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Speaker 1: It's time for your phone tap, and today we call

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Speaker 1: a guy who was set up by his co workers.

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Speaker 1: He's been at the same desk job for almost a

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Speaker 1: decade now, so he knows everything. He's pretty quick with

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Speaker 1: his work. The one thing that's missing, though, it's fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh doesn't have a whole lot of fun anymore.

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Speaker 2: That way, we're going to help him. Well.

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Speaker 1: We were actually ready to do this call last week,

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Speaker 1: but his buddy told us no, no, no, no, we

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Speaker 1: gotta wait till Monday because he's always extra grouchy at

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Speaker 1: the start of the work week. That's when we catch

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Speaker 1: him in your phone tap. Right after this.

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Speaker 2: Working Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties. Hello, Hi, I'm

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Speaker 2: looking for Josh.

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Speaker 3: This is him.

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Speaker 2: Hi Josh. My name is Wilma Fingerdoo. I don't think

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Speaker 2: we've ever met. I'm one of the HR managers for corporate.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good. How can I help you? Oh?

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Speaker 2: Well it doesn't sound too great, but yeah, the reason

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Speaker 2: I'm calling is to give you a heads up that

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Speaker 2: your paycheck will be a little bit smaller than normal

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Speaker 2: from now on.

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Speaker 3: Wait, excuse me, Oh.

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Speaker 2: Goodness, you must have not got the email. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: just the business is going in a different direction. And

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Speaker 2: different direction that's management's decision.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? Am I being let go? Oh?

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Speaker 2: No, of course not. We value your work tremendously.

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Speaker 3: But I've worked here for almost ten years. Every one

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Speaker 3: of my reviews is positive.

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. It's a choice that management had to make.

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Speaker 3: So how much smaller are we talking about?

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Speaker 2: Your checks will be about fifty percent less than normal.

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Speaker 3: That's that's a tremendous cuts. That's that's that's half.

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Speaker 2: That's the fifty is half. Not super quick with math,

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Speaker 2: there are you? Yeah, no, it's happening to everyone, to everyone. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: to you, Well, no HR gets paid differently.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I see what's going on. Screw the little guys.

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Speaker 3: I've given my life to this company, and just because

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Speaker 3: I'm not management, you think you can push me around.

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Speaker 2: I gotta say, I'm a little surprised. I had no

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Speaker 2: idea you would become so angry about this one small.

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Speaker 3: Change for me and my family. This is not a

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Speaker 3: small change. This is a huge, freaking change.

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Speaker 2: We realized that it wasn't going to make everyone happy,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it's not. Management really thought that we

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Speaker 2: have resilient workers who can get through anything.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just being honest. Then I'm going to look

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Speaker 3: for another job. I'll tell you that right now.

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Speaker 2: All because of the size of your check.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because of the size of my check. Idiots.

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Speaker 2: Oh name calling?

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Speaker 3: Wow, you heard me?

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Speaker 2: I did? I did, sir.

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Speaker 3: I cannot do this to me.

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Speaker 2: It's just that when we went to the company that

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Speaker 2: prints our checks and just told them to make them smaller.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: There would be such a backlash.

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: I understand you're unhappy. I've just emailed your direct supervisor

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Speaker 2: to tell them you'll be looking for different employment.

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Speaker 3: So no, no, wait, wait, no, no, no, do not email anybody.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you. I also outlined in the email

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Speaker 2: that you did have a hostile tone with me.

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Speaker 3: No, you got it wrong. I said you were talking

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Speaker 3: about something else.

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Speaker 2: I just added, if you do decide to stay, that

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Speaker 2: should be brought up in your next review.

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Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about cutting my paycheck in half.

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Speaker 2: Well, you kind of hurt my feelings.

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Speaker 3: No, you're feelings.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you called me an idiot.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man, You're not an idiot. I just didn't

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Speaker 3: understand is that word again.

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Speaker 2: You know that's on you, not really on me.

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Speaker 3: I told you that we were.

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Speaker 2: Reducing the size of your check.

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Speaker 3: It was just a misunderstanding. It's on me. I love

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Speaker 3: working here. I want to keep my job. Please don't

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Speaker 3: send any more emails.

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Speaker 2: You thought I was saying I was reducing your actual pay.

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Speaker 3: Yes, wow, gosh, you just.

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Speaker 2: To conclusions quickly. You know, Chris, your coworker said that

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Speaker 2: might happen. Chris, Yeah, yeah, because he's the one that

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Speaker 2: set you up for this prank phone call on the radio.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, what.

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Speaker 2: This is? Actually Brooke from the readio show Brook and

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey in the Morning. It's a phone tap.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Oh you gave me a heart attack.

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Speaker 2: Good it's just the size of your check. You know,

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Speaker 2: paper costs money these days.

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Speaker 3: You were so good. I thought you were going to

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Speaker 3: reduce my paycheck.

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Speaker 2: God, we've gone from idiot to me being so good.

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Speaker 2: I really like the whole circle we cover here.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you brook In Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties