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The French File Conspiracy · WDYM What Do You Mean?

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the WDYM, the What Do You Mean Podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: Now everyone gather around and listen to one of Hamilton's best podcasts.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: No research to back this up.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: It all comes down to Monday.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: The NCAA Football Championship, the FBS Championship, is down to two teams.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: The Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies in Houston.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: See, Texas had a chance to have a national championship game in their backyard.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: And they goofed it up.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_02: They said, No sir, no ma'am, no ham, no bacon.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want no part of it.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: We don't want no part of the championship.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: You Huskies can have it because they're probably scared of Wolverines.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: So who is going to win the game?
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: I am a Ohio State Buckeye fan.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Always have been.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_01: Probably always will be.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Do I root for a fellow Big Ten team to win the championship?
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: Or do I root?
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Do I root for the Pac-12 to win something that they haven't been had?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember last time the Pac-12 was won.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: Probably since USC won it with Reggie Bush.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's how long it's been, probably assuming.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't do my research today.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: Forgive me for that.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, there's no way on God's green earth I root for Michigan for this one.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_01: Washington better win this game.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I don't know the words.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Something about Washington.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: Washington, Washington, go, huskies, go.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the words.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the words, but we cannot have Michigan winning this game, okay?
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: The thing about an Ohio State Michigan rivalry is because you got friends on the other side of that of that river that love Michigan for some strange reason.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: My one of my best friends in the military, Chip, he loves Michigan.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't understand why.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Homeboy, I think he I think my homeboy's from Delaware.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Is he not?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Why do you like Michigan?
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_01: My best friend from childhood, foo, loves Michigan.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I know why.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know why he does.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's because Desmond Howard.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Desmond Howard, he was a beast.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: He was a beast when he played for Michigan, and maybe that's why.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Jimmy.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: One of the dudes I graduated with, Jimmy.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_01: He loves Michigan.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: He is a diehard Michigan fan.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: He here's this funny thing.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: Back when Urban Meyer and Jim Trestle was just whooping Michigan's tail.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: There's this picture he made with him in his Michigan, maze and blue, arms crossed, everything.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Whole bunch of Ohio State fans, like at least 10 of them, were looking at him.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: He stood strong with his maze and blue on.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Even like one of my friends, Chris.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: Chris actually decided to change his life and look like Jim Harbaugh.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: He's a Michigan.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: I can't.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: I can't, ladies and gentlemen, Michigan cannot win this game on Monday, okay?
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: Say it with me.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Michigan cannot win this game on Monday.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand the bragging rights that every one of these Michigan fans will have?
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand?
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: They would talk so much junk.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: They done beat Ohio State the past three years, and now they add a championship.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, God.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, man.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: We can't know.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, no, I gotta play it again.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: No, sir, no ma'am, no ham, no bacon.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_02: Don't won't be doing it.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: We will not be doing that.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Root for the Huskies.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: Please don't let Michigan win this game.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot stomach Michigan winning the championship.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: Cannot.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_01: Will not.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_01: Don't want to see it.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: Because another thing, and this is the last time we're going to touch this topic till after the game, this cheating scandal could tarnish the championship if they've been proven cheating.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: And they already have.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: They already have a cheater who's on the sidelines of a game with his little spy cam glasses.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Who does that?
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just hope that Washington wins the game and puts this thing to bed.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Now, one thing I am happy about, there's no SEC team in the championship game.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: I am so sick of the SEC.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: I really, I really am.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: If you get to play Vanderbilt every year and beat them, I like the SEC.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: But this favoritism has to stop.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: You come up north and play Ohio State in November and December.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: All these bowl games are in the South.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: The peach bowl, the citrus bowl, the sugar bowl, all these bowls are in the south.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: And who come?
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then you got, they don't got to travel far.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: They just ran in their backyard.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's all warm all the time.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, we up north, we play in the snow, in the cold.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: They don't ever come up north.
