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The Strawberry Letter, heard on The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Friday, August 29th, 2025. Subject: "My Boss Wants To Whip Me"

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Time now for today's Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
And if you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting,
and more. Please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey
at them dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
We could be reading your letter alive on the air,
just like.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We're going to read this one right here, right now,
and you never know, it could be yours, but none
of them, No.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Fucking up, Hold on type we got for you here.
It is a Strawberry letter.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Subject my boss wants to whip me again. A disclaimer
if you have young children anywhere around you, you do
not want them to hear this letter, okay, Dear Stephen Shirley.
It says I'm a thirty one year old single black man,
and about two months ago I was not ready to
settle down yet, so I was mingling and dating. After

(00:48):
countless failures with meeting women, I finally came across a
much older woman who was on the same page that
I was on. She only wanted sex and that's it.
She invited me to her house one evening, and from
the moment I got there, it started getting heated. We
were kissing and grinding on her sofa and as it
was about to go down. She left me on the

(01:10):
sofa and went upstairs to her room, and she told
me to give her ten minutes. So I undressed and
went upstairs, and it was pitch black. She told me
where to go, and I followed her voice into a
room where all I heard was jingling keys and metal clinging,
and something that sounded like a towel was hitting a mattress.

(01:33):
The noises stopped suddenly, and she said, I got something
for you, baby, and the lights came on. There were
four adult toys of different shapes and sizes, and she
was wearing a dog collar with a lot of gold
chains hanging from it. I looked over in the corner
and there was a huge dog cage on a platform.

(01:56):
She took up her launcherae and I stood there in disbelief.
I asked where the dog was, because I don't like dogs.
She pulled out a belt and told me to get
in the cage while she whipped me several times on
my beer behind. I turned and ran so fast that

(02:18):
I almost fell down the stairs in the dark. I
ended up leaving my hat and my shirt, but I
left with my dignity. I did you now what I
failed to do, what I failed to mention, is that
she's my direct supervisor and she's very unhappy with how
I left. She's giving me major attitude because she wants

(02:40):
a do over. I really need my job, So how
do I fix this without getting whipped?

Speaker 1 (02:48):
What it's doing?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Long with your boss? You convenient left out the fact
that this woman was your boss. You conveniently left that
out until the very last part of the letter, and
that's because you probably knew we were going to tell you.
This was a very stupid move on your part. But

(03:14):
I do have to tell you this. I'm glad you
got out. I'm glad you survived it, even though you
almost fell down the stairs in the pitch black. You
said you guys talked about this beforehand, and she you
guys were on the same page.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't think so. I don't think you're on the
same page at all. You got to get out of there.
Either you're going to have to.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Transfer to a different department, or you're going to have
to get another job somewhere else. You should be interviewing
and doing all that you can do to make that
happen right now, And no matter how bad her attitude
is she is your boss, and you said she's giving
you major attitude. Whatever you do, there are no do overs.
Do not go back to that lady's house next time.

(03:57):
She might tell you to get in the cage, lock
you up with those jingling keys you heard in the dark.
Her kind of freakiness is a little different, and you
can really get hurt with all the whipping and stuff,
and this is just too crazy. Stay away from her,
do your job until you leave, and then when you
get out of there, don't look back.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
But please get out and get out now.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Steve, this is one of those letters. Well, I'm gonna
use as a teaching moment a lot of young brothers
listening to this show. Uncle Steve is gonna walk you
through some things that you need to know when faced

(04:41):
with anything similar to this. Let's go now. He starts
off by telling us who he is. He's a thirty
one year old single black man, and he said, very confusingly,
about two months ago, I was not ready.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
To settle down yet.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
I don't know where that came from, because this whole
letter has nothing about you wanting a commitment of any kind.
So you're just telling us a start you're thirty one
years old and you single ready to mingle. That's what
you should have said. So I was mingling and dayton,
that's all you had to say. Though, after countless failures
with meeting women's, no, they weren't.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
They weren't countless failures.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
You're not looking for a commitment, So anytime relations fail,
it's what you weren't committed to. Anyway, after countless failures, well,
you didn't want no successes. It was just dating and mingling,
So let's just stay honest, brothers. I finally came across

(05:42):
a much older woman who was on the same page.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
That I was on. She only wanted sex and that's it.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
She invited me to her house one evening, and from
the moment I got there, it started getting heated. We
was kissing and grinding on the sofa. He was about
to go down. She left me on the sofa.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Here's the key.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
She left me on the sofa and went upstairs to
her room, and she told me to give.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Her ten minutes. But nah, yo didn't listen, Yo stupid.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Right after that said, so, I undressed and went upstairs
and it was pitch black boy, you got naked too early.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
All right, hold that thought right there byright there, we've
all heard it.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
We all welcome.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Know Tommy, I know.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Two of your response. Coming up to Steve at twenty
three minutes after.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
The hour today Strawberry letter, subject my boss wants to
whip me. We'll be back right after you're listening Steve
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(07:29):
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let's recap this letter. The subject is please. There is
a disclaimer with this letter if you have small children.
My boss wants to whip me.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Thirty one year old young man is very confused about
what he wants and what he's expecting out of the
results from what he's actually doing.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
He's dating and mingland around. He's serious, he only want
to settle down.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
So now he's saying, been meeting women dating in all
failure after failure because you don't want nothing. And it
just proves that you don't want nothing, because you said
right after this, after countless failures and meeting women, I
finally came across as much older woman who was on
the same page, and I was one.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
She only wanted sex and that s it.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
See, boy, You've been wanting to get in relationships to
women that only want sex and that's it, and then
when it don't work out, you consider that a failure.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Everybody don't want to sign up for this foolishness.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Ah, but you to find this older lady though, ain't
got no problem with it. So you meet her, y'all
on the same page, invite you to a house. Soon
as you got there, you grind it on the couch.
It's hot, heated, itne got good boy. She left you
on the sofa, went upstairs to her room and told

(08:56):
you to give her ten minutes. Yo, jump it can't
wait ten minutes? Why cause you young? After she said,
give her two minutes. Your reaction was so I undressed
and went upstairs and it was pitch black.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
What is your tap? Your fault? She said?

