, you know, when I when I come back uh and and look around and and my guys are doing their thing, I literally want to pull up a bowl of popcorn and just watch it happen. I j I just want to see it happen.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Yeah. Yeah, and since the one dude who I almost had a problem with quit, um I think I think everybody there likes me, which is always weird to me. But uh one other co-worker that I have that works in my same area that I can like I can take him or leave him. Um even he seems to like me as much as he likes anybody there, because it doesn't seem like he likes anybody there. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

Um so he he does I I'll I'll tell you just from first hand knowledge he likes you. It's disgusting. It's it's look, I've known you almost 17, almost 17 years. You're so old, you're so decrepit, bro. It's it's not surprising to me because you take things um kind of like with a with just a glancing blow. Like you're just like, you're like, yep, I can see being angry. I I'd be frustrated too. Yep. And I think because you have that ability to uh be in other people's shoes, I think that makes you more likable because it's just like you don't sit there and say, Oh, well, Jimmy John told me A and and Dingledork told me B, and Mickleboo, you know, like you don't sit there and throw your being in the West. You're just like, okay, that's what I was told to do. If that's not right, tell me what to do.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

You're very, you know, you're very uh flexible with with, I mean, now you're not always happy about it, and I know you're not always happy about it.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

But you are you you're you just you just have a calmness about you, and that's exactly what your coworkers need is is that calmness where it's like, yep, once upon a time I'd have been mad too, but it's not worth getting that angry about it's a job, we do it, and then we go home. That's how it is.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

Three of them have a tendency to get really riled up and then like you stepped into my pod square.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Why did you cross my you bastard? Why did you touch those keys? I mean, uh, and then you ever notice, you ever notice, and you know, you ever notice when they're uh one of them's not missing, two of them are ganging up on the other, and it doesn't matter what combination is, if A and B are there, they're talking shit about C. And if C and B are there, they're talking shit about A. Yeah. But the biggest thing I've noticed and I laugh about, and I actually saw it this weekend, uh, because I don't always get to be part of like production huddles or whatever. Uh, so I actually saw it, I think it was this weekend. Was it Saturday? No, Thursday. Yeah, no, it was Saturday. It was part of the production huddle huddle. I got to see it where person A, who I think uh I I go youngest to oldest when I say ABC.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Okay, so now you got that in your mind, who's what? So A says when when when the managers come in, we're doing this meeting and everything, and they're like, um, they're like, Oh, I I literally like, hey, do you guys got anything? And my co-manager's like, yeah, is there anything? It's like, come on, we're here. We're we literally had seven minutes left on meeting time, you know, like what the fuck? And they're like, no, because B's not here, and B's the one who makes everything run over. If it ain't B, it's C. And it's it's like I'm like bust turn under. Yeah. It's it's I'm not gonna say though they weren't wrong.

unknown 34:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

Well, they're not completely right either because they're chiding them along.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

But what I what I find interesting is person A and person B and person C, I have had this observation when they ask Dagda for help. They're like, hey Dagda, can you give me a minute? Please. I actually hear them say please to you. And thank you so much for your help, Dagda. I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dagda. They're very pleased and thank you with you. Okay. I've heard them ask uh old goat who worked who worked crosswise. Okay, I I I adore him. I just I adore him to death. Uh I've heard them say, Hey, old goat, come here. You need help with this. It's two different actions and reactions, even though that individual is a very polite individual.

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Yeah, I mean, he isn't like I tend to say please and thank you a lot, even when it's they're just doing what they're supposed to be doing.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

Right.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Um but the thing is, if like one thing in particular I always thank them for is when they uh take my gaylord that's full away.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:47

Because if it's full, then I can't put it in the room.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

You've got to you gotta stack your own shit up on your thing and put it in.

SPEAKER_02 35:52

Um or I have to do it myself. I have to leave my pod and take it out and put it in the and fucking with them gaylords, let me tell you what, I don't like

The Trickle Down Laziness Problem

SPEAKER_02 36:00

fucking with them gaylords. I actually like doing that.

SPEAKER_01 36:02

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_02 36:03

Yeah, it's and it's it's different from what I'm normally doing, so it's and it's not that big of a deal. It only takes like five minutes or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

So the next time a router position opens up, that's what you should go for. It would probably mean changing your schedule, but just remember that position's called a router.

