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Phone Tap: Void Your Vacation Days · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: Out of everybody in this room, who would be the
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  Speaker 1: worst HR person. I'm just gonna say it, Jo.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to be selfish, but I was gonna
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  Speaker 2: say yeah, no offense to that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's why we had him pose as an HR rep.
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  Speaker 1: And today he calls an office worker who's been nervous
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  Speaker 1: about layoffs. We want him to know he is fine,
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  Speaker 1: His job is safe. It's just corporate is making some
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  Speaker 1: changes that are quote in the best interest of the company. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll understand. In your phone town right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, good morning. Hi? Is this Phil? Yeah? This is Phil.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I speaking to? Hey Phil? My name's Heywood Jabloni.
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  Speaker 2: I work in human resources. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine? Thanks? Oh just fine? Huh. I was hoping
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  Speaker 2: you were going to be in a better mood than
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  Speaker 2: just fine before I told you this news. No, I'm
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  Speaker 2: in a good mood. What do you want to tell me?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you calling? Well, you probably heard that we're
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  Speaker 2: reducing our workforce. Oh oh my god. No, no, no, listen,
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  Speaker 2: before you get ahead of yourself, You're not getting laid
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  Speaker 2: off or anyone in your division. All your jobs are safe. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: take a deep breath. Okay, I'm kind of worried for
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  Speaker 2: seconds there. Oh, sorry about that. No, you're you're fine.
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  Speaker 2: We're just taking all your vacation days away. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: typically have around what twenty twenty vacation days? I see here? Right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: by Friday, you'll have zero. How does that make any sense? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I meanous you would agree this is a tough time
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  Speaker 2: for the company. Yeah, well sure, I understand those things. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're saying that, think of how hard it is
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  Speaker 2: for the people above you getting paid way way way more.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys are stressed. I'm the ones who's stressed aycheck
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  Speaker 2: to paycheck. Well, sure, I mean it's it's tough for
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  Speaker 2: everybody right now, but especially for the guys at the top.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? With so much uncertainty, they
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  Speaker 2: can't even golf more than twice a week, think about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's why recently they all met and said, hey, how
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  Speaker 2: can we help this company and take a tax free
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  Speaker 2: vacation to the Bahamas? Wait, a vacation? Oh sorry, a
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  Speaker 2: tax free vacation to the Bahamas? Back free vacation for them?
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  Speaker 2: I know, right, It's it's a tricky thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: and so this is why they got creative. The account
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  Speaker 2: said it has to be on the company dime. So
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  Speaker 2: if you take all the employees vacation days away, we
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  Speaker 2: can legally ride it off, the whole thing, including the alcohol. Joke, right,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it sounds like some kind of freaking joke. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's not. Hey, we appreciate your sacrifice. Don't think that
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  Speaker 2: you're going unappreciated. Friends. I'm not sacrificing anything. You took
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  Speaker 2: it away from me, well I didn't give it again.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate and understand everything you've done. No, that's why,
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  Speaker 2: as a token of the company's gratitude, you and everyone
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  Speaker 2: in your division will receive four small chocolates in a
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  Speaker 2: plastic box. How does that help. It's not going to
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  Speaker 2: be available to Christmas because that's what we get the discount. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. I knew you'd be excited. What's wrong with
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  Speaker 2: you for chocolates? Small chocolates? I have to I don't
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  Speaker 2: want you to think they're like bars, like bite sized chocolates.
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  Speaker 2: Is not right. I cannot lose my vacation days because
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  Speaker 2: corporate wants to get hammered in the Bahamas and I
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  Speaker 2: get four lousy chocolates. That is one part I didn't
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  Speaker 2: tell you. It's not just the Bahamas. We're also going
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  Speaker 2: to the Virgin Islands. So wait a minute, why are
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  Speaker 2: you saying, Lee, you're not going on the trip you're
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  Speaker 2: in human resource. Oh yeah, I didn't mention that part.
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  Speaker 2: They're bringing hr oh. I have never been outside the country.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't be more excited. And they're just gonna leave
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  Speaker 2: us here with nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And lost days.
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  Speaker 2: And don't be thinking you can use your sick days
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  Speaker 2: to get time off. We put a temporary freeze on that.
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  Speaker 2: Now you need to email us if you think you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be sick at least a month in advance. I
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm gonna get. I won't be checking my
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  Speaker 2: email though I'll be in the Bahamas or the Virgin Islands.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Personally, I agree, I would blame this
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  Speaker 2: on Keisha. She's the one who set you up for
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  Speaker 2: all of Thisha. Why the ain't see going on that
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  Speaker 2: trip too without Mayne? She'd definitely like to, but she
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  Speaker 2: decided to do a prank phone call on you instead,
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  Speaker 2: which I appreciate. What are you talking about, idiots? Because
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  Speaker 2: this is actually Jose for the radzhow brooking jail free
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: in the morning. We're doing a phone tap on you man,
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  Speaker 2: No way, Yes, he just said there's been a lot
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  Speaker 2: of tension in the office lately because of layoff, so
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  Speaker 2: she wanted to light in the mood. I cannot believe
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  Speaker 2: he did this. Hilarious neither. Oh you know what you need?
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  Speaker 2: You need a vacation. You meet Bahamas tomorrow. What do
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  Speaker 2: you say. I guess we'll have to go quick because
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  Speaker 2: you're taking all my vacation days. We got the Friday,
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  Speaker 2: gotta go all right? Well, truth is I probably belong
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  Speaker 2: more in the Virgin Islands because I'm a Virgin. You
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  Speaker 2: get okay, I'm gonna stop the frank phone call now,
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  Speaker 2: this part isn't funny. Wake Up? Every morning was phone
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  Speaker 2: tap weekday mornings on the twenties, Freaking Jeffrey in the morning.