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Can you describe your company culture? · Anele and the Club on 947

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  Speaker 1: Wake up with a playing.
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  Speaker 2: And the club on nine four seven.
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  Speaker 3: You know what this question because we get we get
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  Speaker 3: asked this question a lot. We asked this question a
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  Speaker 3: lot h R across businesses in the city, in the country.
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  Speaker 3: Like you think that you know this is this so easy,
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  Speaker 3: so easy, until you actually have to sit and answer it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: A friend of mine went for an interview for a
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  Speaker 2: new job and this came up. This is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of question three times. Three times he went through the
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  Speaker 2: whole process, and three times they said they said to
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  Speaker 2: him what the company culture is?
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  Speaker 3: Did he ask what's your company called? Also, they just
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  Speaker 3: offered the information they just offered, and three different people
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  Speaker 3: said what what is the.
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  Speaker 2: Company said we work hard and we play hard. And
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  Speaker 2: then he looked at the first the first round of interview,
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  Speaker 2: he was like, okay, well, I'm in I can I
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  Speaker 2: understand that. And then the next guy said, we work
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  Speaker 2: hard and we just to let you know we work
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  Speaker 2: hard and we play hard. And then he went, okay,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're serious about playing hard and working hard.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And then he went to the ceo. It's a
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  Speaker 2: big company, that's right, and the CEO said, our company
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  Speaker 2: cultures we work hard and we play hard, and he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to. He was started wondering whether he could match
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  Speaker 2: the play hard part of the game. He's like, I
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  Speaker 2: can work hard. I just don't know if I can
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  Speaker 2: play hard home. I'm tired of you.
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  Speaker 1: Get to your wife. You're like, honey, do you think
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  Speaker 1: I play hard?
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  Speaker 3: Because it's a requirement in the shop that I can so.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the thing, this is what we want
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  Speaker 3: to ask you today. If we had to ask you
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  Speaker 3: what's your company culture?
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  Speaker 1: Would you know how to answer that?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's such an interesting thing because what what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean? What is what does it mean to
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  Speaker 2: have company culture? I think for every every company, And
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  Speaker 2: that's why we always ask other people, because yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: just work in this building.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, also for us, it's like for us,
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  Speaker 3: it's like schizophrenic, a little bit bipolar, because it's fun
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  Speaker 3: on the radio, and then you go to.
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  Speaker 1: The third floor You're like, whoa, it's not fun. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these people are serious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a disconnect between divisions company culture.
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  Speaker 1: We're a diverse culture.
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  Speaker 4: Some people are having fun and some people are telling
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  Speaker 4: it seriously.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So then we asked some of the people who
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  Speaker 3: are at nine for seven on the fun side, on
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  Speaker 3: the fun side of side, the ones that I'm wearing
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  Speaker 3: plug is to work.
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  Speaker 1: What's the company culture at nine for seven foods and
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Everybody it's a radio there.
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  Speaker 5: I would say nine for sevens of culture is so chaotic,
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  Speaker 5: but in the most beautiful way because everyone has so
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  Speaker 5: many different and big personalities, so you never know what
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  Speaker 5: to expect.
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  Speaker 1: And La and the club let's go go go did
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  Speaker 1: some cz James.
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  Speaker 5: I think what we've been able to build here is
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  Speaker 5: just a fun work environment where you feel really excited
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  Speaker 5: to come to work. You know what really helps the most,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm not even being facetious about this is the restaurant.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, guys, you know what nine for seven's company culture is,
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  Speaker 4: in my view, literally what you make of it, because
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  Speaker 4: the thing is it's a very open and fluid environment
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  Speaker 4: where you know, it's easy to make friends with people
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  Speaker 4: outside of your immediate division.
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  Speaker 1: Nine four seven is family. Nine four seven is fun
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  Speaker 1: and lots of laughter. That's how I feel the.
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  Speaker 6: Company culture at nine four seven is like the scene
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  Speaker 6: in the in the Michael movie where he asked his
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  Speaker 6: brother is a picking plate swister, and they also you know,
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  Speaker 6: except yeah, I think people by drop but they're doing
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  Speaker 6: him play along.
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  Speaker 1: Well maybe not, it's you might they might.
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  Speaker 4: Say, not.
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  Speaker 1: Absolute honesty from you love it? Love it?
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  Speaker 7: Can I just say and I appreciate them diabas honesty.
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  Speaker 7: And that's how you know he's not a parent, because
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  Speaker 7: all the parents lied. C's angling for promotion. Did you
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  Speaker 7: hear him? Gave us the most pr thing, most trying
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  Speaker 7: to get those kids. All the aty metrics said nothing,
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  Speaker 7: by the way, no real it is fluid, yes, aka,
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  Speaker 7: I'm not saying anything.
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  Speaker 1: And then Nikos said it's fun.
