Phone Tap: Working Remote, WAY Remote

In your Phone Tap we call a woman who has been applying to work remotely from her job for over and year and although she’s now been approved… we have a WAY different definition of what “remote” means.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we call a woman whose dream is to be
able to roll out of her bed every morning, stay
in her pjs, and work from the comfort of her
home full time.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
What is it like?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
I know text in We will never know. At this job,
her company does not make it easy. Hardly anybody gets approved.
But she's filled all of her paperwork out, completed the steps,
and she sees the finish line. Now we just need
to rip it away from her.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
She is approved for remote work.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
We just have a different understanding of what remote means.
In your phone tap right now?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hello, Hi is this Diana? Yes, that's good morning. This
is Jim Gymnasium. I'm an administrative assistant here at Corporate
hr Oh. Hi, Hi, Sorry, how are you? I'm doing well?
Thanks for asking. I'm calling because I know this has
been a very long process for you, with feeling on

(01:03):
applications and all the hours and requests. But I hear
you've been wanting to start working remotely. Yes, you know
how hard it is for that to get approved of
this company.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yes, I do. Yes, I've been trying for a year now.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Wow, over a year. It's been that long. Well, I
feel even better than what I'm about to.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Tell you what is it.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
You have officially been approved for remote work.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, wow, thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
You're welcome. Yeah, so, starting next month, you'll begin working
from our remote offices in Antarctica. Just exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Antarctica.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
You've heard of it. What an opportunity. It's a beautiful there,
I've heard.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Okay, and I'm quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
A lot of time to think when you're working.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Jim, Jim, I do appreciate you calling let me know
that I've been approved. I've been applying to work remote
from home.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
That's what working remote from our company means. In this company,
you you will be very remote. It's hard to get there.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Definitely feels like I'm misunderating because I understand what you're
talking about in terms of remote work. But I assure
you at least half of the applications that I've been
filling out over the years says work from home remote.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Okay, No, I understand it. Sounds like you may want
to speak to maybe a supervisor or somebody about it.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I would absolutely Yeah, if you have a supervisor, I
would love to just get some clarity on this.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well before I transfer you over. Just think in your
head Antarctica. Right, I've never been, but I hear it's beautiful,
like polar bears and eels and glaciers.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Jim, did you just cancer me?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yes? My apologies police Hold.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Diana. Yes, Hi, who am I speaking with?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
This is Marcy white Head.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I'm Mercy.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah. My assistant told me you're having some issues with
remote work. Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
I was just on the phone with your associate, Jim,
I believe, and he wanted to let me know that
I've been approved for remote work, and then said that
the remote work would be taking place in your remote
office in Antarctica.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
A little.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Actually, it's a lot different from what I thought I
was applying for. I'm going to interrupt you right there.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I'm going to interrupt you right there because I see
the misunderstanding here. You know what, We're going to get
this resolved.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Okay, fantastic. Yeah, because I've been applying for work from home.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
And can you stop talking so.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
A lot of words?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Okay, let me look here.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
I think that was rude.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
Okay, I think you've been approved for remote work, so
i'd probably watch how you speak to your superiors.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Okay, I'm see we can send you.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I see the issue we can actually send you to
our office in Siberia actually would work better.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I'm really I really alright approved No, No, you're not understanding.
I don't want to work anywhere but from home.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
It's already been put through this system. So I want
to give you a couple of.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's already been put through the system.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, no, I'm sorry. What part of remote work means
sending someone off to Siberia. I've been following the guidelines
and applying for a year to be able to work
from home. I have so much Okay, and.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Again the yapping just on and off with that mouth
of yours. So these are some important items you may
want to write down.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I need to talk about this.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
One part of your company doesn't understand what work remote means.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
You haven't obviously looked at the employee handbook. It clearly
states that remote means as far away from the office
as possible.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That is ridiculous. I am not getting shifted off to Antarctica.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
Okay, no, not Antarctica. Remember we moved due to Siberia.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Whatever the point is, I'm not going there different.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Have you looked at the globe before.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Listen, I thought this was a done deal. I'm very frustrated.
I either need you to escalate the situation to someone
who actually knows what's going on, and.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, all escalate it, escalate it really quickly, and send
you right over to your roommate, Michelle.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
My roommate Michelle.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
What does Michelle have to do with this, Well, she.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Has everything to do with it, because she's the one
that set you up for this prank phone call? Are
you Yeah, this is actually Brooke and jose Hey for
booking Jeffrey in the morning. We're doing a phone tap
on you.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Oh my gosh, my heart in my throat, my stomach
is in my heart.

Speaker 4 (05:35):
I'm gonna we don't know, we don't know if you've
got to prove for a remote work or not.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
But maybe this will make.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
You feel better about going into the office. Oh my god, yes, perspective,
it changes everything. Wake up every morning

Speaker 3 (05:51):
With tap weekday morning on the twenties, frooking Jeffrey in
the morning.