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Speaker 2: I'm pregnant and my boss is forcing me to travel.

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Speaker 1: You should make your boss pregnant.

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Speaker 2: I I have been with my current employer for five years.

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Speaker 2: I'm in England and I'm currently twenty one weeks pregnant.

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Speaker 2: I inform my manager at six weeks due to medical

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Speaker 2: history and health issues. By the way, this comes from

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Speaker 1: I'm Sofia, I'm Dakota, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Carly, and we're here to give good advice. Goofy, But

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Speaker 2: we don't have all the answers. We only know what

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Speaker 2: we do, so let us know what you would do

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Speaker 2: in the comments. Yay and opisas I travel for work,

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Speaker 2: mostly to Europe and the US and work in events.

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Speaker 2: Most of my job is research and sales and marketing,

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Speaker 2: with only a tiny portion involving the event itself. I

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Speaker 2: have nothing to do with venues, logistics, food, or any

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Speaker 2: of the stereotypical things you might think of when you

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Speaker 2: think of a job and events. I'm paid commission based

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Speaker 2: on sales revenue for events. I have done all the

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Speaker 2: research for agenda writing, et cetera. Separate from this, I

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Speaker 2: sometimes have to support as an extra pair of hands,

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Speaker 2: which I have never been paid extra for. My manager

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Speaker 2: has been fairly difficult about my inability to travel due

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Speaker 2: to pregnancy related medical issues. I have a note from

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Speaker 2: my doctor saying I am not allowed to fly, and

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Speaker 2: this voids my company travel insurance, which makes me feel

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Speaker 2: very unsafe even trying to fly. Not only this, but

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Speaker 2: I have been on bed rest for most of my pregnancy.

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Speaker 2: She forced me to go to one event at seven

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Speaker 2: weeks pregnant, a week after I told her, telling me

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Speaker 2: I would lose my three thousand pound commission if I

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Speaker 2: didn't go. She can't do that. I think that she

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Speaker 2: legally can't do that because it's a pregnancy related issue.

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Speaker 1: I would assume that they can't just be like, you

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Speaker 1: don't get any money, you pregnant, lose it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that she cannot do that. At the event,

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Speaker 2: I ended up bedridden, unable to do anything, and we

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Speaker 2: I still went, including her manager, and she pretended she

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Speaker 1: You go, Yeah, you make a get ready with me.

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Speaker 1: You just blast this information to all.

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Speaker 2: Places because I physically went, though I still got my commission.

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Speaker 2: After that, I explicitly told HR and my manager's manager

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Speaker 2: about my pregnancy and medical issues. They have been very supportive,

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Speaker 2: offering me fully flexible, working completely work from home, no

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Speaker 2: pressure to travel abroad, time off for appointments, et cetera. However,

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Speaker 1: Lawsuit, law suit, lawsuit.

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Speaker 2: I have mostly rolled my eyes and left her to it.

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Speaker 2: But this week there was another event for which I'd

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Speaker 2: I refused to travel, I said no. She asked again

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Speaker 2: I then sent her a detailed email with all the

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Speaker 2: it was pregnancy discrimination to penalize me. She responded via

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Speaker 2: HR and her manager already said that you're good. Our

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Speaker 2: for extremely serious reasons, usually severe health conditions. There is

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Speaker 2: zero precedent for anyone losing commission, and this seems to

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Speaker 2: be a policy she is purely pushing to introduce on

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Speaker 2: my colleague who had cancer last year. I guess I

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Speaker 2: need to decide whether to let this go. Should I complain? Yes,

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Speaker 2: I have said nothing to HRS so far, although they

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Speaker 2: and argue about it retrospectively.

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Speaker 1: No, No, You're like, should I wait for all of

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Speaker 2: No? No, should I get formal legal advice? I don't

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Speaker 2: even think you need to literally go to your boss,

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Speaker 2: your boss's boss, go to HR.

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Speaker 1: I think you should. I think you should because I

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Speaker 1: think a lawyer might tell you, like exactly how.

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Speaker 2: To play this. That's true, I mean it would help.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like she's just not even talking to her,

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Speaker 2: the boss's boss, or the HR anymore. Am I actually

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Speaker 2: in the wrong here? No? Or do I need to

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Speaker 2: drop it? Also? No? And there are some relevant comments,

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Speaker 2: But do you have any thoughts of your own?

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Speaker 1: Make this place underwater? What I mean like, make it

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Speaker 1: go underwater? What because of how much you sue them for?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, okay, understood Atlantis this place because they are

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Speaker 2: treating you unfairly and discriminating against you. That's illegal.

