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Phone Tap: Workplace Talk · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Uyowa dot com or call eight day. All right, it's
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  Speaker 1: time for your phone tap. And today there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: working an office job named Sean, and he has a
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  Speaker 1: couple of buddies that he works with. And since it's
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  Speaker 1: Sean's five year anniversary with the company, they emailed us
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  Speaker 1: to prank him. What a cool company. Yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: to work for them, and so I'm just kidding. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we asked them a little bit about their office
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  Speaker 1: and they told us their company has been coming down
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  Speaker 1: with some stricter new policies about what you're allowed to
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  Speaker 1: do and say and what you're not allowed to do
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  Speaker 1: and say while you're at work. Are doing that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And so we asked our favorite corporate HR person, Brooke
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  Speaker 1: fox Oh, to call Sean and take some of those
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  Speaker 1: policies to the next level. I think we have a
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  Speaker 1: good plan. Yeah, We'll find out exactly what that means
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  Speaker 1: in your phone tap right after this. Hello, Hi, this
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  Speaker 1: is Minni Farow calling from corporate HR. Is this Sean? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is Hi, Sean. I know we haven't spoken before,
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  Speaker 1: but I needed to give you a call because unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: we've gotten a complaint about you. What about me? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe you'd rather do this in person, which is
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  Speaker 1: an option, or we can just talk over the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Right now on the phone is fine. I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure what the problem could be. Well, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to go over your workplace correspondence. It's been
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  Speaker 1: deemed offensive by some What does that mean? Well, your
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  Speaker 1: emails are rubbing people the wrong way, and we're really
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  Speaker 1: trying to make sure that we have a healthy work
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  Speaker 1: environment here. I want that too with everybody. That is
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  Speaker 1: so good to hear, Sean, I just want to I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry to interrupt you, but let you know I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: to hear that. I'm good. Do you have any examples
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  Speaker 1: as to what I did? Sure? Last Monday you responded
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  Speaker 1: to one of your coworkers emails with and I have
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  Speaker 1: it right here quote. I'm not sure I understand the
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  Speaker 1: concept for the project. Can you elaborate further? Do you
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  Speaker 1: see how that can be perceived as rude. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. That's okay if we can work through this together, Sean,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I'm here for, you know, So I
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  Speaker 1: wrote up a different idea, so, you know, maybe instead
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  Speaker 1: of questioning the concept of the project, which can be
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  Speaker 1: construed as being rude, why don't you try saying something
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  Speaker 1: like quote, I'm sorry, I have a learning disability. So
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  Speaker 1: can you explain it to me in more detail? Please? What?
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  Speaker 1: Don this isn't funny. I'm not sure why you're laughing. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't have a learning disability. I just
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  Speaker 1: I really don't understand. Don't you think that that would
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  Speaker 1: make someone else feel better? Like, maybe that's the reason
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand, not because they did something wrong, but
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  Speaker 1: because you were a little behind. Oh, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: wrap my head around this. So you want me to
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  Speaker 1: lie in my office emails and tell my coworkers that
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  Speaker 1: I have a learning disability so that their feelings don't
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. Well, you're having a hard time understanding what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, so I'm not sure that it's a lie, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: I just think now I know this is HR corporate HR.
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  Speaker 1: I want to remind you of that, Sean, And I
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  Speaker 1: just think everybody would feel a lot more comfortable this way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I'm not comfortable right now. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I hear you, Sean. How about this? Going to move
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  Speaker 1: on to the next complaint we received? There's another. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but last Tuesday, we received
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  Speaker 1: a complaint about an email you sent to an employee
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  Speaker 1: asking if they could quote meet for a meeting at
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  Speaker 1: ten am the following morning. Yeah, okay, so what's the
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  Speaker 1: problem with that one? I don't how is that offensive? Well?
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  Speaker 1: Ten am is that employee's normal snack time. And they
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  Speaker 1: said you knew that? What I didn't know? I am
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  Speaker 1: so confused right now. I'd watch it, Sean. They are hyperglycemiic,
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  Speaker 1: so they thought by you trying to schedule a meeting
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  Speaker 1: at ten am, that's suggesting you hope they fall ill what.
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  Speaker 1: I would never think that, you know. I believe you.
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  Speaker 1: I believe you. I do, Sean, And I hear you
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  Speaker 1: getting upset. I'm just trying to work with you to
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  Speaker 1: manage this. Okay. I really don't understand what we're managing. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to be attacking people's medical history. Oh
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  Speaker 1: so instead, we're going to have you call out a
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  Speaker 1: medical issue you have first, so you can schedule the
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  Speaker 1: meeting around that, so you know they can feel sorry
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  Speaker 1: for you. Why would I say that? First of all,
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  Speaker 1: my medical history is supposed to be confidential. I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have to share that with anyone. I understand what you're saying, Sean.
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  Speaker 1: It's not your real medical history. We're not asking you
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  Speaker 1: to divulge that. It's just to make them feel better
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  Speaker 1: about themselves. So maybe lupus asthma. I mean, even if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have it, you want sympathy so that that
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  Speaker 1: way they don't hate you, they just feel sorry for you.
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  Speaker 1: You want my coworkers to feel sorry for me? Vitamin
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  Speaker 1: C deficiency? Is that an option? You want me to
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  Speaker 1: email my co workers and tell them I have scurvy? No, actually,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I don't. I don't email your co workers
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  Speaker 1: that tell them that at all? Then what the hell
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  Speaker 1: is going on? This is a joke. I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: My name is actually broke through the radio show Broken
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey in the morning, we're doing a phone tap on you.
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  Speaker 1: I knew I knew something was going on. I could
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  Speaker 1: not keep it together. Oh, your employee Zach and James
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  Speaker 1: set you up to congratulate you on your five year anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: I worked with some bleeding hearts, but this was too much. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I just would say, you know, when you're scheduling your
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  Speaker 1: celebration cake, make sure you do it around their snack time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't want them to pass out. Yeah, wake up
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  Speaker 1: every morning with funk tabs weekday mornings on the twenties,
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  Speaker 1: Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning