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Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, war are the roses.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm gonna get into some real talk here right now, okay,
and I want you to be part of it. So
he sends the flowers to this alley girl, which happens
to be somebody that he works with and the person
that he's talking about, which, by the way, did you
catch the comment that was said at the end by Clara,
which she said, practically a teenage girl like when he was.
(00:31):
She was referring to her and her age.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But card's not anything.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I think that sounds like there's anything more going on
than just they're working together. But is this lending itself
towards something potentially happening when all of a sudden he's
changing the way that he is with the people that
he's working with, and he's spending more time with them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You say, so Anna, you believe that that's.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You're talking to me?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I heard him.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think that it doesn't. Maybe something's
not actively happening right now, but to me, it sounds
like he might want something to happen, and sending these
flowers is sort of like a foot in.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Even though he didn't send the roses, even though there
wasn't anything incriminating. I'm saying this and air quotes on
the card. I still think that it is weird that
you choose to send flowers to your intern versus your wife.
And furthermore, and I think about this a lot when
it comes to people sending flowers to their coworkers. Wouldn't
you use the company card? Doesn't that have to be
(01:39):
all maybe sure on company money?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Interesting? Right, Maybe he did, though maybe he already did.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Maybe he already has. But what I'm saying is, in
this case said.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He send flowers out, and he was going to send
flowers again. Maybe he's sending more than just that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
If it's a company thing, you don't send the free
flowers there. You use the company card so that it's
all accounted for.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You feel any different that he didn't send the roses
and asks for like mixed or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Does that change things?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Honestly, I think that it's probably not smart to not
send the flowers to your wife, But I don't We
didn't get into it with him his reasoning of why
he chose to send a free set of flowers to somebody.
That's just, you know, that's we always do it because
it's the top of mind. The cards in what we
do by asking you to leave a voice card is
(02:27):
to try to see what the relationship is. There's no relationship,
it sounds like, but there could be the part that
I think is worse than him and now hanging out
with these guys. Is that happy houring and going to employees'
houses or whatever, because that's something If he's never was
doing that before, why is he doing it now?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Because he wants to spend time with her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And anybody that's ever had this where their spouse or
you know, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife started hanging out
with coworkers. If they start hanging out with co workers,
does it always lead to them cheating? Or maybe they
are building a team I'm going to be in all fairness,
we when we have somebody new come to the show.
We had it recently when Anna came to the show,
we start hanging out more and we start doing more
(03:08):
things more you know, quote unquote team building, and it
becomes a thing that you do to try to get
everybody up to speed, so to speak, on everybody's you know.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But you're buying me a Starbucks and he's sending someone
flowers to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's very different.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, also, you're not an intern. You are a new permanent.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Member of our show and that and that is honestly
something we've when we had interns, and we did used
to have interns, I always made it a point to
never hang out with interns because of I thought it
looked inappropriate. Some people that worked with us did hang
out with interns, and I thought that that was wrong,
Like go to concerts and things with interns. I don't
think it's a good idea to go to a concert
or go to an event or do something where it's
(03:49):
just you in an intern.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
What's up, Emily.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
High, Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We're good, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I just have to.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Say that him saying I'll deal with her later.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I just feel like that is so disrespectful.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
That is not how you speak about your life.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But she gave it back to him, and I liked that.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
She definitely did not, you know, sit there and cower
to what he was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She pulled it back on him. What's up, Amanda, good morning?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
So kind of like what you guys are saying. I
work in HR and I just think this is so inappropriate.
Even if there isn't necessarily like a romantic dynamic here.
You should not be sending flowers to your coworkers most
of the time, unless you know it's like bereavement or
like a team gift. Right, But when you're dealing with
(04:47):
someone who's like in their early twenties, like Shannon said, like,
the difference is she is an intern, and there needs
to be that divide there. I don't want to say
for sure, like, yeah, this guy's in first in her romantically,
but it is super inappropriate and I would definitely wonder
if like this is behavior that he's done in the
(05:08):
past and has like a power dynamics thing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Talk to me about human resource looking at certain things
that you do with certain coworkers. Uh, if you are
a person in human resources, have you ever seen a
situation where even just hanging out at a happy hour
could be considered inappropriate?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah? So I also specifically work with my company's intern department,
so I am like in charge of all of them
as like a cohort, I guess, and like we do
social events. You know, we'll go to like a football game,
you know, get a suite, or like we'll do lunch,
you know, things like that. As a broader group, and
(05:50):
it's like I'm not the only I don't know what
else to say other than like time worker, you know
what I mean, Like I'm not the only grown up.
