Workplace Hot Mic Horror Stories That Will Ruin Your Career 😭 | Reddit Stories

Work meetings, side commentary, and the very real fear that your mic is on when it shouldn’t be.

This episode of Don’t Jump is all about workplace hot mic moments — the things people say when they think no one can hear, and what happens when everyone definitely can.

We get into the small slips that turn into big problems, the anxiety of corporate calls, and how one second can completely shift how people see you at work.

A little chaotic, a little painful, and very real.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Speaking of me being hot and the mic being hot and mics and hot and I'm so hot and the mic's so hot. You are. Do you know what a hot mic is?

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Um like when you say something that you shouldn't.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Yeah, it's also just when the mic is on.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hot mic, mic's on.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Yeah.

unknown 0:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:17

Didn't you have a film to be?

SPEAKER_01 0:18

I wasn't gonna say that. I yeah. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

Okay. So I pulled some stories today that um relate to one of my biggest fears in the workplace. And that fear is someone hearing some of the snarky bitchy shit that I say when I think no one can hear me.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Do you like talk to yourself?

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Oh, you say a lot of snarky bitchy things.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

I do.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

I also take photos of that actually maybe I shouldn't say that.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

In the past, not where you currently. Not where I'm currently at.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

In the past. I would take photos of people during meetings with my cameras off and send them to my best friend, and then I would voice nut her and be like, look at this dumbass face this dumbass is making. Look at this ugly face this ugly person's making.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

I don't think there's anything wrong. Actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think everybody screenshots zooms. But I do it on that. Like, sue me.

SPEAKER_00 1:04

I get mean though, and so I'm always afraid. Like I double check that my camera is off. I double check that my mic is off. Have you ever accidentally said anything, not realizing your mic was on?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Honestly, one time, and that's so shocking because I have like crippling anxiety. Thank God it wasn't anything incredibly incriminating. Okay. But it was a voice note that one of my coworkers sent me, and the co-worker was on the call. And then our boss goes, Did you say something? Like, did you say something? And I went on mute so fast. Thank God it was nothing bad, but it could have been. It could have, it could have gotten bad. So it just incited a panic. But accidents do happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

That's terrifying. Yeah. That reminds me of at one of my last jobs, I was very unhappy for a variety of reasons. But one of the main reasons is that I was on a project I just did not want to be on. I hated it. And Tim Cook, if you're listening, Tim Cook, what's up? Fix all the things wrong with the AirPods right now. Because I was listening to like a series of 10 voice notes from my best friend. Voice notes one through five play through my AirPods. Voice Note Six starts playing, starts playing out loud, and it's just her going, Fuck your job. I hope they take you off my fucking account. I'm tapping on insert clients names account. Oh my god. And it's dead silent, open comments at the office. I literally, I was like, it was terrifying. Worst thing that ever happened to me. Um similarly, some of the stories I have for you might be the worst thing that ever happened to these people. Should we dive in? Oh my god, yes. Uh make sure my feet aren't showing because my feet were really showing in the last episode. I don't want anyone, you know, that's like for members only.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Yeah, how do you think that's a good one? That's an extra front. Okay. Can't believe you're hiding your feet in real.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

You're so funny. Okay. This first one is a little bit more on the hee-hee ha ha side. We're starting light. We'll start light and work our way up, okay? Okay. It comes from TIFU, user typical hyphen language 638 says, TIFU, I might get fired. Do you know what TIFU stands for? Today I fucked up. Yeah. I'm in a corporate meeting and a company-wide question was asked. My dumb butt responded with, yo, mama. It just happened and I swear I didn't mean to effing say it. They were asking about projected percentages and our solutions to overcome negative variants that we are currently facing. When it came to me, I didn't realize that my mic was on before that, so I just said yo mama as a kicker before I would unmute and share a real answer. When I heard my response echo in the background, I effing froze. I was thinking beep, beep, beep, beep. I'm fired. I'm so effing fired. Meanwhile, my manager is just laughing her butt off at me, almost rolling, because she's never in her 25 years had anyone respond that way. The silence, the effing silence. I might be screwed, guys. TLDR, I yelled yo mama in a corporate meeting today.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

