February 28, 2025 • 28 mins
Picture this: navigating a workforce where common sense feels like a mythical creature and personal hygiene is an afterthought. Welcome to the WDYM podcast, where I, your host, unravel the quirks and frustrations of managing a younger generation that seems to have redefined workplace norms. We'll dive into the curious world of "taps"—short for "trifling ass people"—as I share tales from my managerial adventures as we explore the evolving attitudes and communication styles that sometimes leave managers scratching their heads.
And let's not forget the "WHPTs"—colleagues whose breath could knock you off your feet. With a blend of humor and insight, I discuss the impact of unreliable coworkers and highlight the critical importance of professionalism, education, and good hygiene in bridging the social divide caused by these "taps" and "WHPTs." Join me as we navigate these workplace dynamics with a dose of reality and a dash of humor, urging everyone to step up their game.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
you're listening to the wdym, the what do you mean?
Podcast, hamilton's number onepodcast.
Now sit back and relax.
Here's hamilton's own, michaelgillespie, welcome.
Hey, that was a little bit of ashocker.
(00:25):
Welcome to the WDYM podcast.
I'm your host, michaelGillespie.
As Kobe said, hope everybody'sdoing good, hope everybody's
doing well.
Today I am, and I hope you aretoo.
Today's episode is all aboutthem taps.
Now, if you're military, youmay be thinking one way, right,
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as in something like this, whichfrankly means you are tapping
out for the day.
You are done, finito, finish,the day is over.
Tap out that's what taps meansto a veteran, or anything like
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that.
This tap because T-A-P itstands for trifling ass people.
Yes, I'm about to mark this asexplicit because I'm using the
word ass.
Okay, so be prepared to heartap.
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As opposed to the other word,tap means trifling ass people.
So this episode I'm going to goover a couple of the taps that
I've come across across mymanagerial career.
I don't know what's going onwith people as far as their
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mentality and everything, orwho's raising these people, but
when you unleash people in thepublic, you at least got to
equip them with the basics.
Now, they always say the termcommon sense is common, not
anymore.
Now I've learned that commonsense is now a requirement for
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people that are not in mygeneration.
I don't know what happenedbetween the generation after me
and a generation that's ahead ofme, but something's been lost
and I'm going to say commonsense is the thing that's no
longer common.
Let's start with example numberone.
Example number one was a younglady.
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Let's call this young lady Sue.
Sue was a server that I used towork with At one of my previous
locations.
Right, sue, young girl Likesenior, junior, high school,
whatever.
She's coming there To work inmy kitchen as a server.
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All she has to do is Delivertrays and see what the residents
want, what our guests want,what everyone call them, and we
move on.
Sue, to say the least, sue was.
Sue was not here to serve indietary.
She was not here to serve ourresidents.
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She was not.
She was not.
She had her own agenda andthat's fine.
You don't expect a 16, 17, 18year old Young lady to Be like,
hey, I want to be a server Forthe rest of my life and be
having a lifestyle of tips.
No, you don't expect that.
So you know she's planning onmoving on To nursing, which is
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fine, that is perfectly fine.
If you have an agenda.
You know a better agenda, thenyes, go for it, I'm all for it.
That's what we do here at thislocation that I was at.
If you want to move forward withlife, you got to have a goal.
Yeah, you got to have some kindof goal, and culinary, wasn't
it?
And that's fine.
You know that is a okay.
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That is called having a plan.
Having a plan should be basicfor anybody that has say it with
me, common sense.
So one night we're up in thereand we're finishing the night
and she's got Gotta rollsilverware.
I'm like, alright, hey, Sue,you might, you know.
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I say, hey, let me go ahead andhelp you get out of here.
I'll help you roll thesilverware, and after that you
get off the clock, cause I thinkyou're milking my clock that's
what I'm saying to my head likeyou're milking my clock, you
just here, but you don't takethat long to roll some
silverware.
So we're rolling silverware andI'm like, hey, you know just
chit chat, small chit chat, hey,how you doing?
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You know, blah, blah, blah.
So I'm asking her like, so whatare your future plans?
Like, what do you plan on doing?
You know what is your, what doyou?
I'm not saying it's the endgame.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to do?
Well, I really like nursing andI want to be a nurse.
So that's, that's.
That is great.
I don't know about how you'd goabout doing pus, blood and poop
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.
That's it Pus, blood and poop.
That's why I'm not in thenursing field.
I can't handle those three.
And you know, nursing you got achance to run into those three.
It's nasty, disgusting.
I don't can't be involved.
And it's weird because, like yo, I could carve a bird like no
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other, but if I see blood, pusor poop now that's where I'm at
I can't handle it.
So Sue was like yeah, you know,I really want to get into
nursing.
You know, this is why I'm here,that's what I want to do.
I said that's great, I'm soglad because, you know, after
you spend some amount of timehere in the culinary, this
facility will help you get intonursing.
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She's like oh, you know, that'sgreat, that's why I'm doing it,
that's why I'm here andeverything.
So I'm like, yeah, that's cool.
So I'll go rolling back tosilverware and everything.
It says, oh, and I want to be astripper.
And I was like I'm rollingsilver and I just drop, drop the
line, the role that I'm having.
I'm like what did he say?
What did you say?
She's like, yeah, I want to bea stripper.
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I'm like, oh, wow, like you'retoo young to be saying that, let
alone.
