Surviving Workplace Quirks: Eccentric Coworkers, Grammar Gaffes, and Scented Fart Pills

Ever feel like you're the only sane person in an office full of quirky characters? Strap in and join us, Warren and Patrick, for a wild ride through the jungle of HR headaches and hilarity. We kick off with a hearty congratulations to our very own CeCe for adding a new member to the family tree and move swiftly into the nitty-gritty of productivity peaks and valleys, navigating eccentric colleagues, and the ever-present office salad bar station.

Now, let's talk about those workplace 'frenemies' and grammar gaffes that can drive you up the wall. It's a balancing act of camaraderie and caution, and we've got the tales to prove it. From the symphony of desk salad chopping to the cringe-worthy email faux pas, we share our personal stories and the lessons learned on maintaining professionalism amidst the chaos. Plus, we dive into the generational mash-up that is today's workplace, with a nod to our own Gen X status and a playful jab at the upcoming Gen Alpha.

Wrapping up with a scent-sational story, we explore the peculiar case of Mark and his sour apple-scented escapades. It's a reminder that HR isn't all policies and paperwork—sometimes, it's about embracing the weird and wonderful quirks that make our office lives anything but dull. Tune in for a hearty dose of real talk and relatable laughs, and don't forget to hit us with your thoughts via Buzzsprout's handy text feature. It's Jaded HR, where we keep it authentic, amusing, and occasionally, just a tad outrageous.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:02

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Speaker 2: 0:51

I didn't know what I was like. What is that? I want to say so Anyhow. Welcome to Jaded HR, a podcast by two HR professionals who want to help you get through the workday by saying all the things you're thinking, but say them out loud. I'm Warren. I'm Patrick Alrighty.

Speaker 3: 1:05

Patrick'm Warren, I'm Patrick. All righty Patrick's back. Warren keeps dragging me out of the ashes as the Phoenix rises.

Speaker 2: 1:13

Yeah, I keep saying we'll release those photos on Instagram or something and it works yeah.

Speaker 3: 1:20

So, I keep trying I did change my number and everything, and just Warren keeps popping up. It's really good.

Speaker 2: 1:29

Just to give everybody a note. Cece has had her baby. Everybody's doing just fine. So one of our future guest hosts is going to be Mr CeCe, so we're trying to set a date on that and I'm sure he'll give us a much more thorough update than that to everybody. But I do want to also thank our Patreon supporters. We're up to three, three. So we have Hallie, the original Jaded HR Rockstar, we have Bill and we have Michael. So I want to thank you for the support.

Speaker 2: 2:02

I'm going to try to remember to activate it, and saying it now will probably make it activated. But our host, buzzsprout, has this new feature that you can just click in the show notes and it'll send a text to Jaded HR and I think that'll be easier. There's no phone numbers to remember or anything like that. Just note, when you click the button, the first line is a number like like a six-digit number, and you can't delete that because nobody will get it if you don't, because that's how the host feeds the text to the different creators. So go ahead and try that. I'd love to hear from you If you have a show idea, a funny story, a comment, concern, criticism, something like that.

Speaker 2: 2:41

Want to give us a review in'll be. That'll be good and we will do that. So give that a check out. I'm going to try and get that active. That's brand new this week from our hosts and I'm going to try and get that activated before I publish this episode. So a lot of fun things going on. Yeah, that's awesome. Dying for some guest feedback. You know, every once in a while we get an email. I haven't been on instagram, I haven't been active on it, so I haven't. I would get a notification if someone dm'd me or something like that, but I will. I'm going to try and get on to the socials a little bit more.

Speaker 3: 3:14

But yeah, I haven't checked your apple podcast reviews in a while. I imagine you keep up with that pretty regularly.

