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What is the story you heard about someone working at the company for long and got nothing..? · Anele and the Club on 947

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  Speaker 1: Wake up with a bang. Hey, wake up! Anele and
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  Speaker 1: the club on 947.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go and chat about the last day at work.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lady who worked at Walmart for 44 years.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: 44 years.
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  Speaker 2: And guys, if you don't know what a Walmart is,
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  Speaker 2: it's basically working at game for 44 years. like a
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  Speaker 2: huge hyper store that sells absolutely everything.
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  Speaker 4: Like macro?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like working at macro for 44 years. She
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  Speaker 2: worked there for 44 years and on her last day
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  Speaker 2: of work, they gave her a little pot plant flower
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  Speaker 2: arrangement looking thing and said, thanks for coming, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Justin G. Yeah, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I thought you were going to tell there's more
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  Speaker 4: to the story.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's what they gave her and they said, cheers,
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  Speaker 2: there's a picture.
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  Speaker 5: Like, no.
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  Speaker 1: I printed a picture for you guys. Look, there she is. No, guys.
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  Speaker 4: No, like, I mean, they do cakes.
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  Speaker 2: They do stuff for your house.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, guys, it's Walmart. You guys could have
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  Speaker 1: given her a camping tent or something.
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  Speaker 6: But the thing is, you know what it is about
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  Speaker 6: it is people spend so much time at work, right?
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  Speaker 6: And I mean, if you've spent more than four decades
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  Speaker 6: in one place, regardless of whatever position you held in
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  Speaker 6: the organization, I'd like to think you've made enough of
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  Speaker 6: an impact for a proper send-off when you do retire.
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  Speaker 2: So when I read this, I was like, maybe we're
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  Speaker 2: the ones who are expecting more from our bosses. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we're the ones who are way too sentimental over nothing. Because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, firstly, she's probably worked for about 10 bosses
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  Speaker 2: or 20 bosses. People come in and out, and she's
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  Speaker 2: the only one who stuck it out. So no one
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  Speaker 2: knows that she's been here. Like, she's the ancestor here.
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  Speaker 2: She's like the Big Ben, the tree of this organization.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe no one knows that. But I think when somebody
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  Speaker 2: does retire, it says on the records that has been
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  Speaker 2: employed for 44 years.
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  Speaker 1: And my question is, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Should businesses make more of a deal for people who've
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  Speaker 2: worked in their business for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years.
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  Speaker 1: 50 years?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure being Walmart, she would have got like,
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  Speaker 4: there would have been a retirement scheme or retirement fund
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  Speaker 4: or something like that. So we're speaking about over and.
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  Speaker 2: Above that, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, over and above.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they could have paid for her to go for
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  Speaker 4: a nice lunch with four of her closest colleague friends.
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  Speaker 2: A cruise.
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  Speaker 1: A cruise. I mean, if she's been here for 44 years,
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  Speaker 1: that means she's an elderly lady.
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  Speaker 6: Cindy's like, let's hold off on the cruise.
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  Speaker 2: Cruise, guys.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look, we're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, watch.
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  Speaker 4: She got flowers, so typically we have to go bare
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  Speaker 4: minimum here. Just even a nice slideshow montage of a
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  Speaker 4: video of all her colleagues saying how amazing she is
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  Speaker 4: that she can, you know, keep on record and a
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  Speaker 4: nice spa voucher, like SPA.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, like... Like that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you're going to go bare minimum.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, when I look, and I don't even think
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  Speaker 6: it's about a grand gesture. I mean, when I joined
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  Speaker 6: the EWN, there was always like cake and food for
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  Speaker 6: people's birthdays. If you were having a baby, the newsroom
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  Speaker 6: would do something for you. If you were leaving, something
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  Speaker 6: would be done for you. And those weren't like huge,
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  Speaker 6: like events where people splurged, for example, on a birthday
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  Speaker 6: or someone leaving. But it just meant so much to
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  Speaker 6: the people who are receiving it.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: So you're leaving, you've spent X number of years with
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  Speaker 6: these people and actually they just gather to send you
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  Speaker 6: off and say, Look, it's been real.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Because the fact that they gave her a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: flowers means that they know that they should.
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  Speaker 1: Be giving her something, right? But I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong for feeling like it should have been
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  Speaker 2: a bigger deal?
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  Speaker 7: It should have been a bigger splash? But I think
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  Speaker 7: like Timbukil is saying that it's a culture that's been lost, right?
