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My husband STOLE $6,000 from my saving… while I work extra shifts to pay our bills! | Reddit Stories | ft. James Lynch | EP3156 · ok storytime

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  Speaker 1: My husband stole $ 6, 000 from my savings while I work
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  Speaker 1: extra shifts to pay our bills.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there has to be a good reason why.
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  Speaker 1: There's gotta be.
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  Speaker 3: It's your amount.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a nurse and I've been working more hours for
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  Speaker 1: the past six months to be able to save money
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  Speaker 1: to fix the ceiling in our house. I've saved up
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  Speaker 1: to $ 8, 000 in my account. And since my husband hasn't
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  Speaker 1: worked since 2020, when was, can you find out when
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  Speaker 1: this story was posted? How long has it been? I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to balance rent and utility payments. My husband is
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  Speaker 1: a golf enthusiast and so are his friends. The only
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  Speaker 1: difference is that all his friends are well off and
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  Speaker 1: they can afford expensive golfing gear and trips. They mentioned
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  Speaker 1: wanting to go on a golfing trip next week, and
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  Speaker 1: I invited my husband, but he initially refused. He really
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go, though, but complained about how his friends
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  Speaker 1: bought fancy golfing gear while all he has is old gear.
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  Speaker 1: He asked if I could lend him $ 6, 000 so he
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  Speaker 1: could buy a set of golf clubs, but I refused
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  Speaker 1: because $ 6, 000 for a set of clubs is crazy expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Especially for someone who doesn't work. He got upset and
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  Speaker 1: accused me of holding his employment over his head when
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't help it. By the way, this comes from throwaway657577.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm Savannah. And today we have a guest with
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  Speaker 4: us today. Please tell me what you do and who.
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  Speaker 3: You are, sir. Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: My name is James Lynch. I'm a comedian, actor, and
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  Speaker 2: writer here in Los Angeles, California. There's a James Lynch
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  Speaker 2: who plays for the Chicago Bears.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one we found.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We couldn't get him on today.
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  Speaker 3: He's next week, guys.
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  Speaker 1: We asked him first, and he said no.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome once he's on.
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  Speaker 2: If you look up my name on Google, it's my headshot,
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  Speaker 2: but it's his bio. It's like, James Lynch is a
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears, and it's just my
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  Speaker 2: headshot going, like, that's not James, man.
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  Speaker 1: That's not right.
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  Speaker 3: That's not James Lynch.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you so much for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Of course. And James is going to help us read
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  Speaker 1: these stories and give some funny advice.
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into it. By the way, this is from
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  Speaker 1: five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Five years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he relatively recently lost his job. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like years of not having a job.
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  Speaker 3: Also, not a good reason to take $ 6, 000.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely not. No. These golf clubs made out of gold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he can't help it, though. He can't help not
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  Speaker 1: having a job.
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  Speaker 2: Also, coming from a golfer, it's not the clubs. It's
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  Speaker 2: totally you. You could probably smoke your friends if you
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  Speaker 2: got really good with your crappy clubs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you could smoke your friends with a stick.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, that'd be kind of cooler.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine you just showing up to the course with, like,
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  Speaker 2: an old set of, like, top flight irons and you're
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  Speaker 2: just like smoking your friends.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need, it's not the gear, man. It's you.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There are no, there's no bad gear. There's only bad golfers.
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  Speaker 3: Well said.
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  Speaker 1: I had to translate my acting. There's no small actors,
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  Speaker 1: small parts. I didn't even say it right.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man.
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  Speaker 1: Anyways, I thought we were over this argument, but I
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  Speaker 1: discovered that he had pulled the $ 6, 000 out of my
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  Speaker 1: account and purchased the set behind my back. I went
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  Speaker 1: home and exploded on him. He swore he'd return the
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  Speaker 1: money once he got back from his trip, but I
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  Speaker 1: told him he had no right to take the money
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  Speaker 1: and spend it on a set of clubs while the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling needs fixing. He said the ceiling doesn't require $ 6, 000 either,
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  Speaker 1: but the kids' room was affected too. Oh, you got kids?
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  Speaker 3: That gets worse. Dude, come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. I demanded that he return the set
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  Speaker 1: or pay me the $ 6, 000 right then and there. He
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  Speaker 1: told me I was being unfair to him And that
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  Speaker 1: he's feeling stuck because his friends can afford to buy
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  Speaker 1: whatever while he's being yelled at for wanting something for
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  Speaker 1: himself for once.
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  Speaker 3: That's his fault, though.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a job. He's like, my friends all
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  Speaker 1: have jobs and can afford to go golfing with nice sets,
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  Speaker 1: but you don't let me.
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  Speaker 3: As he's sitting on a couch. Yeah. Come on, dude,
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  Speaker 3: get out there.
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  Speaker 1: I told him to get a job and buy himself
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  Speaker 1: whatever he wants. He tried to tell me he'll pay
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  Speaker 1: me back when he finds a job, which is after
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  Speaker 1: he gets back from his trip. But I refused. He
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  Speaker 1: kept begging me to just let him go on the
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  Speaker 1: trip and said, we'll figure it out later. But I
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  Speaker 1: said no. If it wasn't for something as important as
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling, I would have maybe waited. But he says
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  Speaker 1: I'm harmful and controlling of his life.
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  Speaker 3: Edit.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I'm getting so many comments that I'm
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  Speaker 1: too overwhelmed to respond. To the people suggesting I return
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  Speaker 1: the clubs myself, I can't because he never brought them
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  Speaker 1: to the house.
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  Speaker 3: He knew.
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  Speaker 1: He knew.
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  Speaker 3: He just hit him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he just said, you'll never find them. I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen them and I don't know where he's hiding them.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect they're at his brother's house, but I'm on
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  Speaker 1: really bad terms with him and can't go there. So
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  Speaker 1: the argument now is just him pushing me to stay
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  Speaker 1: quiet until he gets back from the trip, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting my foot down and refusing. And that is the
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  Speaker 1: end of that story.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: What does OP do in this situation? Do you have
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  Speaker 1: any advice for her?
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, if this is 2020, I hope one,
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  Speaker 2: your ceiling is fixed and two, that man is out
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  Speaker 2: of your life.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing? Yeah. You can't take money from
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  Speaker 3: a significant other. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Like full stealing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when you brought it up and they were very
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable with that idea.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, oh, we actually don't have the money for
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  Speaker 1: that right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know the trust that we built?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Throw it out the window. I'm going to take it anyways.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, okay, I'll give you the $ 6, 000 back, but
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  Speaker 1: I will be taking from our kids' college funds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Don't worry. They have kids too. That's crazy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I can't imagine.
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  Speaker 2: $ 6, 000 is so much money for a set of golf clubs.
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  Speaker 1: How much are golf clubs just like a regular?
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  Speaker 2: If you're getting like a top of the line set
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  Speaker 2: of golf clubs, like maybe $ 2, 500.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. For like the best of the best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So what did he buy?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. He bought two of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's like, I need my backup one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You never know. That's insane. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, I don't play golf.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But it really does feel like you have to either
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  Speaker 1: be retired or very well employed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But also like Facebook Marketplace. There's some great deals on
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  Speaker 2: Facebook Marketplace.
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  Speaker 3: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: This guy could have probably solved his problem with like $ 300.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like 100%.
