My Last Day 2

Nothing but stories about your last day on a job. For daring to complain about a bounced paycheck, it seems like that was enough for the WWE to give Jonathan Coachman (The Early Edge: A Daily SportsLine Betting Podcast) 20,000 reasons to never say anything nice about Vince McMahon.  Former NHL Draft pick turned Emmy-nominated producer R.J. Fried from 'Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News' talks about the day he knew it was time to put down the hockey stick and pick up an ink pen. Now an official three-timer, Daylon Goff (JET Magazine) takes a trip down memory lane detailing how his last day as an ad exec at WingStop coincided with a viral social media crisis. A loyal listener on Staten Island talks about the time he quit his sneaker job, then stole sneakers on the way out, and his MANAGER LET HIM KEEP THEM!Jacqueline (aka The Employment Grim Reaper) details a time when she was hired by a movie studio to travel to a movie set and fire EIGHT PEOPLE in one day. She also breaks down ways employers can craftily assess employees in an effort to keep them. But, what are the tell-tale signs the axe is coming? The team unpacks their real-life drama and breaks down what to look out for to keep you off the chopping block. We wish someone had told football coach Herm Edwards. It appears he was fired by Arizona State...ON THE FIELD!Enjoying Roy’s Job Fair? Want more? Take 60-seconds to rate and review this fine acoustical programming. Catch Roy alongside Jon Hamm in “Confess, Fletch,” On Demand NOW! Want to be a guest on 'Roy's Job Fair?' Got a job scam you've seen run? A worst or first job to share? Job tips to share with everyone? Get on the show! Submit your story at www.roysjobfair.comWatch all Roy Wood Jr Comedy Specials NOW available on iTunes and streaming NOW on Paramount+ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central now hiring, I guess they
got an inner him right now. The ain't hire and
hiring no more. But Arizona State coach Herm Edwards was
fired after the Old Sun Devils lost to Eastern Michigan

(00:24):
at home. That's a game that they should have won.
It's not a game you should lose a squad like
Eastern Michigan. The script status you are Arizona State. That's
not the fact that old brother her and Mettwarts lost,
But the fact is that they fired the motherfucker on
the field as he was coming off the locker room,

(00:47):
now damn it. In a video, it sees that her
Metwarts is seen talking in the end zone to athletic
director Ray Anderson and university president my gol Crow and
what he was seemingly fired on the field after the game.

(01:08):
On the after walking over, we're talking like the cameras
are about to walk up to him and give him
the interview. And how do you feel about getting upset
get fined? Oh my gosh, this is crazy. To make
matters worse. You do know that their staff at the

(01:30):
school that didn't want him to be successful. So the
other part of this story was that they were giving
away the plans that they were using to play the games,
like literally and not even selling it, just like going
to the other school and saying, here's our game playing.
They did him dirty, slapped the ship out that motherfucker
right there. You know he knew what was about her Herman.

(01:54):
Herman's a true church going black man. You already know
he won't go lay a hand on that brother. I
slept girlss of how hard he used to hit people
back in the day. He is a man of the
church and he ain't putting his hands. Did he have
a contingency in the contract. I'm sure he still got
his bread, but that don't matter. You'll embarrassed me on
the damn field. Slap your glass and ask God for forgiveness.

(02:16):
How's that for church? My name is Roy, This is

(02:41):
my job Fair, and you know it's about that time.
It's about that time we want to hear about your
last day at work. It's another quadron of the show
that we don't really get to talk about often. Of course,
we have rights relationship Fair every quarter, talk about that,
but naked sex that you're doing with your co workers.

(03:01):
But also we don't talk often enough about being fired
and what being fired is like, and there's always a
wild story around a lot of people's last days. So
we're going to hear from a couple of people today.
Shout out to the homie, Jonathan Coachman from w w E.
It's gonna join the two time club today, Old Coachman. Yeah,
I got fired by Vince McMahon himself. He does not

(03:24):
have anything nice to save about Itim not one. We
all remember Daylyn Golf from our wings stop last week
and jet magazine and I'm gonna talk about that last
day at Wingstop. Yeah, Leving Pepperbock episode and Jet magazine
and fish should be a three time. Then I got
a black man living out in Stating Island. I don't
know how to that happened, but we'll find out from him.
But uh, he uh got fired but somehow left with

(03:47):
Jordan's in front of his supervisor. I don't even know
how you connect them. How you get fired and leave
with free ship? Yeah, but first say hello to everybody.
And he is in New Jersey's youth football Coach of
the Month is voted on by the people in his house. Okay,

(04:13):
thank you, thank you, well I don't know, did your
family vote for you? If they vote for another coach.
I'm pretty sure both the kids voted for uh. Lynda
doesn't have a higher standard. Sometimes she gotta deal with it. Yeah,
that's what it's about. That's what it's about. It's hard
to lose in my anniversary months by the way, shut

(04:33):
out my wife thirteen years? What? What? What? Yeah? I
love you baby, I'm very lucky. We we literally celebrate
each other every day. Man, I'm the last person you
ever want to talk to you about being in a
bad relationship. Do you do flowers and candy and stuff?
There's a whole bay flowers right, like, no bullshit, like
this thing of cattle Lily's And because she doesn't like roses,

(04:57):
so I had to learn about flowers and stuff. So yeah,
frame that's what we do. She's the white blood cells.
It keeps the show pure. She is j G. I
want to start since we're talking about people getting fired
and people getting laid off and people getting you know,
laid off and funked up ways, I do think that
the important thing to do when you think you're gonna

(05:18):
be fired, bring that to your employer. You know. If
we're gonna get serious for a second. You know, I
think I don't think there's anything wrong with doing some
degree of Yeah, firings are going to come out of
the blue more often than not, but I don't think
it hurts if you now and then they check in
with your supervise. I'm just going achievers, You both over

(05:38):
Wonderful people say things like firing just comes from out
the blue. As the one person out here who can
talk about still being somewhat close to broke when you're
getting fired, you know alright, like there's no there's no stets.
You come to work late, you know what I'm saying,
You take the extra lunch, the extra lunch period, You

(05:58):
do things like when you when you are in when
you're about to get fired. Generally speaking, at most jobs,
you kind of have a hint that they're coming for
you know what I'm saying. The only thing you can
really do is to cover either cover your ass or
just wait, because when it's coming, you can't do nothing
about it. Man, you can't do nothing about it. Take
me to that moment before you get to that, like

