August 19, 2021 • 7 mins
Gizelle talks about her first jobs, including taking doctors to strip clubs as a pharmaceutical rep!
Clipped from Episode 13: "Jobs Are Us"
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
My dad told me, like I think I was like
probably a baby, that his money was his money, and um,
I didn't have any money until I got a job,
so um, I had to get up out there and
get like, now, mind you, I don't want to like say,
my parents didn't like totally like give me everything under
the sun, similar to you. I like, you know, I
(00:28):
had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah,
this is my money, so um, which was aft. So
I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But
that was like the best thing he could have ever
liked taught me. And I try to instill that in
my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be
behind him everything. Um. But anyway, So at fifteen, I
went out and got a job at Heart Ease. That
(00:49):
was my first job, best eating up in town, up
and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I
don't know I made that up. So um, they realized
I was fifteen, like after the first week, they were like, girl,
you're too young. You can't work here because it was
like some child labor law. I thought I could. They
were like your fire And I got fired from my
first job in like five days. Okay. So um. I
(01:13):
worked at chest Peake Bay Seafood House, which was like
all you can eat spot. So it's like they don't
have these anymore, I don't think, but like you pay
a certain price and you can get everything on the menu,
and so like you have the waitress has to like
run back to the to the kitchen every eight seconds.
Oh my god. And people used to ask me, like,
our yoursues comfortable, because you're gonna be running the night
(01:34):
gairl ore issues comfortable. I said, now I can't do this,
I quick right long after that was about four days, okay.
So then I started working for Postal Pizza, which was
like equivalent to like a Domino. Okay. So I was
the girl that answered the phone. I was like, hello
(01:54):
Postal Pizza, can I help you please? And I would
take their order okay okay, and then the drivers will
come and get the pizza and drive it out. So
I would literally have five phones in front of me
and they would all be ringing at the same time,
and I was the only girl there to answer, and
I'd be like, posta Pizza, can you hold on please
click pust the pizza. What you need post Pizza postal pizza.
It was a mess. So sometimes my dad would like
(02:17):
prank me. He would call and he'd be like, gaze,
he talked real slow, Giselle, your dad. So I've been
on a hole for thirty five minutes and I don't
understand why I have to wait this long. Oh my god, Dad,
leave me, leave me a loan. Yeah. He was like,
(02:38):
I just wanted to hear you say post to pizza.
Gn you please. My dad is the worst. Okay. So
I stayed there like throughout high school. Okay. So then
my dad was like all right, Giselle. You know he
thought I was going to be like, um super smart
and um be like a doctor or something. I don't
know what do you So he was like, I'm gonna
get yourself some internships. Okay. So one of the internships
(03:01):
was when I told you all before I was doing autopsies, yeah,
on dead bodies, which was insane, Like why am I
doing this? Like this is this is not even fit.
I am like a cute girl, Okay, what am I
doing cutting up bodies? Okay? That was a hot mess. Um,
So I stopped doing that, and then eventually when I
(03:21):
got out of college, I worked for the double a
CP and I started doing their events. So I like you,
I understand like how you have eight hundred balls in
the air for events, but they all like have to
come together and it's not like it's hard, but you
have to do everything or else the whole thing of
(03:41):
fall apart. Yeah, it's a lot. And so then that's
where I got to meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
And because we I had to interface with politicians and
corporations and it was like that was a great job,
Like I love that job and it was like not
work for me exactly, so that that was fantastic. And
in I did pharmaceutical sales, so I was like paid
(04:04):
drug dealer. Oh and those doctors love to see you
in the door. There was like zails here is this
is the thing. All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are
good looking, like that's I think the criteria. Yes, and
I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well. Like
our car. Things aren't like they used to be because
like I used to be able to take my doctor.
(04:25):
Like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy.
She was like, let's go to the strip club, right.
I used to take her to the strip club. I'll
probably get men there was men dance. I would take
her to the Ship Club. And at the strip club
you could get a receipt because I would want to
get reimbursed. You can get a receipt that's blank, so
(04:48):
at the top it doesn't say it's it's very generic.