That's so funny because your mama is one of those things that is so juvenile, but it is funny. I would laugh. I don't think you're I don't think he's gonna get fired, but that is hilarious. Yo mama.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I feel like depending on the age of the people on the call, it might have just been like such a nostalgic throwback for them that they didn't care. Cause like I think your mama jokes were just kind of like waning when I was in middle school and high school. So I imagine the generation before me was going hard on your mama jokes.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Hello. I yeah, I also was curious how old this guy was. Sometimes when things like that happen, and you're right, this is pretty lighthearted, it'll break up the monotony of work, and it's a funny story. It wasn't anything, in my opinion, incriminating. I actually had a co-worker in a very similar situation, but she was unmuted and was yelling, I'm so drunk right now. That is bad. That will get you fired. Yo, mama. It could be worse. It could be worse. What are the comments saying?

SPEAKER_00 4:57

The comments are saying, A, great advice here. Never trust the mic mute.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Really?

SPEAKER_00 5:03

Never trust the mic mute.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

You have to like always double check. Always double check.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Exactly. Yep. Some people are sharing stories about times that like they had hot mics. User brilliant hyphen noise1518 says, back when we had conference phones, we needed to meet with the project manager. He said he didn't have time right now and get on his calendar. My coworker instead just started with the interview questions. It was super awkward and we're all in the conference room staring at her like, What are you doing? He said he's not available. She mutes the phone and says, This guy is such an ass. And he instantly says, What? And hangs up. The mute light was on, but he 100% heard her. So that was pretty awful. Aw, I guess you really can't trust the mute. You also can't trust that your phone's hanging up when it looks like it hangs up. Like one of my fears is that I hang up on someone from FaceTime or a phone call and then I say some shit, but like they still hear it somehow. Because I know that can happen. What do you mean that can happen? I didn't know this could happen. Very rarely, but it can happen. It was like an Apple glitch for a bit, I think. I don't know. Whatever I hang, there's been a few times where I've hung up on FaceTime and then turned to someone I'm with and been like, I hate that bitch. No, no, I love all my- if I'm FaceTiming you, I love you. But like I've turned to like a person I'm with and been like, oh, I'm glad I got off the phone, or like I needed to like be not on the phone, you know. And I'm always like, I hope they didn't hear that.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Well, you've just unlocked a new fear, so thanks for that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

I never say when we're on the phone.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

You always hang up on me first anyway.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Oh, I do. I like hanging up on people. Yeah, I do, you do.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

So next, uh, we're gonna increase the intensity a little bit. This one's a bit longer. The original post is from December of last year. It says, T I F U by realizing my mute button wasn't muting during a two-hour stakeholder meeting. Two hours? No one said anything for two hours? I would have said some shit during two hours.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Okay, alright, alright, alright, alright.

SPEAKER_00 6:42

This happened two hours ago, and I am still hiding under my blanket. I was in a massive all-hands meeting about four 40 people! 40 people is not a massive all-hands meeting. Yeah, no, no, no. A massive all-hands meeting is like 500, 800, 1000.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Oh my god, more than that. I've been on all hands like in serious corporate environments across like every region. Region, and it's thousands of people on that call.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yeah, okay. 40 40 is 40 is an office.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

Right.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

I was in a massive all hands meeting of about 40 people for a project launch. Usually I keep my mic hard muted on my headset, but today I was eating lunch, so I was double muted. Software mute and headset mute, or so I thought. About 45 minutes in, the project manager was explaining a delay in the timeline. I, thinking I was safe in my cocoon of silence, let out a very loud, very deep sigh and muttered, Oh my god, just get to the point, nobody cares. The audio Why do you sound like Stitch?

