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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Have you ever been put on report? Or have you
ever been called in and had to sign a piece
of paper with corporate to acknowledge that you did something wrong? Oh?
You got written up? Yeah? Were you ever written up?
Was every was ever something to put on your file?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We all, we've all had that. Nate, you didn't say
that you've been put on file? Have you can't talked about?
What would say yes or no? Well, then that you
just said yes, Okay, So I can't talk about what happened. Okay, Wow,
Now I want to know. Well, no, I know I was,
but number one, I didn't sign the piece of paper
they told me to sign. So secondly I can't talk

(00:46):
about it either. But it did happen. Yeah. So Danielle's
question was, and she's been she has had to get
ridden up before, right, What was your question about how
being written up in something put on your files? About?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, how does it work?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Like does it work like soccer?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Like two yellow cards and then you get the red
and then you get the boot?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Like how does it work like three strikes you're out?
Kind of what's going on? How does it work.

Speaker 5 (01:11):
And is there like a limit on how long this
is on your record, like after seven years is a
fall off?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Like with your license like it doesn't after it's starting
about signing your driver's license.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
It like the point And does it have to be
this job or can it be a job you had
before this one?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
So you're saying that my heart's going to go to
you the last company you work for it and accumulate
all your points for this isn't like moving No, No,
this is not likely moving grades from one caller to
the next. Alright.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
I worked at a grocery store before I worked at
the radio station.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I got written up there multiple Oh no, if I
heard had that on your filey, I wish they did.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
If you are going to work for one place, can
they call another place and say were they ever written
up before?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
They can't? I guess yeah. But now in this day
and age, you don't want to ever give an opinion
about a past employee because there's lawsuits possible.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
But what I said, answer is are they eligible for rehire?

Speaker 2 (02:02):
That's the only way there you go eligible for rehire.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I think the way it works and I said this earlier,
and I don't know if I'm right or not. They
will write down things in your file until the cows
come home. So one day, if they do have a
reason to can you, they'll go, well, look at this
list of things that Elvis did. Let him go legally,
we can because look what he did. What a bad boy.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
But waite, when.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
You guys, think about like what you got written up for.
If somebody read it out loud, you laugh at it
again when you probably, yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
That helps us, Yeah, because you told us why you
were written up. And I'm like, but that wasn't your fault.
That was someone else's fault.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
It was someone else's fault. I I the way that
they blamed it on me. I can see what they're doing,
which is whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
But I didn't sign it either.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
I was with you. I didn't sign it.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
M Yeah, I was asked to sign. I said I'm
not signing that. I said, you know how to spell
a name, sign it for me. I'm not signing it.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
You will not get Mike.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
You can sign my name better than me anyway. But
a lot of people are texting in yeah, this person
got written up for talking about how babies are made.
What I don't know Melissa. Is that Melissa late nineteen? Well,
let's talk to her. Hello Melissa, Hi, good morning, Good morning.
So you work in HR so obviously, depending on what

(03:20):
company you work for, you have a lot of situations
where you have to have a meeting with someone and
then put something on their file. Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Absolutely? Absolutely. I work with a specific company. I really
can't divulge the name, but we work with I have
a lot of which we call security guards, and we
have a couple infractions on a lot of stuff. So

(03:52):
we have to pull them in the office, sit down, discuss,
they get a disciplinary action.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Written up for whatever?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Are there?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do you thank them? Is it like a physical thing?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
No, it's actually like if you get put in the
office and we have to discuss what their issue, what
they did wrong, and then they have they can either
sign the paper saying that we discussed it, or we
write on it saying that they waved signing it.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now, if they wave signing it, does that like take
more points off there? Whatever?

Speaker 3 (04:25):
It doesn't look good for them when we have to
send it up to our corporate But they get three
tries and then there is a termination.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Oh wow, so it sounds like your your particular company
has definitely a stract list of rules as as it
applies to these people that you interview and interview.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It does, it does, and we try to give them
a little bit, a little bit of leniency concerning what
they have to deal with. But a lot of the
infractions have to do with medication, handing out medications as
easy as tardiness or the in between.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
I'm sure, and I understand you don't want to give
too much information. I'll tell you some of the texts
that are coming through. Here's someone who got written up
and fired. Then I went down to corporate, told them
the story. They hired me back and fired the person
who fired me. Oh oh wow.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I hope that never happens to me.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, gosh. A lot of people are responding to this
on text. Do you guys see these things? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (05:38):
This is wild though that only works one way. You
should be allowed to write your company up to when
they violate you.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, you we do have.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
We do have where they can go.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
We can go to corporate on us and write a
complain about us if they feel that they were injustly
put into the office.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right, don't don't remember when iHeart took away are twenty
five cent colon machine.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, we're very upset.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, well yeah, this was a big thing here we
can get soft drinks for twenty five cents, and then
one day said no, no more, it's gonna be a
dollar twenty five. We're like, no, we will pick it.
And they they heard us, they heard they heard our angst.
What's that? Froggy? This is like, no, you can't write
me up.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm writing you up, Like, oh, really, you don't like
things about me, but let me tell you what I
don't like about the company.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
There you go, and you're gonna sign this a frogg out.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yeah, And unfortunately that can happen where I work.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
So all right, well, hey Melissa, working in HR, that's
got to be a tough job, especially if you work
for a big, established company with a lot of employees.
I mean, does that take its toll on you?

