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Speaker 1: You think I can't use a computer because I'm a woman,

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Speaker 1: No worries. Here's a half brain dead man to solve

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Speaker 1: your problem. Okayop, this is Okayop. I'm Samuel Daughter and

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Speaker 1: I'm John Fry and we tell the funniest stories on

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Speaker 1: the Internet. And John, how many unread texts you have

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Speaker 2: I have exactly four?

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Speaker 1: Okay texts? All right, You're a much better man than

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Speaker 1: I because I'm opening up my phone right now and

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Speaker 1: I have two hundred and ten unread texts. I kind

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Speaker 1: of like fell behind on my birthday, right which but

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Speaker 1: which is worse because people are like, wish you had

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Speaker 1: a birthday and then you're just not responding to it

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Speaker 1: and it feels bad. So my goal today, like like tonight,

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Speaker 1: is to finally catch up on my inbox. But the

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Speaker 1: question is I have some of these texts that like

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Speaker 1: I haven't answered for a month. Yeah do I just

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Speaker 1: like what I've been doing is I've just been like

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Speaker 1: responding as if no time has passed, right right, right,

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Speaker 1: Like there was one today from a month ago that

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Speaker 1: let's see, someone said solid just move to NYC, so

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Speaker 1: settling in you still traveling And that was on November

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Speaker 1: twelfth of twenty one, and today at seven twenty six am,

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I was in Mexico for a bit.

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Speaker 1: Just spent a week in Hawaii working on a new

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Speaker 1: project that I'm really excited for. How is settling into

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Speaker 3: But see that, So that scenario, I think, yes, respond

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Speaker 3: respond as if no time.

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Speaker 1: No time has passed.

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Speaker 3: Now your roommate Christian came in and was laughing at

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Speaker 3: something you emphasized the text for a month ago.

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Speaker 2: That was a group chat? Was it a group chat?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 3: I think the group chats, I feel like those just

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Speaker 3: like keep it moving right, like for efficiency, So spend

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Speaker 3: the time on the direct questions. And then if there's

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Speaker 3: like a group chat or something like you know what,

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Speaker 3: no one's going to miss the exclamation point.

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Speaker 2: I think in the group chats.

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Speaker 1: Well, but like, but this was a month ago, saying like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we should hang out next week, I just was like,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the next week.

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Speaker 1: But I do agree. Maybe maybe that I could have

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Speaker 3: You know, I think I think at this point it's

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Speaker 3: like you dig yourself out of the hole and then

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Speaker 3: now I'm moving forward, you have a fresh new perspective. Also,

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Speaker 3: there should be there's like an email forgiveness day from

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Speaker 3: reply all, oh you remember that? Yeah, there should be

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Speaker 3: text forgiveness.

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Speaker 1: Day where it's like, no matter how much time has passed,

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Speaker 1: it's okay. Yeah, but I know this is this is

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Speaker 1: my a technical hurdle that I have to get over.

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Speaker 1: I'm also reading how to Win friends and influence people,

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Speaker 1: and like there's that whole thing is like remembering and

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Speaker 1: sending out letters to people's birthdays, which I also should do.

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Speaker 1: I used to have like a spreadsheet.

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Speaker 3: That yeah we need we just need like a people

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Speaker 3: crm on yeah, just to help us, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know, some people are just not good

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Speaker 1: with other people and are kind of rude. And so

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Speaker 1: I have a technical rudeness story for you. So get ready,

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Speaker 1: let's get rude. Let's get rude. You think I can't

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Speaker 1: use a computer because I'm a woman, No worries. Here's

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Speaker 1: a half brain dead man to solve your problem. A boy.

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Speaker 1: This happened about fifteen years ago or so. I was

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Speaker 1: a team lead, which will be important for the story later.

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Speaker 1: At an it help desk for a company that provided

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Speaker 1: outsourced support the companies in a specific profession very interesting business,

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Speaker 1: very technical prowess. SAT profession is known for having employees

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Speaker 1: I feel like is just like most customers for any

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Speaker 3: That I can see, especially with the business, is like, Yo,

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Speaker 3: this is messing with my job.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, oh yeah, facts, yeah, if it's if it's like,

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Speaker 1: if you're you're making money off something and uh, that's

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Speaker 1: something ain't working, you're gonna be You're gonna be angry. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that something isn't working. One of the people I

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Speaker 1: supervised was let's just say challenging. We'll call him George.

