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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's for.

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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 3: It's time for John move.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's our podcast. What ended up on the cutting

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Speaker 1: room floor today? A man?

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Speaker 4: Well, as we sip our cup of soups, Yeah, let's

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Speaker 4: look at what has ended up on the cutting room floor.

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Speaker 2: What about this story? A woman?

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Speaker 4: I'll read the headline, A woman who did not get

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Speaker 4: a leaving card loses a UK employment claim. So this

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Speaker 4: woman has sued her former employer for not giving her

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Speaker 4: a leaving card. She lost the case because it was

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Speaker 4: revealed it had been hidden from her because only three

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Speaker 4: people signed it. She claimed, quote you wonder how this

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Speaker 4: could end up in court, that there'd be any claim.

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Speaker 4: She claimed that quote The failure to acknowledge her existence,

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Speaker 4: i e. Give her a leaving card was a breach

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Speaker 4: of a quality law. Then a former colleague told an

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Speaker 4: employment tribunal that the manner just had indeed brought a card,

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Speaker 4: but didn't give it to her because only three people

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Speaker 4: had signed it, and they deemed that would be more

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Speaker 4: consulting to give her a card that three people had

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Speaker 4: signed than no card at all.

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Speaker 3: Well, it depends was the card circulated to people? Do

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Speaker 3: we know that part of the story.

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Speaker 4: No, But the fact that this claim was turned down

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Speaker 4: tells me that that's the truth of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, it speaks volumes about this woman, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: But you know what it's like.

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Speaker 4: We can ask to sign birthday cards for people that

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Speaker 4: we don't know and.

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Speaker 1: You're leaving card I signed.

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Speaker 4: That just before what But I like how you just put.

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Speaker 2: Rock on Jonesy.

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Speaker 4: You could be signing a letter for the Pope for

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Speaker 4: a child who's requested this for you because they're unwell.

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Speaker 2: For top management. You put the same thing, rock on jones.

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Speaker 1: This is my wife's birthday. The other day I started

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Speaker 1: to write rock on and thanks for listening.

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Speaker 3: And the funniest part is she doesn't listen. That's the

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Speaker 3: funniest part of it.

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Speaker 1: She rock on.

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Speaker 2: That's all we need to know.

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Speaker 1: It's been sometimes you'd see you on that.

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Speaker 3: You know one time I left a radio station and

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Speaker 3: not saying that I'm very popular, but they had to

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Speaker 3: get a joinormous core flute.

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Speaker 1: So because everyone wanted to sign it.

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Speaker 4: Give us your sign, why don't you give us your

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Speaker 4: cake theory?

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Speaker 1: The cake theory is.

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Speaker 3: Someone's birthday that indicates how popular that you are, is

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Speaker 3: how much cake is.

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Speaker 1: Left and what happens with me when it's my birthday.

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Speaker 3: They have to get like a wedding cake, like many

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Speaker 3: tears forty wedding cake because there's not enough to go around,

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Speaker 3: because everyone wants to be a part of the j man.

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Speaker 3: What's happening for his birthday? I know for you, they

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Speaker 3: bring out a cupcake.

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Speaker 4: None of all, none of this theory is true, and

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Speaker 4: none of the reality of what you're saying is true either.

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Speaker 4: So if someone has a birthday and there's some left,

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Speaker 4: because often girls don't want to eat chocolate cake at

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Speaker 4: nine am, it may surprise you to hear that's.

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Speaker 1: Wrong with them.

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Speaker 4: You go lor you're popular, you tell them to their

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Speaker 4: face your theory it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: Well, I've seen many people like you walking out of

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Speaker 3: the building, you know, with three quarters of a cake,

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Speaker 3: and it just seems wasteful.

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Speaker 4: What about this other story, I'm just sending an unwonted

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Speaker 4: birthday card to a colleague could be seen as harassment.

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Speaker 2: Really other UK case, a woman.

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Speaker 4: In the UK has told a tribunal she repeatedly contacted

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Speaker 4: She was repeatedly contacted by her bosses while she was on.

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Speaker 2: Leave for work related stress.

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Speaker 4: This is probably those new rules they're trying to bring

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Speaker 4: in here too, that you can't contact someone out of

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Speaker 4: work hours, but she said she also was given numerous

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Speaker 4: emails while she was on work related stress leave and

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Speaker 4: an unwanted birthday card.

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Speaker 2: She says that she had told.

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Speaker 4: Them on a number of reason a number of occasions

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Speaker 4: that she would not be celebrating for personal reasons, and

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Speaker 4: asked her to be kept off the list that the

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Speaker 4: boss kept of employees' birthdays. The boss apologized and claimed

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Speaker 4: he to remove her name from the list. However, in

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Speaker 4: the following weeks, she was sent eleven emails as well

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Speaker 4: as a birthday card. So she contacted thebunal because she

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Speaker 4: said that this exacerbated for symptoms, and the judge said

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Speaker 4: the repeated contact created a hostile and intimidating environment for

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Speaker 4: the claimant.

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Speaker 3: Next to bringing your pet into work, having a birthday

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Speaker 3: at work is the biggest time waster in the history

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Speaker 3: of the world.

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Speaker 4: That's so people love it. I like it when it's

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Speaker 4: someone else's birthday and we all get to.

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Speaker 3: Say I hate it, and it destroys all the momentum

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Speaker 3: that you're doing, the work that you're doing. Everyone has

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Speaker 3: to stop down my sister is an airline pilot, and

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Speaker 3: when she was pregnant, they don't let pregnant women fly

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Speaker 3: planes because something about hormonal stuff and things like that. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: is that why I believe so? Yeah, I believe so. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: she was in the office at work. They put her

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Speaker 3: in the office just to do admin jury duties, and

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Speaker 3: she said, it's the most boring thing in the world

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Speaker 3: because there's nothing else in't trying to find things to do.

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Speaker 1: And then one day she was watching a birthday celebration. She'sought,

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Speaker 1: hang on a minute.

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Speaker 3: This is a classic time waster because you look at it, right,

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Speaker 3: You've got to get.

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Speaker 2: The cake, got to get a card, get so you've.

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Speaker 1: Got to leave the building. You get the cake. You

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Speaker 1: gotta there's a hole and get plates. Plates, You got

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Speaker 1: to gather everyone around, napkins, you.

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Speaker 2: Have to take a card around to be signed.

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Speaker 3: Then the speech is made and then the awkward chatter

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Speaker 3: as you're eating cake. If you really play your cards right,

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Speaker 3: you could get an hour out of birthday cake organization.

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Speaker 1: And Anita did this for everyone in the office.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think she did a minute of work

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Speaker 3: while she was grounded in that Office's birthday brigade, and

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Speaker 3: then you would think when her birthday came around, it

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Speaker 3: would be a fixt no nothing.

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Speaker 2: She was the one who had done it all, and because.

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Speaker 3: She was pregnant she went into an emotional meltdown. It's

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Speaker 3: probably because she wasn't flying that plate.

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Speaker 2: That's there for the day. Come back tomorrow for more