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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My coworker exploited church funds and then cheated on her husband.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
I didn't read that one in the Bible.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
So, as I have stated before, I have, for lack
of a better word, lived a very interesting life. Oh
the stories I can and will tell. For now, though,
I have to stick to the time I worked for
a small Catholic newspaper, which is a weird thing to
do in your life, honestly for Catholics. Yeah, that is
a strange Not a lot of people probably do that.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It is, It's like a that's a very random, joint
niche job. By the way, this comes from user sayer
Song and if you want to submit your stories, you
can do it on the r slash okay storytime subreddit.
So now just a disclaimer, I myself am not Catholic,
but luckily at first that did not stop me from

(00:50):
being hired. This was both a blessing in that it
paid the bills and I got to do what I
loved as the sole graphic designer, and a curse in
that I worked with over the top people, including one
that kept trying to convert me, a woman who was
the epitome of being a Karen. Years before being a
Karen was even a thing and a man who was

(01:11):
a deacon who literally spearheaded a campaign with a subordinate
of his to gaslight me and then went on to
harass another female worker as well, along with stealing commissions
from yet another subordinate. This is a very ethically ran
Catholic newspaper.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Oh my gosh, you guys have too much trust in
these people. Just because you are a Catholic doesn't mean
you aren't still human that you aren't Wait, because you
are a Catholic doesn't mean you're not a human, because
humans are do crazy stuff all the time. Oh I,
oh right, exempt you out gotcha.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I was thinking more in the context of like they
were lizard people or something. So this story involves the
Karen whom we will be calling Rachel. Rachel had been
hired as a secretary and additional receptionist. We were a
small office of ten to twelve people max at any
given time. When she came on. She was married and
had a child like me. She was initially not Catholic,

(02:09):
but later became Catholic. Interesting. I mentioned this because it
is important in the grand scheme of things. See the
only reason she became Catholic, and she openly admitted this
to me and others in the office that were all
Catholic and had been for most of their lives. Is
because she found out that by her and her son
being Catholic, she could get the church to foot the

(02:31):
bill for her sending her son to a Catholic private
school instead of a public one. Oh my gosh, how
do we feel about that, Riley? Is that all in
the Lord's design? Dude? I mean free private school? Okay,
I don't know if it's private Catholic school.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, it's what's wrong with private Catholic school?

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I've heard a lot of things are wrong with private
Catholic school.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yeah, there's a lot wrong with the Catholic school.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Did you go to private ethic school?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Really?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
No, I'm not Catholic.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I mean I'm Southern. No, I'm not Catholic. Right after,
you were like, just if you're Catholic, does it mean
you're not human?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Sorry? Sorry, I'm not just sorry.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You just asked a guy from the South that's pretty
red neck of Catholic.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Are Catholic?

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Next?

Speaker 4 (03:22):
There probably are?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
But sorry?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
It didn't mean to sorry offend anyone or whatever. I
just thought you knew me better.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Hut.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
This is kind of crazy finding a loophole to steal
from the church. I mean, is it are we supposed
to help the homeless it's in like the books.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
I guess it stealing if it's in the books.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's like, oh, will if my husband and I are Catholic,
our son will be going to Catholic school. No, that's
not in but.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's sort of like it's sort of like the same thing.
It's like, if me and my wife are married, we
get a sweet tax credit, Like if you're getting married.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Through the government, not through the Bible, right, that's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
But it's if your reason for getting married is to
take advantag to the tax credit. Is that the same
thing as what's going on here with becoming Catholic to
get private school. It's just weird. She's just exploding.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It is funny.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
It is a weird thing.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
As someone who went to private Catholic school for majority
of his life, it's pretty messed up. Look at me,
like how it turned out.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I forget that that was a Catholic school. That's crazy, Okay, Anyway,
she did this because she wanted a private education for
her son, but didn't want to pay for it, so
she went through RCIA and had him go through RCIC
and the whole nine yards, and then told their church

(04:39):
that they couldn't afford to send him to Catholic school
and got the church to pay for it instead. Ooh,
so there's also some deception in line going on here. Okay,
never mind. So it wasn't it. It wasn't written in
the books. It was like it was like they're doing
a solid but they're like actively taking advantage of them.
So that's kind of lame.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I went to a church where they also had a
school and they did sponsor a lot kids that couldn't
afford it. I think the church that she's doing this too,
also has a setup like this, And you were denying
schooling and education from other kids because you don't want
to foot the bills. Yeah, that's pretty where. I'm like,
that's pretty whacked, dude.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Ah, yeah, you're going you're taking medable education now. So
Catholic churches will help parishioners that want to but can't
afford to send their kids to Catholic schools. They do
so by paying for the school themselves out of the
money that has been donated by other parishioners, so she
got what she wanted. This frustrated a fellow coworker when

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she found out because she had been their sponsor and
thought Rachel had been sincere in her wish to be Catholic.
During this time, Rachel made it all but abundantly clear
that she only plays Catholic when she needs to so
as to get what she wants or needs, like that
money for the school, but has no intention of actually
living the life of a Catholic. Now, I had no

(05:56):
intention of living life as a Catholic either, so I
can understand that heart. But then again, I never had
any intention of becoming a Catholic, and they all knew this.
Whenever Rachel's son needed to buy books or get money
for extracurricular activities or lunch money or field trips, Rachel
would immediately go to her church's parish office, looking her

(06:16):
poorest and most vulnerable, and ask them to cover the amount,
and they always did, again pissing off our fellow co
worker who was a member of the same parish and
had sponsored them.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
That is wild. That is so wild work in the
same office. This person's probably like giving an amount to
the church every month, and then this person is taking
that same amount giving to her son while laughing.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh dude, that's so. I don't know how I feel
about this. This is so I don't know. Son's still
getting private education's going to private school.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, Son's getting bribaby exitcration. That's maybe really could even
if she couldn't afford it, Sure, that should be it.
But she's she's abusing this, she's abusing this.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
She is. But the Catholic Church has never exploited anybody before.
I think this is different because this is a community.
This is a community. It is true. Yeah, you know,
you're exploiting an individual community and not like the Vatican itself. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
So it's kind of like the optics might be like, yeah,

(07:27):
slam dunk on the Catholic Church, but really you're slam
dunking on like your neighbors. Yeah yeah, that's yeah. So
m yeah, scumbag of Lee, A little bit of scumbagginis.
But it's still for like her kids' school technically, So
I mean she's just bad as that. She is using

(07:47):
a label to get what she wants. It is truth.
It's so We all knew that Rachel's husband made a
decent living, but a parent, he either didn't know what
she was really doing or didn't care due to what
would happen a few years later. I am guessing that
he didn't know and thought that his money was paying

(08:09):
for the school and all the amenities. Because while their son,
who was a nice kid actually and so is the
husband the few times I met them, and he did
love his family, the son was getting all this paid
for by basically everyone else because of their quote poor status.
Rachel was getting tanned and pampered. Yeah, Rachel had started
spending almost all her lunches either going to a tanning salon,

(08:32):
getting two hundred to three hundred dollars manicures and pedicures,
getting some tattoos on her ankles and wrists, getting her
hair professionally done and kept up on a weekly basis,
and getting spa treatments at least once every two weeks. Basically,
all the money she spent on her own personal upkeep
would have been more than enough to cover her son's
schooling at the private Catholic school. Oh my gosh, dude,

(08:54):
Oh my good god, So I see exactly what's going
on here. I see, I see.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah. No, it would be a completely different story if
she actually needed this money.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
So what made all this even more ridiculous is that
this woman went to tan so often that at one
point she went past the normal orangeist, leathery look and
started looking gray. Dang, I didn't know that, I kid
you not. She had gray undertones to her tanning, not
fully gray, just enough of a gray undertone to make
several of us question if she was starting to turn

(09:29):
into a zombie or something. Dude, that's a wild that
you you tan so much that you'd turn into an alien,
Like you just start becoming like meatp I do think
my coworker tried to tell the church, but without proof
that Rachel was actively trying to scam them, and with
Rachel proving that she was poor due to bills quote

(09:51):
unquote and them wanting to give her the benefit of
the doubt, nothing ever came of it. It, of course,
then came as no surprise, at least to me, that
later she decided her husband no longer made enough money
and was no longer worth her time, and decided to
actively seek out an affair because she wanted something better
solidified before fully giving up her cash cow as it were.

