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WDYM You're working for Queen Boswer? · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hope all is well with you guys.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh thank you for tuning in.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: And um today's episode.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Today's episode is going to be a kind of a sequel to episode four, I believe, which was the six-week notice, I believe, which is the results from that.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: The results from me working with somebody who is just an unworkable.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: So this episode's called What Do You Mean You Worked for Queen Bowser?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I'm calling it.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: But first and foremost, guys, thank you for tuning into the podcast.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: I really do appreciate it.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, thank you for taking the time to click on the little icon and then going on from there.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: So without further ado, let's get into the episode, which is called What Do You Mean You're Working for Queen Bowser?
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you go back to episode four, episode four was where I was leaving my job and going to a new job.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: And here is the sequel or the sequel episode or the follow-up to that episode is where I worked about two months there and I came back.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: I came back to my old job because this thing was ridiculous.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: So let me get further into it with a, you know, what the hell is going on?
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: What the hell's going on?
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: I am so glad you asked.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: So here we go.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: So let's rewind back to time where before I left my my current job to go to this school, this job at the school.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, first, how it happens, these these uh, I don't know what you call them, people that call promoters, not promoters, uh, recruiters.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh recruiters call you and they be like, hey, we got this job.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's in Hamilton.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we saw you live in Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a great opportunity for you.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm saying, I'm looking at the at the email.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, that is a great opportunity.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: So I apply for this job because I'm allowed to within them.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm within the same company, just a different branch of the company.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: I apply for the job.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this sounds great.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: The recruiters like, yeah, you're gonna be working Monday through Friday.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: You work with schools, you know, uh Monday through Friday, like seven to two, seven to three, no later than that.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're gonna be paying you good money, you know.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: All this, that, and another.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this recruiter is released to giving a good sales pitch because I want to do this.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Now, remind let me remind you that at the time I was working at a senior facility home and we didn't have a dietitian, and we were short on staff, and I was underpaid compared to what they were suggesting that they're paid.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, yo, this sounds great because this they had my schedule so whack, I would take three days off one week and rotate for one day off the following week.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm doing you know, dietitian work that I have no idea what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm barely managing, but I'm keeping this facility afloat.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I feel I'm feeling unappreciated and feel like I'm being used and all that stuff.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: So when the opportunity comes to go work at a school, paid more money, it sounds great.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, let's let's do the interview process.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I get in touch with the person and we're playing phone tag back and forth, not really talking to each other.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: Then the first time I get a call from a random number that I didn't recognize, but it had the uh city of Hamilton, Ohio, and so I'm like, okay, let me just answer it just in case.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Answer it, and you can hear this like she's breathing all hard and stuff.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what's going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello?
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  SPEAKER_00: She's like, hey, this is Queen Bowser.
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  SPEAKER_00: I work at Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is this Michael Gillespie?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: I say, yeah.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, who is this?
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, well, I'm the superintendent of food specialists, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I heard you had it uh put in a resume.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, we like to talk.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, all right, that's cool, but I have a question for you.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you so out of breath?
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I was working on a food truck this summer.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: When summers we do food trucks and uh we feed the poor.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: We'll tell I'll tell you all about it in the in the uh interview process if you're willing.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, yeah, let's let's do it.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: I still want this job because I need to get out of the current job that I'm in, because again, understaffed, overworked, underappreciated.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it's time to move on, right?
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: So we had the interview process, and there are certain things that you say in the interview process that I call, that everybody calls, red flags.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: These are red flags that I should have seen the sign for and been and backed out.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I get all dressed and go to the interview process and then uh sit down, and she's late, and the guy's like, oh, she'll be here any minute.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that should have been red flag number one.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: She's already late to the interview process.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, ah, you know, things happen.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna trip.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, maybe she had to use the restroom.
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_00: It is what it is.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I wait there for not long, about five minutes, and she comes in.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, I'm not judging nobody.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: She's she's she is who she is.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_00: So she sits down, and um, again, she's red cheeked, looks flustered, but I'm not judging that on her yet.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm you know, I'm focused on the job.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm focused on the job that I that I want, so I'm not gonna judge her.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: So she picks up my resume.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the second red flag.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: The second red flag was she looks at my resume, looks at me, she says, Why do you all, why do you all just get up and leave?
