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Phone Tap: Turning Necks and Cutting Paychecks · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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Speaker 1: It's time for your phone tap, and today we call
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Speaker 1: a guy who was set up by his co workers.
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Speaker 1: He's been at the same desk job for almost a
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Speaker 1: decade now, so he knows everything. He's pretty quick with
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Speaker 1: his work. The one thing that's missing, though, it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Oh doesn't have a whole lot of fun anymore.
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Speaker 2: That way, we're going to help him. Well.
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Speaker 1: We were actually ready to do this call last week,
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Speaker 1: but his buddy told us no, no, no, no, we
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Speaker 1: gotta wait till Monday because he's always extra grouchy at
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Speaker 1: the start of the work week. That's when we catch
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Speaker 1: him in your phone tap. Right after this.
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Speaker 2: Working Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties. Hello, Hi, I'm
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Speaker 2: looking for Josh.
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Speaker 3: This is him.
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Speaker 2: Hi Josh. My name is Wilma Fingerdoo. I don't think
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Speaker 2: we've ever met. I'm one of the HR managers for corporate.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 3: I'm good. How can I help you? Oh?
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Speaker 2: Well it doesn't sound too great, but yeah, the reason
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Speaker 2: I'm calling is to give you a heads up that
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Speaker 2: your paycheck will be a little bit smaller than normal
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Speaker 2: from now on.
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Speaker 3: Wait, excuse me, Oh.
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Speaker 2: Goodness, you must have not got the email. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 2: just the business is going in a different direction. And
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Speaker 2: different direction that's management's decision.
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Speaker 3: What does that mean? Am I being let go? Oh?
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Speaker 2: No, of course not. We value your work tremendously.
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Speaker 3: But I've worked here for almost ten years. Every one
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Speaker 3: of my reviews is positive.
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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. It's a choice that management had to make.
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Speaker 3: So how much smaller are we talking about?
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Speaker 2: Your checks will be about fifty percent less than normal.
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Speaker 3: That's that's a tremendous cuts. That's that's that's half.
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Speaker 2: That's the fifty is half. Not super quick with math,
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Speaker 2: there are you? Yeah, no, it's happening to everyone, to everyone. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: to you, Well, no HR gets paid differently.
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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I see what's going on. Screw the little guys.
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Speaker 3: I've given my life to this company, and just because
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Speaker 3: I'm not management, you think you can push me around.
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Speaker 2: I gotta say, I'm a little surprised. I had no
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Speaker 2: idea you would become so angry about this one small.
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Speaker 3: Change for me and my family. This is not a
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Speaker 3: small change. This is a huge, freaking change.
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Speaker 2: We realized that it wasn't going to make everyone happy,
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Speaker 2: But yeah, no, it's not. Management really thought that we
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Speaker 2: have resilient workers who can get through anything.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm just being honest. Then I'm going to look
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Speaker 3: for another job. I'll tell you that right now.
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Speaker 2: All because of the size of your check.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because of the size of my check. Idiots.
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Speaker 2: Oh name calling?
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Speaker 3: Wow, you heard me?
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Speaker 2: I did? I did, sir.
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Speaker 3: I cannot do this to me.
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Speaker 2: It's just that when we went to the company that
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Speaker 2: prints our checks and just told them to make them smaller.
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Speaker 3: Wait, I had no idea.
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Speaker 2: There would be such a backlash.
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 2: I understand you're unhappy. I've just emailed your direct supervisor
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Speaker 2: to tell them you'll be looking for different employment.
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Speaker 3: So no, no, wait, wait, no, no, no, do not email anybody.
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Speaker 2: I will tell you. I also outlined in the email
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Speaker 2: that you did have a hostile tone with me.
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Speaker 3: No, you got it wrong. I said you were talking
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Speaker 3: about something else.
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Speaker 2: I just added, if you do decide to stay, that
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Speaker 2: should be brought up in your next review.
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Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about cutting my paycheck in half.
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Speaker 2: Well, you kind of hurt my feelings.
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Speaker 3: No, you're feelings.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you called me an idiot.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man, You're not an idiot. I just didn't
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Speaker 3: understand is that word again.
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Speaker 2: You know that's on you, not really on me.
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Speaker 3: I told you that we were.
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Speaker 2: Reducing the size of your check.
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Speaker 3: It was just a misunderstanding. It's on me. I love
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Speaker 3: working here. I want to keep my job. Please don't
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Speaker 3: send any more emails.
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Speaker 2: You thought I was saying I was reducing your actual pay.
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Speaker 3: Yes, wow, gosh, you just.
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Speaker 2: To conclusions quickly. You know, Chris, your coworker said that
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Speaker 2: might happen. Chris, Yeah, yeah, because he's the one that
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Speaker 2: set you up for this prank phone call on the radio.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, what.
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Speaker 2: This is? Actually Brooke from the readio show Brook and
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Speaker 2: Jeffrey in the Morning. It's a phone tap.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god. Oh you gave me a heart attack.
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Speaker 2: Good it's just the size of your check. You know,
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Speaker 2: paper costs money these days.
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Speaker 3: You were so good. I thought you were going to
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Speaker 3: reduce my paycheck.
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Speaker 2: God, we've gone from idiot to me being so good.
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Speaker 2: I really like the whole circle we cover here.
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Speaker 3: Wow, you brook In Jeffrey's phone taps on the twenties