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Would You Tell Your Friend They Were About To Get Fired · The Erica Show

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  Wow. Backs to the Erica Show on G one oh five, Erica and
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  Trevor, and we have Donna on the phone, who has a dilemma today.
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  What's going on? So I kind of accidentally found out that my company's
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  about to lay off an entire department by the end of the quarter. Oh
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  yeah, your department or uh, it's not mine, but it's a lot
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  of my close friend's department. And you're not supposed to know. How did
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  you find out that? Somebody tell you? Or I was actually I'm not
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  too proud of this, but I was like, I wasn't stooping on purpose,
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  but I was standing over my boss's desk helping her with something, and
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  she had an email pulled up. Yeah, it was on her second screen.
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  Well you can't, Erica, you can't not look. Yeah, I
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  mean it just kind of like it was in my face. What am I
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  supposed to do? Just like not, I don't know. I just I
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  just all termination department quarter And I was like, oh, yeah, I'm
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  reading that too. Okay, So you have this hanging on your shoulders because
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  you said you have friends that work in this department. Yeah, actually two
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  really close friends of mine, one of which got me this job, oh
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  yeah, and they're eliminating their entire department. And I really really feel like
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  I need to tell them, but I just don't know what the reaction is
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  going to be. I don't know if it's going to come back to me
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  somehow. I don't know, because that could risk your job too, if
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  it comes out that you're the leaker exactly. That's the part I'm like scared
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  about that, Like, as soon as I tell one person, like obviously
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  soft hearts are going to want to tell. And I feel like it's just
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  going to spread like wildfire. And I'm scared about my job and like my
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  future. But I also I feel really guilty keeping this type of information from
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  my friend. That's a hard one because like, obviously you can't jeopardize your
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  own livelihood, but too, you know it's going to disrupt other lives of
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  people that you care about. So what should Donna do? What would you
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  do if you were in Donna's position? Nine one nine eight six h one
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  oh five to one call us or text us? Would you tell your friends
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  they're about to get fired? Or you would keep your mouth shut? Now?
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  Do you one? If I it's that Erica show, Erica and Trevor.
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  Donna reaching out with the dilemma. She found out by mistake while she
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  was in her boss's office that a whole department will be eliminated at the end
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  of the quarter. And these people in that department are her friends. So
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  if you were Donna, would you tell your friends in this department and risk
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  that it's going to get back to you that you're the leaker? Or would
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  you just want to be a leaker? Ever? Another issue? But in
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  your mouth shut? Carrie's on the phone, Hey Carrie, what would you
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  do? I probably would tell them. I wouldn't want to, but but
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  then I might lose my job too. I could get in trouble for saying
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  something that's a really tough call. That is my best friend in the world
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  that I'm going to somehow anonymously alert that person. If you knew I was
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  getting fired, would you tell me? Does it mean I get fired?
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  Or no? No, I don't get fired. I don't get fired.
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  I'm gonnaell you. I'll be like, yo, get your little sad hustle
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  because you might have some short cash photus just a minute. If if I,
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  let's say, my best friend in the world was getting fired, and
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  I told her and I said, hey, you know, I found out
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  that you're being fired, but you can't say anything because then I'll lose my
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  job. And then she laughed right on, So it's risky, but you
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  would do it? Do you want to by? It's Erica and Trevor Donna
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  with a dilemma. She found out it's a good segment named Donna's Dilemma.
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  Yeah, well that's my mom's name. It could be my mom. Anyway,
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  she found out that her friends at work are gonna be fired soon,
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  and she wanted to know what does she do? Does she tell her friends
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  or she keeps her mouth shut? Jeffrey, what would you do if you
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  were Donna? I mean that's a tough one. I think if she is
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  confident that her friend won't say anything, yeah, mention it now, you
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  know, ain't nobody gonna be cool? And they have to sit and wait
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  patiently for a month or more knowing they're getting fired and they not say anything.
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  Yeah, I mean, if they're just letting her go in like a
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  scummy way, like with no notice or anything, they're just firing her out
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  of nowhere, then usually how it works, she deserves a hedgehop like her
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  friends, deserve a hedgehog.