(10:13):
Oh wow, but that is another story that I will
tell later. And we have an update.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Whoa This woman is literally the beneath trash. She's like
the congealed goo that forms at the bottom of the
trash can over time. She's a wolf wearing sheep's clothing.
I don't even think. I think a wolf is too
much credit. A wolf is too self sufficient. She's literally
leeching off of both her husband a leech, and the

(10:42):
Catholic Church a leech wearing sheep's clothing. She's just a
slimy leach at the bottom of a stinky pit from
the King Kong movie from two thousand and six.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's that's kind of crazy. And as this is another
thing hopefully someone can do. But as brother and sisters
in Christ, they're supposed to call each other out on
their bs. I'm supposed no one's really called her out
on them. They did, they did, but there's no there.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
They tried to go and call her out, but because
there was like no real evidence that it was fake
and that like they gave her the benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Like yeah, hmmm, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I would, Yeah, I would be nothing ever came of it,
but I would continue to for sure. Yeah, let's get
into this update. Okay, update. So I have previously mentioned
my coworker Rachel, from when I was working at a
small Catholic newspaper, and how she had basically conned the
church into footing the bill for her son's education, something

(11:41):
she and her husband could afford to pay out of
their own pocket, while spending the money she had on herself.
I mentioned that I did not and do not believe
that he knew about this at the time, and here
is the reason for that. Oh boy, I feel the
need to once again reiterate the sheer entitlement of this woman.
I mean, you could fill an entire mountain range with

(12:02):
her entitlement and audacity. You see, as time went on
and Rachel got more tanned, got her tattoos, which admittedly
were nice ones, got her expensive manny petties, and her
almost care and haircut, she also decided that her nice
husband was just no longer worthy of her. She began
complaining constantly about how he didn't make enough money, that

(12:23):
she felt she was now too good for him, and
how she had previously dated a local, well known business
owner that she was sure she could still have even
though that business owner was now married. Not necessarily a lie,
as everyone in the area knew this business owner had
a propensity for having extra maital affairs, which was sort
of an open secret. Okay, this is a gross.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
This is gross as a receptionist of a Catholic newspaper
when you have like two cents and realizing and reading
the room that maybe you shouldn't be sharing these things
with your Catholic members who are also funding your child's education.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Whoa, yeah, who I think you can see.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
What doesn't make sense is you exploiting the church but
also being dumb about it.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Listen as someone again who went to Catholic school, private
Catholic school, there's so much drama in it.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
It's so dumb.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
It is great.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I've been a part of it, Like churches. The drama
is crazy that that's that.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Crap is a soap opera, And I'm like, wow, this
is why.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
This person feels like what this person just feels like
they couldn't not yap about their dastardly plans. Oh, no
matter what.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
They get, they love for some reason. Yea love you.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, yeah, so she then started bragging that she could
have any guy she wanted, and would even mention that
she was going to go onto dating sites, which was
This was before Tinder and what's happened when you had
match dot com and e harmony?

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Of course, just say WhatsApp is a dating site?

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I guess is it?

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I don't know what that s as you messaged people
through it kick.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Of course, she would stop the cheating talk whenever her
son was around. Since it was an individual building with
a small staff in a decent amount of space, we
weren't allowed to bring in our children if we needed to,
especially since everyone's children tended to be well behaved and
were old enough at this point to keep themselves busy,
and no one really took advantage of this. So her son,
who was a pre teen, would come by the office

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after school on a lot of days and wait for
his dad to pick him up. During this time, however,
while she would stop with the cheating talk, she would
still make thinly veiled insults and derogatory comments about her
husband in front of their son, who would try to
ignore her, but you could see he was uncomfortable with it.
When her husband would come pick the son up. She
would always find something to criticize the poor man about.

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He was a couple of minutes late, literally like two
to three minutes late once and she blew up at
him in front of everyone. He didn't pick up an
earlier call fast enough. He was supposed to grab something
from the store, but it was wrong. He wasn't dressed
nice enough. He was in casual clothes on a day off,
but it was still decent looking. He was dressed too

(15:08):
nice if he had just gotten off work. Not bright
enough or smart enough, et cetera. I mean literally, this
woman was doing everything in her power to emotionally wreck
this man, who was a very nice man. She even
stated that he was always treating her nicely, and it
irritated her because it made her feel like he wasn't
a real man because he remembers birthdays, anniversaries and got

(15:32):
her flowers or presents, et cetera. Meg Fellaws, we just
can't win out here. Oh my god, too nice. I'm
gonna add that to the list of IX. Too nice, breathing,
not real man, too nice, wear seatboat, oh looking too good,
not looking good enough, smelling nice? Ick joy dude, people,

(15:55):
I wish I had a guy in my life that
would treat me half as well as this and treated
Rachel this behavior would get worse all the time. At
one point, she got mad and spent the entire day
at the office ranting and raving uh because she tried
to make him jealous over a stranger and he didn't

(16:15):
attack the guy. That would be like common sense, by
the way her making him jealous was to gush over
the way the guy looked. Instead, her husband just seemed
defeated by her comments. At this point, she had eroded
away most of his confidence and he walked away. Now,
but yeah, can you imagine like systematically, like just degrading

(16:38):
and devaluing your husband to the point where he has
no confidence in himself And then you literally openly like
gush and flirt about another man in front of him,
and he goes, I guess that's just me again, probably
my fault. And then you go, why isn't he sticking
up for why is it now? Why didn't he attack
that man? Dude?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
This woman's get a reality check soon.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
First of all, what do you mean why didn't he
attack that? Do you want your men to just go
out here racking up felonies because of stuff. You're saying,
who do you want? A angry gorilla probably like, well,
who are you looking for?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Anyone but her husband?

Speaker 1 (17:20):
I think so. I think she's just so. Her brain
has become rotten with entitlement.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
My take, she got away with doing something kind of
like eow, and she's got addicted to it. She will
just see how many more things she can she can
like get away with, like ooh, I can get away with.
She's addicted to being a nasty lady. Yep, and no
one's telling her stop. No one's own her dang.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah so oh. Now, by this point, she had really
started running their finances into the ground with all her
me me me pamperings and purchases, and he has finally
started to notice and get some of his shiny spine back.
He starts insisting that she cut back on spending. She
can't stand this, so she decides she needs a real

(18:08):
man who makes real money and will lavish her with
anything she wants at any given time. Enter a fair partner.
We're gonna call him Alfredo.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
She might, I mean, he might get a name soon.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
I'm just ap just made me think, Alfredo, we.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can do Oflfreido like Alfredo Antonio.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Pierce Antonio Piers. Uh, she finds the perfect Patsy if
you will, though I am still not sure who was
really conning or using who in this relationship on one
of her dating sites. Only problem is that he's from
Canada and we are Midwest USA. So start the long distance,

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fully emotional affair. She would gush about him at the office,
print it out the photos of himself that he sent her,
and talk about how wonderfully attentive he was, how attractive
he was, and how quote rich and successful he was.
Please know this is important. Later I see you in
the freaking chat dude, and I really hope this is
what I think it is.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Did you see this conspiracy theory? I like this one
conspiracy theory.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
She wants him to get mad get arrested for assault
and then she can claim he's abusive and clean him
out in the divorce.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
I mean, maybe that could be her devilish plans.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
No, this guy's about to come in say, say all
the nice things he wants to say, and clean or clean,
get all the money out, make or move out, make
or move in with him, and they could take all
their money.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
So now, I myself have been trying some online dating
and even in person matchmaking business around this time, so
I was already having enough issues with the messes I
had to clean up from the creeps I kept attracting,
some of which were downright frightening. So I will admit
that I was already jaded with the belief that there
were a lot of scammers and liars that would use
these venues to prey on easy target. Thus I was

