August 3, 2025 • 63 mins
Have you ever felt so undervalued at work that you considered taking matters into your own hands? This revealing episode tackles the dangerous territory of workplace revenge and the thin line between feeling justified and crossing ethical boundaries.
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Speaker 2 (01:50):
Thank you so, thank you, so, so Well, here in his
(02:14):
mind, a man that is admired, fun, compassionate, understanding
and very sarcastic.
But hey, that's who he is.
The advice can either be goodor misunderstood, but he does
speak from experience.
So sit back, listen up, volumeup and let's talk about it
no-transcript.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
How's everybody doing out there?
Just letting y'all groove withthis artist.
Her name is Sarah theInstrumentalist.
She didn't have a lot of tracks, but the tracks she did have
they're mostly going to beplaying at the beginning of the
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show.
I want to welcome you all to theshow.
My name is Icon.
Welcome to, let's Talk About it.
I hope everybody's doing good,everybody's having a fantastic
day.
I know I am Fantastic week, buthopefully everybody's doing
alright.
You know I'm feeling good, theweather's good, the world's
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still crazy as shit, but hey,whatever, we gotta get through
this somehow, right?
So?
But you know me, I ain't't thepolitician guy, so there's
enough of that shit going aroundonline, so you damn sure need
to hear from me.
You got 200 and a million andone people that's tuning into
politics and I ain't one of them.
But in any event, oh, I feel sogood when I'm welcoming y'all
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to the show, trying to get backin the swing of things and get
back on my mojo, get back on mygrind.
So the crazy thing is, my damnprinter went out, so I'm going
to be reading this email off myscreen.
What I usually like to do istake the emails, imprint them
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and export them to the printerso I can read it, because I'm
getting older and my eyes justain't what they used to be.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I ain't that old, damn it.
But you know, you know what I'mtrying to say I have to read
from the paper.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You know I like looking important like the news
media, but I have a letter thatcame in anonymous and, like I
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said, when you guys email me,you can remain anonymous.
However, there was no follow-up.
There was a follow-up but theemail that was that it was sent
from was deleted.
So I hope this finds thisperson.
Uh, this podcast finds thisperson and I hope this is advice
that I give you a sound mind,advice, because this letter had
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some, quite some issues in it.
Um, kind of a not really weird,but I understand where this
person's coming from, but we'regoing to get into that.
Kind of not really weird, but Iunderstand where this person is
coming from, but we're going toget into that.
So I entitled this podcast theUnhappy Employee.
I'm not sure where thisemployee comes from or where
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this employee is at, but again,I'm going to read this off my
screen.
Bear with me.
You know I got my vape and Igot my juice and we gonna get
through it.
So here we go.
Oh yeah, and you know you mightget my phone going off, but I
was trying to silence him, but Isaid the hell with it, whatever
this is gonna get.
(09:02):
This is real, it's gonna get,anyways.
Icon icon.
How are you doing today?
I'm fine.
Thanks for asking.
You know it just had to be arough day and you know good week
, and you know it's a hot thing,not a joke.
I choose to remain anonymous dueto what I'm about to tell you.
Don't worry, I'm not confessingmurder or something of that
nature.
Who could think you not?
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Because you know I want to buy.
Knocking at my damn door wasthere, you are a key witness to
this.
No the hell, I'm not, but Ifear I will soon be caught.
But here goes.
I've been working for thiscompany that shall be nameless
due to the backlash you or Imight receive, but I have been
with this company for two yearsnow and it's retail.
(09:45):
First off, I ain't going toreceive no kind of backlash
because this ain't got shit todo with me.
I'm just a guy that's readingyour letter and then you know,
but the person they don't knowwho you are.
So this could be one in abillion people in the world,
preferably probably the UnitedStates because it's letter so
well-written.
Anyways, I've been with thiscompany for two years.
It's retail sales.
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At first it started well and Ireally didn't have any
complaints or issues.
Excuse me, but over the courseof time I started to get
discouraged on how I was beingtreated by management.
I wouldn't say that I'm amodern employee, but in my mind
I was a good employee.
What I meant by that is that Iwas probably late more times
than I should.
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But hey, what difference doesit make if I'm getting the job
done right?
No, not right, we'll get intothat later.
Well, in any event, I come towork, started out as a cashier.
Within four months I waspromoted to assistant manager, I
got a pay increase and thingswere starting to look up, or so
I thought.
This place is like revolvingdoors.
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Some, if not most, employeesusually don't make it past the
90-day period.
I'm not totally sure what isdue.
Could be the company, or itcould be management, I'm not
sure.
Well, with the shortage ofworkers, I've been pulling 50 to
60 hours a week and uh, 60hours sick, 50 to 60 hour shifts
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due to the store manager beingout due to surgery, and that was
fine in the beginning.
But it's gotten to the pointwhere I was ready to quit myself
, but the DM talked with me andsaid whatever I wanted to make
me stay.
So it asked me what I wanted tomake me stay.
So I asked for an increase inpay.
She talked to the higher upsand they said it would be fine.
So my pay was increased.
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I also asked for additionalhelp, and that again worked out
great, or so I thought.
I feel that I have beenoverworked and very underpaid.
So I threatened to quit.
But this time it was a littlebit different.
Instead of more money, my PTOwas increased from two to four
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weeks sorry, give me a second,just texting.
Uh, my pto was increased two tofour weeks off.
I thought that was good at thetime, but again wasn't feeling
it.
So I asked for more money andthey rudely said no, because I'd
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already had a pay increase andthat was it.
So of course, I got into myfeelings.
I wasn't having it.
I felt I was old money.
So I would find a way to make adifference.
This shit don't sound good atall, with whatever and however I
could.
So I started dipping in thehoney pot and at first I was
scared and nervous, but thenknowing I could.
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But first I was scared andnervous, but then knowing I
could get away with it.
So I started taking a littlehere and a little there, because
I work hard and I feel thatwhat I am owed, what I am due,
I'm so tired of corporate greedwhen they're the ones doing all
the work, when we are the onesdoing all the work and most of
them don't have a clue as towhat needs to be done.
They sit behind a desk and barkorders and don't do nothing but
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numbers and money.
They step on us like we're bugsand they don't care.
So why should I?
I'll tell you that in a minute.
I mean, what's the point ofworking for a company that
doesn't appreciate their workers?
Did you know?
I work from sunup to sundown.
Meanwhile the DMs and hires getto go home and chill, relax,
vacation, hang with their kidswhen they want.
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I'm sick and tired.
It's been going, it's it's.
I'm sick and tired.
I am sick and I'm tired of it.
When is it going to be enoughfor me to have a life I want?
I'm sure that I'm wrong forwhat I did, but that time, that
time will come.
The time will come when I takeresponsibility, but for now I
will enjoy the ride because Istill work for them and there's
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still no help.
I'm stressed, and though I don'thave kids, I do have a
boyfriend, which I'm almostpositive he's cheating on me
because I'm never there.
He brings me lunch and then hesays he has to go really quickly
.
But that's another letter foryou.
Hell, at this point he's havingfun, he's having fun, my
friends are having fun and I'mstuck here at this place working
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my ass off.
So, again, I will get what'scoming to me and that's that.
But maybe you understand, maybeyou don't, but I want advice
from you.
You help someone that I know awhile back and I listened to
that podcast and things turnedaround for them.
I don't know if it'll turnaround for me, but at this point
I'm willing to risk it all.
I know you've had some jobs thatyou didn't like and you decided
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to get.
Even so, please share yourthoughts with me.
Well, I say, this letter is notlike any letter that I've ever
had, quite different.
Not only you're admitting aconfession of guilt and a crime
I mean well, a crime of theft,but I don't know.
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I guess that's just why youchoose to remain anonymous, and
that's probably a good thing,why you did, because I don't
like to get's.
I guess this is why you chooseto remain anonymous, and that's
probably a good thing, why youdid, because I don't like to get
in shit and I don't like to getinvolved in shit like that.
In any event, going back throughyour letter, um, you work for
this company, um, for two yearsand you was promoted within a
system manager within fourmonths and you got a pay
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increase.
That's good.
That's good.
Um, I gotta say, if you feltthat you weren't adequately
sufficient in your pay raise, Iprobably would have asked for
more.
You know, I would have askedfor more or I would have walked
plain and simple.
Um, you've been pulling 50 to 60hours a week, damn, because I
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don't pull that much.
Well, I pull that with one job,but that's because the pay is
good and I love the work that Ido.
Now the second job is probablyabout 20 to 25 hours a week.
So, roughly total, I may beworking 70 hours a week, but
still a little time because Ihave two days off back to back.
Um, I can understand yourfrustration, but then again, I
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kind of can't, because I thinkthat if you're working in a
place and you want to be happy,you have to find that happiness
that makes you happy.
Um, I agree with some of thethings that you say in this
letter, that you're tired ofcorporate greed.
Well, here's the thing aboutcorporate greed Not all
companies operate the same.
All companies are different.
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Now, I know that in somecompanies where you see, like
the big wigs or the owner maycome down and they don't pay
attention to the workers butthey pay attention to the
management, and why is that?
I don't know, especially sincewe're the ones who make their
companies go round and we arethe ones who make the money.
Now, everybody has a difficultjob to do in the corporate world
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.
Now I know that when we seethese people, these corporate
people and, yes, I do feel theway that some do like to bark
orders.
For those of you who wondering,I don't work for a corporate
company.
My second job is a corporatecompany.
My first job is ownedindependently.
So, as I said before, I workfor companies that are owned,
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like, either locally orindividually, by either a family
or a person.
Why?
Because I think they know howto treat their people, and the
companies that I have worked for, that I have worked for, have
treated not corporate companiesbut independently owned
companies, they treat theiremployees with respect and they
understand companies.
But independently ownedcompanies, they treat their
employees with respect and theyunderstand.
Now, I may have had maybe one ortwo in my lifetime that was a
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family owned company that didn'ttreat me well, but I just left.
You know, as some of you mightknow, my last job that my pay
had dropped significantly in pay.
I was making $25 an hour andthen they dropped me to 19
because they lost the contractand I had been with this company
for six years and they had themoney they had.
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I mean, they had the work, theyhad the money.
But my pay gets dropped becausethey lose a contract and the
contract wasn't because of me,it was because somebody else
came in and bid and they gavethem, you know, a discount on
what they can do and what theycan do.
So I didn't choose to get evenwith that company.
I just choose to go serve mytalents where they were better
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served and that would be atanother company, which is what I
felt you should have done.
Now, I understand you getting inyour feelings, but let me tell
you something.
I understand you getting inyour feelings, but let me tell
you something.
If a company increases my PTOfrom two to four weeks, you best
believe I'm going to try tomake the best of it if I can, if
I can.
Now you say this company islike a revolving door, so it
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sounds like you know the outsand ends of the way this company
works and, with that being said, you're choosing to do
something that you know is notright, that you can ultimately
get caught.