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  Speaker 3: $ 6, 000.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, you're shooting for the stars land on the moon,
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  Speaker 2: you know? Ask for $ 300 from your wife's savings.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, happy birthday. Here's $ 300.
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  Speaker 2: Go on Facebook Marketplace and you get a set of
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  Speaker 2: pretty decent clubs still. And then you could show up
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  Speaker 2: to your friends if you're that insecure about what clubs
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  Speaker 2: you play with. Also, if you're going on a trip
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  Speaker 2: with your best friends, you really think they're going to
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  Speaker 2: care if you have a shitty pair of golf clubs?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully not. And if anything, he really should have
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  Speaker 1: been spending $ 6, 000 on lessons.
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  Speaker 3: Ooh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But that is the end of that story. Opie, good
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  Speaker 1: luck on your marriage. But we've got another one.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if they're still together.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Chat, what do you think? I'd say no.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what if they're together or two?
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  Speaker 3: They're not.
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  Speaker 1: It's harder when there's kids involved, but you probably would
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  Speaker 1: save a lot of money if he wasn't in your life.
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  Speaker 1: I have another story ready if you guys are ready.
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  Speaker 1: My wife keeps signing our son up for tournaments, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one doing all the driving.
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  Speaker 3: That's fair.
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  Speaker 2: How old is your son, number one? Two, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a mother, you got to do that. My mom drove
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  Speaker 2: me to everything, and I was trying to do everything
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  Speaker 2: as a kid. I wasn't good at any of them.
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  Speaker 2: I was doing basketball, camp, football, you name it. But
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  Speaker 2: she was driving me. She was happy to do it.
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  Speaker 1: My wife, 40 female, grew up as a competitive athlete.
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  Speaker 3: Squash.
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  Speaker 1: That's a vegetable. And also a sport. Playing through college
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  Speaker 1: on an NCAA championship team.
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  Speaker 3: Dang.
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  Speaker 1: Her whole family is very into competitive sports. I, 47 male,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, never had much interest. That's not
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  Speaker 1: to say that I was a couch potato. I was
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: and have always been a frequent gym goer. And into
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  Speaker 1: road cycling and skiing for fun, not competition. We have
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  Speaker 1: a son, 11 male. My wife put him into squash
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  Speaker 1: lessons and clinics starting at age 7. She's now started
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  Speaker 1: signing him up for tournaments. Even though this is mostly
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  Speaker 1: her doing, I am the one taking him to and
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  Speaker 1: from lessons and clinics, driving to tournaments, etc. I'm also
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  Speaker 1: essentially the person financially responsible for our entire lifestyle. With
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  Speaker 1: my separate money, I bought our houses and cars, and
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  Speaker 1: I pay all the utilities, insurance, and school tuition.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's just like bragging.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I pay for everything, and I have to
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  Speaker 1: take my kid.
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  Speaker 3: And I make a lot of money, and I can
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  Speaker 3: play the harmonica like a mother. Sorry, I almost cursed.
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  Speaker 1: My wife makes close to six figures, gets to spend
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  Speaker 1: it all on whatever she wants. and still usually has
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  Speaker 1: approximately zero dollars in her bank account.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: She makes close to six figures and she has no savings?
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  Speaker 3: She spends a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: On squash. Or golf clubs.
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  Speaker 3: Or golf clubs. Oh, yeah, it could be. 35 cents
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  Speaker 3: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm not complaining about this. My income and wealth
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: are multiples of hers, but this will be relevant later.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not complaining.
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  Speaker 3: I'm rich. But, however, sounds like you are complaining a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. And that's okay. That's why we're here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from Common Objective 6338. And
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  Speaker 1: if you want to submit your own stories, go to
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  Speaker 1: the r slash okay story time subreddit.
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  Speaker 2: I like the idea that this guy never, ever had
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: a conversation with his wife.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He just went straight to Reddit and said, I am
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  Speaker 2: mad for these reasons, but never had a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been driving my son every day. I make
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  Speaker 1: so much money. I mean, like, if you make that
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  Speaker 1: much money, you should hire, like.
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  Speaker 3: A driver. Yeah, exactly. There's an easy solution for this.
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  Speaker 2: One, a conversation with your wife to maybe split it up.
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  Speaker 3: And then two, hire a driver. Or Uber.
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  Speaker 1: Or your 11-year-old son. Uber him. Or three carpool.
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  Speaker 3: Carpool.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you want to take a risk, have your own.
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  Speaker 2: son start driving himself to squash lessons.
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  Speaker 1: There's like so many different options here.
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  Speaker 3: There's so many things you can do.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of complaining. I've noticed that our son seems kind
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  Speaker 1: of down when I have to take him to squash
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  Speaker 1: and more down after he's done it. He has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other interests. He loves coding. He loves playing guitar.
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  Speaker 1: He likes to ski. And he likes bouldering. Nice. Climbing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like climbing without the ropes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Rock climbing.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's 11 and he just does that?
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  Speaker 1: It's really low. So free soloing is when you're climbing
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  Speaker 1: crazy mountains. But bouldering is just like you're pretty low
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  Speaker 1: to the ground and there's padding. So we both boulder.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, dude. Take a risk. Go higher. Do we
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  Speaker 3: know his name?
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  Speaker 1: We can call him Kevin.
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  Speaker 3: Go higher, Kevin. Come on. Bouldering, really? You're 11, dude.
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  Speaker 3: Go higher.
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  Speaker 1: Between that and school, he is a conscientious and good student.
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  Speaker 1: Time is very scarce. The same is true for me.
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  Speaker 1: I like to think that Opie's like every morning he's
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: just reading into the slight like facial expressions his son
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  Speaker 1: is having after and before squash.
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  Speaker 2: Also saying time is scarce almost like makes it sound
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  Speaker 2: like he doesn't have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of time left to live.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Time is scarce with this one.
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  Speaker 1: He will not make it. He will not make it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But both my son and I are finding that our
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: ability to do these activities are being interfered with My
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: wife's insistence on how much time goes into squash. I
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  Speaker 1: should say that my son's okay at it, but he
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  Speaker 1: never is going to play Division I college squash. So
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  Speaker 1: it's not like college admissions or scholarships are in play years.
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  Speaker 1: He's also 11.
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  Speaker 3: He's 11 years old, dude.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be a pro.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I was pro at anything at 11.
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: He's thinking about his college future right now at 11.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: He's not a D1 college athlete, I'll tell you that.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's great if he can play the game
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  Speaker 1: socially later in life, but he could achieve that spending 25%
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  Speaker 1: of the time on it that he does. And certainly,
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: we wouldn't need to burn whole weekends on tournaments. I've
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: asked my wife to pick up more of the slack
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: for shuttling him to squash stuff, but she always says
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: she has to work, and that makes it impossible. Recently,
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  Speaker 1: my wife signed him up for a tournament which conflicted
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  Speaker 1: with a bouldering event he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 3: He was sad.
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  Speaker 1: I asked him, do you want to keep doing this
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  Speaker 1: much squash? He said that he didn't, but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to disappoint his mom. I said I'd talk to
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: her about it. She was resistant to letting him do less,
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: saying that he would appreciate it once he pushes through.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Sounds like both of them are very intense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, like this kid is 11.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this guy just wants to build Legos,
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: but he's kind of nervous on both parents.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I gotta be good at squash.
