Speaker 1: Hey, you made it to the podcast.
Speaker 2: Welcome and we try to thing.
Speaker 1: In December, Yeah, we did write what we do Alexis,
Speaker 1: we started putting awkward Tuesdays on a Sunday totally makes sense. Yeah, away,
Speaker 1: and we asked you do you like it? Do you
Speaker 1: want us to keep doing it? Overwhelmingly people commented on
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Speaker 1: keep it up. I could binge this all day, and
Speaker 1: one person even said this is pretty mid Yes, say,
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Speaker 3: Guys je commenting.
Speaker 1: So listen, you're stuck with your awkward Tuesdays on Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if you want to hear a full hour of
Speaker 1: our show, we do a brand new show every day
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Speaker 1: weird and get awkward.
Speaker 3: It's awkward, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It's awkward Tuesday phone call. I don't know how my
Speaker 4: co hosts were regarding their emotions as children, but for me,
Speaker 4: I was always a big crier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 1: Who is not shocked by the information? I say, Jeffrey
Speaker 1: throwing tantrums in a grocery.
Speaker 4: When there was a dessert that I couldn't have, or
Speaker 4: a TV show I couldn't watch, I would let the
Speaker 4: emotions take over and launch into the ugliest, loudest cry
Speaker 4: I could, especially if my housekeeper Lucy wouldn't change the
Speaker 4: channel for me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is what we expected.
Speaker 3: Did you have a remote, Jeff? Yeah, well she had
Speaker 3: the remote.
Speaker 4: And I was always a really big People's Court fan,
Speaker 4: watching blue collar families get the shaft. Oh so funny.
Speaker 1: Nothing like Claims Court.
Speaker 4: Still so weird. But luckily my parents taught me how
Speaker 4: to bottle up those emotions deep deep inside, and I
Speaker 4: grew out of that. Now, unfortunately for one of our listeners,
Speaker 4: they didn't have parents like mine, so they reacted emotionally
Speaker 4: as an adult.
Speaker 3: Oh well, that's are good.
Speaker 4: Now they're in hot water because of it. So Allison
Speaker 4: has reached out for help. Alison, welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hi, you sound like a real live wire.
Speaker 1: What could have happened?
Speaker 2: I made my work life really weird, and I hope
Speaker 2: you guys can help me fix it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I hope you're a blue collar worker, so this
Speaker 4: could be really funny.
Speaker 2: Yes, what, No, I'm not I'm in software sales and
Speaker 2: I had great year, wonderful year.
Speaker 3: Like, oh that's good, that's great.
Speaker 1: How did you ruin it?
Speaker 2: So I emailed my boss and I was just asking
Speaker 2: for a couple extra days PTO. Okay, I mean just
Speaker 2: two days. Really, I just wanted to take a trip.
Speaker 1: Is that usually met in your environment with like cool or.
Speaker 2: It's like you have to work really hard and it's
Speaker 2: like a lot of clients are really needy, so like
Speaker 2: sometimes it's hard, but it's worth it, and you know,
Speaker 2: they do have this culture of vacation is necessary kind
Speaker 2: of thing. But he responded back and he denied me.
Speaker 2: Oh god, feeling, and I'm like I just want two days,
Speaker 2: and like does this company know how much money I
Speaker 2: make for them? Like it's astronomical by the way that
Speaker 2: boss all the time too, So I feel, yeah, it
Speaker 2: just works like so many hours, so many weekends, and
Speaker 2: I don't complain, and they just like wouldn't give me
Speaker 2: two measly days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's just kind of how sometimes corporate
Speaker 1: America companies don't care about.
Speaker 3: The health software. How do you respond to that?
Speaker 2: I was so pissed, like I really just want to
Speaker 2: go on this trip and I give everything for this company.
Speaker 2: So like I'm like, forget it. I'm done with this.
