WEBVTT 00:00:02.023 --> 00:00:09.814 Had you actually read the email, you would know that the podcast you are about to listen to could contain explicit language and offensive content. 00:00:09.814 --> 00:00:16.480 These HR experts' views are not representative of their past, present or future employers. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.687 If you have ever heard my manager is unfair to me. 00:00:19.687 --> 00:00:26.548 I need you to reset my HR portal password, or Can I write up my employee for crying too much? 00:00:26.548 --> 00:00:28.827 Welcome to our little safe zone. 00:00:52.414 --> 00:01:00.304 Welcome to J-Date HR, the podcast by two HR professionals who want to help you get through the workday by saying everything you're thinking, but say it out loud. 00:01:00.304 --> 00:01:01.247 I'm Warren. 00:01:01.901 --> 00:01:10.527 I'm Cece and I don't know about you, Warren, but my hot dog fingers are acting up today, hot dog fingers, yeah. 00:01:10.587 --> 00:01:15.435 So this is our special Office Rewatch and we're all the way up. 00:01:15.435 --> 00:01:17.326 We've been doing this for a few months now. 00:01:17.326 --> 00:01:19.174 We're up to season one, episode three. 00:01:19.194 --> 00:01:21.382 We're doing, great Doing great. 00:01:21.402 --> 00:01:26.853 So we're doing really, really well, and this is the benefits episode. 00:01:26.853 --> 00:01:35.927 So so far, each of the episodes have really had an HR twang to it or a component to it, and this is no different. 00:01:35.927 --> 00:01:40.591 But I was telling you all fair earlier, cece, I tried to cheat. 00:01:40.591 --> 00:01:46.805 I did not think I was going to get to rewatch this episode and I actually did not think I was going to get to re-watch this episode and I actually did not re-watch it. 00:01:46.805 --> 00:01:54.504 I played the audio of it on my car stereo as I was driving home today and I got introduced to the Superfan Edition. 00:01:54.504 --> 00:02:02.052 I've never you know, I've never knew it was there, but I watched both the regular or listened to the regular edition and the Superfan Edition. 00:02:02.052 --> 00:02:10.408 So I am as prepared as I'm going to be, and I've seen this episode quite a few times, but this is really an interesting episode. 00:02:11.311 --> 00:02:11.572 It is. 00:02:11.572 --> 00:02:32.552 I love this episode so much because I love any episode where Dwight has a power trip, and I do love any episode that shows Michael's ineffectiveness at leading and this is a big one, with delegating and his transparency into his big surprise. 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:35.562 Big surprise, yes, and that's well. 00:02:35.562 --> 00:02:42.766 So the big surprise, but also one thing that stood out to me like the very first scene. 00:02:42.766 --> 00:02:47.764 He goes up to Pam and asks for his messages and there aren't any. 00:02:47.764 --> 00:02:50.030 And he goes well, that's not what you said before. 00:02:50.030 --> 00:02:54.587 And she looks at the camera Do you want me to pretend to say whatever? 00:02:54.587 --> 00:02:58.881 Because the camera is here and he just sort of doesn't know what to say. 00:02:58.881 --> 00:03:04.086 He's acting it up pretty good. 00:03:04.086 --> 00:03:14.975 So the real opening scene, I guess, is Jan in Michael's office telling him he has to pick a benefits plan. 00:03:14.975 --> 00:03:21.032 Yes, and in the real HR world, why isn't Toby doing this? 00:03:21.032 --> 00:03:25.230 Why isn't Dunder Mifflin Corporate in New York City not doing that? 00:03:25.230 --> 00:03:27.707 You know they've got all these offices and branches. 00:03:27.707 --> 00:03:32.032 They probably have a full benefits department, but anyway, I got to be honest. 00:03:32.060 --> 00:03:39.074 That sounds extremely inefficient to have many benefits packages floating around your multiple regional offices. 00:03:39.074 --> 00:03:42.413 That should be a corporate benefits function. 00:03:43.235 --> 00:03:44.099 It really should. 00:03:44.099 --> 00:03:57.754 But I can tell you multi-state benefits are SOB and if you want to have one package across all of your multi-state locations, your options are very, very limited. 00:03:57.754 --> 00:04:05.491 Speaking firsthand experience it's not a benefits expert or anything like that, but first thing and also A why isn't Toby doing this? 00:04:05.491 --> 00:04:09.159 But Toby is only in here like two brief scenes. 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:10.605 He's like any. 00:04:10.605 --> 00:04:16.805 I don't think he has any lines, I think he's just seen in in the background there and stuff. 00:04:16.826 --> 00:04:22.286 So that is funny, yeah, I am not a benefits person, so I know nothing about benefits. 00:04:22.286 --> 00:04:23.961 So fair point benefits person, so I know nothing about benefits. 00:04:23.961 --> 00:04:24.901 So fair point, fair point. 00:04:24.901 --> 00:04:28.406 But at the very least Toby should be leading this and not Michael. 