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  Speaker 1: Or bouldering. I have to do something.
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  Speaker 3: I know. Why is it those two? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I've never heard of an 11-year-old being super into
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  Speaker 2: bouldering or squash.
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  Speaker 1: They're very niche sports.
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  Speaker 3: Not that I'm saying it's bad.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, they are very niche sports for children. I
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  Speaker 1: just took so much of Ben's.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I had a friend, one of my best friends growing up,
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: she was a climber when she was 12.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And she no longer climbs now, but in the four
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: years that she did it, she was climbing in, they're
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: called Vs. She was climbing V9s, which is very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot do that.
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  Speaker 3: That's insane. Yeah.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: So some kids just really get into niche sports.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: When I was 11, I was just seeing how high
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: I could jump out of a tree without getting hurt.
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  Speaker 1: How high?
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  Speaker 3: I got pretty damn high.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: Did you get hurt at some point?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I think upwards of like 14 feet was
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: when I called it.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: I told her that she needs to address this with
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: our son and that in the meantime, I was done
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: dedicating my time and money to squash.
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: He put his foot down.
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: No more. If she wanted him to do more than
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: a lesson or two a week, she would have to
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: bring him and pay for it out of her own money.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: And if our son refused to cooperate with her in
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: doing more squash than he wants, I would not enforce
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: any consequences. She says that isn't fair since she doesn't
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: have the same money or time available that I have.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: I said, if you feel this passionate about her son's squash,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: then you need to put your money and time where
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: your mouth is and not just decree that her son
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: needs to do it and I need to be the chauffeur.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: She thinks I'm being an a-hole about it and abusing
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: my greater wealth and more flexible schedule. Actually, it's not
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: more flexible. I'm just way more efficient at getting work done.
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: She's like, actually, I don't have more time. I'm just
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: better at my job.
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: I'm just better at managing my time. Yeah.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: And able to work hunched over a laptop at the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: squash courts to get what I want. Wondering what the
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: collective wisdom of the Reddit crowd thinks. And we do
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: have an update. What do you think? What's the solution
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: here for poor Kevin?
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: I think Kevin needs to put his foot down and
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: do what he wants to be doing.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: I think OP really needs to ask, what do you want?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: You know, it might not be bouldering. It might not
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: be what I've asked you to do. What is it
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: that you like best?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and also the wife said sort of consequences. There
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: will be no consequences if he doesn't want to play squash.
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: I hope not.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Did you ever like have any sports growing up or
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: like any activities that you hated growing up?
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: Man. Not really.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Like I'm now that I'm like listening to this story,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like I had the complete freedom to do.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Jumping up trees.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I will say I wanted to play football growing up.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: That was one of my things that my parents were like, no,
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: you can't do that.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Same with my parents. They did not let my brother
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: do that.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Which is fair. My parents were pretty much like, yeah,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: do whatever you want to do. Yeah. And then I
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: would just do that.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Just nice.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't get that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: You didn't? What did your parents force you to do?
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Gymnastics.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: Gymnastics. And then were there consequences for you? If you
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: didn't do it.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: Actually, my consequence would be if I, like, was, like,
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: if I did bad or, well, not like bad.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Did you do bad? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: I worded that bad.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: If I was, like, bad, like, say, like, I don't know,
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I mouthed off to, like, my mom or something, my
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: punishment would be you're not going to gymnastics. Oh.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Well, that's fair.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, I did gymnastics for eight years. Then I
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: did every sport because I didn't know what I was
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: good at. And then I ended up sticking with track
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: and diving. Yeah.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We have an update. Do we have any actual advice
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: for Opiee?
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: OP, the 11-year-old, if you're watching this, run away. Run away.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Run away from that house, okay? Your parents don't have
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: your best interests. I promise you, man. It's just going
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: to get worse as you get older. They're going to
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: be like, why aren't you going to an Ivy League
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: school now? And there are going to be consequences if
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: you don't. So get out now while you can.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Run. Climb those rocks. Climb a mountain.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Anywhere the wind can take you, OP.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Climb every mountain. Follow every stream. You already like doing it, man.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Just do it until you get to the top. And
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: from there, you'll have a better point of view. I'm James,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: by the way.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, that was beautiful.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Defensive tackle of the Chicago Bears.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I'm James, by the way. That was beautiful.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: That was good. That was a nice little tagline right
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: at the end. We have an update. As I anticipated,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: when I pulled my money and time from supporting Squash,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: she was either unwilling, my view, or unable, her view,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: to step up. Obviously, I saw that as a good thing,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: since I feel my son wants, appropriately, to do less squash,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: and more of his other interests, bouldering, skiing, and guitar,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: being three big extracurriculars. All the things OP likes.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Guitars and skiing, that's cool.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Guitars, sick.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: That's really cool. You should actually maybe go more hard
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: with that, start a band.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: He might be the next August Rush.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you never know. Who is August Rush?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I was really wondering if you would know that reference.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say Jimi Hendrix.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, have you heard of the show The Good Doctor slash...
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Have you seen any Spiderwick Chronicles? Okay, well, there was
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: a child actor that was in the show Good Doctor Now. Yeah.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And this movie is about him being a little guitar prodigy.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: And that could be Kevin.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: That could be Kevin.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Put some more time into the guitar or combine them.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Play the guitar while you're bouldering.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: That would be sick.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: That'd be sick. One hand on the board.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Probably pretty hard.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Considering you definitely need two hands for both activities. Yeah, probably.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: But in the hopes of getting to a more consensual outcome,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I told my wife that I would continue to take
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: my son to one clinic and one lesson a week,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: no tournaments, for the interim if she agreed to go
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to a bouldering session. To the drop-off or pickup of
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: a ski lesson, we go to a vacation home to
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ski over our spring break in March, which just happened.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: And to a guitar lesson.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like this kid's taking too many lessons.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I agree. There's too many things going on.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: That's too much pressure for an 11-year-old.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: When's the friend time? Oh, see, this was my life.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: But my friends were at my sports. That's who I
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: was friends with until like. sixth grade, and then I
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: started actually having friends at school.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe he doesn't have friends.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think I ever had a lesson for anything
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: in life.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, I don't think
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I ever had a friend.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think I ever had a friend. I never
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: had a lesson, and I never learned a lesson.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I was just perfect my whole life. I
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: didn't have to learn anything.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Your parents must be so proud. Then she could compare
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: it to how he seems to feel about and perform
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: in squash. She agreed, and now that we're back from skiing,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: she's done all three. The result was pretty much as
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I expected. All three teachers mentioned that he seemed incredibly
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: passionate about the activity and that he was extremely coachable.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: The bouldering and ski teachers were clear he's probably not
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: going to be some sort of champion aptitude-wise, though the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: guitar teacher calls him one of his most talented students. Dang.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Okay. So we called it. We call it. He just