Speaker 2: So I just typed up a letter. You wrote a letter, oh,
Speaker 2: very harshly worded, and I was insulting, and I printed
Speaker 2: it out and I just looked it under my boss's
Speaker 2: door on Friday.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even an email resignation. Letl was it just
Speaker 1: an angry letter. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like you don't get me time off, So like,
Speaker 2: I'm done with this. Like I was really pissed you.
Speaker 3: Quit. Okay, yeah, quit your job. Well, you know, go
Speaker 3: out and blaze it. You're not happy.
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, I understand your sentiment, but you got
Speaker 4: to be careful with your emotions in a professional setting.
Speaker 1: You don't want to burn bridges, like you have to
Speaker 1: have references when you try to get a job later.
Speaker 4: Hey, if you're out of technology, burn every bridge though,
Speaker 4: cross the bridge to the other side, and then you
Speaker 4: can burn Okay.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not allowed with matches. So I didn't know
Speaker 3: how this works. Yeah, so it sounds like we're too
Speaker 3: late for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well okay, so the weekend happens, and then I
Speaker 2: went back and I read my email again, and I
Speaker 2: realized that I didn't actually fully read it because you
Speaker 2: didn't outright deny me, and like he basically it's yeah,
Speaker 2: he said no for this week, but let's work together
Speaker 2: and see if we can get you off. Not no,
Speaker 2: get you some more time off next week afterwards.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you stopped after no, and you went into
Speaker 4: a full on rage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I really went in a full on rage.
Speaker 1: So have you broken into his office and taken the
Speaker 1: letter back before I went back.
Speaker 2: And I tried to see if I could get it
Speaker 2: like before he saw it, and I like, his door
Speaker 2: was locked, and I'm desperate at this point, I cannot
Speaker 2: lose my job, so like I busted down his door.
Speaker 2: I busted his door down, and like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: it's a pretty weak door. I mean, but the letter
Speaker 2: was not there.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, it's worth it if you get
Speaker 1: the letter.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh man, I was like praying the editorial
Speaker 2: staff like saw it on the floor or just threw
Speaker 2: it away. But I guess maybe he could have come
Speaker 2: in over the weekend and saw it. But I guess,
Speaker 2: like I'm fifty fifty on what happened.
Speaker 1: Oh you think that maybe he still didn't get it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just need to figure out if
Speaker 2: he knows, and if I need to actually do a
Speaker 2: ton of damage control.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it came in a paper on the ground,
Speaker 5: thrown it away or something. Who knows.
Speaker 4: So you're hopefully you want us to call your boss
Speaker 4: then and try and figure out how much information he has,
Speaker 4: if he got the letter or not.
Speaker 2: I need to know what I need to do. I guess,
Speaker 2: because I mean I don't. I don't want to lose
Speaker 2: my jazz.
Speaker 4: Okay, you sound really nervous, right, I mean, like, how
Speaker 4: could you not lose your job over this?
Speaker 2: He might not have seen it. He might not have
Speaker 2: seen this. He wanted two days off. I just wanted
Speaker 2: two days off.
Speaker 4: Well, you might get two hundred days off if he's
Speaker 4: actually saw the letter. But we're gonna come back and
Speaker 4: we're going to give you some advice on what to
Speaker 4: say to your boss to figure out if he saw
Speaker 4: the letter and if he did.
Speaker 3: What to say to save your job. One oh, I
Speaker 3: thought this was going to be easy.
Speaker 4: We'll see how it goes with your awkward Tuesday phone
Speaker 4: call right after this.
Speaker 3: It's awkward.
Speaker 4: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward.
Speaker 3: Tuesday phone call. Emotions can be a good thing and
Speaker 3: a bad thing. Good because they can help you do stuff.
Speaker 6: Like fahe love, cheer on your favorite sports team. Bad
Speaker 6: because they can make you overreact to an email and
Speaker 6: quit your job with an angry letter to your boss.
Speaker 3: It's about controlling the emotions, yes, or just burying them deep,
Speaker 3: deep deep, or.