SPEAKER_02 36:17

Yeah. Um, so anyway, whenever one of them does that, I thank them for it.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Me too. High five.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

Uh even though it's like that's what they're fucking supposed to be doing.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Yeah. I think that's the thing, is that you know, it's really funny because um our problematic manager. Why are you thanking them for doing their job? Because it's a thankless job. I was just like, you never know how far a please and thank you will take you.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

And old goat looking at me the other day, and I I don't know if he actually, because he's not he's not the first one, and knock on wood, I can continue the trend. But he's like, there's my favorite manager. And I was just and I don't think he's fucking with me, but I think I am one of his two favorite people because I don't do this hyper yell thing. I don't do what my favorite coworker does, which is when she gets riled up after the bot, it's trickle-down effects, and she's responsible for making sure that pod is clean and tidy, and she just starts yelling and throwing.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

And I'm just like, damn, yeah, I don't do that.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

I just I believe in gentle, like, hey, it was a great day. We got through it. You're still kind of messy, so let's we got like make sure to clean it up. And if you need help, just ask. And I don't know if that's the difference, the reaction I get from the employees. I'm like, if you need help, ask.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

I don't, I don't know, because I'm not as jaded as the rest of them are, because I refuse to let it is an effort of will, it's an absolute effort of will to not let somebody who literally gets their jollies off of being cruel and condescending and as mean to people as they because they do it to everybody.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

Especially to myself and my one co-manager. Nothing brings them more joy than to try to show their intellectual intellectual superiority, which they have none, by going, I've been doing this game a lot longer than you, and you can't come in here with a try to have a positive attitude and bring everybody up and make them more positive.

SPEAKER_03 38:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

Because let me tell you what, they've already figured it out by now that we work really close proximity, right? Everybody knows. Everybody knows we're not fooling anyways, and that's fine. And I don't really fucking care because none of our coworkers, none of them listen because I refuse to give them the name of the podcast. And it's not because I don't want them to hear A, B, C, or D. It's not that. It's because this is my therapy, this is your therapy, this is our therapy. This is this is what we do to have a good time and is we talk a lot. And yeah, like fucking, it's it's yes, I get it. 80, 20, I get it. Shut the fuck up. Um, but our our big boss, the the big company boss in our building. Yeah, have you noticed what she's been doing the last few weeks? So since I've been there, she's she asked me the first two weeks I was there, she asked me, she goes, So what do you think? And I looked her dead in the face and I said, the lack of accountability between regular employees and management is astounding to me. I watched this individual and that individual and this manager do these things, which is against company policy. And when you asked about it, I was like, they didn't just say, hey, I did it. It was an easier way to do it. Unbelievable. So yeah, did I have a rough start with them? Of course. And I don't really care because don't tell me during my interview and when you hire me, I want somebody who's gonna be fucking honest in here. I want somebody who's gonna hold my team members, our team members, accountable. The other manager that was there, who is not, it's not the manager I don't get along with, it's one of the two I get along with, the older of the two that I get along with. Okay. Um, she was just like, I'm gonna be honest. She goes, I lack accountability. And she goes, and it would be refreshing to have somebody who can be honest about it. She goes, it's gonna suck for a while until we get used to how honest you are, but I think it'll be good. And it could implement some positive changes and maybe weed out some of the problems that we've been trying to figure out how to get rid of for months.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

So I knew that that was my job coming in. I knew my job was to continue to maintain brutal honesty. Now, have I softened up the edges a little bit since? Absolutely. Absolutely. I've softened up the edges, but it's really, you know, when you come into a company like this where you have multiple assistant managers and the type of industry we do and all of that, it's it's overwhelming because you've already got these two managers going, you have to watch out for this individual, and this individual going, oh, these individuals are lazy liars because they're under the age of 50. So you have to work out the truth for yourself and you have to do observations. So I had a conversation about six or seven weeks ago with the boss at our store. And she was just like, What concerns this, that, and like just like a whole gamut of things. And I said, Listen, I was just like, I don't know if you figured me out yet, but there's two things you ought to know by now. One, I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't see a point in it. I was just like, if you don't want me here anymore, if I'm not working out as your employee and as your assistant manager, being honest and doing all these things, you let me know and I'll give you notice. Number one. I said, number two, if you want to know why all these people, except for the two people closest, the three people closest to the manager who keeps attacking me, observe. Pay attention to what's going on because I observe and I listen and then I react. Am I a sensitive individual? Of course, I'm a sensitive individual. I'm very sensitive. You know, when you're

