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Tipping and Johnson & Johnson, Oh My!
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Tipping, Johnson & Johnson, Oh My! We're talking about Covid vaccines again, as well as the war on tipping.
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Transcript
Introduction and Co-host Banter
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast, the podcast for all things you guys didn't mildly frustrating. I'm here again with our new co-hosts, Nick. How you doing, buddy? First try. I am doing pretty good. How you doing? How you doing? Well, it's getting better, you know. Yeah. It's getting good. It's getting good too. Yeah. How's work been, buddy?
00:00:31
Speaker
I've been pretty good. Yeah. Keeping you busy. Yeah. Yeah. You know, customers. I know your enjoyment. Complaints, you know.
Workplace Habits and Preferences
00:00:43
Speaker
Does anybody at work drink on the job? Loki.
00:00:48
Speaker
Hmm Do you actually bring stuff to work? No, I don't know No, that wasn't to insinuate me. No, I'm not allowed to say that I would like to remain silent on grounds that I may incubate myself
00:01:04
Speaker
I wouldn't say more people do the other thing rather than drink. Yeah, I figured as much. To be honest, I would rather have a stoner high and happy on the other side of that call rather than having a customer service agent who's drunk and belligerent.
00:01:22
Speaker
Yeah, that's fair. Just like what? Thank you for calling Spectrum. We want what do you what do you want? Please have a nice day. Yeah, I just dealt with one of you guys. Yeah. Hey, how's it going? Thank you for calling Spectrum, man. What do you got going on? What do you have to do today?
00:01:48
Speaker
Hey, what's the weather like over there? You know, it was a beautiful day. I'd rather have that, you know. What's your Instagram name? I'll friend you.
COVID Exposure and Precautions
00:02:06
Speaker
I was out for a couple of days recently because somebody at my worksite, they got COVID. So they were in, I wouldn't say like super close proximity to me, but we're in the same aisle and they're like diagonal from me. So I'd say there's like,
00:02:27
Speaker
six or seven feet I mean you know and I'm not really like close to that person will like exchange a couple words but not really close but I felt like I just need to get tested anyway just in case I saw him get my vaccination yet
00:02:43
Speaker
that
Vaccine Hesitations
00:03:00
Speaker
Definitely. Again, I will never be the first person to do anything like that. I stand by it and I, some people are going to hate me because that's just one thing that makes me believe I'm right. But I feel like I'm right. Never be first for anything. It's not, it's not a bad stance to take, but also you got to think about the numbers there. I mean,
00:03:13
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that
00:03:23
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Like the people who got blood class it was like four out of the I Think there was like 10,000 people who got it Well in the famous words of a was it Wayne Gretzky you missed every shot that you don't take You probably just overslept you probably didn't purposefully not go
00:03:52
Speaker
No. Well, hey, the news came out literally a day before I was going to, I was going to get it. I was like, well, it's one shot. I don't have to take two. I have a phobia needles. I'll just do the one, just one and done. Ah, better, better, you know, whatever.
00:04:07
Speaker
And then they're like, well, OK, well, I don't I guess I'll be good to wait a little bit. Yeah. Maybe see if they have another one that's only one shot and then I'll take that one. I think they I think actually they resumed the Johnson and Johnson shots. Well, I'm not going to be a participant.
00:04:29
Speaker
There's already another one that I mean I'm afraid of needles, but I'm more afraid of random blood clots If they were like hey here's a lineup of all three which one do you want then I would probably wouldn't take that one but I
00:04:48
Speaker
if I went and they were like, well, this is the only one we have. I'd be like, all right, that wouldn't have been my choice, but that's fine. See, there's barely an excuse right now because I mean, vaccines are free right now.
Vaccine Side Effects and Needle Fears
00:04:59
Speaker
I mean, you can go to the CVS store and they advertise they got the free one for you. So it's just like, why not? But at the same time, you know, why would you pick Johnson and Johnson when already like it's been out?
00:05:12
Speaker
For less time than the other one. I figure out what the other one was called. I mean, there's two. There's two other ones. Oh, yeah. The Pfizer and the Moderna. I think it was the Pfizer one that also had some issues, wasn't it? It was the Moderna that was the better one. I mean, I mean, any shot you can have a reaction. I think the Moderna is the one that you're more likely to have like side effects as far as like being sleepy and sore and stuff.