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Speaker 1: Most people will probably be sympathetic to pregnant women. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Relevant comments. Battie Matt. Maddie Matt says, Hello, I am

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Speaker 2: It was tough, and I declined to travel to one

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Speaker 2: my full commission. Not traveling due to pregnancy should be

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Speaker 2: a reasonable accommodation. And you need to go to HR

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Speaker 2: asap and tell them what your manager has done. Your

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Speaker 2: just your attendance at the event. If that were the case,

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Speaker 2: then our new BDM would be getting full commission on

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Speaker 2: Silly Opie says, yeah, I do. Production was trying and

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Speaker 2: failing to be vague. Haha, glad your company was nice

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Speaker 2: is her maternity leave is over right, This is my issue.

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Speaker 2: My colleague covered for me, But I don't think she

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Speaker 2: And I don't think it should come out of mine

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Speaker 2: as a gesture would be nice, but frankly has nothing

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Speaker 3: She's saying that she shouldn't get paid at all.

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Speaker 4: Because I think the submission of her commission.

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Speaker 3: I agree she shouldn't come out of he commission, but

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Speaker 3: I do think she should get paid for it.

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Speaker 4: She should get some commission.

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Speaker 2: I think she would be getting paid for it, but

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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be Ope's commission.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you should get commissioned for handling

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Speaker 3: That it happened, running an entire event day of I

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Speaker 2: I think she should get paid. I think that's a

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Speaker 2: separate thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because commission is usually I mean, that's that's the

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Speaker 1: sale of setting it up, yeah, and locking it in.

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Speaker 2: I'm assuming she's get paid bonus. Yeah. I don't think

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Speaker 1: If she wasn't involved with the account.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a conversation between her and finance, HR literally

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Speaker 2: If she says, hey, I need to be paid more

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Speaker 2: to their bosses, I'll be BATTYE Matt Mattie. Matt said,

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Speaker 2: I feel like Events is notorious for crappy maternity policies

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Speaker 2: since any reason is super vague and clearly aimed at you.

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Speaker 2: The pregnant employee. Opie says, Yeah, I feel like the

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Speaker 2: winner Ads says, please make a log of every interaction

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Speaker 2: when HR have been so accommodating, they cannot fire you

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Speaker 2: discrimination and unfair dismissal case, to be honest, very high

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, eggs all the same stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna win. You're pregnant.

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Speaker 2: You're pregnant, and literally your boss's boss agrees with you.

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Speaker 2: HR agrees with you. You're fine. Update nearly three months later.

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Speaker 2: I am now eight months pregnant and maternity league will

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Speaker 1: My coworkers tried to ruin my life after I survived

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Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from user massive instance eighty

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Speaker 2: I'm Dakota, I'm Sophia, I'm Carly, and we're here.

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Speaker 1: To give you good advice. Goofuy. But we don't have

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Speaker 1: If you would do something different, let us know in

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Speaker 1: the comments. As op says, three weeks after this, I

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Speaker 1: whoever it concerns, please accept this letter as formal notice

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Speaker 1: of my resignation from my position at STNA at Company Name,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the opportunities I've had while working at Company Name,

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Speaker 1: I was one of five aids that they had cover

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Speaker 1: At the tax fraud. We've got fraudulent medical services company

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Speaker 2: I'm not doing a single thing about that. I've got

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Speaker 1: I knew this could be a response due to living

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Speaker 1: I was diagnosed with stomach issues at fourteen, almost fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta be like, no, that's not what I want.

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Speaker 1: And actually I've already done that, And I want a

439
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Speaker 1: recommendation to this specialist because we have a dumb system

440
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Speaker 1: where you have to, like they do not want to

441
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Speaker 1: recommend you, you have to like get permission to see

442
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Speaker 1: a doctor from your doctor, which is dud. I hate

443
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Speaker 1: it here for that. He had ordered opioids for me,

444
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Speaker 1: and I had already told him I didn't want them. Thankfully,

445
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 1: she informed me and gave me Tyland all. She said

446
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 1: it was always an option, but would only give me

447
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Speaker 1: medicine I was comfortable with. I'm pretty sure they got

448
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Speaker 1: sick of my crying and begging them to please just

449
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Speaker 1: make the pain stop, because just an hour after arriving

450
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Speaker 1: at the er, they knocked me out with adavan and haaldaal.