I guess yeah, I would never put myself in a
situation where I am like one on one with an intern,
especially gender.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, there are we're different rules with interns and just coworkers,
That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I personally believe that it should be just because there
is a power dynamic there, especially as the ages like
separate as I, like get older and I'm farther away
from the age of the Like I have a rule
where I don't like or have, like the interns don't
have my cell phone number unless they were to get
hired on like full time after Like I set a
(06:41):
strict divide that was like a divide that was set
for me when I interns, and I just think that
it's like best for all parties involved. Like if I
were to see one of them out in public, like
I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't go up and be like, oh,
let's do shots, whereas like another coworker might like sit
(07:02):
down and have a drink with I think you really
just have to have that different divide because it's a
slippery slope, and like they're so impressionable, they're so eager
to please and wanting to grow in their careers. It's
very risky.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hr Amanda, I appreciate your call. I mean a lot
of interesting stuff in there, and it makes you think
if you ever are out and you're with you know, coworkers,
if you are the person that is the considered to
be I don't know, the boss or superior, you got
to be careful of the position you put yourself into.
I still think that people who you're even on the
(07:37):
same playing field need to be careful because you never
know if somebody accuses you of something. Megan, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Hi? I think Lincoln is a big sat cheater based
on not only his actions but his reaction. I think
it's super suspicious to be sneaking around with an intern,
let alone a young girl going to these happy hours
all of a sudden, and his reaction acting like that
towards his wife. I think if he's not cheating, she
needs to leave him anyway, kick him to the curb
and be done because he should not be acting like that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Boy you got yourself an opinion on that one. You
just went right for it. She needs to leave him,
you say.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I think she does. I mean based on everything, even
just him being suspicious, him sending her flowers over his
own wife. I think he has his priorities pretty straight,
and it seems like she's not one of them. So
I think she needs to leave him and find someone better.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's Meghan by the way, Illy, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
First time, long time.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, okay, so this guy says, why are you messing
with my work?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Like, bro, why are you messing with your marriage?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He definitely you know, did not back down, but he
said some stuff is going to come back and bite
him in the ass.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah. He had no respect for her for.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sure, not at all. Thank you for the call. What's up, Larry?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I do believe that he's in a warm up period.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What do you mean he may not.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Be physically, Yeah, he may not physically.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Be cheating, yet in his mind he probably is, and
he's warming her up to it, sending you absolutely absolutely,
there's no other way around it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, have you ever warned anybody yet?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
When I was in my twenties, yeah, he was in
the bullet now so right.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Still, Yeah, and you gotta be careful now you got
kids that age, you gotta be careful that you can't
be hanging out with some of the younger people in
your office.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I think it's interesting if he didn't talk back the
way that he talked back and kind of just played
it like, you know, yeah, I guess there's nothing on
because he didn't get defensive. I'm going to tell you something.
There was nothing defensive on him. He was like, yeah,
I'm sending the flowers and I don't care, you.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think that we would have had a little bit
of a different reaction to this war of the roses.
I think we always sat there and said, oh, maybe
there isn't anything going on. He's just sending flowers to
somebody that he wants to welcome to the office, and
who knows. We know, we don't have expense accounts, air
anything free, you know what I mean. I'm not defending him,
but if your wife does call you and puts you
(10:29):
on a radio, when don'd you get a little defensive?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well yeah, I mean of the whole idea of that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, you're right, but if you feel like you got
nothing going on, be like, yeah, there's nothing wrong there.
War of the Roses. If you want to comment on this,
we want to hear from you. We're going to post
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(10:57):
in the morning and tell us what you think.
All right, war are the roses.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm gonna get into some real talk here right now, okay,
and I want you to be part of it. So
he sends the flowers to this alley girl, which happens
to be somebody that he works with and the person
that he's talking about, which, by the way, did you
catch the comment that was said at the end by Clara,
which she said, practically a teenage girl like when he was.