00:05:41
Speaker
But yeah, I mean, I mean, why my personal, I mean, Johnson Johnson is the most recent one and it's already had some of the most blown up cases and, you know, news about it. So why, why go for it? When all of them are free, why, why, you know, I mean, aside, if you really hate, if you eat more needles more than I do, then, you know,
00:06:04
Speaker
I feel bad for you because I already don't like them a lot. Like I love tattoos. I really, but I'm simply, I haven't gotten one cause it's done by a needle. So, so if you fear needles more than I do, then I mean, I feel sorry for you, but, uh, I mean, I guess go for the Johnson and Johnson because one, one shot and done, but it's really not even that bad.
00:06:30
Speaker
Do you especially the second one so I got my I got my second one But it's not the feeling of it's the fact it's done by a needle you hate the needle You don't hate the the shot or the paint I can get beaten up. I mean, that's so I've been in plenty of fights. I've gotten hurt, you know with you know other things that's not even you know human
00:06:52
Speaker
and i didn't care about that as much as i would have frickin needles you're beaten up by an alien or something what are you alluding to you got beaten up by non-human things well yeah people use bats knives oh i'm still a person it's not you know well yeah you've still been assaulted by i said i've got well
00:07:17
Speaker
the fist is not a human anyways so i got so the first shot so yes i get the needle thing i don't like it i also don't like how it makes me feel because i get
00:07:34
Speaker
like lightheaded, I lose the blood. So I have to fully—I'm sure I look like an idiot, but I'm also sure a lot of people do it. Like I sit down and I straight up just like—so she'll be like on my left doing my left shoulder and I'm straight up like,
00:07:50
Speaker
Just looking the opposite way. Like, Oh yeah, I'll definitely do that. I let that know ahead of time. Like I, I hate needles. I really, really hate needles. They're used to it. Um, if you, if you would prefer to strap me down or something, that's fine. I'm like, I'm going to do my best. I'm just going to look the other way. I'm going to just like do whatever you got to do. Just, you know, get it done. Yeah. I try not to be like too like.
00:08:16
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like too obvious that I'm not comfortable. So I try not to just be like, just like full, like cover my eyes. I'll kind of just be like, just like, you know, you do a little whistle, you look the other way. I mean, I give him the common courtesy. I mean, hey, I'm about to be a little B. You know, so.
00:08:38
Speaker
Just well if you're gonna bear with me, um, it's gonna have unless you're gonna like scream then then maybe well, I I don't do that anymore that I left that with my childhood, but I Used to be one of those kids that would kick you'd have to shut me down like My mom my mom knows about the story because I was there when they were trying to stick me with the needle and though I
00:09:05
Speaker
They I I think it was literally about ten doctors had to come in there Mom get the car we're getting out of here
00:09:34
Speaker
They like had to hold my arm because I couldn't wiggle the arm while they were giving me the shot, you know. Oh my god. Why are you such a problem? It's the needles, man. I've gotten better about it with age. I told myself to stop being, you know, a baby about it and just, you know, because I know, I mentally know it's just a trick.
00:09:57
Speaker
And it's just like, but at the same time, it's just this little thing that's slowly inserting itself into me, inserting what I don't know what the heck it is. I mean, obviously the doctors do, but I don't. I'm just like, it's just all uneasy. Yeah, no, I get it. I definitely don't like it. So I don't know, I get the giving her a warning, but as long as you're not going to like straight up like turn and slap her.
00:10:23
Speaker
or straight up scream what are you gonna do tell her that then there's no point in telling her well yeah well i'm just gonna just casually she just walks in and thinks everything's okay just like all right well you think it's gonna help if you weren't ever and then just well yeah she might be able to
00:10:45
Speaker
No, that's not how self defense works. She can't administer a shot from behind bulletproof glass. I'm not going to just go out and just come rolling in, but I think it would be, you know, helpful if like she knew that there was going to there was a possibility that there was I was going to have either a panic attack or, you know, something like that, you know, because
00:11:13
Speaker
I mean, that's not making me those things. Well, yeah, but but I mean, it's better to know on the spot. Just like, all right, well, let me just brace myself for this. It's not like you're going to roll it and be like, hey, Ms. Sharon. So just a heads up. I might I might take a swing at you. So it's not going to be all that way, but it's just more like the be be aware that you're dealing with somebody with these issues because it's also a psychological thing. I mean, one of your surroundings.
