February 26, 2026 ⢠25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
My name is Susan. I think it Lows and a
we're name tag?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh, very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Which Lows do you work at in mechanics?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Tell Virginia, I have not been there.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, so let me ask you. That's not my Lows
the Let me ask you this you what was your
first name Susan? Susan?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
If I saw you, if I saw you at Lows
and you had your name tag on, does it just
say does it just say I'm going to give you
three options?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Does it just say Susan.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Does it say Susan and the first letter of your
last name or does it say your first and Susan
and your last name.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, it just says Susan and then my title okay.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And it could be cashier. It could be drills like whatever, drills?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Correct, just drills?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What is your title?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How about plumbing?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
There you go, all right, different, different thing, but there
are people who work in drills.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I don't think he's been to any Lows.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Line two, Hi, Elliot in the morning, Good morning, Claus.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm great. Hold on one say that was one for
just first name?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Are we supposed to be keeping track of that?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Please? Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
My name is Patrick. Actually I'm working at ari I
up the street at Pike and Rows.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh, fantastic, great story. That's a big r e I too.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, it's solid.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hey, okay, so I walk into ri I Patrick Does
it say Patrick Patrick first letter of your last name
or Patrick and your entire last name.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just the first name for us? Yeah? Pretty low key?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yep. All right, very good, very good. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
By the way, you're perfect for the store. I don't
want to say it was typecasting, but you sound like
an ri I employee.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He sounded great.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Line eight, Hi, Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I'm doing great? Thank you? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
This is Milan from Arlington Milan.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, sweet, Hey, what do you do.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So right now? I'm a commercial driver for autos on
I deliver autoparts.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And you wear you wear a name tag.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yep, it says commercial driver and customer satisfaction on it,
as well as my first and last name. You have
your whole name yep, first and last. I don't know
why I did it that way, because I used to
be a valet driver. Parking cars at the Marriott and
I don't have my first name on it when I
worked there.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Interesting, interesting, write down just first name and then write
down first and last name.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Hit them both.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Huh yeah no you did? You're well you're missing one?
All right? Very good, very good. That's all right. I'm
doing one more. Hi Elliott in the morning. Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
This is Kyle from Fredericksburg.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, sir, what do you what do you do? What
do you do?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I work at Target for about a year and a half.
At uh it's overnight stock and my name is Kyle,
but everyone kept calling me Carl, and they put Carl
on my so I just didn't bother correcting.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So let's let's pretend for a second, just for the
sake of argument, that that they had your correct name
on there. Okay, and so is it first name, first name,
first initial or first name and last name?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
You know, it's just my first name and it was wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, no, I get the wrong part. Now, what would
you do?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What would you do if somebody came up to you
and was like, hey, I have a problem, I have
an issue.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I have whatever, Carl, what's your last name?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Are you asking me, or am I responding in the
way like no.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You're responding, You're you work, you're you're you're.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Working someone it's like, hey, Carl, I generally didn't respond
very quick because it's not my.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Name, so it's not registered.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So sometimes it just looks stupid standing in aisle and
someone's asking for help and I'm ignoring them. No, but
people will no because sometimes thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
What if I'm disappointed?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Oh, an angry customer? May I want your name?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Sure? What if I'm disappointed?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Okay? I thought you were just asking Carl for assistance.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Now, like, let's say your your name tag just says Tyler.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah right, and I'm I'm trying to return this and
you're telling me I can't return it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well, okay, excuse me, Tyler. May I have your last name? Please?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Oh? So they want to report me? Are you going
to report me?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Realizing to give a fake?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Pardon me? Really?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Give a fake last name?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? But now you're gonna get Carl.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's it's Carl Smith. Tyler, Carl, you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Know what I learned. I had no idea. This blew
my mind.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Why would they need your last name?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Because people it's it's I'm gonna I'm gonna get your
name and I'm gonna report you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Like I could see someone asking for it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Do you need it?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I feel like they can figure out who on the
shift was that name at that time. But I could
see someone in a heated moment saying like, no, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know what I'm reporting this? Uh, Diane, what is
your last name?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
I'm not required to give that information to you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm sorry, I guess the last name is bitch.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Okay, maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So you're gonna go with I'm not required to give
your last name.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Yeah, my manager said I didn't have to do that.
