1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: You don't hear me confession I can't take back Earl arms. 2 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 2: Mouse speak text to seventy eight five ninety two says 3 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 2: I can't remember if my sister's birthday is on the 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 2: sixth or the eighth of August. Oh God, she doesn't 5 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: have a Facebook, and I'm too ashamed to ask anyone 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 2: in the family, so lately I get around it by 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: just saying, Hey, it's your birthday week, yame. 8 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 3: Dude, You're gonna be screwed when that's Saturday through Monday. 9 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 4: Yeah. 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. I have a similar issue where three of my 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 2: family members all have March birthdays and I can never 12 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 2: remember which one is which. 13 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 5: I feel you my dad, I don't know if it's 14 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 5: nineteen or twenty. 15 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 4: I don't know my dad either or like within two 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 4: days in April, and I'm like, happy birthday, everybody. 17 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 3: Are we gonna talk to the mass speaker? Should we 18 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 3: just go over? 19 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 5: Let's just go over what terrible family members we have? 20 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 2: No, but we do have a woman on the phone 21 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: who's ready to confess her secret. She's chosen Jamie as 22 00:00:58,880 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 2: her fake name. 23 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 5: Jamie. Welcome to the show, and justin Kay's happy early 24 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 5: birthday to you. 25 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 4: Thank you. 26 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: You're actually correct. 27 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 5: Good. I'm glad that we got that out of the way. 28 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 5: We're good. Now. The voice changer is on. 29 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,960 Speaker 2: You are the mass speaker, so whenever you're ready, let's 30 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: hear your confession. 31 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: Okay, So this might not be a good idea to 32 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: be admitting this because I have such a great situation. 33 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:23,360 Speaker 5: Okay, it's going on. 34 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 3: That's a good start, I will say for us. Anyway. 35 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: Yes, I work at an insurance company and it's like 36 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: one of the really big ones, like really big one. Okay, 37 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: there's thousands of employees and I was hired about eight 38 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: nine months ago and I have literally done zero work 39 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: the entire time. 40 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 5: What huh? 41 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 3: What do you mean? Like, so no one trained you, 42 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 3: no one taught you what to do. 43 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: So I was hired as an operations assistant and in 44 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: the job interview they told me that I'd be coordinating 45 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: schedules between departments and preparing reports for management. None of 46 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 1: that stuff has actually happened. I haven't done any coordinating. 47 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 5: What do you mean you do have a boss? 48 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 6: Though, Yes, I do have a boss. 49 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: And at first I thought, okay, maybe like they're letting 50 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: me get acquainted with the company, like you know how 51 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: that is. 52 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 6: So I was like, Okay, maybe I'll just like cruise along. 53 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 6: And then I've been cruising and I'm still cruising, and 54 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,280 Speaker 6: eventually I'm like, are they going to give me any 55 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 6: task or assignments? And like a week went by, and 56 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 6: then two weeks went by, and then three weeks. 57 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 3: In the beginning. Are you like emailing your boss like, hey, 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: what do you have for me? 59 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 1: Or no, I'm like, here's your job to come up 60 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: to me and train me. And I'm pretty sure that 61 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: they forgot like that they even hired me for this role. 62 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,520 Speaker 2: Oh but wait, hold on, so like do they not 63 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 2: even realize that you're there? 64 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,679 Speaker 5: Like they, yes, they must see you. 65 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 1: I have friends at work and like they know me. 66 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: And for the past eight months, I just come into 67 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 1: the office each morning and I sit at my y 68 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: I attend the meetings and I'm on the email chain. 69 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 5: How does the. 70 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: Meetings get scheduled when you're not scheduling. I guess that's 71 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,880 Speaker 3: my she doesn't need to do work. There's another scheduling. Yeah. 72 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:14,919 Speaker 1: I go to my cuticle and then I'm like watching 73 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 1: TV shows and playing people's computer games. 74 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 4: I feel like it'd be fun for like a couple 75 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:23,519 Speaker 4: of days, and then I'd be bored out of my mind. 76 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 5: I'd be like, why am I like that? 77 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 3: But then they want to get a second job to 78 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 3: just work while. 79 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: They're at that job. 80 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 5: That's really smart. 