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Speaker 1: a Strawberry Letter. Thank you, nephew. Subject my ungrateful young employee.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm a relatively successful entrepreneur and I

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Speaker 1: have had a lot of help along the way. I

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Speaker 1: believe in returning the favor and helping other minorities advance

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Speaker 1: anyway I can. To that end, about a year ago,

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Speaker 1: I hired a twenty six year old black female that

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Speaker 1: graduated at the top of her class. I set her

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Speaker 1: up with an excellent starting salary and her own office.

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Speaker 1: I noticed she was not much of a team player

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Speaker 1: and worked better alone, and that was fine with me

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Speaker 1: because she was very smart and didn't need a lot

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Speaker 1: of directions. At times. I noticed that she lacks the

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Speaker 1: emotional and intelligence that is required in business, and it

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Speaker 1: was hard for her to keep her game face on

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Speaker 1: when she got flustered. Despite that, she's one of my

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Speaker 1: best employees, so I added her to a global teams

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Speaker 1: she's advanced in one year, and so is the team.

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Speaker 1: On the video call, one of our biggest investors acknowledged

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Speaker 1: her as the newest member and congratulated her for being

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Speaker 1: the youngest person to ever join the team. Surprisingly, she replied,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I've been doing way more than

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Speaker 1: I was hired to do, and I'd like to discuss

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Speaker 1: an increase in salary and a promotion. The call got

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Speaker 1: quiet and everyone looked uneasy. She's been with me for

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Speaker 1: one year and she was awarded the highest entry level

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Speaker 1: salary of anyone. I broke the silence by telling her

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Speaker 1: that we'd have to discuss that later. I was a

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Speaker 1: paul that her attitude, and I would love to get

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Speaker 1: her viewpoints on this? Do I allow? I would love

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Speaker 1: to get I'm sorry, I would love to get your

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Speaker 1: viewpoints on this. Do I allow her to grow with

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Speaker 1: my company? Or turn my focus to one of my

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Speaker 1: mail interns that always has a great attitude and is

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Speaker 1: willing to learn please advise. This is not personal, right,

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Speaker 1: this is business. You said yourself. She's smart, she graduated

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Speaker 1: at the top of her class, she's one of your

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Speaker 1: best people at the job. How is she ungrateful? Can

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Speaker 1: you not afford to give her a raise? I know

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Speaker 1: you said you were relatively successful. I mean, but can

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Speaker 1: you not afford to give her one? If she's deserving

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Speaker 1: and a promotion that she asked for? Is that it?

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Speaker 1: If it is, I think you should say that because

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Speaker 1: I say, let her be great and don't get mad.

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Speaker 1: Because she believes she deserves a raise. I mean, she

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Speaker 1: is who she is. Her timing might be a bit

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Speaker 1: off because you're judging how long she's been at the

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Speaker 1: company and what you've done for her already, meaning you

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Speaker 1: gave her, you know, a big entry level starting salary.

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Speaker 1: But it sounds to me like she understands her value

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Speaker 1: and her worth to this company and she wants to

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Speaker 1: be compensated for it. I'm not sure while you're so

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Speaker 1: upset that she wants a raise, I think you said

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Speaker 1: she's a valuable employee. You said that throughout the letter.

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Speaker 1: She's young and hungry, she wants to get paid. You

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Speaker 1: can talk to her and tell her this shouldn't have

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Speaker 1: been discussed at that time if you like. But I

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Speaker 1: like her confidence, I like her boldness, I like her fearlessness.

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Speaker 1: Every company I think needs people like this. I think

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Speaker 1: you should celebrate her. Like you said, get her viewpoint, Well,

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Speaker 1: you said get our viewpoints on this. But see where

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Speaker 1: that moment to say it? You know, but I don't

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Speaker 1: think there's a law against asking for a raise. And

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Speaker 1: the alarming thing in the letters that she should you

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Speaker 1: have a great attitude and are willing to learn. What

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Speaker 1: does that have to do with anything? Are you upset

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, what are you really saying here, Steve?

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Speaker 1: I think she deserves everything she should get. Steve, My

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Speaker 1: question is simple, my ungrateful young employee, Is this a

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Speaker 1: woman writing the letter or a man? I assumed it

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a man too. So now let

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Speaker 1: because if this is a man, which I thought it

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Speaker 1: read between the lines. You're successful entrepreneur, had a lot

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Speaker 1: she was not much of a team player. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: usually not good, and she worked better alone. And that

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Speaker 1: was fine with me because she's very smart and didn't

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Speaker 1: need a lot of direction. Okay, so you let that

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Speaker 1: I noticed that she I noticed that she lacks the

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Speaker 1: for her to keep her game face on when she's flustered. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she's young, but you gave her her own office. You

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Speaker 1: gave her this great salary. She twenty six, so what

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Speaker 1: was it? Dog? So now you know I'm just watching

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Speaker 1: you now. Despite all of that, she's one of the

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Speaker 1: your biggest investor, and that's what she says. Houston, we

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Speaker 1: have a problem. I'll tell it to you when we

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Speaker 1: come back. All right, Steven, hang on part two of

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Speaker 1: your responses coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour.

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Speaker 1: Today's subject my ungrateful young employee. Will get back into

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Speaker 1: it right after this. You're listening show, all right, Come on, Steve,

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's Strawberry Letters. Subject my grateful young employee.

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Speaker 1: So now, as a woman that wrote the letter, we

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Speaker 1: just learned this on a commercial break from people who

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Speaker 1: pull the Strawberry letter. So it's a woman, which don't

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Speaker 1: change much. Oh, you hire this black female, You've been

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Speaker 1: a successful anthnoon. You try to give back to minority

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Speaker 1: to help her move along. You hired his sister, twenty

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Speaker 1: six year old black female graduate top of her class.

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Speaker 1: You set up with an excellent starting salary in her

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Speaker 1: smart and don't need a lot of direction. That's what

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Speaker 1: when she gets flustered, a typical sign of a young person.

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Speaker 1: She's just young. She young, She don't know the game face.

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Speaker 1: She lacks the emotional business intelligence. Okay, I got it now.

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Speaker 1: Despite that, she's one of your best employees. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: obviously you need some more employees. So I added her

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Speaker 1: her response. You say, surprisingly, I appreciate that, but I've

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? You put everybody on the phone

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Speaker 1: call uneasy. She has been with me for one year

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Speaker 1: And then you broke the silence by telling her that

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Speaker 1: was appalled at her attitude. Well why are you surprised?

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Speaker 1: You said that she lacks the emotional intelligence that is

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Speaker 1: She cracked. She figured, now I'm asked for a raised.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like there's ever a good time. That's

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Speaker 1: But now wait a minute, are you stupid? And now

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Speaker 1: you then threw out this here in front of everybody else,

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Speaker 1: where the company is right now, And I understand something. Now,

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Speaker 1: Sometimes young people want it all right now, a lot

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Speaker 1: of time. Now, this woman then built this company. She

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