Speaker 1: Get your hand us together and we're going to start
Speaker 1: to party.
Speaker 2: And to start the party.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to party.
Speaker 3: The Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 4: This is the after Party podcast here. We are all right,
Speaker 4: all right, parties over this podcast. Some people just clean
Speaker 4: up after the party.
Speaker 3: No we podcast if someone else will show up and
Speaker 3: clean up this mess. So the other day, so it
Speaker 3: wasn't that long ago, we were talking about our reviews
Speaker 3: here at iHeartMedia, where we do these reviews of ourself online.
Speaker 4: How did we do?
Speaker 1: How are we doing?
Speaker 3: Are we meeting up to the expectations of the people
Speaker 3: that work with us, and are we helping other you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So Sam was listening and said, I want to comment
Speaker 4: about my year end review. So you had one of
Speaker 4: these things too, Sam, Right.
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4: We're doing well. I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yeah, first time caller, long term listener, A
Speaker 2: big fan of you guys.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Sam.
Speaker 3: So, So you just like we have these year in reviews,
Speaker 3: you did it and what good came out of it?
Speaker 4: Anything good?
Speaker 1: Not really? I mean I was a little blindsided.
Speaker 2: You know, I've I've always you know, taken pride in
Speaker 2: my work and not feeling too.
Speaker 1: Hot about this one.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you guys, and you know reason
Speaker 2: for my calling. You know, I respect your opinions. I
Speaker 2: think you guys give.
Speaker 1: A lot of really good advice. It's like, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to talk through it.
Speaker 4: So what did they say about you and your work ethic?
Speaker 2: I mean they just set up not giving quote unquote
Speaker 2: one hundred percent, which I always do.
Speaker 1: I feel like I give one hundred and fifty percent.
Speaker 2: But there's just a lot of really strange, awkward comments.
Speaker 2: Like my manager, who is actually new in the role,
Speaker 2: said that, you know, when they look at me and
Speaker 2: when I smile, it looks like I'm unfulfilled.
Speaker 4: What so they're analyzing you through your Okay, all right?
Speaker 4: What else?
Speaker 1: What's weird?
Speaker 2: I mean just other things that you know, my work
Speaker 2: could be sharper, and that I'm not meeting specific deadlines,
Speaker 2: which I always be my deadlines everything and I'm always early.
Speaker 5: Well did you ask them to be specific? Like to say, okay, well,
Speaker 5: what do you mean by I don't meet deadlines when
Speaker 5: I always meet a deadline?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I think that there's are some follow ups.
Speaker 2: I need to have with them, But you know, honestly,
Speaker 2: I always finish them ahead of time, and in fact,
Speaker 2: I help my coworkers with their projects. Who so again,
Speaker 2: I truly believe I'm going one hundred and fifty percent.
Speaker 3: So, Sam, I mean before this year in review, did
Speaker 3: you feel totally fine with this job?
Speaker 4: Is it something you wanted? You weren't even thinking about
Speaker 4: leaving or changing?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm about too hot about it.
Speaker 2: Like you know, I work in marketing. It's an interesting company,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I don't really feel like the the
Speaker 1: culture is there.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you an example, like today is Taco Tuesday.
Speaker 2: I'm calling you for a conference room right now, I'm
Speaker 2: in the office, and they only put out vegetarian tacos. Oh,
Speaker 2: there's no carnetas, there's no fried fish, there's no charizo.
Speaker 2: They just put out vegetarian tacos. And they think that
Speaker 2: their employees are happy with that.
Speaker 5: So today you would be feeling unfulfilled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point, and thank you for making
Speaker 2: me laugh.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: We So are you thinking about maybe another place in
Speaker 3: this company or another company? Maybe it's time to realize
Speaker 3: that maybe you guys aren't lining up, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I try that vegetarian tacos.
Speaker 3: But look if they look at me and say, you're
Speaker 3: not giving you all, well that's what their perception is
Speaker 3: of me. Do I really want to fight harder to
Speaker 3: make them think I'm giving my all and give them more?
Speaker 3: Or is it time to be considering other things?
Speaker 2: Right? No? And I couldn't agree boring honestly, like maybe
Speaker 2: this is a blessing in disguise, Like maybe there's a
Speaker 2: silver lining here. Maybe it's time for me to figure
Speaker 2: out a new career path or like point of what
Speaker 2: I'm doing in.
Speaker 1: My existence, you know, like honestly, I love food. Maybe
Speaker 1: going to the food industry, Yeah.
Speaker 5: You can have a way better taco Tuesday than what
Speaker 5: they're giving you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I sure. I mean, you know, just talking
Speaker 1: off the cuff. I love sourdough.