00:11:42
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I mean, I would imagine doctors would want to know what kind of patients they're dealing with because they have to be prepared for those type of events in the first place. I mean, if you know that a patient is more prone to being panicky about this thing, then they'll take other precautions like before when I was in school.
Experiences and Strategies with Needles
00:12:01
Speaker
when i told them i didn't like needles instead of having a needle like the actual physical ones they they brought out one of those air pump guns which by the way whoever was supposed to tell doctors that those hurt less they can go do something to themselves because that stuff hurt more like that thing felt like i got hit with a paintball in the arm like an epi pen it was like a it was like a
00:12:26
Speaker
shotgun thing. Like they just said, Oh, it just, they administer it through air, not through. I was like, that's weird. How do you administer a shot through air? No, it's just an air pistol with a freaking needle at the end of it that gets it like, yeah. So the benefit is it's immediate. It'll hurt more, but they got immediate. They got me with it. So I mean, it, it,
00:12:50
Speaker
But the thing that they do at least try to find something that will be at least better for you. So I mean, it's something that I feel like.
00:12:59
Speaker
I mean, I feel like anybody in any field would rather know what they're about to get into rather than just get canned. Yeah, I don't disagree. I'm just saying, like, if you're gonna go in and be like, yeah, like, hey, just heads up, I'm, I hate needles have a phobia. So this, you know, this is difficult. I'm having a hard time. That's one thing, but I, the way you were in it sounded like you were gonna be like, hey, I might turn and take a little slap slap.
00:13:23
Speaker
Ah, so be prepared to duck. Do we have boxing gloves in here?
00:13:32
Speaker
Um, no, it really wasn't that bad. So I straight up just turned my head and was like, okay, all right. It's going to be all right. Like just, just like, uh, so I try and act like actively do something. So I'll look at stuff on the wall and try and read them. Um, what I do at my doctor's office is they like the, where they administer the shots, they usually have, um,
00:13:55
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Like it's in like this weird little like bullpen. It's like a circle of chairs and they have like computers and printers and like, it's like a full office set up. So like I'll straight up.
00:14:07
Speaker
I'll look at all the computers and like look at their models and look at the printers and be like, oh, that's old. And I'll try and think of like times I came across it. And so I try and just occupy my mind. If there's pictures, I try and look at them. You know, they'll usually have little informational things like, you know, talk to your doctor about this. I'll read through it and just try and find something to take my mind off of what's about to happen. And it.
00:14:34
Speaker
I don't know. It makes you less nervous because it's all I think it's all nerve. As soon as the shot goes in, if you're like, if you're super tense, like here it comes, here it comes, here it comes. Your muscles are contracted. Yeah. Yeah. More. Oh, it's definitely going to hurt more. But if you're like, especially your your reflexes are sitting there at the ready and you're like, all right, here we go.
00:14:57
Speaker
It's like waiting for a car to hit you. You're just prepared for the next move. Yeah, so I just try and take my mind off of it. And then yeah, that is one thing I tried to develop those just like when they do shots like that, just talk to the doctor themselves. Just like, yeah, whatever. Yeah, that's fair. At a certain level, you it's you probably should if it's something like me where
00:15:20
Speaker
Like I can deal with it. I hate it, but I can deal with it. But if you're going to like, if you might have a panic attack or something, then I might give him a heads up, but I handle with care. I'm for a fragile boy. I'm not really prone to panic attacks.
00:15:37
Speaker
I'm not even sure if I even actually really had a panic attack before, but that honestly kind of scares me a little bit more because then I have no idea what to expect when I do have one. I don't know how it feels or whatever. I'm just going to. It doesn't matter. Even in the after, you know, it's like, oh, now I know what it feels like. I don't want to feel that again. So it doesn't matter.
00:15:58
Speaker
It just is what it is. You panic and then you get through it. Um, but, uh, yeah, so dude, the second shot was much better. Like in, you know, in and out, it takes less, less than a second. You're not the only one that said that either. Uh, my cuticle mate at my work. Um, she, I think she had the same one as you. Um, she said that the second one didn't like hurt it and she barely even felt it at all. Like the first one knocked her out, but the first one or the second one didn't really do much.
00:16:27
Speaker
Yeah, so I think the first one I felt more like what like in the process when she like gave me the shot, I think it hurt a little bit more. The second one hurt less, but the side effects from the second one were
00:16:48
Speaker
Little bit more intense, not bad, but like I was a little more tired. My arm didn't hurt immediately. I think cause I was more relaxed, like it didn't hurt as much. Um, but, uh, eventually it started hurting and then it started really hurting. It woke me up in the middle of the night.
00:17:04
Speaker
I was like, oh god. I just took some Advil and went back to bed. But it made me really tired for like a day. Essentially, the first shot is like the main game download. And then the second shot is just like the DLC. You could put it that way. I was like, and here's a little extra.
00:17:25
Speaker
It's a little bit extra. It's a booster. It is a booster. We didn't want to give it all to you at once. Yeah. That one might kill you. Johnson and Johnson. Might give you blood clap. It might be a little too much for you. Yeah, so the, I don't know, I was a little more tired with the second one, but overall, I think the second one went much better.
00:17:51
Speaker
But yeah, it's it's all right. So I'm sure you're glad you didn't get it. Are you? So what's your plan? I'm sure they're still giving them out at your like where you were at, but just not the Johnson Johnson one. So what's your plan now? Yeah, I'm planning on just making an appointment and getting one. Like like when? Like let's make the appointment right now on air. Let's do this. All right, let's do it. Let's do it.
00:18:21
Speaker
Um, you should do that soon. Cause, uh, I mean, I'm going to see you soon soon. Sorry, bud. I need to see a vaccination card before you enter my house. I need at least one punch. Sorry. You can get them on Etsy for like $10.
00:18:40
Speaker
I'm sure Jimmy has some. So I actually saw other people saying the same thing the other day, but there's kind of a war on tipping, which, I mean, I'm on board with.
Tipping: Economics and Ethics
00:18:54
Speaker
I think tipping is really stupid. Like tipping your waiters and stuff. Only if it's you. Here's what I think about tipping. Tipping...
00:19:10
Speaker
Okay, cool. It's well, I mean, it's a complicated thing because yes, it has been proven that if they take away tipping and just like heighten the wages of everybody that gets tipped, then there has there has been a balance.
00:19:28
Speaker
But the thing is, at the same time, it makes all the products kind of more expensive for the customers, which is why a lot of people don't want to take away tipping. But what's the difference?
00:19:41
Speaker
, and
00:20:03
Speaker
in the beginning to for people to be all right with it now then to have tipping and then now take away that option to tip or not because instead of doing the tip now you're forced to say you pay for a $20 meal at some you know restaurant
00:20:23
Speaker
You tip the waiter, you know, 15%, 20%, whatever. Good on you. You're like, okay, cool. I tip the waiter. Do you feel better about yourself because you're able to tip? I mean, it's just how people feel they feel good about tipping. But when you make that meal, instead of having it at $20, now it's at $30 and you're just paying for the $30, you kind of feel like that's an expensive meal for what you're getting, you know.
00:20:51
Speaker
even though you're paying for the extra services so that the waiter can still get a payment yada yada it's still kind of like it makes the customer feel like now they're just paying a lot on their meal I disagree a little bit with the premise of how much you'd have to raise if any I think most businesses are just pocketing that money it's not like it's going towards paying for stuff they're just it's improving their profit margins
00:21:16
Speaker
Well, this is coming from I mean, my family's own restaurants and like I've seen how much we profit from it. At this point, like the way that how much we're profit, we're not really it's not super, it's not super profitable for like,
00:21:34
Speaker
you know, like small business, which a lot of restaurants are, like there's only a couple of restaurants there. So the owners of those restaurants are only getting, you know, shares from maybe one or two of the restaurants, but you also have to pay for the food, the cleaning, you have to pay the, I mean, the chefs and everybody, they get paid regular wages or even higher wages because they're, you know, doing a lot of the hard labor in the back kitchen.
00:21:59
Speaker
and then the the way that they do it like they they can't pocket some of the money but it does a lot of that money does go back into the business trying to upgrade and keep it new because restaurants themselves they never last i mean keeping a restaurant open for a very long time if you're not a chain is
00:22:20
Speaker
Pretty hard. I mean Pizza Hut, Papa John, they can do it because everybody, there's a high demand for people wanting pieces at 10, 8, 10 p.m. or 12, 1. Yeah. So there's a high demand. So those places, they can pocket enough money to be able to do that. But for a lot of small businesses with like, they only have one, maybe two restaurants.