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probably more than a little biased for this next part.
Feel free to call me an a hole for it,
but I did not trust this man on any level.
It took her a while to even get the first
picture of him, and that first picture was almost a
glorified headshot like you see in a school yearbook, only
older like a teacher. Yeah. So, if it's not clear, guys,
this guy's about to scam her.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yep, that is a scammer super hard in Vancouver, Canada.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
It was apparently a very recent photo and he looked
very healthy in it. Again, this is important. Later she
said he was just getting out of a long marriage
himself and was going through a divorce, and so he
understood where she was coming from. In regards to her
own currently still ongoing yet unhappy marriage. After a few
months pass and many more picks of him looking fine
and dandy, I come into the office one morning to

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see her standing by the copier in tears, utterly despondent
the reason he had given her some bad news. Apparently
he had been trying to out how to tell her
he had brain cancer in six months to live. Yeah.
Uh again, I am probably the ale here and definitely

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jaded by the liars I have encountered and seen my
friends encounter because I had an X and two of
my three friends had x'es by this point, who had
all three at different points in time, pulled the I
have cancer card to either try to guilt us into
continuing to date them after we had broken up, or,
in one friend's case, as an excuse to break up
with her. That which is that you have three different friends,

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have that happened to them? Yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
They probably all got the same magazine of how to
break up with a girl or how to get a
girl to get back with you, and it all of
a sudden mentioned cancer.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Bro. You know what? That actually is probably true because
back then around this time, I'm guessing this is like
early two thousands, before like the advent of like meme culture,
and like the modern internet had like taken hold. So
it's like something like that like floats around and then
it becomes like the one thing everyone knows and uses.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Because this has happened today. Have you noticed whenever you're
waiting people say thank you for your patients rather than
sorry for making you wait?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Have you noticed that I have not.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You'll notice it whenever someone's like, you're waiting, like, thank
you for your patience, They're not gonna say sorry for
waiting anymore.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
That's interesting. I think I think I can. I kind of,
I think I can. Yeah, I think I know your tales.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
I realized that it's happened five times to me, and
I've realized that as well. And I come to the conclusion, oh,
you must have saw the same Instagram realized all, oh.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yeah, it's like, well what because it takes it. Oh no,
it's a compliment. Now they're a patient.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
I have just complimenting them.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I am patient. Yeah, instead I mean like, yeah, I
did have to wait. I hate you, But.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Dude, this is crazy. How can she not know? I
guess catfishing didn't get its definition until like a few
years ago or whatever. What do you mean, Well, like
people didn't didn't know about catfishing, didn't think it.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Was everyone, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Literally a show on MTV in the two thousands called Catfish.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Sorry buddy, sorry, it's ahead of your time.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Well okay, but.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
We didn't really probably not a common thing. I don't
think it was a common thing, so I was. I
wasn't very conscious in the two there.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
It did become a bigger problem when the Internet became
a vehicle for for dating. Yeah, and then it became
very easy alive out your appearance and YadA, YadA, YadA.
So to get back to this, which, by the way,
I'm in the camp that this person's lying about brain cancer. Okay,
there's no way this is real. This guy is scamming
this person and is going to ask for money soon.

(23:39):
Watch it. So Also, I've had previous co workers and
family with cancer, and when it gets that serious, they
did not look that healthy. I tried to tell her that,
but she refused to believe me. She said he wanted
to come see her soon so that they could consummate
their relationship. Quote before it was too late, so I
just shut up about it, but refuse to trust in this. Yes,

(24:00):
I was positive that sooner or later the other shoe
would drop. Anyways, she bought him tickets to come see her,
paid for a hotel for him to stay in. Now,
remember that this guy was supposed to be rich and successful,
but apparently all his money was tied up in his treatments,
his divorce and all this other stuff, and he couldn't
pay for anything. I began to see a bit of

(24:22):
karma here. So he comes to visit, which did surprise
me and make me feel a little bit guilty about
thinking he may have been taking advantage of and scamming her,
especially as he did actually match the photos he had sent.
And she brought him to the office along with her son.
Whoa boy, How was no one saying anything.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Like her?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
What?

Speaker 4 (24:45):
Well? No, no, no, no no.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
How was no one calling her out and firing her
from her job because she's a Catholic house That makes
no sense to me?

Speaker 1 (24:53):
And bringing your your brain cancer affair partner to consummate
your affair with your son. Yeah, to your work, Yeah,
where everyone knows you.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh my gosh, dude.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
They're gonna be like, are we paying for his Catholic
school too? Is this another one?

Speaker 4 (25:11):
S bro?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
So remember the coworker from the last post. She was
that was Rachel's sponsor to become Catholic. Well, she lit off.
She was the assistant editor to the paper and for
all intents and purposes, second in charge if you ignored
the actual diocese and focused solely on in office staff.
She reamed Rachel up one side and down the other

(25:34):
over this. She basically told Rachel that while she could
not tell Rachel not to have an affair, or what
to do or not do in her private life, she
could tell her that not only was it extremely inappropriate
to bring her alfredo to the office, but that as
a Catholic business that was family oriented, it would look
bad on the business as a whole. What if the

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archbishop walked in while Rachel was flaunting her alpha ffredo
around the office. Nope, as long as Rachel was still married,
she was not to bring Alfredo to the office. When
Rachel tried to talk to our editor about it, who
was himself a rather lean back guy, he just reiterated
what our coworker had told Rachel before. No Alfredo in

(26:18):
the office. She was not happy, but he never came
by again. Anyway, The trip lasted a week or so,
and another few months of her flying him out on
her time and him needing assistance with this brand new
miracle treatment that cured him of his cancer. All heck
finally broke loose. So remember when I mentioned that her
husband had started asking her to limit her spending, Well,

(26:41):
it turns out that he had also started paying closer
attention to that spending, even more so after Alfredo had
started coming twice monthly weekend visits, and he was not
happy with what he discovered, namely that all the money
he had been giving her for their son's education was
not going to the school was still having the church
pay all of that, but that now she was spending

(27:03):
more on online dating sites and then to bring her
Alfredo from Canada once or twice a month for a
weekend at a time. I guess he must have wanted
to wait a while to get all his ducks in
a row, because he never actually confronted her about it.
What I do know that she got a bit worried
at one point that her husband was distancing himself from
her and seemed to have become very cold, but she

(27:26):
couldn't figure out why, because she honestly believed, yes, she
stated this that quote, he was too stupid to notice
her having an affair. Now the stupid is on the
other foot, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Ah Wow, that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Ah. So one fine fall day it happened. I was
in the back in my office eating lunch while reading
the non Catholic paper. As the graphic designer. I had
a large room with three computers from my own workspace,
because it would become the space where we would put
the paper together, and when deadlines would loom, several people
might all be back there at once, So essentially I

(28:07):
have the largest office in the building all to myself
most of the time. When I heard a scream issued
from up front. When I say everyone came running out,
I do not jest. This scream had to have been
heard in India, and it wasn't frightened or sad. It
was indignant and angry. We rush out to see a

(28:29):
gentleman in a suit leaving the building and Rachel clutching
a batch of papers, read in the face and looking
like she's trying to strangle a rock for blood. She
had just been served divorce papers when she was having
none of it. But hey, you know what, you can
have all of it, by the way, all of it
at your fingertips is full episodes with stories like this

(28:53):
that you can listen to at your heart's content. All
you gotta do is go to your favorite podcast platform
like Spotify right there, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, wherever you get
your podcasts from, and just search okay, story time and
go crazy, folks, go crazy, crazy woman.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
I don't know how long did she think she could
keep up with this? And when is she going to
realize this guy's not rich?

