1 00:00:02,023 --> 00:00:04,546 Speaker 1: Had you actually read the email, you would know that 2 00:00:04,567 --> 00:00:07,812 the podcast you are about to listen to could contain explicit 3 00:00:07,812 --> 00:00:09,814 language and offensive content. 4 00:00:09,814 --> 00:00:14,474 These HR experts' views are not representative of their past, 5 00:00:14,814 --> 00:00:16,480 present or future employers. 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,687 If you have ever heard my manager is unfair to me. 7 00:00:19,687 --> 00:00:24,722 I need you to reset my HR portal password, or Can I write 8 00:00:24,762 --> 00:00:26,548 up my employee for crying too much? 9 00:00:26,548 --> 00:00:28,827 Welcome to our little safe zone . 10 00:00:52,414 --> 00:00:55,276 Speaker 2: Welcome to J-Date HR, the podcast by two HR 11 00:00:55,316 --> 00:00:57,756 professionals who want to help you get through the workday by 12 00:00:57,777 --> 00:01:00,304 saying everything you're thinking, but say it out loud. 13 00:01:00,304 --> 00:01:01,247 I'm Warren. 14 00:01:01,901 --> 00:01:04,727 Speaker 3: I'm Cece and I don't know about you, Warren, but my 15 00:01:04,847 --> 00:01:10,527 hot dog fingers are acting up today, hot dog fingers, yeah. 16 00:01:10,587 --> 00:01:14,453 Speaker 2: So this is our special Office Rewatch and we're 17 00:01:14,453 --> 00:01:15,435 all the way up. 18 00:01:15,435 --> 00:01:17,326 We've been doing this for a few months now. 19 00:01:17,326 --> 00:01:19,174 We're up to season one, episode three. 20 00:01:19,194 --> 00:01:21,382 Speaker 1: We're doing, great Doing great. 21 00:01:21,402 --> 00:01:25,831 Speaker 2: So we're doing really , really well, and this is the 22 00:01:25,891 --> 00:01:26,853 benefits episode. 23 00:01:26,853 --> 00:01:32,129 So so far, each of the episodes have really had an HR twang to 24 00:01:32,210 --> 00:01:35,927 it or a component to it, and this is no different. 25 00:01:35,927 --> 00:01:40,591 But I was telling you all fair earlier, cece, I tried to cheat. 26 00:01:40,591 --> 00:01:44,900 I did not think I was going to get to rewatch this episode and 27 00:01:44,837 --> 00:01:45,519 I actually did not think I was going to get to re-watch this 28 00:01:45,454 --> 00:01:46,805 episode and I actually did not re-watch it. 29 00:01:46,805 --> 00:01:50,912 I played the audio of it on my car stereo as I was driving home 30 00:01:50,912 --> 00:01:54,504 today and I got introduced to the Superfan Edition. 31 00:01:54,504 --> 00:01:57,611 I've never you know, I've never knew it was there, but I 32 00:01:58,141 --> 00:02:00,748 watched both the regular or listened to the regular edition 33 00:02:00,808 --> 00:02:02,052 and the Superfan Edition. 34 00:02:02,052 --> 00:02:05,292 So I am as prepared as I'm going to be, and I've seen this 35 00:02:05,371 --> 00:02:09,847 episode quite a few times, but this is really an interesting 36 00:02:09,926 --> 00:02:10,408 episode. 37 00:02:11,311 --> 00:02:11,572 Speaker 3: It is. 38 00:02:11,572 --> 00:02:15,468 I love this episode so much because I love any episode where 39 00:02:15,468 --> 00:02:20,806 Dwight has a power trip, and I do love any episode that shows 40 00:02:20,926 --> 00:02:26,590 Michael's ineffectiveness at leading and this is a big one, 41 00:02:26,891 --> 00:02:31,770 with delegating and his transparency into his big 42 00:02:31,810 --> 00:02:32,552 surprise. 43 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,562 Speaker 2: Big surprise, yes, and that's well. 44 00:02:35,562 --> 00:02:41,150 So the big surprise, but also one thing that stood out to me 45 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:42,766 like the very first scene. 46 00:02:42,766 --> 00:02:47,483 He goes up to Pam and asks for his messages and there aren't 47 00:02:47,604 --> 00:02:47,764 any. 48 00:02:47,764 --> 00:02:50,030 And he goes well, that's not what you said before. 49 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:53,444 And she looks at the camera Do you want me to pretend to say 50 00:02:54,206 --> 00:02:54,587 whatever? 51 00:02:54,587 --> 00:02:58,241 Because the camera is here and he just sort of doesn't know 52 00:02:58,281 --> 00:02:58,881 what to say. 53 00:02:58,881 --> 00:03:04,086 He's acting it up pretty good. 54 00:03:04,086 --> 00:03:11,293 So the real opening scene, I guess, is Jan in Michael's 55 00:03:11,413 --> 00:03:14,975 office telling him he has to pick a benefits plan. 56 00:03:14,975 --> 00:03:21,032 Yes, and in the real HR world, why isn't Toby doing this? 57 00:03:21,032 --> 00:03:24,789 Why isn't Dunder Mifflin Corporate in New York City not 58 00:03:24,849 --> 00:03:25,230 doing that? 59 00:03:25,230 --> 00:03:27,707 You know they've got all these offices and branches. 60 00:03:27,707 --> 00:03:31,169 They probably have a full benefits department, but anyway, 61 00:03:31,169 --> 00:03:32,032 I got to be honest. 62 00:03:32,060 --> 00:03:35,266 Speaker 3: That sounds extremely inefficient to have many 63 00:03:35,447 --> 00:03:38,573 benefits packages floating around your multiple regional 64 00:03:38,633 --> 00:03:39,074 offices. 65 00:03:39,074 --> 00:03:42,413 That should be a corporate benefits function. 66 00:03:43,235 --> 00:03:44,099 Speaker 2: It really should. 67 00:03:44,099 --> 00:03:50,581 But I can tell you multi-state benefits are SOB and if you want 68 00:03:50,581 --> 00:03:54,408 to have one package across all of your multi-state locations, 69 00:03:54,830 --> 00:03:57,754 your options are very, very limited. 70 00:03:57,754 --> 00:04:01,066 Speaking firsthand experience it's not a benefits expert or 71 00:04:01,145 --> 00:04:05,150 anything like that, but first thing and also A why isn't Toby 72 00:04:05,189 --> 00:04:05,491 doing this? 73 00:04:05,491 --> 00:04:09,159 But Toby is only in here like two brief scenes. 74 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:10,605 He's like any. 75 00:04:10,605 --> 00:04:14,300 I don't think he has any lines, I think he's just seen in in 76 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:16,805 the background there and stuff. 77 00:04:16,826 --> 00:04:20,660 Speaker 3: So that is funny, yeah, I am not a benefits person 78 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:22,286 , so I know nothing about benefits. 79 00:04:22,286 --> 00:04:23,961 So fair point benefits person, so I know nothing about benefits 80 00:04:23,961 --> 00:04:23,961 . 81 00:04:23,961 --> 00:04:24,901 So fair point, fair point. 82 00:04:24,901 --> 00:04:27,985 But at the very least Toby should be leading this and not 83 00:04:28,004 --> 00:04:28,406 Michael. 84 00:04:29,567 --> 00:04:33,230 Speaker 2: But it wouldn't be as funny with Toby, I know. 85 00:04:33,230 --> 00:04:37,995 But anyways, jane wants him to pick a benefits plan and he says 86 00:04:37,995 --> 00:04:46,862 , oh, I want this one, the gold plan, that has acupuncture and 87 00:04:46,903 --> 00:04:48,026 massages and you know everything else like that. 88 00:04:48,026 --> 00:04:49,992 And she just looks I'm, I don't even have the gold plan. 89 00:04:49,992 --> 00:04:52,019 Your job is to just pick a provider and then pick their 90 00:04:52,059 --> 00:04:56,769 least expensive plan is what all she says to them. 91 00:04:56,829 --> 00:04:59,694 Speaker 3: So pick a provider, pick the least expensive plan 92 00:05:00,961 --> 00:05:03,144 and let me just see we we see it later. 93 00:05:03,144 --> 00:05:07,447 But also also it seems like such a flippant way to look at 94 00:05:07,487 --> 00:05:12,874 benefits, considering how much benefits really affects employee 95 00:05:12,874 --> 00:05:16,096 morale and all of that stuff. 96 00:05:16,096 --> 00:05:18,024 It's just like pick whatever's the cheapest. 97 00:05:18,024 --> 00:05:19,771 That sounds so flippant. 98 00:05:20,699 --> 00:05:22,744 Speaker 2: Yes, I absolutely agree. 99 00:05:22,744 --> 00:05:27,132 But on the other hand, I can see a corporate entity telling 100 00:05:27,271 --> 00:05:39,091 somebody to do that yes. 101 00:05:39,091 --> 00:05:42,274 Yeah, it's very real thereabouts Now and on top of 102 00:05:42,314 --> 00:05:47,120 that, two-thirds of them are on our former military and don't 103 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:48,041 even need our benefits. 104 00:05:48,041 --> 00:05:52,651 But I did our benefit reconciliation for July just 105 00:05:52,730 --> 00:05:56,567 this week and just seeing how much money we're paying Now. 106 00:05:56,567 --> 00:05:59,279 Of course, employees contribute as well, but we pay a 107 00:05:59,321 --> 00:06:00,302 significant portion. 108 00:06:00,302 --> 00:06:04,951 The company pays a significant portion of the cost, but just 109 00:06:04,971 --> 00:06:09,367 seeing how expensive it is, benefits are a big deal on 110 00:06:09,487 --> 00:06:15,089 multiple levels Retention, engagement, recruiting it's huge 111 00:06:15,089 --> 00:06:15,089 . 112 00:06:15,992 --> 00:06:21,028 So, yeah, so Michael wants this gold plan, that's out of the 113 00:06:21,069 --> 00:06:21,490 question. 114 00:06:21,490 --> 00:06:24,047 Jan says get the cheapest one. 115 00:06:24,047 --> 00:06:26,485 And so what does michael do? 116 00:06:26,485 --> 00:06:35,752 Calls jim and wants to delegate to him to do this, and I think 117 00:06:35,853 --> 00:06:41,362 for all of jim's, jim is a funny character, but if I'm looking 118 00:06:41,463 --> 00:06:44,790 at it as an hr person he's in my office he's a bit of an a-hole, 119 00:06:44,790 --> 00:06:46,053 he's a definite bully. 120 00:06:46,053 --> 00:06:53,452 He's that cool kid that is above everybody else and knows 121 00:06:53,553 --> 00:06:53,793 it too. 122 00:06:53,793 --> 00:06:57,911 But anyways, because Michael has a main crush. 123 00:06:58,841 --> 00:07:00,021 Speaker 3: I would be such an asshole I'm like. 124 00:07:00,021 --> 00:07:01,427 Isn't that all sales, though? 125 00:07:03,922 --> 00:07:07,797 Speaker 2: It very well can be yes kidding we love sales. 126 00:07:07,857 --> 00:07:10,803 Speaker 3: Sales is the reason why we're here, so we love sales 127 00:07:10,803 --> 00:07:10,803 . 128 00:07:10,843 --> 00:07:16,052 Speaker 2: That was just a joke michael tries to delegate to jim 129 00:07:16,052 --> 00:07:20,345 and jim pushes it off, says you know who'd be really good at 130 00:07:20,384 --> 00:07:20,524 this? 131 00:07:20,524 --> 00:07:23,610 Dwight and and of course Dwight's. 132 00:07:23,610 --> 00:07:26,940 You know Johnny, on the spot, wants to be there and take it 133 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:27,442 over. 134 00:07:28,403 --> 00:07:30,507 Speaker 3: Oh, eagerly, eagerly. 135 00:07:31,649 --> 00:07:35,014 Speaker 2: And then we get into, like you said, dwight having a 136 00:07:35,053 --> 00:07:41,108 power trip and I just love it because I can see that person in 137 00:07:41,108 --> 00:07:41,728 real life. 138 00:07:41,728 --> 00:07:46,194 I haven't worked with that person, I haven't had to anybody 139 00:07:46,194 --> 00:07:50,166 , you know, I've had to deal with in an HR manner. 140 00:07:50,166 --> 00:07:54,762 Be that Dwight who gets off on the power trip, but I've seen 141 00:07:54,802 --> 00:07:59,771 them and things like that and I just, yeah, dwight does a very 142 00:07:59,831 --> 00:08:09,461 good job of this job of this. 143 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:09,721 Speaker 3: So what's it? 144 00:08:09,721 --> 00:08:09,841 Where? 145 00:08:09,841 --> 00:08:10,242 Where to where? 146 00:08:10,242 --> 00:08:10,684 To start with dwight? 147 00:08:10,684 --> 00:08:14,312 Yeah, he really loves his new authority, he embraces it and, 148 00:08:14,351 --> 00:08:17,278 yeah, I love how he takes over the office and makes it his 149 00:08:17,358 --> 00:08:19,083 workspace his. 150 00:08:19,103 --> 00:08:21,389 Speaker 2: He wants it to be an office, but he's told it's a 151 00:08:21,408 --> 00:08:22,812 workspace, it's not an office. 152 00:08:22,860 --> 00:08:23,846 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he's not the assistant regional 153 00:08:23,865 --> 00:08:24,007 manager. 154 00:08:24,026 --> 00:08:24,550 Speaker 2: He's told it's a workspace. 155 00:08:24,550 --> 00:08:25,053 It's not an office. 156 00:08:25,053 --> 00:08:26,843 Yeah, yeah, because he's not the assistant regional manager, 157 00:08:26,884 --> 00:08:29,754 he's the assistant to the regional manager. 158 00:08:29,774 --> 00:08:33,966 It's all about the semantics yes , to keep dwight happy and 159 00:08:34,166 --> 00:08:36,090 occupied and and things like that. 160 00:08:36,090 --> 00:08:41,227 But dwight just goes in with not even just a hatchet. 161 00:08:41,227 --> 00:08:43,754 He's going in there with a chainsaw, just cutting A 162 00:08:43,794 --> 00:08:48,208 chainsaw the benefits and he's going through. 163 00:08:48,208 --> 00:08:50,447 And of course, what happens? 164 00:08:50,447 --> 00:08:55,412 Nobody likes what Dwight is doing. 165 00:08:55,412 --> 00:08:59,884 He's cut everything out and speaking as someone who has a 166 00:09:00,267 --> 00:09:03,443 mild amount of experience with benefits, you know this well. 167 00:09:03,443 --> 00:09:04,268 I'll get to that later. 168 00:09:04,268 --> 00:09:07,606 But he's cutting everything out to get this cheap, cheap 169 00:09:08,428 --> 00:09:11,101 version of benefits and all the employees are mad. 170 00:09:11,101 --> 00:09:11,822 So what do they do? 171 00:09:11,822 --> 00:09:18,243 They go to Michael and he says and he plays off Dwight, what 172 00:09:18,263 --> 00:09:18,803 are you doing? 173 00:09:18,803 --> 00:09:19,826 Why are you doing? 