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firm Els Morning Show. Yeah, it's a good, happy Friday.
Not for my friend. What it's happy, it's a great day. No,
I just got to the weekend and I just got
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a text message from a friend of mine who doesn't
work in radio. Thankfully, um, because he's painting my butt.
But uh, he got let go today and so um.
My first instinct was to feel bad fan, but then
I got angry and I started thinking about he got
let go number one on a Friday, So your weekend's ruined, right,
number two before the holidays. Your holidays are ruined. But
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then I was thinking, well, is it better to get
let go before the holidays so that you know you
can't spend too much on presents, right? Or do you
want to be able to enjoy your holidays and you
get canned and Nuary? Yes, after you spent too much money?
Fired me, Fired me before Christmas because that way I
much ye, And then that way when I go home
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for the holidays, I can stay as long as I want.
What about being fired? Being fired in the summer is
better the best? Not being fired? We're talking about there's
nothing going on in April. Give me time to be
fired April when you have one day to live. Yeah,
but I don't know, because your holidays are kind of
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crappy if you're fired before the holidays. But like you said,
then it gives you what free time to visit the
family and kind of hang out, you know, not to
buy that giant television set, and you're around your family
so they can bolster you up and make you feel better.
And then Grandma goes, why are you going to get
a job, and then shut up? Also on a Friday, like,
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I know you on a Tuesday, so I have the
rest of you want first thing Monday morning? No, because
I went into work Monday morning. I want to know, Like,
give me like a Tuesday so I have the whole
day off and then the rest of the week off
and I feel like I'm getting something out of it. Yeah,
I think Friday ruins your weekend. And Friday like today,
Yeah he got he found out like an hour ago,
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so he came in and they're like, you gotta go.
You have a Friday. Also give you a chance to
keep keep your mind off of it for the weekend
because then you can do other things. On Saturday. You
know what the crappiest part of it is, you've worked
here for how many years, or you work wherever you work,
and then they walk They always walk you down with
your one box. They don't let you get your belongings.
Apparently that's protocol everywhere. Do you know I already I
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already set my own protocol. So I went downstairs to
HR and I said, listen, when the time is and
they tell me I'm not needed anymore, I'm not letting
anybody pack my ship. I want to pack it, I said,
so give me fair warning so I can start packing.
Like Daniel, that's the equivalent of like saying, choosing to
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be cremated or buried. You know you want to choose,
but to you this, But Daniel, it's not up I
know it's not up to me. But I've been at
this company for twentysomething years, and you would hope that
they would they would trust me to know that I'm
not going to steal stuff company secrets. I thought about
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going to Staples. They don't sell these, but they should
mind yours. Stickers and I was going to put them
on all the stuff that's mine, and then all the
stuff that's there's but yours, because I've got some things
that looked like could be there, Like the headphones are mine.
The some of the digital stuff is mine that I
bring in that I want them to know. Otherwise they're like, oh,
we thought that was ours, So I want mine and yours.
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Not to putting a sticker that says mine means it's mine.
I put my sticker on all everything that gold mike
is mine. And look, I get it. That's the way
the cookie crumbles, and that's the way it is most places.
This is how it has to work. I get it.
But I just feel like it's just crappy because you
feel like you gave your life to whatever company you
work for, and especially if you didn't do anything wrong
and it's just cutbacks or whatever and it has to
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go down that way. You just feel like, gosh, I
feel like, if it's financial cutbacks, and that was the
case with my friend, you should be able to clean
up your desk while they stand there and watch. Yes, yeah, exactly,
they should. They should give you fifteen minutes to grab
your stuff. I just think that that's a mutual respect thing. Plus,
Danielle has been here twenty years, She's got some stuff
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in those drawers. Oh my gosh, my duck that you
can dress for every holiday? Yeah? Please, what do you mean?
How how do you know I'm going before you? I
don't know. I'm saying he filed the report. Yeah, so
all right, so we've agreed, we haven't really agreed. So
it's mixed. Some of you guys want to get fired
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Scary wants to get fired in January on on a Wednesday.
On Friday, you said you want to get fired on
a Friday. I would know. My ultimate time would be
in June, after Memorial Day, on a on a Monday
or Tuesday, because we take two week paid vacation in July.