451
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Speaker 1: To make a long story short, they ended up removing

452
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Speaker 1: my gallbladder and also had to do surgery on my

453
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Speaker 1: liver to get the stone. I was kept off work

454
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Speaker 1: for three weeks. By the time I went back, everyone

455
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 1: was beyond upset that I was allowed to keep my

456
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Speaker 1: job after being off for so long. Oh dude, but

457
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Speaker 1: your meta Oh oops, sorry, I had to recover from

458
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Speaker 1: major surgery.

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Speaker 2: Wow, oops, your job and you work in healthcare.

460
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Speaker 1: This is Florida, gotta be. I was being switched from

461
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Speaker 1: rotation to rotation after coming back because I was the

462
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: filla in which I didn't agree to at all in

463
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Speaker 1: my contract and had specifically asked for a permanent spot.

464
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Speaker 1: It wasn't good for me physically going from rotation to

465
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Speaker 1: rotation because it wasn't allowing my body to heal. I

466
00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: got held over, even though in my contract it says

467
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Speaker 1: I don't have to work past seven pm. It was

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Speaker 1: agreed upon and signed off. I even made sure all

469
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Speaker 1: the nurses were aware of this agreement. Guess who had

470
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Speaker 1: to stay over because the other two left the floor.

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Speaker 1: If you guessed me and the other aid, you'd be right.

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Speaker 1: I think you need to take this to whoever is

473
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Speaker 1: above your manager. Yes, whoever is like the utmost authority.

474
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Speaker 1: Here you got my contract is being violated. I'd like

475
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Speaker 1: to talk to uh.

476
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Speaker 2: Here are my doctor's notes. Here was the medical emergencies

477
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Speaker 2: as Katie Paladin that I had to take off for

478
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Speaker 2: mm mmmmmmmm.

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Speaker 1: I kept telling the nurses this was against my contract

480
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Speaker 1: and that I wasn't going to stay and they needed

481
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Speaker 1: to call someone in. They said this isn't our job

482
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Speaker 1: and they weren't going to. They threatened to report me

483
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Speaker 1: for abandonment if I left, and that they had every

484
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Speaker 1: right to do so. I was being texted by my

485
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Speaker 1: ex babysitter at exactly seven asking where I was, and

486
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: then I needed to be there by seven thirty. I

487
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: had never been late picking up my kids, and the

488
00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: way she acted that night is why she's the ex babysitter.

489
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Speaker 1: She threatened to call CPS and cops if I wasn't

490
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Speaker 1: there again, as.

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Speaker 2: Long as you were calling Florida, as long as you

492
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Speaker 2: were communicating to the babysitter and being like, hey, something

493
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 2: up and I can't get home, then that's a ridiculous response.

494
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Speaker 2: Thirty minutes later, come on, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I blew up at my boss like, hey, I have

496
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Speaker 1: to go, and I'm not sure what to tell you guys.

497
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: I was ignored. The nurse said, not our fault. You're

498
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 1: a single mind because men don't like you. You should

499
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Speaker 1: have thought about this before you had kids.

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Speaker 2: These people are terrible. Flow it up, these people.

501
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 1: Are well come to central floor. Buh. I just sat

502
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Speaker 1: down and cried. My boss finally got back to me,

503
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Speaker 1: and I left. I got to my kids at eight

504
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: pm and had to explain to cops and show them

505
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Speaker 1: text messages. The officer apologized and told me to find

506
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Speaker 1: a new babysitter.

507
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 2: You being like, oh my god, there's an emergency at work.

508
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,959
Speaker 2: They won't let me leave. Probably just need another thirty

509
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: minutes is not grounds for calling the cops. It's ridiculous.

510
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,199
Speaker 1: Bad babysitter, Bad babysitter. I was already at the end

511
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: of my rope with this job at this point. And

512
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: then here comes to Teresa, as a fellow Kentuckian down rough.

513
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Speaker 2: You were wrong. They're all Kentuckians.

514
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: Oh, Kentucky is the Florida of the Midwest.

515
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: Unlass Sop was originally from Kentucky. And she's saying, there's

516
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Speaker 2: another person from Kentucky and I'm just.

517
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Speaker 5: Going, ah, that would actually that is pertinentuse Why would

518
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 5: you say you're a Kentucky And if you're all in Kentucky,

519
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 5: there's still Florida.

520
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: Still got Florida, got it, it's still Florida. As a

521
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 1: fellow Kentucky and I'm so disappointed in her. She's in

522
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: her sixties and acts like a teenager. She had always

523
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: held a grudge against me because she can boss everyone

524
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: around but me. I told her one time, act your wage,

525
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: not your dream. She's an aid like me and makes

526
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: the same amount the only difference is she's an office runner.