00:04:29.567 --> 00:04:33.230 But it wouldn't be as funny with Toby, I know. 00:04:33.230 --> 00:04:48.026 But anyways, jane wants him to pick a benefits plan and he says, oh, I want this one, the gold plan, that has acupuncture and massages and you know everything else like that. 00:04:48.026 --> 00:04:49.992 And she just looks I'm, I don't even have the gold plan. 00:04:49.992 --> 00:04:56.769 Your job is to just pick a provider and then pick their least expensive plan is what all she says to them. 00:04:56.829 --> 00:05:03.144 So pick a provider, pick the least expensive plan and let me just see we we see it later. 00:05:03.144 --> 00:05:16.096 But also also it seems like such a flippant way to look at benefits, considering how much benefits really affects employee morale and all of that stuff. 00:05:16.096 --> 00:05:18.024 It's just like pick whatever's the cheapest. 00:05:18.024 --> 00:05:19.771 That sounds so flippant. 00:05:20.699 --> 00:05:22.744 Yes, I absolutely agree. 00:05:22.744 --> 00:05:39.091 But on the other hand, I can see a corporate entity telling somebody to do that yes. 00:05:39.091 --> 00:05:48.041 Yeah, it's very real thereabouts Now and on top of that, two-thirds of them are on our former military and don't even need our benefits. 00:05:48.041 --> 00:05:56.567 But I did our benefit reconciliation for July just this week and just seeing how much money we're paying Now. 00:05:56.567 --> 00:06:00.302 Of course, employees contribute as well, but we pay a significant portion. 00:06:00.302 --> 00:06:15.089 The company pays a significant portion of the cost, but just seeing how expensive it is, benefits are a big deal on multiple levels Retention, engagement, recruiting it's huge. 00:06:15.992 --> 00:06:21.490 So, yeah, so Michael wants this gold plan, that's out of the question. 00:06:21.490 --> 00:06:24.047 Jan says get the cheapest one. 00:06:24.047 --> 00:06:26.485 And so what does michael do? 00:06:26.485 --> 00:06:46.053 Calls jim and wants to delegate to him to do this, and I think for all of jim's, jim is a funny character, but if I'm looking at it as an hr person he's in my office he's a bit of an a-hole, he's a definite bully. 00:06:46.053 --> 00:06:53.793 He's that cool kid that is above everybody else and knows it too. 00:06:53.793 --> 00:06:57.911 But anyways, because Michael has a main crush. 00:06:58.841 --> 00:07:00.021 I would be such an asshole I'm like. 00:07:00.021 --> 00:07:01.427 Isn't that all sales, though? 00:07:03.922 --> 00:07:07.797 It very well can be yes kidding we love sales. 00:07:07.857 --> 00:07:10.803 Sales is the reason why we're here, so we love sales. 00:07:10.843 --> 00:07:20.524 That was just a joke michael tries to delegate to jim and jim pushes it off, says you know who'd be really good at this? 00:07:20.524 --> 00:07:23.610 Dwight and and of course Dwight's. 00:07:23.610 --> 00:07:27.442 You know Johnny, on the spot, wants to be there and take it over. 00:07:28.403 --> 00:07:30.507 Oh, eagerly, eagerly. 00:07:31.649 --> 00:07:41.728 And then we get into, like you said, dwight having a power trip and I just love it because I can see that person in real life. 00:07:41.728 --> 00:07:50.166 I haven't worked with that person, I haven't had to anybody, you know, I've had to deal with in an HR manner. 00:07:50.166 --> 00:08:09.461 Be that Dwight who gets off on the power trip, but I've seen them and things like that and I just, yeah, dwight does a very good job of this job of this. 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:09.721 So what's it? 00:08:09.721 --> 00:08:09.841 Where? 00:08:09.841 --> 00:08:10.242 Where to where? 00:08:10.242 --> 00:08:10.684 To start with dwight? 00:08:10.684 --> 00:08:19.083 Yeah, he really loves his new authority, he embraces it and, yeah, I love how he takes over the office and makes it his workspace his. 00:08:19.103 --> 00:08:22.812 He wants it to be an office, but he's told it's a workspace, it's not an office. 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:24.007 Yeah, yeah, because he's not the assistant regional manager. 00:08:24.026 --> 00:08:24.550 He's told it's a workspace. 00:08:24.550 --> 00:08:25.053 It's not an office. 00:08:25.053 --> 00:08:29.754 Yeah, yeah, because he's not the assistant regional manager, he's the assistant to the regional manager. 00:08:29.774 --> 00:08:36.090 It's all about the semantics yes, to keep dwight happy and occupied and and things like that. 00:08:36.090 --> 00:08:41.227 But dwight just goes in with not even just a hatchet. 00:08:41.227 --> 00:08:48.208 He's going in there with a chainsaw, just cutting A chainsaw the benefits and he's going through. 00:08:48.208 --> 00:08:50.447 And of course, what happens? 00:08:50.447 --> 00:08:55.412 Nobody likes what Dwight is doing. 00:08:55.412 --> 00:09:03.443 He's cut everything out and speaking as someone who has a mild amount of experience with benefits, you know this well. 00:09:03.443 --> 00:09:04.268 I'll get to that later. 00:09:04.268 --> 00:09:11.101 But he's cutting everything out to get this cheap, cheap version of benefits and all the employees are mad. 00:09:11.101 --> 00:09:11.822 So what do they do? 00:09:11.822 --> 00:09:18.803 They go to Michael and he says and he plays off Dwight, what are you doing? 00:09:18.803 --> 00:09:19.826 Why are you doing? 