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what are you talking about?
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm looking at her like, what?
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_00: Like, she looks at my resume, she's like, Well, you only stayed here a year and a half, you stayed here two years.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Well, why do y'all keep leaving?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, then I said, you know, if you're talking about the year and a half, I was at one location, I was promised to be the executive chef in six months.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: Guess what happened?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: It didn't happen.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: They brought somebody in.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, they didn't even tell me, like, Mike, we don't think you're ready for the position, therefore, you know, we're gonna bring somebody in, or hey, Mike, you're gonna watch this person, and then in three more months, you can take over the spot.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: That didn't happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get that opportunity.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: So you're judging me on a piece of paper.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: Why don't you get you know the context of what really happened?
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: She said that.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Then another one was the two years, which is probably Chipotle, and you could go tune into the episode to find out how Tripoli was.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Chipotle was trash, just like their food sometimes.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I could go for a breeder right now.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm saying there's context to situations that you know you don't understand.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, well, okay.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: So you start telling me about the job, about working it at this school system, how easy it is, and what I need you to do, and all that stuff.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, yeah, I have experience in this, that, and the other.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: So the interview goes pretty well, pretty well enough to offer me the job.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay, she says this amount of money, you're gonna work seven to three, you're gonna be here, blah, blah, blah.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Doing over to secondary schools, which is the junior high and high school.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this cannot be any better.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I jump, I make the jump.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I'm gonna be over here.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we get to orientation, and here comes red flag number two.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: We were uh so the whole staff is in the cafeteria, we're all sitting there talking.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Yeah, this is Michael Gillespie, he's gonna be the new district chef.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody give him a round of applause.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: They're all clapping, like, shh, shh, or I actually got a sound effect for that, but I hope I get it right.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, anyway, they clap for me and all that stuff.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Do you want to say a few words?
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Well, I ain't no politician, but yeah, I can I can talk a little bit.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, my name is Mike Gillespie.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_00: I I used to uh I graduated from the school system and you know, proud to be back home.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've used that home thing before, you know, because I'm always proud to be home.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always proud to work for Hamilton, always proud to work for my city.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: I love my city, Hamilton, Ohio.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's my city, it's my thing.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: So uh, yeah, give a clap out for that.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, it was always good for me to give service back, like even if it's to the elderly or to these kids.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm always happy to be home.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: I love love my city.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, best drinking water in the States.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you that right now.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: So as I'm sitting there listening, she's like, okay, guys, we're gonna talk about the rules and regulations of Hamilton of Hamilton schools.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm listening, and she's and the as soon as she's going on about what's going on and you know what the rules are, the way she talked to people irked me in orientation.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: So the way she's talking to these people saying, now she's saying you will do this and you will do that, and I'm will write you up if I catch you not doing it.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: So the way she's delivering her message is very authoritarian, author like a dictator, authoritarian, whatever.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh she's very author, she's just being real rude to these people, and this is orientation.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is their first day back.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Mind you, these people probably been working with her for X amount of years and probably used to this language.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm coming in as like, yo, this is crazy how she's talking to people.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_00: She's saying, You will, you will, I'll write you up, threatening people.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm thinking to myself, like, how would I, in this situation, do this?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I wouldn't be like that.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: It'd be like, you know, you say, hey, the reminder that uh applesauce goes in a two-inch pan, you know, it'll be easier for the elementary kids to scoop it that way, so therefore we're avoiding a mess.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: Letting the message reach them through an alternative way of saying, you will, you will, or else you're upset to avoid this, you're gonna put it in a two-inch pan because of such and such, right?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: So though her delivery was very, it didn't fit my persona, my personality when I'm in the kitchen working with these people.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: But I ignore the second red flag.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I want this job, seven to three, Monday through Friday.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Why not?