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Well, clearly she's an idiot. Not only does she think
her husband is too stupid to know that she's having
an affair, which clearly he was not, she's stupid enough
to fall for one of the most blatantly obvious scams ever. Yeah,
not only does he not have any money, he does
not have brain cancer and it was not miraculously cured

(29:39):
by a wonder drug that he now needs your help
to pay for. This woman is a great a Hey,
hey pal, you're just blowing from stupid town. Yeah, that's
what she is. She just blew. She was the mayor
of stupid town. Yeah, stupid town annexed itself and became
its own country, and she is the king of stupid town.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I just went to stupid town and didn't know how
famous she were there.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yet everybody in a stupid town knows about Opie's done. Yeah,
my god. Yeah, So let this be a lesson. Sometimes
you get what you freaking deserve, you know what I mean.
So if you're out there up to no good, I'd
reconsider it. Yeah, anyway, let's finish this story. So somehow

(30:28):
she managed to convince herself that she would be the
one to serve them the divorce papers when she was ready,
and she had not been ready just yet because she
was waiting for her Alfredo to propose to her. He
actually did propose to her a while later, again making
me feel guilty for thinking he was this gamer, and
with her own list of demands, et cetera. So among

(30:49):
the divorce papers were proof of her affair, which Rachel
did not see that coming. Now, you would think that
this would be the end and that Rachel would be
happy to let her unworthy husband go so she could
be with her perfect Alfredo. But no, if that were
the case, then Rachel would not be nearly in the

(31:11):
entitled person that she was. She was not going to
go down without a fight. She was going to prove
that she was the real victim in all this, even
if it meant trying to commit fraud and trying to
convince me to give her forgery lessons. But that, dear ones,
is a story for another day. Is that it? And
that is the end of that story.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Here we are, folks.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
So my entitled co worker asked me for forgery lessons.
Her name is Rachel, and her trilogy comes to an end.
Uh Okay. I have mentioned my entitled coworker, Rachel, from
my days working at a small Catholic newspaper before, but
for this and upcoming stories, I think it's time to
introduce the rest of the circus as it were. The

(31:54):
ones that were working there at this time are as follows,
and all names have been changed. People who work here
previous to this point and people who started after this
point will not be mentioned yet as they are not
relative to the story. The archbishop, our publisher, who did
not come to the newspaper office that often and really

(32:14):
doesn't feature in this story. But I wanted it to
be understood that yes, there are three people that are
editor answers to, as the newspaper is considered part of
the archdioces organizational structure, so they really are a part
of the Vatican who sanctioned by the archdiocey. So do

(32:36):
we feel as bad chat we still yeah, the money,
the money is coming from the community, so yeah, it's
still you're literally exploiting your neighbors and no one else,
which is you're literally just bypassing the Catholic churches exploitation
of your neighbors and you're just taking it direct. Yeah,
so you're kind of stealing from the church by stealing
from your neighbors, which is unhinged anyways. The other two

(33:01):
that the editor is also responsible for answering to are
the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor, who worked directly below the
archbishop but don't have any official newspaper titles. And then
there's Tom Are mostly beloved, if a little dense at
times editor in chief who was suffering some serious on
and off health issues, which is important as it explains

(33:22):
why so many rotten things happened under his watch that
he had missed. Then there's Jane Are then assistant or
associate as titles changed at one point editor associate editor
who also sponsored Rachel during her RCIA and switched to Catholicism.
She was basically the one in charge at this time,

(33:43):
as Tom was off and out of the office due
to his health issues. And then there's Roger, a deacon
and a newly hired advertising executive who had not yet
settled into his toxic, misogynistic, manipulative, thieving, gas lighting ways.
Yet he was still getting a feel for how much
he could get away with, and Jane was still able
to provide a nice buffer between he and I at

(34:03):
this point. Then there's Lindsay, a writer slash photographer. Marcy,
a full time employee who split her work between part
time writer photographer as well as part time advertising associate
working under Roger and Rachel. The longtime receptionist secretary who
shared duties with Gina and was extremely entitled. She had

(34:24):
a soon to be ex husband, a son, and an
affair partner who we all know as Alfredo Alfredo. And
then there's Gina, another receptionist secretary who shared duties with
Rachel and had been working there for about a year
and a half to two years by this point, also
worth noting that she was newly engaged to her longtime
boyfriend m Then there's Kathy, our office manager, and yours truly,

(34:49):
me the graphic designer. There were others that would come
and go at this time, but they were usually either
people that were tempts to help during peak printing times,
freelancers that would help write or take photo, or our
it guy that would come in as needed. Basically none
of them worked in the office on a regular basis. Anyway,
I digress cool. When we last left off, Rachel had

(35:10):
been served divorce papers at the office and she was livid,
to say the least, and she spent the next several
days letting us know this. Every day as she tried
to get things organized, she was yelling and snapping and
throwing a fit at us, at customers, at advertisers, at
pretty much everyone. She even verbally accosted a few priests

(35:31):
and a nun to complain about her horrible husband and
ask how she could stop this. Since divorce is not
readily recognized in the Catholic Church and an annulment is
usually needed, Jane constantly had to tell her to cool.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
It shoot and Jane, the person in charge, very bottom yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
At one point, she even started telling Gina that she
should just break up with her boyfriend and not get married,
as marriage was horrible, men were horrible and she wouldn't
be able to trust her husband and would just be
worthless like all the others. Mind you, she was still
singing the praises of Alfredo her a fair partner at
this point. Well, Jane finally had it, and the next

(36:14):
time Tom was in, who was the real man in
charge chief editor in chief, Jane went to him about
all of this because Rachel was actively trying to undermine
Gina's engagement and it was making Gina very uncomfortable. And
Gina didn't even talk about it all that much, but
even the sight of her engagement ring would set Rachel off.

(36:35):
Do has this place not heart about firing people? That's
my question? I don't think so. Is Rachel so good
at her secretary job that she cannot just be fired? Yeah?
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (36:45):
And she probably has buttered them up so much saying
I'm so poor, I have no money, Mike, what will
happen to my kid?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Get fired?

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Nerd?

Speaker 1 (36:54):
I don't care. You're bringing your fair partner to work
and telling people to break off their engagement.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah, like there's no moral check. That's what baffles me
about the whole situations.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Just selfish butthole anyway, So Tom called Rachel into his
office and basically told her that she had two choices.
She could stop snapping at everyone and stop trying to
convince Gina that marriage was bad, or she could just
quit now because if she didn't stop those two things,
she would be fired. There we go, all right, backbone Now,

(37:28):
She was smart enough to know that while Jane did
not have the authority to fire her, Tom did and would,
so she stopped snapping so much and stopped deriding marriage
in front of Gina. You'd think it would all be
good at that point, right, we would finally get a
break from all the drama. Correct. Nope, get your popcorn out, folks,

(37:49):
because it was about to hit the fan. Rachel had
decided to take all her pent up anger and frustration
and laser focus them onto one goal, and one goal only.
She wanted sweet, juicy revenge. So she just yeah, I

(38:10):
mean revenge would She does not have any right to
at all because she is the stinker what.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
She just loves evil and she feeds off of it,
and these nice, good people are giving her a place
to do that. That's like, why are you also evil?

Speaker 1 (38:28):
You'd think people of the Catholic Church would be quicker
to find that she's a little demon. In fact, not
a little demon, she's a big, stinky, ripe demon, a
ripe stinking demon. I'd smell her from three miles away. Goodness,
gracious you what's that?