What the name is like restaurant exactly, and then you
know that way and because clearly I'm not the only
person get trying to get and burst and they've done
this before, they know how to do this, So I
would ask for the special receipt and um, they knew
exactly what I was talking about. And I used to
(05:10):
take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't make that.
Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot of doctor. Yeah,
we would go to strict club. We would have a ball. Okay,
I'd be like Drake saw me where to strip us that,
let's get to dollars. Let's make it rain. This is
before to make it rain. So you're the reason they
cut back on that, because I know they cut all
that mess back. Oh, they don't do that anymore. Yeah, this.
I was a pharmaceutical rep in the good old days
(05:32):
when you could literally like take your doctor anywhere, and
it was fine, you can, you can just like write
it off. So they quit that because I I roined
it for everyone. I had a job running UM like
the meetings, the dinner meetings for pharmaceutical UM company. Yes,
and they hired they hired this company that I worked
(05:53):
for for compliance reasons because the reps would be like
so out of control. So I would be there UM
just kind of like making sure everything was above board.
Oh wow, it was like the wild wild West back then.
If you knew a drug wrap, and let's say you
needed drugs, right, you know, over the counter drugs, you
(06:13):
would just you would swap out like he had. I
was orthor McNeil. If you had a five of rap,
you swap out some drugs. I saw birth control pills.
Everybody was looking for me because everybody wanted birth control
pills for their girlfriend. So you know, it was definitely
wrong what we were doing. But we had fun. Yes, Yeah,
y'all ruined it. Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all ruined it.
Now they're like so strict, so you cannot you cannot
(06:36):
do anything. We hope you enjoyed that reasonably shady highlight.
You can catch the full episode on the I Heart
Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your favorite
shows and we want to hear from you. Get in
touch with us on social media at reasonably Shady or
(06:59):
send us an email at What's Up at reasonably shady
dot com. See you next time, m HM.
My dad told me, like I think I was like
probably a baby, that his money was his money, and um,
I didn't have any money until I got a job,
so um, I had to get up out there and
get like, now, mind you, I don't want to like say,
my parents didn't like totally like give me everything under
the sun, similar to you. I like, you know, I
(00:28):
had everything I wanted, but my dad was like, yeah,
this is my money, so um, which was aft. So
I decided to get a job at like fifteen. But
that was like the best thing he could have ever
liked taught me. And I try to instill that in
my kids, but they'd be getting over I'd just be
behind him everything. Um. But anyway, So at fifteen, I
went out and got a job at Heart Ease. That
(00:49):
was my first job, best eating up in town, up
and down all around. I think that's the slogan. I
don't know I made that up. So um, they realized
I was fifteen, like after the first week, they were like, girl,
you're too young. You can't work here because it was
like some child labor law. I thought I could. They
were like your fire And I got fired from my
first job in like five days. Okay. So um. I
(01:13):
worked at chest Peake Bay Seafood House, which was like
all you can eat spot. So it's like they don't
have these anymore, I don't think, but like you pay
a certain price and you can get everything on the menu,
and so like you have the waitress has to like
run back to the to the kitchen every eight seconds.
Oh my god. And people used to ask me, like,
our yoursues comfortable, because you're gonna be running the night
(01:34):
gairl ore issues comfortable. I said, now I can't do this,
I quick right long after that was about four days, okay.
So then I started working for Postal Pizza, which was
like equivalent to like a Domino. Okay. So I was
the girl that answered the phone. I was like, hello
(01:54):
Postal Pizza, can I help you please? And I would
take their order okay okay, and then the drivers will
come and get the pizza and drive it out. So
I would literally have five phones in front of me
and they would all be ringing at the same time,
and I was the only girl there to answer, and
I'd be like, posta Pizza, can you hold on please
click pust the pizza. What you need post Pizza postal pizza.