(00:31):
She was referring to her and her age.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
But card's not anything.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I think that sounds like there's anything more going on
than just they're working together. But is this lending itself
towards something potentially happening when all of a sudden he's
changing the way that he is with the people that
he's working with, and he's spending more time with them.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You say, so Anna, you believe that that's.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
You're talking to me?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I heard him.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah, yeah, No, I think that it doesn't. Maybe something's
not actively happening right now, but to me, it sounds
like he might want something to happen, and sending these
flowers is sort of like a foot in.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Even though he didn't send the roses, even though there
wasn't anything incriminating. I'm saying this and air quotes on
the card. I still think that it is weird that
you choose to send flowers to your intern versus your wife.
And furthermore, and I think about this a lot when
it comes to people sending flowers to their coworkers. Wouldn't
you use the company card? Doesn't that have to be
(01:39):
all maybe sure on company money?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Interesting? Right, Maybe he did, though maybe he already did.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Maybe he already has. But what I'm saying is, in
this case said.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He send flowers out, and he was going to send
flowers again. Maybe he's sending more than just that.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
If it's a company thing, you don't send the free
flowers there. You use the company card so that it's
all accounted for.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
You feel any different that he didn't send the roses
and asks for like mixed or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Does that change things?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Honestly, I think that it's probably not smart to not
send the flowers to your wife, But I don't We
didn't get into it with him his reasoning of why
he chose to send a free set of flowers to somebody.
That's just, you know, that's we always do it because
it's the top of mind. The cards in what we
do by asking you to leave a voice card is
(02:27):
to try to see what the relationship is. There's no relationship,
it sounds like, but there could be the part that
I think is worse than him and now hanging out
with these guys. Is that happy houring and going to employees'
houses or whatever, because that's something If he's never was
doing that before, why is he doing it now?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Because he wants to spend time with her.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
And anybody that's ever had this where their spouse or
you know, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife started hanging out
with coworkers. If they start hanging out with co workers,
does it always lead to them cheating? Or maybe they
are building a team I'm going to be in all fairness,
we when we have somebody new come to the show.
We had it recently when Anna came to the show,
we start hanging out more and we start doing more
(03:08):
things more you know, quote unquote team building, and it
becomes a thing that you do to try to get
everybody up to speed, so to speak, on everybody's you know.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But you're buying me a Starbucks and he's sending someone
flowers to me.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's very different.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Yeah, also, you're not an intern. You are a new permanent.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Member of our show and that and that is honestly
something we've when we had interns, and we did used
to have interns, I always made it a point to
never hang out with interns because of I thought it
looked inappropriate. Some people that worked with us did hang
out with interns, and I thought that that was wrong,
Like go to concerts and things with interns. I don't
think it's a good idea to go to a concert
or go to an event or do something where it's
(03:49):
just you in an intern.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
What's up, Emily.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
High, Hi, how are you guys?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
We're good, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I just have to.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Say that him saying I'll deal with her later.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I just feel like that is so disrespectful.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
That is not how you speak about your life.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
But she gave it back to him, and I liked that.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
She definitely did not, you know, sit there and cower
to what he was trying to say.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She pulled it back on him. What's up, Amanda, good morning?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
So kind of like what you guys are saying. I
work in HR and I just think this is so inappropriate.
Even if there isn't necessarily like a romantic dynamic here.
You should not be sending flowers to your coworkers most
of the time, unless you know it's like bereavement or
like a team gift. Right, But when you're dealing with
(04:47):
someone who's like in their early twenties, like Shannon said, like,
the difference is she is an intern, and there needs
to be that divide there. I don't want to say
for sure, like, yeah, this guy's in first in her romantically,
but it is super inappropriate and I would definitely wonder
if like this is behavior that he's done in the
(05:08):
past and has like a power dynamics thing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Talk to me about human resource looking at certain things
that you do with certain coworkers. Uh, if you are
a person in human resources, have you ever seen a
situation where even just hanging out at a happy hour
could be considered inappropriate?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah? So I also specifically work with my company's intern department,
so I am like in charge of all of them
as like a cohort, I guess, and like we do
social events. You know, we'll go to like a football game,
you know, get a suite, or like we'll do lunch,
you know, things like that. As a broader group, and
(05:50):
it's like I'm not the only I don't know what
else to say other than like time worker, you know
what I mean, Like I'm not the only grown up.