527
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: She tells on everything and everyone. I have reported her

528
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: multiple times. She forces patients to give up their trays

529
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,719
Speaker 1: before they're done, confines certain patients to their room for

530
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: no reason, and speaks horribly to patients and staff. Nobody

531
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 1: likes her. Saturday, she kept telling me to do this

532
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: and that when I know what to do. I've been

533
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,199
Speaker 1: doing my job for almost seven years. I have my

534
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: own routine that helps me stay on track. Mind your

535
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:01,560
Speaker 1: business and I'll mind mine. So Sunny treoslaud loose. She's

536
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,640
Speaker 1: on top of her attitude and bossing game. She tried

537
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: telling me what to do again and got mad because

538
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 1: I told the nurse I didn't want to work with her,

539
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: and the nurse agreed. Teresa then went and lied to

540
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: the nurse about multiple things I was able to prove

541
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: were lies. That made her even madder, and she went

542
00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: to the front hall to tell the aids I was

543
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: talking about them. I told them all the truth with

544
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: the receipts. Lunchtime rolled around and I had to work

545
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: with Teresa. We got all the trays out and there

546
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: were a few patients who didn't get their tray. I

547
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: was telling dietary who we were missing. When I saw

548
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: her with a tray, I asked her for the name,

549
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: and she ignored me. I went to see the name,

550
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,439
Speaker 1: and she yelled at me at the top of her

551
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: lungs to leave it alone in front of the charge nurse.

552
00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: The charge nurse didn't say or do anything, so I said,

553
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm actually trying to find the patients, and I needed

554
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: the name, so I knew who needed a tray.

555
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 2: My advice is literally, find a new job. Yeah, because

556
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 2: this is terrible.

557
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: Find a new job, and like, figure out.

558
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 2: I have the state report. Yeah, like behavior report, the

559
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: breaches in contract.

560
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: Move back to Kentucky.

561
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 2: Move back to Kentucky, leave this place.

562
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: Move to the part of Florida that is in Florida

563
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: but instead is Cuba. And that's Miami. Anyway, we got

564
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: all of them out and I sat to feed a patient.

565
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: She kept talking all kinds of crap about me across

566
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: the table from me to the charge nurse, saying the following,

567
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: I doubt OHP has all the health issues. She's told

568
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: boss's name. OP acts like she's better than me. Oh

569
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: P has lost a lot of weight. I bet the

570
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Speaker 1: surgery she had was weight loss surgery, yes, or maybe

571
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: when you have major surgery and have to recover for

572
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Speaker 1: three weeks, you lose a little weight.

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Speaker 2: Maybe.

574
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: Maybe this is why, even though you're sixty plus years old,

575
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: you've never advanced in your field.

576
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry you're in healthcare. How are you in healthcare?

577
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 2: These people are awful and stupid and I'm sorry, op.

578
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish I could get time off to pay

579
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: attention to my appearance, Like op Op got left by

580
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: her fiance and I understand why. Out so like all

581
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: of this is like, I'm sure very.

582
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 2: Hoestyle workplace hr HR Florida is probably like, actually, we

583
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 2: need to bring back bullying in the workplace.

584
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: That's it's survival of the fittest. To say I was

585
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: livid doesn't even touch how I felt. It took all

586
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: I had not to lash out. A few tears slipped

587
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: out while I finished feeding a patient and avoided her

588
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. I'm seriously considering cutting

589
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: my losses and going with the local hospital. Am I

590
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: the a hole for going off on my coworkers?

591
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 2: Please go off on them?

592
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: When did you even do that?

593
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 2: You didn't go off on that?

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00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 1: I would have gone so far off on her, like

595
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: and not like screaming, yelling, crying, but just like surgical tactical. Yeah.

596
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: I mean, like, hey, Teresa, I know you're very dissatisfied

597
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: with your life, but that doesn't mean you have to

598
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: take it out on me my surgery. The fact that

599
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: you're gossiping about my medical problems seems like a pretty

600
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: severe offence in the workplace.

601
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 2: Seems like I could yet scared. Yeah say that. Oh yeah,

602
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 2: you know you can get fired for that, Teresa. I'd

603
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 2: make her scared, scare her, frighten her, go off on her.

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00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: Yep, but that is the end of that story. Yeah,

605
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: I would definitely stop working there, leave sue them.

606
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 2: I don't know anything yet there.