It was a mess. So sometimes my dad would like
(02:17):
prank me. He would call and he'd be like, gaze,
he talked real slow, Giselle, your dad. So I've been
on a hole for thirty five minutes and I don't
understand why I have to wait this long. Oh my god, Dad,
leave me, leave me a loan. Yeah. He was like,
(02:38):
I just wanted to hear you say post to pizza.
Gn you please. My dad is the worst. Okay. So
I stayed there like throughout high school. Okay. So then
my dad was like all right, Giselle. You know he
thought I was going to be like, um super smart
and um be like a doctor or something. I don't
know what do you So he was like, I'm gonna
get yourself some internships. Okay. So one of the internships
(03:01):
was when I told you all before I was doing autopsies, yeah,
on dead bodies, which was insane, Like why am I
doing this? Like this is this is not even fit.
I am like a cute girl, Okay, what am I
doing cutting up bodies? Okay? That was a hot mess. Um,
So I stopped doing that, and then eventually when I
(03:21):
got out of college, I worked for the double a
CP and I started doing their events. So I like you,
I understand like how you have eight hundred balls in
the air for events, but they all like have to
come together and it's not like it's hard, but you
have to do everything or else the whole thing of
(03:41):
fall apart. Yeah, it's a lot. And so then that's
where I got to meet like President Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
And because we I had to interface with politicians and
corporations and it was like that was a great job,
Like I love that job and it was like not
work for me exactly, so that that was fantastic. And
in I did pharmaceutical sales, so I was like paid
(04:04):
drug dealer. Oh and those doctors love to see you
in the door. There was like zails here is this
is the thing. All of the pharmaceutical sales reps are
good looking, like that's I think the criteria. Yes, and
I'm gonna pay you well. We got paid well. Like
our car. Things aren't like they used to be because
like I used to be able to take my doctor.
(04:25):
Like one I had a doctor. She was like real crazy.
She was like, let's go to the strip club, right.
I used to take her to the strip club. I'll
probably get men there was men dance. I would take
her to the Ship Club. And at the strip club
you could get a receipt because I would want to
get reimbursed. You can get a receipt that's blank, so
(04:48):
at the top it doesn't say it's it's very generic.
What the name is like restaurant exactly, and then you
know that way and because clearly I'm not the only
person get trying to get and burst and they've done
this before, they know how to do this, So I
would ask for the special receipt and um, they knew
exactly what I was talking about. And I used to
(05:10):
take doctor. That was her name. I shouldn't make that.
Shouldn't have said that. It was a lot of doctor. Yeah,
we would go to strict club. We would have a ball. Okay,
I'd be like Drake saw me where to strip us that,
let's get to dollars. Let's make it rain. This is
before to make it rain. So you're the reason they
cut back on that, because I know they cut all
that mess back. Oh, they don't do that anymore. Yeah, this.
I was a pharmaceutical rep in the good old days
(05:32):
when you could literally like take your doctor anywhere, and
it was fine, you can, you can just like write
it off. So they quit that because I I roined
it for everyone. I had a job running UM like
the meetings, the dinner meetings for pharmaceutical UM company. Yes,
and they hired they hired this company that I worked
(05:53):
for for compliance reasons because the reps would be like
so out of control. So I would be there UM
just kind of like making sure everything was above board.
Oh wow, it was like the wild wild West back then.
If you knew a drug wrap, and let's say you
needed drugs, right, you know, over the counter drugs, you
(06:13):
would just you would swap out like he had. I
was orthor McNeil. If you had a five of rap,
you swap out some drugs. I saw birth control pills.
Everybody was looking for me because everybody wanted birth control
pills for their girlfriend. So you know, it was definitely
wrong what we were doing. But we had fun. Yes, Yeah,
y'all ruined it. Y'all ruined it for everybody. Y'all ruined it.
Now they're like so strict, so you cannot you cannot
(06:36):
do anything. We hope you enjoyed that reasonably shady highlight.
You can catch the full episode on the I Heart
Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your favorite
shows and we want to hear from you. Get in
touch with us on social media at reasonably Shady or
(06:59):
send us an email at What's Up at reasonably shady
dot com. See you next time, m HM.
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