Speaker 2: 3:19

But I do. I looked at it actually earlier this morning. Okay, we we have all except for one are five-star reviews and the one one-star review. I think it's out of 23, 24 reviews, so those numbers of people are five stars, that we have one one-star review and the person didn't leave any comments. So leave a review. Hopefully it's five stars, but regardless, I'll read it on the air. If you give us one star and say, warren, you're full of shit and you deserve to die a horrible death or something like that, then I'll read it. But five star works a lot better for us. Anyhow, anything before we dive into our fun topic of the day, fun thing, fun going on in your world, living the dream.

Speaker 3: 4:01

Slowly marching away from HR as fast as I can, but yeah. Slowly marching fast the HRS life. It's one of those things where you're slowly improving HR work and trying to make the team more efficient and automated. Then you're like, hmm, I need to start a fire, so they keep me.

Speaker 2: 4:24

Create a problem that only you can solve Exactly. So that's what I try to focus on every now and then Just you know arson in there.

Speaker 3: 4:31

A little bit of that technology arson to keep job security alive.

Speaker 2: 4:38

Burned a place down. Take my stapler.

Speaker 3: 4:44

Does anyone know? The original was Office Space. Yeah, Office Space. I would hope so I think that movie holds up.

Speaker 2: 4:52

It holds up.

Speaker 3: 4:53

Yeah, it should never die, especially if you don't have enough flair on it and, to be fair, I feel that it still rings true today Everything they say about it. In any given day, sometimes I only do 15 minutes of real work. I haven't really felt that lately, but there are times when you're like you know what. I answered three emails today.

Speaker 2: 5:17

See, for me it goes in splashes. I'll go through days where it's just I don't have a lot on my plate. I'm one of those people who operate better when there's more on my plate. Now I don't operate well at an overload pace, but when there's a lot on my plate I'm focused as well as I can be, at least, and I get things done. When there's not a lot on my plate, then it's like okay.

Speaker 3: 5:42

It's the time you probably could. You always have these. I can organize all these reports in this folder that I've always needed to get to, but you never do that when you actually have the time to do it.

Speaker 2: 5:52

Yeah, you do it. When something goes foobar and you have to do it, that's when you do it. You just light them on fire. The last two Do I sense some pyromania going on? There's something, yeah.

Speaker 3: 6:06

Something deep down the sides, rising up like the Great Phoenix.

Speaker 2: 6:11

Well, keep a fire extinguisher hinge, anyway, but yeah, for the past two years I've had interns who will be joining me full time this year, so I'm excited about that. But she's gotten all the I don't want to say the shit jobs. But I would come up with those ideas. Oh, organize this file Like you were talking about this file structure. Rewrite our SOPs, and this time I want screenshots and I want the little graphics to go along. Make it even easier to understand.

Speaker 3: 6:39

She did all those things and yeah, yeah, I don't know what it is about and I'm sure every department is like that, but anytime in HR we get someone new, it's like, oh, what are we going to put them on? Oh, I know, the first week let's have them go into like every job description and clean those up. You know just some random thing that you've never done, but like that's so wrong, because then you're just immediately giving these new people just these shit jobs.

Speaker 2: 7:01

But yeah, that does happen all the time jobs.

Speaker 2: 7:08

But man, yeah, that does happen all the time. I think it serves some value. Well, especially like rewriting sops, they can get to see what the sop is, the job descriptions you know. Speaking of that, we like if we post, I don't know, an electrical engineer position today, tomorrow's electrical engineer position is going to be completely different than what they do. I don't worry too much about keeping the job descriptions up to date because we sit down with the hiring manager. Okay, what are you looking for today? And do they need whatever special skill set today that we didn't need in the last one we hired and things like that. So I like doing that as as that sort of fun and interesting. And it actually oh, I'm not being too jaded right now, but it you learn about the company through talking about the these job description and what the person's going to be doing and why this is different. Hey, last week we hired someone same title. Why is this different? You, you learn.