00:09:19.826 --> 00:09:23.976 This Plays it off, so you know. 00:09:23.976 --> 00:09:31.708 So over dramatically and you figure out how to give these people what they want or whatever Michael charged them with. 00:09:31.708 --> 00:09:43.929 So Dwight's next big idea was to come up, have everybody submit a list of all their diseases. 00:09:44.961 --> 00:09:47.159 Sounds like a HIPAA violation, if I've heard one. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:51.347 Yeah, exactly, but remember you don't put your name on it. 00:09:51.347 --> 00:10:00.052 Though he was writing, I don't know if this was in the super fan edition or in the real edition he was like trying to write people's names on their submission. 00:10:00.865 --> 00:10:01.678 Well, it wasn't that. 00:10:01.678 --> 00:10:06.687 I think he was catching on to the fact that some of them were fake. 00:10:06.687 --> 00:10:09.350 So then he was like who has this one? 00:10:09.350 --> 00:10:13.995 So yeah, we're definitely in HIPAA violation territory. 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:23.591 And of course Jim and Pam and other people go in and make up these silly diseases. 00:10:24.131 --> 00:10:28.717 Hot dog fingers and make up these silly diseases Hot dog fingers, hot dog fingers. 00:10:28.717 --> 00:10:35.470 I did not know I was going to get a chance to watch this episode or listen to it at all, so I tried to cheat and I used Gemini. 00:10:35.470 --> 00:10:45.928 And the question I asked Gemini was give me a breakdown of the highlights from the US comedy the Office, season one, episode three, titled Healthcare. 00:10:45.928 --> 00:10:51.192 And so Gemini, first thing it spits out is synopsis. 00:10:51.192 --> 00:10:53.749 Synopsis is dead on Highlights. 00:10:53.749 --> 00:10:58.631 First highlight it mentions is Dwight's power trip, dead on. 00:10:58.631 --> 00:11:05.302 Second bullet under highlights is the disease list which we're talking about now and it goes on from there. 00:11:05.302 --> 00:11:07.720 But anyways, we're talking about the disease list which we're talking about now and it goes on from there. 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:09.947 But anyways, we're talking about the disease list. 00:11:09.947 --> 00:11:14.197 So Jim wants to make sure, because what the idea of this disease list is? 00:11:14.197 --> 00:11:17.128 To make sure whatever you need is covered. 00:11:17.730 --> 00:11:17.950 Yes. 00:11:17.950 --> 00:11:22.702 So like Jim puts on there Great idea on paper, horrible execution. 00:11:26.152 --> 00:11:35.110 Oh boy, jim puts on there Ebola and mad cow disease, and then Pam puts on she's just making up diseases. 00:11:35.712 --> 00:11:36.214 I love that. 00:11:37.041 --> 00:11:40.731 What do you call it when your teeth turn to liquid and explode in your mouth? 00:11:40.731 --> 00:11:41.966 And he goes that's not a made-up. 00:11:41.966 --> 00:11:44.241 Jim goes that's not a made-up disease, that's whatever. 00:11:44.241 --> 00:11:52.091 And he comes up with a name for it and I guess she puts that on and anyways it goes. 00:11:52.091 --> 00:11:57.876 You know, the class clowns, if you will, are making this even harder on Dwight. 00:11:57.876 --> 00:12:04.999 So he picks up, as you were saying, that some of these diseases are made up, and he goes who has hot dog fingers or whatever it is? 00:12:04.999 --> 00:12:11.471 And then he wants to have a meeting and he says he brings everybody in to actually talk. 00:12:11.471 --> 00:12:13.850 And Stanley says what about confidentiality? 00:12:13.850 --> 00:12:23.095 You lost confidentiality when you gave me these stupid made up diseases and things like that, including the hot dog fingers. 00:12:23.095 --> 00:12:27.562 Of course count choculitis, yes, including the hot dog fingers, of course count choculitis. 00:12:27.562 --> 00:12:29.967 Yes, that was a good one. 00:12:29.967 --> 00:12:34.364 And then, of course, of all people, it's Kevin. 00:12:34.364 --> 00:12:35.927 What about anal fissures? 00:12:35.927 --> 00:12:37.230 Anal? 00:12:37.269 --> 00:12:41.339 fissures and nobody here has that. 00:12:41.339 --> 00:12:41.639 Kevin goes. 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:43.166 No, somebody here might. 00:12:43.166 --> 00:12:48.346 And remember this is season one, kevin, before he has the strange voice, he has the very mild meager. 00:12:48.346 --> 00:12:50.225 He didn't change his voice yet. 00:12:50.225 --> 00:12:58.711 Somebody here might have it and things like that, and it just goes on and on about it and it's funny. 00:12:59.522 --> 00:13:03.251 I do like when Meredith wants to ensure that her vagina is covered. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:11.855 Because one of the fake diseases someone put it was an inverted penis disease. 00:13:11.855 --> 00:13:14.908 And she goes do you mean a vagina? 00:13:14.908 --> 00:13:17.889 A vagina could be an inverted penis, if you think of it. 00:13:17.889 --> 00:13:26.363 And then Dwight's like you don't have a vagina, you had a hysterectomy, yes, and things like this, and she's trying to explain. 00:13:26.462 --> 00:13:37.371 I still I still have a vagina yeah, that is a classic dwight not knowing these things, so I'm going to give you under the disease list. 00:13:37.371 --> 00:13:38.921 Ai gave me this. 00:13:38.921 --> 00:13:42.229 Oh yes, so pan's car. 00:13:42.229 --> 00:13:47.004 Pam's carpal tunnel syndrome nobody mentioned carpal tunnel syndrome in it. 00:13:47.004 --> 00:13:49.022 I don't know where it comes up with that. 00:13:49.022 --> 00:13:51.966 Kevin's hot dog fingers Okay, we got hot dog fingers. 