You can ask him if you'd like, and then I'm
high tailing it out of air.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Why wouldn't you tell him my name is Diane? If
you want to complain to the manager, it's uh ten
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
They know who they'll be able to tell you. They
know who I am.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm not giving them my name. I know that for certain.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Because you're fearful of like they're gonna follow you.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
They're just they're just they're hot in that moment. They
they're not going to do anything, so they're going to
report you Okay to the manager, right, who's not going
to do anything. So I just I don't want to
give them that information. That's why I'm literally going to say, like,
I'm not required to do that. It's store policy and GFO.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So where are you making all this up?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Where are you gfo ing like you're leaving work?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Sweet, I'm going to follow you out.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Target is huge.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
I can hide and target.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
But is this you just reference now? Store policies? Yeah?
Do you know this to be?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
No?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I totally made that up lying and lying it's I'm
working retail.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I know if this was something I'm dealing with.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I'm dealing with Dix all day.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I didn't know if you and she was told since college?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
No, that's that's my way to cover for not giving
them my name. I'm it's store policy. I don't have
to give you that. And then if what are they
going to do? Go through the handbook with the manager?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
No, this person sounds like they.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
May no, But what if I did this?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Hey? Is it your store policy that you don't give
out your last name.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Or not required to?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Sorry? I didn't respond right away because I don't respond
to Carl Carl's not my real name.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
What if I ask someone else and they're like, no,
absolutely not, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, now I've got you on two. You fed up
my return and now you're lying to me.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Now again what Diane the manager told me? That got fired.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I do hate when you have to make sure everyone's
on board with the same lie. It's nerve wracking.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know what I learned yesterday?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I learned that in most retail or name tag situations,
they don't put your last name.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
On there, and most.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It's an initial for safety reasons because people don't want
there to be anything retaliatory.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
People can start just like if you've got something that's
a little bit out of the ordinary, that's easy to google.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You That never dawned on me.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
No, people will be creeping and finding your social media
and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Oh yes, so that I mean, that's still safety, but
it's more exactly, it's not retaliatory.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Somebody who want to see what's going on exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Oh, I just want to know what's up.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Slide.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Hey, I don't know if you remember me. I ran
into you in drills.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I had no idea, and then I thought back my
burger king uniform just said Elliott.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Yes, I mean maybe, but I wasn't afraid. Maybe back
in the day when they would do maybe a first
and a last, that they ran into some problems and
they thought easy way to do is just put the
first name down.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Now there are a couple of people who have chimed
in who do first and last on their name tag
or have it on their name tag. Should they be concerned?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Are they Is it a customer facing job?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
This one is a dispensary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean that's definitely customer facing. And I am Jones.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
And for some weed car dealership.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Why is a car dealership even wearing a name tag?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I feel like I've seen that with someone has a
polo on.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Now I'm trying to think, do they wear name tags?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Maybe not all of them, but I feel like I
can see that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, they have their name on their desk.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
No, but if they're roaming a showroom, they're not going
to be at their desk.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
If I Diane's just roaming a showroom, right, like you're
a salesperson.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
At a car dealership.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, if I walk by, I'm not in let's say
I'm interested, right, I want to try. I want to
drive that tahoe. And I see you walking around. I
don't go up to you and go, oh hi, Diane,
I'd like to. I would just go up and go,
oh hi, excuse me. My name's Elliott. I'd like to
I'm interested in a tahoe. And then you would go, oh,
very nice, my name's Diane. S nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Like.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You don't need an Now, let's get you in that car.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You don't need a name tag for that hotel? Oh hotels? Well, nay.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Everywhere someone says no, way from that message.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
First and last. Yeah, that's not safe.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're scaring people.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, But they said, that's why they don't put first
and last.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I get the justification for it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Which is the hotel chain. Which is the hotel chain
that that puts the oh I know this.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
A buddy of mine was a chef there, not Nnino,
but somebody else I know that puts the country of origin.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, but I can't remember, is it Kimpton?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I see these days that sounds more dangerous to the
why having people wear the flag of their home nation,
but that's where they're from. Can I talk to someone
with the stars and stripes?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
No? No, But is it Kimpton?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That doesn't I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
We went for pride, we got racism.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Where where am I going?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Does that? It is a flag?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Just a little tiny one next to their name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well, it's big enough for me to see it, because
I definitely where a buddy of mine was a was
a chef at the at the Kimpton in Old Town.