(06:20):
when you're coming in late and coming in late, and
then you can feel like you're wearing out your welcome
on coming in late coupons, it is that the time
to check into you're saying, there's no way to predict
if you can predict when you get fired, and you
can predict when the tide is turning and maybe do
something to try and change your round though stop coming

(06:40):
in later sometimes. But yeah, but I mean it's not
that simple. But if you're trying to stop coming in late,
but where you live at as a traffic problem, whether
you're like, don't work so far away from you, and
that to me, and that's in our kid no offense,
but that's our way of looking at things because because
they're not it sounds like it until you're taken, until

(07:05):
you take them to court and get all your money
to prove that what you was given then an excuse
was a fact. Like at the end of the day,
those kind of things sound like excuses, but like when
it's real, there's nothing much you can do about it,
and it's really up to your employer or whether or
not they want to flex to keep you or not.
And the answer Roy's question, you can't have that talk.
I was fortunate in the place that I was at

(07:27):
where I got the worst firing I think where people
were looking out for me, and they came and talked
to me and say, hey, man, you know you're kind
of on the fence. But I was getting raised after
raise after raise. The day that I got fired was
the first day, I think in almost three or four
months that I had been late and hadn't even thought
about it because I was doing so much other stuff
that when they called me down to the office to
let me go, not only was I in shocked, but

(07:48):
the rest of the newsroom was in shocked too. So,
like you know, you never really know. Sometimes sometimes it
can be a consistent you screw this policy, this policy
and this policy, you gotta go, or some days it
depend on where you were, especially if it's um an
at will employment place. They don't have to give you
a reason. Yeah, they knit it. You can just come
in and get fired. J G. You and I was
swapping a couple of texts before we get to Jonathan Coachman,

(08:09):
who's standing back with his UH last day in the
w W story. I understand you have to fire eight
motherfucker's Jacqueline. No, I don't know much about mass firing.
Is is that we call him? Is that safe as

(08:29):
more than three three or more. Yeah, that could clear
out of office cubicle spaces. Like walk us through that
Jaqueline because you know, for people new to the podcast,
you know, Jaqueline works in a number of film and
television productions and different capacities depending on the project, in
the time of year. And sometimes you're in charge of hiring.
Sometimes you are just an employee. And in this instance,

(08:50):
who gave the order that you have to make the
firings or was this your decision? So long story short,
there was a film that was in or again and
and it was hemorrhaging money. They were just losing money
left and right. And this was a big budget film
per se, and a guy that I worked with down

(09:12):
in Mississippi said, I know a little lady who could
actually help us. So they called me up to the
big leads and I went over there and he told me,
before you get here, you need to go ahead and
send an email say hey, you're coming. You're gonna be
in this particular position and you want to meet with X,
Y and Z. And I was like okay. So I
started calling those people and said, hey, I'm gonna be

(09:33):
on the ground. I remember members. These are crew members absolutely.
I remember it once. I sent them an email saying, hey,
I'm coming to join you guys. I got them in
a group text um just to say, hey, we need
to start looking at how we can start saving money
on this film. And I had already delineated and thought
it through who actually needed to go because they were

(09:56):
actually doing the same kind of jobs. It was just
a waste of time through the first place you look
to cut budget when you're trying because if they're calling
you at this point, they're running the risk of not
finishing the project. So can we not cut scenes from
the film? Can you not? Like? Because I know in
some productions, hey we don't need three locations. We can

(10:17):
do this in one location and change the angle and
put a tiel up and make this look like that
room and then put it in a different couch. Like,
had you already gone through those progressions or was the
overage is so huge that you're like, now we gotta
come on the in Terry you out in Terry answer.
Actually the Vine producer and a couple of EPs they
had got together and they were already looking at which

(10:40):
scenes they could cut and also anything that could be rewritten,
So they were already looking at that as well. So
we were working from the top all the way down
to the bottom to save money. When you say hemorrhaging money,
could you give me a round figure. It ain't gonna
be exact, But how much money were they losing let's
say a day. Yeah, what was the budget versus what

(11:01):
were the overages? Gotch So this film should have come
in under six million. They already couldn't account for like
one point five million, so they were already at seven
five and counting and counting. So they send you in
black women, help us email these motherfucker's and meet with him.

(11:22):
You get to Oregon, one of them weird donuts from
everything but glaze don't. I'm not here to shoot on you.
I'm not gonna say I enjoyed that doughnut. It's on
the top of it. It was weird. They have one
with enjoy We had that. I got the fruit cup,
we got the whole thing. It's intense. I just sometimes
just want to glaze don't ut, And they like, I'm

(11:43):
asking for that. What do you read all these other
you don't want? You don't want, learn no my fun,
I don't want mother flavors. I want a regulars glaze.
Oh one other thing I did just actually save money.
They had like middle management and crew staying in a
lovely hotel. I moved them right on over to the
Marriott Na NA, and I was a night old. They

(12:05):
were mad. Yeah, so you're coming in being counting, So
I know you're not liked by anyone now at this point, Now,
what is your day like jackline? Like what do you do? Like?
Who do you talk to? Who do you like in
the office? Like how do you even are you alone?

(12:26):
Do you get to have a chit chat? Or you
just the higher gun terminator and it's understood that you
don't get to socialize because you're here to piss everybody off.
I never looked at it as piss everybody off. I
just looked at it as we have to stop the bleeding.
When I did walk in the door in UM to

(12:46):
the production office, three of them walked straight out the door.
They didn't say hey hai, nothing, took all their stuff
with them. So I said to myself, three, mine is eight.
That's on the fire. I left the gun. So how
do you how do you doing mass firing? Do you

(13:07):
call them all in one by one pop pop pop?
Is it all over email? Is it face to face?
So okay, this was the best part from me in
this particular situation. I basically put the executive producer and
the line producer out there, even though I could have
done it. I said, these are my recommendations and I

(13:27):
need you to carry this out now. Oh great, So
then so you sense people off to get fired you
you didn't have to necessarily set them down face to
face and give them a really nice jackal and pep
talk speech. And by the way, we don't need your
services no more. You trash by like you didn't do