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm working now, so now I'm working, and so I go to the office, and here's the third red flag.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: She doesn't even have a uniform prepared for me yet.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm wearing an old uniform at my new job.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: So that that's that's the third reflect.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like they what you didn't you didn't take me serious?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: Like I can't, I don't got a uniform.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm wearing an old shirt to a new job.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: That that to me is is absolute trash.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like you don't you can't treat your people like that.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't understand why why I didn't have a shirt first couple days of working there.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that's the third red flag that I just completely ignored.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going on, like, you know what, maybe something happened.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's COVID, you know, because COVID and all production has been slowed down very, you know, it's been slowed down, so therefore people ain't getting things that they want, things that they need at certain times.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, okay, I understand.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I come to the office and we're cleaning office, and I'm cleaning the chef's office who previously worked there.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm coming through and I'm looking at the name, like, huh, it's it's and let's just use a fictitious name.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: It's like this is uh Barry.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Barry.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: I got so I'm looking through it, looking through it, looking through it.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: This Barry is someone I used to work with back at the Great Wolf Lodge.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_00: When we used to, when I used to work at the Great Wolf Lodge, he was the executive, he was the he was a sous chef.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: He was a shoe chef, right?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, oh my god, Barry used to work here.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yo, I should tack I should call him up and ask him what's going on.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the thing with Barry is that my friend Barry has a crazy wife, and that's another story for another time.
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: And in fact, I'm not even gonna talk about it because I'm afraid, I'm so fearful of her.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: But that's another story for another time.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: So eventually, eventually, I reach out to Barry, but I'll get into that in a minute.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: So, okay, so I clean it out, and I'm like, all right, so that's good.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: I start and I'm working across this person, and her name is Sarah, and Sarah was like probably the nicest person I've ever met.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: She's a hard-working individual, she had a situation where she was getting not termed, but the contract she had from the previous location was not renewed.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: So therefore, she started working for her, and then they're friends.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: So she started working with Bowser too.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, you know, how was she?
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, she's great.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: You know, she could be a little too much at times, but overall, she's a great boss.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: I think she's a great person because we're friends.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, okay, so okay.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: So getting to talk to her, getting to know her, she's a real one thing I out of all this, out of all this, I really appreciate Sarah's work ethics.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: This woman worked so hard, and that's what I like about people.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_00: She worked really hard.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: She was like on on top of what she did for the schools.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: She had her own business making dog treats, and she was a hard worker.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: So if anything, I am very appreciative to have met her.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Props to you.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Props to you, Sarah.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: So anywho, so the problem happened when I when I was went to go get some shirts because they finally came in.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I said, where is the problem area?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Let me go hit the problem area first, and then we go from there.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, great, because that's what I wanted you to do.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: I want she, this is her words.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_00: She says, I want you to spend 99% of your time at the freshman building.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: The freshman building is the worst out of all the secondary schools.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Out of all the secondary schools, middle schools, high schools, the freshman building is the worst.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, that's no problem.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: 99% of the time, that's what she said.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: 99% of the time means I'm not coming straight to my office.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going straight there, figure out the problem, figure out the situations, and fix them, resolve them, right?
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: Talking to the managers there, you know, get a plan together and all that stuff.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: And to her, to her benefit, she was right.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: That place was trash.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: But it's okay though, because I'm there and I'm working, and then and I'm gonna fix the situation, right?
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: So it comes down to management, filing, and organization, right?
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't even go to my office, I go straight there, and I'm starting to see I'm starting to see see progress to it, right?
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: So the whole thing is getting fixed.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: But then we start having problems.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: We started having communication problems.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I said she wanted me to be there 99 point 99% of the time at the freshman building.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't go to my office.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I get a call.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, hello.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, where are you at?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, what do you mean where I'm at?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know where I'm at.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm at the freshman building.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, did you read your email?