For you didn't say that thiscompany had cameras.
And let me tell you somethingjust because we think we can get
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away with it doesn't mean weshould do it, because karma does
come around.
What goes around comes around,and when you get caught then
you're left looking stupid Likewell, I didn't think I was going
to get caught.
Trust me, in the end everybodygets caught.
Now I am not one to indulge andsay well, what you did was right
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, because I think what you didwas wrong.
And what if you started dippingin the honeypot?
That means you're stealingmoney for the company.
I don't give a shit how bad acompany treats me.
I would never resort tostealing money or anything from
that company because why?
They have bigger people thanyou do.
Okay, this is what.
This is what their litigatorsdo.
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They do this shit for a livingand they have a fun time doing
it.
They can wreck your life andmake your life a living hell.
Why would you risk that?
Why would you want to risk that?
I wouldn't.
I mean, we've all had shittyjobs.
We've all had companies that wedidn't like.
We've all had people that wedidn't like to work for and we
either did one or two things.
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We either suck it up when we dothe job or we quit, plain and
simple, we quit.
But never would I stoop to alevel to stealing money.
I stole once when I was younger, and that was when I was I
don't even think I was ateenager yet, but I was a new
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and up and coming teenager and Istole something like I said
that I thought resembled a pager, but it was like a heart
monitor from Walmart.
And I tell you, my mom liked towhoop my ass and wrung my damn
neck.
I didn't steal again, I didn't.
It's just not in my nature.
So you talking about um, you'reupset with the corporate people
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because the DM and hires you togo home and chill with you.
That's true.
Listen, I've been in jobs where, like I said before, the
corporation or the company wouldcome down and they don't say
too much to the little people,but they want to talk to their
people, which is management.
Why is that?
And I'm not saying allcompanies are like this, because
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you have some companies thatpay attention to their people.
Now, me personally, I don'tmind meeting these people, but I
know what they come there to do.
Some come there to get straightto the point and talk business.
They don't give a shit aboutyou or anything but the numbers
and the money, and that's somecompanies.
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I'm not speaking for allcompanies, companies that I work
for.
I've seen like I used to workfor Rent-A-Center and the CEO,
which um, was Mark Spieth.
At the time, um came to ourstore and looked at us like we
were just his servants, and Iget it.
You know you have some corporatepeople or some CEOs that think
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that you are beneath them, butsome understand and some don't
understand that we are the oneswho make your company go around.
We are the ones on the frontline, we're the one taking the
shit and you're not.
Anybody can call a corporatenumber and corporate can pick up
and they can listen to them,but when it all comes down to it
, they're not on the front linesand I get it.
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I get it, I definitely get it.
So but that doesn't deter mefrom me being me.
If I'm at a company and I don'tlike the way things are going,
I'm going to find my way out.
If it doesn't, if I'm there andI like my job, I will try to
either use their open doorpolicy I think the open door
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policy sometime is good andsometimes it's just not good Um,
and what I mean by that?
There are some companies thattake that shit seriously.
Other companies like there wasa company I used for using open
door policy where they wentright back and told the lot
manager.
He gets an attitude and comesback down and talks to the
employee and say well, why didyou call them when you could
have just talked to me?
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That's not an open door policy,because an open door policy
should be that you should beable to remain anonymous.
And then that gets filtereddown to your regional or your DM
.
Then your DM has a talk withthat manager or that store
manager or the lot manager,whoever in power, and say hey,
this is what's going on.
We have a complaint againstemployee that, saying that
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you're doing this, this, thisand this, that and the other.
Now I experienced that I wentover a store manager's head, um,
when I was working for acompany, and the backlash I
received is that I got fired,like maybe months later, for
inappropriate use of a discountcard, but I don't give a shit,
because he got served his paperstoo, because apparently he was
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embezzling.
So while I think that whatyou're doing is completely, 100%
wrong, I think in the endyou're going to get caught.
I don't know if you choose tokeep going this route, because
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it's not going to end.
Well, you know people that getcaught embezzling.
It might be a short amount, youmay not be taking 100 here or
100 there, you might be takingsmall amounts, but in the end,
that shit adds up.
So what I'm telling you is thatyou're talking about you're
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going to be along for the ride.
You don't have kids, which isgood.
You're saying you want to riskit all.
I wouldn't, because companieslike if you work for a big
outfit, they can make your lifea living hell.
They can fix it.
So you don't work in the samecity, same state.
This shit will follow youaround.
So my suggestion to you is tostop.
Stop.
If you're stressed out behind ajob that you don't like anymore
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, this is what you do.
You continue to do that jobuntil you find something better,
but never, never, take yourfrustration out on a company
that can pretty much squash youlike the bug that you are or
that you would be.
I'm not calling you above.
That's just what they're goingto think of you, because you got
to remember if you steal from acompany and they put you in
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jail, they go after your damnlivelihood because they have a
point to prove and they havepeople that do this shit for a
living because they have a pointto make.
So I've seen companies do that,you know.
I've seen companies wreckpeople, you know, all over a
little maybe.
Well, shit, I mean, let's behonest.
Let's say hypothetically thatyou're stealing 1500,
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hypothetically that you'restealing $1,500.
Hypothetically that you'restealing that, well, companies
like that just go after thisshit for the hell of it.
They're going to eat you up inlitigation.
They're going to put on courtcosts and fines.
You're going to end up payingall this money.
Is it really worth it to you todo that then?
Not only that, it's going to beon your record.
Is it really worth that?
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It's not.
It really isn't.
You know you're talking about.
You're a model employee andyou're late to work.
Don't give people a reason tonot dislike you but to come down
on you.
If you find a job that you like, be the best person that you
can be.
If you feel that the job is notbeing supportive of you, it's
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simple Find someplace else to go.
You don't have to stay thereand keep taking it, but never in
my life would I resort tostealing something from a
company because I feel I'm oweda higher wage.
You might be owed a higher wage, but you know what you do.
You go find that company that'swilling to risk taking a chance
on you and you prove yourselfto that company so you can get
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the wage.
I think the thing is that's hardfor most of us not, well, most
of y'all because it ain't hardfor me.
I think that when we're in ajob and we're comfortable, we
get complicit and we getcomplacent and then, even though
we know that that job is doingwrong, we don't want to go
somewhere and start all over.
But that's what happens.
You can't come in off the batunless you're highly recommended
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and your resume speaks foritself.
You can't come in heredemanding what you should get
paid.
They want to see what they'reinvesting in.
I'm going to give you anexample.
Give you an example and yes,that example is me Mostly all
retail jobs that I've been in,or any job that I've been in,
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for the exception of some.
I come in, I show up to work.
I don't showboat, I don't showout, I show up when I go in
there and I put my work down.
My work speaks for itself.
I get looked at almost withinmaybe two weeks to a month of
being management.
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Now, the second job that I havenow, my resume was highly to
them, highly qualified to be amanager, a store manager.
I didn't want to be a storemanager, I just wanted to go to
work.
The only reason why I became anassistant manager is because
the store manager I work forshe's a very good woman and we
had lost other managers due toour other manager being out.
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But I had came in here and youknow I'm a quick learner.
I'm a quick learner, I like togo to work.
I don't like to be late if Idon't have to.
But almost any job that I'm in,I immediately get looked at for
management.
You know, it doesn't matterwhat it is, I'm not bragging on
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myself.
I'm confident in what I do, I'mconfident in the work that I do
, I'm confident of my ability todo the job.
And when you do that and whenyou prove yourself to these
people, then that's when themoney starts rolling in.
You know, I had gotten a raise.
I was happy about that.
But again, this is not my breadand butter.
My primary job is where I makemy money and I love that job and
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I'm not leaving that job foranything.
I was asked if I thought about,you know, becoming a store
manager.
I was like no, not really,because I don't really want the
responsibility.
I don't like being barked atover things that I can't control
.
But they want me to control.
So there's certain aspects ofthe business that you can't
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control that they expect you tocontrol.
Like, if you're in retail salesand your sales are down, why
are your sales down?
It's just not one person.
It could be the store as awhole, it could be anything, it
could be inventory issues, itcould be problems with this, it
could be coworker, it could justbe the environment that you're
placed in.
So when you prove yourself tothese people, then that's when
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things start happening.
But you don't start takingthings into your own hand and
saying, well, I'm going to getwhat I'm owed.
You're not only going to getwhat you're going to get owed,
but you're going to get what'scoming to you.
And though you think this rideis a good ride, this ride ain't
going to last forever.
I can tell you that right now.
Excuse me.
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Oh, it's good, so excuse me.
Oh, lord, it's good, so excuseme.
I know sometimes in life we geta little bit jealous of what
people have because we don'thave it.
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I don't have it, I don't getthat way.
I mean, when I'm at my firstjob and I pull up to these
monstrosities of houses andthinking like, damn, why do I
not have that?
I don't think that I'm happyfor the people and what they
have.
Let me tell you something.
I delivered a dumpster to ahouse that was worth $4.2
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million.
I've never seen a house worth$4.2 million and the damn wall
looked like it was marble.
It had the marble.
The animals on there.
I mean, this damn thing was.
This thing was like fit for aking.
But I wasn't jealous of that.
Listen, I don't know how people,where people got to where they
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are in their success.
I wish them well and I wishthem happiness.
Do I wish it was me?
Not really.
I'm happy with the life that Ihave.
I don't need to be rich to behappy.
All I need is my family.
And well, I ain't got nofriends.
So you know, I ain't got nofriends.
Friends, but well, maybe thepeople I work with, but most of
all my family.
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I'm not one to sit back and see.
If somebody has something nice,I need to go for it and get and
try to get like them, becausethat's not me.
I'm going to continue to workfor me and my family.
Though I play the lottery,maybe one day I win, maybe one
day I won't, but that doesn'tstop me from saying, well, they
got this, why can't I have it?
Why would I want to try to takesomething from somebody when I
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can just work for it Now, eventhough some of us may feel our
lives didn't turn out the waythat we had hoped and expect and
we weren't born with a silverspoon in our mouth, that's the
hand you get dealt.
And I got to say some people goout there and they make a life
for themselves or a situationfor themselves because they work
hard at it and that's fine andthat's good.
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But never would I want to sitback and try to steal from
anybody, because it's just notwho I am.
It's not fair, it's not right,it's downright malicious and
mean.
You know, I don't understandwhy people steal, I don't.
You know.
We see these videos of peoplegoing to stores, taking out bags
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and stuff and then we wonderwhy the stores get closed down.
This is exactly why.
This is exactly why because youfeel that you're owed something
that you don't want to pay for.
If the whole world was owedsomething, we wouldn't be a
world, we'd be in chaos, we'd bein turmoil, we'd be going at
each other's throat.
It would definitely be thewalking dead up in the air.
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It really would.
So you know.
So you know there are some DMsand some higher ups that come in
and talk to their people andthey praise their people and you
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have some good people incorporate.
Not everybody in corporate isan asshole.