174 00:09:19,826 --> 00:09:23,976 This Plays it off, so you know. 175 00:09:23,976 --> 00:09:28,183 So over dramatically and you figure out how to give these 176 00:09:28,225 --> 00:09:31,488 people what they want or whatever Michael charged them 177 00:09:31,528 --> 00:09:31,708 with. 178 00:09:31,708 --> 00:09:41,682 So Dwight's next big idea was to come up, have everybody 179 00:09:41,763 --> 00:09:43,929 submit a list of all their diseases. 180 00:09:44,961 --> 00:09:47,159 Speaker 3: Sounds like a HIPAA violation, if I've heard one. 181 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:51,025 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but remember you don't put your name 182 00:09:51,025 --> 00:09:51,347 on it. 183 00:09:51,347 --> 00:09:54,267 Though he was writing, I don't know if this was in the super 184 00:09:54,307 --> 00:09:56,881 fan edition or in the real edition he was like trying to 185 00:09:56,942 --> 00:10:00,052 write people's names on their submission. 186 00:10:00,865 --> 00:10:01,678 Speaker 3: Well, it wasn't that. 187 00:10:01,678 --> 00:10:06,166 I think he was catching on to the fact that some of them were 188 00:10:06,245 --> 00:10:06,687 fake. 189 00:10:06,687 --> 00:10:09,350 So then he was like who has this one? 190 00:10:09,350 --> 00:10:13,995 So yeah, we're definitely in HIPAA violation territory. 191 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:20,626 Speaker 2: And of course Jim and Pam and other people go in and 192 00:10:21,008 --> 00:10:23,591 make up these silly diseases. 193 00:10:24,131 --> 00:10:27,937 Hot dog fingers and make up these silly diseases Hot dog 194 00:10:27,956 --> 00:10:28,717 fingers, hot dog fingers. 195 00:10:28,717 --> 00:10:30,624 I did not know I was going to get a chance to watch this 196 00:10:30,703 --> 00:10:34,908 episode or listen to it at all, so I tried to cheat and I used 197 00:10:35,188 --> 00:10:35,470 Gemini. 198 00:10:35,470 --> 00:10:41,174 And the question I asked Gemini was give me a breakdown of the 199 00:10:41,216 --> 00:10:44,563 highlights from the US comedy the Office, season one, episode 200 00:10:44,604 --> 00:10:45,928 three, titled Healthcare. 201 00:10:45,928 --> 00:10:51,192 And so Gemini, first thing it spits out is synopsis. 202 00:10:51,192 --> 00:10:53,749 Synopsis is dead on Highlights. 203 00:10:53,749 --> 00:10:58,631 First highlight it mentions is Dwight's power trip, dead on. 204 00:10:58,631 --> 00:11:03,269 Second bullet under highlights is the disease list which we're 205 00:11:03,289 --> 00:11:05,302 talking about now and it goes on from there. 206 00:11:05,302 --> 00:11:06,552 But anyways, we're talking about the disease list which 207 00:11:06,572 --> 00:11:07,720 we're talking about now and it goes on from there. 208 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:09,947 But anyways, we're talking about the disease list. 209 00:11:09,947 --> 00:11:13,455 So Jim wants to make sure, because what the idea of this 210 00:11:13,495 --> 00:11:14,197 disease list is? 211 00:11:14,197 --> 00:11:17,128 To make sure whatever you need is covered. 212 00:11:17,730 --> 00:11:17,950 Speaker 3: Yes. 213 00:11:17,950 --> 00:11:22,000 So like Jim puts on there Great idea on paper, horrible 214 00:11:22,041 --> 00:11:22,702 execution. 215 00:11:26,152 --> 00:11:30,691 Speaker 2: Oh boy, jim puts on there Ebola and mad cow disease, 216 00:11:30,691 --> 00:11:35,110 and then Pam puts on she's just making up diseases. 217 00:11:35,712 --> 00:11:36,214 Speaker 3: I love that. 218 00:11:37,041 --> 00:11:39,548 Speaker 2: What do you call it when your teeth turn to liquid 219 00:11:39,587 --> 00:11:40,731 and explode in your mouth? 220 00:11:40,731 --> 00:11:41,966 And he goes that's not a made-up. 221 00:11:41,966 --> 00:11:44,241 Jim goes that's not a made-up disease, that's whatever. 222 00:11:44,241 --> 00:11:48,547 And he comes up with a name for it and I guess she puts that on 223 00:11:48,547 --> 00:11:52,091 and anyways it goes. 224 00:11:52,091 --> 00:11:57,155 You know, the class clowns, if you will, are making this even 225 00:11:57,196 --> 00:11:57,876 harder on Dwight. 226 00:11:57,876 --> 00:12:03,188 So he picks up, as you were saying, that some of these 227 00:12:03,208 --> 00:12:04,456 diseases are made up, and he goes who has hot dog fingers or 228 00:12:04,475 --> 00:12:04,999 whatever it is? 229 00:12:04,999 --> 00:12:09,645 And then he wants to have a meeting and he says he brings 230 00:12:09,706 --> 00:12:11,471 everybody in to actually talk. 231 00:12:11,471 --> 00:12:13,850 And Stanley says what about confidentiality? 232 00:12:13,850 --> 00:12:19,269 You lost confidentiality when you gave me these stupid made up 233 00:12:19,269 --> 00:12:23,095 diseases and things like that, including the hot dog fingers. 234 00:12:23,095 --> 00:12:25,878 Of course count choculitis, yes , including the hot dog fingers, 235 00:12:25,878 --> 00:12:27,562 of course count choculitis. 236 00:12:27,562 --> 00:12:29,967 Yes, that was a good one. 237 00:12:29,967 --> 00:12:34,364 And then, of course, of all people, it's Kevin. 238 00:12:34,364 --> 00:12:35,927 What about anal fissures? 239 00:12:35,927 --> 00:12:37,230 Anal? 240 00:12:37,269 --> 00:12:41,339 fissures and nobody here has that. 241 00:12:41,339 --> 00:12:41,639 Kevin goes. 242 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:43,166 No, somebody here might. 243 00:12:43,166 --> 00:12:45,506 And remember this is season one , kevin, before he has the 244 00:12:45,567 --> 00:12:48,346 strange voice, he has the very mild meager. 245 00:12:48,346 --> 00:12:50,225 He didn't change his voice yet. 246 00:12:50,225 --> 00:12:54,681 Somebody here might have it and things like that, and it just 247 00:12:55,143 --> 00:12:58,711 goes on and on about it and it's funny. 248 00:12:59,522 --> 00:13:01,807 Speaker 3: I do like when Meredith wants to ensure that 249 00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:03,251 her vagina is covered. 250 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,029 Speaker 2: Because one of the fake diseases someone put it was 251 00:13:09,029 --> 00:13:11,855 an inverted penis disease. 252 00:13:11,855 --> 00:13:14,908 And she goes do you mean a vagina? 253 00:13:14,908 --> 00:13:17,889 A vagina could be an inverted penis, if you think of it. 254 00:13:17,889 --> 00:13:20,541 And then Dwight's like you don't have a vagina, you had a 255 00:13:20,581 --> 00:13:25,740 hysterectomy, yes, and things like this, and she's trying to 256 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,363 explain. 257 00:13:26,462 --> 00:13:32,202 I still I still have a vagina yeah, that is a classic dwight 258 00:13:32,283 --> 00:13:36,530 not knowing these things, so I'm going to give you under the 259 00:13:36,591 --> 00:13:37,371 disease list. 260 00:13:37,371 --> 00:13:38,921 Ai gave me this. 261 00:13:38,921 --> 00:13:42,229 Oh yes, so pan's car. 262 00:13:42,229 --> 00:13:46,399 Pam's carpal tunnel syndrome nobody mentioned carpal tunnel 263 00:13:46,418 --> 00:13:47,004 syndrome in it. 264 00:13:47,004 --> 00:13:49,022 I don't know where it comes up with that. 265 00:13:49,022 --> 00:13:51,966 Kevin's hot dog fingers Okay, we got hot dog fingers. 