(13:49):
that because you're such an impath just in real life,
just in general. But you're also the person. You're the
employment grim reap her to a degree. How are you
able to turn that off in a corporate sense, because
somebody could call into this show right now, I'm gonna
I work with animals, and the animals be done, and

(14:12):
you'll ask a cry for twenty minutes. We have to
stop recordina ships you can, but then whole thing. You
can just walk into a place eating a voodoo don't nothing,
just go. I need you to get the funk. Thank
you very much. Nothing personal. It's been real see it. Oh,
I don't know. I don't know how I turn that
off and on. I just spent enough time in politics

(14:33):
to know when you need to smile and when you
just need to get stuff done. That's the only way
I can look at it. You get three freevies out
the door, five to go walk us through it. Think
about this as well. I don't know these people, so
I am not attached to them, so I'm not worried
about that. The only thing I'm worried about is we
have to stop the hemorrhaging of money because this large

(14:57):
organization is not happy. So those next five people, it
was actually a Friday, we went to camera on Monday.
I sent those five people a specific text message and
it said what do you need to be successful on Monday?
Exact words. Two of them sent me back something that

(15:19):
said I don't know. I sent them separate text messages.
We thank you for your time. We're gonna send you
an email that lets you know what you need to
do next. If you can't tell me what we need
to be successful on Monday, Day one a principal failming
we don't need you. I don't know is your answer,

(15:40):
that's a chance to keep their job. You've been giving
them an opportunity to prove you so that you could
try to defend them to the overlord. Was something that
they knew. They knew, they knew. This is Jacqueline, I'm
your POC. We go to principal photography on Monday. In
this industry, going to principle full photography on Monday is

(16:01):
a big deal. And there's been rumbling about you at
this point all over the set and all over the
production office. They know you're not there to deliver good news.
So of the five to reply with some bullshit, they've
gone three to go. The next three they did it
to themselves. I asked them directly, as it relates to

(16:23):
parts that we needed on set. I'll just say, for example,
and this is your area, please send me a picture
of the camera. She said, I don't have a camera.
But the line item budget of purchases says that the
camera was bought. A line item of purchases shows that
a camera was rented from whatever house, and you don't

(16:47):
have it, and we go to camera on Monday. Let
her go right then. And I called the company and
I said I will be over to get the camera
myself once, so I had two more to go. So
these other it too. Is it the same missteps because
it just seems like people just not being on this
ship at all times. That's what it was. And they

(17:08):
were also upset that they brought me in. You gotta
know as well, this was a union shop. I'm not
union Oh oh yeah, that's all. And I wasn't mean
to anybody. Please know that I was actually trying my best.
If I couldn't keep you in this position, let me
shift you over to a p A because I need

(17:30):
to keep the union people on set. And then if
I can't shift you over, that position just goes away.
And firing the union person is not that, ain't no,
And that's that. It's like, oh no, there's gonna be
conversations and absolutely so. So you you get up there
and you fire all eight of these people, Yeah, then

(17:51):
what like do you just go home? You? Alright, job,
well done, good luck with your film? Not at all
that particular. Saturday and Sunday I rounded up all my
p A s and I had to start getting everything
we needed to be successful. On Monday morning, when that
director walked in, when those EPs walked in. They knew

(18:13):
absolutely nothing other than the two that I had to
pull aside and say, hey, you need to let these
people go. It was like normal business. We got that
first shot off on time. Them executives were happy, so
a job well done, Good for you. No, then they
fired me. What the what are you serious? What kind

(18:38):
of roller coaster ship is this? To hell? Like I
can't even imagine going through the mental side of getting
rid of eight people and all this ship, whether I
knew them or not. And then when when did they
let you go? Like did they turn around and let
you go that Monday? Or what? Thirty seven days later
they let me go? There Jack? When got a text message?

(19:03):
What do you you need from us? And then this
was the worst part. So that was a Thursday night.
That Friday, I opened the office. I always opened the office.
I opened the office one hour before call time. It
just makes me comfortable and I want to know that
we're all in place and we can play. Even though

(19:25):
I knew I was getting fired, I still want to
do it. So we got some mail or whatever, and
I called over to set, and Set actually happened to
be like an hour away, and I called to say, hey,
there's some mail here that needs to come up and
when I get a p A. And this was me
testing the waters. I said, when I get a p
A in the office, I'm gonna send it up there.

(19:47):
And they said, no, when you get a p A
in the office, we want you to come up here.
There's no reason for me to be up there. I
knew it. So did you drive? Did you just hit
them over the phone that's gonna do? Oh? No, I
drove up there. I stopped by Dairy Queen and I
got me a blizzard and then I drove your last

(20:08):
rad Absolutely, the fact that you stopped and got a
blizzard on the way it is as far as I'm concerned, Roy,
I know we don't really don't do it, but this this,
this is this is this is c word. You know.
This is for stopping to get fucking ice cream with

(20:28):
the way to be because you didn't get a fun
normal no fox together you Cody's most Outstanding Employee of
the Week by Voodoo dough Nuts. That's an amazing style
of jackal. It was azing mass firing. You get flown

(20:51):
in the fire, you do the firing, and then you
then the person that hired you got fired, then you
got fired. Yeah, yeah, they brought you on the same budget.
Do to say budget absolutely absolutely funk that movie. Whenever
it comes out, what it is. Let me know what
that movie is. I know, I know. It's not Confessed Fletch,

(21:14):
which you can actually catch and we didn't find nobody.
It was a good time. It was a good movie.
Let's get to Jonathan Coachman. Man. We had this brother
on earlier, earlier this year. He is the host of
The Early Edge. It's a wonderful, wonderful sports betting podcast.

(21:36):
Jonathan Coachman, Welcome back to the Job fan. It's great
to be back. Great to be back. This is an
episode where we just talk about funk up ways you've
been fired. That's all we're doing today. This is we
throw out the usual model of the show. And you
came on before and you talked about your time and
a w w E both as a wrestler and as

(21:57):
an announcer and then as an actual will you know,
not journalists, but actually covering and doing interviews and things
of that nature. What we didn't get to ask you, coach,
how are wrestlers fired. I'm sure you gotta tell you
being fired I want to hear tell of you being fired.
But when a wrestler, when a professional wrestler, his contract

(22:19):
is up and it's no more. Do they like come
in like did you just lose a match? And then
Vince mcmah, yeah, put put your put your lead to on,
get the funk outartic, What happens, what happens though, it all,
it all depends, because let's remember these are big human beings.

(22:42):
So if you are brock Lessener for instance, and famously
they were going to end his contract and they weren't
about to do that in person, so Vince called him. Uh.
They've they had a volatile relationship even to this day.
But he was so scared of him one time. He
wouldn't do it most of the time. Most of the time.
And this this is why right now I do not
have a lot of good things to say about the
w w E. And my story will reflect that. But

(23:05):
also the way they always handle business. Because for somebody
loyal like me to a fault and I'll admit to
a fault with the w w E, then if they're
just done with you, like no ten years. It doesn't
matter unless you're stone cold or undertaker and they still
paid the five million a year to it. It exists,
So usually you get a phone call and but in
the world of wrestling, Roy would be like, if I

(23:27):
don't know, uh, if you're not being used for an
extended period of time and you're showing up every week
at the building, you kind of have an idea that
if you're not on the show, that you're probably not.
They're not gonna pay you a six figure salary to
just come and eat catering, you know what I mean.
So that's usually how they do it, or a guy
screws up, or they get a d u I or
if you're certain, people can get four d u I

(23:48):
s and they don't fire you at all, and so
it all depends on who the person is. For me,
two years ago, it was better sweet, but also maybe
the best thing that ever happened to me. So I
leave ESPN. I need like a bridge because I didn't
want to dip into my own money, So w W
brought me back, put me in to three man booth.
I hated it. I realized very quickly I hate wrestling
now after being ten years at esp and I said,

(24:09):
I don't want to be here. But then I had golf.
I had other things I was doing, and so in
the first ten years, I missed one show. In that
first eight months, I missed five to do golf, and
so Vince gott miss stared me off the show, put
a female in and great for her. She made history.
Wasn't about me. So they then put me on the
XFL and they said Vince called me direct and he goes, hey,

(24:30):
I need you to help me here xfls restarting. I
need you to be the full time pregame host, flying
l A to New York every single week. So I
worked for him for Yeah, this is the COVID year
when I got stopped halfway through. So I didn't turn
in my invoices right away. Why would I work for
him for twenty years? I did two shoots on Christmas
Day for vincement Man during my time, and so why

(24:52):
would I even worry about him paying me? So I
get to check twenty dollars, hold it for a day
or two, but in the bank ounces. So I text
Kevin donn. I text Kevin done, who's my boss? Who
was the person who hired me? I said, Hey, this
check just bounced. He goes, oh, that's a lot of money.

(25:13):
I saw the text of this day. I look at
it just to motivate me. He was, Oh, that's a
lot of money. I said, I agree. Can you talk
to Vince please and make this right? And I'll never
forget what he texted back to me. Coach, that's a
different company. I don't think there's anything that we can
do yet. Oh yes, I still have it in my
phone to motivate me that after twenty years literally doing

(25:38):
everything you asked me to do, getting you on Sports Center,
getting you on ESPN, openly helping you get a billion
dollar deal, over twenty dollars, you're gonna end a relationship.
So forward two months they knew they had done that
to me. So I get a call from Michael Cole. Oh, coach,
I don't know how to tell you this, but we're

(25:59):
ending your WUB you we contract because he didn't want
to face me because he had yes. So because of
the XFL bounced check, they then ended my w W
week contract. But we're gonna pay you for sixty days
in the middle of COVID. Oh oh, thank you, thank
you very much. So I just did all of that
for you, You're gonna pay me for sixty days, and
that is when I said, you know what, I don't

(26:21):
want the twenty grand. I will make that twenty grand
and times more than that. And that's when that's when
I started coming up with the ideas for the early
Edge with sports Line. And now two years later, we're
on top of the world. And so thank you, Vince,
and you can keep your twenty Vince McMahon, if you're
listening right now, you can see me that twenty my name.

(26:55):
That is a hell of the story. Man, what coach.
We always appreciate you. You always have a home here
on the job. There. I'm gon dabbling some of the
early Edge. Um, I'm gonna wait for NFL playoffs. You know,
it's still early in the season right now, and you
know we don't we don't see what these dollars would
do that. But I wouldn't wait wait, I would not wait.

(27:16):
I'm gonna wait to the playoffs. Coach, it is still
earlier in the season. Did you get a Starbucks today?
Did you get a Starbucks today? How much did you
spend today? How much you just spend on that today?
I had about with the doughnut, about five dollars. Okay,
So for two days of that. You can get sports

(27:37):
lined for an entire month. Oh no, no, don't worry.
I'm already there looking at it. I'm dominating my league
right now. Thanks to you, sir. So yeah, yes, sir
cool man, well coach, thank you so much. Had I
had so much fun. I had so much fun. Thing
and it's part of God. You need anything for me,
call me all right, call me totally. Yes, thank you

(28:00):
so sweet. All right, let's just get to it, man. Now,
we got a brother on the line here. Who's last day? Um,
we could say officially he's a three time and now
I think we lost counter his brother as much as

(28:20):
Uncle Derek. Uncle Derek has an iPad, but I'll tell
you about that later. Who who gave my uncle and iPad? Yes,
I'm gonna tell you. Yeah, I introduced the guest. Yeah,
tell us who's on the line. It's Daylyn Golf and

(28:42):
he's back with us to talk about his last day
at Wayne Stop in the midst of a viral crisis
within the company. And I want to know all about this.
What what up? Now, Daylen Golf? We just had you
on a minute a go talking about Jet magazine and
all that jazz and everything you're doing now. But you
got all the phone before telling us about why you

(29:02):
left Wing Stop because see you came on this podcast,
she was on Lemon Pepper wing and you had the
driving Wingstop came back for Jet Magazine, New Job. Something
happened between them two episodes. They you're sucking up the
chicken flavors they're selling frozen times. The line long enough

(29:29):
as it is, Well, first of all, you black, You
was only gonna get one of two flavors, hot or
limon pepper. Like, let's just be honest here. The rest
of was just extra credit but a black perspective. So
let's just not a lot of argument arguments racist if
it's true, I'm just saying, but I left on my own.

(29:54):
I did not get fired. Um, I left the last day.
What was the last day? Was it over the phone?
Was it over text? Was it in person? How did
you call him? Rick Ross create a hostile work environment
because they wouldn't put his shirt? Absolutely not. We actually
were in the play. Also accused you of touching his

(30:16):
his his breast. Did you tech stops rushed up against
no respectfully, exec No, the no question to that respectfully. Um,
actually ironically, we were about to shoot. I was in
the middle of a campaign to shoot a commercial at

(30:37):
Rick Ross's house for thigh Stop. I don't know if
you remember the thigh Stop shortage. Yeah, COVID shortage that
we had to figure out a way. So we came
up with and ironically that thigh Stop program one, uh
what is it? Can con award for one of the
best promos um that was done that year in advertising.

(30:58):
But it's coming like the Oscars for advertising, So it
won a super big ward. I need a mat of fact,
I need them to send me my ward. I don't
think they really anyway, that's beside the point. Um. But
my last day, ironically, we ended up going viral um
that particular day because what what happen is I was

(31:19):
head of social media, among other things events, social media
and partnerships. But I hired a guy that actually used
to work on some of the Wendy's account. I hired
him probably three or four months before I left, just
to be able to manage everything and what we would
do is the whole idea. But behind when the Wingstop
social media is that it was all about the flavor

(31:42):
figuring out ways to be able to tap into the
nuances of flavor. And sometimes they would call me and
they would say, he is the flavor spicy today. I'd
be like, yo, we got hot, we can go a
little spicy. That meant there was some interaction from a
relationship standpoint of people were talking about food sex and
there was a young lady that hit us up and

(32:04):
was like, you know, Wingstop, Wrench is you know so good?
It must have um oh my lord. Yeah, this is
where she tweeted. She tweeted to the Wingstop account. She
just tweeted out in general about Wingstop, just out into
the ether on Twitter, yes and tag wing Stopped and

(32:25):
said about how repeat it repeated one more time, repeated
one more time, give me if I don't get me
fired from a current job president and we stopped. Wrench
has not in it. Oh my is what she said. No, no, no, no, no,

(32:48):
I will take off my head set. I'm gonna take
my head bones off now, juccolin, don't take your head
set off. This is come on, be reasonable, take them off,
you know. Jacqueline, I'm sorry you had to hear that.
Keep going. Yeah, I was, I was, I was taking back.

(33:08):
I didn't find out about this till my my social
media manager, was like, hey, get a little spicy. There's
something going on. She hit us up and I responded.
I was like okay, and I was over here like, well,
this is my last day, so I don't really care.
But I do care, but I don't care. And so

(33:29):
he started going back with her flirting and said a
response and was like, you know what it is special white.
You know it's creamy, but it does not contain any
of and he put in the emoji for for a walnut. Yes,
he just he did not, you know, he was talking

(33:51):
strictly and stop yes, And so he just started going
back and forth with her. She kept upping the any,
he kept responding but really keeping it all about food,
and it just kind of blew up to whereas people
started finding it, retweeting it, putting it out there. And

(34:11):
mind you, this didn't if you know how Twitter works,
it didn't show up on our page like our our
social media feed. It didn't show up. But if you
go to the mentions and you see it and follow it,
then you can be able to find out. So it
kind of was a little bit of from a nuance standpoint,
but ended up being a whole interaction that blowing blew
up and went viral. Now I don't recommend this for

(34:33):
social media managers in this part of it, but the
results from that particular day, we're about eleven percent increase
in Twitter followers in one day with viral. It was
an ad age, it was in Newsweek, it was on
news it was pr free pr that kind of went

(34:54):
from that, and I told the social media manager that day, Hey,
here's the reality. If it goes well, take all the credit.
If it goes bad, blame me because I'm leaving anyway.
And he was like, I like those odds, and it
ended up being phenomenal. So like, I'm gonna I'm gonna

(35:15):
read this exchange between wingstop and the originator of this account,
and this by all means somebody should have gotten fired
for this. It's hilarious and brilliant. And the fact that
you were there to lay on the sword. I'm being honest.
I really feel like that's the only reason that social

(35:35):
media dude wasn't fired because they hats on that was
trusted within the company who could go, hey, y'all, it's
gonna be okay. Anyway, I'm going to Jet Magazine but
don't fight. So this woman ka cookie dough both with
the k K Cookie dough. Wing Stop branch gotta have
net in. It ain't no way. It's just that good wingstop.

(35:57):
It's a special white sauce, but it doesn't contain net.
Wing Stop. You gotta chill. Wing Stop replies, you brought
it up. Are we floating right now? I don't know?
Are we? Are you close to Texas wing Stop headquarters
in Dallas? So yeah, Caven says I'm three hours away.

(36:18):
I'll be there soon. Bread it or naked? To which
wing Stop replies bread it is great, but bone in
sounds like a better option. WHOA, now, my man will
let it all sick. Wait, let's look. Then Ca goes, God,

(36:43):
I need you and me to which wings Stop replies,
all you gotta do is open your mouth. WHOA now
the team set match? Wing Stop? Uh? One of the
best hires I ever did. One are the best hired.

(37:06):
She went to a wingstop location and bought a bag
of wingstop. So I had the conversation with the executives
like this literally turned into a sale. This turned into money,
real actualized money, as well as all of the eyeballs
that saw it. Now, it's free advertising because you don't
pay for that. People paid millions of dollars in order

(37:27):
to be able to interact with people, to have people
talking about it, to follow all of that stuff. It
was free advertise. Now. I did have a VP that
text me at about eleven o'clock that night. And mind you,
he very conservative, probably go to sleep every night at
nine thirty up at six am. He texts me and
was like, uh, is heating up? What can we do?

(37:50):
And I saw it and I looked at I was like, oh,
I'm not responded to that. Oh he was panicked. He
was absolutely panicked. The key is I set it up aforehand.
I didn't know all of this was gonna happen. But
in the executive meeting, the last one actually I had
before I left, before I even told him I was leaving,
I told them that people are in a relationship with Wingstop.