They're not.
I mean, I give everybody thebenefit of the doubt.
If you come to me, you talk tome respectfully, I'm going to
talk to you respectfully and wemay get well.
I'm not going to say we, y'allmay get jealous of the fact that
they have these jobs and thatthey've never seen the inside of
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a place where you work.
And I still believe that.
I think that when you're incorporate, you may not even shop
at the same place.
You may not even see the innerworkings of what your store is.
You sit behind a desk all dayand I got to say listen.
So what infuriates me about mysecond job that I work for is
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the inventory.
The inventory is through theroof.
It's ridiculous the way theinventory is ordered.
There's no inventory controland they expect us to push out
merchandise and keep pushing out.
Well, we stock our shelves andwe stock our shelves good, but
we are not a set, we're not asales force, we're a retail
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company, meaning we can't go outand have people come in and we
can't arrest you.
Well, you buy this because thisis good and this is great.
So the inventory is an issuefor me.
I don't like it, but I stilllove the people that I work with
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and I work for.
But I now try to do the bestthat I can when I do my job.
So but and that's the onegrievance that I have with the
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place that with my second jobother than that, I love the
people I work with, I love thecompany I work for.
I think some things that they doare kind of malicious, because
to me and this is my opinionsometimes people in corporate
just don't have enough to dobesides just sitting around and
barking orders.
Now, I don't think they're alllike that and I'm not down in
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the company that I work for, butI think that as a company, if
you really want to see the innerworkings of your company, I
think that most core peopleshould at least get out, maybe
maybe get out for two weeks in acompany and work and see what
we go through, because we arethe ones that make these
companies go around.
Without people, then therewouldn't be half these companies
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wouldn't even exist.
Some people would still bedoing it on their own and when
you come that big of aconglomerate of a company, well,
I would say that you'd hope youtreat your people right now.
I know that hopefully I havesome dms or some high ups that
maybe listen to my show.
I'm not downing ordisrespecting anybody, I'm not,
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because I think that what goeson in some of these companies, a
lot of the core people don'treally know.
And here's the thing If you'retoo big of a company where you
can't really know the innerworkings of each of your
location, I don't know how youfix that.
I really don't know.
I mean, you have a DM, I meanyou have a regional, but they
can't even fix it.
Sometimes they can andsometimes they can't.
But what can you do?
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I tell you what I can do.
I can go to work, I can show upand I can continue to do my job
.
Nothing makes me feel moresatisfying than doing the job
that I love.
If you don't like your job, ifyou don't like your job, change
it.
Change it, do somethingdifferent and find something
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that makes you happy.
Why be stuck in a place?
Listen, if the company has arevolving door, it probably is
management.
It's probably the lack ofmanagement, it's probably the
lack of and you understand,management has to lead by
example, the thing that when Imade management in any job that
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I also have, I make sure totreat the people that's
underneath me with respect.
I want to treat them like anequal, and 95% of the time that
works.
So if you have a company thathas a revolving door, well, it's
definitely management.
It could be management.
It could be the way the storelooks.
It could be the way the storesran management.
It could be the way the storelooks.
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It could be the way the storesran.
But if you're saying you'rerunning the store in absence of
the store manager, then I thinkthat might be you.
I don't know when this problemstarted, don't know how it
started, but if you have thisattitude of I don't care, y'all,
do what the hell I'm going todo.
I'm going to do what the hell Iwant to do.
Well, then your coworkers aregoing to follow by that example.
They're going to come to work,show up, get paid, not give a
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damn, and then they're going toleave and do it all over again.
Meanwhile you're sufferingbecause you're working 56 hours
a week.
It doesn't really have to bethat way, unless everybody's on
the same page.
If everybody's on the same pageand we're working together as a
team page and we're workingtogether as a team, then you can
kind of curb that.
Let me tell you something If I'mworking 50 to 60 hours at a
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company and that's not myregular shift and that's not
what I'm supposed to do, youbest believe I'm going to have a
talk with somebody, because Ihave a home life.
Just like they have a home life, I have a home life too.
I don't want to be stuck at acompany for 50 to 60 hours a
week and I not have a life.
I'm sorry if you're um, if yourboyfriend's cheating on you I
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really am but I need to havesome me time and corporate
people they have me time.
I've yet to see anybody fromcorporate um work that many
hours a week.
I don't, I can't't even.
I can't even fathom that, notunless you're in the stock
markets or you're an attorney orsomething like that.
Then I can understand, but in aretail, no, I ain't buying that,
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I ain't buying it.
So this is what I would tellyou anonymous.
I would have a talk with thepeople.
What I would first do I wouldstop taking money from the
honeypot, because if you thinkyou don't get caught, you will.
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And if you see somebody thatyou ain't never seen before,
that's related to corporate,like I'm going to say loss
prevention, and she comes inlike if you know, you know okay.
So if you know who your DM isright and you talk to her.
And if she comes in with aperson that you've never seen
before, this is what I alwaystell people if you see your DM
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come in with somebody that'sunknown and they have a
corporate and they have a badgearound their neck, it doesn't
say loss prevention, Iautomatically assume it's going
to be loss prevention.
Because when loss prevention, Iautomatically assume it's going
to be loss prevention.
Because when loss preventionshow up, they don't dick around,
they don't play.
I was fired from Rent-A-Centerfor paying on a customer's bill
and they thought I created aghost account.
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I was fired for doing the rightthing for a customer because we
were told to go pick this thingup from the customer and this
customer was a lifelongdedicated customer to
Rent-A-Center a lifelongdedicated customer and I was
told to visit.
Now I'll just go ahead and payit off, but yet I get crucified
for that.
Was I mad A little?
Did I get upset?
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No, because when she come inshe tried to give me this
bullshit of well, they try to dothat, that, that reverse
psychology bullshit, to get youto admit guilt, but not total.
Okay, I paid off a customer'saccount it's not a ghost account
.
So I got fired.
Was I mad?
Not really.
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I already had another job linedup, had another job lined up, I
had, uh, things in the work, soI wasn't really too mad.
Did I have to pay the moneyback?
No, because the money went ontoa customer's account.
It was my money, and how can acompany tell you what you can
and can't do with your own damnmoney?
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But I wasn't mad.
It didn't want to make me.
Because here's the thing whenthey did that, I think what was
it?
Two, maybe two weeks later Iwas coming home from a job, from
a shift, and I think the roadwas.
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I don't know what was going on,but anyways, I ended up at the
back of the store and you cansee the back of the store from
the road.
I don't know what was going on,but anyways, I ended up at the
back of the store and you cansee the back of the store from
the road.
Well, the back door was open,but then on this particular door
there's no alarm.
So I could have easily took myrevenge, went in there and went
shopping.
There were no cameras in theback room.
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I could have called somebodyand been like hey, this door is
open, let's go shopping.
But I didn't do that.
I called the store manager andI said listen, your back door is
open.
It's the one that's unarmed.
Uh, this doesn't have an alarmon it's wide open.
I'm sitting here looking atmerchandise and he was like well
, can you stay there until I getthere?
I said sure, I'll stay here.
I said well, have you been inthe store?
He said no, I don't work hereanymore.
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I don't feel the need to go in.
So he came up.
He thanked me.
He said man.
He said most people would havejust stole.
I said well, I'm not mostpeople, that's not me.
He said but you were fired.
Yeah, I was fired, but do Ifeel the need to take out my
anger and aggression on RennerCenter by stealing some.
No, hell no.
And I could have made up like afat cat, but I didn't, because
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that's not who I am and thatshouldn't be the thing.
The mindset of people I thinkthe problem is today is that
social media plays a part inthis.
If you're not doing wrong, well, hang on, let me make sure I
get this right.
When you quit a job, quit thedamn job, don't post it on
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social media, don't go to thisbig.
Oh, I'm going to go in here,we're going to make some kind of
thing.
It's not a big thing.
Quit the damn job and move on,because you're only hurting
yourself.
And then, when you hurtyourself and you're not able to
get a job at another place, andthen you're trying to figure out
well, why, what did I do?
Well, you remember that postthat you made about you quitting
.
Why, what did I do?
Well, you remember that postthat you made about you quitting
.
Yeah yeah, because let me tellyou, the internet is a very
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dangerous world when you arelooking for a new job, because
you have some companies thatwill check your social medias
just to see that the person thatthey're hiring is the person
that they want.
Now I keep all my shit private,but then again I don't really
do anything besides this podcastand just post about maybe
positive videos or maybe someoutfits that I try on or some
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outfits that I wear.
But that's just me, soanonymous.
I think I hope this podcastfinds you well, because even
though what you feel that you'redoing is being justified, it is
not.
You will get caught, and whenyou get caught you're going to
be pissed off.
My advice to you is to stopStop Think you don't like the
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job.
If you're still at the job, gofind another damn job that you
can be happy with.
We have to navigate the workworld.
Sure, we're going to go througha lot of jobs that we don't
like, but eventually the rightone will come along, and when
the right one comes along, thenwe can be happy.
But you don't want to riskdoing anything to jeopardize
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your future, because when youjeopardize your future, then
you're going to be like well,what did I go wrong?
You've got to learn yourinstrument.
Then you practice, practice,practice and then, when you
finally get up there on thebandstand, forget all, forget
all that and just while out, youcan be successful.
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You can do anything that youput your mind to, but don't let
something like this hold youback, because if something like
this goes on your record, it'sgoing to be very, very, very
hard for you and you don't wantto be known as that person.
So it doesn't matter if youmove from city to city, state to
state, it's going to be onthere.
People are not going to trustyou, and even though they may
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ask you what your reasoning isfor doing it and you may or may
not tell them if you don't tellthem they'll be suspect.
If you do tell them, they'restill going to be suspect.
So answer me this anonymouswould you rather have this
record on your background orwould you just rather just say,
hey, I'm going to go findsomething better and different?
And please feel free to emailme with a follow-up?
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I really want to know.
I do, but two wrongs are nevergoing to make it right.
If you feel that you're just nothappy in this job.
Just find something that canmake you happy.
Don't risk your future, don'trisk your livelihood for
something like this.
You don't have kids now, so yousay that's a good thing.
That is, either you're young orI'm going to say I'm assuming
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that you're young, I am, and notyoung as in teenage, but new,
but early twenties, maybe midtwenties.
So I'm going to assume that youhaven't had a lot of work
experience in the work world.
So you might be new to thisthing, and that's fine.
But, young people, this is whatI'll say to you when you're
starting out in the work world anew work world everything is
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not going to go your way.
You're not going to get yourway.
This is the way of the world.
Back in my day, we were justhappy to get a decent wage and
work, and I know things aredifferent from when I was coming
up, because now you have socialmedia.
Well, we didn't have that shit.
Back in the day we didn't.
So when we need to complain tosomebody, we need to complain to
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family or friends or sometimescoworker.
Now you got the whole power ofthe internet, social media and
this lovely thing called podcastpodcasting.