The Dagda Scenario

SPEAKER_01 42:00

when you're not sure about your position and everything, you're very sensitive. Um, so she's been observing more, and she's seen exactly what I said. This father and this son, and this other individual, and one of the individuals that's now gone, right? These three people, she keeps telling them things that aren't true because she's working off of policies and procedures. From you want to know why individual B is the way he is with C and A, is because years ago the company used to have another form of management.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

And they don't do that, they gave it all to the assistant managers because they weren't gonna put in another price, they weren't gonna put in another pay tier in there. And and that's the thing is like so. They've been thinking if they just step up and put everybody in their place, they're gonna be like this, but they can't be accountable. So redacted started noticing that oh shit, our new employees, you and the two other individuals, the the the gal and old goat, I should just call him goat because I just he's just every time I see him, he reminds me of Billy Groat Gruff, and he don't even have a beard or nothing, just the like the way he walks around. Like when I was just like, hey, guess what? What are we gonna do? And he's like, the way he stops when I call recovery. But so, but if you notice, you and Goat and our little angel, all three of you, are are you guys as fast as they would like you to be? No, but you're putting out better quality. So there's that, and so then and then we also have our newer cachers too. So she's been observing where are our problems at? Our problems are with the people encircling this one boss. So, what did she say a few weeks ago when when B and C had their big argument and they were just fuck you, fuck you going on? I don't remember. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. You're not here to make friends and buddies, you're here to do a job. So instead of talking to each other, call a manager. And I and it's funny because so I'm the very that's exactly the way mommy, hi mommy.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Hi mommy.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

Um, that's exactly what mommy would say when I was kid, is if you girls don't have anything nice to say, just don't say anything at all. And you know, the wisdom from somebody who like only had the example of her parents, which was a very overprotective mother and a very strong-willed father. And then, of course, her older brother. There's like 10 years between them, 10 years difference, I think, maybe 11, I don't know. Um, but literally, so B started saying something the other day, and I just looked at him and I said, I'm sorry, what was that? And he goes, Oh, he goes, Sorry, I'm kind of wound up from this thing that happened earlier. Did it get resolved? Well, you know what, Laura says, I do. If you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. And I said, So, did you need my help with something? Or I just want to know how you're doing today, Miss Jen. And I said, Well, Mr. Redacted, I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Is it your Friday? Yes. Well, hallelujah, isn't that a blessed? Blessed thing. I don't like you because you stood there and like, dude, the day I caught him in the Y and confronted him in front of everybody. I thought our boss was just gonna die laughing because she was just like, because I told her I was just like, oh, I haven't even thought I got really sick. I was really sick, and then I was back for a week, and then I got sick again. And it's not that I got better for a week, it's that I had a double ear infection, a sinus infection, and trying to turn into uh like an upper respiratory infection. So I just needed a lot of drugs to get me through it. So yeah, the the three days I was there were days he didn't even work, and then he tried to blame me for some. Oh, game on. So I don't, I just don't play that game. I just don't.

SPEAKER_03 46:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:03

And I and I think because you are you actually have a lot of individual friends that like run through the spectrum of personality and moral compass.

SPEAKER_02 46:15

Like I've had a lot of assholes for friends.