00:22:44
Speaker
Those, they do rely on being able to have half of their staff only be paid $3.50, $5, and the rest of their wage being paid by other customers, because then, you know, they don't have to worry about that so much. But I mean, at the same time, you know, I could see how big chains like Papa John's, when you tip the drivers and stuff, I feel like Papa John should be one pay for their gas.
00:23:13
Speaker
I've never been a pizza delivery person. If you, if anybody that's listening to this has been a delivery person, honestly, if actually, uh, is there like anything that where they can comment or leave comments on your podcast? I don't know if you put this up on YouTube either. No, I don't know. Okay.
00:23:33
Speaker
then yeah so I mean if anybody out there does I mean that's you would know more than I would if drivers get you know tipped or not or get their gas paid for or not so I mean I really hope not that I know of you can I mean you can expend some tax stuff but that's really it
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, yeah, but how many, okay, for delivery drivers, PCC, they're typically around their like early 20s, if not 18, you know, how many of those really like itemize their taxes enough to and well enough to like,
00:24:09
Speaker
Take out the the gas. I mean that's kind of low-balling So I would I would imagine pizza places like bit as big as they should be able to at least help there The people that get tipped, you know not have to rely on tips Places like Lyft and uber. I really I honestly they shouldn't be tipped They should they should just have a higher increase of wage honestly because a lot of people I know for a fact that a lot of people just don't tip and
00:24:36
Speaker
Lifter Uber track because they don't even know about it. I mean you it is there but I mean it's easy. It's really easy to just bypass that and just click next without tipping them. So I feel like that's kind of a low ball. So I feel like they should you know charge higher and then yeah.
00:24:59
Speaker
I only use DoorDash, so I can speak for that. But DoorDash, they default to, I think, 15% or 20%. Yeah. So you have to actively click no tip if you want to not tip. Yeah. So there should be something like that. But I don't know. I think that there's... I think it's few and far between where you can't offset
00:25:22
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're right. The small businesses would be harder for, but then you put people in a bad position because you put them in a position to be screwed if somebody's making a pickup order. I mean, how many people are tipping for pickup orders? Not a ton because most people are tipping for a service if they're tipping for a service of you handing me my food.
00:25:46
Speaker
It's like tipping the, you know, McDonald's worker who's handing you your food out of the window. You know, you don't tip him. So I don't think a lot of people tip to go people. So I mean, that's debatable. I mean, some people because there's there's good servers and there's bad servers. I mean, a lot of it's it's easy to think that way when you're a good person and you're a good customer. But when you notice or when you work in the industry and you notice how many
00:26:16
Speaker
bad customers there are that really make the job hard, then you would probably understand more about why they get tipped.
00:26:25
Speaker
I mean, and all this isn't necessarily coming from a, I mean, I am slightly
Tipping Culture: U.S. vs. Europe
00:26:30
Speaker
biased. I will admit that, but I also know that most of Europe doesn't have a tipping system. They actually go off of a wage system. They don't do tips there. Tipping is actually considered, is frowned upon. If you tip somebody in France, they'll scoff at you and they'll throw your money back at you.
00:26:49
Speaker
Um, you know that there are very successful areas that but they also have higher wages and all that kind of stuff. They work with it Um, and it's very successful. I I don't doubt the non-tipping uh part at all. It's just the fact that we are In america and most of our we already are adapted to tipping and what our tipping means and yada yada So culturally it's just in play. It's going to be very hard to stop tipping here. Yeah fair
00:27:17
Speaker
But with that being said...
00:27:21
Speaker
When you see how many customers will literally ask you for a slice of lemon, you bring back a slice of lemon and then they are like, hey, can I actually get one more? And then you have to go back and then get one more. And then when you come back and their friend right next to them is like, oh, you got lemons? Oh, can I get some lemons? Then you have to go back and get some more. Meanwhile, you have another table that's waiting for you to get serviced and yada yada. There are people that can handle that.