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  Speaker 8: See, so everybody said nothing because nobody actually loves for
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  Speaker 8: our culture.
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  Speaker 1: Now, guys, then's really spot on chaotic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's really was the only one who said chaotic.
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  Speaker 2: And I think fun, exciting and family.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the ones that came.
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  Speaker 2: I think and this is an ad.
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  Speaker 9: Gave us the most honest chaotic fun works like you
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  Speaker 9: don't know what's going to happen, and he also knows
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  Speaker 9: that I might not play along with you, but I'll smile.
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  Speaker 1: Why is some man you like you're like a cat.
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  Speaker 2: We never know if you're going to bring out the
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  Speaker 2: clause or where they're gonna let ustruggle.
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  Speaker 1: The trick is to leave me alone. I think the
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  Speaker 1: cultures chill. If you had said to me, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think that, I would just be like, so chill,
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  Speaker 1: so chill.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, that depends on which floor you're going to
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  Speaker 2: walk to.
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  Speaker 7: Look as the as the industry tourists among us, having
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  Speaker 7: worked everywhere everywhere, I can say it's by by far
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  Speaker 7: the most fun and even when people are even when
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  Speaker 7: they are frustrations, because you know, sometimes you go to
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  Speaker 7: certain places and the issues run really deep. You go, oh,
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  Speaker 7: it's most of the issues aren't things that can't be
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  Speaker 7: fixed quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm so glad you said that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh one one eight thirty eight nine four seven. After
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  Speaker 3: listening to that cacophony of what our company, our company
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  Speaker 3: culture is, if somebody had to ask you immediately right now.
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  Speaker 1: What's your company culture? Because I like the way.
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  Speaker 3: You know, leaders in a company always like to leave
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  Speaker 3: our company cultures and our company.
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  Speaker 1: Culture is dead? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Can you can you actually define it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? And it's like it's it's nice to.
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  Speaker 3: Put it in words, and is it's the reality in practice?
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  Speaker 2: I can I just say everyone wants their companies to
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  Speaker 2: be fun. But it's okay to to find us and
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  Speaker 2: say our company is not about fun. We come to work,
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  Speaker 2: we work hard, we don't plan.
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  Speaker 1: Don't play hard.
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  Speaker 7: You can go play hard like I don't want the fun.
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  Speaker 7: Bank you're in charge of my finances.
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  Speaker 1: Have no fun. Yeah, none of this happiness here.
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  Speaker 3: I want you guys to speaking hush tunes, walk fast
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  Speaker 3: speak low zero eight four double zero double zero nine
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  Speaker 3: four seven.
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  Speaker 1: What is your company culture? That's what we want to know.
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  Speaker 10: I come from sales and I moved to accounting and.
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  Speaker 6: Very boring guys in my company with people's lives and
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  Speaker 6: our culture is where this company?
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  Speaker 4: Before spreading my wings out on my own, I would
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  Speaker 4: say my previous company culture in one word, toxic.
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  Speaker 1: Oh our company culture? I work for insurance company.
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  Speaker 11: It is the Titanic?
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  Speaker 8: Is even everyone now startying.
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  Speaker 1: Running around to save their lives? Yea Titanic? Jack Ross?
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I want to know who the band is that continue
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  Speaker 3: to play whilst the.
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  Speaker 1: Ship was sinking because.
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  Speaker 2: You got on the background of the street.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Habiba?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, it is good morning, Good morning, Habiba.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 11: I'm great? Thanks? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: We're great? Where do you work?
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  Speaker 11: I work for logistics company.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and so what would you say, you're many culture is.
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  Speaker 11: Preparing you to work in a mortuary.
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  Speaker 1: Preparing you to work in a mortuary. Why that's the extreme? Why?
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  Speaker 11: I mean, because it is so cold, it is so lifeless, nobody.
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  Speaker 11: You can't even make a simple comment about the weather.
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  Speaker 11: Somebody always irritated that you're making a noise. It's just
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  Speaker 11: a toxic you know. It's just one of those places
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  Speaker 11: where you go do your work, go home.
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  Speaker 2: Is clinical?
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  Speaker 1: Clinical?
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  Speaker 10: Like that?
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  Speaker 2: One is that are they purposely keeping it like that?
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  Speaker 2: Like we don't want interpersonal things.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think as a company there purposely, But then
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  Speaker 11: the environment has become so toxic that it's become a culture.
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  Speaker 11: That's what everybody does, is.
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  Speaker 3: That because maybe your boss is like that, or the
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  Speaker 3: main bosses like that, they like square, They just don't
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  Speaker 3: they're cold, they don't have any personal insights on you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and there and therefore everyone just becomes that.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, that's exactly the case, to a point where if
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  Speaker 11: he greets you, we all think it's going to rain.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and okay, has it in your time there?