You're talking to yoursupervisor, your boss, and
you're telling me you want to bea stripper.
Like, look, I'm not hating onthe idea.
I mean, that's what you want todo, do you at the end.
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But how do you go from polaropposites of wanting to wipe
booty and deal with the blood,pus and poop to being on a pole
at 11, 12 o'clock at night?
And she had like, guess what, Ican do both.
I'm like word.
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She's like, yeah, I can do both.
I'm like word.
She's like, yeah, I could doboth.
I could help in people at thehospital and at night I could be
the same nurse on a pole.
And I'm thinking to myself thisis the craziest but nice idea
I've ever heard.
It's calm.
Is this common sense?
No, it's not.
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I'm pretty sure you'll makemore money being a nurse than
being a stripper.
But hey, I'm not here to dashpeople's dreams.
All I'm doing is looking at you, looking across the way and
looking at Sue.
I'm like, okay, sue, let's getback to the civil war, because
you have overloaded my brain.
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Get back to the civil warbecause you have overloaded my
brain and therefore I'm gonnahave to tap you and call you a
tap, because this is ridiculous,trifling ass people.
Needless to say that I thinkshe's still in the career field
and more power to you, sue.
Hope everything goes well withall you and your future
endeavors.
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Another person, let's call thisyoung person, troy.
Troy, again, was a server,young server, all energetic.
When we did the interviewprocess, he was just energy,
energy, like pure, untappedenergy.
And so he does the interviewprocess and he eventually comes
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on.
He comes on, he goes to mybuilding and I thought it was
weird at first because when Iwas told he was coming to my
building, it seemed like it waslike a snicker Okay, michael,
you're going to get Troy.
Troy is an energy, energyperson, full of energy, and he's
coming to your building.
I said, great, cool, whatever.
So he comes to my building andhe's with his mother.
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So I'm like, okay, a littleweird, like why would his mom
Come Again, common sense.
Common sense says if you'reGoing for a job, you don't bring
your mama right.
That's just something wrong.
But I digress, I didn't gothere yet.
I'm just looking at Troy andsay, okay, this is what you're
going to be doing.
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Go down this hallway, go downthis hallway, deliver food, come
back and we wash dishes andthen we repeat the cycle for
breakfast, lunch and dinnerright.
So I'm like, okay, his.
And then we repeat the cyclefor breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Right.
So I'm like, ok, his momverified everything.
So what will you have Troydoing?
I said, ok, I just repeatmyself We'll go down the hallway
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.
You want to deliver food here?
Deliver food here, come back,wash dishes, and that's it.
What I just said sounded likesay it with me, common sense,
that's what I'm looking for,common sense.
So, as he's working, he's he'she's working, energetic, being
full of energy, and I was likethat's what I like and
everything's cool.
He's working hard, said, justtell me what to do and I'll do
it.
And I said, okay.
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So I said go back there andwash dishes.
He went back there, washeddishes.
I said, okay, this, this dudeknows what he's doing.
Okay, this is great.
He takes orders very well,almost too well.
Again, let this thing calledcommon sense comes in when it
comes to telling teenagers oryoung adults what to do.
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Usually you get a little slackwith it, like I don't want to do
that, put yourself on the way,I don't want to do that.
Where's your?
Put yourself on the way, Idon't want to do that.
That's the attitude younormally get when it comes to
young adults.
But he was all energetic andeverything go go, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, real cool,until we got a late.
We got a late resident, we gotthis late resident.
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This resident was like I'm, youknow, we the nurses, come back
and like, oh, he hasn't ate.
He didn't eat at the otherlocation and he's hungry.
I said, okay, great, troy, goget this man's order.
Says no problem, boss, got it.
Darts away, comes back and hegives me the ticket of what this
, what the guy wants.
So I'm looking at the ticketand I look at it.
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I'm like yo, this dude's funny,right, this dude is funny.
This is so funny.
What are you talking about?
I'm looking around talking toanother server.
This dude is so funny.
What are you talking about,mike?
I said, look, he's playingaround and just, you know not
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spelling things right on purpose, and he's making it hard for me
.
What are you talking about?
Like, look at the way hespelled hamburger, he didn't
spell it right.
French fries, he didn't spellit right.
Coca-cola or Coke, he didn'tspell that right either.
I'm like, okay, maybe becauseyou know, end of the day, he's
just trying to get the order in,just so we can, you know, make
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it, put it back out and keep itmoving.
The next day I had him takeorders again and almost 75, 80%
of the orders were wrong.
So I'm like, hold on, what's,what's something's wrong?
What's going on?
I don't understand.
Like, why?
Why is?
Why is he doing this wrong?
I don't understand.
So he goes on, orders are allmessed up, orders are jacked up
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again and people are gettingangry.
They're getting angry.
Like what's going on?
Everybody, everybody,everybody's angry at the kids.
Like why is this orders wrong?
Why is this orders wrong?
Like I don't know.
Like, like, why is?
Why is this happening?
So I go and ask him, say, hey,sir, um, is there a reason?
Why are you submitting ticketswrong?
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And you know everything comesback and it's not right and he's
just cool with it, like, yeah,I can't read.
I'm like, what, what did he say?
Did he just say he couldn'tread?
I'm like, okay, hold on hold,on, hold on hold on hold on.
Reading is fundamental.