So I would encourage you toreevaluate your life.
Think about what you're doing.
Think about what you're doing.
Think about what you should do.
That is right.
Thank God you don't have kids,because heaven forbid you should
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get caught and you get taken tojail because I don't know what
people do.
So, like I said, some companieslike to make an example out of
people.
Some companies like to be likewell, you know what, we're going
to make an example of her, thatway they can talk about it at
their events.
I mean, they may not use yourname directly, but you got to
figure.
Somebody will know you and ifyou do, excuse me, if you do
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decide to quit, don't post it,don't do no live video.
Just do the thing graciouslyand amicably.
Give you two week notice.
You know.
If you're looking for anotherjob, let your company say hey,
listen, I appreciate my timehere, but I feel that what I'm
getting is still not fair.
But I'm going to look for otheremployment and either one or
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two things are going to happen.
They're either going to bid youfarewell and wish you well or
they're going to give you araise.
But let me explain something toyou.
Two years is good with acompany.
I get that and I understandthat.
I understand you want moremoney we all want more money but
you got to get a little bitmore experience.
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Under your belt it sounds likeyou were promoted within and I
don't know if you have any othermanagement experience because
you didn't say any of that.
But when you make your way in acompany and you're able to move
up, the not really the corporateladder, but move up in the
steps as far as ranking money,well, do that.
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But if you don't, if you wantto keep saying I need this and I
need that, that's going to be aproblem for them, because we
all know any of us can getreplaced by any given time.
Some companies in some Stateshave um, what is that law?
They have?
Um, and some states have whatis that law they have I forgot
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the name of this damn thing nofault law or oh, at will state,
which means you can beterminated at will and there's
no explanation needed.
So I would be careful if I wasyou.
If you're getting the money nowand you're getting four weeks
paid vacation, why don't you doyourself a favor and see what
you can do to make your jobbetter and your life better in
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the company that you work forbetter?
Why not do that?
Why not talk to your DM and sayhey, listen, I need to see if
we can get some people in hereso we can do what's right?
Why not again reevaluate?
Do some things differentinstead of trying to be the
problem, solve the problem.
Don't make yourself the problem.
So you got to be smart aboutthis.
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You really do, oh.
God this vape is good.
Anonymous, once you start doingall these things, I guarantee
you'll see a difference.
But don't go through lifethinking that you're owed
anything.
You continue to work hard.
In time it will pay off.
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And when it pays off and thereward is good, you're like oh
my god.
Yeah, this you know.
And it's not the fact of mebeing right, it's just the fact
of me giving you advice to say,hey, don't do what you're doing,
don't go down that road, don'tgo down that path.
Do you really want that on yourrecord?
And I know I keep saying thatbecause I'm trying to emphasize
that it's never fun when youeither get caught stealing,
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because it makes your job, yoursearch for a job, harder and
you'll be lucky to be gettingeither a factory or a janitor
job, and is that the job youwant?
Do?
Do you want to work for penniesand be treated with disrespect?
I knew a guy that I didn't knowwhen I was working for him.
He was a sex offender, he was aconvicted sex offender and I
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mean they treated this guy notreally like totally shit, but he
had issues and it seems to methat he still didn't learn
because he was, he was filthyand it seems to me that he still
didn't learn because he wasfilthy and he had did some shit
that I heard that I wasn't toohappy about and I honestly
didn't like to work with the guyI really didn't but he had
later gotten fired because hewas dirty and he was nasty and
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one day he came to work and hisclothes were covered in bed bugs
.
He was so immune to this shitthat they had to close down the
warehouse and the office andfumigate.
Was that sad to see him go?
Not really, because knowingwhat he did and what landed him
the way that he did, and itsounds like he would have done
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it again.
But I'm not judging him.
I mean, thank God in the worldwe worked in there was no kids
around for him to either look ator either say things so it's a
warehouse, but it's what it is,it's whatever.
So you have to find your way inlife.
Find your way in life, do whatis beneficial to you.
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If this is affecting your homelife, well, you got to change
some things around, you got todo things different.
Um, your boyfriend, on theother hand, I I can't speak to
that, I don't know.
Again, you don't have any kids.
So if this job is putting thatmuch stress on you and you don't
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understand, you guys don'tunderstand.
If a job is stressing you outso bad, that can weigh on your
health.
When it weighs on your health,it starts taking a toll on you.
Now I'm 47 years old.
I only have one gray hair thatI can see, but I get confidence
every day that you, while you're47, you sure don't look it
because I don't let stress getto me.
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If there's a way I can worksomething out, I'm going to work
it out.
If there's a way for me to talkabout, I'm going to talk it out
.
I'm not going to resort toviolence, threats or anything
that could hurt me potentiallyin the future, because actions
have consequences and when theyhave huge consequences, then
you're left looking like stuck,like Chuck, like again what did
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I do?
What did I do wrong?
So anonymous, as we get ready towrap this up, I hope, hope that
you really reconsider whatyou're doing, stop stealing
money, and I know if some peopleare listening to this and they
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work in retail, they're going totry to figure this out.
I don't know who this person is.
Don't email me, because there'sno name.
There's just an email and theemail address, which is already
gone, because I try to do afollow-up with some questions on
, because I try to do afollow-up with some questions,
but that thing came back.
The email is unavailable, it'sno longer listed.
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So clearly, this person who wasdoing this had every intention
of covering their tracks andthat's fine, because on my show
you can remain anonymous as longas you ain't confessing murder.
Then we good to go, because Idon't read shit like that.
If I read shit like that, thenthey're gonna be looking at me
like and trying to get mycomputer and spoof my computer
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and figure out where did it comefrom.
We can pull that informationout.
I want no parts of that.
So, in any event, as we getready to close it out, if you
guys are ever going throughsomething you want to talk to me
about, let's talk about it.
You can feel free to email meat d6empire357.com.
You can follow me on all socialmedias except facebook and
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snapchat, because I don't havethose.
Well, I got Facebook, I don'treally post them that much.
I'm on TikTok, ig, the V me andthe hot choc.
But I was on blue sky but I gotoff of blue sky.
But, as I said again, I'm justgetting back in the swing of
things.
I'm moved, I'm happier, thingsare looking up, I feel good
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about life and everything is inits place, you know.
So, no matter what people do tous, it's how we respond to the
people that do things to us.
We got to think about ouractions.
We got to think about it.
Do we really want this, this,this problem, or do we want to
solve the problem?
And for me, I'm all aboutsolving problems.
I don't care if you don't likeme, I don't care if you do like
me.
I'm going to solve the problem.
I'm not going to get upset, I'mnot going to get angry, I'm not
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going to get an attitude.
I'm not going to try to makesomething out of nothing,
because that's not who I am as aperson.
I want to instill upon my kidsand myself that I can be that
bigger person, that betterperson.
You know, we see a lot of videosout here when we go to work and
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we see coworkers getting intoit over the most stupidest shit
in front of customers.
Now, I admit I've gotten intoit with a coworker, but I kept
it 100 and I kept it real.
I kept it classy.
I kept it to a level of respectand a level of decency.
Never would I get up in aco-worker and just put them on
blast.
So I hope that doesn't happento you.
I hope they don't take you outin cuffs for the world to see
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Because, again, depending on howmuch you steal and what you
steal, I can't speak for everycompany.
Every company is different.
If a company feel that you owethem money back, plus interest
and the VIG, then hey, they'regoing to get their money.
Oh, yeah, they're going to gettheir money.
They're definitely going to getit.
So you have to make the decision, you have to be smart.
So, again, I would encourageyou to find something that is
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good for you.
Find something that is lessstressful If it's good for you.
Find something that is lessstressful If it's affecting your
home life.
I'm not saying quit tomorrow.
I'm saying don't quit unlessyou have a backup, I mean,
unless you got rich parents, andthat's a different story.
But I don't know Because, again, this letter is anonymous.
But if you have something thatyou might want to do and want to
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start doing because you got tolook at it this way, think of
this what if you had your owncompany and people started
stealing from you?
Well, they would think the sameway.
You think, oh, we feel like you, oh, I'm, I'm, I'm old, this
and I'm going to get it.
So, but you just got to besmart about things.
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You know, as people in thesejobs, we shouldn't take things
like this into our hand.
I've seen a video where a guygot fired and he took a forklift
and he just tore up thewarehouse.
Why would you do that?
They're going to come after youanyways.
You tearing up product, youtearing up equipment, just walk
out.
You got fired, leave.
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And I understand some of thesepeople that's been in these jobs
, that's got tenure, and some ofthese jobs are.
You know, it's your heart andsoul.
You put your blood, sweat andtears into it and you're happy
about what you're doing.
But remember this for every jobI mean the job that you have
there's always another job, evenin that same field, that you
can do.
You know, I see a lot of thisstuff on social media and I
don't like.
I don't like it and I don'tcomment on.
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I just think it's just stupid.
You know, instead of justtearing up stuff, why don't just
walk out, because when you walkout, you get to go home, you
get to be happy, you get to wakeup and find another job and for
what I hear now, companiescan't really given specific
reason on either why you wereterminated or why you quit.
But I don't think they can askif you're re-hireable.
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Some say yes, some say no, butyou don't want that.
So here we go, people, we'regetting ready to close this
thing out.
Anonymous, I hope the best foryou.
I really do.
I hope that you find your wayin life.
I hope that all good thingscome to you in a good way.
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I hope that you're able to findsome kind of balance within
yourself.
I hope that you're able to finda job that you like and that
you love and that you can justbe happy with and that you can
just be happy with.
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But if you don't think you'regoing to get caught, you're
going to get caught.
Nobody stays on top forever.
Choose yourself, even when it'shard.
Never forget how far you'vecome, everything that you've
gotten through, all the timesyou've been pushed on and even
felt you couldn't.
All the mornings you got out ofbed, no matter how hard it is,
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all the times you wanted to giveup but got through another day.
Never forget how much strengthyou have learned and developed
along the way.
A positive attitude gives youpower over your circumstances,
instead of your circumstanceshaving power over you.
Remember that if life hastaught me anything, it's taught
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me that I'm always in control.
Life is, it's full ofexperiences, lessons, heartbreak
and pain, but it also has shownme love, beauty, possibilities
and new beginnings.
I embrace that.
It makes us who we are.
After, every storm that comesis a clear sky.
Remember that tough times don'tlast forever.
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Tough people do so.
I want to say thank you to mylisteners.
Thank you for tuning into theshow or listening to this show.
Um, again, d6 Empire 357 atgmailcom is where I'll be taking
your letters.
Feel free to write me.
You got any comments,complaints, gripes or you just
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want to talk about something?
Let's talk about it.
I'm still looking for somebodyto co-host a show with me.
Maybe you can come on the show.
We can do either online or acall or whatever.
We can talk about things.
I am just now getting ready tonavigate the world of TikTok and
try to do a live show.
I'm going to try.
Keyword is try.