Speaker 3 (38:43):
Oh it's just sorry, that was me.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Oh no, okay, So she decided to put all, and
I mean all of her energy into making her soon
to X the most miserable man on earth, though I
am pretty sure by this point she had already previously
succeeded now soon to be X, not being nearly as

(39:10):
stupid as Rachel thought, did stay in the house, and
Rachel was the one forced out, so she went to
stay at a hotel. I believe it was one of
those where you could basically rent it like an apartment
for a week at a time, no lease required, and
a kitchenette included. And they also split custody of their
son fifty to fifty during this time. Oh man, the children, no,

(39:30):
not the children, Oh God, so sorry that the kid
has to have this.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Ziz the kids, like going to school, getting your aids.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
So her being without her house, her access to his
money as he had cut her off from his paycheck
with the exception of a small bit for child support
even though he was not required to yet, and having
to use her own money to buy things all just
added fuel to the fire of her wanting to get
back at soon to be X. Yeah, that's that makes
sense instead of Oh, a perfect time to focus on

(40:00):
ourselves and grow and change. No, actually, I'm gonna channel
all of my energy into revenge, revenge which I do
not deserve.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
I am baffled by this woman and how her brain
is wired.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Her behavior tracks so far, her brain is wired by
like a team of blind chimpanzees. Yeah, just a loud,
angry mess and the fact that people are giving her
resources to keep continuing to do this.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
It needs to stop and like fire her, get her
out of there, kick her out of your house, don't
give custody of your kid.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
What. Well, it's fifty to fifty for now, but still she.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Shouldn't have anything to do with them.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
I would assume that it's probably going to get less.
I don't think they haven't done anything through the courts.
Yet it's all at the beginning. It's the beginning stages.
So anyways, though it was not initially much of a
revenge plan, as it basically consisted of her trying to
take him for everything he owned under the guise of
deserving both alimony and child support, and was positive she

(41:02):
could get full custody and the house. She decided that
while tanning and constant haircuts and dye jobs were a
continued must, she would forego the weekly manny petties and
twice monthly spa treatments. Instead, she started looking for lawyers
any that would explain to her that she was highly
unlikely to get alimony under the circumstances, as she had
been employed for several years, was not a stay at

(41:24):
home mom, and had a good enough skill set in
work history to remain employed or get a new job.
She would dismiss from consideration almost immediately she was going
to get her alimony. She did eventually settle on a
lawyer who was willing to do what she asked and
tried to bilk him for everything. I don't know what
that word means, look it up. So with that done,

(41:47):
milk bilk, I'm not sure is bilk like milk uh
bilk is to cheat out of something valuable, to cheat
to bilk him for everything. So with that done, she
started gathering all financial records, all past bank accounts, all
information she could get, and she started bringing all of
this paperwork to the office and anytime the phones weren't

(42:09):
ringing or she didn't have specific jobs that she had
to do, she would instead pour over all this information.
And that was when it happened. We were on the
second day of deadline our newspaper. Deadlines lasted three days,
and I had just finished pasting in ads to some
of the pages. We had not yet fully gone electronic
for our printing, so some ads needed to be pasted

(42:29):
into hard copy. Now, Jane, who would sit in the
back with me when I would lay out pages, so
I knew what stories needed to go on what pages,
had gone back to her desk, so I was back
there by myself. Rachel came up to me in a
bit of a rush, waited for me to turn to her,
and shoved the two papers in my face and asked, oh,
p do these two signators look the same. I stepped back,

(42:54):
completely confused, and looked at the two papers I noticed
that one was an official looking document with soon to
be ex signature at the bottom, and the other was
a plain piece of copy paper where soon to be
Ex's signature had been written about three to four times.
After a moment, I realized though, that it was not
soon to be Ex's signature, but attempts at soon to

(43:14):
be Ex's signature not the worst attempt I had ever
seen that someone trying to copy another person's signature, but
definitely not passable either. I looked at Rachel and asked,
did you try to mimic his signature? She nodded, and
I told her you failed. Anyone with any training is
gonna know they aren't the same, all right, which is

(43:35):
not what you should have said. You should have gone,
it looks identical, go ahead and use that on any document.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Go for it.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
It looks fantastic.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Yeah, well this is perfect.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
You should have my job as a graphic designer.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
That is beautiful, which I'm really hoping we have the time.
I hope that she freaking does this at some point.
Let's go. So then Rachel again asks, but do you
think it's close enough to pass for someone who hasn't trained,
And at this point, I was starting to feel very
uncomfortable with this line of questioning, so I told her
that I did not think it would pass Mustard with
anyone who was even slightly familiar with his signature. A

(44:11):
bit of a lie there, because I thought some people
not paying attention might fall for it. But I didn't
want to be roped into whatever scheme she was planning.
That's probably safest thing to do. Yeah, honestly, yes, but like,
come on, dude, you gotta inform. Someone needs to be informed.
Now that she's got a plan to fake signatures, let's
call the police. Yeah, forgery is not something I was

(44:34):
willing to get involved with on any level. I like
my freedom and do not want to go to jail
for any reason. That was when she asked if I
could teach her how to get his signature down. By
this point, alarm bells weren't just ringing in my head,
they were playing the complete eighteen twelve overture canons and all.

(44:56):
So I asked her what this was all about, and
that is when she told me she had been getting
some of soon to be Ex's male and among them
was a bank statement from a bank that soon to
be X had not used for years. It turned out
that he had an account there back when he was
in college before they married, that he had let go
into stagnation when they did get married because they had

(45:18):
combined finances and opened up a joint account and another bank.
Apparently at the time, he had less than a dollar
in the account and figured they would just automatically close
it after us at time so he wouldn't have to
worry about it, which for that time period was normal
for accounts under a certain amount. What neither of them
knew was that after he had stopped paying attention, the

(45:39):
school had apparently found a payment error and refunded him
a few thousand dollars, not much, but enough that when
years later, after having a lawyer going over everything in
search of anything she could use, Rachel had found out
about this long forgotten account, and she had called the bank.
Since she was still his wife, legally, she gave them
his name with her address so that she could get

(46:02):
a statement as to what was still in the account.
Her plan was to perfect his signature and send in
the paperwork for them to send her a check or
transfer it into her new single bank account. So that's
by the way, super freaking illegal on several different levels.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
And why is she explaining this to you?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Oh wait, no, it's it's maybe less illegal because they're
still technically legally married, but still wrong, still not wrong,
still not right, and I'm still sure pretty much this
is still fraud yeah, and ongoing divorce, Like not only
is you oh my god, this guy? Oh Rachel, you
sweet stupid idiot.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
How does this guy not know about this? What? What?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Ah? Yeah? Where's the bank? Dude? Banks? Hello, call me bank? Hi,
that was my account?

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Call me?

Speaker 1 (46:57):
So I tried to explain to Rachel that I did
not think would work and why one he would sooner
or later figure it out. She was insistent that he wouldn't,
and because he had forgotten he even had this account,
let let alone knowing it had any money in it,
that they would want to talk to him or see
him in person, and she said she could just have
Alfredo poses him over the phone, as she had soon

(47:19):
to be exi's social Security number and other info that
she could have Alfredo give them, and that it wouldn't
be able to be in person anyway, because it was
in a completely different state, half a continent away. She
was positive there was no way she could get caught,
but she really really needed me as an artist to
show her how to forge his signa signature properly.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
Okay, wt F TAMA. At this point, ultimatum, Rachel, you
better burn this idea and your idea freaking notebook in
the dumpster, or I'm telling your husband, your ex husband,
what is happening. You have to form You can't be
a bystander than this. You have to let him know.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
No. Yeah, but okay, good, I agree. I thought you're
gonna be like. The thing I disagree with is that
you tell me giving her the option. God, I wouldn't
even give her the option. I'd be like, yeah, I
don't know. That sounds like the worst idea I've ever heard,
and I wouldn't even try to do it. And then
I would immediately be like, beep boop pop, Hello, Rachel's
husband or soon to be ex husband. Yeah, guess who's

(48:27):
trying to do a fraud on you? I bet you're
gonna know? Yeah, oh absolutely, so yeah, I tell him immediately,
and I'd let her again. Think she's a freaking super
genius or whatever she thinks. I'm the most delusional person ever.
So yes, I probably could have technically shown her and
or done it if I had wanted to. But no,

(48:51):
as I said before, I don't like the idea of
being in jail. I don't want to risk that. My
sister once told someone that if she was going to
go to jail, be for a payout of millions, and
even that would still not be enough. I mean, if
you're gonna give me millions, maybe I'll go to jail.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I go to jail for millions for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
I don't think it works like that, but you know.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Well it better or I'm not going to jail. We
should dig more into that, how much. Anyway, let's keep
going there. You go, good job, I met later. We'll
dig into that later.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Proud of you.