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  Speaker 7: I know of a situation where there was a couple
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  Speaker 7: who were working at this job together and they found
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  Speaker 7: each other there and they fell in love, whatever. And
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  Speaker 7: then there was time to relocate so they had to
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  Speaker 7: leave the job. And in the email that we all
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  Speaker 7: got as the company, they said, these two, out of
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  Speaker 7: here like they bundled them together as if they came
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  Speaker 7: together to work and then they just said yeah they're
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  Speaker 7: gone and also they'd been serving for some time as
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  Speaker 7: well but it was just an email and they bundled
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  Speaker 7: them together and said.
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  Speaker 2: Out 011-8838-947 send us a voice.
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  Speaker 1: Note 084-0000-947 do you.
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  Speaker 2: Know of a situation where somebody had served for so
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  Speaker 2: long at a company and when they left it was
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  Speaker 2: almost like a fart in a cave of echoes absolutely
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  Speaker 2: nothing You know, and are we being emotional for expecting
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  Speaker 2: companies to do more? And I'd love for bosses to
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  Speaker 2: jump on board here as well to be like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 2: you're not considering this, you're not considering that, you're not
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  Speaker 2: considering that. Like, convince us otherwise. But we think it's
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  Speaker 2: hella shady. It's hella shady to not celebrate somebody who's
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  Speaker 2: worked for 44 years in your business.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: It's hella shady.
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  Speaker 6: I was going to say, I noticed a shift though
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  Speaker 6: to the point about a cultural change. I think post-COVID,
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  Speaker 6: all that time when people weren't necessarily in the office,
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  Speaker 6: that's created a distance in some workplaces where colleagues aren't
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  Speaker 6: as close as they used to be because you don't
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  Speaker 6: see people five days a week like we used to
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  Speaker 6: do before that and that's why sometimes someone leaving I've
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  Speaker 6: seen cases where people pass and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Not even there isn't an email or formal.
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  Speaker 6: A message to say to people, hey, so-and-so, here's what's happened, whatever.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, guys, Walmart opened 64 years ago, and she's worked
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  Speaker 7: 40 of those 60 years.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: How?
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  Speaker 1: It's 1962, Walmart was founded.
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  Speaker 7: 64 years old, Walmart is.
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  Speaker 1: She's worked 40 of those 64 years. 44 of those years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: Not about blood, I'm sorry. No way.
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  Speaker 5: A pot plant.
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  Speaker 1: Well done.
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  Speaker 5: No way.
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  Speaker 1: 011-8838-947.
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  Speaker 2: Are you on the Ndabe train now?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going. I'm going. I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: Should Walmart have done more for somebody who's worked for
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  Speaker 2: 44 years in their building?
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  Speaker 1: And if not, why do you say no?
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  Speaker 3: Tell us.
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  Speaker 1: Are we being unnecessarily emotional here? Talk to us.
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  Speaker 8: When our boss retired, she got a hundred thousand rent
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  Speaker 8: Cartier necklace. Guys, this thing, it's about how well you
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  Speaker 8: treated people, you as well. There's an extremely annoying woman
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  Speaker 8: at work. You see that day when she has to go,
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  Speaker 8: she's just going to live like nothing has happened because
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  Speaker 8: it's very important how you treat people, eh?
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  Speaker 1: Guys, just stop being loyal to people, then.
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  Speaker 8: You will understand when it's time to leave you.
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  Speaker 1: There are no emotions attached.
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  Speaker 8: My great-grandfather worked for a retailing company.
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  Speaker 1: I think he worked for 36 years or 34 years.
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  Speaker 8: And when my mom took me there just to tell
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  Speaker 8: them that he had passed on, they gave us a
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  Speaker 8: mere 6,000 rands.
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  Speaker 1: And we even laughed about it.
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  Speaker 3: We were in such.
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  Speaker 1: Disbelief, you know? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I know a guy as well who worked for a broadcaster.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say it because I usually work with them
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  Speaker 2: and I like my money. For like 36 years, missed Christmases,
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  Speaker 2: New Years because he travels a lot with the broadcast teams.
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  Speaker 2: And the day he left, not even one person came
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  Speaker 2: down to be like, hey, dude, 36 years here.
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  Speaker 1: Well done. It's your last day. Nothing. That's bad.
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  Speaker 2: Dude.
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  Speaker 7: That's not right.
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  Speaker 2: And every time he speaks of the story, he literally
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  Speaker 2: tears up.
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  Speaker 1: Because he's just so sad.
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  Speaker 7: Because also, as you get those flashbacks of all the
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  Speaker 7: Christmases you missed.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, your kids' graduations, things that you missed so that
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  Speaker 2: you could be across the country, across the world for
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  Speaker 2: your job. And they couldn't even say thank you. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't even get a thank you. Busi, you're in Rudderport.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Annalanda. Good morning, Busi.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am good, and you?
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  Speaker 1: We're great.
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  Speaker 2: This is your mom here. She worked somewhere for 40 years.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it was less than 40 years, nearly.