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, because I didn't go to my office.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: 99% of my time, I w and that's what I said, 99% of my time, I'm gonna be at the freshman building.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, okay.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I need you at Wilson, at the one of the middle schools.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, so I go to Wilson, and the manager there's like, what are you doing here?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I was told to come here.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, I don't need your help now.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: So if you got the problem fixed, I don't need to be here.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I go back to the freshman building.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: So I feel like I'm being set up right now.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: Like, why would she call and say I'm needed there?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: And I go there and I'm not needed there.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, I ask her, like, hey, did you need me in the morning?
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, no, not really.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: So a little questionnaire, a little question, you know, like, why would she say that?
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: So this all boils down to miscommunication.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I get my first paycheck.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, I'm waiting to see this paycheck because this is part of the reason why I left.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm like, I jumped from a lot from my previous job to this new job.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: I jumped, I jumped quite a bit.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, hey, I was feeling myself.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I was like, yo, I'm like a poor Republican with all this money.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this is great.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I opened my first check.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this is what I'm talking about.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was nice little jump.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: I said, yeah.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: My second paycheck two weeks later, it was something called a series deduction.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: I said, what's I said?
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: I said, what's a series deduction?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't sign up for no serious deduction.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: What is C S-E-R-S-S deduction?
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I said, what is a series deduction?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot believe because my paycheck was smaller than where I was at my other location, at my previous job.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: No one told me about this serious deduction.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I call her ass up.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm furious.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, Bowser.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: What's wrong with this?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: What's with this series deduction?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, what?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Sears deduction.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_00: S-E-R-S deduction.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: He goes on to say, Oh, I told you about that.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, you didn't.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Yes, I did.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, no, you didn't.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, what do you mean I didn't?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I we during the interview process, we've never talked about a serious deduction.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, oh.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm sure I talked about it.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna argue with you.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a grown-ass man.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: We're not having this.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: So okay.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: So now I'm getting paid less at another job.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, that's this that's another red flag.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, this woman's really not talking to me.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: So the lap red flag came when we had a meeting.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: We had a meeting, and she says, fall break is coming.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna need you guys to come in and do your menus and do any extra work.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I said, okay.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I wasn't happy about it because why would I be at a school where there's nobody there?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: But I understand.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: She said, to be there, I'll be there.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_00: She said this on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: So by uh I think the school break started on Thursday.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_00: There's an email sent out.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: The email said, guys, enjoy your weekend.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's been fun, good great start to the year.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you on Monday.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm attached to that email.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: My name is on the physical email.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm thinking she's talking to me.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, yo, she must have changed her mind.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna enjoy these four days off.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: Bam! I do it.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, hey, I'm attached to the email.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: There's no, there's no there's no problem.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take these emails.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna take these days off.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_00: She must have changed her mind, must have had a good feeling.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: Kentucky, she was a big Kentucky uh basketball, football fan.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: Kentucky must have won this week last weekend.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, yo, just take your days off.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I'll take the days off.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: So that following week I come back.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: That Monday, she's like, yo, I need to I need to see you in my office.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, okay, I ain't scared of you.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: So I roll up there and then she goes.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: She goes, she says, Michael, why didn't you give up this weekend?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Bowser, your email said to enjoy your four-day weekend.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: She replies to me and says, Michael, that's for hourly employees.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I say, Bowser, I'm not an hourly employee.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Why would I be on the email if it wasn't meant for me?
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: She said, Is that your excuse?
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what you're using?
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: She said, I was like, it's not an excuse.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's just an email.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: Do you want me to put go to my office in front of you?
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, that is utter BS.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: She done cursed at me.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at it, I'm looking back.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, and it was loud too.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what I'm saying?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was loud enough for people outside to hear what she said.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: So that's utter BS.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking at her like, have you lost your mind?
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: I can come over there and kick your tail.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know what?