00:13:51.966 --> 00:13:58.086 Okay, this is actually deep hallucination on the AI's part. 00:13:58.086 --> 00:14:07.807 Oscar's chlamydia and it says which he makes up on the spot just to mess with Dwight, that was not part of the show. 00:14:07.807 --> 00:14:18.892 Stanley's spine-ritis and Meredith's Lyme disease, which she genuinely has, but Dwight tries to dismiss as not a real disease, not in the show. 00:14:18.892 --> 00:14:22.349 I don't know, I don't know where that. 00:14:22.711 --> 00:14:24.379 Oh, gemini, you failed. 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:25.865 Yeah, that came from. 00:14:25.865 --> 00:14:30.794 Yeah, it was really interesting. 00:14:30.794 --> 00:14:41.023 But I was going to say, as someone who knows a little bit about benefits, it's really hard to get like I don't want to cover, say, arthritis in my plant. 00:14:41.023 --> 00:14:43.346 It would be hard to get a. 00:14:43.346 --> 00:14:48.921 You can get what they call a rider to either include or exclude something from your plan. 00:14:48.921 --> 00:15:09.952 You know a lot of like religious organizations may have certain riders about birth control or other things like that in their health plan, but your M1A1 employer is not going to go through the trouble to oh, I'm want to exclude hot dog fingers for my benefits plan. 00:15:09.952 --> 00:15:18.927 It's sort of all inclusive and some plans may have better coverage towards some illnesses than others. 00:15:18.927 --> 00:15:24.374 But it's not like an individual plan is going to necessarily do that. 00:15:24.374 --> 00:15:36.861 But I guess, speaking in the real world, companies are getting riders now for their GLP-1s because insurance doesn't want to cover it but employers want it in their plans. 00:15:36.861 --> 00:15:45.263 So they're getting riders added to include GLP-1s if that's the way the direction the company wants to go. 00:15:45.263 --> 00:15:47.990 So that's pretty interesting. 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:51.730 A learning moment in Jaded HR let's see here. 00:15:51.730 --> 00:15:56.562 So back to the show, michael. 00:15:56.562 --> 00:15:58.909 While all this is going on, what is Michael doing? 00:16:00.321 --> 00:16:02.626 He's trying to plan for his big surprise. 00:16:03.409 --> 00:16:04.152 And he's hiding. 00:16:04.152 --> 00:16:11.080 He's like actively hiding in his office himself and he he's on the phone with. 00:16:11.201 --> 00:16:12.924 He calls pam, how's everything going out there? 00:16:12.924 --> 00:16:17.644 And she's third talk to him and it's really bad and you, really you might want to get out here. 00:16:17.644 --> 00:16:19.912 And he tries to say, oh, I've got to go, I've got a call. 00:16:19.912 --> 00:16:22.004 And she looks at the phone no, you don't. 00:16:22.004 --> 00:16:27.317 And then at the end is he's trying to get off again. 00:16:27.317 --> 00:16:28.480 He goes oh, I gotta take this call. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:30.082 No, you still don't have another call. 00:16:30.082 --> 00:16:36.253 No, but he's trying to he has no backbone. 00:16:36.332 --> 00:16:46.302 He is the person who does not want to give deliver bad news at all oh, and that's something jan says at the very beginning of the show. 00:16:46.823 --> 00:17:05.513 Sometimes as a manager you have to have hard conversations and she goes like I'm having with you right now and I did get a crack up out of that, because he's so oblivious, he doesn't get anything that's going on around him. 00:17:05.513 --> 00:17:15.191 Like right now, like like this you have to do yeah, and it's, it's, yeah, it's, it's michael at his finest. 00:17:15.191 --> 00:17:24.301 But and then michael goes on this what do they call it when they, like, just focus directly in on one of the characters and they're talking directly to the camera? 00:17:24.342 --> 00:17:31.112 I don't know, oh, like the confessional yeah, yeah, that type thing, these you know I'm a good manager. 00:17:31.112 --> 00:17:32.994 I've decided to delegate this. 00:17:32.994 --> 00:17:38.952 And now one thing michael said I don't get the context to dwight's already got one strike. 00:17:38.952 --> 00:17:39.762 This will be strike. 00:17:39.762 --> 00:17:41.973 If he fails at this, that'll be strike number two. 00:17:41.973 --> 00:17:47.308 And I don't know we're only three episodes in, so I don't know what his other strike is on that. 00:17:47.308 --> 00:17:58.013 But if he succeeds, I had the authority to and the confidence in him to make this happen and delegate this to him. 00:17:58.013 --> 00:18:01.128 And if he doesn't succeed, he sucks. 00:18:01.128 --> 00:18:07.445 Basically, I forget what he says, but yeah, he sucks, and that's I can. 00:18:07.445 --> 00:18:10.853 So picture managers I've dealt with in my life. 00:18:10.853 --> 00:18:12.226 That would be the exact same way. 00:18:12.226 --> 00:18:19.965 I'm here for the glory, but if things don't go the way I want, nope, that was all him. 00:18:19.965 --> 00:18:21.967 I tried, I did my best. 00:18:21.967 --> 00:18:27.307 And Michael, he leaves the office not once, but twice. 