I thought when you fill out anapplication, you have to read to
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, like you know hey name, youhave to read that so you can put
that down on a piece of paper.
Why is troy doing this and this?
Like I was like, hey, troy, areyou in school?
He's like, yeah, I'm in school,it's okay, okay.
So why can't you read?
So I'll go back to my boss,that boss.
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Why can't you know he's hereand he can't read right?
So I said I didn't, I didn'tknow that, I didn't know that.
Wait, wait, how did he get pastthe screening process If you
couldn't read?
He said, well, I guess nobodyasked.
So nobody, nobody asked.
So do you understand?
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This is a liability if he can'tread that this person is
diabetic or is this personthat's to count as carbs or
anything like that.
It's important that he can read, and this is the first time
that I experienced where commonsense is no longer common.
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How did you send this individualout without the ability to read
?
Now, after this junction Ipulled him off.
I said I pulled him off thefloor and I said, look bro.
I said I can't have you here.
I can't have you here nooffense to anything, you know,
but would you be okay with doingsomething else, like doing
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something else other thanserving?
And he credit to Troy.
Troy was just a team player,he's like absolutely.
I said cool.
So we eventually moved him toanother job and he was fine,
perfectly fine.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, common sense is no
longer common.
That's example two, another one,this one I call e w h p t's.
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The w h p t's do you know?
Those letters produced the mostbreath action.
Let's do it real quick.
See, did you feel all thebreath that was coming out of
your mouth?
The WHPTs is what I call peoplethat got funky breath.
Yep, whpts All that breathaction.
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You know this is what's bad.
Right, it's early in themorning and I got people in my
face like good morning, chef.
What are you doing today?
How about some pancakes andtoast?
Did you get?
I got all the WHPT I can handle.
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Your breath is funky now.
Sometimes I leave the house togo grab.
Like let's just say I go grabdonuts, right, I go grab donuts
for my family.
You know how much talking I do.
I'm very minimum with mytalking, let alone in somebody's
face.
Right, because I know I got theWHPTs, I got funky breath.
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So it's mostly like, yeah, man,I got it.
I'm far back.
Yeah, I understand, my WHPT isnot in your face, but I've been
having Lately.
I have people who wake up inyour face, but I've been having
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lately.
I have people who wake up in themorning, have WHPT all on my
face and the breath is funky andI'm looking to myself like how
or why have you left the houseand you did not brush your teeth
?
Because it's clear as day, likethis person did not brush your
teeth Because it's clear as day,like this person did not brush
their teeth and they're all onmy face and I got to be nice
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about it Like, hi, chef, how areyou doing?
The breath hits my nose andimmediately burns my two
nostrils off.
This is the third time I'vechanged my nostrils in the past
three years.
You get what I'm saying.
Again, common sense has left thepeople because it's not common
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anymore.
That's one of the things, likeone of the checks, one of the
five checks I have before Ileave.
Did I brush my teeth?
Did I put my deodorant on?
Do I got my keys, wallet andphone?
That's the five checks I do.
Did I brush my teeth?
Do I got deodorant on?
Do I got my keys?
Money in the phone?
Why are people all in the grillswith the WHPTs?
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And it's like what do you do inthose situations?
Do you just actually callpeople out like, hey, bro, you
got the WHPTs, you need to goHandle that.
And most of the time they'realready at work.
So what do you do in thosesituations?
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I'm going to tell you what Iwould do.
I would leave work to go handlethat, because that is important
to me and it should beimportant to everybody.
Nobody wants somebody in theirface With the WHPTs.
That is the most.
That is the.
That just cuts conversationreal fast.
So is it offensive to handsomebody Some gum?
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Is it offensive to say, hey,look, bro, we got a problem
because you left the house withthe funky breath and you just
all in my face saying goodmorning to me?
I don't want to hear it.
I don't care if you are young,middle age or old age.
That is the number one priority.
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Don't be in my face with a hotbreath.
I can't, I can't deal with it.
Before you leave your house, doyour checks.
Hey, did I do the breath checkand then check your money, phone
and keys?
I thought that was common.
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I thought that was common senseby now, but it's not.
Next, the next person on tap,the next people on tap are
trifling workers.
So one person that I wasworking with we used to work
together a long time ago, longtime ago.
I'm at my job posting postsLike hey, anybody interested in
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a job got this easy job, comework with me, easy job, right.
And my friend now justassociate.
I guess she's like, yeah, I'llcome.
I was like, cool, put her on,we're working together.
And I'm finally like okay, nowI got some more stability where
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I work at, so therefore I canwork on policies, procedures,
get all that done.
But no, it doesn't happen Again.
The thesis or the theme of thisone, this TAP didn't want to
work with me, no more.
And that's cool.
I'm cool with that.
I'm cool with the decision hey,look, this isn't working for me
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.
I can no longer be here, I'mgoing to go my way.
I'm like all right, cool, Iunderstand, perfectly understand
.
You know something comes up, oryou know you're in a situation
where you don't longer want tobe here.
That's fine, right.
Or you know you're in asituation where you don't longer
want to be here, that's fine,right.
All I'm asking is hey, can Iget, can I get two weeks out of
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you?
Right, because standardprotocol says let me get a two
week notice.
I, when I have left jobs, I getmore than two weeks.
You know why I care, I careabout getting somebody else in.
