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Hiring and Firing of Chef J! · WDYM What Do You Mean?

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  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the WBYM.
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  SPEAKER_00: The What Do You Mean Podcast?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, everyone gather around and listen to one of Appleton's best podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your host, Michael Gillespie.
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  SPEAKER_01: And welcome to another episode of the WDYM, the What Do You Mean podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Guys, hope everything is good with you.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Hope everything is great with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for taking the time to click the icon for season two, episode two, which is titled The Hiring and Firing a Chef, Jay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at the end of that, we're going to play a little game called Were They a Good Employee, where we talk about previous employees and ask the question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now we're asking the question, Were they a good employee?
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  SPEAKER_01: I put a little production value into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hopefully I push the right buttons and make it sound good and everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: But uh without further ado, let's get into the meat and potatoes of this episode, which is called the hiring and firing of Chef J.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, working as a contract and employee, you're not necessarily working for the company you work for.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, it's called a contract employee for a reason.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um I work with these people, right?
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: So when I came on, they assigned me this to this one facility, and um I was been charged, I was opposed to bringing that back up because again, they didn't have stable management, and without having stable management, you see how things get astrayed real fast.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um but here's the thing it was not a lot of other managers that was on board with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was me, Rashawn, and a general manager named Jeff.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So by the time I finished in processing and got everything together, Jeff said he's he's gone.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I'm done.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not doing this no more.
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  SPEAKER_01: Y'all on your own.
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  SPEAKER_01: Peace out, Girl Scout.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's what he said.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: So by the time I was done in processing, it was two managers and a league for three facilities.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's it's rough.
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  SPEAKER_01: To say the least, it's rough to to operate that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because if you don't have stable management, you learn that you know things go astray real fast.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the thing is that I'm learning how to do my facility, and Rashawn was managing the other two facilities.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, in order to supplement Jeff's leaving us, we had traveling managers come in.
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  SPEAKER_01: They would work 10 days straight and then get a couple days off.
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  SPEAKER_01: But traveling managers does not stable management.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also, we had the district manager.
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  SPEAKER_01: The district manager was in charge of a whole area, but they were constantly coming down to our facilities because we always had troubles with employers, employees, sorry, and management.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they were always constantly down here.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was the first year of me being here.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was the struggle, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So we didn't have any of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it was basically asking, like, hey, do you know a general manager?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know a general manager?
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  SPEAKER_01: Does anybody know a general manager that want to work here?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, we told you about Jeff Left, then we got William.
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  SPEAKER_01: William came in and he he was from Chicago, so you think that he would be used to um an up-tempo, more people type facility, but he wasn't ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was so far back on paperwork, and that was a thing.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we didn't have the um management team, any of them doing paperwork.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when he came in, they taught him paperwork.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's all he did was paperwork, spending 12, 13, 14 hours paperwork, paperwork, paperwork.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: So William was always like, hey, if you ever need something, call me.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm the manager.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: If you ever need something, just go ahead and give me a call.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was his thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you could tell that William was fatigued doing all the paperwork, and you know, it showed on his face and stuff.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_01: So the thing that broke him, he he called me up and said, Hey, Mike, I'm gonna come down Westover, do a couple inspections, uh, see you make sure you're doing your job, and then I'm gonna have a teleconference with the bigwigs up at the company.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, Do you mind?
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: I said, No.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, hey, you the boss, you can do whatever you want.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, all right, fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna just sit here, you hang back and chill, listen to the conference, see if you learn anything, blah, blah, blah.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, probably not gonna learn anything.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna be honest with you, but uh, shoot, go for it.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: So he's on the conference call with his phone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can hear everybody clear as day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And for story purposes, we're just gonna call our facility Hamilton.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's like, all right, we're looking at Hamilton's numbers, and Hamilton's numbers are still not right.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like, what is going on up there?
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: He takes his phone and throws it against the wall, breaking it, scaring the crap out of me.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: Because, you know, you're not expecting someone to throw their cell phone against the wall, breaks it in two, and he says, I'm out.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: You're not gonna talk about Baby in front of this conference.
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  SPEAKER_01: When these are the people that are showing me how to do the work, I'm out.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was the last time I ever saw William.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then people were telling me, like, this literally broke this dude in half.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_01: He went, he went crazy, allegedly.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if that actually happened, but uh, I mean, that that that to me, when he threw the phone against the wall, I knew like, yo, this dude, he ain't right.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_01: He needs some help.