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: needs to pursue the guitar more. It's true.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Well, here's what I will say based on my experience.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: He gets to do what he likes rather than what
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: he's good at. Being good at something does not mean
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: you have to pursue it. And that was my issue.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: It's just a shame that he's not going to be
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a prodigy at bouldering or squash because that's where the
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: money's at.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Everyone knows.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Everyone knows.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, you could go to the Olympics for bouldering.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they have a squash Olympics.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We should get that petition going.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: We should get that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: We need to make this happen.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I got it. In comparison, his squash coach says that
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: he needs to bring more intensity to his efforts. Squash
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: is like, come on. Even to my squash favoring wife,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: it was clear that her contention that he needs to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: just push through with squash does not match up with
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: his immediate and enduring interest in and passion for his
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: other activities. We've got a little bit left to this story.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Any final thoughts, guys? You're not going to believe it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: There's squash in the Olympics?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Squash is coming this summer.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: 2028 for the first time in history.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: In Los Angeles.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: In LA. And guys, this was five years ago. Kevin
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: could have been a squash.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Kevin can be there.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, he could have been, but he's not, he'll never
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: be good.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: He'll never be good.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: He'll never be good.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: In the words of his teachers. I think this story
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: is more so I think your parents are kind of insane.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: That's crazy. Yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I think they're really intense.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. About the weirdest things.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They're like, you have to do all of these
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: different activities.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And we're going to get your lessons. And we're going
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: to sink a lot of money into it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: And you'll pay us back one day.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess this is like rich family activities.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Put your son into skiing and squash. I don't know.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I think he just likes to do it. And whatever
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: he wants to do, I feel like he should do,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: you know? Yeah, well, he's doing everything. As long as
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: he likes it. I mean, obviously there's good days, bad days, whatever.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: But as long as he's actually enjoying it. I would
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: go to diving and just sit in the hot tub
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and cry and then leave.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound good. But we have a little bit left.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: More.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it together and my wife agreed she'd
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: follow our son's lead on squash. We asked him what
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: his ideal outcome is and he said that he'd like
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to continue squash at a low intensity so he can
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: play it socially. He wants to do a clinic once
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: a week and play with his mom once a week.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: He said that being able to play with her would
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: be one of the main reasons for him to keep
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: playing and that he had been disappointed she hadn't done
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: it much.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: This kid seems more mature than both the parents.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I would love to keep playing squash socially.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Socially. And as long as it's an activity I could
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: do with you, mother.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, please, mama. She said she didn't realize that, but
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that it made her happy that he wants to play
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: with her and she will make time. So we have
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: what seems to be a solution. No more tournaments, one
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: clinic a week, and periodic mom and son hitting sessions.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: That doesn't sound right. That sounds strange.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Hitting sessions.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I was ready to just whoop, but then they said
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: hitting sessions.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for when Kevin is bad at squash.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, for mommy and son hitting sessions.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: You didn't do good today at squash, son. Hitting session now.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they wear helmets to squash now. It gets too intense.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: It's funny that you said Kevin sucks at squash. That's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: why the mom wants him to have lessons.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Because she's not having as much fun playing with Kevin
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: because he's just so bad at it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: It's just like basketball.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: It's just racquetball.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: But, you know, named as a vegetable. There's so many
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: funny names for little tennis sports.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Like pickleball. Mm-hmm. Pickleball's fun. Pickleball's fun. I like that. Kevin,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: you should pick that up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You should.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: If you kind of like squash, I feel like you'd
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: love Pickleball. Yeah.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You'd absolutely love Pickleball. You should pickle that right up.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've only played it three times with my boyfriend
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and his roommate, and I'm okay.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay. It is so fun.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: It's really fun.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's very easy to pick up, too. Yeah. Pickleball.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Anything with a rally, I just love. Me, too. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: love a good rally. Yeah.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Do you have any sports you do now?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I golf, as we know.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I'm actually also trying to learn guitar, so maybe I
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: could find Kevin.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll teach you. Is that the only instrument you
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: almost play?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I actually can play the trumpet pretty well. I played
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: jazz trumpet all the way until senior year of high school.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: And I have like a little small pocket trumpet that
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I brought out to LA that I kind of just
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: want to start picking up to play.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you bring it here?
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you should. I should have.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I really did not know it was going to be
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: brought up today.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: That's really messed up. I'm pretty upset that I.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Didn't bring it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Well, we have a surprise for you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Oh my God, it's a pocket trumpet.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: We have a guitar downstairs. We could try that out.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But we have another story.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I'm scared.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they get progressively worse as we go on. I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: chased a promotion for a year, but my friend got
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it without an interview.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would piss me off. Man, that'd make me mad.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: My coworker, let's call him Mike. And I got hired
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: at the same time.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: That's his actual name.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's call him Mike.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Let's call him Mike, because that's his name.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: His name, and we're doxing him. And I've been working
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: there for three years. We have exactly the same profile.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Except that I have four years of prior work experience,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and this is Mike's first job. I genuinely like Mike
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and consider him a friend rather than just a co-worker.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: We share an office and a hobby. What hobby?
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Bouldering.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Squash. So we regularly hang out outside of work, too.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Last year, I applied for a job in a different
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: department that lined up more with my interests and previous experience.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: The interview process took nearly a year. and I was
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: always transparent about it with my boss and coworkers. In January,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I made it to the final phase, and they told
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: me I was a likely candidate because of my experience.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: In March, Mike told me that they had offered him
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the job I was applying for, and that he had
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: accepted it and would transfer in September. What? OP spent
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a year doing all these interviews? And then Mike just
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: gets it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: He just gets it. Mike just has it like that,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Mike just swoops in.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes you can't be mad at a guy
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: like that. Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: He's just good.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Not his fault.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: But also, he's not going to turn down the job
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: just because you didn't get it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I just got offered the job that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you really wanted. But just because of the friendship that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: we have and the hobby that we do outside.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: You say, no, I'm going to change my career path.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I have to do something entirely different now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Entirely different.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be a D1 squash player. I never
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: knew he was interested in the position. He explained that
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he had been offered a job at another company and
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: HR offered him the transfer to convince him to stay.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, he must be good at his job.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, he must be very, very good. Why?