But I don't know if that's where it was, because
sometimes you see that and you're like, hey, what what
is what's that? What's that?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
That flag? Not even a rectangle?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That throws you off?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
The triangle?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Is that gone? It's Ghana? The one that has not ghana?
Not Ghana gone.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I'm not gonna offend too lately.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, what is the one that is it? Kenya Elliott?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It don't matter mine seven? Hi Elliott in the morning? Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Name is George, Yes, George? What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm a city inspector and I only have my last name.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm embroidered in my shirts and sweaters.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Oh embroidered.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah. But are you like would you would you be
in a position where like customers are talking to you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, I do with a lot of the residents and
all the plants, and they always want to snitched it
off as no, I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Guess so I guess. Well, I'll tell you what McGillicutty was.
Uh what what? What if somebody said, hey McGillicutty, what's
your first name?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I gotta tell him?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You would or you would not said what you said
you would or would not tell them. I would have to.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I would have to.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh that's interesting. All right, very good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Ed says that for country of origin, they change your
profile picture.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Ed says.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Ed says, what about initial and last name?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like E.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Siegel worked in law enforcement and EMS and some places
had this.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Oh, law enforcement's a weird one.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I feel like the last easier to track down someone.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
In law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, because here's something every conference, right, Well, I'm writing
down your badge number.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
No, no, I'm not talking about someone who's enforcing the
law being easier to track down. But take it would
be strange if an officer walked up and it was
like first grade play on the school desk. Right, but
take the initial, first, initial, last name to any other
profession that makes a lot easier to find someone. Oh absolutely,
(13:59):
so I could see where you Maybe you want to
stray away from that. It's it's not anonymous enough.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Hey five h I have an idea. Why don't you
tell me your name? I believe I pay your salary. God,
I could never be a cop. No me.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Megan works at Target and says we are not required
to give the full name.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
What Diane said company policy?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
My line was right, What does she do? What does
she need for customers to know that?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
What is she?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
What are they are they instructed as to what they're
supposed to say?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
She did not write.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Because this thing that I was reading and again I
learned this yesterday. Here's what they want you to say
to a dissatisfied customer and you only have your first name,
and they're like, excuse me, Diane, last name, please and so.
But instead of instead of just saying I'm not required
to give that to you, here's what they want you
(14:55):
to say. I'm sorry that you are dissatisfied, but you
do not need my last name to identify me to management.
If you want to lodge a formal complaint against me,
just give my first name and the time of my shift.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I assure you they will know how to find me.
Thank you, have a nice day. You'll get about a
sentence through that.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Maybe you'll get I'm sorry you were dissatisfied and punch
punch punch.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Kristen L writes country of origin. Uh, this is for
at a car dealership. We had full name, first and
last on name tags and they changed everyone's tags because
of a soccer situation to just be first name.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh really and get rid of them fully No, no, no,
but they got rid of the whole the entire name.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yes, the surname. I get it and answer. In this
day and age social media, you don't.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Want somebody to like writing your name down and you
were like, well.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I just want to see the No.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, I mean, if we're being completely honest, if I
were at give me a store where Low's I'm in drills,
if there was somebody.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
There that was like I thought, was that you were
interested in?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay? I mean, or they were We had a nice conversation.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Oh they was connection.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
And I knew their name. I would definitely look them up.
But I'm not a stalker. No, no, I'm not contacting them. No,
well no, I'm not saying now back in the day.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, i'd go back to Low's.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That may be worse.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I would not be it.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Hey, I noticed you when I was looking at bits
No this morning.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I heard the guy on the radio talk about masturbating
it through your boxers. I wanna.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Oh, and by the way, I'm counting my farts.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
No, but you may go back over the next couple
of days.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Not but that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't just
start damning somebody I didn't know. But I would go
back over the next couple of days and be like, oh, hey,
how are like how are you?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
My name's Elliott, like, but not like, hey, I don't
know if you remember I was in here a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I wrote down your name and looked you up on Instagram.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Great, great time.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Why would he said that? Was he so hunched over?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, because I'm a troll. I'm a troll. Okay,
but listen, I did that at a doctor's office. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
The person who checked it in front of me wrote
their name down, and I thought I recognized that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, you damn up. Yeah, but I didn't reach out.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
To them because you weren't trying to date them.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, I'm married.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I said it before when you were single.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Oh, but I might have asked the doctor about the
woman if I were to tell you, no, not like.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
What's going on there?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What's what's up with her?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
If I asked her out, like she ain't got some
contagious right?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh? I work for this is from Noel. Well, this
works for someone on next call center for a bank.