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  SPEAKER_01: He need to go sit down, something reflect.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he left, he quit, and then we're back to the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Traveling managers, district managers coming in, rather fatiguing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the story, the the the story started turning around when we started getting people from another facility called Story Point.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, to me, we started getting cooks from Story Point.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: We got maybe three cooks from Story Point.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let's call them Alpha, Barney, and Paul, right?
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: Alpha Barney were clowns, they were just absolute clowns.
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  SPEAKER_01: Paul did his thing, he was good.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was like, yo, he was good.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was good at what he did, so he stabilized one facility.
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  SPEAKER_01: I stabilized my facility, and then Rashawn was at the big facility, right?
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, okay, we got we're almost there.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: We are like running on 60%, we're doing okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then they just eliminate Rashawn's position.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: No, we don't need this position no more.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: You good, you're good, is gone.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: And we're like, whoa, like, how do you do that?
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_01: They eliminate his position and they give him like 30 days.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: So he's like angry, and rightfully so.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: So, like, okay, so we're about to lose another manager, but it's like, hey, don't worry, we got someone coming in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay, who's coming in?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_01: We got this guy named Nate.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, I don't know who this guy is, but he's like, hey man, he's worked at this facility, does well, he's worked at this facility, does well.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's a good guy.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, we need somebody, we'll take him, Nate.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Nate comes in and he's like, he's gonna run the big facility.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: So he comes in, he's like, hey man, what's up?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, hey, what's up, man?
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, did you go to the Ohio, oh um, the uh Art Institute of Ohio, Cincinnati?
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah, I did.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I remember you.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, you do?
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah, I was graduating and you were just coming in.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, that's cool.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, yeah, I kind of remember you, but I don't remember too many people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then we started linking up.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you remember this person?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Like, yeah, I remember this person.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_01: You remember this person?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah, I kind of remember that person.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Hey, do you remember the instructor, Chef J?
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, I remember Chef J.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was my first instructor.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm trying to get him on board.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Really?
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: So my thinking is that hey, if we get Chef J, we're locked.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: We're locked in.
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  SPEAKER_01: That means we have Nate running in the big facility, Paul running the other facility, and I'm running this facility.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are golden.
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  SPEAKER_01: This should be, and then you know, bring in Chef J, who's gonna be the GM.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say, hey, this is a recipe for success, right?
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey, we got we got this.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this should be this should be golden, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, real quick on Chef J, like I said, he was my he was my first instructor in culinary school, and he knew his stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: He knew his stuff, he was smart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I mean, nothing bad about Chef J as an instructor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Note that.
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  SPEAKER_01: As an instructor, I was like, yo, this is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm looking forward to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: So he comes in.
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  SPEAKER_01: He comes in, it's like, okay, he's you know, not wearing a chef chef uniform.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, okay.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_01: You know, as GM, you don't expect him to wear chef uniforms, but you know, Jeff wore a chef uniform, William wore chef uniform most of the times, and he's not.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, you know, he's a GM, he's not expecting to work as hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna be doing all the paperwork, he knows how to do paperwork.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, so okay, he doesn't come in.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: So Nate's walking with him around and he sees me.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Oh, he sees me, he goes, Mike, how are you?
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_01: Now, mind you, that Chef J is not from the United States, he's from an island.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so he has an accent, but he's he's cool.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: He's cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: He comes in, he's like, Mike, it's like, hey Chef J, how you doing?
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Man, I didn't know you worked here.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Yeah, I'm here now.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Where are you at?
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I said I'm over at my facility, you know, across the way about 10 minutes away.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: So that's great.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: I used to work here a couple years back, and now they brought me back.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said, that's great.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: And he said, Nay, you brought me back.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_01: I said, that's great.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, yo, can you see the floor?
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm looking down at the floor.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I see the floor.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: He said, man, it is dirty.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: He said, yeah, do you know about these enzymes, these chemical enzymes?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: I said, no, I don't know about these chemical enzymes.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Ladies and gentlemen, I spent 30 minutes talking about these enzymes about the floor.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna let that sink in for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_01: 30 minutes in this first conversation, one of the first conversations we have about enzymes on the floor.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, you know, what about I'm gonna engage in the conversation.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_01: What's up with these enzymes?
