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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.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to be selfish, but I was going
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  Speaker 2: to say 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 tap 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 Jabebloni.
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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, right 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 was kind of worried
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  Speaker 2: for a second there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're you're fine. We're just taking all your vacation
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  Speaker 2: days away. What Yeah, you typically have around what twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty vacation days? I see here? Right? Yeah, by Friday,
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  Speaker 2: you'll have zero. How does that make any sense? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I means 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 about hard it is for
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  Speaker 2: 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, like
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  Speaker 2: pycheck to paycheck. Well, sure, I mean it's it's tough
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  Speaker 2: for everybody right now, but especially for the guys at
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  Speaker 2: the top.
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  Speaker 1: What are you about with so much uncertainty?
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  Speaker 2: They can't even golf more than twice a week, think
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  Speaker 2: about it. That's why recently they all met and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how can we help this company and take a tax
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  Speaker 2: free vacation to the Bahamas. What a vacation? Oh? Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: a tax free vacation to the Bahamas? Back free vacation
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  Speaker 2: for them? I know, right, It's it's a tricky thing
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  Speaker 2: to do, and so this is why they got creative.
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  Speaker 2: The accountant said, it has to be on the company dime.
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  Speaker 2: So if you take all the employees' vacation days away,
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  Speaker 2: we can legally ride it off, the whole thing, including
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  Speaker 2: the alcohol. The joke, right, I mean it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: some kind of freaking joke. Oh no, it's not. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we appreciate your sacrifice. Don't think you're going unappreciated. Friends.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sacrificing anything. You took it away from me,
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  Speaker 2: well I didn't give it again. We appreciate and understand
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  Speaker 2: everything you've done. No, that's why, as a token of
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  Speaker 2: the company's gratitude, you and everyone in your division will
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  Speaker 2: receive four small chocolates in a plastic box. How does
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  Speaker 2: that help. It's not going to be available to Christmas
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  Speaker 2: because that's what we get the discount. Oh, it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I know you'd be excited. What's wrong with you? Chocolates?
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  Speaker 2: Small chocolates. I have to I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: think they're like bars. They're just like bite sized chocolates.
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  Speaker 2: Fit is not right. I cannot lose my vacation days
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  Speaker 2: because corporate wants to get hammered in the Bahamas. And
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  Speaker 2: I get four lousy chocolates. That is one part I
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  Speaker 2: didn't tell you. It's just the Bahamas. We're also going
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  Speaker 2: to the Virgin Islands. Please, Oh wait a minute, why
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  Speaker 2: are you saying, Lee, you're not going on the trip
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  Speaker 2: you're in human resource? Oh yeah, I didn't mention that part.
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  Speaker 2: They're bringing HR. I have never been outside the country.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't be more excited. They're just gonna leave us
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  Speaker 2: here with nothing and lost days. And don't be thinking
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  Speaker 2: you can use your sick days to get time off.
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  Speaker 2: We put a temporary freeze on that. Now you need
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  Speaker 2: to email us if you think you're gonna be sick
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  Speaker 2: at least a month in advance. How do I know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm gonna get? I won't be checking my email
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  Speaker 2: 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 this. Tisha, Why I ain't see going on
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  Speaker 2: that trip through without many She'd definitely like to, but
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  Speaker 2: she 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 raidershow Brook and Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: the morning, we're doing a phone tap on you man,
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  Speaker 2: No way, Yes, he just said, here's got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of tension in the office lately because of layoffs, so
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  Speaker 2: she wanted to lighten the mood. I cannot believe he
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  Speaker 2: did this. Hilarious neither. Oh you know what you need?
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  Speaker 2: You need a vacation. You met 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: taps weekday mornings on the twenties, frooking Jeffrey in the morning,