SPEAKER_01 7:41

No, that I would have to quit usually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

Yeah. The audio didn't just pick it up because of the way Teams and Zoom prioritizes active speakers. My face popped up on the main screen for a split second. Quit. You gotta quit. I'd mail my laptop back in. No, you gotta quit. It's over for you, buddy. The silence was deafening. The PM paused for a solid five seconds. Nobody said anything. He just continued. I slowly reached up and tapped my headset. It beeped mute on. It had been off the whole time. I have not checked my Slack messages. I'm considering faking my own death and moving to a farm. TLDR. Thought I was double muted during a major stakeholder meeting. Accidentally sighed and told the PM to get to the point in front of 40 people.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

I think he does have to fake his death. I don't even think he's being dramatic. Yeah. That is like if I was one of the co-workers, I would think that was the best day of my life because you gave me the funniest of funny stories to recount. But for you, unfortunately, you have to move.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

If I was the coworker, that would make my day because I'd be like, I'd be telling, I'd be telling my mom. I'd be telling you. You'll never believe we haven't at work today. And thank God it wasn't me, it happened too. But I feel for them.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

I don't think that I ever really give commentary on meetings. Really? You don't make little comments here and there? No, no, no, I don't. I don't. I don't, I don't. You're so respectful. No, I don't care enough. Like I I'm on my phone. Go do what you need to do.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

But my comments are usually like, ah, because I'm like, I want to go to the gym or I want to finish eating my breakfast. Yeah, yeah. I gotta watch TV. Right, right. I get it, I get it. Um, we do have an update. Would you like to hear it?

SPEAKER_01 9:24

I'm so scared for this update. He he lives in Guatemala. He moved.

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Is that your guess? Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:30

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 9:31

I logged in at 8 59 a.m. the next day. My heart was beating so hard I could hear it in my ears. I hovered over the slack icon for a solid minute. Twelve unread messages. Most were from my work friend sending skull emojis and gifts of people digging graves. But there it was, a direct message from the PM himself sent at 4 30 p.m. yesterday. The message, hey OP, do you have five minutes for a quick sync before stand-up? I almost threw up. Quick sync is corporate speak for execution. I joined the call, no video. I wasn't ready for him to see the fear in my eyes. He joined silence for three seconds. Then he laughed. A dry, tired laughed. He said, so yesterday. And I immediately started apologizing. I unleashed a word salad of technical difficulties, bad day, audio glitch, and I'm so sorry. He cut me off, saying, Honestly, you weren't wrong. I realized after the meeting that I spent 20 minutes explaining a two-minute delay. I tend to ramble when I'm stressed about deadlines. I stopped breathing. Was this a trap? He continued. However, let's maybe keep the commentary to the internal monologue next time. My boss was on that call. He thinks it was unprofessional, but I told him you were just frustrated with the audio issues. You owe me one. The result, I'm not fired. However, I am officially the mute guy. During the stand-up meeting today when I joined, another coworker typed in the chat, careful everyone, the truth teller is here.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

That's worse. They're gonna be bullying you every day.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

Yep. Yeah, every meeting. And it's he he ha ha down, but at some point in the future, someone might use that against you to where like if you hear a comment, they'll be like, oh, it's probably this person again.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

It's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

Well means that they taped a physical piece of cardboard over their mute button and they're never speaking again.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Yeah, I think he should still consider looking at new places. Like you're never that is something you're never gonna shake. Just like my coworker who accidentally admitted she was drunk on a call. Every time I'm on a call with her, I'm like, you did that thing that one time. That's like your brand now. Yeah. Sorry. You're the drunk girl on the call. The PM though handled it well. Um, he seemed like a chill dude outside of saying you owe me one. That was unnecessary, but I'm happy that he wasn't fired, that there's just a little bit of indefinite egg on his face forever.

SPEAKER_00 11:42

But would you believe me if I told you there was a second update?

SPEAKER_01 11:45

Oh my god, are you kidding?