Speaker 2: 8:00

And oh, I want to talk about annoying employees today or coworkers. It doesn't have to be necessarily a employee, it can be a coworker. But I want to draw the link. It's not somebody who's doing something overtly wrong that they can be disciplined for Just weird people. People are quirky, weird, eccentric, strange whatever the adjective is for them. Those weird people I know over my career I've fielded more than a few employee relations things and it just comes down to they don't like this person, they're strange, they're different, they're weird, weird, they're creepy, they're whatever it is, but they haven't done. And all those have been about me, people complaining about me, but until they do something more than that, you don't really have your, but you know they're I don't know. You're sort of wait, you're waiting for something to happen with some of these people that are just Well, that's what I was going to say.

Speaker 3: 9:15

Those are the ones that you become best friends with. Is it Billy Madison? Where the guy has the list? He's like people to kill and he's like Billy Madison is really nice to him. So he crashes him off his list and you see him there like putting the lipstick on, like he's a super creepy, weird guy.

Speaker 1: 9:33

But he goes out of the way to apologize.

Speaker 3: 9:37

He goes out of the way to apologize for he calls him and he's like I'm sorry for being mean to you in high school or whatever you gotta be friends with those people, because that's the ones you break into your HR office with Burn the goddamn place down. You're cool, get down.

Speaker 2: 9:54

Well, some of the complaints I've had about weird people or annoying people you know I was telling the all-fair. Someone complained this guy's just so weird. He only has like three shirts that he wears. I'm like we don't A lot of people wear uniforms, only have one shirt that they wear each and every day and things like that. And you know this person I don't know, just these weird things that are not. All this person does is talk about. I don't know legos, like I think legos are cool. I don't have a collection. I I have a very good friend who is ridiculously into Legos, but you know that's their thing. Podcasting is my thing, I guess, and I can talk your ears off about podcasting, but it's going to put everybody else in the world to sleep. But I'm trying to think of other complaints I've had.

Speaker 3: 10:48

Yeah, I'm. You know. You always have like just the quiet people which I don't know. I've been at my company for almost 10 years and I still feel like the rogue walking through the hallways. Everyone's like does anyone know who that is or what he does here? I see him here every now and then I feel like I could be that person that just kind of sneaks through. But you always have just the quiet guy that wears the trench coat and's just comes in, does his job, doesn't talk to anybody, then leaves and you know nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2: 11:20

Some people aren't but it does weird socialize, but it does weird people out.

Speaker 3: 11:24

Yeah, but that's just because you know, if you're a social butterfly in the office, then it's like, well, why isn't this person talking? It's like, well, well, maybe, sheila, he doesn't want to talk to you, he just wants to get his goddamn job done and go home when the clock is right.

Speaker 2: 11:39

Yeah, so and I wish it weren't that way. And once again, now I'm taking it an unjaded way and I don't want to get into topics of neurodiversity and all that other stuff. Let's just leave that off the table. It's just some people that are just weird fucks. Hell yeah, overall, and without without getting into health issues, mental health issues or anything like that, but my thing as a hr person why are we getting a complaint about this person who only wears three different shirts, or you know I'm not gonna get into, you know I'm not going to get into you know the hygiene issues. That can be a legitimate complaint. Is there creepy? Here's another thing I've got. Oh well, you know I want to complain. This John Doe is he's just creepy, he's weird. I'm like, well, what has he done? He just sits there and he just does his job.

Speaker 2: 12:32

What is wrong with him? Yeah, and sometimes he stares blankly at you and I'm like is it in a he's blind, barbara.

Speaker 3: 12:41

Okay, god damn, we have his documentation. He's not staring at you for the thousandth time.