Speaker 1: Just reading the full work email for God's sake, like
Speaker 1: that's all she had done.
Speaker 4: That's why Allison turned to us for help because she
Speaker 4: just quit her job in an emotional letter that she
Speaker 4: slipped underneath her boss's door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of a middle finger.
Speaker 4: Doesn't know if he's seen it yet or not. It's funny, Si.
Speaker 4: Note she did break into his office to retrieve the letter,
Speaker 4: but it was not there.
Speaker 3: That's kind of funny. No, breaking and entering is not funny, Jeff.
Speaker 4: Well, she works there, so it's okay. But we need
Speaker 4: to help her out with some advice. That's what awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday is all about. So, Brook Europe, what do you
Speaker 4: think Allison should do?
Speaker 1: Okay, first, I'm just going to assume the worst here, Allison,
Speaker 1: because I mean, if he hasn't seen it, then you're
Speaker 1: not going.
Speaker 3: To need any of our advice, we'll just hang up
Speaker 3: on him.
Speaker 1: Right, So here's the thing. You need to pin it
Speaker 1: on somebody else, right, go on, and that someone else
Speaker 1: is chat GPT. Oh you are going to tell your
Speaker 1: boss that you quickly wrote a chat gpt letter to him.
Speaker 1: Maybe you were even thank you to him, just printed
Speaker 1: it out thoughtlessly, slipped it under his door, got back
Speaker 1: to your computer and actually read what chat gpt had written. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're horrified.
Speaker 3: That wasn't you, that was Ai. So she should lie
Speaker 3: to her boss. Yeah, you should.
Speaker 4: Always like to your boss, Jeff, especially now, Allison, is
Speaker 4: that something you're comfortable doing?
Speaker 2: I mean, job, maybe? I guess what? How how am
Speaker 2: I gonna lie? Being just like blame it on chat gpt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 1: Blame it on another employee because then you're taking that
Speaker 1: employee down.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay to my advice, which is, blame it
Speaker 2: on an employee, blame it on somebody else to get fired.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh man, Like if it was here in our office,
Speaker 4: I'd be like, oh, Brooke is playing a prank on me.
Speaker 3: Boss. She typed that up and she put I would
Speaker 3: never quit like that.
Speaker 1: That's all unprofessional that way he's like, oh, that makes
Speaker 1: more sense. Would throw me under the bush.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But when I quit, everyone's going on.
Speaker 4: But it's not just throwing them under the bus in
Speaker 4: a playful way. Say it was a joke from an employee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh maybe say oh, and I'm gonna get him back.
Speaker 3: So don't you worry. Boss are happening?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because bosses love pranks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, maybe you don't say that.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was rough. I can't I can't blame an employee.
Speaker 3: Well you can't. You can blame somebody else. You got
Speaker 3: two pieces of advice here.
Speaker 4: You're either going to blame technology for letting you down,
Speaker 4: or an employee for setting you up.
Speaker 3: Or somebody else. Pick anybody from your life. Blame your mom.
Speaker 3: I certainly do, and it's worked out great for me,
Speaker 3: and now we hear about it all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we're running out of time, Allison.
Speaker 4: It's really up to you. This is your phone call.
Speaker 4: We're going to step away and let you call your boss.
Speaker 4: See how much he knows. If he saw your resignation,
Speaker 4: like I keep.
Speaker 3: Forgetting, he may not even seen it, and we'll never
Speaker 3: hear this.
Speaker 4: That's what we're hoping for. But let's find out how
Speaker 4: dialing is number right now?
Speaker 3: Good luck?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah we're here, We got your back.
Speaker 2: Here you go.
Speaker 5: Hello Patrick? Yeah, hey, hey.
Speaker 2: This is Alison. I'm really sorry to bother you.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, whine strange that you're calling me.
Speaker 2: I mean well, yeah, I mean I texted you like
Speaker 2: saying that I was going to be late to work
Speaker 2: because I had something come up, and I just want
Speaker 2: to let you know that I'll be in shortly.