You want to get fired after vacation, I'm gonna enjoy
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my summer and all suck it and I'll find a
job in September. No, but you're not thinking about it.
If you get a two week paid vacation and you
get fired before the vacation and you lost out on
two weeks paid vacation, get fired today we come back
from vacation, then those suckers just paid you. No. I know,
but if you're gonna if you're saying that my ideal
day of being fired I'd wanted to be you know,
July fifteenth or whatever when we come back from vacation. Yeah,
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I wish we could put on a calendar like requesting
fire days, like just to how about we each go
downstairs to h R one at a time and just say, hey,
can you put this day on your calendar? This is
what I want. Also, I'm letting you know I put
mouse traps in my drawers, so if you if you're
not gonna, I need to clean up my drawer otherwise
try to take my stoff. Yeah, there's some barbed wire
in there. I have a laser grid likes. I honestly
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don't think all of our stuff would make it back
to us because there's just there's just that much stuff.
Who here has been fired? He's been fired, Danielle Scary.
I was fired once. What about you getting Actually yeah,
no by the church. I work. I work in the
sacristy like where the where the priests like lived, and
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they just said, hey, we have cutbacks, we gotta let
you go. So I got fired by priests. God fired me.
Wait a minute, so they didn't collect enough in the bowl.
I guess not Scary, Where were you fired? I never
fired Bethany Sears fired me. What what? Uh? Well, I
mean it was a terrible employee, but they I mean
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it was my very It was my very first job ever.
I was sixteen and I was working in the infants department.
So you picture how that went so great with kids?
And uh, I got fired. I came home. I was crying.
I told my dad, and my dad was like, good,
everybody should be fired at least once. Now you'll have
it out of the way. Do you remember what time
of year and what day of the week it was summer? Uh?
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I think it was during the week. I don't remember.
I think it was a Monday, honestly, because I went
in for my two month review and that was the
end of it. So I think they did it on
a Monday when the boss got back end. Scary. Now, hypothetically,
you've never been fired before. If the day come you
get let go from here? Do you cry? No? What
will you do? I think I think you would. I
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think you would cry because it's your first job. It
would be first job getting fired from the only job.
Because I think I would be in shock. I would
be in too much shock. You would cry later maybe,
but not. It would take a while. What would you do?
Would you home? What would you do? I would I
would actually want to be by myself and I would
just want to go home, but I want to go
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out drinking with my friends that night. I would drive.
I would just get in and drive, would drive to Yeah,
just drive nowhere, not knowing where I'm going. Just drive.
But then the next day it would forest dump it
in the car, forest, dump it in the car. Although,
with gas prices the way they are, and you don't
have a job, maybe you got a savings right out
of the bat, so I would blow it all. I
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would also go home and start looking at the stuff
I could sell. Interesting, I would like put things in
a bag that I thought I could sell to make
extra money if I needed to. Okay, because we get
a lot of stuff here, a game of game with
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rooms Monopoly on my desk back, they've never been open,
beautiful we get we get a lot of promo stuff here,
and some of it's great and some of you go,
he's got some volume. So yeah, I would sell some
of that stuff. Danielle, where were you fired from? I'm McDonald's.
Well it was. Here's the thing, Okay, don't explain firing
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quitting at the same time. No, this is an exercise. Okay,
Why would the boss say you got fired because I
punched someone there? Why do you say you got fired
you No, not in the face. It was a very
light taps you. So I was dating this guy and
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then she started dating this guy, and then then yeah,
and then I don't know how some words got exchanged.
I don't remember exactly what happened. I wound she wound up.
She she tried to come at me first, and then
I whatever, and then they were defending yourself. Yes, but
I only I didn't really. It was very light and
it was on that really the hypothetically hypothetically scary as
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that girl out, but twice is hard for That was
a light punch you use knuckles. That was that was
happy the right hook down go scary and she kept
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her rings on anyway, so that I got So I
was planning on and going because I couldn't stand it
there anymore because it was it was getting ridiculous. So
I was quitting, but they fired me at the same time.
What about McDonald's was getting ridiculous. It was just the drama.