SPEAKER_01 46:18

And you you have a lot of assholes for friends, you know what, and I would honestly say that the one friend that everybody claims is an asshole, I'm gonna say he's probably not an asshole. He's probably just likes things his own way. Very particular. Well, yeah, but I mean, like, I mean, but you have you have a huge gamut of friends, so it makes it to where like friend types, yeah. And me, uh I can't do that as much as you do, um, because inevitably it ends up being that person A hates person B, and why are you talking? Or I gotta listen to it from other sources, and it's just like, you know, I'm I personally am very happy having a very small circle. I love that in my private life I've got you and Bogey I talked to and a few other people, but like it's not an immense I couldn't keep up with a circle like yours.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

My circle wasn't that big.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

Well, your gaming group is a big portion of your friends. Yeah, yeah. And so I couldn't if all if all 12 of you were together at once, I couldn't. That would be overwhelming to me. It'd be too much for me. Because I'd be like, ladies, I'm sorry if the dudes are being asses, dudes don't be such asses to the ladies, you know, because you know what I mean? Like, I don't know, it's just weird, and then your one friend and your other friend who don't work. Yeah, but mental health is everybody's got issues, yeah. You know, but you definitely have one friend who's an asshole for sure.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

Oh, yeah, at least one.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

At least one, and he admits it. And you know what? That's a step up from when we met him what 12 years ago. That's a huge step up from where he was a couple years ago.

The Honesty Push

SPEAKER_01 48:00

He's just like, I'm just a private individual. Now he's like, Oh no, I'm totally an asshole. It's like, no, spraw grass, anyways. So work the work's going, it's going well for you then.

SPEAKER_03 48:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:09

I I still am in a we're doing this transitionary thing at work. And I am still 100% in the boat of making you changing your position, even though it's a little more uncomfortable for you because you'd be dealing with the public a little bit more. I think it would be the best thing for us to have you do like the organizations and running on the floor. Because you've got, oh my god, we have this little uh little little Taiwanese lady who or Vietnamese, Vietnamese, I think she's Vietnamese. We have this little Vietnamese lady, and I can't tell if she just doesn't like the one manager or what, but I definitely know that bitch knows English. She a hundred percent knows English because she had her kids in the other day. I'm like, girl, you can't have your kids run around, you know that. Oh, I know, but I just wanted to break. Isn't that what they always say? So tell me you don't know Englishman, you're telling me shit that you hear the customer saying. Come on now. Um, her idea of putting things up in an organized fashion is if she sees something like it on the shelf, slapping it down on top of it. Somebody got into her bins yesterday and it was a Korean lady. Yep, and it was like I was I liked Asian showdown. It was like great, but uh on the on the work note of things, I keep getting emailed from I wouldn't say it's a competitor because charity is not the same as just a general thrift store.

SPEAKER_03 49:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:49

A certified charity is not the same as a general thrift store. Um, but what I will say what I will say is like so from the one email I got a week and a half ago from you know, like I'm listed on indeed.com. Because it's like you, you know, you need to to help with your to help anybody with their own peace of mind, they should stay active on the and just have their shit listed because you never know what opportunity could come that could be a life-changing opportunity.

SPEAKER_03 50:16

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 50:18

And um, so anyways, I started getting emails from this other company, and it was just like, hey, you might be interested in this job, you know, and it was just like, yeah, okay, no, thanks. Uh no, I mean, if I if I literally worked a half mile away and not three miles away, I'd be like, I could do minimum wage and be just uh, I don't, I don't, I don't want responsibility, but I don't not want it.

SPEAKER_03 50:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:44

It's like at least if I have a responsibility, at least then I can listen to all the employees and what they're saying. And like my big thing right now is pushing accountability.

SPEAKER_03 50:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:54

You know, the boss is just like, can we correct this? Can we correct this? And I said, Yeah, we can correct this. I said, but uh, believe you me, I don't think it's right to keep, they're gonna keep doing this. We have A, B, and C who keep fucking shit up on purpose. And now D, he is starting to do it too because he's tired of taking metros out. He doesn't want to take his metros out. He hates being on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 51:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:17

