WEBVTT - "My First Thought Was... I'm Getting Fired" 😢

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<v Speaker 1>On Flex and Frooms.

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<v Speaker 2>Flex and Firms, This is the Flex and Frooms catch

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<v Speaker 2>up podcasts.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to this and tell me how it makes you feel.

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<v Speaker 3>Bosses are training employees to be influencers after long discouraging

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<v Speaker 3>social media posts about work.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, well, well, which is it?

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<v Speaker 3>Which is it? Listen to this. It's an article from Forbes.

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<v Speaker 3>After Emily Durham detailed her day in the life as

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<v Speaker 3>an Intuit recruiter on TikTok and her career advice podcast

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<v Speaker 3>began climbing Apple's podcast charts, she grew nervous about what

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<v Speaker 3>her employer would think. She had talked about controversial topics

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<v Speaker 3>like salary negotiations and racism in the broader job market.

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<v Speaker 3>My first thought when my podcast started blowing up was

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<v Speaker 3>I'm getting fired, hands down. I was fully prepared for

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<v Speaker 3>management to call me and shut it down. Makes sense, right,

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<v Speaker 3>because we've seen so many even in doing our show.

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<v Speaker 3>How many times have I told you another person got

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<v Speaker 3>fired for posting on TikTok, not about work, just having

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<v Speaker 3>a social media your account, So.

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<v Speaker 1>This is unsurprising.

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<v Speaker 3>However, her company at the time encouraged her to make

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<v Speaker 3>more content, keep posting, keep publishing podcast episodes and now

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<v Speaker 3>they even encourage other employees to post about their work experiences.

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<v Speaker 3>How many people do you think have been unlawfully fired

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<v Speaker 3>for existing on the internet as a person? And you

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<v Speaker 3>can say, hey, this is a different industry, right, she's

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<v Speaker 3>a recruiter. This is what recruiters do. They expand their network,

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<v Speaker 3>they talk about jobs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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<v Speaker 3>I've seen people get fired for less.

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<v Speaker 1>Bring back the period of time where people, do you

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<v Speaker 1>want to bring it back?

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<v Speaker 4>No, the period of time about five or six years

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<v Speaker 4>ago where regardless of your job, you had to write

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<v Speaker 4>views my own if you ever went on Twitter, you

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<v Speaker 4>really come back club.

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<v Speaker 1>Like literally though.

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<v Speaker 3>But here's the thing, Like four years, companies have been

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<v Speaker 3>quite stringent on their guidelines about social media usage, right,

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<v Speaker 3>and I think broadly we've struggled to figure out is

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<v Speaker 3>social media an extension of you as a person or

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<v Speaker 3>is that your persona and how different should you have

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<v Speaker 3>to make it? Should you as the individual take precautions

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<v Speaker 3>and be private or be more mindful of what you say?

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<v Speaker 3>Isn't it annoying enough that you have to give on

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<v Speaker 3>average thirty eight hours of your life every week to

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<v Speaker 3>this place, and now the time you spend outside of

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<v Speaker 3>this place has to be monitored to ensure that it's

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<v Speaker 3>in line with that place that you work. But what

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<v Speaker 3>I'm finding really strange is I don't think it's too

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<v Speaker 3>big of an ask to assume that in this field

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<v Speaker 3>that it's appropriate, even working in social media. I don't

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<v Speaker 3>think that it's odd that your bosses are encouraging you

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<v Speaker 3>to post you work on social media.

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<v Speaker 1>What I'm thinking about is all the.

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<v Speaker 3>Other people on the periphery who don't have any business

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<v Speaker 3>being visually tied to their workplace, who are now getting

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<v Speaker 3>roped in to being the face of a business they

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<v Speaker 3>just work here.

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<v Speaker 4>It's like when they've brought in like a gen Z

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<v Speaker 4>social media marketer and they're like, came we getting a

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<v Speaker 4>video in the office.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, They're like, it's like every UNI picking their three

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<v Speaker 3>most diverse looking people to plaster all over billboards for free.

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<v Speaker 1>You should be getting free tuition. It works both ways.

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<v Speaker 3>In the same way, companies didn't want you to be

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<v Speaker 3>identifiable as an employee there for their own safety. They

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<v Speaker 3>didn't people need to knowing they work so closely with you,

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<v Speaker 3>And then all of a sudden, especially given the way

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<v Speaker 3>that we moralize everybody's behavior from what they do personally

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<v Speaker 3>what they did professionally. Think about if you were caught

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<v Speaker 3>in the background of a company who was like getting canceled.

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<v Speaker 3>Like let's say insert company is getting canceled on TikTok

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<v Speaker 3>and here you are plastered all over their fee because

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<v Speaker 3>you're the graphic designer and someone's asking how you made

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<v Speaker 3>their logo.

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<v Speaker 1>That happens, It always happens.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not fair.

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<v Speaker 3>Already companies get away with being this like omnipotent.

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<v Speaker 1>Like nameless, facelessned patent.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the company like omnipotent, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnipotent.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, what do you think, becky omnipotent.

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<v Speaker 1>American, UK English omnipotent?

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<v Speaker 4>You said, yeah, me potent pronounciation, omnipotent.

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<v Speaker 1>What was that?

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<v Speaker 3>Sorry? One more time?

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<v Speaker 1>Omnipotent? Do you say yosamite too instead of yosemite? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Bigfoot?

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<v Speaker 3>As I was saying, if you work in social media

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<v Speaker 3>marketing or you co signed to being the face of

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<v Speaker 3>part of the brand, sure, But if you just happen

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<v Speaker 3>to work in accounts and someone's like, hey, what are

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<v Speaker 3>you wearing today?

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<v Speaker 4>Like, is that is that all we're doing, not the

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<v Speaker 4>accounts first, because I leave them out of it.

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<v Speaker 1>I just work here. I just work here, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>I find it funny how it becomes an individual and

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<v Speaker 4>the company's done something wrong, and yet per when the

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<v Speaker 4>company is winning, it's a team effort despite one person

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<v Speaker 4>working overtime.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, guys, you've been listening to The Flex and Froom's

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