Speaker 2: 12:50

When I get employee relations complaint, one of the questions I always ask towards the end is in an ideal world, what would you like to see done to fix this problem? And a lot of times, hey, I just want to let someone know or I just want to vent, but when they come to you with you know this guy's creepy like, is he standing outside the ladies room with a camera or something like that? I I don't know. But when they don't have any ammo there, there's no there there like, well, you know, and I I won't ask that question. Look, based on what you've told me, there's really nothing I can say or do. He hasn't done anything wrong and and things like that. And unfortunately, I don't think I've ever had a complaint think about it, employee relations complaint about a creepy, a weird woman. It's always dudes, uh, that uh are, are strange and weird and do what people consider disturbing things or things. Oh, people who eat loudly. Oh I, I heard this one once. I want to say it's where we worked together once Another employee.

Speaker 3: 13:55

Is it an employee that just kept he kept cutting his salad at his desk all the time? Was that I think about that? I that's my go-to. I go to Kroger get a salad and then I cut it at my desk and I'm like you know what, I am probably that employee that someone's like God damn it, he cuts his fucking salad at his desk every day. It drives me crazy.

Speaker 2: 14:17

Or you want to know something that drives me crazy Grammar, grammar drives me crazy. I know I don't have the best, but there's a particular person I know that misconjugates virtually every verb in the English language Native-born English-American speaker, double negatives out the yin-yang, uses words they don't know what the meanings are, are, and sometimes when I just hear this person start to speak, they have only said like two words. I'm like tensing up because I'm about to have a little conniption, because what's coming?

Speaker 2: 14:55

I just grammar is and I'm not talking about colloquialisms If you want to say yuns and y'all and things like that.

Speaker 3: 15:19

So I don't care about that. I'm talking about, like I said, I don't care about that. I'm talking about, like I said, misconjugating verbs. It bothers me. Their grammar was so bad that they were almost nothing was legible when they were typing emails. They couldn't understand what they were saying, but this person was like they shrugged it off and they were like yeah, basically made jokes about how everyone thinks my grammar is bad, but they just didn't care and didn't correct it. Can you imagine your vendor facing contact is getting complaints about that?

Speaker 2: 15:49

Yeah, I think in a forward facing position like a recruiter, that's something that has to be there because you're representing the company, You're that person's first contact with the company and if you are not able to communicate well, then you're representing the company badly and I would have to say something about that as an HR person. But it's just really, really bad, yeah. So before the show today, we're talking about frenemies Frenemies at work. Before the show today, we're talking about frenemies frenemies at work. Now, that's another interesting area that you know, because workplace can be just like a junior high school with some of these people's relationships.

Speaker 3: 16:51

And I've only had one instance of interacting with a frenemy I learned my lesson.

Speaker 2: 16:54

Uh, can you define that like? How are you meaning so? Someone who, well, I'll just tell my story. This person was as sweet as she could be, to your face and always saying, oh, how wonderful everything is and how happy and how you know they work with you, but they will be the the first to draw the knife and stab you in the back If given the opportunity they work in payroll. They work, payroll, oh man. Are you speaking to someone? We know?

Speaker 3: 17:20

No, definitely not.

Speaker 2: 17:21

No, okay, but this person is we did not work together this but I thought, oh, this person's really cool, they can help me. When I started, they can help me and they can help me grow and learn the company a little bit. And I quickly learned that I found a toxic person and she'd been there before me and she was there after me and I think I've mentioned at this particular company. I was there six years and I think I've mentioned at this particular company. I was there six years and I think we had 12 HR head of HRs you can pick the title of the day because everyone seemed to have a different one but one of them, the last one while I was there came in and he asked me to first. I've also told this story.

Speaker 2: 18:01

I did not like our HR department. I was a recruiter there and we we moved office spaces and there was not enough desk in the hall that was going to have HR and finance on it. So somebody not enough offices had to go to the IT hall and they're like you know, there's just not all off offices. Is anybody willing to go work on the IT hall? My hand went up so quickly. I was like you know, I worked beside them for the next three years or so and it actually helped keep me there longer, as I think I'd been sort of surrounded by the rest of the HR team, because as a recruiter you're not you know directly HR, you're sort of HR adjacent.

