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Speaker 1: gonna read this one right here, right now. Buggle up,

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Speaker 1: is the Strawberry Letter. Subject. My employee's wife is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I have an employee that is married

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Speaker 1: to a crazy woman that constantly harasses me. She has

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Speaker 1: something going on. I am a manager of any central

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Speaker 1: in demand. Therefore, I rely heavily on them to keep

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Speaker 1: so I've been working the graveyard shift a lot, and

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Speaker 1: He's always apologetic when he comes to work, and I

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Speaker 1: She's usually staring at me as I walk to my car.

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Speaker 1: She has even driven behind me a few times to

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Speaker 1: make sure I'm gone. My employee has been open about

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Speaker 1: his wife's insecurity since she got laid off in June

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Speaker 1: and has picked up a few pounds. I try to

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Speaker 1: be lenient with him, but I cannot take his wife's

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Speaker 1: evil stairs and the name calling. I've asked that he

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Speaker 1: stopped her. He stopped her from coming to the office,

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Speaker 1: but he said that would create more drama. He is

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Speaker 1: my best employee and I cannot lose him right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm beginning to think that his wife may be a

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Speaker 1: real threat to me, though. I'm thinking about suspending him

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Speaker 1: like the idea of suspending him. I do because perhaps

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Speaker 1: Like you say, I even liked the idea of a

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Speaker 1: restraining order on her because she is stalking and harassing you.

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Speaker 1: But you can't do that because guess it would affect

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Speaker 1: your income right now too. You need him, you say,

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Speaker 1: he's your best employee, and let's face it, everyone needs

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Speaker 1: their job right about now. She is crazy. Though she

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Speaker 1: is crazy. It's crazy all through this letter, and until

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Speaker 1: you can find someone to take his place, crazy is

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Speaker 1: going to continue to be a problem. I say you

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Speaker 1: start looking for his replacement a sap. Why should you?

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Speaker 1: Why should your business have to suffer because of this

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Speaker 1: man's wife is crazy? Why she's the one with the insecurities.

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Speaker 1: why did he have to go there anyway? Does she

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Speaker 1: definitely don't need the extra stress. You didn't tell us

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Speaker 1: So I just think you need to make could clear

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Speaker 1: My response to this letter is short. How much time

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Speaker 1: I appreciate everything you said, some great advice. Let's just

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Speaker 1: she was just big birds nine most later she Bonny. Now,

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Speaker 1: Who wrote? Who read my letters? In the letter? We

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Speaker 1: When people racist, we racist shame them. Wow, Canye do

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Speaker 1: You know, that's what this letter is about, and why

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Speaker 1: we're not trying to act like that there's nothing wrong

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Speaker 1: Now you're the game? Wait now, you you angry because

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Speaker 1: at twenty three minutes after the hour. My Strawberry letter

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Speaker 1: for today, the subject is my employee's wife is crazy.

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Speaker 1: to morning show. Come on, Steve, let's recap today's Strawberry

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Speaker 1: letter nicely. Please. The subject is my employee's wife is

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Speaker 1: asking her husband to come to work. She got. Here

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Speaker 1: is the letter that I'm reading that was written in

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Speaker 1: to me and Shelty. My employee has been opened about

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Speaker 1: his wife's insecurities since she got laid off in you

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Speaker 1: and has picked up a few pounds. Not she been while,

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Speaker 1: while now, right, she's seen as she's looking out the

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Speaker 1: She turned around in the winter. You can't even see

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Speaker 1: that winter. Oh man, Now the little skinny fine chicken

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Speaker 1: just you know, when you once you started getting laid

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Speaker 1: And two ten ain't skinny, but it's skinny to you. See.

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Speaker 1: Hype hefe he average hife. We need that. Hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're tall, shame and let it go tall shame y'all.

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Speaker 1: Now y'all trying to hurt him and make him short. Hips.

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Speaker 1: But if he stays next to me, He ain't regular,

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Speaker 1: Nat Shirley said she agrees with that, But suspend him

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Speaker 1: for what? And it's that legal. Can you suspend and

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Speaker 1: employ yee because of the actions of their spouse. You

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Speaker 1: She can gain too much. So now and then here's

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Speaker 1: They see her, Shelley, They see her, and don't nobody

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Speaker 1: told me about Steve was fast shaming, she wrote in

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Speaker 1: that's in the letter, A few pounds. You know what

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