Speaker 1 (49:29):
I feel the same way, especially since I was a
single mom of a six year old kid myself at
that time, who was helping care for her disabled parents.
So I simply told her no, that I could not
and would not help her. Now Jane had come back
by this point, as Rachel had taken the no and
somberly gone back up front, mumbling about doing it herself

(49:51):
and trying to figure out how to get the money.
Jane looked at me and asked what that was about,
and I told her. She looked at me as though
my head had just flown off. She was like, wait, wait, wait,
wait wait, she asked you to commit a crime. I said, well,
technically she asked me to bet a crime she would
be committing. Gotta love opving technically sound here. She said,

(50:16):
actually she asked me to a bet a crime and
I'd said no, Colly, dude, dang oh my. So Jane
was not happy for several reasons. She said that this
was beyond unacceptable and would talk to her. I told
her that it was unnecessary, as I had already told

(50:37):
Rachel no, and that she would most likely get caught anyway,
but Jane insisted that she shouldn't have even asked me
in the first place. So she did talk to Rachel,
and while Rachel didn't actually apologize, she didn't get angry
at me. She did come back through to complain about
how Jane had apparently overheard our conversation and yelled at
her for that, saying she was not to ask people

(50:59):
to take part in legal activities for her divorce. Ever. Again,
thank you Jane for not ratting me out. Also again,
why is this person not being fired? Where what are
we doing?

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Just letting this?

Speaker 1 (51:13):
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Do you just like to tease so much? You want
to keep her around?

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Is out? What this is? I feel like that's the
plan here. She's recruiting coworkers for a criminal conspiracy. Fire her,
get gone, be gone out out, We're done. So. Jane
admitted later that since Rachel hated her by this point anyways,
she saw no reason to cause more drama with the truth,

(51:39):
so she told Rachel she had heard the entire conversation
from the hallway, taking the full brunt of Rachel's anger.
Rachel never did ask me about forgery again, though, and
while I do not know whether she got that money
or not, it was never mentioned after that. She continued
on with insisting on getting what she wanted, and that
was bleeding soon to be x dry spoiler alert. She didn't.

(52:02):
She did get some small amount of child support, but
that was only because she got sixty to forty custody.
I think, which that's insane. How is she swinging forty
percent custody? I've no idea what and let that be
just a little evidence. Man, the courts do not always
treat people equally. Yeah, that's crazy that she's able to

(52:26):
make an argument on paper that she deserves any custody
for this kid.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Yeah, or money, but no alimony.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
She also did not get the house or all the
other things she thought she was owed. She did eventually
get engaged to Alfredo, who was now allowed back at
the office during his visits. Should he be visiting during
that week, but only to pick her up or drop
her off, and he showed up with a large, shiny
engagement ring. No, I don't have proof that he paid
for it or that it was real, so there was

(52:54):
still some possibility of scamming, since she was not divorced
yet at the time the engagement occurred. But by this
time Rachel's time at the paper was starting to run
its course. She was burning bridges, as it were, and
when she went to leave the office one day, she
did not pay attention to where she was backing up
and backed into Gina's fiance's car, which Gina had borrowed.
She came running in, demanding that Gina and her fiance

(53:17):
pay for the damages to her car or she would sue.
It's worth noting here, by the way, that Gina's fiance
was a lawyer. And it was shortly after this incident
that Rachel's time at the paper ended because no one
was willing to put up with her entitled nonsense anymore.
Think can you go actually imagine we're it like running

(53:37):
into someone else's car and then being like you, your
car was parked outside, you need to pay me being.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
A freaking lawyer. Can you imagine working with someone like
this outside of a Christian workplace and having her do
all this crazy stuff? If we ever worked with anyone
like this, they would not really, they'd be gone immediately.

Speaker 4 (53:58):
They would be gone after.

Speaker 1 (53:59):
Like the first dured, like the second second. Sometimes people
could they get it with a second chance? Right, Yeah,
we give second chances for a second chance. Not we're
nice unlimited second chances what so? So that's that. No,
I do not know what happened to her after this.
Facebook was not a thing yet, or if it was,

(54:21):
it was still college students only, and she did not
keep in touch with any of us. In fact, she
was cussing up a storm as she left, most of
it directed at Tom, Jane and Kathy, I think some
at Gina and Roger. And thus ended the saga of
Rachel and started a whole other saga of an ongoing
fight between Tom and Jane, and eventually led to Roger's

(54:42):
decision that it was perfectly fine to gaslight me because
I was apparently too good at my job. But those
are stories for another day. Dang, you keep on leaving
us with the cliffhanger, and there's an edit to add here.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
So some people suggested that I should google Rachel and
see if she's married or still Mary to Alfredo, the
affair partner. So I looked up some old issues of
the Catholic Paper. I couldn't remember her last name offhand,
and I had forgotten that she had managed to marry
him before she was fired, But she had his last
name during her last bit of time there. Okay, So

(55:18):
I looked up her name with the newly married name,
and oh, my god, I wish I had not Oh no, oh,
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
To hear this Alfredo's ago.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Here is the most concise update I can give to
what happened after she was fired. She still has Alfredo's
last name and is still using it as of four
years ago, the most recent info I could find on
short notice. Don't know if they are actually still married.
Or not. But I can say that four years ago
there was a road rage incident of which I am
loathed to put details here as this is considered a crime.

(55:53):
Let us say that she was fine, but others were
not so lucky, and her life has definitely gone down hill. Dang, No,
she said road rage. I think jail. I think to jail,
Fred Armison, jail, Happy night to jail, happiness jail. Yeah,

(56:15):
I think she got and her massive entitlement started showing.
She probably ended up ended up in some kind of
physical altercation with somebody. What happened to the kid to jail?

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Or we should have saw that the way she responded
to Jimma's fiance's car debuckle.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Sometimes people need to go to jail, and she sounds
like she needed to.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Go to jail and she did.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Holy Society praise a menace, a true masts.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I'm just baffled at this newspaper. No wonder they saw
because it seemed like Opie was not a fan of
them the way they treated her, but the way they
just let this bs happen and then treated her bad.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Yeah, where was the any any executive authority there at
the newspaper? Like nobody any critical things. Nobody was able
to make the call to let Rachel go. Maybe just
I don't know, maybe just a little bit earlier. Maybe
just a little earlier than like letting her commit like
criminal conspiracy in the workplace. Maybe let her go as

(57:20):
soon as she's bringing her Canadian affair partner into the
office with her, with her kiddy fire her immediately after that.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
Oh my god, I have no chance of coming back.
I would be firing her whenever I see her nails
done and makeup done all the time, like if her
hair is being pampered every single Oh my god. Sorry, sorry, no,
I forgot about the context of that, which is because
I was just like, you'd fire her for doing her
maid No, but it's with the context of her taking

(57:51):
money from the church and from the parishioners and saying
that she can't afford school or can't afford any of
the other stuff. Of course, as soon as it became
clear she was literally lying to steal money from the
organization that the paper belongs to. Yah, I think it's
that's grounds to probably fire. I think so baffled, baffled.

Speaker 1 (58:12):
So that is the end of that story and the
end of this episode. Which I deeply hope you enjoyed.
So if you love us, make sure you subscribe.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
We freaking love you.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
And we will for conceal you tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
This is an episode from Deep within the Archives.

Speaker 6 (58:32):
Time for okop Reelam, I'm ditching my grandma on her
birthday because what she did to me was way worse?

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Am I the a hole? Yeah, it's like she died.
That would be I mean she died on purpose on
my birthday. Wow, that would that would be the biggest
power move. Yeah, I'm going to ruin your birthday forever
by dying on it.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
But sam uh an even bigger power move. This was
a story submitted on our very own r slash Okop show.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
My goodness, I love it. Please keep submitting to our
slash Okop show so we can keep reading your delicious,
delectable story.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Right.

Speaker 6 (59:13):
I'm bravy, just pouring out of our mouths so big.
Shout out to cultural Flamingo three seventy.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
That is a great username. It is cultural Flamingo.

Speaker 6 (59:24):
Yeah, very very nicely done, So shout out to you,
op So. I female seventeen have a grandmother sixty one
which is turning sixty two soon soon I love my
grandma very much, an overall respect her until recently.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Yeah, don't respect your elders anymore. After this here we go.