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  SPEAKER_01: You notice that.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: Even the beginning of the schedule, if the beginning of the week, week one, week two, you get Ohio State to travel to Georgia.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's hot.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: There's advantage SEC.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: Let's just be honest with you.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: Bring some of these Southern boys up north to play Michigan in November.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see what happens.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: It'll be a whole different story.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Today's episode, we are doing everybody's favorite game.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: Were they a good employee?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: Doom doom doom doom doom.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_01: I love that intro.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, today's episode focuses around my establishment that I was at, of course.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: The best the best facility in Butler County.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: Or facilities.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: Let me let me let me be honest with that.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_01: Facilities in Butler County.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, this one, the title of this episode, okay, we're just gonna call this episode the French Files.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: To give you a little idea of what was going on, it it was it was time for Cowboy to transfer.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: He initially put in a request to transfer, and he's been with me for a little bit over two years.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Me and him worked together really well, really fast, and really good together, honestly.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: The thing about Cowboy is that cowboy is 1,000% dependable.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: 1,000% dependable.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Anything like one, cowboy always shows up for work.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Cowboy always shows up for work.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, there's no way he doesn't show up for work.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: Hardworking man does a great job.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: Everything about cowboy is 100%.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: No, no problems with cowboy.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: So he put the transfer in.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_01: So you know, he it gets redundant to keep doing the same thing over and over.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I get that.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: He puts the transfer in.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, wait a minute.
• 7:27
  SPEAKER_01: So if he's leaving, who is replacing him?
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I get this young lady.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna call her French.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: Keep it simple.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: French.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: French was a young lady who was a cook.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_01: And she's like, yo, I'm excited to come over.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait to work over there.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I just I just I just want to get out of this facility, this location, and come to your location, Michael.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: I I want to work with you.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: I said, that's great, because I want to work with you too.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: Keep this thing positive, right?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: So when people come over, I don't I don't evaluate them immediately.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: On the other hand, French wanted everything evaluated then and there.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Michael, how did I do today?
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you did okay.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like it's day one.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna mess up.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: I understand that.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: Just look, just learn the ropes and then I can evaluate you.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm saying?
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_01: Like, don't put this added pressure on you.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: Just do your thing.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you have questions, I am here for you.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: I would like to say first and foremost, my standard is high.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: I have a high standard of excellence.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_01: When you come to the kitchen, I have an expectation for you to do things a certain way, a high-level way, a high-intensity thing, a way of doing things.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: The first the first time she made something, my lead server, she's on it.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_01: She was so on it.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: Now, to give you a little backstory between my lead server and her, they had a little tension at the previous location, right?
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: And they both come over, my lead server comes over first, and then she follows afterwards.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: So initially, she's like, they're like, the other, the other uh my co-workers like, hey, you think there's gonna be a problem?
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: So no, there's not gonna be a problem.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my lead server, she's professional most of the times.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, French is professional.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping she's professional.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: So the first day she's working, and my lead server is pinging me up six o'clock in the morning.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_01: Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: My phone's going off.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, what is going on?
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, thankfully I'm already up.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I wake up five o'clock in the morning every day.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, all right, let's let's let me see what these messages are.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: The first message is like, oh boy, this is oh boy.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what?
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's like you gotta see these eggs.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: These eggs are green.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: I said, how do you do green eggs?
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I don't know, but this may be from a Dr.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: Seuss book, but these eggs are green.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: I said, This is okay.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_01: I said, all right.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: Again, she doesn't know my way of doing things.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, let me get a little background story on like where what is your history of making food and all that stuff.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so we get to it.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: So that same day, I get another ping ping ping ping.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: I get another text, like, oh boy, here she goes.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: Lee server's like, oh boy, this bacon is limped like a noodle.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: I said, what?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: She sent me a picture of the bacon and the middle was raw.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh, how did you how did you do that?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_01: Just like I'm wondering.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, I don't know, but this ain't going well, Mike.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, Lee server, you just relax.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I gotta show her the way of doing things, right?