And I was just like, all it does, it started out with individual B and it moved on to C because now nobody's got areas of responsibility because I'm not producing. Why should I have an area of responsibility? And uh then it was uh, yeah, you are because you're responsible for this. Just because you do that, you're you're still responsible for this. And then it went to A. So all of them doing it, now we're on to D. So we got A, B, C, D. And I'm like, you need to hold these people accountable. And I was talking to another manager who I worked with yesterday morning briefly, or yeah, early day. And I said to her, and I was just like, Oh, I'll fix it if you want. I was like, but believe you me, these people need to do it right the first time. And you need somebody needs to be out here with them doing it right and correcting it every time. Because I I flat out told her straight to her face. I said, I would call it to their face, and I'm telling you to your face. This individual and this individual, they both like to just shove and go. I've literally seen D take stuff over to sporting goods because he was just he couldn't make any room in electronics or whatever he was trying to drop off. One of them was a stereo, there was no room there, so he literally just sped it down in front of the bin that holds the baseball bats. And then it was face like like face creams or something that belongs in health and beauty. He hung on the rack in linens. So don't tell me I'm not fucking seeing it, because I'm fucking seeing it, but that's my thing is I'm pushing accountability. So, anyway, so a week ago, so apparently this this other thrift store is cleaning the house, which does not surprise me because I've had some of their employees come in and go, like, yeah, like they're like, what was the one the one lady was telling me that they have a really big problem with their production crews uh stealing shit and nobody was getting fired. Well, guess what? They're they're cleaning house, they've got tons of position opens. So I started a week ago with getting that, and I'm like, oh, okay, good for you, whatever. And then like four days ago, I got an email going, This person is interested in you. Would you like them to email you directly? And I just don't answer it. Because what I noticed between four days ago and then yesterday is the bare bare minimum you're gonna earn went up. I think it was 21 cents an hour.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 53:36

And I'm like, well, we'll see. Once once you reach that top end number, because they have sent me emails for cash hearing, which I could do, you know, as long as it was the same for a don't ask me to go after shoplifters or whatever, it's bad enough that I'm the designated shoplifter monster now. Look, can you explain to me how I've gotten two of them arrested in being there

The Crazy Little Things

SPEAKER_01 54:00

less than six months when the other managers have all been in that store for at least two years or more, haven't been able to get the two most prolific man and woman arrested? Got how? Good question. It's called doing your fucking job, bitch. It's you know, but that's the thing is that they're all there it's a lack of accountability and a lack of drive. So, how do you change that? You show them results, and I don't sit there and say, Well, I did this okay, because I was paying to I don't do that. I say it took the whole team being observational for us to find this in because if you give credit to your crew, even when they don't necessarily deserve it, when you say it's a team effort, yeah, it makes them it empowers them more because now I've got two of my cashiers when when they're like, Hey, come pay for that here. You need to pay for that merchandise. I literally walked up the other day, and my one guy who didn't hardly say he's been there almost two years and he hardly talks to nobody. And I saw him telling this lady, if you're not gonna come back here and pay for your shit, then don't fucking come back. And I didn't have a problem with him talking to a customer like that because she was, she was, oh, she was calling him the n-word and not like uh friendly hood type thing. It was yeah, you're just she literally said, You're a dirty ass n-word working for white people. I was like, Oh shit. Sip my tea and watch what's gonna happen. No, and I and he was just like, he called her a dirty ass because she was stealing. And I'm like, okay, stop. I'm like, ma'am, you don't need to talk to him that way. You just don't need to come back. Why, bitch? Why? Because you're stealing. And that's not something I usually don't say it that way. And she goes, No, I'm not. I'm like, lady, I can see the pro I can see the tag on the bag. And the other cashier is like, well, she did pay for her snacks. Did she pay for that bag? Did she pay for the shirt? Did she pay for any of the shoes that she put in her bag? Did she pay for any of that? Oh no, she just paid for a bag of chips and a drink. She goes, I paid something. And the shit part about it was it was actually a brand new bag. So we get new goods that come in.

SPEAKER_03 55:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

So, so, anyways, so I'm waiting to see what this email is gonna say as far as pay goes. Because I'm like, if you get up to a dollar more an hour than I'm making, I might actually consider that a seven-mile drive. Well, because it's a whole different ball. Working for charity is a whole different ball game than working for an average retail store.

SPEAKER_03 56:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:21

And you know, University Place is, you know, not not too far. And it's a very nice town with a very low crime rate.

SPEAKER_03 56:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:31

I think the only one that's got a lower fire crime rate in Pierce County is like Furcrest. You know, because it's it's only like six blocks by ten, you know. There is the three generation to live there. But you know, the sad thing is Fiore's uh Fiori's isn't there at the deli, the delicatescent that used to be there.

SPEAKER_02 56:54

Yeah, I don't know. I've never really hung out over there, I just drove past it.

