Phone Tap: Go Back To College

Today's Phone Tap victim just found out a juicy piece of office gossip...a coworker got fired for lying on her resume! She thought that wouldn't affect her...that is until we pose as HR with some pretty big questions about some of the things she CLAIMED about her college "experience". Is she SURE she wasn't lying too? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning, and today we

(00:02):
prank call a woman who just found out a juicy
piece of office gossip. Do we get to know it too?
I love. One of her co workers told her that
the company had to let go of new hire because
corporate found out they'd lied on their resume. So wait,
they actually find out that's not so how does that

(00:22):
affect her? She's worked at the company for almost a decade,
so it shouldn't unless we pretend to be from HR.
Oh no, and say we found a discrepancy in her
files too. That's what happens in your phone tap right now? Hello?

(00:43):
Hi is this Andrea? Yeah, Hi Andrew, This is Troy
mc stiff from HR. How you doing today? I'm all right?
How are you good? So you may have heard we
had an issue recently with an incoming employee who falsified
part of their resume. Yeah. I heard something about it.

(01:06):
Yeah wow, And what did you think of that? Pretty scandalous? Huh,
it's not great. I'm gonna put that in the company newsletter.
That's a great quote. I write that down. You don't
need to write that down. I'm not being serious. So
that's fine. I'm just I'm gonna make a note of it.
That was good. So because of that incident, management has

(01:27):
directed us to do a company wide records review and
your name actually got flagged. My name not flagged. So
what So when we cross reference your transcript from Valley
State University, everything looked great except one of the electives.
You took music theory one oh eight, taught by a

(01:48):
professor Handleman. That was a long time ago, right, But
the transcripts, I mean they stay forever, and it says
that you got a C minus in that class. Have
you done music theory? It's very hard. I mean, I'm
in HR, so I took classes that would actually make
me money in the real world. Excuse me anyway, Unfortunately,

(02:13):
our internal education standards does require a C grade or
better in all general course works. What does that mean?
It means there's a chance that your time with us
could be over. And so you're calling me about a
chance because I got a C minu because it's over
a decade ago, right, But I mean, listen, I would

(02:36):
feel the exact same way that you would. So you
understand that this is absurd. Well, rules are rules, and
I went to a harder college than you did. But
I'm not here to judge. I'm here to offer you
a solution because if you would like to stay with
the company, and it sounds like you do, you're asking
me if I want to keep my job after all

(02:56):
of the time that I've put into this place. Yeah,
what's your solution? That's a great attitude. So you can
fulfill the requirement by taking one approved course from our
local community college partner. You want me to go back
to school to make up for a music theory c minus?
If you want to stay employed with our company, then yeah,
this is ridiculous. Well, look, I have the course list

(03:19):
right in front of me and they've definitely updated the offerings.
This is crazy. Here's the options that would count toward
fulfilling that credit. Oh okay. One option is advanced whistling
three oh one from folk Tunes to Fleetwood Mac. I
don't whistle? You don't whistle? No? Is it? Okay? If
I mark that down in your personal file that you

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can't whistle? Okay, got it. Let's go to another option here,
Emoji linguistics two A four what nonverbal rage and digital
sob cries? That can't be a real class All right,
I'm just gonna mark that as a no. And there's
another option here, a class called uku la rage, subversion

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and soft strings in protest music. You know, I've got
a lot of rage right now. Maybe that's the one. Okay, great,
that one meets twice a week on beanbags, So can
I mark you down for that? No, I don't understand
any of this. I'm not agreeing to anything over the phone.
You call me out of the blue and tell me
that I could get fired because of a class years

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and years ago that has nothing to do with my job,
which I'm very good at. No, I need all of
this in writing. I don't know you. I don't know
what this is about. Okay, by writing you mean emojis,
I mean a detailed letter. Okay, we're obviously not seeing
eye to eye on this, Andrea, So no, obviously not.
Maybe the reason for that could be because this is

(04:44):
a prank phone call. So what maybe not? Oh my god,
who did this? Your friend Casey did it? Because this
is actually jeff from Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.
Oh my god, I'm gonna kill her. I'm gonna kill it. Yeah,
she told us that there was a person in your
company who lied on their resume and it caused a

(05:06):
huge problem and had to let them go. And so
that's why you knew that. Yeah, of course you had
the lowdown, But honestly, I was hoping that you were
going to sign up for that ukulele rage class. That
sounds fun. I mean, it's not completely out of the question.
After this call, weeke up. Every morning was fum taps

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weekday mornings on the twenties, Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,