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: These enzymes on the floor, you know, the the black lines on the buttons on the floor, they're not seemingly supposed to be black.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, oh, well, what color are they supposed to be?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: They're supposed to be white.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: I said, okay, I don't care.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, like, okay, you're excited about these enzymes, I could tell.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Yes, you pour the enzymes on and it cleans it.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: If we do the cleaning that we're supposed to do, we're gonna do it's gonna we're gonna do marvelous because they're gonna think we're cleaning so well.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: So he's excited about these enzymes.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, it's the first conversation, half hour.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: You know, took a half hour of my life.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey, I gotta get back to work so I can hide underneath my desk because you talked my ear off the first conversation we have.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, okay, this is this is entertaining, and from that point on, I realized that Chef J, the instructor, is not Chef J, the manager.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: These are two different people.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: This is no way.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: The second incident, where I'm doing my inventory, and inventory takes a couple hours.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm counting everything, make sure, you know, putting in the system because this is how we get paid.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Mike, can I borrow some milk?
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like, now mind you, he's at the big facility.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_01: The big facility gets two trucks a day, they order twice as much of food as I do.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you don't need to borrow my stuff.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, we we get transferred in the system, blah, blah, blah.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: No, don't take my stuff because it's hard for me to keep my stuff.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: He's coming in like, Mike, can I borrow some milk?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, Yeah, you know, we're trying to help each other out.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_01: We can't let these old people not have their milk because they love their milk.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: They love their milk.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's how they say it.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: Milk.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: So they love their milk.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: He comes in and takes the milk, and then he talks my ear off again.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you know, at Story Point, because he used to work at Story Point himself.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Story point, we did things differently.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: And you guys do it very different, and it's very weird.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't like how we're doing it.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_01: We I'm gonna change it up.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm looking at him like, okay, you know, like that's what you want to do.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: You're the general manager, you change it up how you see fit.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I will, and I'm gonna change it, and we're gonna do another 30 minutes of talking.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: And this was summertime, it was hot, it was hot, and he's talking to me.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sweating, and I still and he got the milk.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, the milk's about to sp this milk's about to spoil.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you gotta take this with you.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: You you can't keep talking to me because I know it's gonna get warm.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I was like, you know, Chef Gotta get back in here.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: We're about to serve lunch.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, okay, Mike, I'll talk to you later.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, that's another 30 minutes of my life.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: I can't get back.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: You just talked my ear off for no daggone reason.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this is ridiculous.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: What's going on?
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: So, why is he always up here talking?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you you gentlemen, don't you got something to do?
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: So the third time, the third time, we he he he calls for a meeting for all the chefs to come in.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, it was me, Paul, and Nate.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: We're all sitting there, he's at the door greeting us like politicians.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for coming.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Shaking our hand, thank you for coming, shaking our hand, thank you, thank you for coming, shaking our hand.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this dude is crazy.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Why is he shaking our hand as we come in?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: So he tells us his plan, tells us the agenda, you know, you know, this is what we're gonna do.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: Another hour is gone.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: I said, This is it.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I I call Nate, and when I when I call Nate, this is this is this is how it goes.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Answers from like, hey sir.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, what's up, Nate?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_01: Hey sir, what's what's going on?
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: I said, man, where'd you get this guy at?
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, what do you mean?
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this dude is crazy.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like he you know how long he talks to me about enzymes?
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: This dude is crazy.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: I can't, I can't keep going with this.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this dude keeps talking about doing stuff, he's not doing the job.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like, are you sure?
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is the guy.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, Yeah, man, I got this.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: He absolutely, this is the guy.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_01: So again, he comes to Westover again, and he's coming to borrow crackers or something, right?
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember the exact item, but the crackers today.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: He goes in, he goes, Mike.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, what's up, man?
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, tell me about Nate.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Nate's the manager at the big facility.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: Why is he not good at his job?
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_01: I said, I said, what?
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's not good at his job.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: And he goes on for another 30, 40 minutes talking about Nate.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm like, wait a minute.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't Nate bring you in?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: He said, yeah, Nate brought me in.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: And you guys work in the same facility up at the big facility.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, yeah, we do.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm thinking to myself, why the F?
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to cuss.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: So why the F you ain't talking to Nate about this?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, you know Nate is in the same facility.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I know, but sometimes I just can't talk to him.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: He does things wrong all the time.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah, that's the third strike.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: His dude is out of his dude is off his rocker.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: How are you gonna talk bad about the man that brought you in on the system, right?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Just bad mouth.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, Nate, do you know I spent the last two, six hours talking about you?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, what do you mean?
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Chef is crazy.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: He kept talking about you in a negative aspect, and you brought him in.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: He said, No way.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said, dude, I've lost a grand total of nine hours of my life talking to this cat.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to talk to this cat no more.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: Like this is this, he's like, he's like, this is impossible.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, dude, I'm not playing.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not I'm not the one to do this stuff.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not the one that that starts fires, and if there's not a real fire, you know what I'm saying?