00:27:49
Speaker
and be able to do that fast and figure that out
00:28:08
Speaker
then yeah, you're not really, you don't really feel like you should tip somebody because all you did was ask for one thing of water but there are some customers that will ask for a billion different things while you have to handle that person grabbing water and yada yada. You have to make sure everybody is juggled properly. So I mean, servers do deal with a lot of stuff. So it is easy to say, I don't feel like I should tip because I really didn't do much. Like I didn't ask for much.
00:28:35
Speaker
But in turn, the way that the tipping system works is that since people that get tipped get paid nothing, some people get paid $0. It all depends on how much you get tipped. If you get tipped enough, you don't get any like anything in your check. So the way that the tipping system works is that eventually it boils down to somebody's gonna have to rely on those tips.
00:29:04
Speaker
And if you don't tip because you don't feel like you didn't ask for much and that's like them handling a customer who... and this is from experience, at least my experience. The customers that need the most pay the least. They don't tip for nothing and then they will ask for the most.
00:29:26
Speaker
So, when it... I mean, I completely understand. This is one of the reasons why I personally got out of the food business because, I mean, personally, me living off tips like that for what I had to deal with, that's booty. I'm not doing that. I mean, I just know better. I'm not gonna do that.
00:29:44
Speaker
So, I mean, but when you deal with that and the person that doesn't feel like they needed a tip doesn't tip and then the person that definitely should have tipped is just like, it feels entitled and then they don't tip because they just feel like they deserved it, which many people do.
00:30:03
Speaker
then that server did all of that work for nothing so I mean it is just that customary thing that like and it's like one of those things that customers really don't know about but anybody that works in the food industry or has worked in the food industry for at least a year everyone knows that is like every it's an underwritten rule that if you don't have enough money to tip
00:30:27
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and
00:30:47
Speaker
you gotta you gotta do it so i mean if you don't have money if you know you're not going to pay the person that's going to serve you it's going to do that stuff for you in our society if you go to europe and don't expect to tip that's fine i mean you that's the law that's the rule there you don't tip but here you do so i mean as long as we do do a tipping thing
00:31:07
Speaker
then make sure you have enough to go out and tip because if you can't tip, then why are you out? You're wasting their time and you're making everybody who is paying for it, their experience worse. I agree. My argument isn't that we shouldn't be tipping or that you don't always have to tip. My argument is that tipping should be gone and we should just be paying people. Oh yeah. I mean, I agree with that pretty much 100% but I mean, that wouldn't make for a good conversation because we both agree on that.
00:31:37
Speaker
Fair it I don't know it just doesn't make sense Because you should be paying for somebody's time not I mean like literally any job somebody can be crappy at their job But you're paying them by the hour
00:31:49
Speaker
If they're crappy at their job, you fire them, you don't be like, hey, so this week you didn't do great, so we're gonna pay you a little bit less. That's not how any job works, except apparently restaurants, they can just be like, hey, so your customers said you didn't do great, so we're just gonna, you didn't make that much money this week, so sorry about that.
00:32:08
Speaker
And it's also one of those, uh, I would imagine eventually it gets down to that psychological aspect as well, at least for us. I mean, when you have somebody really working for every single dollar that they make, you do get, uh, people that work harder for, you know, technically less money because.
00:32:26
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I mean, if you're paying, uh... Well, that's the point. $9 an hour and they're just like, yeah, I get paid $9 an hour. So I just do to do to do. I'm going to try to shortcut everything as much as possible. But if you have somebody that's like, if you don't do your work, you're not going to get paid. Well, I got to do every single thing I can just to make sure I get like squeeze as much money as possible out of this person.
00:32:51
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I mean, right now I'm doing sales for Spectrum. I mean, in a way, they have us do that as well. We're in sales. Our job is to sell you things. So we get customers calling in all the time. It's just like... Yeah, incentives is different than tipping.
00:33:08
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That is well, I mean, yeah, that is true. Most sales have incentives to get you to, you know, work a lot, be like, hey, here's your base salary, but if you work a little extra hard, we'll give you a little extra money. That's different than if you don't make as much sales, then we're going to cut your pay in half. Like then if if they're just not doing their job well enough, then they should, you know, there should be some disciplinary action. That's you shouldn't be cutting people's pay and then also forcing other people to pay for it.
