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Dirty Little Secret: What would you do if you discovered a coworker was skipping lunch—not by choice, but because they couldn't afford it! · Billy The Kidd In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Get it off your chest. Promise you'll feel better.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the new mix one or two point nine. It's
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  Speaker 1: bailing a kid. Candice Loanpez producer, Pooh, Dirty Little Secret
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  Speaker 1: is on. If you got one, bring it eight three
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  Speaker 1: three seven eight seven one o two nine Big Secret,
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  Speaker 1: Little Secret. It's a non judgment zone for the most part. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just make sure you just call us and we'll set
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  Speaker 1: it up. You have a secret. What is going on?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? I do have a secret, and it's about this
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  Speaker 2: guy that I work with.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay, skipping lunch. He what he skipped lunch.
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  Speaker 2: At first, I thought it was just a preference, you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I overheard him one day telling another person at
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  Speaker 2: work that he's tied all money and he's trying to
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  Speaker 2: come back, you know, and everybody possible. And he didn't
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  Speaker 2: do it for like, for sympathy or get so sorry
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  Speaker 2: for him. I mean he even laughed it off. But
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  Speaker 2: ever since then, I've been buying an extra mill or
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  Speaker 2: just saying, you know, I made a mistake in my
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  Speaker 2: order or I got it wrong or something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like I didn't like something like that. Yeah, sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: say that the guy at the restaurant has a crush
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  Speaker 2: on me and gives me extra food and my coworker
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  Speaker 2: usually takes it and he doesn't question and thankfully, but
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a few weeks now, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, honestly, I don't really care if he ever
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  Speaker 2: finds out I'm doing it on purpose. I mean, I listen,
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  Speaker 2: I've been in that spot before, and when ten dollars
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  Speaker 2: feels like a lot and it thinks, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I mean small things mean a lot sometimes and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not rich, you know, but I can do thish and
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  Speaker 2: it just feels the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love I love this dirty little secret. So
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  Speaker 1: your secret is you find out this guy at work
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  Speaker 1: is struggling and he's skipping launch, not because he necessarily
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  Speaker 1: wants to, because it feels and sounds like he might
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  Speaker 1: be struggling financially. So you've been him meals and be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they gave me an extra one. This is actually very sweet.
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  Speaker 3: That is I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I was just wondering if there's anything else I could
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  Speaker 2: do or I mean, I don't want to embarrass the fella.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I love helping him, but makes.
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  Speaker 1: Sense, Yeah, that is a tough, tough balance of trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out like if you know someone's in a
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  Speaker 1: hard place, or you feel like they are approaching it
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  Speaker 1: in the right way without making them feel I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you just never know someone's financial situation. Like maybe
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  Speaker 3: he's cutting back for a different reason. Maybe he's spending
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  Speaker 3: his money on something that he feels is more important
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  Speaker 3: than lunch.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to like put yourself into someone's position without
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  Speaker 3: knowing everything.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you feel like back in the day, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like things have changed. I feel like over the past
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  Speaker 1: few years. Back in the day, if you had a job,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, well, I have a job, I have money.
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  Speaker 1: Now no one's getting raises right, so things cost more.
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  Speaker 1: And before you know it, the job you had that
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  Speaker 1: was paying okay and you were surviving. Now you're not
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  Speaker 1: surviving anymore. Your salary might not change, but everything else
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  Speaker 1: around us has went up. Yeah, so that's maybe what
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  Speaker 1: he's dealing with, because I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in that position right now, and it's sad.
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  Speaker 3: This reminds me of my grandparents because when they first
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  Speaker 3: started dating back in the day, Like my grandma loves hamburgers, right,
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  Speaker 3: and so they would go out to eat, but she
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  Speaker 3: would tell him that she wasn't hungry because she knew
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  Speaker 3: he didn't have a lot of money and she didn't
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  Speaker 3: want him buying her a hamburger too.
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  Speaker 1: That is the sweetest I know? Is this when they
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  Speaker 1: worked at Waterburger?
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  Speaker 3: No, this is my grandparents.
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  Speaker 1: Oh your grandparents, not.
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  Speaker 3: Your parents, ye, like way back when.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I.
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  Speaker 3: Love what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: Though. Maybe you could just pull him aside, maybe one day,
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  Speaker 1: offer to take him to lunch and just have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with him and see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I don't think about that.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe maybe he says what's going on? And maybe
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  Speaker 1: you'd be like, hey, well, if you ever, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't mind grabbing an extra lunch here and there
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  Speaker 1: or doing whatever you kid, but what you're doing is
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  Speaker 1: super sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe what you know what? I do have some to
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  Speaker 1: Burger gift cards? Maybe I could give you some of those?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And you could just say, hey, okay, and
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  Speaker 1: I have an extra what a Burger gift card? You
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  Speaker 1: want one? Here? You could take it and then you
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  Speaker 1: could buy lunch that way and you won't feel totally.
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  Speaker 3: You could set him up for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you know what, I'll do that. Here, hang on
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  Speaker 1: and I'll give you one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, thank you so much, thy.
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  Speaker 1: Little motivation to do something something nice for someone today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, paying forward. There you go, dirty little secret