607
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: If you could talk to a loss so if there's

608
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: any pro bono lawyers or you know, whatever, if you

609
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: can explain your situation and ask for a settlement, because

610
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a coworker who's sort of I

611
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,960
Speaker 1: don't know. It doesn't sound like she's in a position

612
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: of authority though, so that might change things. But maybe

613
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: there's an argument that if your you know, workplace facilitated

614
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,479
Speaker 1: a toxic environment, that's the issues, and it concerned your

615
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: private medical information and that they let that information out.

616
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: I would say, maybe there's something there, but I don't know,

617
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: but definitely stop working there regardless, yep, crazy and let

618
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: them all know, let them all know what you think

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Speaker 1: on the way out.

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654
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Speaker 2: with references for rentals, extra cash for deposits, etc. Enter Barbie.

655
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 2: She was freshly twenty and had zero experience. We hired

656
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: her as a helper to start, still paid way above

657
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 2: minimum wage and as per they are usual made clear

658
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 2: that at the one year of valuation we could discuss

659
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 2: position and pay based on her performance. From the get go,

660
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 2: she was very, very chatty. She inserted herself into every

661
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 2: conversation and over shared personal details like she was lying

662
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 2: down on couch and not up on scaffolding. She would

663
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 2: discuss her private life in detail, but she did pick

664
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 2: up new skills quickly, so I gave her an informal

665
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 2: talk and thought that would be it. In my experience,

666
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: a lot of younger people struggle with work life balance,

667
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 2: which is a nice way of saying they tend to

668
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: want to party during the week and colin sick the

669
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 2: next day. Not to mention make stupid financial decisions we

670
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: have all gone through, but normally they don't tell their

671
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 2: boss how their friends are planning to try mushrooms that night,

672
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 2: or send wasted text to coworkers on a Wednesday night. Again,

673
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 2: we had a conversation. This time it was documented and official,

674
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: because random substance uts are a thing. Every other week

675
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 2: there was friend group, drama, boy drama, girl drama, the works.

676
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: She was jumping from one short lived relationship to the next,

677
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 2: and I tried everything but plugging my ears and going

678
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 2: to avoid hearing inappropriate things she kept telling me. When

679
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 2: other employees expressed their discomfort, I gave her another warning

680
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 2: that strike.

681
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: Too, man. You really got to just be like stop, stop,

682
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: stop telling me. I don't care, I don't want to

683
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: hear about it, and you're jeopardizing your job.

684
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 2: Then some tools disappeared, small, easily concealed things that added

685
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,919
Speaker 2: up to nearly ten k in value. Of course, things

686
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 2: disappeared out of a company vehicle on a job site

687
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 2: that had no cameras. The only people working the site

688
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,280
Speaker 2: were my right hand man, one of the first people

689
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 2: I hired eight years prior, a woman who had been

690
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 2: working for me over five years, and Barbie. Cops were involved,

691
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 2: but ultimately they shrugged it off because I did don't

692
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 2: have any real evidence.

693
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: I bet it was Torque ranches, torqu crunches.

694
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: I don't know.

695
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: I bet you nay stout Torque cranches, all right.

696
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,280
Speaker 2: Not even a day after they closed the investigation, Barbie

697
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 2: showed up with a new phone, new smart watch, new clothes,

698
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 2: bragging about the shopping spree her latest boyfriend had taken

699
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 2: her out.

700
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: We're freaking sorry, I'm just googling if tork cranches are expensive.

701
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 2: You're so stupid. When my assistant manager sarcastically said something like,

702
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 2: oh you got a new one, she excitedly slaimed that

703
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 2: he had seen him when he visited her on the

704
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: job site for lunch. We did desecrate the tool trailer.

705
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 2: Sorry about that?

706
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: What?

707
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 2: Sorry? Did you just tell people that you had spicy

708
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 2: sleep and the tooltailor.

709
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: To tamin in?

710
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,879
Speaker 2: Huh? You the giggle. I'm also sure she didn't use

711
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: the word desecrate, but that's not the point. Letting unauthorized

712
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,720
Speaker 2: people on with job site was the perfect last straw

713
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 2: to fire her. He's sitting there like, you did what

714
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 2: in the trailer?

715
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: You know? I know, I was really slamming on Florida

716
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: for that. Out Will Employment a little bit in the

717
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: in the previous story we read, But it's stuff like

718
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 1: this that makes me go, you know what? At Will Employment?

719
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: It really is it nice? It would be nice to

720
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: just be able to immediately go, you know what, you

721
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: don't have to shut up because you just don't work

722
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: here anymore? Fired, goodbye.