Speaker 3: 18:45

HR stepchild.

Speaker 2: 18:47

Yeah, exactly. But anyways, the final HR director, manager, whatever the title was going to be that time came in and he's asked me to lay the land. He's asked me about the people, the staff and what I thought about each of them. And I actually said I'll let you form your own opinion, but I would be very cautious what I say around this person. And a few days later I go to the mail room, which was on the HR and finance hall, because back then I actually had to mail letters. Did you put?

Speaker 3: 19:19

things through the chute to different buildings.

Speaker 2: 19:22

No, I didn't do that, but I thought it was the coolest thing when I was younger. The postage machine, you put it on there, it weighs it, it zips it through and it comes out with a stamp. You know it's like postcard is if we would still get mailed resumes. And if I got a mailed resume, my thank you no thank you letter would be a little postcard. There was a stack like four inches tall of them.

Speaker 3: 19:44

Thanks, but no thanks postcard.

Speaker 2: 19:46

Yeah, if I got a mail, that's how we did it back then. But anyways, I said just, you know, be careful what you say, because it will be turned around and used against you. And that's all really said, which was way too much probably. Well, I'm getting my mail, or I'm in the mail room, for whatever reason, and I hear him saying, oh, and he says this. And I was like, oh gosh, I made a mistake. And luckily I already had one foot out the door then and I was like I'm glad that was, I was out of there.

Speaker 2: 20:18

But I think I also told this story on the podcast. I've been gone for almost a year and the director who we only overlap work together for a matter of months, not very long he calls me at my new employer and I take his calls like Hmm, this is interesting and hey, how can I help you? Oh, and he does small talk for like 30 seconds. He said, oh, I just called to tell you that I I promoted that, that that friend of me, to a senior HR generalist role. I'm like, oh, okay, what? All right, thanks for telling me that.

Speaker 3: 20:54

I have no idea it was just really To this day that still keeps you up. Why did you get that phone call?

Speaker 2: 21:00

Yeah, it was just weird Out of the blue. I had no relationship with him after I left except for that one phone call. I'm like he knew I didn't like her obviously, and I think he wanted to rub it in. I did tell him early on yeah, I want to get out of recruiting, I want to be more of a journalist and things like that. And next thing, you know, I think there was a little let's piss you off. This is a phone call. The only intention is to piss you off. I think that's what we had there. Have you had any frenemies at work that you know that?

Speaker 3: 21:37

I don't know. I try to think. I tend to kind of get along with some people and I always you can, you can always tell those people, and I tend to just kind of let them talk and do the kind of like, yeah, totally you know, kind of thing, and then, as I'm like slowly backing out the door, what a message. So yeah I? I don't know. I maybe I'm that person. You know, if every room you're in has one of those, maybe it's you uh so no, I, you know, I think I've probably been toxic, my my fair share.

Speaker 3: 22:10

But yeah, I can't really think you always have the people that, like, you don't look forward to interacting with, or that you interact with just so much, and you're like, oh, here we go again, but that's. I think just every hr person has that people because you interact with so many people internally. Um, so yeah, I think I've been pretty fortunate if I do, I I don't know for my whole work. Workplace philosophy is so keep it separate anyway that if they were there, I stopped thinking about them the moment I I left and then they didn't leave a lasting effect.

Speaker 2: 22:48

Well, you brought up something. Maybe you're the toxic person, not that I think you are you have been.

Speaker 2: 22:53

But I know at times I have been the toxic person. When you get so over your job and I don't want to say it's the loud quitting or what have you but you just get to the point where when we worked together towards the end, I was at that point where I couldn't keep the things that go on in my head from flying out my mouth sometimes and I said some things, I got in some trouble, I was over it and I said and did things I probably shouldn't have or not probably I shouldn't have, period. But I was just like, I was over it. I was ready to go. My time you know my best by date had expired and I needed to move on. And I think I can say that well, in hindsight, versus I was justus, I was just found myself, I don't know very pissed off and irritable a lot.