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's the final red flag.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: You ain't gonna be cursing at me.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know that many people that curse at me.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_00: Even my friends, like, hey man, what's up, man?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: Shooting the shit.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like that.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's not real cursing.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: But when she says that, she's real cursing at me.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yo, you gotta be kidding me.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, all right, I got you.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_00: I leave.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: I go straight home.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_00: I type in my two week notice.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: You ain't gonna be cursing at me.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, dear whoever, you ain't gonna be cursing at me.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Effectively, two weeks from today.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: I'm leaving your punk butt school.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: I ain't playing with you.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: Sincerely.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Michael Gillespie.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, all right.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I got the note.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: I go back to her office.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_00: I had the note in hand, hand it to her.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: She takes it, looks at it, and basically like, hmm, that was simple and easy.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: I said, oh my God.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe this woman.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_00: This is what she said.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: That's what she said.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: She said, this was simple and easy.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, why in the world would you say that?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Why in the world would you hire me if that's your mentality?
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I put my two weeks in.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: So like, yo, I gotta, I gotta shuffle back and see if I get my job, my old job back.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: And the whole time I'm I'm at this job, I'm always talking to uh my former coworker at the time, you know, he's saying, how's the place?
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I never left because of this.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: I gave the situation.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: I never left because of this, I left because of this situation.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: And he's like, yo, well, you want to come back?
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'll let Todd know.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I said, man, let Todd know because yo, I'm trying to come back.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: So that happened, and then the last two weeks, she shuts me out.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_00: She don't send emails, she don't send calls, she don't call my office, she don't do nothing.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: I am a ghost in the system.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: All the meantime, my co-worker Sarah, is double work.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_00: She got her going to the store, she got her checking on the elementary, she got her checking on the secondary school.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: She's basically doing my job, and I'm still there.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now, mind you, we had an event there, and I'm still there.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think she's expecting me to be there.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_00: She's expecting me to be the a-hole and be like, yo, this is my two weeks.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care what happens here.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: I've only been here two months, screw it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: That's not me.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not the type of person that just turns my back on any situation just for that.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm not gonna do that.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_00: So she sees me at this function where we have two schools there, something for ban or something, and they're eating.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_00: And there's a situation where we're about to, we were getting close to running out on food, and she sees this and she knows this, but she's not talking to me.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm looking at her like, yo, you gonna say something or you gonna be this petty?
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I say, screw it.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna go up to her, talk to her, say, eh.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, you know, I'm still professional because this is this is my area.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is my area, this is my expertise in the kitchen.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, yo, say, Bowser, look here.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: We about got about three trays of meat left.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: You should we portion down?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Or, you know, what should we do?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, Oh, that's cool.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you'll be fine with me.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: I said, okay.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: That was it.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: That was the last time I talked to her, right?
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm down to like one week left.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, yo, I am so heated about this situation.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: So then one of the employees, you know, was like, oh, I heard you put your two weeks in.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, I heard, you know, I'm sorry that she talked to you like that.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody should talk to you like that.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you got it done right.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: She's like, you know, if you I was like, you know what?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: If I file a complaint, you gonna be a witness?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_00: She said, Yeah, I mean, I I witnesses, the whole office heard it.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: I said, You done right.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: That, that, that BS call was pretty daggone loud, right?
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: So I was like, you know what?
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna file a complaint.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna file a complaint with the school, I'm gonna file a complaint with my company, I'm gonna show this old Bowser woman that, hey, you don't you don't be cursing at people, you don't curse at people unless you won't fight.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I ain't gonna fight her because I'd probably kill her if I did that.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_00: But that's not my mentality.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was mad, that's why I'm leaving the job, you know.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm gonna I'm gonna put my stamps on it, put my you know, footprint on it, and say, hey, look, this is what's going on at your school.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_00: This is what you need to be aware of, and I gotta witness what you're gonna do about it.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I first I contacted school.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Look, you know, I've only been here two months, I'm leaving, filing a complaint against Bowser.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh, Bowser?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so okay, when the situation happened, told him when the situation happened.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: Told him what happened.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, oh, well, um, we will be reaching out to you and um we'll get back to you.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: So you're gonna get back to me.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: She said, he said, he said, yeah, we'll get back to you.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know I'm leaving, right?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: I told you, I put my two weeks in.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna get back to me.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, we'll get back to you about the situation.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so I left that in the other hands.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: Then I wrote our company because we're under the same company.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: I wrote the company and told her, hey, this situation, this is the witness.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: I said, wait, let me rewind a little bit.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: I said, this situation, this is what she did, da-da-da-da.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_00: They they respond back almost immediately.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, well, okay, do you have any witnesses?