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I go in there and I'm like, let me, let me, let me ask you a question, French.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Yeah.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, how do you make eggs?
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, uh, scrambled eggs.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, uh, I just take it from the uh container and pour it in.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, is that it?
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: She's like yeah, that's it.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then I put it in a steamer and let it do its thing.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Now, first off, there's nothing wrong with steamed eggs.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, if you put the love into the batter, you're gonna have you a nice egg.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: She said, you just put the mix in there.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like, French, I'm gonna have to tell you something.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: You have to put a little love in your eggs.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, what do you mean?
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you gotta put a little love in your eggs.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Put a little heavy cream or some milk and some salt and pepper.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, okay, but I read the menu and he said you cook with, and I and I stopped her.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Like, cook with what?
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, with a little bit of salt and sugar.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: I said, a little bit.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you can put a little bit of love in your eggs.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: Okay?
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: So okay, cool, no problem.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay, let me see.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what do you do for baking?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: She says, I put it in the turbo shift.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: So don't do that.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_01: Don't do that.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got these two nice ovens right here.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, just put it in for uh 14 minutes each and you'll be fine.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, okay, it's like I got it.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I'm gonna try to do my best, Michael.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited to be here.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, me too.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: So a couple days go by.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I start going by the guest, a guest that's been here for you know a couple weeks and all that stuff.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I go by one person's room and she's like, What in the heck is going on back there?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: My over medium eggs are over crispy.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: I said, over crispy is not a thing.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Yeah, I know that, Michael.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Who's back there cooking the eggs?
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Okay, I got somebody new.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Relax.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get this fixed, okay?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm gonna talk to her how to make an over medium egg.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, I hope so, because over crispy eggs are not good, Michael.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I understand completely.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like over crispy eggs either.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: I don't.
• 12:34
  unknown: I don't, I don't.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: So I go back to her and say, hey, make me an over medium egg.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you, I hate over medium eggs.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Anything runny is disgusting.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh no, I'm not eating no yolky milk, and then all these older people like, yeah, just dip the toast in the yolk.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: But no, we're not doing that.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: I need my stuff done, okay?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: So she makes me the egg, and I see some mistakes.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_01: Her fire's too high, okay?
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: So just low and slow is the way to go.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's the way we did in culinary school.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_01: Everything is low and slow is the way to go.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I try to tell her.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_01: So that was a problem.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_01: Then the pancakes was a problem.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, oh God.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: I just can't.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is the third time that someone's complaining to me about breakfast, and this is her primary thing, breakfast.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, all right, I gotta pull her in the office.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta pull her in the office.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: So look, we gotta talk about this.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: I pull her in the office, and she has a full-blown panic attack.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this is just a conversation.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: This is like I'm I'm trying to calm her down.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, look, we're just having a conversation, we're just having a talk, we're not meeting the standard.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: Let me show you how I do things.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: So we go over everything, and she said, she's nervous and she's crying.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, like, this is me.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't I don't induce panic attacks.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_01: I have conversations with people.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's all I do.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Especially you're new.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: She's brand new.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: I don't expect her to meet my high expectation yet.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's a gradual thing.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a gradual thing, so therefore, I'm not expecting you to hit it out the ballpark your first two, three weeks.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping you will learn eventually.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: So we have the conversation and everything starts going well again.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_01: But she's like, hey, do you mind if I go home early?
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, is your stuff done?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: She says, Yeah, my stuff's done.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, if your stuff's done, you can head on out.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't hold people to the I don't hold people when they say, hey, my stuff's done, can I go home?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: As long as your stuff's done, I'm cool with that.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: She goes home, phew, darts out like roadrunner.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: B beep, boom, she's gone.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: All right, cool.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: So like, so I'm like, all right, cool.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm home.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: I get a call.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah, Mike, there's no fruit cut.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said, what?
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Said, no, there's no fruit cut.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: I said, who supposed to cut fruit?