So therefore, hey, someone cantake over or they have enough
time to start looking, andeverything.
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I asked her like, hey, can I gettwo weeks?
She's immediately hit me withthe nose the fastest one, the
fastest one I've ever got.
No, I said okay.
So you know, I did my thing.
I said look, this is how you'regoing to be and I brought you
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in.
You're ruining my name, myreputation.
I'm not going to associate withyou.
I ain't rolling with you.
Okay, that's how you roll.
That's not how I roll.
And I, I brought your punk buttin here.
So why are you being a tap?
Why are you tapping on me rightnow?
So I'm like you know what.
So, just, you know, justassociate with myself.
I ain't messing with it.
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You know, whatever a couple likea month later she hits me up
saying we need to talk.
I said no, sir, no ma'am, noham, no bacon.
I won't be doing that, no way,you gonna do me dirty.
And now you want to talk.
So nah, we ain't, we ain'tplaying I don't know who.
What kind of fool you think Iam.
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But my comment I still havecommon sense.
If you do me dirty, you thinkI'm gonna do you right.
Nah, no, no, no, no.
I hit her with the reverse,reverse, no, I said no, no, no,
no, no, no, uh-uh, get out ofhere.
I ain't talking to your punkbutt.
You did this, you did this, youdid dirty to me.
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You want me to do right by you?
Nah, nah, nah.
You can't even give a brothertwo weeks so I can at least
start the process.
Nah, no, we good, we good.
So let it, let it be known that.
I let you know.
Unfriend her, don't block this.
That it's over.
I ain't messing with that, Iain't.
I ain't on that stuff.
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Tap, trifling ass people.
I can't believe she did that.
Another one, last one, broughtthis person in, right, I thought
she was cool, you know.
I thought she's like, hey, Ireally need a job.
So if you really need a job,you know, and you're coming in
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on a recommendation, that's thething.
She was coming in on arecommendation.
Hey, this one, she's a goodworker, she's a good friend of
mine, this is her, this is her,this is her job.
This is perfect.
Okay, bring her in.
Let's just do the interviewprocess.
And during an interview was likefive, maybe 10 minutes, maybe I
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should spend more time figureout if this person is a tap.
Uh, you know, just say, how areyou get some general sense of
you, ask about your pastexperience, everything checked
out.
I was like, hey, look, theseare the days you, I'm looking
for.
It was like a friday throughmonday type deal, maybe not on
monday.
She said she's cool, like acool, I could do it.
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So, okay, right, she says shecould do it, so I'm gonna hold
her to it.
Right, common sense, that'swhat I'm saying, just common
sense.
As as the world turns, as I say,as we're working together, she
starts you know, hey, you gottago, I can't come in today, can't
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come in today.
She kept calling off.
I'm like, all right, you know,things happen, I get it, things
happen, I understand.
It starts building up.
So I'm like, all right, dang,how does this person come in on
a recommendation and just don'twant to work?
I'm like, all right, you know,each his own.
I'm going to try to be coolwith it.
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And I'm just looking at theperson who brought her in and
I'm just looking at her like boy, I swear, as she's walking by.
I'm like boy, I swear.
I thought you said thisindividual was cool, like she
could work.
She's like she's just giving methat I don't know.
So she keeps coming in and Ilook at her and she looks like
death.
I'm like, ugh, I'm going tojust ignore it for now until she
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comes up and talks to me.
I'm just like you came to work,you knew what you were coming
into.
I've already put some paperworkon her In your first 90 days.
You're supposed to beimpressive.
I'm not impressed.
Yeah, I understand.
So she comes in looking likedeath one day.
I'm like I said how you doing?
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She's like, oh, not feelingwell.
She's sounding all like thisI'm not feeling well and I'm
just mumbling, you know.
And then, like an hour later,she's like can I go home?
I'm just looking at her like yo, alright, whatever.
So she goes home like cool, youknow I ain't tripping, can I go
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home?
I'm like I'm just looking ather like yo, all right, whatever
.
So she goes home Like cool, youknow I ain't tripping, got
enough servers.
Just another point in the system, this one she keeps calling off
time and time again.
And on my weekend off I get acall.
They're like, hey, homegirldidn't show up.
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I said what she said homegirldidn't show up.
What do you mean?
This hobo didn't show up.
She said, yeah, she didn't showup.
I said, all right, well, we gotto do what we got to do.
So eventually we asked herright.
But it's just like, of all thethings, common sense says two
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weeks.
You just got to be professionalwith it and just say, hey, this
ain't fitting for me, I can'tdo this, no more.
I'm putting my two weeks inright.
And the thing is that you onlywork two days, maybe three.
What is two weeks going to burn?
Hurt you when you're off mostof the week anyway?
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Tap, that is a tap.
All these people are taps,trifling Ass People.
So where did common sense falloff at?
That's the question that I gotTo that last person.
I'm not done because now I'mangry.
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This is what it gets.
If you see me or I see you, yourass better run.
I'm not.
If I see you again in thesestreets, it's on.
Or I see you again in thesestreets, it's on.
I am playing because you know Idon't.
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I'm not well.
I'm disappointed with taps andpeople that just don't have the
common sense.
I guess this is why there's asocial divide among us people,
especially here in America.
I don't know, but yeah, be onthe lookout for TAPS, boy that
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and the WHPTs I made thatacronym up, but I follow it.