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Speaker 1: George was late fifteen or so days a month, which

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Speaker 1: is half the month. Bro. George should be fired on

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Speaker 1: I have no idea. Spoke in mostly incomprehensible mumbles which

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Speaker 1: I'm just imagining like the Charlie Brown, and had been

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Speaker 1: caught by callers multiple times falling asleep and snoring on

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, George needs to be fired. I have no

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Speaker 1: George is like, I can help you with your like

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Speaker 1: falling asleep.

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Speaker 1: I saw this video and read it where it was

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Speaker 1: I'm hungry.

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Speaker 2: I mean you have a pillow right there.

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Speaker 1: That bread that Italian was very soft. He's also not

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Speaker 1: so great at troubleshooting and worse at documenting his troubleshooting steps,

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Speaker 1: which sounds like literally the job.

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Speaker 2: That he's being paired.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, literally, literally job he's being paid for.

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Speaker 3: He's incompetent at every stop of the way of it,

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Speaker 3: Like what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Maybe be incompetent at your job, but like on time

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Speaker 1: and not falling asleep. But you can't have all three.

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Speaker 1: You can't be incompetent at your job, falling asleep and late.

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Speaker 1: Choose one. I'm about to get a job at this place.

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Speaker 1: To just never show up, bro Hi gos right now.

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Speaker 1: At this point, I'd been on a month's long crusade

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Speaker 2: Good honestly, it's.

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Speaker 1: Not to be his job, obviously. One morning I got

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Speaker 1: agitated and already angry about his computer issues. I barely

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Speaker 1: got off my standard greeting when this happened. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give him like a nineteen twenties accent, you know, like, Okay, here, see,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're really good at your job or whatever

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Speaker 1: it is you do here, But can I talk to

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Speaker 1: one of them men? I need this none right away,

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Speaker 1: extra extra I am talking women. Read all about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm never exactly sure why people think my lady parts

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Speaker 1: make me incompetent with a computer. But hey, he did

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Speaker 1: ask for a man, so I'm happy to oblige. I

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Speaker 1: check you around the room, and it's early, so no

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Speaker 1: one else is on the call. Gee, who on earth

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Speaker 1: should I send this ray of sunshine to? Obviously, I

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Speaker 1: inform George that my caller wants a man and is insisting,

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: George spends a good thirty minutes on this call. I

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Speaker 1: hear him snoring at one point, and he's getting nowhere

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Speaker 1: with the issue. The guy he's working with is getting

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Speaker 1: angrily loud enough that I can hear him through George's headset.

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Speaker 1: That loud bruh Finally, the user demands to speak to

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Speaker 1: George's manager, which is you guessed it me. Oh so

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Speaker 1: George transfers him back to me and I sweetly apologize

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Speaker 1: for the delay in resolving his issue and say I'd

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Speaker 1: okay with me A little lady how working on the

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Speaker 1: problem for some mysterious reason. Now he's completely fine with that.

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Speaker 1: I know the exact fix because I helped the in

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Speaker 1: house people tested out. I have him fixed in two

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Speaker 1: minutes flat. I've never heard such a meek thank you.

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Speaker 1: And then from thereafter, every time this guy called he

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Speaker 1: he was always polite for me. At least he was

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Speaker 1: always polite to me from then on out.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you know this story is interesting for two reasons. One,

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Speaker 3: it's deliciously malicious compliance Yeah, I love it right, And

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Speaker 3: also second, like she might have turned down his misogyny

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Speaker 1: Yeah you know what I mean, proof that women are

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Speaker 1: equal to men.

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Speaker 3: Somehow, vaginas don't stop your brain from executing at a

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Speaker 3: high level.

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Speaker 1: Who would have thunk? Who would have thunked? But mister

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Speaker 1: nineteen twenty. See, hey, extra actually read all about it.

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Speaker 1: I'm a misogynist, couldn't understand and have that go through

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Speaker 1: his little brain. And speaking of little brains, there is

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Speaker 1: an edit, an update to the story. Uh oh, since

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Speaker 1: people are asking, George did finally get fired a few

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Speaker 1: months later, long after I'd ever given up hope.

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Speaker 2: Man, Honestly, we sent we sent him out on a

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Speaker 2: good mission.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Like a great mission. And actually, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know what is the best mission of all?

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Speaker 2: Oh? The most noble subscribing?

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Speaker 3: We launched a discord. Yeah, the discord which is Poppin'.

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