(38:14):
Either they're in a committed relationship where they go every
single week tim piece, lemon pepper, all flats, extra crispy,
you know that do that, or maybe they're working out
all the time and you know what, I'm just craving.
I'm out to cheat on my workout. I'm a cheat
on my diet. It win't stop either way. There's a
relationship that's there, and sometimes that relationship kind of leans

(38:36):
into a sexual nature and we need to have the
ability or the freedom to be able to play with that.
And they all was like, okay. So the executive that
I was talking about that was freaking out. He wasn't
the one I had talked to previously. His bosses I
will have are all straight. So I asked, how are
your boss how's the CEO feel about this? And he

(38:57):
said what does he He isn't worried yet, So I said, well,
why the hell are you worried? There? Like, let it be.
I promise when this is all said and done, you'll
be thanking me. And sure enough, we went back and
forth the whole time, and the last text he sent
me was like, you did a phenomenal job of setting
up the level of um, the level and the ability

(39:19):
for the senior leadership team to be comfortable with this
type of conversation. Kudos, congratulations on your next move. Can't
wait to see what happened. So it ended up coming
full circle. But he was sweating bullets the night before.
He even said his wife told him to calm down,
and I was like, if your wife, come on, brood,

(39:40):
we got this. If you mad, that is vulgar. And
there's a woman telling you you gotta jill out. Yeah,
you're definitely in the wrong. Yeah, so it all works out.
That was my last day. Mike dropped, and that guy
didn't get fired. He actually got promoted and promoted and
promoted and it's still, you know, killing the game on

(40:00):
that and he's one of my favorite hires and I'm
definitely proud of the work that he was doing. Dylan Golf,
We love you is always appreciate y'all. Thank you for
having me three time club. Remember we will follow your
journey at jet mag dot com. Thank you so much
for coming on the job and shows on social all
that good stuff, my jet story man. Appreciate everything again

(40:21):
as always, Yes, sir, all right, appreciate we are still
talking and celebrating your last day. We got a president
used to work at a sneaker store in New York City,
I understand, and he told his told the supervisor kiss
his ass in front of all of the customers. That's
always a good time. I can't wait. And I know

(40:41):
we got somebody from New York on the phone with
apparently got fired from a foot locker. Some ship j
g rack him up. We have Stanley with us on
the line and he goes by standing stand is originally
from Brooklyn, but currently resides in Staten Island. When he
is not working maintenance in the city, he runts his

(41:03):
own graphic design company. Stan will be sharing a story
about the time he got fired from a sneaker store
in New York. Stanley, Welcome to the show. Stanley, Thanks
thanks for having me, guys. Now, before we getting to
this story, how does a black man get on Stanton Island?
Respectful and love the money? I love the only two

(41:26):
reasons you can go to stant Night. Which one was
it for you? It was? It was love. I love
this so like I I met this girl and I
told her her name was Teresa, and she was you know,
she she was going through a divorce with her husband
and whatever. So we linked up. She she was just like, hey,
I'll live with you, and I was like, okay, mind you.

(41:49):
She's a towny girl and she lived. She's a towny
girl from Brooklyn that moved to Stotton Island and she
lived in Bay Rich ship. Her divorce must have really
been bad. She agreed to move into the hood. She
was like, all right, I'm gonna start looking for a
house or stat now. And I was just like, all right,
I'm moving to stat now. And she was like, because

(42:11):
you know, I want to have a kid. But she
was like, well do you want to stay here? And
you don't want to do this, I understand. And I
was like, look, and we found a house and that's
why I'm here. So real quick, Stanley, give us the story. Brother,
you got fired at this sneaker store. Lay it down
for us real quick. And the Empire State Building there

(42:32):
was a sneaker store that called the U s US Athletics,
right next to Hooligans. It was two managers. It was
the main manager and then it was the assistant manager.
The main manager was cool. It was white dude from
freaking Queens. He had he was he had the crazy
hair like the what is it like the glam rock

(42:54):
style with the like poison and he was always like yo,
stand you got yo, yo, you gotta out. We got
two shots. I know all these parties and queens and
it's the assistant manager was this really short, marine cut
white kid. Like like he was just Mr by the books. So, uh,
I used to come in dude, because I was young.

(43:17):
So we used to go out my my party and
used to start Thursday night. So you go Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
and then you use Tuesday Wednesday to recoup. That was
it because New York City back then, there was a
party every night. You go to marks, go to town,
to go to nels, go to Save the Robots, you

(43:38):
go to the world. And we we knew people in
all these locations and so we just go out and party.
And I come in all drunk, cooked up, you know whatever.
You just didn't sleep, that's why you all right. So
one of the main things I loved about that job

(43:59):
is you got all the tours. So you get all
these girls like from Sweden, London, whatever, and they want
to try shoes on and whatever. And me being in
my you know, early early twenties, I'm like, yeo, what's
up with you guys doing? You know, what's up? And
and these girls would be like, yeah, what's what's what
is there to do in New York? And I'll be like, oh,

(44:19):
I didn't know all the spots, you know, you know,
here's my number, you know, you know, yeah, And I
got so much I got so much booty off that
job that I was just like it was like that.
So the one manager, because I was spending, these girls
were from Swedie and I was just like, these chicks

(44:41):
came in with like like the remember of old school
gym shorts with that with the white line that ran
down the side. They had those things, but they had
the booty. They had the booty meat coming out. So
I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, girls with booty. Yeah,

(45:02):
that's that's what I said. And they were like and
they said, hey, what's what's What's It's Friday night? Um,
what's is there anything going on into uh in New
York City? And I was like, oh, yeah, there's something
going out. So I'm trying to set up a meat

(45:23):
with these with these girls and whatever. But they're buying
sneakers because I was also good at selling things. I
was also good. I had that gift the guy. But
I guess, uh, the little short assistant manager um thought
I was taking a little too long, but he didn't
say anything. He was just you know, sitting back there

(45:43):
like this. Yeah. But this other man came over. It
was like, and I ignored him because I was asking
the question from from the girls. And he was like,
excuse me, boy, you're taking a little too long with
these customers. And I he said, excuse me, boy, you're
taking a little too long with these customers. And I

(46:06):
turned around. I was like, hold on, what's the problem, sir.
I was like, do you see I'm with the customer
right here, I'm talking to these girls and I'm trying,
you know. And he was like, from my, from my,
from my, you know, from where I'm standing, it doesn't
seem like you're selling them anything but a good time.
And I was like, I'm like, well this is how

(46:27):
I sell I had, you know. It's it's that's like,
when I'm finished with them, I'm gonna talk, well, talk
to you, ask you about your day. And I was like,
and I really don't appreciate you. Appreciate you calling me boy.
It was like, well, that's what you are, You're a boy.
I was like, my man calling me, calling calling me
a boy's it's it's it's like calling me a nigga.