Don't know how good it's goingto go, but hey, whatever it is
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what it is.
So until next time, I want youguys to take care of yourself,
take care of each other.
God bless you.
We're going to leave you withthe last track, with Sarah the
instrumentalist.
It's going to be called On theWay Because I'm on my way.
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In any event, I wish you guysthe best.
Hopefully you have a good day,a good week.
Until next time, take care ofyourself, thank you, let's go.
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The advice can either be goodor misunderstood, but he does
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I want to welcome you all to theshow.
My name is Icon.
Welcome to, let's Talk About it.
I hope everybody's doing good,everybody's having a fantastic
day.
I know I am Fantastic week, buthopefully everybody's doing
alright.
You know I'm feeling good, theweather's good, the world's
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still crazy as shit, but hey,whatever, we gotta get through
this somehow, right?
So?
But you know me, I ain't't thepolitician guy, so there's
enough of that shit going aroundonline, so you damn sure need
to hear from me.
You got 200 and a million andone people that's tuning into
politics and I ain't one of them.
But in any event, oh, I feel sogood when I'm welcoming y'all
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to the show, trying to get backin the swing of things and get
back on my mojo, get back on mygrind.
So the crazy thing is, my damnprinter went out, so I'm going
to be reading this email off myscreen.
What I usually like to do istake the emails, imprint them
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and export them to the printerso I can read it, because I'm
getting older and my eyes justain't what they used to be.
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I ain't that old, damn it.
But you know, you know what I'mtrying to say I have to read
from the paper.
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You know I like looking important like the news
media, but I have a letter thatcame in anonymous and, like I
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said, when you guys email me,you can remain anonymous.
However, there was no follow-up.
There was a follow-up but theemail that was that it was sent
from was deleted.
So I hope this finds thisperson.
Uh, this podcast finds thisperson and I hope this is advice
that I give you a sound mind,advice, because this letter had
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some, quite some issues in it.
Um, kind of a not really weird,but I understand where this
person's coming from, but we'regoing to get into that.
Kind of not really weird, but Iunderstand where this person is
coming from, but we're going toget into that.
So I entitled this podcast theUnhappy Employee.
I'm not sure where thisemployee comes from or where
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this employee is at, but again,I'm going to read this off my
screen.
Bear with me.
You know I got my vape and Igot my juice and we gonna get
through it.
So here we go.
Oh yeah, and you know you mightget my phone going off, but I
was trying to silence him, but Isaid the hell with it, whatever
this is gonna get.
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This is real, it's gonna get,anyways.
Icon icon.
How are you doing today?
I'm fine.
Thanks for asking.
You know it just had to be arough day and you know good week
, and you know it's a hot thing,not a joke.
I choose to remain anonymous dueto what I'm about to tell you.
Don't worry, I'm not confessingmurder or something of that
nature.
Who could think you not?
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Because you know I want to buy.
Knocking at my damn door wasthere, you are a key witness to
this.
No the hell, I'm not, but Ifear I will soon be caught.
But here goes.
I've been working for thiscompany that shall be nameless
due to the backlash you or Imight receive, but I have been
with this company for two yearsnow and it's retail.
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First off, I ain't going toreceive no kind of backlash
because this ain't got shit todo with me.
I'm just a guy that's readingyour letter and then you know,
but the person they don't knowwho you are.
So this could be one in abillion people in the world,
preferably probably the UnitedStates because it's letter so
well-written.
Anyways, I've been with thiscompany for two years.
It's retail sales.
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At first it started well and Ireally didn't have any
complaints or issues.
Excuse me, but over the courseof time I started to get
discouraged on how I was beingtreated by management.
I wouldn't say that I'm amodern employee, but in my mind
I was a good employee.
What I meant by that is that Iwas probably late more times
than I should.
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But hey, what difference doesit make if I'm getting the job
done right?
No, not right, we'll get intothat later.
Well, in any event, I come towork, started out as a cashier.
Within four months I waspromoted to assistant manager, I
got a pay increase and thingswere starting to look up, or so
I thought.
This place is like revolvingdoors.
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Some, if not most, employeesusually don't make it past the
90-day period.
I'm not totally sure what isdue.
Could be the company, or itcould be management, I'm not
sure.
Well, with the shortage ofworkers, I've been pulling 50 to
60 hours a week and uh, 60hours sick, 50 to 60 hour shifts
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due to the store manager beingout due to surgery, and that was
fine in the beginning.
But it's gotten to the pointwhere I was ready to quit myself
, but the DM talked with me andsaid whatever I wanted to make
me stay.
So it asked me what I wanted tomake me stay.
So I asked for an increase inpay.
She talked to the higher upsand they said it would be fine.
So my pay was increased.
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I also asked for additionalhelp, and that again worked out
great, or so I thought.
I feel that I have beenoverworked and very underpaid.
So I threatened to quit.
But this time it was a littlebit different.
Instead of more money, my PTOwas increased from two to four
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weeks sorry, give me a second,just texting.
Uh, my pto was increased two tofour weeks off.
I thought that was good at thetime, but again wasn't feeling
it.
So I asked for more money andthey rudely said no, because I'd
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already had a pay increase andthat was it.
So of course, I got into myfeelings.
I wasn't having it.
I felt I was old money.
So I would find a way to make adifference.
This shit don't sound good atall, with whatever and however I
could.
So I started dipping in thehoney pot and at first I was
scared and nervous, but thenknowing I could.
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But first I was scared andnervous, but then knowing I
could get away with it.
So I started taking a littlehere and a little there, because
I work hard and I feel thatwhat I am owed, what I am due,
I'm so tired of corporate greedwhen they're the ones doing all
the work, when we are the onesdoing all the work and most of
them don't have a clue as towhat needs to be done.
They sit behind a desk and barkorders and don't do nothing but
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numbers and money.
They step on us like we're bugsand they don't care.
So why should I?
I'll tell you that in a minute.
I mean, what's the point ofworking for a company that
doesn't appreciate their workers?
Did you know?
I work from sunup to sundown.
Meanwhile the DMs and hires getto go home and chill, relax,
vacation, hang with their kidswhen they want.
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I'm sick and tired.
It's been going, it's it's.
I'm sick and tired.
I am sick and I'm tired of it.
When is it going to be enoughfor me to have a life I want?
I'm sure that I'm wrong forwhat I did, but that time, that
time will come.
The time will come when I takeresponsibility, but for now I
will enjoy the ride because Istill work for them and there's
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still no help.
I'm stressed, and though I don'thave kids, I do have a
boyfriend, which I'm almostpositive he's cheating on me
because I'm never there.
He brings me lunch and then hesays he has to go really quickly
.
But that's another letter foryou.
Hell, at this point he's havingfun, he's having fun, my
friends are having fun and I'mstuck here at this place working
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my ass off.
So, again, I will get what'scoming to me and that's that.
But maybe you understand, maybeyou don't, but I want advice
from you.
You help someone that I know awhile back and I listened to
that podcast and things turnedaround for them.
I don't know if it'll turnaround for me, but at this point
I'm willing to risk it all.
I know you've had some jobs thatyou didn't like and you decided
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to get.
Even so, please share yourthoughts with me.
Well, I say, this letter is notlike any letter that I've ever
had, quite different.
Not only you're admitting aconfession of guilt and a crime
I mean well, a crime of theft,but I don't know.
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I guess that's just why youchoose to remain anonymous, and
that's probably a good thing,why you did, because I don't
like to get's.
I guess this is why you chooseto remain anonymous, and that's
probably a good thing, why youdid, because I don't like to get
in shit and I don't like to getinvolved in shit like that.
In any event, going back throughyour letter, um, you work for
this company, um, for two yearsand you was promoted within a
system manager within fourmonths and you got a pay
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increase.
That's good.
That's good.
Um, I gotta say, if you feltthat you weren't adequately
sufficient in your pay raise, Iprobably would have asked for
more.
You know, I would have askedfor more or I would have walked
plain and simple.
Um, you've been pulling 50 to 60hours a week, damn, because I
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don't pull that much.
Well, I pull that with one job,but that's because the pay is
good and I love the work that Ido.
Now the second job is probablyabout 20 to 25 hours a week.
So, roughly total, I may beworking 70 hours a week, but
still a little time because Ihave two days off back to back.
Um, I can understand yourfrustration, but then again, I
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kind of can't, because I thinkthat if you're working in a
place and you want to be happy,you have to find that happiness
that makes you happy.
Um, I agree with some of thethings that you say in this
letter, that you're tired ofcorporate greed.
Well, here's the thing aboutcorporate greed Not all
companies operate the same.
All companies are different.
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Now, I know that in somecompanies where you see, like
the big wigs or the owner maycome down and they don't pay
attention to the workers butthey pay attention to the
management, and why is that?
I don't know, especially sincewe're the ones who make their
companies go round and we arethe ones who make the money.
Now, everybody has a difficultjob to do in the corporate world
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.
Now I know that when we seethese people, these corporate
people and, yes, I do feel theway that some do like to bark
orders.
For those of you who wondering,I don't work for a corporate
company.
My second job is a corporatecompany.
My first job is ownedindependently.
So, as I said before, I workfor companies that are owned,
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like, either locally orindividually, by either a family
or a person.
Why?
Because I think they know howto treat their people, and the
companies that I have worked for, that I have worked for, have
treated not corporate companiesbut independently owned
companies, they treat theiremployees with respect and they
understand companies.
But independently ownedcompanies, they treat their
employees with respect and theyunderstand.
Now, I may have had maybe one ortwo in my lifetime that was a
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family owned company that didn'ttreat me well, but I just left.
You know, as some of you mightknow, my last job that my pay
had dropped significantly in pay.
I was making $25 an hour andthen they dropped me to 19
because they lost the contractand I had been with this company
for six years and they had themoney they had.
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I mean, they had the work, theyhad the money.
But my pay gets dropped becausethey lose a contract and the
contract wasn't because of me,it was because somebody else
came in and bid and they gavethem, you know, a discount on
what they can do and what theycan do.
So I didn't choose to get evenwith that company.
I just choose to go serve mytalents where they were better
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served and that would be atanother company, which is what I
felt you should have done.
Now, I understand you getting inyour feelings, but let me tell
you something.
I understand you getting inyour feelings, but let me tell
you something.
If a company increases my PTOfrom two to four weeks, you best
believe I'm going to try tomake the best of it if I can, if
I can.
Now you say this company islike a revolving door, so it
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sounds like you know the outsand ends of the way this company
works and, with that being said, you're choosing to do
something that you know is notright, that you can ultimately
get caught.
For you didn't say that thiscompany had cameras.
And let me tell you somethingjust because we think we can get
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away with it doesn't mean weshould do it, because karma does
come around.
What goes around comes around,and when you get caught then
you're left looking stupid Likewell, I didn't think I was going
to get caught.
Trust me, in the end everybodygets caught.
Now I am not one to indulge andsay well, what you did was right
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, because I think what you didwas wrong.