266 00:13:51,966 --> 00:13:58,086 Okay, this is actually deep hallucination on the AI's part. 267 00:13:58,086 --> 00:14:03,644 Oscar's chlamydia and it says which he makes up on the spot 268 00:14:03,684 --> 00:14:07,807 just to mess with Dwight, that was not part of the show. 269 00:14:07,807 --> 00:14:13,140 Stanley's spine-ritis and Meredith's Lyme disease, which 270 00:14:13,642 --> 00:14:17,008 she genuinely has, but Dwight tries to dismiss as not a real 271 00:14:17,067 --> 00:14:18,892 disease, not in the show. 272 00:14:18,892 --> 00:14:22,349 I don't know, I don't know where that. 273 00:14:22,711 --> 00:14:24,379 Speaker 3: Oh, gemini, you failed. 274 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:25,865 Speaker 2: Yeah, that came from. 275 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:30,794 Yeah, it was really interesting . 276 00:14:30,794 --> 00:14:34,245 But I was going to say, as someone who knows a little bit 277 00:14:34,285 --> 00:14:39,139 about benefits, it's really hard to get like I don't want to 278 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:41,023 cover, say, arthritis in my plant. 279 00:14:41,023 --> 00:14:43,346 It would be hard to get a. 280 00:14:43,346 --> 00:14:46,812 You can get what they call a rider to either include or 281 00:14:46,993 --> 00:14:48,921 exclude something from your plan . 282 00:14:48,921 --> 00:14:52,668 You know a lot of like religious organizations may have 283 00:14:52,668 --> 00:14:57,966 certain riders about birth control or other things like 284 00:14:58,006 --> 00:15:04,159 that in their health plan, but your M1A1 employer is not going 285 00:15:04,179 --> 00:15:07,366 to go through the trouble to oh, I'm want to exclude hot dog 286 00:15:07,447 --> 00:15:09,952 fingers for my benefits plan. 287 00:15:09,952 --> 00:15:16,583 It's sort of all inclusive and some plans may have better 288 00:15:16,624 --> 00:15:18,927 coverage towards some illnesses than others. 289 00:15:18,927 --> 00:15:24,214 But it's not like an individual plan is going to necessarily do 290 00:15:24,214 --> 00:15:24,374 that. 291 00:15:24,374 --> 00:15:28,740 But I guess, speaking in the real world, companies are 292 00:15:28,779 --> 00:15:33,788 getting riders now for their GLP-1s because insurance doesn't 293 00:15:33,788 --> 00:15:36,861 want to cover it but employers want it in their plans. 294 00:15:36,861 --> 00:15:43,457 So they're getting riders added to include GLP-1s if that's the 295 00:15:43,457 --> 00:15:45,263 way the direction the company wants to go. 296 00:15:45,263 --> 00:15:47,990 So that's pretty interesting. 297 00:15:48,039 --> 00:15:51,730 A learning moment in Jaded HR let's see here. 298 00:15:51,730 --> 00:15:56,562 So back to the show, michael. 299 00:15:56,562 --> 00:15:58,909 While all this is going on, what is Michael doing? 300 00:16:00,321 --> 00:16:02,626 Speaker 3: He's trying to plan for his big surprise. 301 00:16:03,409 --> 00:16:04,152 Speaker 2: And he's hiding. 302 00:16:04,152 --> 00:16:10,499 He's like actively hiding in his office himself and he he's 303 00:16:10,558 --> 00:16:11,080 on the phone with. 304 00:16:11,201 --> 00:16:12,924 He calls pam, how's everything going out there? 305 00:16:12,924 --> 00:16:16,461 And she's third talk to him and it's really bad and you, really 306 00:16:16,461 --> 00:16:17,644 you might want to get out here. 307 00:16:17,644 --> 00:16:19,912 And he tries to say, oh, I've got to go, I've got a call. 308 00:16:19,912 --> 00:16:22,004 And she looks at the phone no, you don't. 309 00:16:22,004 --> 00:16:27,317 And then at the end is he's trying to get off again. 310 00:16:27,317 --> 00:16:28,480 He goes oh, I gotta take this call. 311 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,082 No, you still don't have another call. 312 00:16:30,082 --> 00:16:36,253 No, but he's trying to he has no backbone. 313 00:16:36,332 --> 00:16:39,225 Speaker 3: He is the person who does not want to give deliver 314 00:16:39,284 --> 00:16:45,299 bad news at all oh, and that's something jan says at the very 315 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:46,302 beginning of the show. 316 00:16:46,823 --> 00:16:49,870 Speaker 2: Sometimes as a manager you have to have hard 317 00:16:49,931 --> 00:16:53,889 conversations and she goes like I'm having with you right now 318 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:00,443 and I did get a crack up out of that, because he's so oblivious, 319 00:17:00,443 --> 00:17:05,513 he doesn't get anything that's going on around him. 320 00:17:05,513 --> 00:17:11,765 Like right now, like like this you have to do yeah, and it's, 321 00:17:12,105 --> 00:17:15,191 it's, yeah, it's, it's michael at his finest. 322 00:17:15,191 --> 00:17:18,604 But and then michael goes on this what do they call it when 323 00:17:18,964 --> 00:17:22,659 they, like, just focus directly in on one of the characters and 324 00:17:22,898 --> 00:17:24,301 they're talking directly to the camera? 325 00:17:24,342 --> 00:17:27,906 I don't know, oh, like the confessional yeah, yeah, that 326 00:17:27,948 --> 00:17:31,112 type thing, these you know I'm a good manager. 327 00:17:31,112 --> 00:17:32,994 I've decided to delegate this. 328 00:17:32,994 --> 00:17:36,969 And now one thing michael said I don't get the context to 329 00:17:37,589 --> 00:17:38,952 dwight's already got one strike. 330 00:17:38,952 --> 00:17:39,762 This will be strike. 331 00:17:39,762 --> 00:17:41,973 If he fails at this, that'll be strike number two. 332 00:17:41,973 --> 00:17:44,403 And I don't know we're only three episodes in, so I don't 333 00:17:44,442 --> 00:17:47,308 know what his other strike is on that. 334 00:17:47,308 --> 00:17:55,409 But if he succeeds, I had the authority to and the confidence 335 00:17:55,489 --> 00:17:58,013 in him to make this happen and delegate this to him. 336 00:17:58,013 --> 00:18:01,128 And if he doesn't succeed, he sucks. 337 00:18:01,128 --> 00:18:05,821 Basically, I forget what he says, but yeah, he sucks, and 338 00:18:06,262 --> 00:18:07,445 that's I can. 339 00:18:07,445 --> 00:18:10,853 So picture managers I've dealt with in my life. 340 00:18:10,853 --> 00:18:12,226 That would be the exact same way. 341 00:18:12,226 --> 00:18:18,032 I'm here for the glory, but if things don't go the way I want, 342 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:19,965 nope, that was all him. 343 00:18:19,965 --> 00:18:21,967 I tried, I did my best. 344 00:18:21,967 --> 00:18:27,307 And Michael, he leaves the office not once, but twice. 