00:18:27.327 --> 00:18:46.291 Twice he has meetings where he's trying to set up his big surprise, and he realizes he can't do a big surprise I loved how he was researching, he was doing the, the big ride, the big ride, the elevator ride, and it was like a mine shaft. 00:18:46.291 --> 00:19:19.031 And then it was like oh, do you guys do those things where you get a bus and then you give everybody, drive everyone to the casino and you give them free chips and everything's for free and it's all comped, and then you bring them back and they're like we don't do anything like that either nobody does he's trying so hard yeah, yeah, he's trying, he is very, he does, like his employees, he does try really hard for the the good stuff, but the bad stuff he's he's not too too good at. 00:19:19.432 --> 00:19:20.740 And so what does he do? 00:19:20.740 --> 00:19:32.086 He comes back in the afternoon with ice cream sandwiches for everybody, and since ryan doesn't get benefits, he gets two of them, and you have a high metabolism. 00:19:32.086 --> 00:19:36.512 So, and in stanley, this isn't our surprise, is it? 00:19:36.512 --> 00:19:38.903 Oh, no, no, no, this isn't their surprise. 00:19:38.903 --> 00:19:40.326 I've got something bigger and better. 00:19:40.326 --> 00:19:44.787 And he goes, hides, runs and hides in his office and then he comes. 00:19:44.787 --> 00:19:52.728 I guess he comes back out again and Dwight has not made any changes to the original, you know, just butchered healthcare plan. 00:19:52.728 --> 00:19:53.925 And everybody's mad. 00:19:53.925 --> 00:19:57.867 And Angela asks well, what about our big surprise? 00:19:57.867 --> 00:20:04.887 And Michael goes into the little confessional mode I guess you'd say and talk about how great of an improv he is. 00:20:04.887 --> 00:20:09.346 He's along the greatest, like Drew, carey and gosh. 00:20:09.346 --> 00:20:09.867 Who's the other? 00:20:09.867 --> 00:20:10.924 Ryan Stiles? 00:20:10.924 --> 00:20:11.689 From Whose Line Is? 00:20:11.769 --> 00:20:16.682 It Anyway, oh, yeah, yeah yeah, and how great he is and I would have loved to work with Robin Williams. 00:20:16.682 --> 00:20:20.301 But he's sitting there, he's stalling and trying to do the drum roll. 00:20:20.301 --> 00:20:23.342 Here's your big surprise he's doing it for a minute. 00:20:23.342 --> 00:20:27.809 He's like doing it for like a minute trying to, okay, stall out and everything, and people are just starting to leave. 00:20:27.809 --> 00:20:29.413 And we didn't have a surprise. 00:20:33.380 --> 00:20:35.084 And they're very demoralized and very unhappy they are. 00:20:35.084 --> 00:20:44.702 But I think they knew to expect that from Michael, you know, especially after he disappeared, Because the man doesn't spend two minutes in his office, he's always out and about. 00:20:44.702 --> 00:20:50.829 You know, disturbing interrupting his employees versus actually helping them. 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:52.494 But it got me thinking. 00:20:52.494 --> 00:21:00.190 Would you rather have your manager bring in ice cream, sandwiches or pizzas for your morale? 00:21:01.913 --> 00:21:10.368 Oh my God, Actually at this point the ice cream sandwich sounds delicious and quite different from the pizza, so I guess I would welcome the ice cream sandwich just a little more. 00:21:11.751 --> 00:21:16.040 Yeah Well, Speewich, how is it out there in your neck of the woods, I know? 00:21:16.040 --> 00:21:24.250 Today our heat index got up to like 117 degrees at the bottom of my screen, the heat warning in effect continuing through the end of this week. 00:21:24.250 --> 00:21:26.198 We're just sweating. 00:21:27.082 --> 00:21:28.125 We are sweating. 00:21:28.125 --> 00:21:29.790 We are also in a heat warning. 00:21:29.790 --> 00:21:32.362 I think we're tomorrow. 00:21:32.362 --> 00:21:35.166 We're 94 degrees Holy F. 00:21:37.090 --> 00:21:38.011 Yeah. 00:21:38.492 --> 00:21:39.114 I'm going to melt. 00:21:39.134 --> 00:21:39.535 Tomorrow. 00:21:39.535 --> 00:21:42.685 Oh, we're going down to 95. 00:21:42.685 --> 00:21:44.430 So we're going to get some, some. 00:21:44.430 --> 00:21:44.590 Really. 00:21:44.611 --> 00:22:01.932 I don't know what the heat index is going to be, but yeah, so ice cream sandwich would sound pretty damn good and if anybody who knows me knows, I am an ice creamaholic and these few weeks with my son being home, oh my gosh, I'm gonna gain. 00:22:01.932 --> 00:22:04.365 I've been to brewster's ice cream twice. 00:22:04.365 --> 00:22:05.911 Love my brewster's. 00:22:05.911 --> 00:22:08.380 Now we've got milkshakes here there, everywhere. 00:22:08.380 --> 00:22:09.786 What else did we do? 00:22:09.786 --> 00:22:13.183 We're just, yeah, we're being complete, full-on gluttons. 00:22:13.586 --> 00:22:23.412 You know, with him here and he's eating us out of house and home on top of everything else, my wife is like he's like I've never had to do this many dishes. 00:22:23.412 --> 00:22:25.500 He's eating all the time, everything. 00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:28.181 And he just turned 21 on saturday. 