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The Marketing Director Used PTO for Jail Time _ EP 13 · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: So it'll be good. All right. So I've got a
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  Speaker 1: couple here today. And I think you guys have got
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  Speaker 1: a couple of piece. Yep. All right. The guy who
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  Speaker 1: photoshopped his way out of a job.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Oof. This is not starting off great.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. This one. Still cracks me up. We had an
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  Speaker 1: applicant send in his driver's license. Expired. No big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Happens all the time. So we ask him for an
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  Speaker 1: updated one. And he sends us the same license back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Except he had literally photoshopped the expiration date. Like, badly.
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  Speaker 1: Like middle school PowerPoint kind of ad. So now we're curious.
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  Speaker 1: So now we're curious. Then his references come in. And
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  Speaker 1: every one of them is faked. And then just to
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  Speaker 1: really go for it, his background check shows an active warrant.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: The entire wheels are coming off this particular one. When
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  Speaker 1: we ask about it, he says, oh, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that's not real. That was in a different state. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all cleared up now. And so to prove it,
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  Speaker 1: he sends us a receipt for something he's paid. This
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  Speaker 1: thing looked like it was made. with a fake government
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  Speaker 1: seal from Google Images. So clearly he puts together a
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  Speaker 1: fake receipt that he's paid this off.
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  Speaker 4: Did they ever get his real license back?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's when we finally called it quits.
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  Speaker 1: The best part, this wasn't even a dream job. He
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  Speaker 1: could have just moved on and applied somewhere else, but nope,
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  Speaker 1: he doubled down. On the Photoshop until the bitter end.
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  Speaker 4: My thing, yeah, my thing is how did he think,
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  Speaker 4: if it didn't work with the license the first time,
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  Speaker 4: what made him think it was going to work for
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  Speaker 4: the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Of the movie?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't confront him. Like, they just like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, you just keep stringing them along. Yeah. Now what?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. The fake references, I think I would
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  Speaker 1: have tapped out then. You didn't have to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like why even.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't have to confront him in the background check. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why they even took a step further.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they were just curious. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about this all the time. There are those
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  Speaker 1: whole Reddit streams where they're just talking about how to
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  Speaker 1: do it. You see them photoshop your degree. People photoshop
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  Speaker 1: their degrees all the time.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I think we had one one time where we verified
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  Speaker 1: the degree, found out it wasn't real. And one of
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  Speaker 1: our verifiers noticed that it was from like 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: But the president who signed the degree was the current
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  Speaker 1: president of the university.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the president who was supposed to sign it
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  Speaker 1: 15 years ago?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This person's been there like two years.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all are too lousy to do a Google search for
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  Speaker 3: 15 years.
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  Speaker 2: It's really bad.
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  Speaker 1: Really bad when you can't even fake that good.
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  Speaker 4: What's funny to me is how confident they are in
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  Speaker 4: thinking– They're.
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  Speaker 3: Not going to get it. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Like, oh, no, I got this. All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the marketing director who took PTO for jail time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 3: PTO.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. This one's wild. So at one point of my
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  Speaker 1: old job, the marketing team had a– the marketing team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand. The marketing team? Okay, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It had a pool of cars, of company cars, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for client meetings, events, you know, all that. Every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while, management would get a random parking ticket
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  Speaker 1: in the mail. You know, it's no big deal. Stuff happens, right?
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  Speaker 1: But one day a ticket shows up. It's for the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when everyone goes, hold up, who's driving the
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  Speaker 1: company cars on a Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Literally, what?
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  Speaker 4: Driving all the way there just to use the company car.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they just took it home with them.
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  Speaker 2: Driving all the way to work on Saturday to.
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  Speaker 1: Use the company car. The company's Ford Taurus. It's nicer
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  Speaker 1: than your car.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe they don't have a car.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. I didn't leave with
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  Speaker 1: it on Friday. I came and got it on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: After a little digging, turns out the marketing director took
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  Speaker 1: one home, got pulled over, and got a DUI. In
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  Speaker 1: the company car.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The car gets impounded. He goes to jail. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the part that broke me. He used his PTO to
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  Speaker 1: cover the week he was locked up.
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  Speaker 3: What? Well, how did he submit his PTO is what
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  Speaker 3: I want to know. When they asked him if he
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  Speaker 3: wanted his one phone call. Instead of his one phone call,
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  Speaker 3: he said, can I please submit my PTO on the app?