345 00:18:27,327 --> 00:18:30,660 Speaker 3: Twice he has meetings where he's trying to set up his 346 00:18:30,660 --> 00:18:37,371 big surprise, and he realizes he can't do a big surprise I 347 00:18:37,412 --> 00:18:42,244 loved how he was researching, he was doing the, the big ride, 348 00:18:42,786 --> 00:18:46,291 the big ride, the elevator ride, and it was like a mine shaft. 349 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:49,845 And then it was like oh, do you guys do those things where you 350 00:18:49,885 --> 00:18:53,778 get a bus and then you give everybody, drive everyone to the 351 00:18:53,778 --> 00:18:56,827 casino and you give them free chips and everything's for free 352 00:18:56,867 --> 00:18:59,161 and it's all comped, and then you bring them back and they're 353 00:18:59,201 --> 00:19:03,807 like we don't do anything like that either nobody does he's 354 00:19:03,847 --> 00:19:10,836 trying so hard yeah, yeah, he's trying, he is very, he does, 355 00:19:10,896 --> 00:19:15,204 like his employees, he does try really hard for the the good 356 00:19:15,265 --> 00:19:19,031 stuff, but the bad stuff he's he's not too too good at. 357 00:19:19,432 --> 00:19:20,740 Speaker 2: And so what does he do? 358 00:19:20,740 --> 00:19:24,527 He comes back in the afternoon with ice cream sandwiches for 359 00:19:24,728 --> 00:19:28,153 everybody, and since ryan doesn't get benefits, he gets 360 00:19:28,213 --> 00:19:32,086 two of them, and you have a high metabolism. 361 00:19:32,086 --> 00:19:36,512 So, and in stanley, this isn't our surprise, is it? 362 00:19:36,512 --> 00:19:38,903 Oh, no, no, no, this isn't their surprise. 363 00:19:38,903 --> 00:19:40,326 I've got something bigger and better. 364 00:19:40,326 --> 00:19:44,606 And he goes, hides, runs and hides in his office and then he 365 00:19:44,626 --> 00:19:44,787 comes. 366 00:19:44,787 --> 00:19:48,459 I guess he comes back out again and Dwight has not made any 367 00:19:48,538 --> 00:19:52,446 changes to the original, you know, just butchered healthcare 368 00:19:52,467 --> 00:19:52,728 plan. 369 00:19:52,728 --> 00:19:53,925 And everybody's mad. 370 00:19:53,925 --> 00:19:57,867 And Angela asks well, what about our big surprise? 371 00:19:57,867 --> 00:20:02,506 And Michael goes into the little confessional mode I guess 372 00:20:02,506 --> 00:20:04,887 you'd say and talk about how great of an improv he is. 373 00:20:04,887 --> 00:20:09,346 He's along the greatest, like Drew, carey and gosh. 374 00:20:09,346 --> 00:20:09,867 Who's the other? 375 00:20:09,867 --> 00:20:10,924 Ryan Stiles? 376 00:20:10,924 --> 00:20:11,689 From Whose Line Is? 377 00:20:11,769 --> 00:20:15,125 It Anyway, oh, yeah, yeah yeah, and how great he is and I would 378 00:20:15,145 --> 00:20:16,682 have loved to work with Robin Williams. 379 00:20:16,682 --> 00:20:19,606 But he's sitting there, he's stalling and trying to do the 380 00:20:19,646 --> 00:20:20,301 drum roll. 381 00:20:20,301 --> 00:20:23,342 Here's your big surprise he's doing it for a minute. 382 00:20:23,342 --> 00:20:25,306 He's like doing it for like a minute trying to, okay, stall 383 00:20:25,425 --> 00:20:27,809 out and everything, and people are just starting to leave. 384 00:20:27,809 --> 00:20:29,413 And we didn't have a surprise. 385 00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:35,084 And they're very demoralized and very unhappy they are. 386 00:20:35,084 --> 00:20:41,020 But I think they knew to expect that from Michael, you know, 387 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,345 especially after he disappeared, Because the man doesn't spend 388 00:20:42,405 --> 00:20:44,702 two minutes in his office, he's always out and about. 389 00:20:44,702 --> 00:20:48,864 You know, disturbing interrupting his employees 390 00:20:49,306 --> 00:20:50,829 versus actually helping them. 391 00:20:50,829 --> 00:20:52,494 But it got me thinking. 392 00:20:52,494 --> 00:20:56,403 Would you rather have your manager bring in ice cream, 393 00:20:56,463 --> 00:21:00,190 sandwiches or pizzas for your morale? 394 00:21:01,913 --> 00:21:04,202 Speaker 3: Oh my God, Actually at this point the ice cream 395 00:21:04,223 --> 00:21:07,271 sandwich sounds delicious and quite different from the pizza, 396 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,107 so I guess I would welcome the ice cream sandwich just a little 397 00:21:10,107 --> 00:21:10,368 more. 398 00:21:11,751 --> 00:21:15,450 Speaker 2: Yeah Well, Speewich, how is it out there in your neck 399 00:21:15,450 --> 00:21:16,040 of the woods, I know? 400 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,750 Today our heat index got up to like 117 degrees at the bottom 401 00:21:19,769 --> 00:21:23,588 of my screen, the heat warning in effect continuing through the 402 00:21:23,588 --> 00:21:24,250 end of this week. 403 00:21:24,250 --> 00:21:26,198 We're just sweating. 404 00:21:27,082 --> 00:21:28,125 Speaker 3: We are sweating. 405 00:21:28,125 --> 00:21:29,790 We are also in a heat warning. 406 00:21:29,790 --> 00:21:32,362 I think we're tomorrow. 407 00:21:32,362 --> 00:21:35,166 We're 94 degrees Holy F. 408 00:21:37,090 --> 00:21:38,011 Speaker 2: Yeah. 409 00:21:38,492 --> 00:21:39,114 Speaker 3: I'm going to melt. 410 00:21:39,134 --> 00:21:39,535 Speaker 2: Tomorrow. 411 00:21:39,535 --> 00:21:42,685 Oh, we're going down to 95. 412 00:21:42,685 --> 00:21:44,430 So we're going to get some, some. 413 00:21:44,430 --> 00:21:44,590 Really. 414 00:21:44,611 --> 00:21:47,202 I don't know what the heat index is going to be, but yeah, so 415 00:21:47,303 --> 00:21:54,294 ice cream sandwich would sound pretty damn good and if anybody 416 00:21:54,334 --> 00:21:58,987 who knows me knows, I am an ice creamaholic and these few weeks 417 00:21:59,027 --> 00:22:01,932 with my son being home, oh my gosh, I'm gonna gain. 418 00:22:01,932 --> 00:22:04,365 I've been to brewster's ice cream twice. 419 00:22:04,365 --> 00:22:05,911 Love my brewster's. 420 00:22:05,911 --> 00:22:08,380 Now we've got milkshakes here there, everywhere. 421 00:22:08,380 --> 00:22:09,786 What else did we do? 422 00:22:09,786 --> 00:22:13,183 We're just, yeah, we're being complete, full-on gluttons. 423 00:22:13,586 --> 00:22:16,642 You know, with him here and he's eating us out of house and home 424 00:22:16,642 --> 00:22:21,886 on top of everything else, my wife is like he's like I've 425 00:22:21,926 --> 00:22:23,412 never had to do this many dishes . 426 00:22:23,412 --> 00:22:25,500 He's eating all the time, everything. 427 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:28,181 And he just turned 21 on saturday. 428 00:22:28,181 --> 00:22:29,625 So that's another thing. 