00:33:36
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I don't know it's like I mean that that is true. That's definitely I definitely agree with you there Yeah, I mean we're not somebody's not tipping you on the phone be like hey you were a great salesperson. Here's $10 That's yeah. Yeah, that's not What's your Venmo I Don't know it's but I've seen it come under fire more recently people are I
00:34:01
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trying to rise up against. It's always been an issue for me because it's really stupid. I don't see why people, I see why. It's all business. It benefits the business 100% of the time.
00:34:18
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I mean, I'm sure sometimes a person can make a little bit more off tips, but I don't know. The customer is making that. The business, the customer is paying for it, not the business, which is stupid. So Jimmy will make Jimmy's a waiter and he'll make, you know, $400 in a day, but the business only had to pay $100.
00:34:40
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So customers are paying for 300 of it. I just want to work where he works. I know, right? So I
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don't know. It's I think most businesses are getting off a little bit easy there.
00:34:50
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This is if I ever had the power of teleportation. Yeah, all right. I could just work at like a place like New York or or California like in LA or where where Jimmy works in Florida and just like
00:35:10
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and the
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and
00:35:44
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Yes. I just need to be in top physical shape like he is and look flawless. Yeah, I'm sure that adds to his tipping a little bit. But you think about places like that where things cost, things are expensive, so the business is making the money on the food. And then the clients are rich, so they're just, they're paying for the, I don't know, the business is essentially... They're paying a look at Jimmy and it's totally bad. I mean, I'd tip that.
00:36:15
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All right, that's enough. We're done here. We're releasing too many thoughts about Jimmy that I'm going to text Jimmy right now some pics. Did you see did he ever send you the picture of his sunburn? No, dude, it's so bad. I'm sure he looks like a lobster. Dude, straight red. It's really bad. Jimmy, you've been out in the sun for five minutes. Get in, dude. So he apparently he says he has a sunglass marks as well.
00:36:46
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Obviously, I'm sure he has it on the back of his head, like backwards sunglasses. Oh, bro. You respect me, bro? I do respect you, bro. Yeah, I just sent you a picture. It's bad he was out on a boat and supposedly had sunscreen on. But I was like, how old was it from like 2010?
00:37:08
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because it obviously did nothing. He's red. Bro, you can see where the soul left his body. He looked... I was right about the waistline.
00:37:25
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all the way up into his hair it looked like he got like what toothpaste rolled like squeezed but he's like so freaking muscular that he wasn't squished he is just like rolling his blood just out of it yeah no it's like a strawberry popsicle
00:37:49
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He looks like Larry the Lobster from Spongebob. If Larry and Freaker like farted so much, they so left the lower part of his body. That's true. Oh, man. Yeah, it's bad, but I miss Jimmy. Anyways, well, I'll see you both soon, hopefully. I think you're both heading this way, so I'll get to see you guys soon. We'll put Jimmy out in the sun and see how long he lasts.
00:38:16
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Five five or so I think if you freakin turn on you the lights in your living room, he might get like These fluorescence get me out of here. I mean SPF 300 these lies from blade Jimmy okay Got a bit of a fire going on there
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00:38:45
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All right, so I'll see you guys soon, but I know you got a bit of a time crunch today, so we'll record a short. Yeah, we'll cut it short a little bit earlier than we normally would. But it's good talking to you. I know we missed last week, but busy week, we've both been busy with work. So we'll we'll try and be back next week. And I just didn't want to talk to you.
00:39:07
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I mean, I didn't want to talk to me either. I just stayed in bed. Don't talk to anybody. Um, but, uh, good to talk to you buddy. And, uh, I shall talk to you soon. I hope everybody enjoyed listening. Uh, feel free to send an email to mildly frustrating at gmail.com. If you got any.
00:39:23
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comments or questions and Please don't troll us because I have a very sensitive ego and I will cry Literally just told every troll to just It's mainly just Wally he's the main troll
00:39:40
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Well Wally you're the man I'm sure you I saw you were CC'd on every email he sent But all right, well, I hope you enjoy the rest of your week and your weekend and we'll be back next week All right buddy. I'll talk to you guys. Wally let me know if delivery drivers get Yeah, I might switch jobs spectrum delivery
00:40:10
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You're gonna need the COVID vaccine first though. And a car, and a license. Anyways. Do you wanna go? I think you wanna go. Sorry about that. Alright, we'll see you all next week. Appreciate it. Bye bye.