The drama was ridiculous with the people between the workers.
It was die Worth it. He well, he was nice,
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but what no, no, no, he was dating me first
we broke up. Then he started dating her. And then
she had heard that I called him a mama's boy,
and that's and that's what upset her, so she confronted
me with it. But I had never even called him
a mom's boy. It was ridiculous. It was a teenage
I was. I was very young when I worked there,
So I think I started there when I was seventeen,
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sixteen or seventeen, because you right back then you get
you working papers early. So I was there for like
four years. When you threw the punch? Did the hoop
earrings fall off? I wasn't allowed to wear hoop earrings
with donald uniform behind the counter or were you like
the little backstage? We're back back downstairs and in the
break room. Okay, so we're all right. I always pictured
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that you were behind the counter. I had to fight
with a guy behind the counter once about the filet fish,
but that's different. What happened before you tell the story?
What's the sauce? They I don't remember. I can't tell you.
It's I won't Why would your boss, say you got
into a fight with a filet of fish, dude, because
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oh the guy was nasty to me. It was not
my fault, and he would he would defend me fault.
It's the customer, Okay. It was a homeless man that
came into get some food and he was Sometimes the
food is not ready at the same time. Like if
I'm waiting for a filet o fish to be made
and your cheeseburger is here, I'm not gonna put your
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cheeseburger in the bag and wait because it's gonna get cold.
So I'm gonna wait till all your food is ready
and then I'm gonna put it in the bag. Well,
this man did not like that, and he did not
understand that, and so he sent to me after it
was all said and done, how long does it take
to put a filet of fish in a bag? I mean,
you got to be stupid to not be able to
do that. Responded with screaming at his back and has
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to be dragged into the back. Although you don't that's
basically what I said, And I said something very not
nice like what I don't remember, and I got dragged
into the bag and was just dragged by your hand.
Just Danielle, please come in the bag. And I got
I didn't get fired for that though, yes, probably, but
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I almost threw the flat fish out his head. But
the thing is, you gotta He was not nice to me,
and I was trying to be so nice. I was like,
I don't make his food keep warm. I'll give me
the warm. He was like, why don't you go home?
All right? You can't. Oh you don't have McDonald You know,
Danielle worked because she actually says filet o fish. Well,
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like New Yorkers, we would just say filet of fish.
Remember I got in trouble for being too sexual in
the drive through. What did you say in the drive Yeah,
let's pull up, scary, pull up your orders. McDonald doesn't
mad at me for this. I love McDonald's. I lived
on cheeseburgers when I was crying, Hi, Hi, And what
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would you like? I'd like to order a big mac,
a six piece chicken McNuggets and uh fries you would
get that? Would you like a hot fresh apple pie
with that? Really? Danielle? Remember they this was probably eighteen,
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but they said to me, you gotta try to sell
the apple pie. I did. Then I had a talking
to Danielle. You can't set off the pie that way,
but you said hot? Would you would you like some
of my? Hey? Would you like a hot fresh apple?
Those Baldwin on the sweaty balls. I'm sorry. I got
told I was not allowed to sell have a pie
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like that? So my apple pie settling went down? Would
you like a sheke? I sold apple pies? They told
me to sell them. They didn't say I didn't. Would
you like some of my Why haven't been going on
McDonald's every night for apple apple pie? Can statiste of money?
Would you like to come over here and speak into
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the clown's mouth? Speak into the clouds? You think sold
a lot? But this is this was a long time ago.
I have come down and I actually had a great
time working at McDonald's. I made a lot of good
friends there. And my sister wanted to work at McDonald's
so badly. When she's eleven years younger than me. She
would put on my uniform all the time, walk around
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the house. That's what she wanted to be a McDonald's worker.
Whenn't you grow up? So yeah, but I we did
have a lot of fun. Obviously, you know, kid, you
don't want to work there. You want apple pies. Now
that want big fresh apple, Come over my house dressed
up like Mary mccheese and I'll make you Grimace. Playground
at your McDonald's. No, we did not have a playgroundom
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Daniel's little window where they drove up to. I don't know.
I wonder if anybody still works there that I used
to work with, so the managers of people that owned it,
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