429 00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:33,357 My wife was very, a little bit not very upset that our baby's 430 00:22:33,459 --> 00:22:38,448 21 years old now and things like that, and he wanted rum chata 431 00:22:38,847 --> 00:22:41,613 for his 21st birthday. 432 00:22:41,613 --> 00:22:47,326 Then he found a tiktok recipe you just a dirty pina colada or 433 00:22:47,386 --> 00:22:51,493 something where you just poured pineapple Fanta and rum chata 434 00:22:51,513 --> 00:22:55,710 together and it's a I think they call it dirty pina colada. 435 00:22:55,710 --> 00:22:59,028 I had it. 436 00:22:59,028 --> 00:23:01,769 It wasn't bad, it wasn't great, it wasn't bad. 437 00:23:01,769 --> 00:23:05,306 Definitely gave the pina colada taste to it. 438 00:23:05,306 --> 00:23:09,422 But so we have, we bought him some rum chata for his, his, 439 00:23:09,442 --> 00:23:13,851 some coconut rum chata for his birthday, and yeah. 440 00:23:13,871 --> 00:23:18,942 Speaker 3: So rum chata, that's nice rum, chata and coffee is 441 00:23:19,001 --> 00:23:19,323 great. 442 00:23:19,323 --> 00:23:22,230 I don't know if he needs to learn about morning drinking yet 443 00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:25,605 , but he's. 444 00:23:26,688 --> 00:23:28,631 Speaker 2: He's not inexperienced, that you know 445 00:23:28,651 --> 00:23:30,460 know a couple of years I know we're way off time. 446 00:23:30,460 --> 00:23:33,528 It's a couple of years ago we went to Puerto Rico and first 447 00:23:33,548 --> 00:23:34,371 place we go to dinner. 448 00:23:34,371 --> 00:23:38,308 They're taking our drink orders and they ask him, and, and he 449 00:23:38,348 --> 00:23:39,700 just says I'll have what she's having. 450 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:42,664 Talk to my wife and and didn't bad night. 451 00:23:42,664 --> 00:23:47,252 He's 17 years old, bringing him a rum and Coke or whatever she 452 00:23:47,272 --> 00:23:48,555 was having and things like that. 453 00:23:48,555 --> 00:23:52,906 And then we're sitting on the beach and these giant pineapples 454 00:23:52,906 --> 00:23:57,520 with real pina colada in it and carved out of the pineapple and 455 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,188 he asked for one and I just gave him some money and he 456 00:24:00,268 --> 00:24:01,551 bought it and they didn't care. 457 00:24:02,140 --> 00:24:04,463 We went to a drag king show the best first of all. 458 00:24:04,463 --> 00:24:08,328 We went to a Drag King show yes , the best first of all. 459 00:24:08,328 --> 00:24:13,415 And second, in Puerto Rico we got mojitos and I asked my 460 00:24:13,476 --> 00:24:15,459 sister do you want these mojitos ? 461 00:24:15,459 --> 00:24:17,682 Do you want them the small or large? 462 00:24:17,682 --> 00:24:19,207 And it was only like two dollars difference. 463 00:24:19,207 --> 00:24:21,861 The large is like half a gallon . 464 00:24:21,861 --> 00:24:22,362 We didn't even. 465 00:24:22,362 --> 00:24:25,211 We got like three of them and we didn't even finish one of 466 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:27,203 them in there, but it was. 467 00:24:27,203 --> 00:24:28,566 It was really funny. 468 00:24:28,566 --> 00:24:32,319 One of the drag kings actually spoke english and he came up to 469 00:24:32,380 --> 00:24:35,949 our table so many times and he was like translating, for he 470 00:24:36,048 --> 00:24:39,263 made us part of the show and things like that he was. 471 00:24:39,263 --> 00:24:43,921 So now my brother-in-law who, who's from chile is, is in there 472 00:24:43,921 --> 00:24:45,145 and he's doing something translated. 473 00:24:45,145 --> 00:24:49,760 But this guy is just doing it fabulously translating for us, 474 00:24:50,442 --> 00:24:51,483 and it was we. 475 00:24:51,584 --> 00:24:56,291 we had absolutely anyways back to back to the the side. 476 00:24:56,291 --> 00:24:59,803 So yeah, actually I think we're pretty much at the end of the 477 00:24:59,863 --> 00:25:05,172 show, everybody leaves, oh, and then when everybody's gone, he 478 00:25:05,231 --> 00:25:06,894 says we're going bowling. 479 00:25:06,894 --> 00:25:12,048 It was his big concern. 480 00:25:12,087 --> 00:25:12,971 Speaker 3: Let it go, Michael. 481 00:25:15,362 --> 00:25:19,246 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was very funny, I feel like. 482 00:25:19,346 --> 00:25:24,050 Speaker 3: Honestly, I feel like that should be a manager slash 483 00:25:24,290 --> 00:25:29,036 leadership skill that no one focuses on is the ability to 484 00:25:29,076 --> 00:25:33,625 delegate appropriately and to choose when it's appropriate to 485 00:25:33,665 --> 00:25:37,532 delegate a task and who it's appropriate to delegate that 486 00:25:37,573 --> 00:25:40,548 task to, Because Michael failed on both accounts. 487 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,222 This is not Now not now a you shouldn't have delegated it and 488 00:25:45,262 --> 00:25:48,311 you just again like act your wage. 489 00:25:48,311 --> 00:25:53,942 You're gonna have to make tough decisions and deal with it and 490 00:25:54,042 --> 00:25:55,805 also never choose dwight. 491 00:25:55,805 --> 00:26:01,372 Dwight is like the shredder he like he goes on power trips oh, 492 00:26:02,133 --> 00:26:05,135 and again, why not delegate it to toby? 493 00:26:05,175 --> 00:26:09,407 Speaker 2: I know michael hates toby, but here, toby, have fun, 494 00:26:09,708 --> 00:26:13,522 go do this, and toby would love it toby would have been really, 495 00:26:13,603 --> 00:26:16,375 really happy, like later one of the later episodes, when he gets 496 00:26:16,375 --> 00:26:18,584 to bring out his notebook he's doing some real hr work. 497 00:26:18,584 --> 00:26:23,042 You don't see Toby that happy ever in any episode, unless he's 498 00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:26,190 like thinking of Pam or something Exactly. 499 00:26:26,671 --> 00:26:27,813 Speaker 3: Give Toby something to do. 500 00:26:27,813 --> 00:26:28,882 He's bored back there. 501 00:26:29,703 --> 00:26:31,527 Speaker 2: Exactly, but I'm trying to. 502 00:26:31,527 --> 00:26:35,260 I'm also looking at the other AI things that got it wrong. 503 00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:40,089 Okay, so this got me on the AI and it made me think, ooh, this 504 00:26:40,109 --> 00:26:41,854 will be a fun discussion for the show. 505 00:26:41,854 --> 00:26:46,422 One of the bullet points it gave for the synopsis is the 506 00:26:46,481 --> 00:26:52,253 great HMO versus PPO debate, and the episode touches on the 507 00:26:52,294 --> 00:26:54,384 different types of planes and the general confusion 508 00:26:54,444 --> 00:26:55,188 surrounding them. 509 00:26:55,188 --> 00:26:58,924 And I'm like I was like, ooh, this is something I would like 510 00:26:58,944 --> 00:27:00,259 to really hit. 511 00:27:00,259 --> 00:27:02,468 But AI, you got it wrong. 