And what if you started dippingin the honeypot?
That means you're stealingmoney for the company.
I don't give a shit how bad acompany treats me.
I would never resort tostealing money or anything from
that company because why?
They have bigger people thanyou do.
Okay, this is what.
This is what their litigatorsdo.
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They do this shit for a livingand they have a fun time doing
it.
They can wreck your life andmake your life a living hell.
Why would you risk that?
Why would you want to risk that?
I wouldn't.
I mean, we've all had shittyjobs.
We've all had companies that wedidn't like.
We've all had people that wedidn't like to work for and we
either did one or two things.
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We either suck it up when we dothe job or we quit, plain and
simple, we quit.
But never would I stoop to alevel to stealing money.
I stole once when I was younger, and that was when I was I
don't even think I was ateenager yet, but I was a new
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and up and coming teenager and Istole something like I said
that I thought resembled a pager, but it was like a heart
monitor from Walmart.
And I tell you, my mom liked towhoop my ass and wrung my damn
neck.
I didn't steal again, I didn't.
It's just not in my nature.
So you talking about um, you'reupset with the corporate people
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because the DM and hires you togo home and chill with you.
That's true.
Listen, I've been in jobs where, like I said before, the
corporation or the company wouldcome down and they don't say
too much to the little people,but they want to talk to their
people, which is management.
Why is that?
And I'm not saying allcompanies are like this, because
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you have some companies thatpay attention to their people.
Now, me personally, I don'tmind meeting these people, but I
know what they come there to do.
Some come there to get straightto the point and talk business.
They don't give a shit aboutyou or anything but the numbers
and the money, and that's somecompanies.
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I'm not speaking for allcompanies, companies that I work
for.
I've seen like I used to workfor Rent-A-Center and the CEO,
which um, was Mark Spieth.
At the time, um came to ourstore and looked at us like we
were just his servants, and Iget it.
You know you have some corporatepeople or some CEOs that think
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that you are beneath them, butsome understand and some don't
understand that we are the oneswho make your company go around.
We are the ones on the frontline, we're the one taking the
shit and you're not.
Anybody can call a corporatenumber and corporate can pick up
and they can listen to them,but when it all comes down to it
, they're not on the front linesand I get it.
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I get it, I definitely get it.
So but that doesn't deter mefrom me being me.
If I'm at a company and I don'tlike the way things are going,
I'm going to find my way out.
If it doesn't, if I'm there andI like my job, I will try to
either use their open doorpolicy I think the open door
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policy sometime is good andsometimes it's just not good Um,
and what I mean by that?
There are some companies thattake that shit seriously.
Other companies like there wasa company I used for using open
door policy where they wentright back and told the lot
manager.
He gets an attitude and comesback down and talks to the
employee and say well, why didyou call them when you could
have just talked to me?
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That's not an open door policy,because an open door policy
should be that you should beable to remain anonymous.
And then that gets filtereddown to your regional or your DM
.
Then your DM has a talk withthat manager or that store
manager or the lot manager,whoever in power, and say hey,
this is what's going on.
We have a complaint againstemployee that, saying that
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you're doing this, this, thisand this, that and the other.
Now I experienced that I wentover a store manager's head, um,
when I was working for acompany, and the backlash I
received is that I got fired,like maybe months later, for
inappropriate use of a discountcard, but I don't give a shit,
because he got served his paperstoo, because apparently he was
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embezzling.
So while I think that whatyou're doing is completely, 100%
wrong, I think in the endyou're going to get caught.
I don't know if you choose tokeep going this route, because
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it's not going to end.
Well, you know people that getcaught embezzling.
It might be a short amount, youmay not be taking 100 here or
100 there, you might be takingsmall amounts, but in the end,
that shit adds up.
So what I'm telling you is thatyou're talking about you're
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going to be along for the ride.
You don't have kids, which isgood.
You're saying you want to riskit all.
I wouldn't, because companieslike if you work for a big
outfit, they can make your lifea living hell.
They can fix it.
So you don't work in the samecity, same state.
This shit will follow youaround.
So my suggestion to you is tostop.
Stop.
If you're stressed out behind ajob that you don't like anymore
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, this is what you do.
You continue to do that jobuntil you find something better,
but never, never, take yourfrustration out on a company
that can pretty much squash youlike the bug that you are or
that you would be.
I'm not calling you above.
That's just what they're goingto think of you, because you got
to remember if you steal from acompany and they put you in
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jail, they go after your damnlivelihood because they have a
point to prove and they havepeople that do this shit for a
living because they have a pointto make.
So I've seen companies do that,you know.
I've seen companies wreckpeople, you know, all over a
little maybe.
Well, shit, I mean, let's behonest.
Let's say hypothetically thatyou're stealing 1500,
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hypothetically that you'restealing $1,500.
Hypothetically that you'restealing that, well, companies
like that just go after thisshit for the hell of it.
They're going to eat you up inlitigation.
They're going to put on courtcosts and fines.
You're going to end up payingall this money.
Is it really worth it to you todo that then?
Not only that, it's going to beon your record.
Is it really worth that?
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It's not.
It really isn't.
You know you're talking about.
You're a model employee andyou're late to work.
Don't give people a reason tonot dislike you but to come down
on you.
If you find a job that you like, be the best person that you
can be.
If you feel that the job is notbeing supportive of you, it's
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simple Find someplace else to go.
You don't have to stay thereand keep taking it, but never in
my life would I resort tostealing something from a
company because I feel I'm oweda higher wage.
You might be owed a higher wage, but you know what you do.
You go find that company that'swilling to risk taking a chance
on you and you prove yourselfto that company so you can get
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the wage.
I think the thing is that's hardfor most of us not, well, most
of y'all because it ain't hardfor me.
I think that when we're in ajob and we're comfortable, we
get complicit and we getcomplacent and then, even though
we know that that job is doingwrong, we don't want to go
somewhere and start all over.
But that's what happens.
You can't come in off the batunless you're highly recommended
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and your resume speaks foritself.
You can't come in heredemanding what you should get
paid.
They want to see what they'reinvesting in.
I'm going to give you anexample.
Give you an example and yes,that example is me Mostly all
retail jobs that I've been in,or any job that I've been in,
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for the exception of some.
I come in, I show up to work.
I don't showboat, I don't showout, I show up when I go in
there and I put my work down.
My work speaks for itself.
I get looked at almost withinmaybe two weeks to a month of
being management.
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Now, the second job that I havenow, my resume was highly to
them, highly qualified to be amanager, a store manager.
I didn't want to be a storemanager, I just wanted to go to
work.
The only reason why I became anassistant manager is because
the store manager I work forshe's a very good woman and we
had lost other managers due toour other manager being out.
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But I had came in here and youknow I'm a quick learner.
I'm a quick learner, I like togo to work.
I don't like to be late if Idon't have to.
But almost any job that I'm in,I immediately get looked at for
management.
You know, it doesn't matterwhat it is, I'm not bragging on
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myself.
I'm confident in what I do, I'mconfident in the work that I do
, I'm confident of my ability todo the job.
And when you do that and whenyou prove yourself to these
people, then that's when themoney starts rolling in.
You know, I had gotten a raise.
I was happy about that.
But again, this is not my breadand butter.
My primary job is where I makemy money and I love that job and
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I'm not leaving that job foranything.
I was asked if I thought about,you know, becoming a store
manager.
I was like no, not really,because I don't really want the
responsibility.
I don't like being barked atover things that I can't control
.
But they want me to control.
So there's certain aspects ofthe business that you can't
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control that they expect you tocontrol.
Like, if you're in retail salesand your sales are down, why
are your sales down?
It's just not one person.
It could be the store as awhole, it could be anything, it
could be inventory issues, itcould be problems with this, it
could be coworker, it could justbe the environment that you're
placed in.
So when you prove yourself tothese people, then that's when
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things start happening.
But you don't start takingthings into your own hand and
saying, well, I'm going to getwhat I'm owed.
You're not only going to getwhat you're going to get owed,
but you're going to get what'scoming to you.
And though you think this rideis a good ride, this ride ain't
going to last forever.
I can tell you that right now.
Excuse me.
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Oh, it's good, so excuse me.
Oh, lord, it's good, so excuseme.
I know sometimes in life we geta little bit jealous of what
people have because we don'thave it.
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I don't have it, I don't getthat way.
I mean, when I'm at my firstjob and I pull up to these
monstrosities of houses andthinking like, damn, why do I
not have that?
I don't think that I'm happyfor the people and what they
have.
Let me tell you something.
I delivered a dumpster to ahouse that was worth $4.2
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million.
I've never seen a house worth$4.2 million and the damn wall
looked like it was marble.
It had the marble.
The animals on there.
I mean, this damn thing was.
This thing was like fit for aking.
But I wasn't jealous of that.
Listen, I don't know how people,where people got to where they
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are in their success.
I wish them well and I wishthem happiness.
Do I wish it was me?
Not really.
I'm happy with the life that Ihave.
I don't need to be rich to behappy.
All I need is my family.
And well, I ain't got nofriends.
So you know, I ain't got nofriends.
Friends, but well, maybe thepeople I work with, but most of
all my family.
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I'm not one to sit back and see.
If somebody has something nice,I need to go for it and get and
try to get like them, becausethat's not me.
I'm going to continue to workfor me and my family.
Though I play the lottery,maybe one day I win, maybe one
day I won't, but that doesn'tstop me from saying, well, they
got this, why can't I have it?
Why would I want to try to takesomething from somebody when I
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can just work for it Now, eventhough some of us may feel our
lives didn't turn out the waythat we had hoped and expect and
we weren't born with a silverspoon in our mouth, that's the
hand you get dealt.
And I got to say some people goout there and they make a life
for themselves or a situationfor themselves because they work
hard at it and that's fine andthat's good.
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But never would I want to sitback and try to steal from
anybody, because it's just notwho I am.
It's not fair, it's not right,it's downright malicious and
mean.
You know, I don't understandwhy people steal, I don't.
You know.
We see these videos of peoplegoing to stores, taking out bags
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and stuff and then we wonderwhy the stores get closed down.
This is exactly why.
This is exactly why because youfeel that you're owed something
that you don't want to pay for.
If the whole world was owedsomething, we wouldn't be a
world, we'd be in chaos, we'd bein turmoil, we'd be going at
each other's throat.
It would definitely be thewalking dead up in the air.
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It really would.
So you know.
So you know there are some DMsand some higher ups that come in
and talk to their people andthey praise their people and you
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have some good people incorporate.
Not everybody in corporate isan asshole.
They're not.
I mean, I give everybody thebenefit of the doubt.
If you come to me, you talk tome respectfully, I'm going to
talk to you respectfully and wemay get well.
I'm not going to say we, y'allmay get jealous of the fact that
they have these jobs and thatthey've never seen the inside of
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a place where you work.
And I still believe that.
I think that when you're incorporate, you may not even shop
at the same place.