And people on the phone would ask for our full names.
We're not customer facing, We're just interfacing with customers. I
would say I'm not required to give that.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I would just make a first name Harold, last name Beaver,
who cares like pick up anything?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, I mean you know I would. I would do nothing.
Duncan first name d u n Duncan, last name mcdickener.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Is Elliott. Thinking of Disney, the cast members put their
home country on their ID badges.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
No, that one time you were at Disney, that's what
stuck out.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What's a triangle man? No? No, I don't think that's it.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Well, the other one was Cruise Lines.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Is it not Kimpton? It is definitely as with that,
is it?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Or maybe it's Marriott, maybe it's Hilton, Maybe it's Choice
does Hampton in make them do it?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I know, I don't I've seen that anywhere. Yes you have,
and it's it's right there. It's it's part of the
name bad just not a separate little flag that's on
the other lapel or something.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
No, it's definitely part of the tag. The Christen's nodding
she knows.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Where does she think it is?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Where do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Said?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You said fifty eight words there?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
She's just saying, I want them to identify themselves that way.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'll wait for the American please.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Where I've seen it at like even Orlando, at.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Disney like Universal. Yeah, they just said that.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But I've also seen it at a hotel and I
can't remember which one, but it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't remember being local.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I remember being like, oh, they haven't like any resort too,
And I'm trying to think where the hotel is.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
So if you go if you go to like cancuon
like if you go to like a like a Hilton
or a Merria in can Coon.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It has them.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well yeah, because that's all international and that would make sense.
Well not if you live in Mexico, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The that would be international, like when Diana and I
were both in Cancun at the same time. Different places, right,
but like our resort had even people who were from Mexico.
Some of them said like Mexico City, or it would
say like different parts of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
They're of their origin city.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He Lisco El Paso club met in Florida had flags
on their name tags, so guests felt comfortable talking in
their native tongue English. Are we in Florida?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Hey, I don't know what that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I don't know where that flag's from, but uh English, Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Chris did my father in law's boat club in Florida,
they have they have the flag on their name tags.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, Christin that's a marina.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
That's diver down all.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The people who are from different countries.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
English. All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I don't know what we solved there, but we solved it.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Just make up policy if there isn't one.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's what Diane did. It turned out she was right.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Scary. This DM says worked at a local level when
hospital in the ICU care for a prisoner and we
had our first and last names on our IDs. Two
weeks later, I received a bouquet of flowers sent from prison.
It was very scary. Now we only use first name
and first letter of last name.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Why why would it be scary.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
A prisoner is sending you flowers from prison? Why are
they in prison?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I get mailed from prisoners all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Difference between a letter and an arrangement? Yeah, seeking an arrangement.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
First name Elliot, last name Siegel. Come on and mate,
send me some send me some flowers. The Yeah, no,
I mean, I guess, I guess you could see where
that would throw. But maybe maybe it was just his
way of going, thank you for such great care.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Well, we don't know what was said on the card,
you know, thank you for it was scary?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, no, no, I understand that. I understand that.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But was it scary because and I'm she's entitled to
feel however she But maybe it was a guy who
was like, what does he spending money on?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Right? His commissary? So what if?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
What if it was his way of going, you know what,
thank you for saving my life, whether it.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Was saving my life or just treating me kind and
taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
As a thank you, I'm sending you flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Now using the contextual clues, I'm guessing it was not.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The it's that's a good assumption.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
But whether it was, no matter how it was, it
wasn't received that way.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
No, they changed their policy. You don't have to lie
there at that hospital. You can say it's not our policy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
This is Richie Man. I'm born and raised from up there,
but I actually been in TuS or almost plenty.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh do good for you? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Actually, I'm a concierge down here, and yeah. I mean,
if you're from the United States, it just says either
you can take a city or a town, it doesn't
really matter. But it's only your first name.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So you had your first name, but you could put
on there, like if you were from if you were
from Baltimore, you could either have it say Maryland or Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Uh, yeah, mine says Maryland.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Just yeah, you just go with Maryland.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But did at the at the hotel that you're at,
you have people like if I if I work there
and I'm from Montreal, would I put Montreal or would
I just put like the Canadian flag, We.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Don't really have flags. It's just either it just says
it underneath the name. But I mean you could do Montreal,
or you could do Canada or Canada. Right, pty much
open to you. How you want to represent yourself?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I gotcha, I gotcha. All right, very good, very good,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And we missed a huge one where there are no
name tags, but apparently names are requested quite frequently. Wait,
no name tag, no name tags?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Is it? Is it customer facing?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You could say that, man, this is good. I can
see give you feel We didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Give me a field, give me a field like retail.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
How about I just say field?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Baseball players their names on the back of their jerseys,
not or.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
What about umpires? Oh that's good, the DM says. When
unhappy with decisions on the playing field, coaches, players, and
sometimes parents ask for our names frequently.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Uh yep. First name Harold, last name Beaver.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Good lock. Usually we don't give it out, but you
just tell them that the assigner knows my name.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
No, that's good, that's good, And you know what, that
will calm that parent down.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'm not telling you, but the assigner knows.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Okay, Maybe the parent just wants to send flowers.