512 00:27:02,468 --> 00:27:10,829 They didn't mention any of this , but I wonder, did they end up 513 00:27:10,849 --> 00:27:11,833 with that Butchered plan? 514 00:27:11,833 --> 00:27:14,787 Because at the end, oh, this was due at 5 o'clock and it's 515 00:27:15,087 --> 00:27:15,769 5.15. 516 00:27:15,769 --> 00:27:18,122 Oh, too bad, we can't change yeah. 517 00:27:18,142 --> 00:27:19,567 Speaker 3: I think they got the Butchered plan. 518 00:27:19,567 --> 00:27:23,160 We can't change, yeah, I think they got the butchered plan 519 00:27:28,039 --> 00:27:29,362 which, if we're going to follow reality, I'm surprised no one 520 00:27:29,423 --> 00:27:30,684 put their resignation shortly after and found a new job, 521 00:27:30,704 --> 00:27:32,188 Because benefits are such a huge part of the compensation plan 522 00:27:32,268 --> 00:27:35,153 that if they were to butcher it they would have lost people for 523 00:27:35,173 --> 00:27:35,394 sure. 524 00:27:36,420 --> 00:27:40,346 Speaker 2: Well, even Oscar, in the middle of the episode, says 525 00:27:40,386 --> 00:27:43,152 something along like this is actually a pay cut for us. 526 00:27:43,152 --> 00:27:46,946 Right, when you, when you butcher the benefits, like that, 527 00:27:46,946 --> 00:27:50,308 you're you're forcing people to take a pay cut and that's you 528 00:27:50,328 --> 00:27:53,141 know whether it's a pay cut because they're they're paying 529 00:27:53,201 --> 00:27:57,501 probably the same amount or more for less service, or they're 530 00:27:57,541 --> 00:28:00,770 paying more for the same lousy service. 531 00:28:00,770 --> 00:28:03,748 Yeah, it equals a pay cut. 532 00:28:03,748 --> 00:28:07,691 So, yeah, that was pretty telling. 533 00:28:07,691 --> 00:28:10,267 I appreciated that portion of it. 534 00:28:10,267 --> 00:28:11,451 Let's see here. 535 00:28:11,451 --> 00:28:13,987 But yeah, ai really failed. 536 00:28:13,987 --> 00:28:17,267 So I think every episode I'm going to try and see what AI 537 00:28:17,346 --> 00:28:20,614 gives me for the thing. 538 00:28:20,614 --> 00:28:23,682 But something does tell me in a future episode Meredith does 539 00:28:24,285 --> 00:28:26,261 have Lyme disease, but it's not. 540 00:28:26,462 --> 00:28:30,986 I think it's blurring episodes the rabies episode maybe she 541 00:28:31,006 --> 00:28:31,848 gets rabies. 542 00:28:31,848 --> 00:28:37,471 Or is it when she gets, when Michael hits her with a car and 543 00:28:37,510 --> 00:28:39,365 she's in the hospital and they're discussing her medical. 544 00:28:39,365 --> 00:28:41,083 So much happens to Meredith. 545 00:28:41,825 --> 00:28:43,788 Speaker 3: I honestly do think she had Lyme disease. 546 00:28:43,788 --> 00:28:45,172 Like I feel like that was real and she's in the hospital and 547 00:28:45,392 --> 00:28:46,134 they're discussing her medical. 548 00:28:46,134 --> 00:28:47,135 So much happens to Meredith. 549 00:28:47,155 --> 00:28:48,317 Speaker 2: I honestly do think she had Lyme disease. 550 00:28:48,317 --> 00:28:49,119 Like I feel like that was real. 551 00:28:49,119 --> 00:28:50,522 Yeah, I think somewhere in there she got Lyme disease. 552 00:28:50,522 --> 00:28:53,390 So I think AI is sort of blurring their episodes together 553 00:28:53,390 --> 00:28:53,390 . 554 00:28:53,430 --> 00:28:54,393 Speaker 3: Meredith has everything. 555 00:28:54,393 --> 00:28:55,304 She's just a hot mess. 556 00:28:56,442 --> 00:28:58,888 Speaker 2: She is the definition of hot mess, and so is her 557 00:28:58,930 --> 00:28:59,230 family. 558 00:28:59,230 --> 00:29:02,049 I think we'll find out a little bit later as well. 559 00:29:02,079 --> 00:29:04,528 Speaker 3: But let's not forget, during the entire filming of 560 00:29:04,567 --> 00:29:07,846 the series, she was supposedly working on her doctorate. 561 00:29:08,807 --> 00:29:09,289 Speaker 2: Oh really. 562 00:29:10,010 --> 00:29:12,954 Speaker 3: No, no, no, that was like spoiler alert at the very 563 00:29:13,056 --> 00:29:17,147 end of the series, when they're talking about reflecting back on 564 00:29:17,147 --> 00:29:18,711 the documentary crew that was there. 565 00:29:18,711 --> 00:29:24,164 She claims that she was edited wrong and that she was working 566 00:29:24,226 --> 00:29:25,951 on her doctorate in education. 567 00:29:25,951 --> 00:29:27,809 Why didn't they show any of that? 568 00:29:27,809 --> 00:29:31,981 Oh, okay, I don't remember that part of it Meredith's, like I 569 00:29:32,001 --> 00:29:32,824 got a bad edit. 570 00:29:35,971 --> 00:29:42,512 Speaker 2: Oh man, but no benefits in the real world is so 571 00:29:42,512 --> 00:29:47,070 important and I think there was a lot of opportunity here. 572 00:29:47,070 --> 00:29:48,362 So maybe some things they missed on. 573 00:29:48,362 --> 00:29:51,989 But giving Dwight just the carte blanche to butcher 574 00:29:52,369 --> 00:29:56,982 everything and be Dwight about it, you know the opposite thing 575 00:29:57,002 --> 00:30:00,086 you could have given it to really given it to Jim Pam and 576 00:30:00,488 --> 00:30:04,974 gotten some thing out of the world as well. 577 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,990 Speaker 3: So it's honestly, I'm going to be like I think Jim 578 00:30:09,049 --> 00:30:15,884 and Pam, If I was, if I was going to delegate, I would 579 00:30:15,924 --> 00:30:20,371 probably delegate to a group first, like a small, like a or 580 00:30:20,411 --> 00:30:24,320 maybe a trio, because one person should not be in charge of 581 00:30:24,361 --> 00:30:25,763 making that important of a decision. 582 00:30:25,763 --> 00:30:30,621 And I feel like Jim and Pam like their hearts in the good 583 00:30:30,661 --> 00:30:31,001 place. 584 00:30:31,001 --> 00:30:32,104 They like, like they. 585 00:30:32,104 --> 00:30:35,271 I mean, yes, Jim's a bully, but I think at the end of the day 586 00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:37,185 he really does care for the people he works with. 587 00:30:37,185 --> 00:30:41,598 I think them together would have come up with a way better 588 00:30:41,679 --> 00:30:43,423 solution than Dwight alone. 589 00:30:44,444 --> 00:30:47,590 Speaker 2: See, if I weren't going to choose Toby, I would 590 00:30:47,611 --> 00:30:48,794 have chose Oscar. 591 00:30:50,442 --> 00:30:53,228 Oscar would have been great, the most level-headed. 592 00:30:53,228 --> 00:30:55,353 He'd be better than Toby probably. 593 00:30:55,353 --> 00:31:00,188 He'd be so level-headed and he'd plan it out really well. 594 00:31:00,188 --> 00:31:01,451 I don't know, oscar. 595 00:31:01,451 --> 00:31:05,130 Oscar would have probably been if you're going to a committee, 596 00:31:05,170 --> 00:31:09,144 he should be the committee chair of that committee and if not, 597 00:31:09,183 --> 00:31:11,772 just give it to him and he would come up with the best plan. 598 00:31:11,772 --> 00:31:14,801 But you know another, give it to creek. 