Speaker 6 (59:45):
Yeah, we don't respect elders on this show.

Speaker 4 (59:48):
Yo, if you're bro, you're dead to us. Get out
of here. Yeah until wear over forty and then respect
us exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (59:57):
A few months before this, she never sign I did
it was me or understood where I was coming from.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
It's like she doesn't understand anything anymore. She keeps saying
who are you? She keeps calling me Claire, which isn't
really I've been dead for twenty five years. Oh my god.
She would always be moody and stuff, moody grandma. But
I didn't seem to be bothered by it. I always
seem to speaking of a Reddit post about how much

(01:00:23):
I've not bothered by it at all. It's just an
intrusive thought.

Speaker 6 (01:00:27):
I always seem to ignore it and just think it's
something in my head. She would always love me.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
That's probably true. Your grandma probably lost you.

Speaker 6 (01:00:34):
Maybe onto the backstory two months ago, I would say,
less than two months ago.

Speaker 4 (01:00:40):
I said two months ago that question. I turned seventeen.

Speaker 6 (01:00:45):
My mother begged me to spend time with my grandma
on my birthday, which I did not want to do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
Ew Oh, Grandma, I want to be seventeen again. I
saw my grandma and she gave me the dick ew all.

Speaker 6 (01:00:58):
I want to spend my weekend how I want to
spend it with a friend because my birthday was on
the weekend and I had school the next day. Yeah,
with all her nagging, I finally decided to go to
my grandmother's house. Anyways, worst mistake I ever made.

Speaker 4 (01:01:14):
She's like, oh, it's your birthday. Here's a Shannon niggle
to mass some.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
Jacks, Like this is the worst decision I've ever made.
Grand That day, I was supposed to get the Apple
Watch that I wanted for my birthday, but my.

Speaker 4 (01:01:30):
Grandma gave me a Rolex doesn't even have a computer screen.
That she gave me this thing called a patach whatever
that is? What is patach only a hundred thousand dollars watch?
I want to know what a pa tech is?

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
P A T E K.

Speaker 4 (01:01:47):
I don't know how much they are, but I know
they're expensive. Really. Oh yes, I'm like, who's pat Who's Philip?
What the fuck? Bro? PA Tech watch one hundred thousand
dollars seven hundred thousand dollars light work, flight work, five
hundred thousand dollars light work. It's not a tech Philip, nothing,
pat Philip. It's probably patic Felipe, but I'm gonna say

(01:02:10):
patic Philip. But tech Philippe, I think is the actual,
like legitimate. Yo, how much, dude? It's so expensive they
don't even put the fucking how much it is on
here exactly seven hundred K light work, seven K four
hundred for a watch steal? Yo, it's a steal. Oh,
p are you kidding me? No, there's no. She didn't
get a a tech. I was saying that jokingly. You

(01:02:32):
were sitting here thinking she literally got like a million
dollars I wanted I was. I was adding in my
own uh wow, fictitious ad libation. Okay, ad libation. That
was just a word I made up for you, guys.
I love you so much. Libation. I was going to

(01:02:53):
be like, wait, does ad lib stand for ad libation?
Maybe it is short for something, but I'm sure it's
not ad libation. What does ad libs stand for? Abbreviation
of ad libatum ad libitatam I like and I don't
want to be in the car for much longer because
I get car sick.

Speaker 6 (01:03:10):
But again my mother still was nagging me to do it.
And the worst part about this is that I have
just gotten on my period. That does suck own. So
after being in the car for much longer than I anticipated,
I started crying, saying that I didn't feel well. Then
after my grandma came back, my mom told her my
grandma was mad at me the whole day, all about Grandma,

(01:03:31):
how I betrayed her, and that I am no longer
her grandchild.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
That seemed a bit mud. That is a massive overreaction, Jesus.
And what was the reason that she said you're not
my grandchild? Because she didn't like the watch? Because no,
because she was complaining.

Speaker 6 (01:03:47):
Basically the whole day, she like goes around with her
grandmother in this car, she gets car sick, she's on
her period, like all of these things are are adding up,
and then she's like, I don't want Yeah, you're dead
to me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
Yeah basically, but actually it's the reverse.

Speaker 6 (01:04:02):
The grandma is like you're dead to me after like, oh,
you're like not enjoying this whole day.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
You're dead to me. Yeah, you have to enjoy every
second thing. You want to not be carsick on your
birthday and hang out with your friends. No, it just
stands by time and on Grandma time. You're not having
a good tach. Just stop being carsick. It's so simple.
Just stop it. Tell your body no, stop being on
your period. Come on, turn it off. Turn it off. Obviously,
like a light switch is real. Click. It's at Mormon trick.

Speaker 6 (01:04:28):
I was about to say that sounded like a light commercial,
but it's the Book of Mormon. The reason why we
went out originally was because I had my Apple Watch
and it was to find her something that she was missing,
so they have it. I was so confused and I
was crying. I didn't understand why my grandma was so mad.
Then they told me that she was missing something, so

(01:04:50):
we went to the store to find it. I didn't
listen to the conversation because I had air pods on.
Is this an Apple commercial?

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Yeah? This is literally like I had Apple watched the
Apple Store and I had my AirPods on, and then
my grandma sent me an air drop. I'm like you, Grandma,
aren't you gonna go on iCloud and send me an email?
I don't want to use fine my iPhone for you.
I want to save it for me. Most integrated Apple
family ever.

Speaker 6 (01:05:17):
Seriously, the whole day of my birthday, she did not
want to spend time with me or even come to
an understanding with me, which I felt heartbroken over and
can never forgive her for. She didn't outright apologize, never
forgive I mean she did say that she wasn't.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
A grandchild anymore. That was crazy. Yeah, that was insane. Yeah,
ver much. My grandma didn't outright apologize or see what
she did wrong? Onto the revenge. No, wait, we're getting
revenge for this now. Hell yeah, I murdered my grandma.
You were old anyway. Grandma down the stairs and then
she reached for the life alert and I snatched it

(01:05:52):
and I said, who's not your grandchild? Now, Grandma? What's
their tagline? It's like something life alert. Oh you've fallen
and you can't kid enough life We're terrible. Okay, So
my grandmother is turning sixty two very soon. It's a
young grandma. It is young grandma. And yeah she's seventeen.

(01:06:14):
That is a young grandma.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
Her and my birthday are not fall apart. Rather kind
of close and my family and I like to spend
our birthday together.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
And you know, I'm gonna make it all about me. Baby.
That revenge though, oh so and I for an eye
makes the whole world block. What a plot and conniving genius. Sorry, Op,
we love you, Thank you for submitting your story. Appreciate
you submitting your story. Yes, but don't be too divindict
w Yeah exactly. Go go a little easy on her. Yeah,

(01:06:45):
she is old. She only has twenty twenty thirty birthdays left.
I'm going to go out and not attend her birthday.
I'm going to pretend like it's my birthday God enjoyed
with my friends. I couldn't enjoy my birthday because she
wanted to root it for selfish reasons. I'm going to
ignore her the whole time, and if anyone stopped me,
I'll remind her of what she did on my birthday. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:07:06):
I'm gonna bring a cake of my own and light
it with the number eighteen on it. That's amazing. Even
though I don't feel any any emotional attachment to her,
I do feel bad for doing this.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
But do you what do you say? Is this too
petty for revenge or not it's a little petty, opee,
it's a little petty. I think I'm more concerned about
than no attachment. I think I think literally both of
you guys are massively overreacting me because so grandma saying
that you're not her grainchild after not enjoying a day
out with her is the dumbest thing ever. Like people

(01:07:43):
have bad days. It is what it is or whatever.
You know what I mean, Like, let it go, but
you shouldn't escalate it just because your grandma did something wrong.
It doesn't mean that you should, like ye, give it
an equal and opposite reaction. Yeah, there's this lie where
it's like the best way to get revenge on your
enemies is to live a better life than them, Right,

(01:08:04):
that's true. And then it's like, if you're stooping to
the level of your grandma, then you're making your own
white life worse because being vindictive actually never really feels
good long term, or does it? Or does it sweeticus
stinge on your grandma or I guess she's not even
your grandma anymore because you have no attachment to that
peaceful garbageut freaking flabby skin, set that bag of bones

(01:08:27):
one foot in the grave and one foot prop cliff
once what in your birthday cake?

