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Phone Tap PODCAST: Workplace Talk · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: it's time for your phone tap. And today there's a
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  Speaker 1: guy working in office job named Sean and he has
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  Speaker 1: a couple of buddies that he works with. And since
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  Speaker 1: it's Sean's five year anniversary with the company, they emailed
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  Speaker 1: us to prank him. Oh what a cool company. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I want to work for them, and so I'm just kidding. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we asked them a little bit about their office
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  Speaker 1: and they told us their company has been coming down
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  Speaker 1: with some stricter new policies about what you're allowed to
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  Speaker 1: do and say and what you're not allowed to do
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  Speaker 1: and say while you're at work. Are doing that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And so we asked our favorite corporate HR person, Brooke
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  Speaker 1: Fox Oh to call Shaw and take some of those
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  Speaker 1: policies to the next level. I think we have a
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  Speaker 1: good plan. Yeah, We'll find out exactly what that means
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  Speaker 1: in your brand new phone. Tap right now, it's tell
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  Speaker 1: me I'm moving ninety two point five. Hello, Hi, this
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  Speaker 1: is Minni Farow calling from corporate HR. Is this Sean? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is Hi Sean. I know we haven't spoken before,
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  Speaker 1: but I needed to give you a call because unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten a complaint about you. What about me? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And maybe you'd rather do this in person, which is
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  Speaker 1: an option, or we can just talk over the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Right now on the phone is fine. I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what the problem could be. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go over your workplace correspondence. It's been
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  Speaker 1: deemed offensive by some What does that mean? Well, your
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  Speaker 1: emails are rubbing people the wrong way, and we're really
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  Speaker 1: trying to make sure that we have a healthy environment here.
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  Speaker 1: I want that too with everybody. That is so good
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  Speaker 1: to hear, Sean. I just want to I'm sorry to
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  Speaker 1: interrupt you, but let you know I'm happy to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. Do you have any examples as to what
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  Speaker 1: I did? Sure? Last Monday you responded to one of
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  Speaker 1: your coworkers emails with and I have it right here quote.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure I understand the concept for the project.
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  Speaker 1: Can you elaborate further. Do you see how that can
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  Speaker 1: be perceived as rude? No, I don't understand. That's okay,
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  Speaker 1: we can work through this together, Sean. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm here for, you know, So I wrote up a
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  Speaker 1: different idea, so, you know, maybe instead of questioning the
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  Speaker 1: concept of the project, which can be construed as being rude,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you try saying something like quote, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I have a learning disability. So can you explain it
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  Speaker 1: to me in more detail? Please? This isn't funny. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure why you're laughing. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a learning disability. I just I really don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think that that would make someone else feel better? Like,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's the reason you don't understand, not because they
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  Speaker 1: did something wrong, but because you were a little behind. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to wrap my head around this. So you
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  Speaker 1: want me to lie in my office emails and tell
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  Speaker 1: my coworkers that I have a learning disability so that
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  Speaker 1: their feelings don't get hurt. Well, you're having a hard
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  Speaker 1: time understanding what I'm saying, so I'm not sure that
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  Speaker 1: it's a lie, Sean. I just think it ll no
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  Speaker 1: this is HR corporate HR. I want to remind you
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  Speaker 1: of that, Sean. And I just think everybody would feel
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  Speaker 1: a lot more comfortable this way. I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable right now. Okay, I hear you, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: How about this? Going to move on to the next
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  Speaker 1: complaint we received? There's another. Yes, I hate to say it,
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  Speaker 1: but last Tuesday we received a complaint about an email
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  Speaker 1: you sent to an employee asking if they could quote
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  Speaker 1: meet for a meeting at ten am the following morning. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what's the probably that one? I don't how is
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  Speaker 1: that offensive? Well? Ten am is that employee's normal snack time.
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  Speaker 1: And they said you knew that? What I didn't know?
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  Speaker 1: I am so confused right now. I'd watch it, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: They are hyperglycemic, so they thought by you trying to
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  Speaker 1: schedule a meeting at ten am, that's suggesting you hope
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  Speaker 1: they fall ill. What. I would never think that, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I believe. I believe you. I do, Sean, and I
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  Speaker 1: hear you getting upset. I'm just trying to work with
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  Speaker 1: you to manage this. Okay. I really don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: we're managing. Listen, we don't want to be attacking people's
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  Speaker 1: medical history. Oh, so instead, we're going to have you
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  Speaker 1: call out a medical issue you have first, so you
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  Speaker 1: can schedule the meeting around that, so you know they
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  Speaker 1: can feel sorry for you. Why would I say that?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, my medical history is supposed to be confidential.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't have to share that with anyone. I understand
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying, Sean. It's not your real medical history.
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  Speaker 1: We're not asking you to divulge that. It's just to
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  Speaker 1: make them feel better about themselves. So let maybe lupus asthma.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even if you don't have it, you want
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  Speaker 1: sympathy so that that way they don't hate you, they
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  Speaker 1: just feel sorry for you. You want my co workers
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  Speaker 1: to feel sorry for me. Vitamin C deficiency is at
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  Speaker 1: an option? You want meeting? Email my co workers and
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  Speaker 1: tell them I have scurby. No, actually I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't email your co workers that tell them that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Then what the hell is going on? This is a joke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. My name is actually Broke. Through the
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  Speaker 1: radio show Broke and Jeffrey in the morning, we're doing
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  Speaker 1: a phone tap on you. I knew I knew something
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  Speaker 1: was going on saying I could not keep it together. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: your employee Zach and James set you up to congratulate
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  Speaker 1: you on your five year anniversary. I work with some
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  Speaker 1: bleeding hearts, but this was too much. Well, I just
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  Speaker 1: would say, you know, when you're scheduling your celebration cake,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you do it around their snack time. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want them to pass out. Yeah, wake up
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