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: So the AM cook.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's French.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: French is supposed to cut fruit.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, hey, French, did you cut fruit?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I forgot.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, look, with this promotion, you got promoted when you came to my facility.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta make sure your job's done.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: If your job's done, I don't mind.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_01: As long as your job is done.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, okay, I understand.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, cool.
• 15:13
  SPEAKER_01: So I left it.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, just make sure your job's done.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: So every week, she's like, can I go home early?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: Can I go?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: And on certain days, she's like, Can I go home early?
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: Can I go home early?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Is your job done?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: She says, Yeah, it's done.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Pew, BB, she's gone.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Come back.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, she left a sink full of dishes in the back.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said, What the?
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm trying to treat you like an adult.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: But you keep leaving stuff behind.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay, so I'm gonna have to have a talk with her.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: So we get in, we have another office talk and another panic attack happens.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, she's like, she's like shaking and crying.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I don't understand.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_01: What am I doing to cause this?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just having a conversation.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: I know you're not gonna be my standard the first three weeks, four weeks, five weeks.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's 35 days.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: At around 60 to 70 to 80 to 90, that's when I'm like, okay, you're not getting this.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, but we're not there yet.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: She's having a full-blown attack.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh my god, I don't, I don't, is this me?
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm starting to evaluate myself.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like, is this am I inducing this?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I don't know.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I just doesn't make sense.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like, so I go back to the other managers and say, hey, does she have panic attacks?
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Like, they're like, oh, all the time, all the time.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I said, what?
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_01: So y'all couldn't tell me this?
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, you know, she if she's on she's on her meds, she'll be fine.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: Come to find out she wasn't on her meds.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, okay.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: So I chilled out.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you know what?
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not even gonna bother.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna just have these small conversations, just hey, don't do that.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, you should do this.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: Just chill out, right?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_01: Just chill out, just don't oppress her, right?
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: So the next thing is is that she's had she has outside issues.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: Again, everybody has issues, right?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: She's having these outside issues.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_01: I do as much as I can to supplement her outside issues.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: I would go pick her up when she needed a ride.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_01: No problem off my back.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'll wake up five o'clock in the morning, come get you, take you to work.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: No problem.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I try to do everything to support her.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: In my in this role right now, I'm trying to support her in her roles.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like you say, hey, I'm here, I'm your manager, but you know, I'm also trying to make sure you, you know, you have a job and da da da da, all this stuff.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: The thing that broke the camel's back is that she kept she started calling off.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we every work has a point system or has an attendance policy.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_01: We have one too.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: She calls off.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, all right, cool, you know, whatever.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Document it.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Boom.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_01: She called off again.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, document it, cool.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Started documenting the points, and she started adding up points where I started to have to do disciplinary actions.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: And guess what?
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: Me, office, closed door, her.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Guess what happened next?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, she's having a panic attack.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's like it's like, dude, she's crying like again, dude.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: You stress me out.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: She's shaking.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_01: You stress me out.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, why do I stress you out?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't know, man.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: We have all these conversations, it makes me feel like I'm not doing my job.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: And she's having another panic attack.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, French, we're just having conversations.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm noticing a trend.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: You keep missing work.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: You you're you have all these outside problems, and I'm trying to help you.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: We had this conversation, and this is what I say to her.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to get you in any more trouble than you're already in.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, if you're sick, come to work.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Come to work.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: And y'all might be like, yo, what are you doing, Michael?