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  Speaker 2: They'll never know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. Like man said, I'll be out of office. Literally. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'd hate to have to. He even paid the impound
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  Speaker 1: fee to get the car back, but he never actually
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  Speaker 1: paid the ticket, which is what exposed him in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. So, you know, he almost got away from it.
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  Speaker 1: We say all the time, like six out of 10
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  Speaker 1: people will not tell their employer if they're arrested. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why we say you should be monitoring. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have had to worry about this and wonder
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  Speaker 1: where he was that week. If they had been monitored,
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  Speaker 1: they'd have found out.
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  Speaker 4: I know he was mad. He was like, dang, I
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  Speaker 4: can't use my PTO for this. Now I can't take
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  Speaker 4: my actual vacation.
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to the beach on this summer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not doing that. This dude was the marketing director and
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  Speaker 1: he still managed to run a full blown campaign. for
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  Speaker 1: bad decisions.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: That's insane.
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  Speaker 2: Being the director too is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for real.
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  Speaker 2: Like, aren't you supposed to set a great example?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what gave him the idea that he was
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  Speaker 1: entitled to the car.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the director around here.
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  Speaker 3: I can take that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Who's up Morgan? I think you're next.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's me.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Um, my first story is titled the employee with a
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  Speaker 3: new illness every time she got caught. So before we
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  Speaker 3: got security cameras, we went through this weird stretch where
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  Speaker 3: money just kept disappearing. Not a ton, just enough to
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  Speaker 3: make you question your sanity. We had a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: idea on who it was, but this woman, she was good.
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  Speaker 3: Every time she got close to being caught, She'd hit
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  Speaker 3: us with a brand new medical crisis. One week, it
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  Speaker 3: was migraines. Next week, surgery. Then some mystery illness nobody
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  Speaker 3: could even pronounce. At first, everybody felt bad for her
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  Speaker 3: until she hit, like, diagnose number five. Then the sympathy
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  Speaker 3: tank ran dry. But the real breaking point? A client
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  Speaker 3: storms into our office, furious. Says if we don't fire her,
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  Speaker 3: they're pulling all their business, and that's when we knew
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  Speaker 3: something was way off. So we started digging, and boom.
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  Speaker 3: She got a history. Turns out she'd been stealing money
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  Speaker 3: and credit card numbers from other employers for years. And
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  Speaker 3: she was never charged. And she never apologized. And she
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  Speaker 3: would just pay a little back and move on to
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  Speaker 3: the next job. So she was a professional scam artist
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  Speaker 3: pretty much. And we finally let her go. And guess what?
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  Speaker 3: money stopped disappearing immediately.
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  Speaker 4: So mystery was solved.
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  Speaker 3: But here's the wildest part. She reapplies later with a
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  Speaker 3: resume so fake it could have been from fan fiction.
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  Speaker 3: She listed responsibilities that didn't even exist. One of them
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  Speaker 3: was literally my job. Like, ma'am, you do not run
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  Speaker 3: the company.
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  Speaker 1: So wait, she reapplied to the same company and put
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  Speaker 1: her responsibilities from her previous job.
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  Speaker 3: That she was fired from.
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  Speaker 1: Then she like... Puffed them all up.
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  Speaker 4: Why was the fifth diagnosis the last straw?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: The third one or even the fourth one it took
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  Speaker 4: five five of them for them to be like okay
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  Speaker 4: yeah she's she's.
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  Speaker 3: Lying literally she she went from sick day queen to
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  Speaker 3: true crime series real quick right honestly the only thing
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  Speaker 3: she didn't steal was the security cameras because we wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have bought them but yet so.
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  Speaker 2: Right i don't know All right.
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  Speaker 3: So my next one is titled the guy who lost
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  Speaker 3: it all to clash of clans. About five years ago,
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  Speaker 3: I had this guy working night shift at my gas station.