I'll call somebody real quick.
Be, watch out for taps, havecommon sense, pay attention in
school and don't aim to be astripper, please.
Or if that's what you want todo, don't tell nobody.
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Is that not common sense?
I'm your host of the WDYM.
My name is Michael Gillespie.
You watch out for these tapsand brush your nasty teeth.
I'm out.
Girl Scout, boy Scout, peace.
you're listening to the wdym, the what do you mean?
Podcast, hamilton's number onepodcast.
Now sit back and relax.
Here's hamilton's own, michaelgillespie, welcome.
Hey, that was a little bit of ashocker.
(00:25):
Welcome to the WDYM podcast.
I'm your host, michaelGillespie.
As Kobe said, hope everybody'sdoing good, hope everybody's
doing well.
Today I am, and I hope you aretoo.
Today's episode is all aboutthem taps.
Now, if you're military, youmay be thinking one way, right,
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as in something like this, whichfrankly means you are tapping
out for the day.
You are done, finito, finish,the day is over.
Tap out that's what taps meansto a veteran, or anything like
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that.
This tap because T-A-P itstands for trifling ass people.
Yes, I'm about to mark this asexplicit because I'm using the
word ass.
Okay, so be prepared to heartap.
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As opposed to the other word,tap means trifling ass people.
So this episode I'm going to goover a couple of the taps that
I've come across across mymanagerial career.
I don't know what's going onwith people as far as their
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mentality and everything, orwho's raising these people, but
when you unleash people in thepublic, you at least got to
equip them with the basics.
Now, they always say the termcommon sense is common, not
anymore.
Now I've learned that commonsense is now a requirement for
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people that are not in mygeneration.
I don't know what happenedbetween the generation after me
and a generation that's ahead ofme, but something's been lost
and I'm going to say commonsense is the thing that's no
longer common.
Let's start with example numberone.
Example number one was a younglady.
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Let's call this young lady Sue.
Sue was a server that I used towork with At one of my previous
locations.
Right, sue, young girl Likesenior, junior, high school,
whatever.
She's coming there To work inmy kitchen as a server.
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All she has to do is Delivertrays and see what the residents
want, what our guests want,what everyone call them, and we
move on.
Sue, to say the least, sue was.
Sue was not here to serve indietary.
She was not here to serve ourresidents.
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She was not.
She was not.
She had her own agenda andthat's fine.
You don't expect a 16, 17, 18year old Young lady to Be like,
hey, I want to be a server Forthe rest of my life and be
having a lifestyle of tips.
No, you don't expect that.
So you know she's planning onmoving on To nursing, which is
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fine, that is perfectly fine.
If you have an agenda.
You know a better agenda, thenyes, go for it, I'm all for it.
That's what we do here at thislocation that I was at.
If you want to move forward withlife, you got to have a goal.
Yeah, you got to have some kindof goal, and culinary, wasn't
it?
And that's fine.
You know that is a okay.
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That is called having a plan.
Having a plan should be basicfor anybody that has say it with
me, common sense.
So one night we're up in thereand we're finishing the night
and she's got Gotta rollsilverware.
I'm like, alright, hey, Sue,you might, you know.
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I say, hey, let me go ahead andhelp you get out of here.
I'll help you roll thesilverware, and after that you
get off the clock, cause I thinkyou're milking my clock that's
what I'm saying to my head likeyou're milking my clock, you
just here, but you don't takethat long to roll some
silverware.
So we're rolling silverware andI'm like, hey, you know just
chit chat, small chit chat, hey,how you doing?
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You know, blah, blah, blah.
So I'm asking her like, so whatare your future plans?
Like, what do you plan on doing?
You know what is your, what doyou?
I'm not saying it's the endgame.
What do you want to do?
What do you want to do?
Well, I really like nursing andI want to be a nurse.
So that's, that's.
That is great.
I don't know about how you'd goabout doing pus, blood and poop
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.
That's it Pus, blood and poop.
That's why I'm not in thenursing field.
I can't handle those three.
And you know, nursing you got achance to run into those three.
It's nasty, disgusting.
I don't can't be involved.
And it's weird because, like yo, I could carve a bird like no
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other, but if I see blood, pusor poop now that's where I'm at
I can't handle it.
So Sue was like yeah, you know,I really want to get into
nursing.
You know, this is why I'm here,that's what I want to do.
I said that's great, I'm soglad because, you know, after
you spend some amount of timehere in the culinary, this
facility will help you get intonursing.
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She's like oh, you know, that'sgreat, that's why I'm doing it,
that's why I'm here andeverything.
So I'm like, yeah, that's cool.
So I'll go rolling back tosilverware and everything.
It says, oh, and I want to be astripper.
And I was like I'm rollingsilver and I just drop, drop the
line, the role that I'm having.
I'm like what did he say?
What did you say?
She's like, yeah, I want to bea stripper.
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I'm like, oh, wow, like you'retoo young to be saying that, let
alone.
You're talking to yoursupervisor, your boss, and
you're telling me you want to bea stripper.
Like, look, I'm not hating onthe idea.
I mean, that's what you want todo, do you at the end.
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But how do you go from polaropposites of wanting to wipe
booty and deal with the blood,pus and poop to being on a pole
at 11, 12 o'clock at night?
And she had like, guess what, Ican do both.
I'm like word.