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's not cool.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hear me out first off.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Come to work.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Let me get dressed, get ready.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: Once I come in, you can go home.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: Meet me here.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: So therefore I can take care of the rest.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: I will do that for you.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_01: I have done that for a number of my employees.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: I I one of my guys comes in and says, Yo, I need to use I swear I worded to him.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: I I said, Look, I am your cheat code.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Whenever you need a cheat code, tell me you need a cheat code.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: If if if I can take the spot for you and I have everybody else here, you can go home.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: I've done that before.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: I've done that numerous times.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: I have no problem with that.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: In my opinion, that's what a manager is supposed to do.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_01: Manage the situation.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: You're sick, let me get in here.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: So therefore, I'm not going to point you because I'm literally telling you to go home.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: You feel comfortable go home, go home.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: We had that conversation.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: So the thing, the thing that the last one of the last conversations we had, she's going, she's having an a mini episode because I'm getting on her about her about her job again.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Now we're at around the 60 to 70 day thing.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, some things need to connect, right?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I am.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: You've been here about 60, 70 days.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Things need to connect.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And she goes on a little tirade about spoons.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: She goes, you know what, Mike?
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: I don't have enough spoons today.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking around, like, hold on.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: I thought I ordered some plastic spoons.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I have plenty of metal spoons.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'm confused.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Mike, it takes a takes a spoon for me to get up.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: It takes a spoon for me to come to work.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: It takes a spoon for me to get these kids kids ready for the day.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm running out of spoons.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, holy spoons.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: Spoons.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know this was a thing.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm I'm just I'm just I'm I'm confused by the spoon talk.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what?
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so it takes all these spoons to get your day started.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yep.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_01: I said, spoons, huh?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: So okay.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you use forks?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because you get stabs.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm sorry.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, hold on, stop right there.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: So we had the spoon talk.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: She said, I just need spoons.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Take so many spoons for today when I'll just run out of spoons.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh wow, okay.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_01: You run out of spoon.
• 21:10
  unknown: I'm gonna leave you alone.
• 21:11
  unknown: Okay.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I okay, she tells me the spoon conversation and everything.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm like, okay.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, alright, so uh this is crazy.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I've never had a spoon conversation before.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: So she calls in sick again.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm thinking, like, do I do I document this?
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because now she's like in trouble, right?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I know her personal situation.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not trying to get her termed, right?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, oh shoot.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what to do.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: But I I had the conversation with her.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: I said, just come, just meet me 50%.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: If you're sick, meet me 50%.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: Come to work once I get dressed, get ready, go home.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: We had this conversation and she calls off again.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: I said, dude, I I can't I can't do this no more.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've tried to deal with the situation and it's not working.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I say, Look, we gotta call HR.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: I've documented the points.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: She's gotten so many points in two months to a point where she can be termed.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Look, we can't have this.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to my boss, Nate, and I said, Look, we can't have this.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's like agreed.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: Agreed.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so he agrees with me.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, all right, cool, cool, cool.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: What are we doing?
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, well, we're gonna term her.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, okay.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Thankfully, I got people that can absorb her shift.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: One of the things that I like to do when it comes, when we already decided we're gonna term her, I feel like I should be able to turn my point.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I should get on the phone and be like, hey, you know what?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: This didn't work out, you're fired.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: So, but HR says, no, Nate should do it.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: I said, come on, man, let me get this one, let me fire this one bullet.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: Boom! Let me fire this one bullet.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Let me fire this bullet.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: She's done putting me through the stress.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: Let me get this.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, HR wants me to do it.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: I said, whatever, man.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's bull crap.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: But you could be in the room and hear her.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, man, that's not the same.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: But I'll take it anyway.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_01: All right, I'll be in the room.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: Forget about it.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: So he calls her up and she's playing like it's cool.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, how you doing?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah, well, I'm getting this um this uh flu test or something.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: She's getting something.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: Tylenol, she getting medicine, something.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll be in tomorrow.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, nah, you you know what?
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we just gonna go ahead and end this right now.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna turn me.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, she said, are you serious?
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm looking, I like I gotta muffle my mouth.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean, are you serious?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we're gonna turn.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: You can't act like this with me.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, you you need to show up for work.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, are you serious?