You may not even see the innerworkings of what your store is.
You sit behind a desk all dayand I got to say listen.
So what infuriates me about mysecond job that I work for is
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the inventory.
The inventory is through theroof.
It's ridiculous the way theinventory is ordered.
There's no inventory controland they expect us to push out
merchandise and keep pushing out.
Well, we stock our shelves andwe stock our shelves good, but
we are not a set, we're not asales force, we're a retail
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company, meaning we can't go outand have people come in and we
can't arrest you.
Well, you buy this because thisis good and this is great.
So the inventory is an issuefor me.
I don't like it, but I stilllove the people that I work with
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and I work for.
But I now try to do the bestthat I can when I do my job.
So but and that's the onegrievance that I have with the
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place that with my second jobother than that, I love the
people I work with, I love thecompany I work for.
I think some things that they doare kind of malicious, because
to me and this is my opinionsometimes people in corporate
just don't have enough to dobesides just sitting around and
barking orders.
Now, I don't think they're alllike that and I'm not down in
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the company that I work for, butI think that as a company, if
you really want to see the innerworkings of your company, I
think that most core peopleshould at least get out, maybe
maybe get out for two weeks in acompany and work and see what
we go through, because we arethe ones that make these
companies go around.
Without people, then therewouldn't be half these companies
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wouldn't even exist.
Some people would still bedoing it on their own and when
you come that big of aconglomerate of a company, well,
I would say that you'd hope youtreat your people right now.
I know that hopefully I havesome dms or some high ups that
maybe listen to my show.
I'm not downing ordisrespecting anybody, I'm not,
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because I think that what goeson in some of these companies, a
lot of the core people don'treally know.
And here's the thing If you'retoo big of a company where you
can't really know the innerworkings of each of your
location, I don't know how youfix that.
I really don't know.
I mean, you have a DM, I meanyou have a regional, but they
can't even fix it.
Sometimes they can andsometimes they can't.
But what can you do?
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I tell you what I can do.
I can go to work, I can show upand I can continue to do my job
.
Nothing makes me feel moresatisfying than doing the job
that I love.
If you don't like your job, ifyou don't like your job, change
it.
Change it, do somethingdifferent and find something
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that makes you happy.
Why be stuck in a place?
Listen, if the company has arevolving door, it probably is
management.
It's probably the lack ofmanagement, it's probably the
lack of and you understand,management has to lead by
example, the thing that when Imade management in any job that
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I also have, I make sure totreat the people that's
underneath me with respect.
I want to treat them like anequal, and 95% of the time that
works.
So if you have a company thathas a revolving door, well, it's
definitely management.
It could be management.
It could be the way the storelooks.
It could be the way the storesran management.
It could be the way the storelooks.
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It could be the way the storesran.
But if you're saying you'rerunning the store in absence of
the store manager, then I thinkthat might be you.
I don't know when this problemstarted, don't know how it
started, but if you have thisattitude of I don't care, y'all,
do what the hell I'm going todo.
I'm going to do what the hell Iwant to do.
Well, then your coworkers aregoing to follow by that example.
They're going to come to work,show up, get paid, not give a
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damn, and then they're going toleave and do it all over again.
Meanwhile you're sufferingbecause you're working 56 hours
a week.
It doesn't really have to bethat way, unless everybody's on
the same page.
If everybody's on the same pageand we're working together as a
team page and we're workingtogether as a team, then you can
kind of curb that.
Let me tell you something If I'mworking 50 to 60 hours at a
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company and that's not myregular shift and that's not
what I'm supposed to do, youbest believe I'm going to have a
talk with somebody, because Ihave a home life.
Just like they have a home life, I have a home life too.
I don't want to be stuck at acompany for 50 to 60 hours a
week and I not have a life.
I'm sorry if you're um, if yourboyfriend's cheating on you I
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really am but I need to havesome me time and corporate
people they have me time.
I've yet to see anybody fromcorporate um work that many
hours a week.
I don't, I can't't even.
I can't even fathom that, notunless you're in the stock
markets or you're an attorney orsomething like that.
Then I can understand, but in aretail, no, I ain't buying that,
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I ain't buying it.
So this is what I would tellyou anonymous.
I would have a talk with thepeople.
What I would first do I wouldstop taking money from the
honeypot, because if you thinkyou don't get caught, you will.
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And if you see somebody thatyou ain't never seen before,
that's related to corporate,like I'm going to say loss
prevention, and she comes inlike if you know, you know okay.
So if you know who your DM isright and you talk to her.
And if she comes in with aperson that you've never seen
before, this is what I alwaystell people if you see your DM
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come in with somebody that'sunknown and they have a
corporate and they have a badgearound their neck, it doesn't
say loss prevention, Iautomatically assume it's going
to be loss prevention.
Because when loss prevention, Iautomatically assume it's going
to be loss prevention.
Because when loss preventionshow up, they don't dick around,
they don't play.
I was fired from Rent-A-Centerfor paying on a customer's bill
and they thought I created aghost account.
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I was fired for doing the rightthing for a customer because we
were told to go pick this thingup from the customer and this
customer was a lifelongdedicated customer to
Rent-A-Center a lifelongdedicated customer and I was
told to visit.
Now I'll just go ahead and payit off, but yet I get crucified
for that.
Was I mad A little?
Did I get upset?
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No, because when she come inshe tried to give me this
bullshit of well, they try to dothat, that, that reverse
psychology bullshit, to get youto admit guilt, but not total.
Okay, I paid off a customer'saccount it's not a ghost account
.
So I got fired.
Was I mad?
Not really.
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I already had another job linedup, had another job lined up, I
had, uh, things in the work, soI wasn't really too mad.
Did I have to pay the moneyback?
No, because the money went ontoa customer's account.
It was my money, and how can acompany tell you what you can
and can't do with your own damnmoney?
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But I wasn't mad.
It didn't want to make me.
Because here's the thing whenthey did that, I think what was
it?
Two, maybe two weeks later Iwas coming home from a job, from
a shift, and I think the roadwas.
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I don't know what was going on,but anyways, I ended up at the
back of the store and you cansee the back of the store from
the road.
I don't know what was going on,but anyways, I ended up at the
back of the store and you cansee the back of the store from
the road.
Well, the back door was open,but then on this particular door
there's no alarm.
So I could have easily took myrevenge, went in there and went
shopping.
There were no cameras in theback room.
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I could have called somebodyand been like hey, this door is
open, let's go shopping.
But I didn't do that.
I called the store manager andI said listen, your back door is
open.
It's the one that's unarmed.
Uh, this doesn't have an alarmon it's wide open.
I'm sitting here looking atmerchandise and he was like well
, can you stay there until I getthere?
I said sure, I'll stay here.
I said well, have you been inthe store?
He said no, I don't work hereanymore.
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I don't feel the need to go in.
So he came up.
He thanked me.
He said man.
He said most people would havejust stole.
I said well, I'm not mostpeople, that's not me.
He said but you were fired.
Yeah, I was fired, but do Ifeel the need to take out my
anger and aggression on RennerCenter by stealing some.
No, hell no.
And I could have made up like afat cat, but I didn't, because
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that's not who I am and thatshouldn't be the thing.
The mindset of people I thinkthe problem is today is that
social media plays a part inthis.
If you're not doing wrong, well, hang on, let me make sure I
get this right.
When you quit a job, quit thedamn job, don't post it on
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social media, don't go to thisbig.
Oh, I'm going to go in here,we're going to make some kind of
thing.
It's not a big thing.
Quit the damn job and move on,because you're only hurting
yourself.
And then, when you hurtyourself and you're not able to
get a job at another place, andthen you're trying to figure out
well, why, what did I do?
Well, you remember that postthat you made about you quitting
.
Why, what did I do?
Well, you remember that postthat you made about you quitting
.
Yeah yeah, because let me tellyou, the internet is a very
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dangerous world when you arelooking for a new job, because
you have some companies thatwill check your social medias
just to see that the person thatthey're hiring is the person
that they want.
Now I keep all my shit private,but then again I don't really
do anything besides this podcastand just post about maybe
positive videos or maybe someoutfits that I try on or some
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outfits that I wear.
But that's just me, soanonymous.
I think I hope this podcastfinds you well, because even
though what you feel that you'redoing is being justified, it is
not.
You will get caught, and whenyou get caught you're going to
be pissed off.
My advice to you is to stopStop Think you don't like the
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job.
If you're still at the job, gofind another damn job that you
can be happy with.
We have to navigate the workworld.
Sure, we're going to go througha lot of jobs that we don't
like, but eventually the rightone will come along, and when
the right one comes along, thenwe can be happy.
But you don't want to riskdoing anything to jeopardize
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your future, because when youjeopardize your future, then
you're going to be like well,what did I go wrong?
You've got to learn yourinstrument.
Then you practice, practice,practice and then, when you
finally get up there on thebandstand, forget all, forget
all that and just while out, youcan be successful.
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You can do anything that youput your mind to, but don't let
something like this hold youback, because if something like
this goes on your record, it'sgoing to be very, very, very
hard for you and you don't wantto be known as that person.
So it doesn't matter if youmove from city to city, state to
state, it's going to be onthere.
People are not going to trustyou, and even though they may
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ask you what your reasoning isfor doing it and you may or may
not tell them if you don't tellthem they'll be suspect.
If you do tell them, they'restill going to be suspect.
So answer me this anonymouswould you rather have this
record on your background orwould you just rather just say,
hey, I'm going to go findsomething better and different?
And please feel free to emailme with a follow-up?
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I really want to know.
I do, but two wrongs are nevergoing to make it right.
If you feel that you're just nothappy in this job.
Just find something that canmake you happy.
Don't risk your future, don'trisk your livelihood for
something like this.
You don't have kids now, so yousay that's a good thing.
That is, either you're young orI'm going to say I'm assuming
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that you're young, I am, and notyoung as in teenage, but new,
but early twenties, maybe midtwenties.
So I'm going to assume that youhaven't had a lot of work
experience in the work world.
So you might be new to thisthing, and that's fine.
But, young people, this is whatI'll say to you when you're
starting out in the work world anew work world everything is
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not going to go your way.
You're not going to get yourway.
This is the way of the world.
Back in my day, we were justhappy to get a decent wage and
work, and I know things aredifferent from when I was coming
up, because now you have socialmedia.
Well, we didn't have that shit.
Back in the day we didn't.
So when we need to complain tosomebody, we need to complain to
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family or friends or sometimescoworker.
Now you got the whole power ofthe internet, social media and
this lovely thing called podcastpodcasting.
So I would encourage you toreevaluate your life.
Think about what you're doing.
Think about what you're doing.
Think about what you should do.
That is right.
Thank God you don't have kids,because heaven forbid you should
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get caught and you get taken tojail because I don't know what
people do.
So, like I said, some companieslike to make an example out of
people.
Some companies like to be likewell, you know what, we're going
to make an example of her, thatway they can talk about it at
their events.
