🤦‍♀️ Retail Worker In Trouble For Using The Word 'Mate' In The Workplace

The woman was "completely puzzled and confused" by the exchange.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
There's a retail worker who's been scolded for using a
certain word in the in the workplace. This person was
I'm not sure where they were working, but they used
the word mate. They called a male customer mate or
girl a girl?

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Did she called? Did you know?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Sometimes with those girls and thanks mate? I don't know
about that.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
See, I don't like being called dahl or lovely or
sweetheart offered. It's younger women who say thanks.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Love those over me and earths. Hey darling, how are
you darling?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
People do But so anyway, she got in trouble for that,
and her father was saying, really is this something that
she should be getting in trouble for.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I don't think you'd get in trouble for it. Well,
you know, I don't mean get the sack.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
But reprimanded.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Interesting, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
But if you're going to the bank to get a
loan and they tell he.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Us, thanks mate, thanks han, oh han, I don't mind her.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm going to live with that.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Have you been called hun? Do you call people hun?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
No, No, I don't call people buy those Those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Say buddy, thanks buddy, thanks champ.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
What do you say I don't like that. What do
you say to people?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Thanks mate?

Speaker 1 (01:16):
So you say mate, I do get on your mate.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
But I'm a guy I can say it.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
So you don't think a girl can call a man mate.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
In my world, it's not. And I'm not saying you
can do whatever you want. It's a free country, okay,
we can do what we want here. That's why it's
a beautiful country. I was just going to be Trump there.
It's quite as satisfied.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
But you don't like being You can do what you like,
but don't but a girl don't call me.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
If a girl. If a girl says thanks mate, I
always go okay. Now you just know where you're going
with them. It's like if someone thanks buddy, you go
okay mate. Do you see what's happening man? The world
of I remember once I was at the train station
and a guy said thanks mate, and the guy that
was buying the ticket went off his cracker at the

(02:02):
guy that was selling the ticket for calling him mate.
So don't call me mate, And then the guy selling
the ticket went off his cracker. So they just full
on ding dong donate on.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The platform, ding dong, donny brook.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Ding Dong donny Brook, that's some old Izzy words. And
the guy was just getting stuck into this businessman. So
you had the city rail guy and then the businessman
and I was just at each other.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Some of other things you can get in trouble for
Jack's working at a pub and his friend's working there too,
And on the whiteboard in the staff room, his friend wrote,
it's an obvious joke, management stink, signed Jack, and Jack
got called in to explain.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
But Jack didn't write if I.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Would have written that, signed Jack.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Or possibly the most brilliant thing.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
And he and his friend, because his friends had no idea,
they both had their tips taken away that day.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
These days HR, you can raise an eyebrow at someone
and all of a sudden you're in an HR.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Meeting, or not even just that.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
We all work in offices where we like to think
we have our own space, and we get very protective
of it. If someone takes you staple and you get
in trouble for it. If someone else borrows your kaffee
coffee mug,