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: He said, and he's so he's one thing about Nate, Nate is super polite.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, well, yes, ma'am, we're gonna, we're gonna, yes, ma'am, we're gonna let you go gingerly.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we hope you have you're being like, I wish you best in all your future endeavors.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: He's nice.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: He's too nice.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: He's too nice.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, yo, we're firing you.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: You suck at your job.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: I wish you nothing the best.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Not really.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: Goodbye.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: That would'll be me.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_01: But no, he didn't, that didn't happen that way.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: So she is termed.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: And now we've picked up her shifts and we're working our butts off to cover cover her shifts.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: So a couple weeks later, a mutual friend of ours reaches out, says, Yo, uh, I got a question for you.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: I said, This is weird because you know, usually I don't hear from you.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, Yeah.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um, French is asking if she could get her PTO for being fired.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, um normally when you get fired, you kind of forfeit your rights to get those, get those rights, right?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: You when you get fired, you say, hey, I don't want to show up for work, I don't need a PTO, you can stick it.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Basically, when you get fired, that's how I always take it.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing the fact that you got fired, you're not eligible.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: But I can ask.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, by the way, she could have asked me.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: This isn't personal.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: Nah, as this is this isn't personal, it's professional.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: You don't show up for your job, you keep calling off, you're gonna get turned.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: What does Fritz say in in response?
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_01: In response to that, says, I ain't got to say to you.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: I said, dang, that's how it's gonna be.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't fire you, fired yourself.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Why are you mad at me?
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: I told you to meet me 50 percent 50%, and you couldn't even do that.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: And you wanna say, I ain't got to say to you.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: I bet you're bad mouthing me right now.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't get it.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't do anything to you.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: You did it to yourself.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: So she's gone.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: With within of two months, two and a half months of transferring to my facility, she's gone.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: But hold up.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: I think there's a little conspiracy to this.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Why was she transferred?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Why was she promoted and transferred to me if this is a normal behavior?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_01: This cannot be the first time she's done this.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to my Lee Server again.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey man, y'all used to work at the other facility.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: But one of Butler County's finest facilities, mind you.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey, y'all used to work at the other facility.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: Did she always call off?
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: Lee server's like all the time.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, what?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: I said, did they set me up?
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_01: Did they take my best cook and take him over to their facility and give me this young lady?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's all right, so I'm I'm gonna head over there.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: Cause because Nate was quick to fire her.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: Nate was super quick to fire her, like just, hey, hey, she's turned, she's turned, she's termed, let's turn her.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: So I asked the executive chef over there.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: I said, hey man, did French miss work all the time?
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Say, absolutely, yes, she did.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: I said, why didn't you why didn't you term her?
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: She said, Well, uh, and then you uh well she did pick up, she did pick up shifts, and I took up points.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: She surely she shouldn't she didn't do that, she didn't do that at my facility, she was all quick to get out of there.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Man, did you guys set me up?
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: I said, No, of course not, Michael.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: We will never do that.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Oh, ain't that something?
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: So the moral of the story is one, show up for work.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: Two, if you have a manager like myself that's willing to meet you 50%, maybe you should meet meet the person 50%.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I have nothing against French.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, let that be known right now.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: I tried.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: If I was willing to pick you up at 5 o'clock in the morning to take you to work, I am trying.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: If I give you the message to say, hey, meet me 50%, I will help you.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: You can be, you can get access to the cheat code.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: But no.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_01: Nasty mad at me saying, I ain't got squat to say to you.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's messed up, man.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Because I really, really tried.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: I do think I was set up.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell you right now, I think they said, man, this is what we're gonna do.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna take his cook and give you this crappy cook.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: And you know Michael got a high standard of work ethic over there.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna fire.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's a great plan.
• 28:13
  SPEAKER_01: And they all rubbing their hands at evil cackle.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_01: So that being said, we're gonna end the episode right there.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: I was set up.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care what anybody says.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: I know I set up when I see it.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: That was a setup.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I will I still, to this day, wish you nothing but the best.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_01: But were you a good employee?
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely not.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: I tried.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: Do better.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_01: Wish you the best in all your future endeavors.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie of the WDYN.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: Peace out, Girl Scout, Boy Scouts.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Peace.