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  Speaker 3: And honestly, for the first year, he was gold, showed
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  Speaker 3: up early, never complained, played to customers and the kind
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  Speaker 3: of employee you wish you could clone. Then one day
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  Speaker 3: things start to change. It all started with a phone game,
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  Speaker 3: clash of clans. At first I figured, Hey, Everyone scrolls
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  Speaker 3: on their phone on the night shift, so no big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But soon it wasn't just checking his phone. It was
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  Speaker 3: a relationship. I'd walk in at 2 a.m. for a
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  Speaker 3: spot check, and there he was, leaned over the counter,
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  Speaker 3: face lit up by that blue screen glow, completely locked
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  Speaker 3: in on his imaginary army. Customers would walk in for gas, cigarettes, coffee,
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  Speaker 3: and he wouldn't even look up. Just mumble, ring them
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  Speaker 3: up without eye contact, and go back to the next battle.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled him aside and told him, listen, play all
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  Speaker 3: you want when it's dead, but when a customer walks in,
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  Speaker 3: the game is over that they come first. So he apologized,
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  Speaker 3: he swore he'd stop, and next night, same thing. Same glow,
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  Speaker 3: same game, same neglect. It was like trying to break
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  Speaker 3: up a man in his digital RV. Eventually, I had
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  Speaker 3: to let him go. I told him straight up, if
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  Speaker 3: you can't put the game down, you just can't work here.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that was the end of it. Until
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  Speaker 3: a few days later, his mom shows up at the
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  Speaker 3: gas station.
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  Speaker 1: Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: This is so funny. Literally a gas station job.
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  Speaker 1: Your mom shows up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like your mom showing up at school when
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  Speaker 3: you're in detention. She looked exhausted, pale, eyes red from crying,
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  Speaker 3: and she asked if we can talk privately. Also, where
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  Speaker 3: do you talk privately in a gas station? I just
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  Speaker 3: want to know. Okay. She had just gotten out of
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  Speaker 3: the hospital after a long stay, and while she was gone,
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  Speaker 3: her son had spiraled. Turns out he wasn't just playing
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  Speaker 3: Clash of Clans. He was paying for Clash of Clans.
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  Speaker 3: Every upgrade, every shortcut was real money. By the time
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  Speaker 3: she found out, he had racked up over thousands in
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  Speaker 3: credit card debt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Thousands of dollars on a phone game, and it was
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  Speaker 3: all put on his mom's credit card.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy. I wouldn't even pay for an app on
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  Speaker 4: the app store.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: It ain't free. I'm not getting it.
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  Speaker 4: Literally.
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  Speaker 2: Literally.
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  Speaker 1: It was all about banking.
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a budget. I'm not paying for all these apps.
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  Speaker 3: I just sat there in silence. Here I was thinking
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  Speaker 3: he was lazy, but really he was drowning in an
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  Speaker 3: addiction that looked like a hobby, and no one took
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  Speaker 3: it seriously until it ruined him. He lost his job,
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  Speaker 3: his credit, everything, all over a glowing screen at 2 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll never forget his mom's face that day. Now
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  Speaker 3: every time I see an ad for Clash of Clans,
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  Speaker 3: I think about him and how some battles you don't
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  Speaker 3: fight on a phone, you fight in real life. And
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  Speaker 3: I think also his mom had like cancer or something.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. And she was like needing to pay
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  Speaker 3: that hospital bill, which is why she was in the hospital. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And she couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Addiction's real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah she couldn't play that's why she showed up to
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  Speaker 3: the gas.
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  Speaker 1: Station in tears those apps those games are built like
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  Speaker 1: to draw you in it is like an addiction like
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  Speaker 1: a little dopamine you know bring you right to the
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  Speaker 1: edge now you can't win you gotta buy something to
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  Speaker 1: get to the next.
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  Speaker 4: Level it's like Fortnite I need V-Bucks.
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  Speaker 2: I need them please oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I don't know I feel bad for them. I do.
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel bad for the mom. I mean, imagine
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  Speaker 3: like you get out of the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great story.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get out of the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: From good employee to bad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Over a game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it happens all the time. You know, good
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  Speaker 1: employees go bad because they get into, make bad decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of times it is addiction. You know. So,
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  Speaker 1: but addiction to a game. I get it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do.
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  Speaker 3: Have you guys ever played Gardenscapes?
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  Speaker 1: Gardenscapes?