SPEAKER_00 11:46

No. What's the second update? The second update? It has been two days since that happened. I just checked my calendar and saw an invite for a Q4 strategy review. I immediately panic messaged my PM, the one I told to get to the point, asking if this was a mistake. He replied, No mistake. Big boss liked your honesty about the timeline delay. He thinks the rest of the team is too polite to give bad news. He wants you there to call out the BS. You guys don't understand. I'm not a straight shooter. I'm just an anxious introvert who was hungry and wanted to eat his sandwich in peace. Like me. Like me, can't eat during a meeting. I need you guys to shut the fuck up. Um, I don't know anything about Q4 strategy. I just want to write code and hide. Now I've been drafted as the corporate vibe tracker. If I stay silent, I feel the big boss. If I speak, I might actually get fired this time. Currently, Googling how to sound smart without being mean. It's called you only speak when you have something to say. If you don't, you shut the fuck up. That's how you do it. Hello. Um, and considering faking a microphone driver failure. TLDR, my accidental insult, was interpreted as the leadership potential. Now the big boss wants me to sit in strategy meetings to roast people. I am unqualified for this.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

You know, now that I think about it, all of the C-suite, maybe 95% of them that I've interacted with, they are assholes. So maybe that is the quality that we should adopt. Just start telling people to hurry up with it.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Yeah. Let's move on. Because we all do do a lot of grandstanding just to sound like we're doing a lot of work. Even when we are doing a lot of work, like actively, I feel like no matter how much work you're doing, if you say the work you're doing concisely, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, bullet, but like your team has 10 minutes to speak during the stand-up or whatever, and you only spent two minutes speaking, it's like, okay, well, now am I on the chopping block because I didn't spend the entire 10 minutes saying bullshit that I pulled out of my asshole? Probably.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

I just that you you made my heart so heavy. I hate corporate so much. I know it's dumb. I really can't. So much of it is so performative. It's extremely performative. Good luck to you guys. I I would quit. I was just start again. Yeah. I would quit. Yeah. Try again at the next company.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

This next one, relatively quick. Not as many updates. Are you ready for it? Yeah. From our office, user Cronk LaSorda says, co-worker caught interviewing during plant-wide conference call. We recently had a plant-wide update that included a visit from our executive VP that was done on site and via Teams call. One of my fellow engineers apparently decided to multitask and had the Teams meeting open while fielding a call from a recruiter. Unfortunately, his mic for the Teams meeting either came off mute or he never turned it on. Whoever was running the meeting never muted him either because they were in the conference room and the speaker was turned off, so they didn't know what was happening. For those of us that could hear the presentation on Teams, we got to hear both our EVP lauding our accomplishments and 20 minutes of my fellow engineer embellishing his accomplishments, no judgment, telling the recruiter what he was looking for, his salary expectations. It was as glorious as it was surreal. Remember, kids, you need to double check your mics are on mute.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Is no update. Okay, yeah, no, I need to know if you get caught interviewing, you get fired, right?

SPEAKER_00 14:54

I just feel like that's BS because I feel like the argument for firing someone for interviewing is like, oh, you're interviewing during work hours. But when else do you do interviews? Because you have to interview during the interviewer's work hours because that's work for them. So when are you supposed to interview?

SPEAKER_01 15:09

Maybe they want you to take time off.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

No.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

I actually for you know the boomers or anybody old Gen Xers, people before the internet. How did you do this? How did you interview? You have to go in person. You you went on your lunch break? How do how does that work?

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Maybe lunch break or they were just unemployed.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

So that's true. Maybe I don't know how they did it back in the day.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Being unemployed was safer back in the day, right? You didn't lose immediately, you know, lose your apartment. So I actually don't know. More safety nets, more parents with money.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah. More prospects, better environment. Yeah. A wooda live, etc. etc. etc. Yes, but the the bad thing about that is that it was during company hours. But jobs are allowed to retaliate if they know that you're looking.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

And they did. Yeah, that's the least shocking thing I've heard all day. The poster said that a few of them texted him on his personal and work phones, but he had both on silent, so he didn't find out until after it was all over. Uh short update, he was escorted out of the plant the next day after a short meeting with his boss and HR.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

I hope he gets the job. Yeah, me too. I hope. I mean It's more like you can't set the precedent that there isn't gonna be consequence because the entire company heard you. So I actually unfortunately can see what management their logic in this situation because then everyone's gonna start doing it. Yeah, which we already are, but like Yeah, but you can't, it's like yeah, you can't condone.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Well, this is making me scared. I feel like I need to start double checking my mics moving forward. I already double checked, I'm gonna start triple-checking them.