SPEAKER_01 56:58

They had this fantastic family-owned uh delicatesscent there. They had the best pastrami sandwiches there. But here's the thing about it, it was so fattening. You you would put a pound on just eating their food. So you could only go like I would go once a month, like because when I used to work uh for True Grain and I was doing a lot of physical work, I was walking nine to 14 miles a day. Yeah, I was just like, Oh, it's my Friday. I'm actually not working this weekend. This is crazy. Me and a buddy of mine who was, and it's so funny, he was the tree guy for the area. His name was Joe, um, you know, R A P. It was Joe, and then I go and we it via force. It was via force, not Feroni's. Uh, it was via force, and we'd go there and we'd get a sandwich, and we'd have their homemade uh whatever their daily salad was. Most of the time it was like um like a dill potato salad. Oh yes. We'd go get a sandwich, we'd get a side, we'd share the side, we'd have chips, we'd do that like once a month. You know, but um, best for strommy because they did it all in-house. But they don't have that there now. Now it's like a feronies or whatever. It's the I don't know. Anyways, so we'll see. University of place isn't that far away, and you know, it is a nicer, it's a nicer part of town than the part of town I work in. Yeah. Uh and even the part of town I don't the even the part of town I work in is actually considered better than a half mile away.

SPEAKER_03 58:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:27

And you know, and um it was really interesting is so when I talk to the police force, because it was me that got these two, and it and again, it's a team effort because if nobody had ever pointed it out, I would have never known that they were problematic.

SPEAKER_03 58:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 58:40

And if I didn't have the support from my team, when I'm like, keep your eyes on this individual because I have to track where they're moving, but there's so many moving parts in any given day. Yesterday I was having a conversation with somebody and they actually did this to me. And I said, ma'am, I'm having a conversation with you, but you have to realize I don't need to look at you to have this conversation because I'm watching seven other things.

Until Next Time!

SPEAKER_01 59:00

I'm sorry, was that rude? In my face is really fucking rude.

SPEAKER_03 59:04

Yeah.

unknown 59:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 59:06

So I don't know. But I'm gonna make one condition. If I ever if I ever go to that company, I'm gonna make one condition that you work the same shift as me and you work in production that and that they pay two dollars more an hour than you're making right now. That's my condition. Well, I have to have my pit bull. I have to have my pit bull, anyways. Well, good. I'm glad that you feel things are going really well on the job side, but I'm pretty sure you'd still rather be doing something else. Yeah. Besides video games. Oh, yeah, sleeping. Hey, speaking of which, so I started uh a new Seven Days to Die map, and I'm super excited because I named it after one of Harry's names. And all these stars are all different towns, so most towns I've gotten yet.

SPEAKER_03 59:53

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 59:53

Super excited. I'm only like an hour, two hours into that map. I'm trying to find a map that when Bogey and I get a chance to get together and do a seven days to die day, uh, that that it'll be fun. So I got a lot of work to do. But I'm anyways.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:15

Yesterday? Yeah, yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:17

Total Warhammer again?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:19

Did it have updates or new assignments or just getting back into it?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:23

Yeah, it has had some updates since the last time I played it, but also there's like something like 40 factions or something like that. And I want to play like five or six of them. Two I played till I won the main campaign, although you can continue playing after that.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:43

Um the rest of them I played like I started playing, and then I'm like, this is too difficult for me for my skill level right now. Because that game is fucking it can be super ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:56

Um, because it's made to be that way. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:00

Yeah. Let's uh let's take a break. So uh I can go pee because I literally have been sitting here for the last hour drinking water and coffee. I feel like I'm double fisting it from reasoning. But you know what? The great thing is talking about work a little bit. We've had some more highs than it's it's it's been a little more positive than it's been. We are seeing some positive changes, which um, by the way, I get to say to you that your guys is uh we've got a reorganization happening right now because we're getting ready to do a seasonal change. And you guys did fantastic, it looks great. And I will say what I saw you and GOAT working on, because I only saw you guys working on the back wall and then two specific aisles. That's all I actually saw you two doing because everyone was kind of teamed up. Um, it looks great and it still looks great. Yeah. Yep. Because you're awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

Uh yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:53

Okay, I'll tell you what, we always work it out, right? Yeah. Have a fantastic day.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:58

Later.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:59

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