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Speaker 1: It's broken Jeffrey in the morning. And nowadays good jobs

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Speaker 1: are hard to come by, so hiring managers are being

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Speaker 1: more stringent than ever.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they get all the power, don't they.

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Speaker 1: Well, I know that because we got an email from

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Speaker 1: a hiring assistant who wanted us to prank her boss. Yes,

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Speaker 1: because they've been doing interviews for weeks looking for the

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Speaker 1: perfect person to fill an open role at their company,

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Speaker 1: and they do think they finally found him. Great, Just

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Speaker 1: one final step is speak to the candidate's professional reference.

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Speaker 1: That's where we come intence, and if you can imagine,

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Speaker 1: it does create some doubt and he's the right hire.

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Speaker 1: Weird it's your phone tap right now.

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, is this Ashley? Yesing, Hey, this is Scott

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Speaker 1: Hormel that's in the bacon. Oh im. I was told

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Speaker 1: to call this number as a job reference for Cameron.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Hi, thank you so much for calling.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for answering. Of course, Yes, I guess I

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Speaker 1: wasn't that funny you said, thanks for calling, so thanks

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Speaker 1: for answering.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course, yes, sorry, I was just gonna

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Speaker 2: grab my notes one.

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Speaker 1: Stack, Okay, go ahead, So just.

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Speaker 2: To get started, what were his main responsibilities when he

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Speaker 2: worked with you?

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Speaker 1: Uh, okay, responsibilities, yes, yeah, Well, he was assigned to

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Speaker 1: open the office in the mornings, and he did that

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Speaker 1: by arriving extra early so he could greet each room individually.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: What does what mean?

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Speaker 2: You said greeting each room? What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Right, Well, I mean he would unlock each room

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Speaker 1: and turn on the lights for everybody and then verbal

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Speaker 1: welcome the space like hello, room, get it ready for work?

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Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes obviously the conference room got a

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Speaker 1: longer greeting because it's bigger, like, oh the room. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why Spanish came to me just then, but

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Speaker 1: I just feel like Spanish sounds bigger.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, yeah, that's a little quirky, but it sounds positive.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I like to think. So what else did

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Speaker 2: he do there?

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Speaker 1: Well, he was responsible for maintaining office supplies.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: For example, every morning, he would gently tap the printer

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Speaker 1: and tell it what jobs were coming up later that day.

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Speaker 2: So he's talking to office equipment and the rooms himself.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's not all he did. He was

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Speaker 1: also assigned to coordinate internal announcements right where he used

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Speaker 1: the office intercom to congrats himself on finishing tasks.

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Speaker 2: Now, okay, is this a joke.

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Speaker 1: No, you asked what his responsibilities were, so I'm just

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Speaker 1: going over them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, But you've been saying so far that he's

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Speaker 2: been giving praise to himself and then your room's office supply.

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Speaker 2: So that's just a little outside of the realm of

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Speaker 2: what people generally do on a day to day basis.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that separates him from the rest

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Speaker 1: of the group. You know, he's going up and above

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Speaker 1: for example. Did you know that on Wednesdays the entire

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Speaker 1: office would all gather around his desk and they'd watch

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Speaker 1: him shadow box his problems.

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Speaker 2: Come on, come on, no.

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Speaker 1: I'm serious, seriously, what do you mean you didn't mention

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Speaker 1: that in the interview.

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Speaker 2: No, he did not. He did not mention the shadow box.

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Speaker 1: We would all stand around and cheer him on. It

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Speaker 1: was really great for office bonding. Right, And I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you this, if you do hire him, and I think

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Speaker 1: you should, I guarantee you he will get very comfortable,

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Speaker 1: very fast. Okay, very first day here, he napped for

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Speaker 1: three hours at his desk because he told us, he

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Speaker 1: values peak performance. Oh what yeah, change the whole office culture.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was napping after that. Also, we did lose some

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Speaker 1: sales because of it, but still we were all very

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Speaker 1: well rested, and that counts. That was Cameron's doing, and.

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Speaker 2: You actually encouraged that behavior in your office.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he was an innovator. And also it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a lot of risk to us at the time since

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Speaker 1: we weren't paying him. So wait what yeah, wait what? Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we just let him live in the storage area and

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Speaker 1: then he'd come out and he'd do a few tasks

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Speaker 1: for us, and then he'd crawl back behind the vending machine.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, he.

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Speaker 1: Still lives there now, but once he gets a job,

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Speaker 1: I think he's ready to move out onto bigger, better things.

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Speaker 1: By the way, he did mention that, oh, sorry, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, this is not all match up with a person

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Speaker 2: that I met in person the interview. Oh this is

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Speaker 2: just crazy. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised to hear that, because he mentioned

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Speaker 1: that he thought his interview with you went great, and

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Speaker 1: he said he, yeah, you mentioned he loved the plant

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Speaker 1: that you have sitting behind your desk. He cannot wait

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Speaker 1: to get more.

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Speaker 2: Well, acquainted with it, but I don't know what this

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Speaker 2: is right now, I don't know what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you should probably ask your assistant Chloe what's happening,

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Speaker 1: because I think she deserves a race for listening to

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Speaker 1: the radio show Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning and

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Speaker 1: setting you up for this prank call. Yeah, that's going

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Speaker 1: above and beyond, even more than Cameron would.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a joke. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: I was so crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Chloe told us that you've been trying to hire

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Speaker 1: for this new position and you were really excited about

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Speaker 1: this one candidate self. I mean he talks to plans,

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Speaker 1: printers and shadow boxes his problems. That's like a star employee.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, I went the real caverns, broken Jeffrey's

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Speaker 2: phone taps on the twenties, brooking Jeffrey in the morning,