I mean, they may not use yourname directly, but you got to
figure.
Somebody will know you and ifyou do, excuse me, if you do
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decide to quit, don't post it,don't do no live video.
Just do the thing graciouslyand amicably.
Give you two week notice.
You know.
If you're looking for anotherjob, let your company say hey,
listen, I appreciate my timehere, but I feel that what I'm
getting is still not fair.
But I'm going to look for otheremployment and either one or
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two things are going to happen.
They're either going to bid youfarewell and wish you well or
they're going to give you araise.
But let me explain something toyou.
Two years is good with acompany.
I get that and I understandthat.
I understand you want moremoney we all want more money but
you got to get a little bitmore experience.
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Under your belt it sounds likeyou were promoted within and I
don't know if you have any othermanagement experience because
you didn't say any of that.
But when you make your way in acompany and you're able to move
up, the not really the corporateladder, but move up in the
steps as far as ranking money,well, do that.
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But if you don't, if you wantto keep saying I need this and I
need that, that's going to be aproblem for them, because we
all know any of us can getreplaced by any given time.
Some companies in some Stateshave um, what is that law?
They have?
Um, and some states have whatis that law they have I forgot
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the name of this damn thing nofault law or oh, at will state,
which means you can beterminated at will and there's
no explanation needed.
So I would be careful if I wasyou.
If you're getting the money nowand you're getting four weeks
paid vacation, why don't you doyourself a favor and see what
you can do to make your jobbetter and your life better in
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the company that you work forbetter?
Why not do that?
Why not talk to your DM and sayhey, listen, I need to see if
we can get some people in hereso we can do what's right?
Why not again reevaluate?
Do some things differentinstead of trying to be the
problem, solve the problem.
Don't make yourself the problem.
So you got to be smart aboutthis.
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You really do, oh.
God this vape is good.
Anonymous, once you start doingall these things, I guarantee
you'll see a difference.
But don't go through lifethinking that you're owed
anything.
You continue to work hard.
In time it will pay off.
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And when it pays off and thereward is good, you're like oh
my god.
Yeah, this you know.
And it's not the fact of mebeing right, it's just the fact
of me giving you advice to say,hey, don't do what you're doing,
don't go down that road, don'tgo down that path.
Do you really want that on yourrecord?
And I know I keep saying thatbecause I'm trying to emphasize
that it's never fun when youeither get caught stealing,
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because it makes your job, yoursearch for a job, harder and
you'll be lucky to be gettingeither a factory or a janitor
job, and is that the job youwant?
Do?
Do you want to work for penniesand be treated with disrespect?
I knew a guy that I didn't knowwhen I was working for him.
He was a sex offender, he was aconvicted sex offender and I
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mean they treated this guy notreally like totally shit, but he
had issues and it seems to methat he still didn't learn
because he was, he was filthyand it seems to me that he still
didn't learn because he wasfilthy and he had did some shit
that I heard that I wasn't toohappy about and I honestly
didn't like to work with the guyI really didn't but he had
later gotten fired because hewas dirty and he was nasty and
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one day he came to work and hisclothes were covered in bed bugs
.
He was so immune to this shitthat they had to close down the
warehouse and the office andfumigate.
Was that sad to see him go?
Not really, because knowingwhat he did and what landed him
the way that he did, and itsounds like he would have done
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it again.
But I'm not judging him.
I mean, thank God in the worldwe worked in there was no kids
around for him to either look ator either say things so it's a
warehouse, but it's what it is,it's whatever.
So you have to find your way inlife.
Find your way in life, do whatis beneficial to you.
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If this is affecting your homelife, well, you got to change
some things around, you got todo things different.
Um, your boyfriend, on theother hand, I I can't speak to
that, I don't know.
Again, you don't have any kids.
So if this job is putting thatmuch stress on you and you don't
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understand, you guys don'tunderstand.
If a job is stressing you outso bad, that can weigh on your
health.
When it weighs on your health,it starts taking a toll on you.
Now I'm 47 years old.
I only have one gray hair thatI can see, but I get confidence
every day that you, while you're47, you sure don't look it
because I don't let stress getto me.
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If there's a way I can worksomething out, I'm going to work
it out.
If there's a way for me to talkabout, I'm going to talk it out
.
I'm not going to resort toviolence, threats or anything
that could hurt me potentiallyin the future, because actions
have consequences and when theyhave huge consequences, then
you're left looking like stuck,like Chuck, like again what did
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I do?
What did I do wrong?
So anonymous, as we get ready towrap this up, I hope, hope that
you really reconsider whatyou're doing, stop stealing
money, and I know if some peopleare listening to this and they
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work in retail, they're going totry to figure this out.
I don't know who this person is.
Don't email me, because there'sno name.
There's just an email and theemail address, which is already
gone, because I try to do afollow-up with some questions on
, because I try to do afollow-up with some questions,
but that thing came back.
The email is unavailable, it'sno longer listed.
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So clearly, this person who wasdoing this had every intention
of covering their tracks andthat's fine, because on my show
you can remain anonymous as longas you ain't confessing murder.
Then we good to go, because Idon't read shit like that.
If I read shit like that, thenthey're gonna be looking at me
like and trying to get mycomputer and spoof my computer
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and figure out where did it comefrom.
We can pull that informationout.
I want no parts of that.
So, in any event, as we getready to close it out, if you
guys are ever going throughsomething you want to talk to me
about, let's talk about it.
You can feel free to email meat d6empire357.com.
You can follow me on all socialmedias except facebook and
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snapchat, because I don't havethose.
Well, I got Facebook, I don'treally post them that much.
I'm on TikTok, ig, the V me andthe hot choc.
But I was on blue sky but I gotoff of blue sky.
But, as I said again, I'm justgetting back in the swing of
things.
I'm moved, I'm happier, thingsare looking up, I feel good
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about life and everything is inits place, you know.
So, no matter what people do tous, it's how we respond to the
people that do things to us.
We got to think about ouractions.
We got to think about it.
Do we really want this, this,this problem, or do we want to
solve the problem?
And for me, I'm all aboutsolving problems.
I don't care if you don't likeme, I don't care if you do like
me.
I'm going to solve the problem.
I'm not going to get upset, I'mnot going to get angry, I'm not
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going to get an attitude.
I'm not going to try to makesomething out of nothing,
because that's not who I am as aperson.
I want to instill upon my kidsand myself that I can be that
bigger person, that betterperson.
You know, we see a lot of videosout here when we go to work and
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we see coworkers getting intoit over the most stupidest shit
in front of customers.
Now, I admit I've gotten intoit with a coworker, but I kept
it 100 and I kept it real.
I kept it classy.
I kept it to a level of respectand a level of decency.
Never would I get up in aco-worker and just put them on
blast.
So I hope that doesn't happento you.
I hope they don't take you outin cuffs for the world to see
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Because, again, depending on howmuch you steal and what you
steal, I can't speak for everycompany.
Every company is different.
If a company feel that you owethem money back, plus interest
and the VIG, then hey, they'regoing to get their money.
Oh, yeah, they're going to gettheir money.
They're definitely going to getit.
So you have to make the decision, you have to be smart.
So, again, I would encourageyou to find something that is
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good for you.
Find something that is lessstressful If it's good for you.
Find something that is lessstressful If it's affecting your
home life.
I'm not saying quit tomorrow.
I'm saying don't quit unlessyou have a backup, I mean,
unless you got rich parents, andthat's a different story.
But I don't know Because, again, this letter is anonymous.
But if you have something thatyou might want to do and want to
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start doing because you got tolook at it this way, think of
this what if you had your owncompany and people started
stealing from you?
Well, they would think the sameway.
You think, oh, we feel like you, oh, I'm, I'm, I'm old, this
and I'm going to get it.
So, but you just got to besmart about things.
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You know, as people in thesejobs, we shouldn't take things
like this into our hand.
I've seen a video where a guygot fired and he took a forklift
and he just tore up thewarehouse.
Why would you do that?
They're going to come after youanyways.
You tearing up product, youtearing up equipment, just walk
out.
You got fired, leave.
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And I understand some of thesepeople that's been in these jobs
, that's got tenure, and some ofthese jobs are.
You know, it's your heart andsoul.
You put your blood, sweat andtears into it and you're happy
about what you're doing.
But remember this for every jobI mean the job that you have
there's always another job, evenin that same field, that you
can do.
You know, I see a lot of thisstuff on social media and I
don't like.
I don't like it and I don'tcomment on.
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I just think it's just stupid.
You know, instead of justtearing up stuff, why don't just
walk out, because when you walkout, you get to go home, you
get to be happy, you get to wakeup and find another job and for
what I hear now, companiescan't really given specific
reason on either why you wereterminated or why you quit.
But I don't think they can askif you're re-hireable.
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Some say yes, some say no, butyou don't want that.
So here we go, people, we'regetting ready to close this
thing out.
Anonymous, I hope the best foryou.
I really do.
I hope that you find your wayin life.
I hope that all good thingscome to you in a good way.
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I hope that you're able to findsome kind of balance within
yourself.
I hope that you're able to finda job that you like and that
you love and that you can justbe happy with and that you can
just be happy with.
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But if you don't think you'regoing to get caught, you're
going to get caught.
Nobody stays on top forever.
Choose yourself, even when it'shard.
Never forget how far you'vecome, everything that you've
gotten through, all the timesyou've been pushed on and even
felt you couldn't.
All the mornings you got out ofbed, no matter how hard it is,
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all the times you wanted to giveup but got through another day.
Never forget how much strengthyou have learned and developed
along the way.
A positive attitude gives youpower over your circumstances,
instead of your circumstanceshaving power over you.
Remember that if life hastaught me anything, it's taught
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me that I'm always in control.
Life is, it's full ofexperiences, lessons, heartbreak
and pain, but it also has shownme love, beauty, possibilities
and new beginnings.
I embrace that.
It makes us who we are.
After, every storm that comesis a clear sky.
Remember that tough times don'tlast forever.
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Tough people do so.
I want to say thank you to mylisteners.
Thank you for tuning into theshow or listening to this show.
Um, again, d6 Empire 357 atgmailcom is where I'll be taking
your letters.
Feel free to write me.
You got any comments,complaints, gripes or you just
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want to talk about something?
Let's talk about it.
I'm still looking for somebodyto co-host a show with me.
Maybe you can come on the show.
We can do either online or acall or whatever.
We can talk about things.
I am just now getting ready tonavigate the world of TikTok and
try to do a live show.
I'm going to try.
Keyword is try.
Don't know how good it's goingto go, but hey, whatever it is
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what it is.
So until next time, I want youguys to take care of yourself,
take care of each other.
God bless you.
We're going to leave you withthe last track, with Sarah the
instrumentalist.
It's going to be called On theWay Because I'm on my way.
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In any event, I wish you guysthe best.
Hopefully you have a good day,a good week.
Until next time, take care ofyourself, thank you, let's go.
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