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She's like, yeah, I can do both.
I'm like word.
She's like, yeah, I could doboth.
I could help in people at thehospital and at night I could be
the same nurse on a pole.
And I'm thinking to myself thisis the craziest but nice idea
I've ever heard.
It's calm.
Is this common sense?
No, it's not.
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I'm pretty sure you'll makemore money being a nurse than
being a stripper.
But hey, I'm not here to dashpeople's dreams.
All I'm doing is looking at you, looking across the way and
looking at Sue.
I'm like, okay, sue, let's getback to the civil war, because
you have overloaded my brain.
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Get back to the civil warbecause you have overloaded my
brain and therefore I'm gonnahave to tap you and call you a
tap, because this is ridiculous,trifling ass people.
Needless to say that I thinkshe's still in the career field
and more power to you, sue.
Hope everything goes well withall you and your future
endeavors.
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Another person, let's call thisyoung person, troy.
Troy, again, was a server,young server, all energetic.
When we did the interviewprocess, he was just energy,
energy, like pure, untappedenergy.
And so he does the interviewprocess and he eventually comes
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on.
He comes on, he goes to mybuilding and I thought it was
weird at first because when Iwas told he was coming to my
building, it seemed like it waslike a snicker Okay, michael,
you're going to get Troy.
Troy is an energy, energyperson, full of energy, and he's
coming to your building.
I said, great, cool, whatever.
So he comes to my building andhe's with his mother.
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So I'm like, okay, a littleweird, like why would his mom
Come Again, common sense.
Common sense says if you'reGoing for a job, you don't bring
your mama right.
That's just something wrong.
But I digress, I didn't gothere yet.
I'm just looking at Troy andsay, okay, this is what you're
going to be doing.
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Go down this hallway, go downthis hallway, deliver food, come
back and we wash dishes andthen we repeat the cycle for
breakfast, lunch and dinnerright.
So I'm like, okay, his.
And then we repeat the cyclefor breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Right.
So I'm like, ok, his momverified everything.
So what will you have Troydoing?
I said, ok, I just repeatmyself We'll go down the hallway
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.
You want to deliver food here?
Deliver food here, come back,wash dishes, and that's it.
What I just said sounded likesay it with me, common sense,
that's what I'm looking for,common sense.
So, as he's working, he's he'she's working, energetic, being
full of energy, and I was likethat's what I like and
everything's cool.
He's working hard, said, justtell me what to do and I'll do
it.
And I said, okay.
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So I said go back there andwash dishes.
He went back there, washeddishes.
I said, okay, this, this dudeknows what he's doing.
Okay, this is great.
He takes orders very well,almost too well.
Again, let this thing calledcommon sense comes in when it
comes to telling teenagers oryoung adults what to do.
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Usually you get a little slackwith it, like I don't want to do
that, put yourself on the way,I don't want to do that.
Where's your?
Put yourself on the way, Idon't want to do that.
That's the attitude younormally get when it comes to
young adults.
But he was all energetic andeverything go go, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, real cool,until we got a late.
We got a late resident, we gotthis late resident.
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This resident was like I'm, youknow, we the nurses, come back
and like, oh, he hasn't ate.
He didn't eat at the otherlocation and he's hungry.
I said, okay, great, troy, goget this man's order.
Says no problem, boss, got it.
Darts away, comes back and hegives me the ticket of what this
, what the guy wants.
So I'm looking at the ticketand I look at it.
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I'm like yo, this dude's funny,right, this dude is funny.
This is so funny.
What are you talking about?
I'm looking around talking toanother server.
This dude is so funny.
What are you talking about,mike?
I said, look, he's playingaround and just, you know not
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spelling things right on purpose, and he's making it hard for me
.
What are you talking about?
Like, look at the way hespelled hamburger, he didn't
spell it right.
French fries, he didn't spellit right.
Coca-cola or Coke, he didn'tspell that right either.
I'm like, okay, maybe becauseyou know, end of the day, he's
just trying to get the order in,just so we can, you know, make
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it, put it back out and keep itmoving.
The next day I had him takeorders again and almost 75, 80%
of the orders were wrong.
So I'm like, hold on, what's,what's something's wrong?
What's going on?
I don't understand.
Like, why?
Why is?
Why is he doing this wrong?
I don't understand.
So he goes on, orders are allmessed up, orders are jacked up
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again and people are gettingangry.
They're getting angry.
Like what's going on?
Everybody, everybody,everybody's angry at the kids.
Like why is this orders wrong?
Why is this orders wrong?
Like I don't know.
Like, like, why is?
Why is this happening?
So I go and ask him, say, hey,sir, um, is there a reason?
Why are you submitting ticketswrong?
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And you know everything comesback and it's not right and he's
just cool with it, like, yeah,I can't read.
I'm like, what, what did he say?
Did he just say he couldn'tread?
I'm like, okay, hold on hold,on, hold on hold on hold on.
Reading is fundamental.
I thought when you fill out anapplication, you have to read to
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, like you know hey name, youhave to read that so you can put
that down on a piece of paper.
Why is troy doing this and this?
Like I was like, hey, troy, areyou in school?
He's like, yeah, I'm in school,it's okay, okay.
So why can't you read?
So I'll go back to my boss,that boss.
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Why can't you know he's hereand he can't read right?
So I said I didn't, I didn'tknow that, I didn't know that.