599 00:31:14,801 --> 00:31:17,748 Oh gosh, we got. 600 00:31:17,748 --> 00:31:20,915 We got free, everything, every medicine you want, no 601 00:31:20,976 --> 00:31:22,419 prescription, we're getting it. 602 00:31:22,419 --> 00:31:24,989 We're not getting it from canada, we're getting it from 603 00:31:25,289 --> 00:31:27,859 this island you've never heard of in the somewhere. 604 00:31:27,859 --> 00:31:31,212 That's where we're getting our medicines from creed signed them 605 00:31:31,212 --> 00:31:31,534 up for. 606 00:31:31,614 --> 00:31:32,436 Speaker 3: Like what is it? 607 00:31:32,999 --> 00:31:36,724 Speaker 2: medical coverage of psychedelics yeah, exactly legal 608 00:31:36,724 --> 00:31:39,648 and I'll be microdosing the whole office every day, in our 609 00:31:39,689 --> 00:31:43,513 coffee as well. 610 00:31:43,513 --> 00:31:43,874 You know what? 611 00:31:43,914 --> 00:31:45,135 Speaker 3: That would boost morale. 612 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:51,702 Speaker 2: So there you go Well okay, there was somebody out 613 00:31:51,742 --> 00:31:57,093 there that was trying to make microdosing your employees as a 614 00:31:57,153 --> 00:31:57,733 good thing. 615 00:31:57,733 --> 00:32:02,443 We'll have to do this on. 616 00:32:02,503 --> 00:32:05,731 Speaker 3: another episode is this consensual microdosing or 617 00:32:05,819 --> 00:32:12,009 like secret microdosing a woman that put laxative in someone's 618 00:32:13,332 --> 00:32:14,713 coffee or something at work. 619 00:32:14,713 --> 00:32:15,901 What was that it was? 620 00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:18,704 It was something like that a few years ago here. 621 00:32:18,724 --> 00:32:19,905 Speaker 2: Here's something from Sherm. 622 00:32:19,905 --> 00:32:23,590 Microdosing may become a more significant leadership issue. 623 00:32:23,590 --> 00:32:27,096 I guess that's more about whatever, but it's a lot more 624 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:28,442 widespread than you had. 625 00:32:28,442 --> 00:32:33,472 This person, alex Atwood, a psychedelic coach that's the job 626 00:32:33,472 --> 00:32:37,068 I want helps design protocols for people to integrate 627 00:32:37,391 --> 00:32:39,559 microdosing into their day-to-day lives. 628 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:40,804 That's funny. 629 00:32:40,963 --> 00:32:42,789 Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it's no different than Wall Street in 630 00:32:42,789 --> 00:32:44,465 the 80s, it's just different vibes. 631 00:32:45,779 --> 00:32:48,348 Speaker 2: Everybody's coked up in the 80s and things like that. 632 00:32:49,821 --> 00:32:52,288 Speaker 3: Everyone in this day and age is just really mellow. 633 00:32:53,250 --> 00:32:57,435 Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's on Prozac or not. 634 00:32:57,435 --> 00:32:58,299 Ambien, that puts you to sleep. 635 00:32:58,299 --> 00:33:01,980 I don't know my drug drugs names or anything like that, but 636 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:07,589 I don't work in pharmaceuticals yeah, imagine, imagine if 637 00:33:08,230 --> 00:33:11,864 cocaine was widespread now, as it were, in the 80s and 90s, 638 00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:12,685 early 90s. 639 00:33:12,685 --> 00:33:14,809 That'd be interesting. 640 00:33:14,809 --> 00:33:19,884 So, anyhow, we've gone down a couple of different rabbit holes 641 00:33:19,884 --> 00:33:19,884 . 642 00:33:19,884 --> 00:33:21,577 We didn't intend to we've been. 643 00:33:21,597 --> 00:33:22,542 Speaker 3: We've been a little loopy. 644 00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:23,527 We recorded our. 645 00:33:23,527 --> 00:33:26,839 We recorded episode before this and I've I lost my mind doing 646 00:33:26,859 --> 00:33:27,541 that episode. 647 00:33:27,582 --> 00:33:31,308 Speaker 2: So yeah, exactly, but we do have. 648 00:33:31,308 --> 00:33:34,040 We're going to do a normal episode next week, but we're 649 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:34,961 going to continue. 650 00:33:34,961 --> 00:33:37,465 I think we're still going to go down. 651 00:33:37,465 --> 00:33:41,092 I think we're going to go straight to episode four, which 652 00:33:41,271 --> 00:33:43,134 is the alliance. 653 00:33:43,134 --> 00:33:47,086 Rumors of Dwight downsizing spurred Dwight to ally with Jim 654 00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:50,025 for survival and things like that. 655 00:33:50,025 --> 00:33:56,330 I think all the episodes in season one have an HR twist we 656 00:33:56,392 --> 00:33:58,042 can put on it. 657 00:33:58,042 --> 00:33:59,623 The alliance would be a good one. 658 00:34:00,327 --> 00:34:02,361 Speaker 3: When have we not worked in an environment where 659 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:03,545 rumors were swirling? 660 00:34:04,567 --> 00:34:05,170 Speaker 2: Oh, never. 661 00:34:05,170 --> 00:34:09,326 Hr has never had to deal with people and their rumors and 662 00:34:09,686 --> 00:34:10,449 things like that. 663 00:34:10,449 --> 00:34:15,865 So, yeah, this will be so unrelatable, so unrelatable. 664 00:34:15,865 --> 00:34:21,463 So, anyhow, join us in another week from this episode, we will 665 00:34:21,525 --> 00:34:22,599 have our regular episode. 666 00:34:22,599 --> 00:34:29,668 My goal is that this episode that early week in July, that 667 00:34:29,748 --> 00:34:36,695 July 10th episode, is going to be a really, really good one. 668 00:34:36,695 --> 00:34:41,371 I'm really going to be working my butt off on this. 669 00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:44,802 One is and it's cc's idea it's going to be awesome. 670 00:34:44,802 --> 00:34:47,668 She showed me something and I've just went down too many 671 00:34:47,748 --> 00:34:51,123 rabbit holes and it it just keeps getting worse and worse 672 00:34:51,184 --> 00:34:52,947 and worse the more I I work on. 673 00:34:52,967 --> 00:34:56,561 Speaker 3: It gets worse in the best way oh yeah, in the 674 00:34:56,722 --> 00:34:57,884 absolute best way. 675 00:34:57,983 --> 00:35:00,369 Speaker 2: it gets worse, and I'm going to take it a whole 676 00:35:00,409 --> 00:35:01,751 nother direction as well. 677 00:35:01,751 --> 00:35:05,829 So, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm digging down rabbit holes big time, so, 678 00:35:05,829 --> 00:35:09,760 but we'll wrap it up and land the plane right there. 679 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,686 So, as always, I'm Warren. 680 00:35:12,108 --> 00:35:12,769 Speaker 3: I'm Cece. 681 00:35:13,621 --> 00:35:15,588 Speaker 2: And we're here helping you survive HR one. 682 00:35:15,588 --> 00:35:18,081 What the fuck moment at a time.