723
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 2: It qualified as a third strike and covered my butt

724
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: in a legal sense, she cried. Then she screamed, I

725
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 2: couldn't fire her because she quit classic followed by a

726
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 2: lot of discriminatory remarks and colorful insults of every flavor.

727
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: Then she threw a hammer at me, which went wide

728
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 2: and stuck in the wall instead, and is there to

729
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 2: this day. Someone even framed it. She was told to

730
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 2: get the f out, and so she did. Given her

731
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 2: age related stupidity, I decided not to press charges. I

732
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: want to focus on the headache of finding a replacement instead.

733
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: After finally being rid of her.

734
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: That was the wrong move. These kind of people need consequences, Yeah,

735
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: or they will never change.

736
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's not gonna learn, except I wasn't. A few

737
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 2: hours after she left, she demanded her last pay immediately,

738
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 2: and now, legally, after terminating any employee, you have a

739
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 2: few days. If the employee quits on their own, it's

740
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: a bit longer either way. I normally ensure this happens asap,

741
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 2: so I did. After filing and doing the bank stuff,

742
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 2: she had pay the next day. Her paperwork was filed

743
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 2: with the government the same day and accessible for her online.

744
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 2: Two days after her stunt, I had two cops show

745
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: up at my office asking if we had impartial witnesses

746
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 2: to what happened. It was strange, I thought, because she

747
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 2: tried to thorw me into oblivion. But the nice officers

748
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: refused to answer any questions, so I offered them some

749
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 2: coffee and a snack while I pulled up the security

750
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 2: camera footage, which she obviously forgot about. Her tantrum was

751
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,520
Speaker 2: captured in three angles plus footage over peeling out of

752
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 2: the parking lot. Moments later, silence followed. The older cop

753
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 2: clears throat and decided to tell us what had happened.

754
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 2: According to Barbie, I had with El jar Pei for weeks,

755
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,399
Speaker 2: and when she confronted me, I assaulted her, choked her,

756
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: and told her I would ut alive her.

757
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: Girl, I feel like you really do need to go

758
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: to jail for saying stuff like that that's not true.

759
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you should press charges.

760
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: You should have to go to jail for half the

761
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,839
Speaker 1: amount of time that the person would go to jail

762
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: if they were convicted of the stuff you accused them of. Yeah.

763
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 2: She also decided to throw in accusations against my assistant manager.

764
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 2: He has a happily married, attracted the same gender man,

765
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 2: which she apparently never picked up on, in spite of

766
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 2: him repeatedly talking about his husband. Needless to say, they

767
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 2: didn't investigate further. A few weeks later, I got a

768
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 2: call from the government agency dealing with employment issues. I

769
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 2: found out an employee is able to file claim online

770
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 2: and it's up to the employer to prove they did

771
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: nothing wrong. Luckily, I documented everything, bonus payments, paying full

772
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 2: days for half work days, et cetera. I had to

773
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 2: provide scope of projects hour log showing how many people

774
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: worked on the project, and that we didn't leave her

775
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 2: alone to do two weeks worth of work in two days.

776
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 2: That too, was dismissed quickly. By that point, I was

777
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 2: contemplating a career change to something less stressful, like a

778
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 2: preschool teacher.

779
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:29,800
Speaker 1: Ah, that's funny, eh.

780
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 2: It turned into a running joke, what will Barbie do next? Well?

781
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 2: Call immigration, of course, please file a police report against her.

782
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 2: That went nowhere, since I do indeed have legal paperwork.

783
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 2: Neither did reporting me for committing tax fraud. The auditor

784
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 2: said my books were some of the most immaculate he

785
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 2: has ever seen, and to this day it's my proudest achievement.

786
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 2: Through all of this, she was using me as a

787
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: reference for prospective employers, because this, too is a legal minefield.

788
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 2: I only could she worked for me and refused to

789
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 2: answer any questions. A lot of the people calling me

790
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: were people I knew, because this is a small town.

791
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 2: And while I made sure not to tell anyone anything,

792
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,800
Speaker 2: I can't guarantee my employees didn't.

793
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: How is it illegal to be like, oh, yeah, no,

794
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: she threw a hammer at my head. What's the point

795
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: I fired her for having spicy sleep on the job site.

796
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: What's the point of calling for references if you can't say.

797
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. This feels like a different state.

798
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 2: Not to mention the fact that the cops showed up

799
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 2: two days after she left. I was suddenly audited and

800
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 2: immigration checked in on me. Undoubtedly all witnessed by someone.