Hi, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (00:03):
My name is Susan. I think it Lows and a
we're name tag?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh, very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (00:07):
Which Lows do you work at in mechanics?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Tell Virginia, I have not been there.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, so let me ask you. That's not my Lows
the Let me ask you this you what was your
first name Susan? Susan?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
If I saw you, if I saw you at Lows
and you had your name tag on, does it just
say does it just say I'm going to give you
three options?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Does it just say Susan.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Does it say Susan and the first letter of your
last name or does it say your first and Susan
and your last name.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
No, it just says Susan and then my title okay.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And it could be cashier. It could be drills like whatever, drills?
Speaker 5 (00:53):
Correct, just drills?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
What is your title?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
How about plumbing?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
There you go, all right, different, different thing, but there
are people who work in drills.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
All right, very good, Thank you, ma'am, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I don't think he's been to any Lows.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Line two, Hi, Elliot in the morning, Good morning, Claus.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm great. Hold on one say that was one for
just first name?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Are we supposed to be keeping track of that?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Please? Hi? Who's this?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
My name is Patrick. Actually I'm working at ari I
up the street at Pike and Rows.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Oh, fantastic, great story. That's a big r e I too.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, it's solid.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Hey, okay, so I walk into ri I Patrick Does
it say Patrick Patrick first letter of your last name
or Patrick and your entire last name.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Just the first name for us? Yeah? Pretty low key?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yep. All right, very good, very good. Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
By the way, you're perfect for the store. I don't
want to say it was typecasting, but you sound like
an ri I employee.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
He sounded great.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Line eight, Hi, Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Hey, how are you doing today?
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I'm doing great? Thank you? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (02:05):
This is Milan from Arlington Milan.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, sweet, Hey, what do you do.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
So right now? I'm a commercial driver for autos on
I deliver autoparts.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
And you wear you wear a name tag.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yep, it says commercial driver and customer satisfaction on it,
as well as my first and last name. You have
your whole name yep, first and last. I don't know
why I did it that way, because I used to
be a valet driver. Parking cars at the Marriott and
I don't have my first name on it when I
worked there.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Interesting, interesting, write down just first name and then write
down first and last name.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Hit them both.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Huh yeah no you did? You're well you're missing one?
All right? Very good, very good. That's all right. I'm
doing one more. Hi Elliott in the morning. Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
This is Kyle from Fredericksburg.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, sir, what do you what do you do? What
do you do?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
I work at Target for about a year and a half.
At uh it's overnight stock and my name is Kyle,
but everyone kept calling me Carl, and they put Carl
on my so I just didn't bother correcting.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
So let's let's pretend for a second, just for the
sake of argument, that that they had your correct name
on there. Okay, and so is it first name, first name,
first initial or first name and last name?
Speaker 6 (03:30):
You know, it's just my first name and it was wrong.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, no, I get the wrong part. Now, what would
you do?
Speaker 4 (03:36):
What would you do if somebody came up to you
and was like, hey, I have a problem, I have
an issue.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I have whatever, Carl, what's your last name?