Speaker 2: Why don't I start a micro bakery and call it
Speaker 2: Sam Sowardough?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think the food that they're serving over there says
Speaker 6: a lot about their characters. I think you should move on,
Speaker 6: and you know you're doing yourself a favor. Get out now,
Speaker 6: because vegetarians are very finicky, weird people and.
Speaker 1: I don't want to dig a hole here.
Speaker 4: But it's just the fact that.
Speaker 1: They're not hope, my sister isn't listening, the food, that they're.
Speaker 4: Not thinking about everybody in the office.
Speaker 3: And it's like, well, we're the vegan clubs, so we're
Speaker 3: just going to do this scary scary I do.
Speaker 1: Is cut costs and burn people out.
Speaker 3: Well no, but okay, okay, see this is your opinion. Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe this is true.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: But maybe their point of view is, look, not everyone
Speaker 3: eats meat, but everyone eats vegetables. Let's have a vegetarian
Speaker 3: taco and.
Speaker 4: Everybody be happy. Maybe that's what they think is the
Speaker 4: right thing. I'm not saying I would like it.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 4: I want to meet in my taco. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, Scarry would not thrive.
Speaker 2: It's just there's a number of things, from the lack
Speaker 2: of culture there to the people.
Speaker 1: That I work with on it, like my colleagues as well.
Speaker 2: I feel like they all hate each other, like everyone's
Speaker 2: just always in the bad.
Speaker 1: And if you have answered everything environment.
Speaker 3: I think you've answered everything in this call you you
Speaker 3: want to move.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't mean it's a bad company.
Speaker 1: It's just isn't for you.
Speaker 3: You know, you deserve you deserve something different, something better.
Speaker 3: Do you guys want to add.
Speaker 2: To that, My entire Instagram feed is filled with sour
Speaker 2: dough bakers and people that are starting micro bakeries.
Speaker 1: It just makes sense.
Speaker 2: Here's the other thing, from like a financial standpoint, because
Speaker 2: I think we all know in marketing, especially you know,
Speaker 2: I'm mid level. It's not great money. I could probably
Speaker 2: make more money from Sourdale. I think fifteen loaves a
Speaker 2: day Monday or Friday. I'm bringing it like forty five hundred,
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars a month.
Speaker 3: You could, you know what, And even if even if
Speaker 3: you didn't bring in more money, I mean, going to
Speaker 3: where you were satisfied is really that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Wow, I was just really thrown off by this performance review.
Speaker 2: And maybe that's what's setting me over the edge.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe that's a great thing.
Speaker 3: This could be the best thing that's ever happened to you,
Speaker 3: even though it wasn't pleasant.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I tell someone that they look
Speaker 1: unfulfilled when they're smiling.
Speaker 5: That's the craziest one to me, because that's not really
Speaker 5: a work or performance evaluation at all. So if you
Speaker 5: can appeal it, I would go after that one for sure.
Speaker 1: That's DR violation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, do you really want to find it or
Speaker 3: is it just time to you know, keep keep your
Speaker 3: head in the keep going in there and getting that
Speaker 3: paycheck until you figure out what you're going to do.
Speaker 4: Go do it.
Speaker 2: This is a great I'm always proud of myself on
Speaker 2: taking the higher roads.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would do the HR route, I agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, how old are you, bungwe if I may ask.
Speaker 1: I'm forty. Okay, this is the most almost forty. I'm
Speaker 1: thirty nine. I'm almost forty.
Speaker 4: Doing great? Do it, Sam, go do it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's just such a big you know, change
Speaker 2: in career and changing lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I'm just like goods about it.
Speaker 4: Good and changing career and lifestyle is exactly what you want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And if financially it ends up being kind of
Speaker 5: like six of one, half a dozen of another, or
Speaker 5: whatever they say, then why not just go for it?
Speaker 1: Or a baker's dozen or a baker.
Speaker 6: Does I think you really need a sour dough bread
Speaker 6: coming bacon.
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you guys, my sourdough is fantastic, is well,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 3: There you go and if you can actually go do
Speaker 3: like on weekends, maybe go in and watch someone who
Speaker 3: has a side our dough bread company and see how
Speaker 3: they are rate, because you know, baking it at home
Speaker 3: and baking it for a business is two different things.
Speaker 4: But you have a lot of great things ahead of you. Sam.
Speaker 1: This is good.
Speaker 4: This is Sam.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get out of the slump. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm so thrown off by the review. It's never never
Speaker 2: been given to me like that before. I've always done
Speaker 2: excellent work, and I've prided myself for my work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think maybe it's sign You're.
Speaker 3: The only one who can do it, Sam, and so
Speaker 3: go make it happen. Thanks for listening to us and
Speaker 3: get back to us. Let us know about your Swardo
Speaker 3: Sam or franchises. We want to buy one.
Speaker 1: I will, I will, no. I appreciate it. Guys, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me on the show.
Speaker 4: All right, take care of
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