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm not the one to talk smack.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe this guy comes in talking crazy about enzymes on the floor, uh wanting to change things, greet me like politicians, and bad mouth the person that brought you in here, right?
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_01: So that was my straw.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, yo, you know what?
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: I got this opportunity to work at the school and tune into season, turn into season one to find out how that went.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't go good, right?
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: So two months go by because I'm at the school, I'm still in contact with Nate.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Like, hey man, how's things going?
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, man, this is the worst decision I ever made.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_01: I said, What do you mean, man?
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: He's like, hey, Chef J is crazy.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_01: I said, dude, why do you think I'm not there no more?
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: I left because he's crazy.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: And that was my exit interview.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_01: I said, look, everything's cool except this clown right here.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like this, I cannot believe that the instructor from my school that taught me how to be a colon that have all these high standards is crazy.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: I couldn't believe how crazy this guy was.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: So he just basically bombed the general manager spot.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: And so, and then again I left, and they were like, okay, this is what we're gonna do.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: Because they try they wanted to keep me there.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: I said, Look, we're gonna get rid of him if you stay, and Nate will take over the GM spot.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: We've got this one guy named James coming in, and we have a team.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: We'll form like Voltron, we we'll have a team.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: At this point, I was so frustrated with the idea of working with him again.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: I said, nah, dah, I can't, I can't.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: I will not.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta go.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: Go to the school, I get to the school, hey, I gotta go.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: So I call him back and say, hey, is Jay still there?
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: He said, uh, yeah.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I said, look, like, he can't stay here, right?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like, if he can go, if he can leave, I'll come back.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: I said, really?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: I said, yeah, man.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I said, look, this guy cannot stay.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_01: If he leaves, I'll come back.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll come back.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: And now I've been back for a little bit over a year.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: And now we have a good management team.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: When I say that, we got Paul, we got myself, we got James, and we got Nate.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: And this is the first time, the first time that probably since Christ Hospital that we've had a good solid management team.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: Now, is there cracks?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Of course there is.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: Employee employers, employees, I should say.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard to get employees these days.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand why people don't want to work.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know what COVID did to these people, but I guess not working is part of the chemical imbalance because people don't want to work.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_01: And it's real crazy.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, yeah, they they had to can him, and then now you got the four stable horsemen, so to speak, the anime horsemen.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, one thing that we all do, we all like our we all nerds pretty much, which is a common bond, which is really cool.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Like, we could talk about Star Wars, Marvel comics, anime, and all of us love the kitchen, love some aspect of the kitchen, which is pretty cool.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: So uh, yeah.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_01: That is the story of Chef J.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_01: So wish him nothing but the best.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: But he was a headache.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: So that brings us to the game.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Were they a good employee?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, what this is, we're gonna go um three questions.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Three questions, simple as that.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: If they can answer correctly, we'll find out at the end if they're a good employee.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, question one.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Was Chef J good at their job?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, that's a tough one.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: Was he good at his job?
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, let's think about it.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: Let's think about it.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_01: He he borrowed a lot of stuff from my facility, I didn't like that.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, um uh morale.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think morale was good with him.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, this one's a tough one.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Ooh.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: But you know what?
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go ahead and give him the benefit of the doubt.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: Chef J was a good employee.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, looks like I got that one wrong.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: He was trash.
• 20:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: Again, I like him as an instructor, good instructor, terrible GM.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand how you teach somebody the basics of culinary and teaching you culinary and teaching you how to be in the kitchen and teaching you all this stuff, and he was terrible at it.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't make sense.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_01: All right, question two What was the sum of the highlights of Chef J?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, that's that's another hard one.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: Mmm.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Highlights.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um oh boy.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: Highlights.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Mmm.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna have to give up on this one.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: He had zero highlights.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: Survey says, Yes! I got that one right.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't have any highlights.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_01: I got that one.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: He was I don't know what he was here for.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: It don't make sense.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't I don't know.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh the William, the GM we had there, he he was better than that.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: At least he bought us donuts.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't remember one thing he did that would consider that a highlight.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so the last question.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: What were the lowlights?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh I got this one.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: I got this one.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_01: I got this one.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: He would deliver food on the phone, on the cell phone.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_01: At one of the other facilities.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, that's one, that's one.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Lowlights, what else?
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, he used to waste my time talking.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, that was.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, okay, okay.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: What's another one?
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: Another one.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: Hardy wasn't very good at his job.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Survey says.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah! He was trash.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_01: So I got that one right.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, alright.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: But we have another contestant.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: Round two.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: Who do we have for round two?
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: We have one of my former employees at my facility.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: Her name was Jalen.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: Jalen! Alright, let's get it on to her.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: Question number one.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: Were they good at their job?