Speaker 6 (03:48):
Are you asking me, or am I responding in the
way like no.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You're responding, You're you work, you're you're you're.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Working someone it's like, hey, Carl, I generally didn't respond
very quick because it's not my.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Name, so it's not registered.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So sometimes it just looks stupid standing in aisle and
someone's asking for help and I'm ignoring them. No, but
people will no because sometimes thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
What if I'm disappointed?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Oh, an angry customer? May I want your name?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Sure? What if I'm disappointed?
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Okay? I thought you were just asking Carl for assistance.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Now, like, let's say your your name tag just says Tyler.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah right, and I'm I'm trying to return this and
you're telling me I can't return it.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Well, okay, excuse me, Tyler. May I have your last name? Please?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Oh? So they want to report me? Are you going
to report me?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Realizing to give a fake?
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Pardon me? Really?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Is it?
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Give a fake last name?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah? But now you're gonna get Carl.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It's it's Carl Smith. Tyler, Carl, you.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Know what I learned. I had no idea. This blew
my mind.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
Why would they need your last name?
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Because people it's it's I'm gonna I'm gonna get your
name and I'm gonna report you.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Like I could see someone asking for it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Do you need it?
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I feel like they can figure out who on the
shift was that name at that time. But I could
see someone in a heated moment saying like, no, what's
your name?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You know what I'm reporting this? Uh, Diane, what is
your last name?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
I'm not required to give that information to you.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm sorry, I guess the last name is bitch.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Okay, maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So you're gonna go with I'm not required to give
your last name.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
Yeah, my manager said I didn't have to do that.
You can ask him if you'd like, and then I'm
high tailing it out of air.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Why wouldn't you tell him my name is Diane? If
you want to complain to the manager, it's uh ten
twenty three.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
They know who they'll be able to tell you. They
know who I am.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
I'm not giving them my name. I know that for certain.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Because you're fearful of like they're gonna follow you.
Speaker 7 (05:58):
They're just they're just they're hot in that moment. They
they're not going to do anything, so they're going to
report you Okay to the manager, right, who's not going
to do anything. So I just I don't want to
give them that information. That's why I'm literally going to say, like,
I'm not required to do that. It's store policy and GFO.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
So where are you making all this up?
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Though?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Where are you gfo ing like you're leaving work?
Speaker 7 (06:21):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Sweet, I'm going to follow you out.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Target is huge.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
I can hide and target.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
But is this you just reference now? Store policies? Yeah?
Do you know this to be?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
No?
Speaker 7 (06:30):
I totally made that up lying and lying it's I'm
working retail.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
I know if this was something I'm dealing with.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
I'm dealing with Dix all day.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I didn't know if you and she was told since college?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
No, that's that's my way to cover for not giving
them my name. I'm it's store policy. I don't have
to give you that. And then if what are they
going to do? Go through the handbook with the manager?
Speaker 5 (06:56):
No, this person sounds like they.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
May no, But what if I did this?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Hey? Is it your store policy that you don't give
out your last name.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Or not required to?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Sorry? I didn't respond right away because I don't respond
to Carl Carl's not my real name.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
No, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
What if I ask someone else and they're like, no,
absolutely not, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Well, now I've got you on two. You fed up
my return and now you're lying to me.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Now again what Diane the manager told me? That got fired.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I do hate when you have to make sure everyone's
on board with the same lie. It's nerve wracking.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know what I learned yesterday?
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I learned that in most retail or name tag situations,
they don't put your last name.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
On there, and most.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
It's an initial for safety reasons because people don't want
there to be anything retaliatory.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
People can start just like if you've got something that's
a little bit out of the ordinary, that's easy to google.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You That never dawned on me.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
No, people will be creeping and finding your social media
and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Oh yes, so that I mean, that's still safety, but
it's more exactly, it's not retaliatory.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Somebody who want to see what's going on exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Oh, I just want to know what's up.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Slide.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Hey, I don't know if you remember me. I ran
into you in drills.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I had no idea, and then I thought back my
burger king uniform just said Elliott.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Yes, I mean maybe, but I wasn't afraid. Maybe back
in the day when they would do maybe a first
and a last, that they ran into some problems and
they thought easy way to do is just put the
first name down.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Now there are a couple of people who have chimed
in who do first and last on their name tag
or have it on their name tag. Should they be concerned?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Are they Is it a customer facing job?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
This one is a dispensary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I mean that's definitely customer facing. And I am Jones.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
And for some weed car dealership.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Why is a car dealership even wearing a name tag?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
I feel like I've seen that with someone has a
polo on.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Now I'm trying to think, do they wear name tags?