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Without an interview. Yeah. Or he's just a people person.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Like, what if this person who's complaining about it on
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the Internet isn't a good.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Not a likable person. Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You got to be likable to have a job. And
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: maybe Mike is like the chillest dude in the world.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I think all jobs are personality hires.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't even have an interview, despite having no experience
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in that line of work. By the way, this comes
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: from no intention, and if you want to submit your
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: own stories, go to the r slash ok story time subreddit.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I feel no resentment towards Mike for accepting the job.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I would have done the same. It just feels bitter
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: that I went through the process for almost a year,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and Mike just got it handed to him. When I
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: went to HR, they basically told me the company cares
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: more about retention than finding the right person for the job.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: They promised the next position in that department would be mine,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: but no one knew when that would be. Okay, so
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: they're just saying that because Mike had another job offer,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: they wanted to keep him around?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess so. I mean, maybe he's playing his
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: cards right. He's kind of putting the ball in their cards.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm going to head out.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Listen, I don't want to kind of make you nervous,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: but I got like four people lined up ready to
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: give me like $ 400, 000 a year.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I'm halfway at the door.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Do you want me?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Also, it does sound like Mike is like the coolest
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: guy in the world. Sounds awesome.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: No experience, no interview. He just walked in the room once.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: He's like, hey, can I have this job? And they're like,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: we need this guy.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I'm leaving or else.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I could have fought the decision, but I didn't want
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Mike and me to have to compete with each other.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, trust me. You're not competing with Mike.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: No competition.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: You are in different leagues, man.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Around the end of May, I was offered the role
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: of acting head of department after a coworker announced she
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: would leave by the end of the year. It's mostly
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: a decorative title, but it looks nice on your CV
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: and creates more visibility within the company. Everyone in our
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: department knew, including Mike, but it could only be made
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: official once our head of department announced it at a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: staff meeting. Around the same time, Mike learned his transfer
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: would be postponed to the end of 2027, and he
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: didn't take it well. He started taking on coordinating tasks
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: nobody asked him to do, like drafting meeting plans, keeping
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: tabs on work schedules, and sending general information emails. When
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I asked why, he said he had to keep busy
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to keep him going crazy. He's just such a hard worker.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Last week, my head of department told me she would
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: announce my new role at the new meeting in two weeks.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: When Mike texted asking how the meeting went, I told him.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: He then sent me a three-minute voice memo saying he
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: deserved a fair chance at the role too now that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: his transfer was postponed and that he would ask our
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: boss to consider him. Mike is evil, I think.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike is now. I thought he was a cool guy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Mike's the villain. Kind of coming for people.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: This is the greed they talk about in the Bible.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He's taking everyone's job.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: He's the type of guy who's like his best friends
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in a very loving relationship.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, I kind of like her too. I deserve a
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: fair chance at her.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I deserve a shot.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Hey, dude, no.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I responded that he's free to have the same ambitions
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: as me, but that I was disappointed he hadn't been
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: honest about it. I also found his timing opportunistic right
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: after his transfer was postponed and right after I told
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: him when my appointment would become official. I told him
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I never got a fair chance at the position that
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: was offered to him and that given our history, I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: would hope he would grant me this. Please, Mike, let
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: me have this.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Please, I deserve it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Mike said it was never his intention to go behind
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: my back and that if this would cause conflict between us,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: he would let it go and let me take the role.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: That's funny wording. He would let me.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It's like, I guess I can give.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: It to you. I'll give it to you because I
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: know damn well they'd give it to me.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Immediately.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: And they did.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: And here's where I feel conflicted. He's entitled to the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: same ambitions and I don't want him to sacrifice opportunities
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: for the sake of our friendship, but he knew how
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: disappointed I was when that position was given to him
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and he knew this new role was important to me.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: At the same time, a job is a job and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I don't technically have any more right to this role
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: than he does. If management decides he's the better person,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I'll accept it. So am I being unreasonable by asking
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: him to back off or is it reasonable to expect
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a friend to give me some consideration in this situation
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and we have an update so we have a little
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: bit left what do you think.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Well given before when I didn't know how he went
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: about it yeah like I think it's not fair like
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: because he kind of just swooped in he's actually I
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: want this now yeah Yeah, and if it was like
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: they're both going for it at the same time, it
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: was like, actually, I kind of want to do this
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not really making any sense right now.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: No, but I see where you're going.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Mike's wrong. Mike is wrong. Mike, I thought you used
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: to be really cool. You changed, dude.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You changed. Who are you? Have you seen, can't remember
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the name of the movie.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, I've seen it.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: We're starting off on poor footing. Came out this year,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: and it was a Korean movie by the same guy
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: who did Parasite. And it was about this guy who
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: worked at a paper company and basically takes out all
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the competition for his job.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Or the job that he wants.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: That's literally Mike. Yeah. Mike probably saw that movie and
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: was like, wait, I gotta do this.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I have to do this.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: To my friend.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's like, I'm gonna, I don't know.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: No other choice?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, no other choice. Thank you.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: They want to become the head of the acting department?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: The head of, yeah, some department. Okay, cool. OP would
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: become the head of that department. What I want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: know is, is this a better position than the one
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that Mike is waiting on.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: What if it's also like not even a job remotely
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: close to that like he's like waiting to become like
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: an astrophysicist for nasa he's like wait hold on acting
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: the arts i like.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: This i love that liberal arts yeah switch.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Mike is wrong mike come on that's your friend and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: you saw them about to be happy to accept the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: job that they wanted and then you're like oh shit
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: that sounds good actually i kind of want it i want.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: It mike is the a-hole confirmed but we have an
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: update Hey, it's Keon, the silliest goose. We're going to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: get back to the stories, but here's three minutes of
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: ads from our sponsors. The meeting happened last week and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: my manager announced that I would be taking on the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: role of acting head of department starting in October. Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's any acting involved. I think they're
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: just acting head.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Acting head.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: They're acting like a head.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: They're acting like a head. So wait, they're actors?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're all actors. And we have an update.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Give us this update.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Okay. Give it. The meeting happened last week. Are you
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: going to give us the update?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: No.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: No. You know what, guys?
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: You guys don't get the update anymore. I'm hiding it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The meeting happened.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Well, we're waiting. I'm kidding. That was my last time.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Rules of three for comedy. Yeah, of course. Yes.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: You're so funny. That's why we had you on.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Update.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: When she asked if anyone had any objections, it stayed
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: quiet for a long time until Mike said, I object!
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Mike!
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: He found it unfair that he was passed over now
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that his transfer had been delayed. My manager told him
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it was a logical choice since the role requires a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: long-term commitment and Mike would be the first to leave
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the department. And they're all about retention.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: He got defensive and asked why she'd even asked for
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the team's opinions if the decision was already made. To
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: be honest, he's got a point there. Why do you, like,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: after you've made the decision to bring someone on to
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a new job, I've never had someone be like, everyone
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: chill with that?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: We're all good here?