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  Speaker 4: No, but I know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: That is an addictive game. That is like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: There were times where I feel like I got addicted
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  Speaker 3: to that game because you get like, so like I
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  Speaker 3: need to get to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. NCAA, you know, Madden.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we used to play that a ton. You'd
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  Speaker 1: sit up all night playing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, I don't think there are people who sit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, probably ruin their ability at work because they
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  Speaker 1: sit up all night playing games, but yeah, lots of
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  Speaker 1: ways to work it. But yeah, the phone lets you
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  Speaker 1: take that, that addiction right into the, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: I do want to know is how this guy who
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  Speaker 1: owns these gas stations just regularly, he's rolling around at
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  Speaker 1: 2 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just get up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Or it's like, you know, when you go to
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  Speaker 3: like a restaurant and the manager comes to your table
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  Speaker 3: to make sure the waiter is like checking on you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he's like making sure everybody is getting six is like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you doing okay? Did he check you out good? Anything
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  Speaker 3: I can get you today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Emma. Oh, Emma, let's roll. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I've only got two today. They're relatively short. They're not
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  Speaker 4: as interesting as the ones I normally read. No gory details.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: That's good. No unaliving, nothing like that.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I'm disappointed, Emma. I know.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Do better.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. Mine also don't have cool
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: titles like y'all's did. Mine's just go straight into it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I wasn't in HR exactly, but I did training. This
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: one woman was late all the time and got into
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: arguments with everyone. One day I was teaching her something
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: and she looked at me and said, no, this isn't possible.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: I'm not doing it. I told her I wasn't expecting
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: her to get it on the first try. And we
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: were here to practice as much as she wanted. From
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: that moment on, She turned evil on me, would completely
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: ignore me when I.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Would talk to her.
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: She told everyone ridiculous things about me. And they would
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: respond like, really? That doesn't sound like them at all.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Are you sure?
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Are you sure you're talking about the right person?
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: One day she called in and said everyone at the
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: store was against her and that she wouldn't be back. What?
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: That's it. Y'all hating on me.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: That's that.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: You don't like that I tell lies about other people.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Bye, y'all. What?
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: So funny.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Her mic drop is, I ain't coming back to talk
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: bad about y'all.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for real. Y'all won't see me again. Oh, please
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: don't leave.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Please don't leave. What would we do without you?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: That's so bad. There are people like that, though.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Grown people, too.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Grown women by the way.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: That's generally who has a job.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: I know, but still.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: We find out these are a bunch of 16-year-olds at
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: the Chick-fil-A.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Could be.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Here's my last one for today. Okay. In my industry,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: there's an infamous story about a guy we'll call him Rob.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: He was chosen to represent his company at a prestigious
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: week-long gala, five-star hotels, open bars, networking with the top leaders,
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: a huge honor. Rob treated it like a frat party.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: He drank nonstop. embarrassed himself by lecturing the very people
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: who had built the systems he was bragging about. Then
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: he disappeared to his hotel room. The next morning, coworkers
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: found him tied to his bed, not clothed.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: What?
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Turns out he called an escort, passed out drunk before
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: anything had happened, and she cleaned him out, stole his wallet,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: his clothes, the TV in the hotel room.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Before tying him up and then leaving.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: She saw an opportunity and she took it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: His company had to pay the hotel for all the
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: missing items and Rob's career never recovered.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's brutal.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: It is crazy how people treat these conferences like they're
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: like a weekend party at a college. It is insane.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Like, I feel like I've been to some sometimes where
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I'm like, we are professionals, y'all. Like, what are we doing?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And you see it so often of people who.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's, it's like they get away and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I think there's a different set of rules apply. Yeah. Um,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily, I don't think alcohol and, and, um,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: is great in these occasions.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Um, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't like
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to drink when I'm around, um, anything like that.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Just because you just lose a little bit of your senses.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: You say stuff you wouldn't normally. And I, and in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: my career I've seen, I've seen a couple of people
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: completely explode.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Their career because they had too much to drink at
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a conference.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Especially if they're like leading the event, like in this story,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: like it was supposed to be a huge honor for him.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's not like even, that sounds like not
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: even social drinking, like where you just have one drink
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and you're talking, you know, just because it's like a
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: norm around everybody. And this is completely different. This guy
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: was getting belligerently drunk, obviously, enough to the point where
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: he hired an escort. Yeah.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So. Got to have great policies on that and just really,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: really encourage people to.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he got fired. Like, there's no way he
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: didn't get fired.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Well, it's sad his career never recovered.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, great job. Those were fun.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought they were good to be back.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: For sure. But we'll see you next time. And then
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: remember our $ 10, 000 contest. Submit your stories. We'd love to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: read them. We want to have more user-submitted stories, and
• 19:49
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• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Where can they submit those stories, Ken?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: At TheBadHire.com.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: There you go. Absolutely.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Go to TheBadHire.com. But we'll join you next time or
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: join us next time on The Bad Hire.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Bye.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Thank you.