00:22:28.181 --> 00:22:29.625 So that's another thing. 00:22:29.625 --> 00:22:41.613 My wife was very, a little bit not very upset that our baby's 21 years old now and things like that, and he wanted rum chata for his 21st birthday. 00:22:41.613 --> 00:22:55.710 Then he found a tiktok recipe you just a dirty pina colada or something where you just poured pineapple Fanta and rum chata together and it's a I think they call it dirty pina colada. 00:22:55.710 --> 00:22:59.028 I had it. 00:22:59.028 --> 00:23:01.769 It wasn't bad, it wasn't great, it wasn't bad. 00:23:01.769 --> 00:23:05.306 Definitely gave the pina colada taste to it. 00:23:05.306 --> 00:23:13.851 But so we have, we bought him some rum chata for his, his, some coconut rum chata for his birthday, and yeah. 00:23:13.871 --> 00:23:19.323 So rum chata, that's nice rum, chata and coffee is great. 00:23:19.323 --> 00:23:25.605 I don't know if he needs to learn about morning drinking yet, but he's. 00:23:26.688 --> 00:23:30.460 He's not inexperienced, that you know know a couple of years I know we're way off time. 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:34.371 It's a couple of years ago we went to Puerto Rico and first place we go to dinner. 00:23:34.371 --> 00:23:39.700 They're taking our drink orders and they ask him, and, and he just says I'll have what she's having. 00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:42.664 Talk to my wife and and didn't bad night. 00:23:42.664 --> 00:23:48.555 He's 17 years old, bringing him a rum and Coke or whatever she was having and things like that. 00:23:48.555 --> 00:24:01.551 And then we're sitting on the beach and these giant pineapples with real pina colada in it and carved out of the pineapple and he asked for one and I just gave him some money and he bought it and they didn't care. 00:24:02.140 --> 00:24:04.463 We went to a drag king show the best first of all. 00:24:04.463 --> 00:24:08.328 We went to a Drag King show yes, the best first of all. 00:24:08.328 --> 00:24:15.459 And second, in Puerto Rico we got mojitos and I asked my sister do you want these mojitos? 00:24:15.459 --> 00:24:17.682 Do you want them the small or large? 00:24:17.682 --> 00:24:19.207 And it was only like two dollars difference. 00:24:19.207 --> 00:24:21.861 The large is like half a gallon. 00:24:21.861 --> 00:24:22.362 We didn't even. 00:24:22.362 --> 00:24:27.203 We got like three of them and we didn't even finish one of them in there, but it was. 00:24:27.203 --> 00:24:28.566 It was really funny. 00:24:28.566 --> 00:24:39.263 One of the drag kings actually spoke english and he came up to our table so many times and he was like translating, for he made us part of the show and things like that he was. 00:24:39.263 --> 00:24:45.145 So now my brother-in-law who, who's from chile is, is in there and he's doing something translated. 00:24:45.145 --> 00:24:51.483 But this guy is just doing it fabulously translating for us, and it was we. 00:24:51.584 --> 00:24:56.291 we had absolutely anyways back to back to the the side. 00:24:56.291 --> 00:25:06.894 So yeah, actually I think we're pretty much at the end of the show, everybody leaves, oh, and then when everybody's gone, he says we're going bowling. 00:25:06.894 --> 00:25:12.048 It was his big concern. 00:25:12.087 --> 00:25:12.971 Let it go, Michael. 00:25:15.362 --> 00:25:19.246 Yeah, it was very funny, I feel like. 00:25:19.346 --> 00:25:40.548 Honestly, I feel like that should be a manager slash leadership skill that no one focuses on is the ability to delegate appropriately and to choose when it's appropriate to delegate a task and who it's appropriate to delegate that task to, Because Michael failed on both accounts. 00:25:41.160 --> 00:25:48.311 This is not Now not now a you shouldn't have delegated it and you just again like act your wage. 00:25:48.311 --> 00:25:55.805 You're gonna have to make tough decisions and deal with it and also never choose dwight. 00:25:55.805 --> 00:26:05.135 Dwight is like the shredder he like he goes on power trips oh, and again, why not delegate it to toby? 00:26:05.175 --> 00:26:18.584 I know michael hates toby, but here, toby, have fun, go do this, and toby would love it toby would have been really, really happy, like later one of the later episodes, when he gets to bring out his notebook he's doing some real hr work. 00:26:18.584 --> 00:26:26.190 You don't see Toby that happy ever in any episode, unless he's like thinking of Pam or something Exactly. 00:26:26.671 --> 00:26:27.813 Give Toby something to do. 00:26:27.813 --> 00:26:28.882 He's bored back there. 00:26:29.703 --> 00:26:31.527 Exactly, but I'm trying to. 00:26:31.527 --> 00:26:35.260 I'm also looking at the other AI things that got it wrong. 00:26:35.260 --> 00:26:41.854 Okay, so this got me on the AI and it made me think, ooh, this will be a fun discussion for the show. 00:26:41.854 --> 00:26:55.188 One of the bullet points it gave for the synopsis is the great HMO versus PPO debate, and the episode touches on the different types of planes and the general confusion surrounding them. 00:26:55.188 --> 00:27:00.259 And I'm like I was like, ooh, this is something I would like to really hit. 00:27:00.259 --> 00:27:02.468 But AI, you got it wrong. 