SPEAKER_01 16:52

Yeah, it's not even just mics. I mean, I get that this episode is titled Hot Mics, but I will never forget when my boss was obviously trying to private message somebody on Zoom about somebody else presenting. No, she instead of replying to that one person, she replied all so everybody in the meeting saw her say, I wish she would just get to the point already. And then she quickly exited the call because she thought that that would remove the comment history, and then she joined back, and it was just like she joined back, and that comment was still there. It was very uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 17:28

Zoom private message is literally a tool by Zoom to screw people over. I don't know who they're trying to screw over, but like the way it's set up is designed.

SPEAKER_01 17:37

There has to be more stories like that. There has to be, but also you have balls to like send that message in the meet. Like, I would never do that. Go on Slack, go on Teams, take the extra two steps to do it outside of that platform. So honestly, that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

I low key think we have like a Gen Z engineer to think for to thank for that because the people getting got by that are not they're not you and me.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

No, because I'm gonna message separately.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Whenever someone messages me directly during a Zoom meeting, like private message, I text them.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Yeah, me too. Slack them.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

I'm I'm not ready. Me too. I'm just not doing that.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

No, because I also don't know, and I haven't cared to look this up because I'm never gonna get caught in this way, but I don't know if if you hang up and you're not the host owner of the Zoom meeting, if the host can see the messages. I don't trust what private means. I don't trust that.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

I don't think the host can ever see the messages if it was a private message between two other people that aren't the host. I don't trust it. But like there are logs of the call. I don't know where those logs go. I don't know if they can be subpoenaed. I'm not saying anything that could give me a subpoenaed, but like still.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yes, we should all be careful and paranoid and look over our shoulders.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Good martini. Is that is it a martini? I don't know. I put it in a martini glass, so it's a martini. The world is our oyster.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

That is so true.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Yeah, you cozy? Yeah. Yeah, hey, like this cat. Me too. Your socks look cozy. They're so cozy. The best part about being cozy is like when you work from home, you can be cozy all the time, even while you're doing your job. Even if you hate your job, at least you're at home and cozy. Through the nip. Yeah. Like working topless or no, like without a bra.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Oh, yeah. I work without a bra because I work from home, but if I didn't work from home, I would have to be in the titty person.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

So I actually don't believe that. I never wear a bra to work. I didn't get in trouble for it once.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Yeah, you see, and I'm I don't want that small.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

But why are you looking at my boobs?

SPEAKER_01 19:36

You're right, they're the perverts. Exactly. They're the problems, it's not you.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

The best part of working from home for me personally is just because I live alone, but not for long. But because I live alone, um, what's it called? I just never have to worry about like when I had roommates in the past, they always wanted to hang out because I'm a very fun person.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

You are? She's such a fun person.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

But like when I'm nesting, when I'm in my space, I don't want to hang out. I wanna I wanna play my little video game. I want to read my little book, I wanna cook my meal when I'm not working. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, like, I don't know. I was always very good about locking myself in my room when I was working at home and like keeping myself away from my roommates. But have you ever experienced like a roommate kind of like being in your space while you're working at home?