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, can you tell me where this happened?
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: Can you tell me, you know, what day this happened and all that?
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: I provide all the information.
• 26:43
  unknown: Right?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, okay, we will do the this thorough, this thorough uh investigation on your behalf, rest assured that we will get to the bottom of this.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like, okay.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: And eventually, I go back to my old job.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: And the funny thing about it is, I go back to my old job, I get a promotion.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I quit.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: I, you know, I quit my job.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_00: I come back and say, hey, we'll put you in this place, we'll put you in this spot.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: And we still don't have people, and you probably overworked, and we'll give you more money.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, and even more money than at the school.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, all right, cool, whatever.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'll take that money.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I take it.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_00: So I got the email here.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: You hear that?
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's the email.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, okay, they they come back, they come back with the investigation.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: And they're basically saying, we listen to you, investigate the concerns, we are now ready to close on this matter, and we want to update you on a conclusion that has been shared with management and decision made about the next steps.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_00: Appropriate mediation actions will or have surely been taken, and improved opportunities referred to the appropriate person and process owner.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm like, okay.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_00: What does that sound like to you?
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like bullshit, don't it?
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I thought.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry to curse.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: This makes me angry, and this is the situation.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Respecting the confidentiality rights and privileges of all parties, we are not in a position to share specific findings of the investigation.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: We could be as sure we can assure you that it was conducted in a professional and confidential manner, upholding our values and speak up principles of confidentiality, fairness, and respect to essential to protect the integrity of the process.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Should you have any additional questions, concerns, please let me know.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I did.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna let you know that this is bull crap.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: And all I said, I just want to be clear.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: In conclusion, was my claims substantiated?
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for the investigation.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_00: They basically recycled that last line.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Respectfully, the confidentiality rights and privileges of all parties, we are not in a position to share specific findings of the investigation.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: But we can assure you that it was conducted in a professional and confidential manner.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Best wishes, Stephen B.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: What does that sound to you?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds like some utter bullcrap, man.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: And it and it just it just it just it just substantiates the the claim that she said.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: She's been with the school system for 19 years, and she would always say this I have saved the school system millions of dollars, they will not fire me.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: And she is right.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_00: Bowser is completely right.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like, no matter what she did, and that's the question.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, what if it was worse?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_00: What if she happened to just be racial?
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then before I, you know, even though I say that, I don't ever got the inkling that she was racist by any by any means.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, she's just a difficult, you know what, a witch would it be to begin with.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's like she messed up.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, she just messed up the opportunity I wanted at the school system, but things happen for a reason.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that is the story.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I went back to my old job, things are getting better, but we are we're stable, so to speak.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's what happens when you work with people, when you ignore red flags.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: So what do I learn from this?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: And what and what do you mean?
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: It should be things you should always consider, even at a job interview.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever there's a red flag, notice that red flag.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's that's number one.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: Number two, integrity.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: If something bothers your integrity, that means maybe it's not for you.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Number three, job shadow.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's what that's the that's one of the main things that I missed out.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Job shadow.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: If I would have job shadow, went there first and noticed there was no there was no stove there.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_00: That was one of my main problems.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like they want me to do caterings, but there's no stove for me to cook on.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm I'm I don't think I'm old school yet, but you should have a stove in a in a school at least to make a gravy or something.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: If I would have known that, I probably wouldn't have gone there.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_00: So job shadow.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Lastly, follow your gut, man.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: I when I had those red flags and I ignored it, I should have been like, yo, this one ain't for me.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: But I digress.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what it means to work with uh Bowser.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: You just don't want to work with one.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: And she was terrible.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope she hears this.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Because you were terrible.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_00: I wish I used your real name, but I'm not going to.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_00: With that being said, we're going to conclude this episode of the WDIM.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean you're working with Bowser, guys?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate the love and support.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_00: As always, I'm your host, Michael Gillespie, and you guys have a great day.