00:27:02.468 --> 00:27:11.833 They didn't mention any of this, but I wonder, did they end up with that Butchered plan? 00:27:11.833 --> 00:27:15.769 Because at the end, oh, this was due at 5 o'clock and it's 5.15. 00:27:15.769 --> 00:27:18.122 Oh, too bad, we can't change yeah. 00:27:18.142 --> 00:27:19.567 I think they got the Butchered plan. 00:27:19.567 --> 00:27:35.394 We can't change, yeah, I think they got the butchered plan which, if we're going to follow reality, I'm surprised no one put their resignation shortly after and found a new job, Because benefits are such a huge part of the compensation plan that if they were to butcher it they would have lost people for sure. 00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:43.152 Well, even Oscar, in the middle of the episode, says something along like this is actually a pay cut for us. 00:27:43.152 --> 00:28:00.770 Right, when you, when you butcher the benefits, like that, you're you're forcing people to take a pay cut and that's you know whether it's a pay cut because they're they're paying probably the same amount or more for less service, or they're paying more for the same lousy service. 00:28:00.770 --> 00:28:03.748 Yeah, it equals a pay cut. 00:28:03.748 --> 00:28:07.691 So, yeah, that was pretty telling. 00:28:07.691 --> 00:28:10.267 I appreciated that portion of it. 00:28:10.267 --> 00:28:11.451 Let's see here. 00:28:11.451 --> 00:28:13.987 But yeah, ai really failed. 00:28:13.987 --> 00:28:20.614 So I think every episode I'm going to try and see what AI gives me for the thing. 00:28:20.614 --> 00:28:26.261 But something does tell me in a future episode Meredith does have Lyme disease, but it's not. 00:28:26.462 --> 00:28:31.848 I think it's blurring episodes the rabies episode maybe she gets rabies. 00:28:31.848 --> 00:28:39.365 Or is it when she gets, when Michael hits her with a car and she's in the hospital and they're discussing her medical. 00:28:39.365 --> 00:28:41.083 So much happens to Meredith. 00:28:41.825 --> 00:28:43.788 I honestly do think she had Lyme disease. 00:28:43.788 --> 00:28:46.134 Like I feel like that was real and she's in the hospital and they're discussing her medical. 00:28:46.134 --> 00:28:47.135 So much happens to Meredith. 00:28:47.155 --> 00:28:48.317 I honestly do think she had Lyme disease. 00:28:48.317 --> 00:28:49.119 Like I feel like that was real. 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:50.522 Yeah, I think somewhere in there she got Lyme disease. 00:28:50.522 --> 00:28:53.390 So I think AI is sort of blurring their episodes together. 00:28:53.430 --> 00:28:54.393 Meredith has everything. 00:28:54.393 --> 00:28:55.304 She's just a hot mess. 00:28:56.442 --> 00:28:59.230 She is the definition of hot mess, and so is her family. 00:28:59.230 --> 00:29:02.049 I think we'll find out a little bit later as well. 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:07.846 But let's not forget, during the entire filming of the series, she was supposedly working on her doctorate. 00:29:08.807 --> 00:29:09.289 Oh really. 00:29:10.010 --> 00:29:18.711 No, no, no, that was like spoiler alert at the very end of the series, when they're talking about reflecting back on the documentary crew that was there. 00:29:18.711 --> 00:29:25.951 She claims that she was edited wrong and that she was working on her doctorate in education. 00:29:25.951 --> 00:29:27.809 Why didn't they show any of that? 00:29:27.809 --> 00:29:32.824 Oh, okay, I don't remember that part of it Meredith's, like I got a bad edit. 00:29:35.971 --> 00:29:47.070 Oh man, but no benefits in the real world is so important and I think there was a lot of opportunity here. 00:29:47.070 --> 00:29:48.362 So maybe some things they missed on. 00:29:48.362 --> 00:30:04.974 But giving Dwight just the carte blanche to butcher everything and be Dwight about it, you know the opposite thing you could have given it to really given it to Jim Pam and gotten some thing out of the world as well. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:25.763 So it's honestly, I'm going to be like I think Jim and Pam, If I was, if I was going to delegate, I would probably delegate to a group first, like a small, like a or maybe a trio, because one person should not be in charge of making that important of a decision. 00:30:25.763 --> 00:30:31.001 And I feel like Jim and Pam like their hearts in the good place. 00:30:31.001 --> 00:30:32.104 They like, like they. 00:30:32.104 --> 00:30:37.185 I mean, yes, Jim's a bully, but I think at the end of the day he really does care for the people he works with. 00:30:37.185 --> 00:30:43.423 I think them together would have come up with a way better solution than Dwight alone. 00:30:44.444 --> 00:30:48.794 See, if I weren't going to choose Toby, I would have chose Oscar. 00:30:50.442 --> 00:30:53.228 Oscar would have been great, the most level-headed. 00:30:53.228 --> 00:30:55.353 He'd be better than Toby probably. 00:30:55.353 --> 00:31:00.188 He'd be so level-headed and he'd plan it out really well. 00:31:00.188 --> 00:31:01.451 I don't know, oscar. 