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Maybe not all of them, but I feel like I
can see that.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, they have their name on their desk.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
No, but if they're roaming a showroom, they're not going
to be at their desk.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
If I Diane's just roaming a showroom, right, like you're
a salesperson.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
At a car dealership.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, if I walk by, I'm not in let's say
I'm interested, right, I want to try. I want to
drive that tahoe. And I see you walking around. I
don't go up to you and go, oh hi, Diane,
I'd like to. I would just go up and go,
oh hi, excuse me. My name's Elliott. I'd like to
I'm interested in a tahoe. And then you would go, oh,
very nice, my name's Diane. S nice to meet you.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Like.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
You don't need an Now, let's get you in that car.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
You don't need a name tag for that hotel? Oh hotels? Well, nay.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Everywhere someone says no, way from that message.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
First and last. Yeah, that's not safe.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
You're scaring people.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
No, But they said, that's why they don't put first
and last.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
I get the justification for it.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Which is the hotel chain. Which is the hotel chain
that that puts the oh I know this.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
A buddy of mine was a chef there, not Nnino,
but somebody else I know that puts the country of origin.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
I've never seen that.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, but I can't remember, is it Kimpton?
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I see these days that sounds more dangerous to the
why having people wear the flag of their home nation,
but that's where they're from. Can I talk to someone
with the stars and stripes?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
No? No, But is it Kimpton?
Speaker 7 (11:02):
That doesn't I don't know.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
We went for pride, we got racism.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Where where am I going?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Does that? It is a flag?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Just a little tiny one next to their name?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Well, it's big enough for me to see it, because
I definitely where a buddy of mine was a was
a chef at the at the Kimpton in Old Town.
But I don't know if that's where it was, because
sometimes you see that and you're like, hey, what what
is what's that? What's that?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
That flag? Not even a rectangle?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That throws you off?
Speaker 7 (11:40):
The triangle?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Is that gone? It's Ghana? The one that has not ghana?
Not Ghana gone.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
I'm not gonna offend too lately.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, what is the one that is it? Kenya Elliott?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Stop?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It don't matter mine seven? Hi Elliott in the morning? Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Name is George, Yes, George? What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I'm a city inspector and I only have my last name.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
I'm embroidered in my shirts and sweaters.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Oh embroidered.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah. But are you like would you would you be
in a position where like customers are talking to you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Well, I do with a lot of the residents and
all the plants, and they always want to snitched it
off as no, I.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Guess so I guess. Well, I'll tell you what McGillicutty was.
Uh what what? What if somebody said, hey McGillicutty, what's
your first name?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
I gotta tell him?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You would or you would not said what you said
you would or would not tell them. I would have to.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I would have to.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Oh that's interesting. All right, very good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
Ed says that for country of origin, they change your
profile picture.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Ed says.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
Ed says, what about initial and last name?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Like E.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Siegel worked in law enforcement and EMS and some places
had this.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Oh, law enforcement's a weird one.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I feel like the last easier to track down someone.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
In law enforcement.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, because here's something every conference, right, Well, I'm writing
down your badge number.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
No, no, I'm not talking about someone who's enforcing the
law being easier to track down. But take it would
be strange if an officer walked up and it was
like first grade play on the school desk. Right, but
take the initial, first, initial, last name to any other
profession that makes a lot easier to find someone. Oh absolutely,
(13:59):
so I could see where you Maybe you want to
stray away from that. It's it's not anonymous enough.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Hey five h I have an idea. Why don't you
tell me your name? I believe I pay your salary. God,
I could never be a cop. No me.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Megan works at Target and says we are not required
to give the full name.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
What Diane said company policy?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
My line was right, What does she do? What does
she need for customers to know that?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
What is she?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
What are they are they instructed as to what they're
supposed to say?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
She did not write.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Because this thing that I was reading and again I
learned this yesterday. Here's what they want you to say
to a dissatisfied customer and you only have your first name,
and they're like, excuse me, Diane, last name, please and so.