I guess yeah, I would never put myself in a
situation where I am like one on one with an intern,
especially gender.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, there are we're different rules with interns and just coworkers,
That's what I was wondering.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
I personally believe that it should be just because there
is a power dynamic there, especially as the ages like
separate as I, like get older and I'm farther away
from the age of the Like I have a rule
where I don't like or have, like the interns don't
have my cell phone number unless they were to get
hired on like full time after Like I set a
(06:41):
strict divide that was like a divide that was set
for me when I interns, and I just think that
it's like best for all parties involved. Like if I
were to see one of them out in public, like
I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't go up and be like, oh,
let's do shots, whereas like another coworker might like sit
(07:02):
down and have a drink with I think you really
just have to have that different divide because it's a
slippery slope, and like they're so impressionable, they're so eager
to please and wanting to grow in their careers. It's
very risky.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Hr Amanda, I appreciate your call. I mean a lot
of interesting stuff in there, and it makes you think
if you ever are out and you're with you know, coworkers,
if you are the person that is the considered to
be I don't know, the boss or superior, you got
to be careful of the position you put yourself into.
I still think that people who you're even on the
(07:37):
same playing field need to be careful because you never
know if somebody accuses you of something. Megan, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Hi? I think Lincoln is a big sat cheater based
on not only his actions but his reaction. I think
it's super suspicious to be sneaking around with an intern,
let alone a young girl going to these happy hours
all of a sudden, and his reaction acting like that
towards his wife. I think if he's not cheating, she
needs to leave him anyway, kick him to the curb
and be done because he should not be acting like that.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Boy you got yourself an opinion on that one. You
just went right for it. She needs to leave him,
you say.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I think she does. I mean based on everything, even
just him being suspicious, him sending her flowers over his
own wife. I think he has his priorities pretty straight,
and it seems like she's not one of them. So
I think she needs to leave him and find someone better.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
That's Meghan by the way, Illy, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
First time, long time.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah, okay, so this guy says, why are you messing
with my work?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Like, bro, why are you messing with your marriage?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
He definitely you know, did not back down, but he
said some stuff is going to come back and bite
him in the ass.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah. He had no respect for her for.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Sure, not at all. Thank you for the call. What's up, Larry?
Speaker 5 (09:07):
I do believe that he's in a warm up period.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
What do you mean he may not.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Be physically, Yeah, he may not physically.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Be cheating, yet in his mind he probably is, and
he's warming her up to it, sending you absolutely absolutely,
there's no other way around it.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, have you ever warned anybody yet?
Speaker 7 (09:32):
When I was in my twenties, yeah, he was in
the bullet now so right.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Still, Yeah, and you gotta be careful now you got
kids that age, you gotta be careful that you can't
be hanging out with some of the younger people in
your office.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I think it's interesting if he didn't talk back the
way that he talked back and kind of just played
it like, you know, yeah, I guess there's nothing on
because he didn't get defensive. I'm going to tell you something.
There was nothing defensive on him. He was like, yeah,
I'm sending the flowers and I don't care, you.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I think that we would have had a little bit
of a different reaction to this war of the roses.
I think we always sat there and said, oh, maybe
there isn't anything going on. He's just sending flowers to
somebody that he wants to welcome to the office, and
who knows. We know, we don't have expense accounts, air
anything free, you know what I mean. I'm not defending him,
but if your wife does call you and puts you
(10:29):
on a radio, when don'd you get a little defensive?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Well yeah, I mean of the whole idea of that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yeah, you're right, but if you feel like you got
nothing going on, be like, yeah, there's nothing wrong there.
War of the Roses. If you want to comment on this,
we want to hear from you. We're going to post
this on TikTok. Make sure that you go check out
channel ninety five to five on TikTok. That's our Detroit
station where all the War of the Roses are. Or
see our Instagram Mojo in the morn or Facebook Mojo
(10:57):
in the morning and tell us what you think.
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