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yeah, I have. I've I've been really lucky with the set of roommates that I have had, but working in a common space does not equal you can talk to me. It just means I'm working in the living room, but still working. So yeah, I I understand why it's a flex to be able to work on the couch, work on the kitchen table, work in the kitchen while you're making grits. I still don't want to talk to you. I don't need grits, but yeah. Who doesn't eat grits? Everybody loves grits. What? Grits are gross. Grits are so good. You ever put like bacon, sausage, egg? Use that as a no. I don't like grits. Butter, I don't like cheese food. You don't like polenta then? You don't like any corn? Creamed corn. Like creamed corn situation.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

I love cream corn, but I don't make my creamed corn. I don't I don't cream my corn, I make creamed corn. I don't eat creamed corn, I eat creamed corn.

SPEAKER_01 21:10

I don't know the difference. No.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Creamed corn is the corn, it's like masticated or blended, it's like creamy. I do whole corn or whole kernel. I just mix it with cream and butter.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

Interesting. Oh no, I didn't know. I'll make you some for Thanksgiving. Yeah, it sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Yeah. Um, so this story, final story today that I have for you about hot mics involves a roommate. B Dash 1990 says, T I F U by venting about my boss when I thought I was muted. So my girlfriend and I work from home for different companies. I'm working from home every other week. This is an at home week. We were having our morning meeting over the internet, voice only. There are eight of us on the call, including my manager and me, and the manager of our location was talking to each of us about things we're doing, things that need to be done, etc. When she got to me, we went over a few things, told me some things that needed to be done. I explained that I'm trying, but other people in a neighboring department don't really help and make it very difficult for me to do what she was asking. She told me what she wanted and I said okay. I then muted my headset and started venting to my girlfriend about the difficulty I was having that my manager seemed to gloss over. I was sort of mocking what she said to me because she made it seem like it was a simple thing to accomplish, ending with an exasperated, what am I supposed to do? to which my manager replied, Hey, we can all hear you, you might want to stop talking. After which I explained I was supposed to be muted. The red light was lit on my headset. I may have apologized, I don't recall. After the meeting, I sent her a message apologizing and explained that I was just venting because I'm having a hard time with the job and don't know everything I'm supposed to, and the expectations keep changing. Told her I would appreciate if she could call me, we could talk about it because I'm having a real hard time concentrating on my job when I don't know if I'll still have it next week. But she's busy in conference calls for a while, so she won't be able to call me for a bit. That's the worst feeling, it's just like waiting to find out if that's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

That is the worst. Yeah. When the gun is pulled to your head and you don't know if the trigger's about to be.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

The first comment says we call this a resume generating event.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

I feel like there are two ways this can go. And whatever's meant to be will be. The issue is it happened publicly. So then the punishment needs to be public. And that's the problem. I agree. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

They gave two updates. The post is from five years ago, and both of the updates were from like a couple days later, and basically said nothing's happened yet. But I'm applying for jobs.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

The relationship has shifted. Yeah. Forever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

So I'm looking through OP's profile, and they haven't posted anything else about their job. They made a pork butt.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

Mmm. I like that. See, that's the crazy thing about Reddit is that you can see your history. Don't love that. But that's why I don't post anything. Yeah, it counts. We're just lurkers. But back to the OP in the original story, I do empathize with him because I hate that feeling of not knowing how to be good at your job. Yep. And I think complaining about that is incredibly natural and normal, and Sam knows that because I complain all the time. It's a normal part of the process. And so to feel like that process has been abruptly impeded on due to a hot mic is just unfortunate. I feel bad. I think it's a shitty situation.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

It's a very shitty situation. Um, and I think I'm realizing that just like good managers are rare. So hopefully OP has a good manager who like cares. And doesn't take it.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Personally.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

But yeah. Uh has this has have these stories taught you anything?

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Yeah, I'm gonna double, triple, quadruple. What's after quadruple? Queen tuple. Kintuple, six tuple, then it goes king tuple again.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Kingtuple, sex tuple. Sex tuple. Septuple. Octatuple.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

Nagta tuple. Nove tuple, no. Nove tuple.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

That's Spanish or something. Newple Jesse Temple.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Check.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Mate. Thanks for listening to the Don't Jump podcast. Don't jump and mute your mic.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Mute your mic!