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Sometimes it does, because there are a lot of employees
that I really do like, and I hate having them
come in the office and sitting down and talking to them.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Right, It's like, hey, I hate to do this, but
here we go. Yeah. Look, Melissa, thank you for sharing
with us. We appreciate you listening, very very much. We're
going to write you up and put something nice on
the Melissa record.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yay, thank you.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I love all you guys. Well, thank you Melissa. You
take care Ritney. Oh this is we have a fresh
one online twenty Brittany was written up for the first
time just last week. Let's find out more, shall we?
Hey bring back? Well, welcome to Wednesday on the show.
And I don't know if you want to give too
much information, but you just got written up last week.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yes, I've been with the company for ten years.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
And they've been pulling me in the office for the
past four months like, hey, you mess up on this,
you mess up on this, you're not paying attention. And
there were all different mistakes every time. And then they
were like, listen, we're writing you up because you're not
paying attention. It's like, are you serious, Like, I'm thirty?
Is this is a thing you want to put me

(07:51):
on time out too?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
While you're at it?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I know, stand in the corner. You go, stand in
the corner, young lady, and think about what that does see.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
And then the biggest thing that I'm dealing with right
now is they the person that wrote me up. They
did like a two page statement on behalf of the meeting,
and I said, okay, like just for my own records,
can I have a copy of that for like, No,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yep, Yeah, I don't know, I know, but all at all?
Do you like your job? Do you do you like
where you're working?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
I mean, I've been questioning it the past two weeks,
but I'm trying to hang in there. You hang in there,
hanging Sometimes your place of work had like what they
had in school back in the day, like that chair
in the corner and you had to sit in it
and face the wall.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Oh I sat there a couple of times.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, We've had people on our show who
had to sit in the corner stair for a while. Hey,
thank you for listening to us, and good luck at work, Brittany,
good luck to you.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
All right, a question from Scary then we have one
more call, go ahead, Scary. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
I mean, so when you get written up, it's like
a lot of a lot of times it's in subordination.
But some people they have performance goals to meet, like
like a sales team for instance, they get like a
they have put on a performance improvement plan. Can we
be put pipped, like put on a performance improvement provement plan,
like I'm not I didn't break.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
Any rules, like you need to be funnier.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
I'm a good soldier, right exactly do we have that
in what we.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (09:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
The way you can do it with sales is each
individual person has individual numbers they have to hit. We
work as a group, So I can't put Danielle on
report because our ratings suck. I don't know. I don't know.
I think it's a good question, but that's kind of hard.

(09:37):
We're impipable. No pipping going on. Finally, Andy online five
got written up. Oh my gosh, Andy, tell everyone why
you were written up? At work?

Speaker 6 (09:47):
Well, I was working for a very high clasfee hotel.
Me and the girl that run the front there at
the time. I was in mitenes and the girl ran
the front desk. We wound up looking up at work
and behind the front desk, and she told one of

(10:08):
her friends, and her friend went blabbing the HR.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Oh no, why would someone do that. I mean you
were behind the desk. I mean, come on, seriously, and
you're working in maintenance. You're just in there maintaining you
know what I'm saying, they will see.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
Well, I wouldn't sign the write up, so they terminated
me at the time.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Oh that's not fair. It takes two to tango behind
the front desk. Hello, is she still there?

Speaker 6 (10:38):
No, she was terminated also now she's a debuty sheriff.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay, wow, that's good. She landed under her feet, so
to speak. And how are you doing it? Did you
find another job?

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (10:52):
Yes, I work for a big corporation now where I'm at,
and I'm doing really good for myself.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well will you ever have sex with another employee behind
the desk? Or is that? Is that a thing from
the past?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
The past?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay? Well, I love your story. Andy. You sound like
you have a great spirit. And sometimes we need to
be terminated from certain places so we can find a
better life, and you obviously have one, you know. Thanks
for listening to us, man, thanks for sharing. That was great.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
What about the time that Nate snuck in and started
railing someone on my board where I work every day
and someone saw it? Elvis, we have got to take
a commercial break here.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Can you still get written up for that now?

Speaker 6 (11:37):
Now?

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Years later?

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
The things we've done, I know, but you can't do
that now because these wheatstones will catch on fire.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
It's funny if you think about the things people have
gotten written up for around here versus the things they
have not gotten written up for around here.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
It's there you go. All right, let's get into the
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