Speaker 3: 23:51

For the time we worked together, are you saying?

Speaker 2: 23:54

No, no, Like that's for every job you leave. No, All my stories seem to have a common theme. If it happens once, okay. Twice and three times, you're a problem.

Speaker 3: 24:10

Our time was good. I still make sure that I have our shared trash can that has Warren and Patrick on it from one of our moves, and I still make sure. I keep that trash can it still has the duct tape on it. Very sentimental, a very sentimental trash. Can it's a sentimental trash. Can I'm going?

Speaker 2: 24:28

to put my empty salad containers in it. They're always nasty. Who did you think of me?

Speaker 3: 24:31

Exactly.

Speaker 2: 24:34

But I will also say the rest of our team helped keep me together while I was in that toxic mindset, Because we could vent to each other and with each other we could vent to each other and with each other to.

Speaker 3: 24:51

you mentioned that and, like I've been in the unfortunate circumstance where my last two companies I've worked for, I've seen the hr team turn over at least a hundred percent and you start thinking like, hmm, if I am the only one left standing from the original in two different companies, now Maybe it is me.

Speaker 1: 25:08

No no.

Speaker 3: 25:12

I've seen a lot of HR turnover in my day, but that might just be the industry honestly, in general, it's the last 10, 15 years you mentioned you're about to celebrate 10 years there.

Speaker 2: 25:23

I got an actual plaque for five years at my current company. People just don't stay in places as much as they used to.

Speaker 3: 25:31

Yeah, I never thought that would be me. Honestly, my resume before that was like two and a half years, 2.8 years, like yeah.

Speaker 2: 25:39

Well, the last episode, when I had Christina and Jasmine on with me, we were talking about and you're younger than me, you're a millennial with me we were talking about and you're younger me, you're a millennial and millennials came in and they were job hoppy and they were demanding and they were this and that. But now that they're in their 30s and, dare I say, 40s, that they are, they're they're kicking ass in the workplace and they, they got their experiences and they settled down. I think settling down was the key there too.

Speaker 3: 26:11

Once millennials, everyone reached the age where you're having kids and you're doing these things. You weren't making decisions for yourself anymore. You had to make the best decision for your family. That's a big thing. I think with millennials is very family-oriented and those kind of things.

Speaker 1: 26:28

I can see that.

Speaker 3: 26:28

I never thought about it till. You said that, but I can definitely see that I feel.

Speaker 2: 26:33

And we've had the shitting on generation Z segment of the shows of the show for so long and, who knows, they're probably going to be the same way. And then I was reading an article Alpha is coming into the workplace. In the next I think it's five years the alphas will be entering the workplace.

Speaker 3: 26:52

Is that really what they're called?

Speaker 2: 26:53

Why? Yeah, I guess, to get to Z, you got to start over again.

Speaker 3: 26:59

Well, what's millennial? I don't know. It went from millennial to Z to what X?

Speaker 2: 27:03

Well, y'all were Y for a little while, and then it changed to millennial. Yeah yeah, y'all were too young to care about it. Okay, boomer, yeah, my kids still do that to me.

Speaker 3: 27:18

I don't care anymore. You're not a boomer technically. What generation? No, no.

Speaker 2: 27:25

I, you're not a boomer technically. What generation? No, no, I'm like, yeah, dude, 10 years off of that, but I, I have a lot aren't you a millennial?

Speaker 3: 27:30

technically, are you gen x, I'm, I'm x or x?

Speaker 2: 27:34

yeah, okay, um, I'm a full-blood x, or I think I'm a smack dab dab in the middle of the x x man so anyway, what? What other annoying you know? And then you have the annoying employees who come to hr to complain. You know they complain about something all the time and that that's their thing. They have to have something to complain about, and you know, and most of it's not actionable, some of it's just trivial, you know.