801
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,800
Speaker 2: And if you have ever lived in a small town,

802
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 2: you know everyone's up in everyone else's business. So nobody

803
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 2: hired her. Bad review started popping up on Google, but

804
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 2: because they all mentioned employment, they were automatically removed. After

805
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 2: a few days, Barbie spiraled further. She began driving past

806
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 2: my house at all hours of the day and night.

807
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 2: And if this police.

808
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: Reports, if this idiot used half of the effort that

809
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: she was using to bother you, maybe she'd be employed.

810
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, it's John here.

811
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to the stories. Put a quick

812
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: three minute ad break from her sponsors that keep the

813
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: show going.

814
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: The only thing she accomplished was piss me off, So

815
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 2: I gathered the mountain of evidence, called a friend that

816
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 2: happened to be a lawyer, and we were in the

817
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 2: middle of deciding an action plan when my kid called.

818
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 2: He's a teenager, so when he actually calls instead of

819
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 2: texting me about food, I know something is up. Barbie

820
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 2: had decided to escalate things to a new level and

821
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: send him a few long, unhinged messages from her own

822
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,919
Speaker 2: Facebook profile, ranging from calling him names to threatening him.

823
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 2: It took me a minute to pick my jaw off

824
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 2: the floor while my friend contacted the police. A restraining

825
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,720
Speaker 2: order was granted and I actually filed charges, when initially

826
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 2: all I wanted was to see if I could get

827
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 2: a restraining order against her and hopes that would scare

828
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 2: her off. This happened almost two years ago, and the

829
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 2: court date has been pushed back a few times because

830
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: the system is overloaded. Luckily, she has kept quiet. In

831
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 2: the meantime, I sold my business to my right hand

832
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 2: man and retired from that insanity. I didn't work for

833
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 2: nearly two years because the whole ordeal made me physically

834
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 2: and mentally sick. A lot of therapy has happened for

835
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: both me and the kiddo. As an added bonus, we

836
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: were both diagnosed with ADHD. He switched online school because

837
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 2: Barbie has a lot of equally unstable family members and

838
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 2: her mom works at our local high school. Yikes, so

839
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,280
Speaker 2: we decided it would be best to avoid any further

840
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,760
Speaker 2: contact as much as possible. On all, this ordeal probably

841
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 2: aged me a decade, but I'm glad we're somewhat through

842
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 2: with it. I've been meaning to write this out for

843
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,760
Speaker 2: almost a year, but it felt too daunting. I recently

844
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 2: started working in a different field, in a position where

845
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: I will be hiring and training new employees, so naturally

846
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 2: this came to mind again. There is a little bit

847
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 2: left to this story.

848
00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Any final thoughts prosecute early now you've learned your lesson.

849
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, police report. When someone throws a hammer at you,

850
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: file a police report before they start doing more crazy stuff.

851
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to be a cool, chill guy

852
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: with people who are not cool and chill.

853
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: The funny thing is I would do it again. I

854
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 2: got to help a lot of people get a foot

855
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 2: in the door and build some very marketable skills. Most

856
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 2: of my former employees keep in touch, and I love

857
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: getting little life updates. And while I try to keep

858
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: things civil because I know how messy her life is.

859
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 2: If you threaten my child, you better expect to live

860
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 2: with consequences. She did it to herself, really, and while

861
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 2: part of me wants to feel bad for dragging her

862
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 2: to court, I can't bring myself to care. She did

863
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 2: apply at my new workplace, so I guess she's still unemployed.

864
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,800
Speaker 2: I had a great time explaining to our regional manager

865
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 2: why I can't hire someone because they are court ordered

866
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 2: to not be near me, and why it might not

867
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: be a good idea anyways, and that it's the end

868
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: of that story. Folks. Wow boy, oh boy, what a dale,

869
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 2: What a Dale? What a Dale? Oh man?

870
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Speaker 1: If that teacher did anything to make your kid's high

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Speaker 1: school experience worse, I would definitely get her reported and

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Speaker 1: fired as well. Yeah, she shouldn't be an educator, She

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be a teacher, agreed Trashola. Yeah. No.

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Speaker 2: The whole thing about like having to take your kid

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Speaker 2: out of school because his teacher might do something. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: see what you can do about that. But we do

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Speaker 2: have some comments from the video. I think my girlfriend

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Speaker 2: is a stalker and this was posted August. First, we

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00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 2: have a TLDR. Op twenty eight male thought his girlfriend

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00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,279
Speaker 2: twenty five female was keeping a dream journal, but it

881
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 2: turned out she was secretly writing down everything about his life.

