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Phone Tap: Office Plant Whisperer · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: It's broken Jeffrey in the morning. And nowadays good jobs
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  Speaker 1: are hard to come by, so hiring managers are being
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  Speaker 1: more stringent than ever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they get all the power, don't they.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I know that because we got an email from
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  Speaker 1: a hiring assistant who wanted us to prank her boss. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: because they've been doing interviews for weeks looking for the
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  Speaker 1: perfect person to fill an open role at their company,
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  Speaker 1: and they do think they finally found him. Great, Just
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  Speaker 1: one final step is speak to the candidate's professional reference.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we come intence, and if you can imagine,
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  Speaker 1: it does create some doubt and he's the right hire.
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  Speaker 1: Weird it's your phone tap right now.
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  Speaker 2: Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Hi, is this Ashley? Yesing, Hey, this is Scott
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  Speaker 1: Hormel that's in the bacon. Oh im. I was told
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  Speaker 1: to call this number as a job reference for Cameron.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Hi, thank you so much for calling.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for answering. Of course, Yes, I guess I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that funny you said, thanks for calling, so thanks
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  Speaker 1: for answering.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course, yes, sorry, I was just gonna
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  Speaker 2: grab my notes one.
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  Speaker 1: Stack, Okay, go ahead, So just.
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  Speaker 2: To get started, what were his main responsibilities when he
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  Speaker 2: worked with you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, okay, responsibilities, yes, yeah, Well, he was assigned to
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  Speaker 1: open the office in the mornings, and he did that
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  Speaker 1: by arriving extra early so he could greet each room individually.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: What does what mean?
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  Speaker 2: You said greeting each room? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Right, Well, I mean he would unlock each room
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  Speaker 1: and turn on the lights for everybody and then verbal
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  Speaker 1: welcome the space like hello, room, get it ready for work?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes obviously the conference room got a
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  Speaker 1: longer greeting because it's bigger, like, oh the room. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know why Spanish came to me just then, but
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like Spanish sounds bigger.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, yeah, that's a little quirky, but it sounds positive.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I like to think. So what else did
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  Speaker 2: he do there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he was responsible for maintaining office supplies.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: For example, every morning, he would gently tap the printer
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  Speaker 1: and tell it what jobs were coming up later that day.
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  Speaker 2: So he's talking to office equipment and the rooms himself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's not all he did. He was
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  Speaker 1: also assigned to coordinate internal announcements right where he used
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  Speaker 1: the office intercom to congrats himself on finishing tasks.
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  Speaker 2: Now, okay, is this a joke.
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  Speaker 1: No, you asked what his responsibilities were, so I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going over them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, But you've been saying so far that he's
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  Speaker 2: been giving praise to himself and then your room's office supply.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just a little outside of the realm of
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  Speaker 2: what people generally do on a day to day basis.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think that separates him from the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the group. You know, he's going up and above
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  Speaker 1: for example. Did you know that on Wednesdays the entire
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  Speaker 1: office would all gather around his desk and they'd watch
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  Speaker 1: him shadow box his problems.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, come on, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm serious, seriously, what do you mean you didn't mention
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  Speaker 1: that in the interview.
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  Speaker 2: No, he did not. He did not mention the shadow box.
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  Speaker 1: We would all stand around and cheer him on. It
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  Speaker 1: was really great for office bonding. Right, And I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, if you do hire him, and I think
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  Speaker 1: you should, I guarantee you he will get very comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: very fast. Okay, very first day here, he napped for
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  Speaker 1: three hours at his desk because he told us, he
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  Speaker 1: values peak performance. Oh what yeah, change the whole office culture.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was napping after that. Also, we did lose some
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  Speaker 1: sales because of it, but still we were all very
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  Speaker 1: well rested, and that counts. That was Cameron's doing, and.
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  Speaker 2: You actually encouraged that behavior in your office.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he was an innovator. And also it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a lot of risk to us at the time since
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  Speaker 1: we weren't paying him. So wait what yeah, wait what? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we just let him live in the storage area and
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  Speaker 1: then he'd come out and he'd do a few tasks
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  Speaker 1: for us, and then he'd crawl back behind the vending machine.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, he.
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  Speaker 1: Still lives there now, but once he gets a job,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's ready to move out onto bigger, better things.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he did mention that, oh, sorry, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, this is not all match up with a person
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  Speaker 2: that I met in person the interview. Oh this is
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  Speaker 2: just crazy. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised to hear that, because he mentioned
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  Speaker 1: that he thought his interview with you went great, and
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  Speaker 1: he said he, yeah, you mentioned he loved the plant
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  Speaker 1: that you have sitting behind your desk. He cannot wait
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  Speaker 1: to get more.
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  Speaker 2: Well, acquainted with it, but I don't know what this
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  Speaker 2: is right now, I don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, you should probably ask your assistant Chloe what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: because I think she deserves a race for listening to
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  Speaker 1: the radio show Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning and
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  Speaker 1: setting you up for this prank call. Yeah, that's going
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  Speaker 1: above and beyond, even more than Cameron would.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a joke. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I was so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Chloe told us that you've been trying to hire
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  Speaker 1: for this new position and you were really excited about
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  Speaker 1: this one candidate self. I mean he talks to plans,
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  Speaker 1: printers and shadow boxes his problems. That's like a star employee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, no, I went the real caverns, broken Jeffrey's
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  Speaker 2: phone taps on the twenties, brooking Jeffrey in the morning,