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: It's like at the weddings. Yeah. Does anyone object here?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Why is that even a thing?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: And who would you invite to a wedding that would object? Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: You don't know. That's why it's so, everyone, you're like, ooh.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like, does anyone have a crush on
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: me here? Right, right, so if anyone has a crush
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: on me, raise your hand. Ooh, gotcha. Me at my wedding.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I know, just seeing if there's a better option at
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: your wedding.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You're like, okay.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Before I seal the deal, is there anyone a little
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: bit more handsome or make a little bit more money?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Or Ken Boulder.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: That is important.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: But that is insane. Like what job ever was like, oh,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: we're going to give you this position. But before we
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: do that, I do want to make sure it's cool
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: with everyone else.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: If anyone doesn't like it, we will stop. We won't
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: And we'll hear them out and we'll reconsider you for
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: the role.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And they're like, but Mike, no. She calmly said he
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: would have been considered if he weren't leaving. And he
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: didn't say anything for the rest of the meeting. Afterwards,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: my manager asked me privately about the situation with Mike.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: She said she knew exactly what he was doing by
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: picking up extra tasks and that after his defensive attitude
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: in the meeting, she wouldn't want to work with him
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: as acting head of department anyway.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Dang, Mike. Good.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You're no longer a personality hire.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: She also said he was never considered due to his
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: young age and lack of experience and that he was
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: trying to bet on all horses and is now facing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: the consequences. Things between Mike and me are a bit
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: tense at the moment. We still have friendly banter, but
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I sometimes feel some resentment from him. He's also started
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: micromanaging me, updating me or asking me about every little detail,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: like whether I've seen random emails in the general mailbox.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mailed.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Do they have a physical mailbox?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I like to believe that this person just didn't have
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: an E. No access to E's when they were typing.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: The E on their keywords, bro. When I tell him this,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: he just says, just making sure that you've seen it. Oh,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that's so annoying. I'm like, shut up, Mike. I've seen it, Mike.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I'm letting it play out, but I'm keeping notes since
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I don't trust him with any professional information anymore. Thanks
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: to everyone who responded to the first post, I've learned
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: my lesson and will be more careful about who I
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: share professional information with moving forward.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: That's smart.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: And that's the end of the story.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: Don't tell anyone anything.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I always say that.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you anything about that.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I know. Same here. And I won't.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: That's the end of the story.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I think. Congrats, Opie, on getting your job.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, congrats.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: You deserve it for sure. Mike, man, you started hot
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: for me. I was like, this guy is probably awesome.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I want to have a beer with him.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He fell from grace real quick.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Now, knowing who Mike is, I'd probably get a beer
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: with him and he'd probably, actually, I kind of want
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: your beer too.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And he'd drink my beer.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: He'd drink them both. He wouldn't even trade.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: And that's a real life metaphor right there. It is.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: And that's beautiful. And that's another metaphor from James Lynch.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: And remember, moral of the story, don't Share anything with anyone.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: That is the moral of the story. Keep everything close
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to the chest.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Keep everything close. Just let it build up inside you. Yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Don't tell anyone if you're mad at them.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Don't tell anyone if you're happy with them.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Communication doesn't work. Trust me.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: That's what we want you to take away from this.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: That's the lesson we get from that story.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: No communication. Please. But we have another story. My boss
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: confronted me about a lie I told her. I never
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: figured out how she knew.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: We've got to figure out what the lie is.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: This is really weird to post, and I feel crazy
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: for even thinking it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: You are crazy. You're crazy.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: You're mad. But so many weird things have happened over
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the past month. I've been working for this family, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I feel like I need a second opinion or someone
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to tell me if I'm going crazy. Like I said,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I'm a nanny. You haven't said that yet, actually.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: And I've worked for this family since just before the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: new year. They have two kids, two and eight. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: know they have trackers sewn into the two-year-old's diaper bag
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and the eight-year-old's backpack. She told me about them and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I obviously have no issue with that. The kids are great.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: The mom is a single mom who seemed really lovely
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: from our first few meetings.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh, foreshadowing.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, she sent me a text asking
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: if I could come in now because she got called
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: into work. I lied and said I was in the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: big city in my state visiting my sister for the weekend.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: It was a dumb white lie because I didn't want
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to be asked during the weekend if she kept being
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: called in, as that has happened multiple times before, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I really needed a full weekend to myself. I'm already
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: on OP's side.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, also, OP doesn't owe any explanation for why
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: they can't work.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she wasn't scheduled. Yeah.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: She simply responded, you don't need to lie. I'll find
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: a backup. That's terrifying.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: That's very scary.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: It definitely gave me super weird vibes and was super embarrassing,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: but I shrugged it off and figured she may have
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: been at a Trader Joe's earlier in the day when
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I went, or she saw my car or something like that.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from Gem1NI, and if you
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: want to submit your own stories, go to the r
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: slash OKStoryTime subreddit. Anyway, OP says, Then this Tuesday I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: came in and she was definitely cold towards me. I
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: had been out celebrating a friend's birthday Monday night at
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: a bar, but I nursed one drink the entire night
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and was never even tipsy. I take showers in the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: morning and wore clean clothes, so there was no way
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I smelled like booze.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: She was hammered.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: She washed herself in the beer. I was fine.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I was fine. She's like knocking into things. Yeah. Her
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: breath reeks of vodka.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: But she confronted me and accused me of being hungover,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: said I reeked of booze, and kept asking if I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: had a drinking problem because why would I be drinking
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: on a Monday night? Because OP's fun?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Because OP's fun and she's 26. That's what we do.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: You reek of booze on a Monday night.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That'd be weird if I didn't.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I also have figured out, I think I know how
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: she knows all this.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: What do you think?
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I think she put a tracker.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Why? I think they're crazy.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she already put tracker on the baby diapers.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the backpack.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: She probably put it on OP's... Yeah, like.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Purse or something.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Purse.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have to be something that OP would
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: bring a lot of places.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Which would be a purse. Yeah, purse.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Or like, I don't know, one of those little card
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: trackers she slipped in the phone.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: True.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I was really put off and told her the truth,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: that it was my friend's birthday and I was just
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: out celebrating with her and some other friends and hadn't
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: even drank. She paused for a super long time and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: just nodded. and left for work like nothing happened. So weird.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I wonder what her job is. She sounds like she's
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: like a.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: She's a CIA agent.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: She's a federal agent, actually. Or she's a PI. Mom
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: is super religious and vehemently anti-booze. But I still feel
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: like it was a weird accusation. I asked my girlfriend
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: when I got home if I smelled like booze or
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: anything somehow, and she couldn't smell anything. Earlier today was
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the final incident. that really cemented this stupid conspiracy theory
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: in my head. I took the bus this morning when
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I normally take my car because I'm extra broke right
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: now and need to save gas. I got to her
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: house around 10 minutes early, but sat in a little
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: wooded curb area for a while until it was my
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: official time to start. It's in the car!
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: It's in the car!
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Five minutes before my start time, mom texts me. Have
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you left yet? I have a meeting at 1030. I
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: am never late. I walked in early and she looked confused.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: When I mentioned taking the bus, she literally said, oh,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: that makes sense.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. It's in the car.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: And there it is.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: What the heck do I do?
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: She has a tracker in your car.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's insane. I mean, what the heck do I do?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: You quit. I looked all over my car in my
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: backpack and in my car's car seat and I couldn't
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: find anything. Am I overthinking this? We do have an edit.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: But what do you think?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: There's definitely a tag somewhere in the car. Yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Could be underneath the car.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: How would she get access to her car without her knowing?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: It's also funny to be like, that makes sense. She's
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: taking the bus, like assuming she's hammered, like she can't drive.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You shouldn't drive.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe if your kids weren't so hard to babysit, I
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have to get hammered to do so.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: On a Monday night.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Edit, I just looked with the help from y'all and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: found an air-tagged duct tape to the underside of my car.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I freaking called that.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You got to get cops involved for that.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: You have to, yes. That's illegal. So very, very creeped
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: out currently. Not sure what to say or do now. Arrest.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Arrest that woman.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, start with the cops for sure.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope you took a picture of that.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Or blackmail her.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Or blackmail her.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Get some money off of this. Say, I know what
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: you did. Here's a proof. I want to triple my rate. Yeah.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: And I want you to pay me this amount of
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: money up front. You could probably get some good money
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: for that.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: And I'm only taking the bus now.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Only taking the bus. She puts a
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: tracker on the bus.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: She's like, where are you?
• 41:24
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• 41:27
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• 41:30
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• 41:33
  Speaker 1: If you saw my post from last week, you know
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I found an air tag under my car put there
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: by the mom that I work for. So I ended
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: up calling the police. They came to my place. checked
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: out the car, AirTag, etc., and they went and spoke
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: with the mom. AirTag was in her name, by the way.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I know some people were suggesting it could be someone else,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: which sadly was a probability for a while because I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: do have a stalker. Only making all of this more stressful.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: OP!
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: What are you doing? You gotta move.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like that stalker was hired by the mom. Yeah.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Like it's just another private investigator. 100%. We've got a
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: little bit left of the story. I mean, OP's done...