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  Speaker 3: Has it always been the same boss or did you
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  Speaker 3: guys used to have another boss was different, and then
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  Speaker 3: the company culture was different.
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  Speaker 11: Then unfortunately for me, it has been the same. So
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  Speaker 11: I haven't seen anything different your first job. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 11: It has just been through. I've been through the heavens
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  Speaker 11: and all of a sudden and here it is quite heavy.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, and when you were going through your interview phase,
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  Speaker 3: did you not pick up that it's a mortuary year?
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  Speaker 11: Not at all, I think because at that time I
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  Speaker 11: was having interviews with the stakeholders from other countries. They
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  Speaker 11: bought in a different warm, and training was done abroad
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  Speaker 11: that was also with a different warm. And only when
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  Speaker 11: I come back and now have to set aline and
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  Speaker 11: I realize this is the fridge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the equipment budget is not the same as the
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  Speaker 3: maintenance budget.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, oh man, I'm so sorry, Habiba. But I suppose
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing about culture here. You are part and
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  Speaker 3: parcel offered. So if you are just good to the
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  Speaker 3: immediate five around you, and you greet them and you're
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  Speaker 3: friendly to them, and you you know, extending olive branches
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  Speaker 3: to them and helping them, then you'll see that that
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  Speaker 3: trickles onto the next And then because can I tell
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  Speaker 3: you something you can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't. You can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't out toxic a cheerful person. So regardless of
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  Speaker 3: what they're like, you must just stay being the cheerful
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  Speaker 3: person you are because that's your culture.
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  Speaker 11: No, certainly, I think they call me rebellious because of that,
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  Speaker 11: because I will come in and in the morning, everybody's
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  Speaker 11: sitting there with their dead silence, and I'll walk int
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  Speaker 11: more and already you can see the eyes rolling. But
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  Speaker 11: I don't care to do that any morning anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, keep doing it, keep doing.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I just feel that someone needs to break the
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  Speaker 11: ice somewhere somehow. It's just it's not good.
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  Speaker 3: And can I tell you the funniest thing is that
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  Speaker 3: this boss that's listening, they're probably listening to conversations and
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  Speaker 3: they don't think they like.
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  Speaker 1: That at all. Yeah, they literally do.
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  Speaker 3: People people like that, people who are the heavy energy
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  Speaker 3: at work.
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  Speaker 1: They never think that they're that.
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  Speaker 3: Ever that ever, they because I don't imagine anybody wakes
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  Speaker 3: up and lose their house to go to work to
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  Speaker 3: black today. I'm not creating anyone. I'm crumpy to them.
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  Speaker 3: They just think that they're being normal. This is why
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  Speaker 3: these conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Have to be had.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to the East Rand, don't park. Sharon, good morning.
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  Speaker 3: What's your company culture?
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  Speaker 12: Good morning, high my first on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: That's our company culture. We won't come everybody with open else.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, So our culture is bring your best self to.
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  Speaker 1: Work, bring.
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  Speaker 12: Bring your based off to work.
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  Speaker 11: And it's not just saying it really does happen.
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  Speaker 13: And they ensure that they have programs that allow you
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  Speaker 13: that allows your best self.
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  Speaker 12: To come out.
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  Speaker 3: Just out of interest, what line of work.
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  Speaker 1: Are you in? What industry?
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  Speaker 12: It's a qs our industry. I work for KFC KFC.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, come on, you can make everyone you
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  Speaker 3: of course, I'm gonna bring my best.
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  Speaker 1: Off to work.
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  Speaker 12: Is and that posters teamwork as well.
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  Speaker 11: It's it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: With that smile in your your office. How can you
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  Speaker 2: be sad? Is the smile of happiness.
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  Speaker 3: And then my question to you, Sharon is if somebody
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  Speaker 3: is not bringing their.
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  Speaker 1: Basted off to work, does somebody.
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  Speaker 12: Go hey, then you need to see someone about that.
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  Speaker 3: We have all of that in just like this is
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  Speaker 3: not your best self work, you are not crushing it
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 8: I work in mining, been in mining for the past
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  Speaker 8: fifteen years. There is a student and since then the
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  Speaker 8: culture is wak. It's still wack. It's very hierarchical, it's
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  Speaker 8: very authoritarian.
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  Speaker 13: Company culture is usually driven from a team perspective and
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  Speaker 13: not at an organization level, because you can have a
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  Speaker 13: fun type of a company, but in your team it's miserable.
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  Speaker 10: The company is from the Edmond side to the factory side.
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  Speaker 10: There is a glass door in between. So the culture,
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  Speaker 10: I would say, the culture in our company is that
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  Speaker 10: the people behind the glass door are living the life.
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  Speaker 10: The people on the other side of the glass door
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  Speaker 10: in the factory must just make sure they can afford it.
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  Speaker 3: Start to making your mourning and la and the love
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  Speaker 3: on nine four seven