Wait, wait, how did he get pastthe screening process If you
couldn't read?
He said, well, I guess nobodyasked.
So nobody, nobody asked.
So do you understand?
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This is a liability if he can'tread that this person is
diabetic or is this personthat's to count as carbs or
anything like that.
It's important that he can read, and this is the first time
that I experienced where commonsense is no longer common.
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How did you send this individualout without the ability to read
?
Now, after this junction Ipulled him off.
I said I pulled him off thefloor and I said, look bro.
I said I can't have you here.
I can't have you here nooffense to anything, you know,
but would you be okay with doingsomething else, like doing
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something else other thanserving?
And he credit to Troy.
Troy was just a team player,he's like absolutely.
I said cool.
So we eventually moved him toanother job and he was fine,
perfectly fine.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, gentlemen, common sense is no
longer common.
That's example two, another one,this one I call e w h p t's.
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The w h p t's do you know?
Those letters produced the mostbreath action.
Let's do it real quick.
See, did you feel all thebreath that was coming out of
your mouth?
The WHPTs is what I call peoplethat got funky breath.
Yep, whpts All that breathaction.
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You know this is what's bad.
Right, it's early in themorning and I got people in my
face like good morning, chef.
What are you doing today?
How about some pancakes andtoast?
Did you get?
I got all the WHPT I can handle.
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Your breath is funky now.
Sometimes I leave the house togo grab.
Like let's just say I go grabdonuts, right, I go grab donuts
for my family.
You know how much talking I do.
I'm very minimum with mytalking, let alone in somebody's
face.
Right, because I know I got theWHPTs, I got funky breath.
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So it's mostly like, yeah, man,I got it.
I'm far back.
Yeah, I understand, my WHPT isnot in your face, but I've been
having Lately.
I have people who wake up inyour face, but I've been having
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lately.
I have people who wake up in themorning, have WHPT all on my
face and the breath is funky andI'm looking to myself like how
or why have you left the houseand you did not brush your teeth
?
Because it's clear as day, likethis person did not brush your
teeth Because it's clear as day,like this person did not brush
their teeth and they're all onmy face and I got to be nice
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about it Like, hi, chef, how areyou doing?
The breath hits my nose andimmediately burns my two
nostrils off.
This is the third time I'vechanged my nostrils in the past
three years.
You get what I'm saying.
Again, common sense has left thepeople because it's not common
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anymore.
That's one of the things, likeone of the checks, one of the
five checks I have before Ileave.
Did I brush my teeth?
Did I put my deodorant on?
Do I got my keys, wallet andphone?
That's the five checks I do.
Did I brush my teeth?
Do I got deodorant on?
Do I got my keys?
Money in the phone?
Why are people all in the grillswith the WHPTs?
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And it's like what do you do inthose situations?
Do you just actually callpeople out like, hey, bro, you
got the WHPTs, you need to goHandle that.
And most of the time they'realready at work.
So what do you do in thosesituations?
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I'm going to tell you what Iwould do.
I would leave work to go handlethat, because that is important
to me and it should beimportant to everybody.
Nobody wants somebody in theirface With the WHPTs.
That is the most.
That is the.
That just cuts conversationreal fast.
So is it offensive to handsomebody Some gum?
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Is it offensive to say, hey,look, bro, we got a problem
because you left the house withthe funky breath and you just
all in my face saying goodmorning to me?
I don't want to hear it.
I don't care if you are young,middle age or old age.
That is the number one priority.
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Don't be in my face with a hotbreath.
I can't, I can't deal with it.
Before you leave your house, doyour checks.
Hey, did I do the breath checkand then check your money, phone
and keys?
I thought that was common.
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I thought that was common senseby now, but it's not.
Next, the next person on tap,the next people on tap are
trifling workers.
So one person that I wasworking with we used to work
together a long time ago, longtime ago.
I'm at my job posting postsLike hey, anybody interested in
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a job got this easy job, comework with me, easy job, right.
And my friend now justassociate.
I guess she's like, yeah, I'llcome.
I was like, cool, put her on,we're working together.
And I'm finally like okay, nowI got some more stability where
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I work at, so therefore I canwork on policies, procedures,
get all that done.
But no, it doesn't happen Again.
The thesis or the theme of thisone, this TAP didn't want to
work with me, no more.
And that's cool.
I'm cool with that.
I'm cool with the decision hey,look, this isn't working for me
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.
I can no longer be here, I'mgoing to go my way.
I'm like all right, cool, Iunderstand, perfectly understand
.
You know something comes up, oryou know you're in a situation
where you don't longer want tobe here.
That's fine, right.
Or you know you're in asituation where you don't longer
want to be here, that's fine,right.
All I'm asking is hey, can Iget, can I get two weeks out of
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you?
Right, because standardprotocol says let me get a two
week notice.
I, when I have left jobs, I getmore than two weeks.
You know why I care, I careabout getting somebody else in.
So therefore, hey, someone cantake over or they have enough
time to start looking, andeverything.
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I asked her like, hey, can I gettwo weeks?
She's immediately hit me withthe nose the fastest one, the
fastest one I've ever got.
No, I said okay.
So you know, I did my thing.
I said look, this is how you'regoing to be and I brought you
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in.
You're ruining my name, myreputation.
I'm not going to associate withyou.