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: You know, what she needs to do in terms of
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: calling the police. How do you get over this? What
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: do you do next?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, that probably pissed her off going to the police.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: So I'd get a restraining order against her or just move.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Get up and move.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: She could put a tracker on your car at any point.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Honestly, moving probably wouldn't even help because she works for
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: the CIA.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: She would find you.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: She would find her very easily.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, she knows your plates. You're done for. So
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: I think you have to go into witness protection program. Yep.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Sorry. That's the only... Solution.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: We've got a little bit left. Mother was shocked that
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I had called the police over the tag.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: She's like, what?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I put tags on everyone.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I was stalking you. And you call the cops on me?
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Your employer? Your mom boss?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Your mom boss? Your mommy boss? And totally tried to
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: gaslight the officers. She said that she put it there
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to make sure I wasn't speeding. Officers, you don't understand.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I had to make sure she wasn't speeding.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: What kind of help would that even do?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Which you can definitely tell from an air tag.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't give you speed on things. It's to
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: find lost items, you freak. And his backpack if I
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: lost their bags with the trackers. So if OP loses
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: the bags... with the trackers, then she also has a
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: tracker in her car, which will lead them to the
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: bags with the trackers.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: That's the logic?
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: That's the logic.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: She's just that much closer to the bags by going
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: to her car.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have the last known location.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: She also flat out lied and said she had told me,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: but I must not have been listening.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, probably because she was too drunk.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: She came to work drunk. They just gave her a
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: warning and no further action was taken. That's crazy.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: I honestly don't think they really took my concerns seriously.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: If anything, they seem to side with her perspective. So
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that's awesome. Sarcasm. I'm obviously not working for her anymore
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: and have blocked her phone number because she was belittling
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: me over calling the police over her keeping her children safe.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: On to the next job, I guess. Anyone with advice
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: on how to warn other nannies in my area is appreciated.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I think, I mean, it depends on if you have
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: like a nanny app, but If you were going through,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: because there was a babysitting app that I used to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: go through, and you could rate the families and put
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: things up.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: So always go for nannies who have some reviews.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: This is going to be kind of a niche cut,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: but I listened to a podcast a while ago about,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: it was this podcast called Binch-topia, and they had this episode.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: It's just these two girls who gab, but they gab
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: about really like, cool stuff. And so they were talking
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: about surveillance states.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And part of the discussion was about nannies and parents
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: putting cameras in the house to like watch the nannies
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: to make sure that the kids are safe, but not
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: letting the nannies know.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And she was like, yeah, what is the level of
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: protecting your kids versus their privacy? Like a nanny's privacy.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: And this feels like that.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: So what do you think about that?
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I feel like if, They need to let them know. Yeah.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: If they want, like, cause I kind of get both
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: sides of that.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: You want to protect your kids.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: But also you definitely need to let them know. Yeah.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: And you can't put air tags on people's car.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: You can't, you just can't do that. That's like the
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: one big one. You can't do that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: I thought the family that I worked for had cameras,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: but then it turned out they never, like they did
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: when they were like little kids.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: But then they got rid of them as soon as
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I started. It's like that episode of Malcolm in the
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Middle where he goes and babysits for this rich family
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: and he's having such a blast and he's just kind
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: of like watching TV and stuff. Yeah. And then he
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: finds out that they have all these cameras and recordings
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: of him.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Damn. That would suck.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Were you ever a babysitter?
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: No, I wasn't. But I think I'd be a damn
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: good one. I think you'd be a good one too.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: That would have so much fun. I agree. Are you
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: good with kids?
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: I love kids. I want nine million of them one day.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I want all the world's kids.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: I cannot wait to force them into activities that they
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: don't want to do, like bouldering, squash, and guitar.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I hope he likes that one. That would be really cool.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: But I kind of just want him to be an
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: ultra runner, like just hundreds of miles at a time,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of money in that.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. You could really exploit your children. You're
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: 9 million.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Exploiting my children to become ultra runners.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: Nine million of them.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, nine million of them. You were about to make
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: at least a dollar from each of those kids. That's
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: nine million dollars.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: My God. That's a good idea.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, child labor.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Do you have time for one more story?
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it. Okay.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I exploded at my boss in front of the whole office.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I think I lost my job.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you exploded in the office, it's probably going
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: to scar some people.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: That was funny.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you, guys.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I've been a sales development rep at a midsize B2B
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: tech company. Business to business. Business to business.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Are you sure it's not balls to boobs?
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Is it an MLM? For about 14 months. The job
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: itself is fine. I run LinkedIn outreach campaigns, cold calls,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: and email sequences. The problem is my manager. This guy
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: has been on a power trip since the day I started.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: He tracks our screen time, logs when we go to
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: the bathroom.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Not kidding.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: He has a spreadsheet for it, which we call the spreadsheet. Wait,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: that's really. Expects us to be online by 830 a.m.,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: even though our hours officially start at nine. Well, you know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: if he's not paying you more, then don't do that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: And has denied us every single PTO request I had
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: submitted in the last six months. Every single one. I mean, like,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: there's a certain amount that he has to give you legally.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like a legal thing that you just get
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: for working.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: His reason is always that we're in a critical growth period,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: which apparently is every period. We're a team of four SDRs,
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: and he pays us entry-level wages while expecting senior output.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Two of us have brought up compensation, and both times
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: he said, we should prove we deserve more first. Corporate
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: BS speak for, no, stop asking. Meanwhile, he takes credit
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: for our numbers in every leadership meeting. We hit 140%
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of a quota last quarter, and his exact words to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: our VP were, I've been coaching the team really hard
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: this quarter, and it's paying off. This man hasn't taught
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: us a single thing.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Bruv. Bruv.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from How Long Was I Gone?
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: And if you want to submit your own stories, go
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: to the r slash showcase story time subreddit, and we're
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: going to get into this story.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Yesterday, I was sitting at my desk at like 2 p.m.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: trying to launch a new outreach campaign. If you've ever
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: set up LinkedIn automation campaigns, you know how much focus
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: this takes. I have not. I use Expandee for most
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: of our outreach and meet Alfred.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, if you're using Expandee, it's probably why you
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: haven't gotten a promotion.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Kidding, I don't know anything about this. I don't know
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: anything about it.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: I thought you did.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I believed it. For a couple of smaller campaigns and
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: when you're configuring the targeting filters, writing the sequence messages,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: setting up the conditional logic for follow-ups, checking the team
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: dashboard to make sure nobody else is already working the
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: same accounts, and making sure you don't... accidentally send the
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: wrong list to the wrong audience. You really need to concentrate.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, Obi. One wrong
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: filter and you send 300 messages to completely irrelevant people.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Or worse, you hit the same prospects twice from different
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: campaigns and look like a full-blown spam operation. So I'm
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: deep in this, staring at my sequence builder, double checking
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: my sales navigator filters against my exclusion lists. And my
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: manager walks up to my desk, doesn't say hi, doesn't
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: wait for me to finish what I'm doing, just goes,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: your activity numbers from yesterday were below the team average.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I need you to explain why. Yesterday, I had spent
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: three hours on a custom research project that he asked
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: me to do for a target account that he flagged
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: as a priority. I literally have the Slack message where
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: he told me to drop everything and focus on it.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I told him that, calmly. He goes, that it's not
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: an excuse in how we need to hit our daily minimums.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: And here I was, thinking we were going above and beyond.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Something in my brain just broke. 14 months of this.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Fourteen months of being micromanaged, underpaid, gaslit about my performance,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: denied time off, and having my work stolen in front
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: of leadership. Now he's standing at my desk, telling me
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: that the project he assigned me is my fault for doing?
