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Phone Tap: Working Remote, WAY Remote · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Today we call a woman whose dream is to be
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  Speaker 1: able to roll out of her bed every morning, stay
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  Speaker 1: in her pjs, and work from the comfort of her
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  Speaker 1: home full time.
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  Speaker 2: What is it like?
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  Speaker 1: I know text in We will never know. At this job,
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  Speaker 1: her company does not make it easy. Hardly anybody gets approved.
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  Speaker 1: But she's filled all of her paperwork out, completed the steps,
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  Speaker 1: and she sees the finish line. Now we just need
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  Speaker 1: to rip it away from her.
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  Speaker 2: She is approved for remote work.
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  Speaker 1: We just have a different understanding of what remote means.
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  Speaker 1: In your phone tap right now?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Hi is this Diana? Yes, that's good morning. This
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  Speaker 2: is Jim Gymnasium. I'm an administrative assistant here at Corporate
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  Speaker 2: hr Oh. Hi, Hi, Sorry, how are you? I'm doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for asking. I'm calling because I know this has
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  Speaker 2: been a very long process for you, with feeling on
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  Speaker 2: applications and all the hours and requests. But I hear
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  Speaker 2: you've been wanting to start working remotely. Yes, you know
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  Speaker 2: how hard it is for that to get approved of
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  Speaker 2: this company.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I do. Yes, I've been trying for a year now.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, over a year. It's been that long. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: feel even better than what I'm about to.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you what is it.
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  Speaker 2: You have officially been approved for remote work.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, wow, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Yeah, so, starting next month, you'll begin working
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  Speaker 2: from our remote offices in Antarctica. Just exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Antarctica.
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  Speaker 2: You've heard of it. What an opportunity. It's a beautiful there,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and I'm quiet.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of time to think when you're working.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, Jim, I do appreciate you calling let me know
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  Speaker 3: that I've been approved. I've been applying to work remote
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  Speaker 3: from home.
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  Speaker 2: That's what working remote from our company means. In this company,
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  Speaker 2: you you will be very remote. It's hard to get there.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely feels like I'm misunderating because I understand what you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about in terms of remote work. But I assure
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  Speaker 3: you at least half of the applications that I've been
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  Speaker 3: filling out over the years says work from home remote.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, No, I understand it. Sounds like you may want
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  Speaker 2: to speak to maybe a supervisor or somebody about it.
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  Speaker 3: I would absolutely Yeah, if you have a supervisor, I
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  Speaker 3: would love to just get some clarity on this.
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  Speaker 2: Well before I transfer you over. Just think in your
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  Speaker 2: head Antarctica. Right, I've never been, but I hear it's beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: like polar bears and eels and glaciers.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, did you just cancer me?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? My apologies police Hold.
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  Speaker 3: Diana. Yes, Hi, who am I speaking with?
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  Speaker 4: This is Marcy white Head.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Mercy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. My assistant told me you're having some issues with
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  Speaker 4: remote work. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I was just on the phone with your associate, Jim,
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  Speaker 3: I believe, and he wanted to let me know that
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  Speaker 3: I've been approved for remote work, and then said that
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  Speaker 3: the remote work would be taking place in your remote
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  Speaker 3: office in Antarctica.
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  Speaker 2: A little.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, it's a lot different from what I thought I
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  Speaker 3: was applying for. I'm going to interrupt you right there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to interrupt you right there because I see
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  Speaker 4: the misunderstanding here. You know what, We're going to get
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  Speaker 4: this resolved.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, fantastic. Yeah, because I've been applying for work from home.
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  Speaker 4: And can you stop talking so.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of words?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, let me look here.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was rude.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I think you've been approved for remote work, so
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  Speaker 4: i'd probably watch how you speak to your superiors.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm see we can send you.
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  Speaker 4: I see the issue we can actually send you to
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  Speaker 4: our office in Siberia actually would work better.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really I really alright approved No, No, you're not understanding.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to work anywhere but from home.
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  Speaker 4: It's already been put through this system. So I want
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  Speaker 4: to give you a couple of.
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  Speaker 2: It's already been put through the system.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm sorry. What part of remote work means
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  Speaker 3: sending someone off to Siberia. I've been following the guidelines
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  Speaker 3: and applying for a year to be able to work
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  Speaker 3: from home. I have so much Okay, and.
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  Speaker 4: Again the yapping just on and off with that mouth
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  Speaker 4: of yours. So these are some important items you may
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  Speaker 4: want to write down.
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  Speaker 3: I need to talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't.
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  Speaker 3: One part of your company doesn't understand what work remote means.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't obviously looked at the employee handbook. It clearly
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  Speaker 4: states that remote means as far away from the office
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  Speaker 4: as possible.
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  Speaker 3: That is ridiculous. I am not getting shifted off to Antarctica.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, no, not Antarctica. Remember we moved due to Siberia.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever the point is, I'm not going there different.
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  Speaker 2: Have you looked at the globe before.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I thought this was a done deal. I'm very frustrated.
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  Speaker 3: I either need you to escalate the situation to someone
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  Speaker 3: who actually knows what's going on, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all escalate it, escalate it really quickly, and send
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  Speaker 4: you right over to your roommate, Michelle.
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  Speaker 2: My roommate Michelle.
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  Speaker 3: What does Michelle have to do with this, Well, she.
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  Speaker 4: Has everything to do with it, because she's the one
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  Speaker 4: that set you up for this prank phone call? Are
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  Speaker 4: you Yeah, this is actually Brooke and jose Hey for
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  Speaker 4: booking Jeffrey in the morning. We're doing a phone tap
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  Speaker 4: on you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, my heart in my throat, my stomach
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  Speaker 3: is in my heart.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna we don't know, we don't know if you've
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  Speaker 4: got to prove for a remote work or not.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe this will make.
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  Speaker 4: You feel better about going into the office. Oh my god, yes, perspective,
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  Speaker 4: it changes everything. Wake up every morning
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  Speaker 3: With tap weekday morning on the twenties, frooking Jeffrey in
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  Speaker 3: the morning.