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00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 2: I remember this one. I remember this, his coffee order,

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Speaker 2: calls with his mom, even his Facebook activity. At first,

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Speaker 2: she said it was a relationship sink journal to build

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Speaker 2: a deeper bond, but op we later found five more

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00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 2: journals she'd been keeping about him for years, even before

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Speaker 2: they were dating. To make things worse, her ex reveal

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Speaker 2: she wants, faked a pregnancy and may have even planted

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Speaker 2: a kidden camera. Now Opie is terrified and planning to

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Speaker 2: move out without telling her. If you're curious to know

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Speaker 2: the full story, you can watch the full video.

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Speaker 4: I do not know this one.

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Speaker 2: That one was crazy. Yeah, she had like journals and

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Speaker 2: journals and journals. Yes, it was intense.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well we got comment one by Jess Smith ninety six.

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Speaker 3: I have a book that I write things down that

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Speaker 3: people say. Now they know I do that, since this

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Speaker 3: notebook is actually meant for me to remember things, since

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Speaker 3: my meds make me forgetful. If I call someone and

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Speaker 3: they don't answer, I'll.

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Speaker 4: Write down why I called them.

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Speaker 3: If I'm talking about planning something face to face with someone,

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Speaker 3: I'll jot it down. I think what this guy's girlfriend

904
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Speaker 3: is doing is creepy. Yeah, I'm only nine minutes in,

905
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Speaker 3: so I don't know what's happening after that.

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Speaker 4: I'd feel creepy if my boyfriend did this.

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Speaker 2: It gets so much worse, Jess Smith, It gets so

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Speaker 2: much worse. It's not Yeah, what you're doing is normal

909
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 2: people journal all the time. I also write down things

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Speaker 2: people say if they're funny, because that's I'm my writer.

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00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 2: That's what you need. But you know, when you start

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Speaker 2: writing down things people said and do and where they

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00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 2: are before you even really met them, that's just stalking,

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Speaker 2: plain and simple. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Comment to by m Thomas ten Or with the first story.

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Speaker 3: Instead of stalking your partner, you can just ask them

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Speaker 3: to tell you about their day.

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Speaker 1: Literally, how could I possibly do that? What are you

919
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:40,720
Speaker 1: talking about?

920
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Speaker 2: What if they don't want to what if they say, ah,

921
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Speaker 2: you want to know about my day, screw you and

922
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Speaker 2: then they spit. Yeah, isn't it so much easier to

923
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 2: just stalk their every move and write it all down

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Speaker 2: in some creepy journals?

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Speaker 4: Did she have a job in this one?

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Speaker 2: I don't even remember. I don't just being how does

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Speaker 2: she manage two jobs stalking her boyfriend and whatever her

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Speaker 2: other job.

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Speaker 3: Is a Commenter three by maleik two hundred and fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Story one.

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Speaker 4: Why am I weirdly attracted to that?

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Speaker 2: Lol? I don't know. I think that's something to think

933
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Speaker 2: about in therapy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you just need a real type a girl.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you should hate the girl from the story because

936
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Speaker 3: Opie's out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Opie's out, and maybe you'd be a perfect couple.

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Speaker 1: I want a girl who's clinically obsessed with.

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Speaker 2: A girl who's a little bit crazy, a lot of

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Speaker 2: bit crazy. Actually, in the story, it's like that song

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Speaker 2: sad he likes crazy girls.

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Speaker 1: Okay, nobody knows that song. Anyone who ever existed.

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Speaker 2: That whatever, who made that song, just leave.

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Speaker 1: Made that song? You are you don't know and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't exist.

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Speaker 4: Commenter four by shy like k eleven.

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Speaker 3: I kind I kind of get the girl in the

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Speaker 3: first story because I'll research the interest of people that

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Speaker 3: I care about so that I can ask them questions

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Speaker 3: about it. I'll also make notes of little things they

951
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Speaker 3: like or say when they want for gifts and stuff,

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Speaker 3: but not with time, for sure, and certainly not when

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Speaker 3: I'm not around.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Again, there are normal ways to journal about someone

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Speaker 2: or to even take an interest in their life. This

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Speaker 2: was not one of them. This was freaky. This was strange,

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Speaker 2: a little freaky, a little deaky, a little spooky if

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Speaker 2: you will, because it's spooky season. Well maybe not when

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Speaker 2: you're watching them in my no lotary spooky speason. But folks,

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Speaker 2: that's the end of those comments and the end of

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Speaker 2: this episode. But if you love us, make sure to

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