Speaker 3: 28:09

Oh, the garbage cans on park lot always full that's why I love those weird quiet employees, because they come in and do their shit and then they leave. But it's the ones who like are you said, they have to just have some purpose in their life to complain about, that? They can't let anything go? But just come in and do your job and leave. That's the problem with everything. Just mind your own business, and the world would be a better place.

Speaker 2: 28:40

Oh, absolutely, a better place. Oh, absolutely. I'm on the record of blaming reality tv, all these real housewife shows and all that because everybody's got to be so dramatic and over the top. I don't, I don't. I'm not on tiktok at all. My wife watches it all the time and I hear these girls talking about just all this drama all the time. And I'm. Life doesn't have to be that way. You know, there are some things you can just let go, just oh, that sucks, move on. And I don't think that a lot of people have that ability to say oh life sucks.

Speaker 3: 29:16

Move on, just keep scrolling. You don't have to stop and comment, just keep scrolling.

Speaker 2: 29:21

Yeah, okay, complaining about people. My wife listens to tiktok without her earbuds in at full volume.

Speaker 3: 29:29

So even if I'm in the bedroom, for the other podcasts warren, complaining about our bitching about your wife the how, what's gonna cause me to get a day podcast?

Speaker 2: 29:41

so oh, but yeah, the I, I just there's so many weird people out there and no, honestly, some of them are just damn good workers like. So they come in, they get their job done and they get out and they, they don't care and they don't want to go to your barbecue next saturday and they don't want to tell you about their family and kids.

Speaker 3: 30:03

Yeah, it's almost like co -workers that try to get you to drive to Virginia Beach at five o'clock on a Friday.

Speaker 2: 30:07

Oh, yeah, yeah, those type of people, you know those people. I'm going to try that again very soon. I was just thinking about that.

Speaker 3: 30:19

How about a Tuesday for lunch, because I'll already be?

Speaker 2: 30:24

there. I will start planning it now. Tuesday, tuesday, if you are in the group that would be eating lunch with Patrick and I, tuesday too, expect a text very shortly. But anyways, we're sort of run this topic of of annoying employees. You know, like I said, they're not doing anything wrong until they they do something. And unfortunately here in hr we have to hear the complaints about somebody's weird, somebody's strange now, if they're staring strangely and inappropriately or things like that. But just being a strange person overall isn't anything.

Speaker 3: 31:13

If they have one of those canes that you could get at Spencer's back in the day that had a little mirror at the bottom, maybe let HR know Spencer's though. Imagine being an HR person for Spencer's Like they had to have them right. I'm sure they would. I bet that was interesting.

Speaker 2: 31:34

Yeah, we were having this employee stole 30 dildos from the new collection or whatever.

Speaker 3: 31:43

Mark keeps taking those weird pills that make your farts smell like sour apple. I don't get it, but he just won't stop taking them.

Speaker 2: 31:51

But is he paying for them? Oh gosh, spencer's is great, I don't know if that's even around. Still, I'm sure it is, but that was a treat, I think it is, I don't even know, the last time I've been in a mall.

Speaker 3: 32:07

There's not any around that I can think of.

Speaker 2: 32:10

Yeah, I work very close to one, but it's open. It's there. I see it. Don't go in. All right, we're going to land that plane. Best practice Stop complaining about weird people, just let them do their thing Best practice.

Speaker 3: 32:27

Go to Spencer's and get the pills that make your toots smell like sour apples, to really make your coworkers feel special. What is that smell? I love it. Man, did someone light a great candle in here? What is that?

Speaker 2: 32:40

Someone's got the lemon fresh pledge cleaning their office. Anyways, as always, do want to thank andrew colpa, the voice artist, who does our intro and the intro and outro. Music is devil with the devil by the underscore orchestra. I'm warren, I'm patrick, and we're here helping you survive hr one. What the fuck. Moment at a time.