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Man? But you know where people should fall into, sam Oh,
they should fall into our subbrind at r slash Okop show.

Speaker 6 (01:08:41):
Slip and slide in there and just drop all of
your hot, juicy stories for it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Oh yeah, and then we'll lick it up and still
back out in the form of this podcast. Okayop. This
is Okayop. I'm Samuel's honor, and we tell the funniest
stories on REDDA and John. I have a title for you,
hit with It today. I fed up by accidentally injecting

(01:09:08):
my girlfriend with five doses of the COVID vaccine. Are
you just like super protected now? Like those anti bobbies
are just like where's covid?

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Let me at them?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
I got my baseball butt, I got my twelve pounds
of salami ready the wall of their boxes all day.
This happened a few weeks ago. Quick background, I'm in
my last year of pharmacy school. I'm currently bouncing around
doing rotations, which is basically free work at different sites hospitals,

(01:09:38):
big pharming companies, retail floors. Oh dam. But this most
recent rotation is in a grocery store pharmacy, where things
have gotten pretty hectic with the CDC given the okay
for everyone to get a COVID booster shot, which also
happens to coincide with flu season, which also needs flu shots.
I'm pretty much sticking people with needles all day every day.

(01:09:59):
So my girlfriend needs her phiser shot booster shot for
work and wants me to give it to her. Cute, right,
I tell her I'm happy to on this particular day.
For whatever reason, we can't drive to the pharmacy together
because our schedules don't line up. I have an obligation
in the morning, so I end up driving to the pharmacy,
arriving early in the early afternoon, and she arrives about
fifteen minutes after I do. On an average day, I'm

(01:10:22):
usually the vaccine guy yoh yeah, vaccine Yeah again. It
gives you the vaccine, and the guy that says hello
at the window went up thanks to vaccine. God takes
your insurance and stuff makes you wait forty five minutes.
I promise, I'm moving as fast as I can. I
love how OPI is like I'm trying row. I feel
bad because it's like I'm sure people are yeah, people

(01:10:42):
get something basically gives you the shot. So I'm used
to handling the whole process step by step at my
own pace, being as organized as time allows. I like
to set up my stuff in the morning before we open,
get all the paperwork in order, and have my ducks
in a row before the day even starts. So I
walk into the pharmacy in the early afternoon and it's
absolute unbridled chaos. People waiting for shots, knocking on when

(01:11:07):
some lady folkes her head under the plexiglasses starts asking
me about her Venla fax machine, which I don't know
what all what that is, et cetera, et cetera. I've
already flustered as hell and off my game because I
had a Cheryl waiting who's getting her second maderna shot,
pneumonia shot, and shingle shot, and also has three other
medications that need to be filled, so she's the whole dale.

(01:11:28):
And then we have Dave, who brought his four kids
for flu shots and also has his great aunt who
also want three COVID shots at once and has a
bruise on her arm, so she wants them in a rear.
In her rear, you can get a COVID shot in
your butt. Oh my god, these characters. Anyway, you get
the point. The pharmacy is going to hell, and I
am basket. Fifteen minutes later, my girlfriend walks in for

(01:11:49):
Pfizer booster. I'm very happy to see her, and I
tell her that she can do some grocery shopping while
she waits for me to get the paperwork together. As
I'm rummaging through a paperwork, one of the co workers fridge,
unbeknownst to me, pulls out an unopened vial of the
Pfizer vaccine and pops the cap. Some more background. The
Phizer vaccine comes in multi dose vials. There's a small

(01:12:11):
amount of liquid in the vial and you need to
dilute it with normal saline solution before drawing up the
vaccine into your syringe. Each vial has enough for five
doses after dilution. Here's where it all goes wrong. Oh God.
I turn around and draw per vaccine into the syringe
and see the open Pizer vial. My perceptive butt assumes

(01:12:33):
that since the vial is opened with no cap and
has a very small amount of liquid, and it must
have already been diluted, with normal saline and use, so
there's only like one more dose left, not five. Right. Again,
with me being extremely insightful, I decide not to double
check or confirm with anyone around me, which would have
taken about like one and a half seconds. Of course,
in reality, the vial had not been diluted yet, which

(01:12:55):
is why there was so little liquid inside. Oh my god,
everything else precedes. I give my girlfriend the shot, kissed
the boo boo, as I do with everyone because I'm
a professional, and go back into the pharmacy. A few
minutes later, my coworker asked me what happened to the
new vial she just opened, and it begins to dawn
on me that I have royally crapped the bed. If

(01:13:17):
you do the math with the delusion, I had just
given my girlfriend five full dozes of COVID vaccines. Oh
my five god. I injected this poor one hundred and
five pound girl with another vaccine juice to get her
through COVID twenty twenty one and twenty two. She was
still grocery shopping, so I ran over to her, trying

(01:13:38):
to hide the fact that I was crapping myself silly
and attempted to break the news to her in a
somewhat non panicked way, something like, hey, so there was
a bit of the dilution era on my part and
you may have received a bit more than intended. She
honestly took it really well. She just kind of went like, okay,

(01:14:00):
so what does that mean. I told her to expect
a wee bit of arm soreness and fatigue, and then
she strolled away to finish shopping. So meanwhile, I run
back to the pharmacy and call Pfizer asap. Everything I've read,
learned and googled has told us that this isn't the
hugest deal in the world, and it's not life threatening
or anything. But I just want to make sure I
cover my bases. So I called Pfizer and see what

(01:14:22):
happened before and what the outcome was after being transferred
like nine different times, I got a drug representative on
the line, and apparently, in all the millions of Pfizer
vaccines distributed worldwide, me and one other dude in New
Zealand are the only idiots stupid enough to bull of
stunt like that, which is so surprising. Millions millions of

(01:14:43):
COVID vaccines and no one's messed up. Also good, also
pretty good. According to the drug rep, severe arm soreness
is really the only thing to watch out for. The
rest of the day proceeded as usual, save for me
being extremely shaken from the whole ordeal. The pharmacists had
to fill out and submit an incident, which ironically I
filled out for him because he was so busy. I
realized it was probably going to turn out fine. But Craft,

(01:15:06):
if it was a different drug where the concentration did matter,
literally people can die from this Craft. Or what if
it was some random person instead of my girlfriend, they
would have sued the company into the ground. So my
girlfriend is the real victim of this story. She got
very sore from her arm that night, and the next
day she felt like a train wreck and spent most
of the day in bed, and you bet your ass.

(01:15:27):
I was waiting on her hand and foot. I was
bro yeah, you bet her. I was popping in the
bedroom every twenty minutes to see if she needed anything,
And after a few hours she told her just stop
bothering me. She took it like a champ, and she
was such a good sport about it. We joked that
any virus just immediately dies upon entering a twenty foot
radius of her. All things considered, the f up turned

(01:15:48):
out the best possible way it could. Nobody sued the company,
my girlfriend didn't make me sleep on the couch, and
I didn't get sent back to tenth grade science class
to learn about liquid concentration. The silver lining is that
in the future, I'm going to think about this situation
every time I'm working around vials and hopefully never make
the same mistake again. Wow, Man, five doses in one

(01:16:08):
because I thought I was gonna be like she received
for first two, No, five doses. That's insane. The thing
that's also craziest about the story that there's only one
other person that's ever done this, which so surprising awesome.
I mean, like, yeah, it speaks to just how good
these vaccine are. Straight is like incredible. If you haven't
already get your vaccine, man, yeah, COVID conscious. But anyway, John,

(01:16:32):
what do you got for me? Someone Like? I think
probably all platforms would would take it down if I
said this one thing, What did you say? I was
gonna say, uh, subscribing to our channel. There's probably some
sort of sensors everywhere at this point, yeah, I imagine
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