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  Speaker 3: And I just want to say, Walmart, it's so ideal.
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  Speaker 2: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 3: My mom worked as a tea lady. It was an
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  Speaker 3: industrial company. It was less than 20 years. So the
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  Speaker 3: company closed down. So as a token of appreciation, they
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  Speaker 3: gave her a short watch with her initials and surname
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  Speaker 3: engraved on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you see, even if somebody thinks that that's small,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact that somebody went to the effort to
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  Speaker 2: go buy the watch and then make sure that her
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  Speaker 2: initials are engraved on it.
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  Speaker 1: That is saying, I see you.
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  Speaker 5: I see you.
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  Speaker 2: See you and i thank you for what you've done.
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  Speaker 3: Yes so yo uh flowers.
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  Speaker 2: And these flowers they're so ugly they don't even look
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  Speaker 2: real i'm so upset with.
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  Speaker 3: Them flowers die like if they die as.
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  Speaker 2: Well what does she has to show for it after
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  Speaker 2: the flowers die that she worked for 44 years oh
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  Speaker 2: by the way people did a whole back a buddy
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  Speaker 2: fundraising thing here and they raised like a million a
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  Speaker 2: million dollars yeah no.
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  Speaker 1: The world the world fixed.
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  Speaker 2: What Walmart had done wrong they were just like okay
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  Speaker 2: don't worry we've got it yeah but still or maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just an American thing I don't think that would
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  Speaker 2: happen in South Africa not after 44 years not after
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  Speaker 2: 44 years I don't think so good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Zelda Good morning. First time on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: First time on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to send you a swatch watch.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think of this?
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  Speaker 5: So I have a colleague who worked with me for
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  Speaker 5: 26 years. And on his last day, my boss bought
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  Speaker 5: a bucket of KFC. I think it was a 24-piece
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  Speaker 5: bucket or something like that for the whole company to
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  Speaker 5: share to send them off.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, first, how many were you? In this bucket, for
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  Speaker 1: this bucket?
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  Speaker 5: We're about, we're about 15. We're a small company.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys got like, some got two pieces, some
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  Speaker 2: got one piece.
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  Speaker 5: Some got two, some got one, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The guy that was leaving, how many pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Did he get?
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  Speaker 5: I think he, I think he got.
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  Speaker 1: Did he get the drumstick and the thigh?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's funny. I'm actually not sure. We were actually
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  Speaker 5: also surprised.
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  Speaker 1: That's shocking.
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  Speaker 2: No, Zelda, that is absolutely shocking. And did you guys
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  Speaker 2: raise this with the boss?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, we didn't.
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  Speaker 7: After 26 years, that's like the driest piece of chicken.
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  Speaker 1: How did he take it? Like, could you see he
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  Speaker 1: was visibly disappointed?
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  Speaker 5: He was disappointed, but I think that he, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he wasn't surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Was the company culture terrible?
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  Speaker 5: No, not really. I just think that it's a company
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't splurge a lot on its employees.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pity.
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  Speaker 2: Because, you know, once again, I don't think it's necessarily
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  Speaker 2: about splurging.
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  Speaker 1: It's also just about.
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  Speaker 2: thought process to whatever gift is being given so for
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  Speaker 2: instance you could have printed a picture of them and
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  Speaker 2: framed it you know a picture of them at their
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  Speaker 2: desk or a place where everyone knew they'd always be
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  Speaker 2: in the business you print that picture get everyone to
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  Speaker 2: sign it And then you frame it, right? So that's
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  Speaker 2: 1,000 Rand, 1,500 Rand max type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, after 26 years, he's been there since the
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  Speaker 5: company started. I mean, you could expect something better than
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  Speaker 5: just a bucket of KFC.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And like I say, if I was so bad, why
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  Speaker 2: was I still here then? It means I did something here.
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  Speaker 2: And you find people like this who've been around for
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  Speaker 2: 44 years, 50 years, 38 years, is that they were
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  Speaker 2: so good for the company morale.
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  Speaker 1: That it doesn't matter how small their role was.
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  Speaker 2: Like that tea lady who was there for 20 years,
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  Speaker 2: the reason they did that for that watch, she walks.
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  Speaker 1: In and some people don't have parents, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And some tea ladies fill that gap and they
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  Speaker 2: walk in like, they're like, hello, I'm Dhanam.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, oh. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 7: Can you imagine the interns, the people who came there
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  Speaker 7: for the first time?
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  Speaker 1: Dude, there's just like a motherly presence.
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  Speaker 2: When that person is in your business for 40 years,
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  Speaker 2: you don't just say goodbye with a bunch of flowers.
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  Speaker 1: I think as humans, we must just do better. Yeah, Walmart.
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  Speaker 1: 44 years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going.