I ain't rolling with you.
Okay, that's how you roll.
That's not how I roll.
And I, I brought your punk buttin here.
So why are you being a tap?
Why are you tapping on me rightnow?
So I'm like you know what.
So, just, you know, justassociate with myself.
I ain't messing with it.
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You know, whatever a couple likea month later she hits me up
saying we need to talk.
I said no, sir, no ma'am, noham, no bacon.
I won't be doing that, no way,you gonna do me dirty.
And now you want to talk.
So nah, we ain't, we ain'tplaying I don't know who.
What kind of fool you think Iam.
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But my comment I still havecommon sense.
If you do me dirty, you thinkI'm gonna do you right.
Nah, no, no, no, no.
I hit her with the reverse,reverse, no, I said no, no, no,
no, no, no, uh-uh, get out ofhere.
I ain't talking to your punkbutt.
You did this, you did this, youdid dirty to me.
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You want me to do right by you?
Nah, nah, nah.
You can't even give a brothertwo weeks so I can at least
start the process.
Nah, no, we good, we good.
So let it, let it be known that.
I let you know.
Unfriend her, don't block this.
That it's over.
I ain't messing with that, Iain't.
I ain't on that stuff.
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Tap, trifling ass people.
I can't believe she did that.
Another one, last one, broughtthis person in, right, I thought
she was cool, you know.
I thought she's like, hey, Ireally need a job.
So if you really need a job,you know, and you're coming in
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on a recommendation, that's thething.
She was coming in on arecommendation.
Hey, this one, she's a goodworker, she's a good friend of
mine, this is her, this is her,this is her job.
This is perfect.
Okay, bring her in.
Let's just do the interviewprocess.
And during an interview was likefive, maybe 10 minutes, maybe I
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should spend more time figureout if this person is a tap.
Uh, you know, just say, how areyou get some general sense of
you, ask about your pastexperience, everything checked
out.
I was like, hey, look, theseare the days you, I'm looking
for.
It was like a friday throughmonday type deal, maybe not on
monday.
She said she's cool, like acool, I could do it.
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So, okay, right, she says shecould do it, so I'm gonna hold
her to it.
Right, common sense, that'swhat I'm saying, just common
sense.
As as the world turns, as I say,as we're working together, she
starts you know, hey, you gottago, I can't come in today, can't
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come in today.
She kept calling off.
I'm like, all right, you know,things happen, I get it, things
happen, I understand.
It starts building up.
So I'm like, all right, dang,how does this person come in on
a recommendation and just don'twant to work?
I'm like, all right, you know,each his own.
I'm going to try to be coolwith it.
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And I'm just looking at theperson who brought her in and
I'm just looking at her like boy, I swear, as she's walking by.
I'm like boy, I swear.
I thought you said thisindividual was cool, like she
could work.
She's like she's just giving methat I don't know.
So she keeps coming in and Ilook at her and she looks like
death.
I'm like, ugh, I'm going tojust ignore it for now until she
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comes up and talks to me.
I'm just like you came to work,you knew what you were coming
into.
I've already put some paperworkon her In your first 90 days.
You're supposed to beimpressive.
I'm not impressed.
Yeah, I understand.
So she comes in looking likedeath one day.
I'm like I said how you doing?
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She's like, oh, not feelingwell.
She's sounding all like thisI'm not feeling well and I'm
just mumbling, you know.
And then, like an hour later,she's like can I go home?
I'm just looking at her like yo, alright, whatever.
So she goes home like cool, youknow I ain't tripping, can I go
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home?
I'm like I'm just looking ather like yo, all right, whatever
.
So she goes home Like cool, youknow I ain't tripping, got
enough servers.
Just another point in the system, this one she keeps calling off
time and time again.
And on my weekend off I get acall.
They're like, hey, homegirldidn't show up.
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I said what she said homegirldidn't show up.
What do you mean?
This hobo didn't show up.
She said, yeah, she didn't showup.
I said, all right, well, we gotto do what we got to do.
So eventually we asked herright.
But it's just like, of all thethings, common sense says two
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weeks.
You just got to be professionalwith it and just say, hey, this
ain't fitting for me, I can'tdo this, no more.
I'm putting my two weeks inright.
And the thing is that you onlywork two days, maybe three.
What is two weeks going to burn?
Hurt you when you're off mostof the week anyway?
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Tap, that is a tap.
All these people are taps,trifling Ass People.
So where did common sense falloff at?
That's the question that I gotTo that last person.
I'm not done because now I'mangry.
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This is what it gets.
If you see me or I see you, yourass better run.
I'm not.
If I see you again in thesestreets, it's on.
Or I see you again in thesestreets, it's on.
I am playing because you know Idon't.
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I'm not well.
I'm disappointed with taps andpeople that just don't have the
common sense.
I guess this is why there's asocial divide among us people,
especially here in America.
I don't know, but yeah, be onthe lookout for TAPS, boy that
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and the WHPTs I made thatacronym up, but I follow it.
I'll call somebody real quick.
Be, watch out for taps, havecommon sense, pay attention in
school and don't aim to be astripper, please.
Or if that's what you want todo, don't tell nobody.
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Is that not common sense?
I'm your host of the WDYM.
My name is Michael Gillespie.
You watch out for these tapsand brush your nasty teeth.
I'm out.
Girl Scout, boy Scout, peace.
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