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Ten minutes you up down too early and your neked.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
You took your clothes off, two things, and.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
Then went upstairs and left your clothes downstairs.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
How stupid is yo?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Don't ever have your clothes somewhere you can't reach them.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's the lesson. Ruh, there's so many lessons in this letter.
Then I'm dressing with them, saying it was pitch black.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's cause you too merrily, she said ten minutes, she
ain't set up yet, no laid on. She told me
where to go, and I followed her voice in two
a room right here, never be naked, ended dark following voices. Stupid,

(10:12):
I'm following the voice into a room where all I
heard was jingling keys and metal clinging and something that
sounded like a towel hitting the mattress.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
What and you kept walking towards the jingling.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
And the towel hitting the mattress, and your naked and KC.
Do you understand how stupid you are? The noises stopped suddenly,
and she said, I got something for you, baby.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
And then the lights came on.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
That was four adult toys of different shapes and sizes,
and she was wearing a dog collar with a lot
of gold chains hanging from it.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
I looked over in the corner.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
That was a huge dog cage on the platform. See
I would have missed. All listen why because I'm old.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
First of all? All our all she to her was
for me down stairs. You ready.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Been a bout twelve minutes. Now what you doing? But
all list because of the unknown. I have my clothes
on it just in case she says something crazy from
upstands I can get on out the house downstairs and.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Never speak to her here. But now you're a neked upstairs, gum.
See nah, she cut the light on. You.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
Look over in the corner, it's a huge dog cage on.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
The platform on the platforms he hendy dog cage doing
the more platform.

Speaker 4 (11:51):
She took off her lungerie and I stood there in disbelief.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Probably cause you nicked, know your nicked.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
I asked where the dog was because I don't like dogs.
See right there, your black thump stairs with the potential
German shepherd somewhere raw. So now you in the cage.
You looking over there at the cage. You don't like dogs.
Potential German shepherd rot Wilder could be in the room,

(12:20):
but now you can.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
And now you and that nicked.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Now the reason this ain't working out for you food
because your nickd she's getting whipped and asked to get
in the cage. Is different when you fully clothed. But
now you nicked and your closing downstairs, and the reason
she can whoop you cross your.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's caught you niked, it's out.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I turned and ran so fast, almost fell down the
steps in the dark because you're slipping on them coffee,
cause your clothes downstairs. I ended up leaving my hat
and shirt cause you couldn't find them, because you got
to keep your clothes where you can see them and

(13:06):
reach them. Now you'd have left your cat, you'd left
your hat and your shirt. Oh that's DNA, Jo dumb ass.
I to get Brady will.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Now come to find out this your boss.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
She wont to do over now, she got attitude. When
I come back, I'm just gonna give you ten seconds
of what your solution is for this stupid stairs knicker.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Anybody told you to come up there yet we'll be back. Well,
he is an employee, is what this is?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
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Speaker 1 (14:17):
All right, See right before we get to sports talk,
you had a couple.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Of more lik a just clothes off this man and
Benom says naked would found out who was his boss,
and she was whipping him while he was naked, told
him to get in this big dog cage. And now
he back at work, and the boss got an attitude
because she wants.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
A do over.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
He really need his job and he know how he
don't know how to handle this situation. So now let
me explain something to young boy. You're gonna have to
give her a doue over. Keep your job. No, see
y'all shut up, You shut up, sureley, you answered Joe letter.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
He thirty one, he can handle list.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Go back in that door. Can No, he don't go
back in there. He got to get a do over.
He got to control this situation.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
The dool is at a whotel. Can't bring all these
big dog cages through that lobby, all these platforms and stuff.
You gonna get your.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Do over is at the hotel and tell her you
bring in your own trunk of toys and they gonna
be tho four door toys of different sizes, because you're
gonna end up wearing something if you ain't here now,
coming there with some with a velvet rope, some fuzzy

(15:32):
handcuffs that don't click, a feather tickler that don't do
no damage, that can't push nothing. See, you gotta gotta
have your little sex toys. Have to have control on it.
And can't have nothing here with the battery on it,
because that because that has switches with levels on it.
You that'll get out of control anything on high. It's

(15:54):
gonna be shocking to your Can't let nothing have a
switch on it, that can go to high high.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
It's dangerous. Okay, that's all I want. Yes, call her
question what if on this do over?

Speaker 5 (16:12):
She doesn't like it because she's still his supervisor.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Well, you just didn't like it. I ain't who you
thought I was. Run out of this house, wants to be.
You already know I ain't up to who you thought
I was. Yes, I'm scared of dogs. You got a
dog cage. Now we're gonna have a due over. But
I got a hotel and I have everything in there.

(16:36):
Now you ain't coming there. You had attitude sex, that's
all right. This ain't what I wanted. Well, you know this,
This is all I got.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Is this just one time? We do this due over
and then that's it.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
If you do it and you don't do it, well,
she ain't gonna want to have nothing else to do
with you.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
But at least you'll keep your job to make naked decisions.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Though it's hard.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
He was right.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Left with his dignity.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Nothing with a battery and a switch, he said.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
He came in his finger and get out of hands.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
No medium and high something. You get the Steve.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Tower right after this. You're listening to the Steve Harvey
Morning Show,
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Shirley Strawberry

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