81 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: Have you thought about doubling your income Jamie by taking 82 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: a second full time job? 83 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 4: Wait? 84 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 5: Does Alexis have another job? 85 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: So? I do want to mention there was one time 86 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: my boss asked me for a report, and I asked 87 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: my coworker and they were like, Oh, don't worry about it, 88 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: I'll handle it. 89 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 5: Oh wow, those are quick, I can do it. What 90 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 5: you seem like, you're so slammed all the time. 91 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: You're always got your head down at your desk watching 92 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: whatever you're doing. 93 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 5: Let me handle that report for you. 94 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: Well, I'm actually I'm actually on a group zoom call. 95 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 5: Right now, right now, as we're as you're doing this, dude. 96 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: You better be muted. You better be muted. 97 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: I am. I am muted, And my manager is talking 98 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: about monthly metrics and KPI. 99 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 3: Okay you even know what that means. 100 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 5: What's a KPI? 101 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: I don't know? 102 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, like music, k pop international? That's cool. This is 103 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: eight or nine months that you've been doing this no work. 104 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,920 Speaker 1: It's crazy no work. 105 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 4: I could see this happening if you were working remotely, 106 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 4: like where people would get lost else, but that you're 107 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 4: having your building relationships in the workplace. 108 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, you should just stop going in and see if 109 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: they even noticed. 110 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 5: It does make sense because we do meet people in 111 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 5: our office. 112 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: They're like, oh, yeah, I'm on the sales team, and 113 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 2: I'm like, great, no more questions by I don't want 114 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,280 Speaker 2: to know any more details about what you do real. 115 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, but I think they work for commissions, so they 116 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 4: don't have a sweet rid. 117 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 5: They need to sell. 118 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 2: Do you feel guilty about it or like where's your 119 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 2: mind at? 120 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 1: Sometimes I do, and I've considered talking to a manager 121 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 1: about it, But at the same time, I'm like, why 122 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: would I do that. I feel like if I told 123 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: them now, I just get in trouble and they would 124 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 1: like fire me, like why do. 125 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 5: We need you if you don't do any work? 126 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 4: You're too deep exactly well, And it's one of those 127 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 4: things where it's like if it was a local shop 128 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 4: or something that you were working for, but nobody feels 129 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 4: bad for big insurance companies. 130 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,679 Speaker 5: No, no, no, they're like billion dollar corporations. 131 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 3: Take all the money. 132 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 5: You can't there's money lying around, like you. 133 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: Said earlier, Like I do get very bored, and I'm like, 134 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: this is so boring that like I'm actually considering like 135 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: quitting so I can have a real job and. 136 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 3: Say a second one. 137 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 2: Try to do a remote job that you can do 138 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: while you're at your other job. 139 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 5: And maybe you won't have to do any work for 140 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 5: that job either, Oh my gosh, and then you could 141 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 5: apply for a third job. 142 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 3: I feel like the Borden just explains why you listen 143 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 3: to our show. 144 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm streaming your show at my desk. 145 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 3: Wowre like listen. I am so bored. I found your podcast. Yeah, 146 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 3: be careful. It puts a lot of people to sleep. 147 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 5: Yeah. 148 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 2: Now we have a record number of listeners applying to 149 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: work at insurance companies. 150 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,240 Speaker 3: As you, Jamie, I feel like you just shared a 151 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 3: hack somehow. 152 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, even though you don't know how you got into it. Yeah, 153 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 5: stay there as long as you can. 154 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: Yes, And you're right. I will get a remote job 155 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: and do it at this job, and then I'll get 156 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: fired at the job eventually. But it doesn't matter. 157 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 5: You live in the. 158 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: Dream text in seventy eighty five, nine to two if 159 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 2: you have a confession that you've been holding on to, 160 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: will hide your identity, mask your voice, and make you 161 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 2: our next mass speaker. We got your phone tap coming 162 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: up right after this Jeffrey in the morning.