Speaker 5: What what? Wait? What? Why?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: Why am I? Why am I coming late? Or why
Speaker 2: am I coming.
Speaker 5: In at all? Or yeah? Yeah, actually, since I have
Speaker 5: you here, you know anything about this broken lock on
Speaker 5: the door to my office? Uh? Uh?
Speaker 2: What? Your lock? Your lock was broken?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I came in and the door handle was all
Speaker 5: scratching everything. It looks like it was tampered with. Do
Speaker 5: you know anything about this?
Speaker 2: I mean no, I mean, like, with all the money
Speaker 2: we maybe you should totally be able to get you
Speaker 2: a better door. That's terribles.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, Wow, would this like maybe like have been like
Speaker 2: the janitorial people, like maybe they have this really big guy.
Speaker 2: Maybe he like leaned in on the door broken.
Speaker 5: I don't know of any big janitorial guys. Look, okay, Allison,
Speaker 5: why are you calling so my.
Speaker 2: Request about a couple of days off you you said
Speaker 2: you wanted to work with me on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I did. But we don't have to do
Speaker 5: that now because we got your letter. Oh oh you
Speaker 5: saw that. Okay, yeah, I saw that. We all saw that.
Speaker 5: It was pretty harsh. And you know, based on what
Speaker 5: you're saying, obviously you reacted without reading the whole thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well, okay, all right, Patrick, I have a
Speaker 2: very good reason for this whole day. And but Corey
Speaker 2: tell you. I want you to know that I respect
Speaker 2: you so much. I would never hurt you intentionally, but
Speaker 2: I would pull a joke on you. It's a brook.
Speaker 2: It's a brook at Jeffrey phone tap.
Speaker 1: Heay, phone, okay, gotcha, yep, we phone tapped him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: The whole shows here.
Speaker 3: James said, I on my phone and I am also here.
Speaker 3: Hey we're so fun. Patrick on the radio morning phone tap.
Speaker 2: Your radio right now, you're on it right now.
Speaker 1: Oh So all part of our new phone tap letters
Speaker 1: that we have people sneak under personally delivered.
Speaker 2: Very elaborate just delivered it.
Speaker 5: I thought you quit.
Speaker 3: Real sucker.
Speaker 2: All right, are so funny?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: They told me to rate this letter and put it
Speaker 2: in your office and then call you and then but
Speaker 2: they just took it like way too far.
Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, I don't know. Oh you liked it.
Speaker 4: You got it, Patrick, I said, smash all the windows
Speaker 4: and break the desk the door.
Speaker 3: It was elaborated.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: Wait, so you were the one who broke the door.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, you know no, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That was just a funny.
Speaker 2: This is super weird.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: There was somebody going around with like a hammer something.
Speaker 3: I don't really it's the it's the big janitor with
Speaker 3: the hammer.
Speaker 5: It's got to be him or somebody in I t so, wow,
Speaker 5: you know that was funny. I'll give you a credit
Speaker 5: there out Okay, okay, well I gotta run, but take
Speaker 5: care everyone.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: He hung up.
Speaker 1: Wow, my god, that was actually genius. Why didn't we
Speaker 1: think of that advice?
Speaker 2: He said, so, Well, Jeff is the one that said
Speaker 2: to blame anybody anybody, So I blame you.
Speaker 1: You'll take it, perky.
Speaker 4: I wasn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't meaning us. But sure, I guess it worked out.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a really strange story that he
Speaker 1: is going to be retelling.
Speaker 3: I got pranked on the radio with this letter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we will have to step up all of our
Speaker 4: pranks now that we are going to have this reputation
Speaker 4: out in the business world. Py dammit.
Speaker 3: We did try faxtaps for a while. We need to
Speaker 3: bring that back.
Speaker 1: I cannot believe that you have a job still.
Speaker 2: I can't either. Next time, you hope me get a
Speaker 2: race
Speaker 5: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.