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I don't even fully remember what I said word for word,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: but it was a tirade that went like this. The
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: reason my numbers were low is because I was doing
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: the project you yourself personally assigned me, which I can
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: pull up right this moment. The reason morale on this
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: team is in the crapper is because of crap like
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: this you keep pulling. You treat us like children. You
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: take credit for everything we do. You deny every vacation
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: request and you pay us like interns while expecting us
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: to carry your whole company. Nah, acting like you do.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: If you want to write me up for yesterday, go ahead.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: But at least be honest about why the numbers will
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: then be low. Pop? And then OP dropped the mic.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, nice. That's a mic drop right there.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: That was actually insane. I said this at my desk
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: and most everyone on the team heard it. He went
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: completely red and just said, we'll discuss all this in
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: private and walked away. I sat there for some minutes
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out if I should start packing my desk.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Then I saved my campaign draft, priorities I guess, and
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: went out to sit in my car. We've got a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: little bit left to this story. Have you ever had
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: a terrible job?
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Actually, no.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I will say I had a job that I loved,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: but I worked there for a month because all my
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: friends quit. And the only reason I worked there was
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: because all my friends. But it was fun. Every single
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: shift I worked was so fun. I was a busboy
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: at St. Moritz in Sparta, New Jersey. It was a
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: good time. I had like literally like six of my
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: best friends working there every single shift.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I think you misunderstood. We said bad experiences.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you and that's that's all we have for today
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: that's it everyone that's it um then no well i
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: guess what i was getting i didn't like the job
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: i just liked the people i was working with i
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: don't think i had a bad.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: Job well nobody likes being a bus boy no yeah
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: i don't think i had a bad job either i
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: also i worked as a barista and i don't think
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: the job itself was like anything special but the people
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: were just awesome.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: You know what i i correction i had another job Ooh,
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: do tell.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Again, I loved it, but I hated the people. But
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: there's a guy who reminds me of the boss in
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: this story. At my old job, he also had a
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: power trip. We were like 16 years old working as
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: a cart boy at this golf course. So it's like, obviously,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: we're not going to care that much about the work
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: that we're doing. But I remember there was one instance
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: where And I mean, at the end of the day,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: he was in the right. But like the way he
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: interrogated me about it was like, and I was like
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: kind of just laughing in his face. Like, so the
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: story was I set up a bucket of range balls
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: on the range during my shift. And every single time
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: I walked up the range to bring a cart back
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: down to the cart barn, I would take like three swings.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, I'm in the wrong.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: You're doing a little golf.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, doing a little golf and on the job, not
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: allowed to do it. And then he like walkies me
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: into the pro shop. He's like, James, pro shop. Now
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: I'm like, Oh my God. So I go in there
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: and I sit down and I'm at his desk and
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: he doesn't say anything for like 10 seconds.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: And then he like leans in. He's like, do you
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: have balls on the range? I'm like, Oh yeah. He's like,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: and you're hitting them. I'm like, yeah. Do you want
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: to explain to me why?
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't know. It's just like
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: kind of a slower day. I just thought I'd hit
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: some balls. And he goes, so you think it's cool
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: to hit company balls while you're on the clock? And
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: it was just like a bunch of interrogating like that.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: And then I started laughing a little bit. It was
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: like one, I was just like kind of a little nervous,
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: but also I was like, this is really funny.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like you're acting right now. Like there's like
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: a camera behind me and you're trying to like scare me.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: So I started laughing. He's like, oh, now you find
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: this funny.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: He goes, you see how this looks.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Chris Hansen, you see how this looks, right? But yeah,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: that was, I didn't really love that guy. And there
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: was just a bunch of other stuff that that guy did, but.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I won't say his name, but I just.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: Say his name. Mike.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: But it is Mike.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: But it is Mike.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that does sound terrible.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: And OP, the moral of that story is leave a
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: job if you hate it.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: And you hate the people that work there. And we
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: do have a little bit left. He hadn't said anything since.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Absolutely nada. My coworkers have been texting me like I'm
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: some kind of folk hero, which is nice. But I'm
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: also terrified that HR is going to call me in
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: tomorrow morning. One of the other SDRs told me she's
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: been wanting to say the same thing for months, so
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: at least there's solidarity on the team. But who knows
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: how things are gonna pan out when push comes to shove.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: The ironic part is the campaign I was building when
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: he interrupted me. I finished it this morning and it
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: already got three positive replies. So maybe he should have
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: just let me work instead of being a hissy, passive-aggressive witch.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: And that's where we're gonna end that story.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Good for her. I feel like she has a lot
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: of support on the team. Yeah. I wouldn't be too
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: nervous about that.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Well, they all have a common enemy.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: And no one likes this manager.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: And maybe, honestly, this is going to be an eye-opener
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: for this guy. Maybe he went and he's like, we'll
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: have a conversation about this later. And then he sat
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: in his desk. He's like, maybe she's right.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe no one likes me.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: And looked up, there's a spotlight on him.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe I am doing the company wrong.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: John Quinones comes out. What would you do?
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: What would you do?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I just watched Primetime. So that is the end
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: of the story. Please plug yourself. Thank you so much
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: for coming on. Tell us where we can find you.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Guys, you could watch me on Sundays on NBC when
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I'm playing on the Chicago Bears.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: I'm a defensive tackle, like we said.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: You could find me at NotJamesLynch on Instagram and all
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: my links are in that bio. I have different names
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: for all my other channels and my team hates it.
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: But I am too lazy to change it.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: That's okay. You want to just list them real quick?
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, not James Lynch Instagram. James Golfs on TikTok. And
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: then I think it's It's James Lynch on YouTube.
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: So many different names. So it's not James Lynch, but
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: it is James Lynch.
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: But it is James Lynch.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: I swear it's James Lynch.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: I swear it's James Lynch. I promise you it's James Lynch. Promise. No,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: for real, it's me. My email is also, I shouldn't
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: even say what my email is.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, don't. Maybe don't say your email. But was
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: there anything that you wish we brought up, wish we
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: talked about?
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: That's Riley's question.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: Listen, guys, I'll be honest with you. Yeah. I got
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: a new tattoo on the back of my arm and
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty bummed.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Let's see. Can we see? And that's, I can't actually
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: see it.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Zoom in.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's sick.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: It's a little skeleton.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: It's a little skeleton hand holding a dead flower.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I just went to the backseat lovers concert in red
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: rocks and they did a pop-up with a flash tattoo.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I got it. They got it.
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: They got me so quickly.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: All of my tattoos are flashed. Right. That's a very
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: nice tattoo. I'm glad we brought that up. Wait, how
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: much was it?
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: It was a hundred bucks. Kind of a lot for
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: a flash, but it's so small.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: But it's a nice tattoo.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: It's a nice tattoo. I like it.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: And I feel like whenever you're doing something with an event,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: they always.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Now I have a good story behind it. It's true.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: And you got to tell about it, talk about it
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: on a podcast?
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: I got to talk about it on a podcast. And
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: I brought it up.
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 57:36
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• 57:39
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• 57:40
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