00:31:01.451 --> 00:31:11.772 Oscar would have probably been if you're going to a committee, he should be the committee chair of that committee and if not, just give it to him and he would come up with the best plan. 00:31:11.772 --> 00:31:14.801 But you know another, give it to creek. 00:31:14.801 --> 00:31:17.748 Oh gosh, we got. 00:31:17.748 --> 00:31:22.419 We got free, everything, every medicine you want, no prescription, we're getting it. 00:31:22.419 --> 00:31:27.859 We're not getting it from canada, we're getting it from this island you've never heard of in the somewhere. 00:31:27.859 --> 00:31:31.534 That's where we're getting our medicines from creed signed them up for. 00:31:31.614 --> 00:31:32.436 Like what is it? 00:31:32.999 --> 00:31:43.513 medical coverage of psychedelics yeah, exactly legal and I'll be microdosing the whole office every day, in our coffee as well. 00:31:43.513 --> 00:31:43.874 You know what? 00:31:43.914 --> 00:31:45.135 That would boost morale. 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:57.733 So there you go Well okay, there was somebody out there that was trying to make microdosing your employees as a good thing. 00:31:57.733 --> 00:32:02.443 We'll have to do this on. 00:32:02.503 --> 00:32:14.713 another episode is this consensual microdosing or like secret microdosing a woman that put laxative in someone's coffee or something at work. 00:32:14.713 --> 00:32:15.901 What was that it was? 00:32:15.901 --> 00:32:18.704 It was something like that a few years ago here. 00:32:18.724 --> 00:32:19.905 Here's something from Sherm. 00:32:19.905 --> 00:32:23.590 Microdosing may become a more significant leadership issue. 00:32:23.590 --> 00:32:28.442 I guess that's more about whatever, but it's a lot more widespread than you had. 00:32:28.442 --> 00:32:39.559 This person, alex Atwood, a psychedelic coach that's the job I want helps design protocols for people to integrate microdosing into their day-to-day lives. 00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:40.804 That's funny. 00:32:40.963 --> 00:32:44.465 I mean, I guess it's no different than Wall Street in the 80s, it's just different vibes. 00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:48.348 Everybody's coked up in the 80s and things like that. 00:32:49.821 --> 00:32:52.288 Everyone in this day and age is just really mellow. 00:32:53.250 --> 00:32:57.435 Yeah, everybody's on Prozac or not. 00:32:57.435 --> 00:32:58.299 Ambien, that puts you to sleep. 00:32:58.299 --> 00:33:12.685 I don't know my drug drugs names or anything like that, but I don't work in pharmaceuticals yeah, imagine, imagine if cocaine was widespread now, as it were, in the 80s and 90s, early 90s. 00:33:12.685 --> 00:33:14.809 That'd be interesting. 00:33:14.809 --> 00:33:19.884 So, anyhow, we've gone down a couple of different rabbit holes. 00:33:19.884 --> 00:33:21.577 We didn't intend to we've been. 00:33:21.597 --> 00:33:22.542 We've been a little loopy. 00:33:22.542 --> 00:33:23.527 We recorded our. 00:33:23.527 --> 00:33:27.541 We recorded episode before this and I've I lost my mind doing that episode. 00:33:27.582 --> 00:33:31.308 So yeah, exactly, but we do have. 00:33:31.308 --> 00:33:34.961 We're going to do a normal episode next week, but we're going to continue. 00:33:34.961 --> 00:33:37.465 I think we're still going to go down. 00:33:37.465 --> 00:33:43.134 I think we're going to go straight to episode four, which is the alliance. 00:33:43.134 --> 00:33:50.025 Rumors of Dwight downsizing spurred Dwight to ally with Jim for survival and things like that. 00:33:50.025 --> 00:33:58.042 I think all the episodes in season one have an HR twist we can put on it. 00:33:58.042 --> 00:33:59.623 The alliance would be a good one. 00:34:00.327 --> 00:34:03.545 When have we not worked in an environment where rumors were swirling? 00:34:04.567 --> 00:34:05.170 Oh, never. 00:34:05.170 --> 00:34:10.449 Hr has never had to deal with people and their rumors and things like that. 00:34:10.449 --> 00:34:15.865 So, yeah, this will be so unrelatable, so unrelatable. 00:34:15.865 --> 00:34:22.599 So, anyhow, join us in another week from this episode, we will have our regular episode. 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:36.695 My goal is that this episode that early week in July, that July 10th episode, is going to be a really, really good one. 00:34:36.695 --> 00:34:41.371 I'm really going to be working my butt off on this. 00:34:41.371 --> 00:34:44.802 One is and it's cc's idea it's going to be awesome. 00:34:44.802 --> 00:34:52.947 She showed me something and I've just went down too many rabbit holes and it it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse the more I I work on. 00:34:52.967 --> 00:34:57.884 It gets worse in the best way oh yeah, in the absolute best way. 00:34:57.983 --> 00:35:01.751 it gets worse, and I'm going to take it a whole nother direction as well. 00:35:01.751 --> 00:35:09.760 So, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm digging down rabbit holes big time, so, but we'll wrap it up and land the plane right there. 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:11.686 So, as always, I'm Warren. 00:35:12.108 --> 00:35:12.769 I'm Cece. 00:35:13.621 --> 00:35:15.588 And we're here helping you survive HR one. 00:35:15.588 --> 00:35:18.081 What the fuck moment at a time.