(46:48):
He was like, yeah, but I didn't call you a nigga.
That's why I called you a boy. I was like, oh.
I was like, and I said oh. And then and
then little the little assistant match come over. It was like,
is there a problem? Is there a problem, Stanley? Is
there a problem? I see what's going on here? And

(47:09):
I'm like this was this. I was like, this customer
called me a boy, but he meant to call me
a nigga. And he was like hey, look and he goes, hey,
I didn't say it right, and I'm like oh, and
he was like. And then the manager, the assistant manager,
he goes when he goes to step in between us,

(47:30):
he doesn't mind. Dude, he didn't touch the white guy.
He puts his hand on my chest and pushes me back,
and I said, and I tapped his hand. I was like,
what the hell are you brushing me off for? I'm
not the one being you know, talked to in that matter.
He was like, you just need to learn your place.
And I was like, I was like, nigga, suck a thing.

(47:52):
I was like, you and him can suck a thing.
He was like, what's this land? Where? Look? Where's this
linkage coming from? Like? Women? Hold now they ask you
about language because you said yeah, man straight up said
boy to you, but now they're concerned about sucking language,
like standy, you get propped to me for not smacking

(48:13):
the ship out of people. To be honest, that's the
boss of this place, one of the boss of the place.
Your job is to protect the employees the customers. Is
not always right. He was just like, you know what,
stand I'm done with your I'm done with your shenanigans,
your fire on fire. That's how we're gonna do all right. Cool,
Later I'm gonna get downstairs and get my ship and

(48:34):
I'm out of here. It was like, yeah, yeah, do that,
do that, and so I'll go downstairs. Mind you, this
is back when the only Jordan's that were really we
had with never the They were only like the black
and red ones and the red and white. And it
wasn't like the they were season They weren't looking around
year round. Staple. Yeah, I used to do all the inventory.

(49:00):
So I went downstairs and being for Brooklyn, you always
carry you like Brooklyn kids, you always carry backpacks because
you always have like change his shirt, underwear. It's two
brushs because you never know, you know, if some dudes
used to have that, yes, like a weapon in the
back like the gun or whatever, totally whatever. So I
go down there, I put all my stuff. I take

(49:21):
off my witch comb Us athletic shirt, throw that ship,
put on my whatever shirt and then I look up
and I'm like, shot, yeah, we just got the Jordan's said,
and I took my back. Then my size was nine
and a half. So I took five red and black
nine and a half, and then I we had the
black and blues. I took five of those nine and
a halfs. And then you know how the old way

(49:43):
used to tie cardboard up with the twine, you know that? Yeah,
so I went We had five there, five there, and
we had the little handle with the hook. So I
put one up there, put my backpack up, walked upstairs.
He was at the top of the stairs. I dropped
the drop, the drop both both of these things, both
their boxes of Jordan's. I said, I dare you to

(50:06):
say something? And I did the stand like dare you
to say something? And he and I took off my glasses.
He saw the seriousness my face. He stepped to the side.
I walked by. The dudes in the back was like,
hit me up on my I said, hit me and
I walked out the door, walked out the door, and

(50:27):
then I think that was it. So he got back
to me like, hey, yo, your mom is looking for you.
She said, you got mail at the crib. You need
to come in because it looks important. And I was
like all right. So next day I go to my
go to my mom's house, you know, we hang out whatever.
She was like, oh, yeah, by the way, you got
this mail, and I'm like, I don't know. I was like,

(50:49):
I opened it. Bull check both because I they gave
they sent me my check, like sent me and fill
me and I didn't. I didn't even and I even
I got like I got fired on that Friday. So
they paid me for that one and that was like
the first week, so they gave me an extra week

(51:10):
of pay. That's that boy Fair, give me that boy seven.
Thank you, Stanley, thank you very much for that story.
We appreciate you, man, and good luck to you and
your family out there and stat Island man holding down,
Thank you for listening. Man. Thank you. It's the job Fair.

(51:30):
We'll be right back. Job Fair. We're bringing it home.
So I want to talk with someone that has worked
in television for quite a while. And third, you're gonna
love this NHL drafted work. How do you go from

(51:54):
hockey to TV? We got to figure that out, and
we're gonna find out a little bit more about the
television show that they just um that they just moved
over to Comedy Central. Stephen Colbert Prevents presents Tuning Out
the News. J G. Who do we have the It's
r J Freed. R J has many talents right now
he is the show runner, executive producer, writer and performer

(52:16):
of an animated series, and that show is Stephen Colbert Presents,
Like you said, Roy, Tuning Out the News, which airs
on Wednesday nights on Comedy Central after the Daily Show.
It's Emmy nominated and it highlights topical news of the day.
So welcome, r J. Thank you so much for having me.

(52:39):
It's an honor now, r J. Welcome aboard the job
fair and uh, you all do wonderful work over there.
And I actually low key, I'll be honest tuning Out
the News. Uh, since it came on board over a
Comedy Central. It's one of those shows that I envy
to a degree because animation gives you so much more
crazy things that you can because it's not rooted in

(53:01):
the three D universe, and you can send the correspondence
to all of the places that we don't have a
budget for it the daily show anymore. So in that regard,
it's the truth is the truth, jol And I'm sorry,
I'm not talking ship. We've got no money. We got
no money. We gotta send clipport all the good ship overseas.