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Jalen?
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Man.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Let me think.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Let me think.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Let me think.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, Jalen, Jalen.
• 23:25
  unknown: Alright, all right.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: Who taught her?
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I got I taught her.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: I taught her how to do her job, right?
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: She she followed me.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: Her first day, I said, don't do nothing.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Just watch what I do, and you're gonna get it.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: Did it happen?
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: It worked.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: It did work.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh okay.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, alright.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh uh uh what else?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh she did what's she did she do everything right?
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_01: She did, she did a lot of it right.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I didn't have to worry about who when I had to come in after her, I didn't have to worry about anything.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like everything was done.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I'm gonna say, you know what, we're gonna cut the music down right now.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: Jalen was a good employee.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: Survey says.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yes, she was.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: I taught her how to do this job.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: I did, I did.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: She was really good at her job.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: You know, clap it up.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: Jalen was a good employee.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, she was, man.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_01: Very good.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, all right, all right.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: Question two.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Question two.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: What's the question two?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Some of the highlights Jalen had.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: Ooh, man.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, okay, okay.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: She was on time.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, she was on time.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: She did a good job.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: She did.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: She did.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: She getting any any any conflicts or anything?
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Not to my knowledge, not to my knowledge.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: Did you even did you even give her lead responsibilities?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: I did.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: I did.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_01: Well, those are all valid points.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that brings the question.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: Was did she have good highlights?
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like in her hair?
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay, okay.
• 25:02
  unknown: Um.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes! I told you she's a good employee.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: Man, I mean, you I mean, we probably raised the the hourly rate because of Jalen.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: She was a she was a darn good employee.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: I'll take ten of them.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: If there were ten of them.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, alright, alright.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: The final question.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: Were the low times as bad as the high times?
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there was some low.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: Were there some low times?
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there were.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: There were.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm gonna cook them.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna cook them.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let's hear this quick story.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so I gave her the schedule, right?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: I gave her the schedule.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: I said, look, this is lead stuff, right?
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like, look, you look at the schedule and you tell me, you tell me, because I don't like giving young people straight answers.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, you gotta use that brain.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: You got a big brain.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: Use that brain to figure out.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: I said, give her the schedule.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_01: I said, look, if you see something you don't like, let me know.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: She'd be like, okay.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I showed her the schedule, she's like, it's good.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: Week later, Michael, this schedule's trash.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: I need hours.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like, ooh, you yelling at me?
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: So what's yelling?
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: She said, you know, it was a text message.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_01: I perceived that as yelling.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, okay, this ain't gonna work.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_01: I thought I thought, I thought, I thought she would, I thought she would take it, but I guess, you know, it maybe she didn't.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, that's fine.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, what else?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: What else?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, ooh, yeah.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Here's another little one.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_01: She would, she would, uh, she would like, hey, towards the end, she's like, hey, you want to help?
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, help what?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, help deliver these trades.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: I say you already got two of you out there.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: There's two servers out there today.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, yeah.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I want some more help.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like, wait a minute.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: You only need two servers.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: So, what do you mean you need three?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: No, you don't need three, but I really want your help.
• 27:02
  unknown: Okay.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh that's a little low.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's low.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_01: The other one, the other one, okay.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, here's another low.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, well, can I work with my best friend, Riley?
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_01: So wait a minute.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: I need you on Sunday.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: She's like, no, I ain't working Sunday.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: So what do you mean you ain't working Sunday?
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_01: You used to work Sunday last week.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_01: You work Sunday every week for the past couple weeks.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, yeah, but I ain't working Sunday.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, ooh.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: So, ladies and gentlemen, was the low times as bad as the high times.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: Nah.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: She was already out the door.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: She didn't care.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, this is what happens when you get chat like, hey, I'm about to leave this joint.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: We all get like that.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta take that.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta take that.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: So overall, Jalen was a great employee.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, as time goes on and you get all these employees, they will be missed and everything.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Jalen, you're a great employee, and I always want to say thank you.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for everything you did.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate you.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: Just remember that.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, with that being said, we're ending this episode.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is the WDYM, episode two.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I can't wait for episode three.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: Episode three, I gotta do research.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna real quick, I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get in because this is a long outro.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: I got 52 seconds.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta do the hold on, I gotta look it up.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: Cause it is next week's episode, and we are tackling the LGBTQIA2S Plus.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah, this might be a two-week episode because I must do some research.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I know most of those.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, I'm your host, Michael West for the WIM.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you guys for listening.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: Girl Scout, peaceful.