(53:23):
I get sent to Atlanta and a kayak to ruin
my goddamn nikes. About those shop there were nice shoes.
I didn't know that we were actually getting a fucking kayak.
They said we were doing whatever. R J. Tell us
a little bit. Let's let's talk about the show first,
because the thing that's interesting about too or not the
news is that you'll also have the ability to satirize

(53:46):
a lot of different styles. Yeah. So this show started
out on CBS All Access, and then we moved the
Paramount Plus and now we're on COMMU Central. It's so
what it is. It's a show where we combine animated
Thank you so much for you can buy an animated
news anchors who talked to real people, and we've developed
this pipeline where we can actually do same day animation,

(54:06):
which is wild and fun and uh, you know, like
you said, Roy, I think the great part is that,
you know, sometimes it's nice to wear a mask when
you're doing common. Uh, it's nice for Sasha Baron Cohen
to be able to dip in the bow rat. It's
nice for Stephen Colbert to dip into Stephen Colbert the
character because that thing gets away with so much more

(54:26):
exactly what you're saying, And there was there's been times
where remember sitting in at It with Steven and we
did some bit about you know something dark, what you know,
whatever it may be, and he he was just like,
I could never say, I could never put my face
behind that joke. It's it's the fact that it has
animated character some some lets the medicine go down a
little easier. How did you all figure out that process

(54:48):
with the animation because I know South Park is usually
on a six day production schedule with most of their stuff.
But yeah, is it like without giving away you know,
the secret rescue piece and all that is the idea
you figure out, Okay, we know this will be the
basic structure or location of the thing, and then we

(55:09):
figure out how to tie it to something current because
I mean That's what's so fascinating about the show is
that it's animated, but it's talking about that just happened
this week last week. Yeah, it's wild and the technology
allowed for the show to happen. And so what I
can I mean, I can speak to you know, this
is a lot of Adobe products. They developed this product
called Adobe Animator, where um, it's a motion capture with

(55:31):
just you know, your web camera on your on your computer.
So you develop these kind of two dimensional puppets essentially,
and as you move, the puppet moves, and so what
happens is it's wild. And so we have these guests
come on. We'll be in a Zoom studio and so
we have the performers. They're all wearing Mike's kind of
like what I'm wearing right now, and uh, they will

(55:53):
go through and perform the script simultaneous that that there's
animators all over the country who are actually playing the
character and moving them. And so what happens in an
edit that audio, that video all gets married up, graphics,
you know, video clips, everything gets all married up and
becomes a show that night. So it comes together with

(56:13):
a course of like five or six hours. It's this
shows an excellent brother. By the way, that if y'all
pulling him together in four or five hours based off
the current news stream extra props as the production guy.
That's that's impressive man. So r J, you've done a
lot this business. You've you know, work with Old David

(56:37):
let him in the Late Show. He was over there
with Lawrence O'Donnell over the MSNBC. You ran with Robin
Big on MTV, Johnston, Stephen Conan O'Brien, and you know,
I've been working on some of your Emmy nominated stuff
for Young Fairview of on Comedy Central WASHINGTONY shout out
to them. But before that, you were in the inn

(57:06):
h L from Harvard. Well, lord grad from Harvard was like,
let me go play this hackey thank you book, yacht
down stuff. Georgia girl pulled us up. Did you get
drafted at Harvard? So the NHL draft you're eligible when
you're like seventeen eighteen years old. So I was drafted
after It's like baseball thing, just claim you and then
send you off to college to go do whatever exactly.

(57:26):
I should note I did not play a game in
the NHL. So what happened was so I went off
to college, played four years. I was drafted by the
Florida Panthers and would do their kind of rookie camps
are in the summer, all the different stuff. Uh. And
then after college I graduated the lockout year in two
thousand four, the NHL there was no NHL. There was
just the kind of minor leagues and and all that,

(57:47):
And so I went off to play. I don't I
wasn't good enough to play in the NHL, uh, you know,
at least at that time. And so I went off
to play. I think, you know, around that time, I
signed with the the Ottawa Senators and I went to
the rookie camp scott to play with some fantastic players.
I think the peak of my career kind of knew
where I was ready to move on. I don't know

(58:08):
if you know the goalie Dominic Kashik, he's one of
the great gullies of all time. He was just keep
up j Sorry we actually explain, go ahead. Legendary goalie

(58:29):
he was because of the lockout, he was playing in
the minor leagues with a little all me um got
to shoot on him, play with him, and then and
then finally I got I was in the shower and
it was just me and Dominic Kashik and I thought,
I've I'm showering with one of the greatest schools of
all time. I think I'm ready to move on. Yeah,

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and so it doesn't get any better than this. So yeah,
well the players all shower together in the locker room.
Understand that, but it's just you and him. I understand
you're not right next to each other. But you thought
this was exciting. Yeah, thank you, r J. I'm listening.

(59:09):
R J. If you took the show with Michelle Obama
to be one of the greatest moments in your life,
you never tell anyone that I'm sorry, it's okay. So
what happened was I started to love comedy around this time,
and uh, you know, I thought, do I want to

(59:30):
be I want to ride a bus around you know,
the minor leagues, or or go off to Los Angeles
and and uh, you know, sit at a computer make
jokes and decided I'd rather do the latter, and so
so quit and uh and went and did that? Love it?
Love it? You seem so calm and collected. Do you
like throw things at the wall or eat too many

(59:50):
Eminem's I mean when everything is everything so quickly, what
are you doing? R J? I'm curious. It helps to
have the hockey background because that is a very intense
environment and it's very tough. I remember one time Michael
Strahan was on was on Lighterman and you know, the
letterman saying what time you have to wake up to
do It was a good morning America or whatever you
said five am. And Dave was like, oh my god,

(01:00:11):
how the hell do you do that? Michaels like playing
in the NFL, this is this is nothing, you know,
and so I think having gone through that that the
boot camp that is, you know, college hockey and pro hockey,
it makes a lot of this stuff, you know, much
more manageable. I would say, Okay, the show is Stephen
Colbert Presents Tuning Out the News. It is Wednesday night

(01:00:34):
on Comedy Central after the Daily Show. Brother r J. Free,
thank you so much for coming on the job Fair
and do what you can to stay stress free. Thank
you so much, big fan of you all. Thanks so much.
Thank you have a good one, all right, take care.
That's the show, Royce. Job Fair is a product of
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(01:00:54):
Another My last day in the books. Royce job Fair
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ignor as Stanley Damn still enjoying stuff. I respect that.
I respect that. I don't like anybody leaving with new

(01:01:17):
shoes from the place they got fired. I like that.
How you go out anyway? Back to the regular scheduled business.
Next week, I'll probably talk about some finances. Maybe we'll
meet Champagne lady. I'm not sure which one, which one
one set up first, We'll figure it out. We'll fade
that out internal conversations later. Um, it's been good. But

(01:01:41):
before we go, you know, I just want to ask
both of y'all. You know, uh, what do you need
for me to be successful? Damn? I have a full
email coming to you. Trust me to juggling like I
already know what I mean. I gotta listen you catch me, slippers, computers,

(01:02:04):
I got all kinds of stuff before you've been listening.
Damn that catching me before another pack of back. This
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