But instead of instead of just saying I'm not required
to give that to you, here's what they want you
(14:55):
to say. I'm sorry that you are dissatisfied, but you
do not need my last name to identify me to management.
If you want to lodge a formal complaint against me,
just give my first name and the time of my shift.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I assure you they will know how to find me.
Thank you, have a nice day. You'll get about a
sentence through that.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Maybe you'll get I'm sorry you were dissatisfied and punch
punch punch.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Kristen L writes country of origin. Uh, this is for
at a car dealership. We had full name, first and
last on name tags and they changed everyone's tags because
of a soccer situation to just be first name.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Oh really and get rid of them fully No, no, no,
but they got rid of the whole the entire name.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Yes, the surname. I get it and answer. In this
day and age social media, you don't.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Want somebody to like writing your name down and you
were like, well.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
I just want to see the No.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
No, I mean, if we're being completely honest, if I
were at give me a store where Low's I'm in drills,
if there was somebody.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
There that was like I thought, was that you were
interested in?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Okay? I mean, or they were We had a nice conversation.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Oh they was connection.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
And I knew their name. I would definitely look them up.
But I'm not a stalker. No, no, I'm not contacting them. No,
well no, I'm not saying now back in the day.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No, i'd go back to Low's.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
That may be worse.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I would not be it.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Hey, I noticed you when I was looking at bits
No this morning.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
I heard the guy on the radio talk about masturbating
it through your boxers. I wanna.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Oh, and by the way, I'm counting my farts.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
No, but you may go back over the next couple
of days.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Not but that. I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I wouldn't just
start damning somebody I didn't know. But I would go
back over the next couple of days and be like, oh, hey,
how are like how are you?
Speaker 4 (17:19):
My name's Elliott, like, but not like, hey, I don't
know if you remember I was in here a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I wrote down your name and looked you up on Instagram.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Great, great time.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Why would he said that? Was he so hunched over?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, because I'm a troll. I'm a troll. Okay,
but listen, I did that at a doctor's office. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
The person who checked it in front of me wrote
their name down, and I thought I recognized that.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, you damn up. Yeah, but I didn't reach out.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
To them because you weren't trying to date them.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
No, I'm married.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I said it before when you were single.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Oh, but I might have asked the doctor about the
woman if I were to tell you, no, not like.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
What's going on there?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
What's what's up with her?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
If I asked her out, like she ain't got some
contagious right?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh? I work for this is from Noel. Well, this
works for someone on next call center for a bank.
And people on the phone would ask for our full names.
We're not customer facing, We're just interfacing with customers. I
would say I'm not required to give that.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I would just make a first name Harold, last name Beaver,
who cares like pick up anything?
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, I mean you know I would. I would do nothing.
Duncan first name d u n Duncan, last name mcdickener.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Is Elliott. Thinking of Disney, the cast members put their
home country on their ID badges.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
No, that one time you were at Disney, that's what
stuck out.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What's a triangle man? No? No, I don't think that's it.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
Well, the other one was Cruise Lines.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Is it not Kimpton? It is definitely as with that,
is it?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Or maybe it's Marriott, maybe it's Hilton, Maybe it's Choice
does Hampton in make them do it?
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I know, I don't I've seen that anywhere. Yes you have,
and it's it's right there. It's it's part of the
name bad just not a separate little flag that's on
the other lapel or something.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
No, it's definitely part of the tag. The Christen's nodding
she knows.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Where does she think it is?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Where do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Said?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You said fifty eight words there?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
She's just saying, I want them to identify themselves that way.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'll wait for the American please.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Where I've seen it at like even Orlando, at.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Disney like Universal. Yeah, they just said that.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I know.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But I've also seen it at a hotel and I
can't remember which one, but it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't remember being local.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I remember being like, oh, they haven't like any resort too,
And I'm trying to think where the hotel is.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
So if you go if you go to like cancuon
like if you go to like a like a Hilton
or a Merria in can Coon.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
It has them.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
Well yeah, because that's all international and that would make sense.
Well not if you live in Mexico, you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
The that would be international, like when Diana and I
were both in Cancun at the same time. Different places, right,
but like our resort had even people who were from Mexico.
Some of them said like Mexico City, or it would
say like different parts of Mexico.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
They're of their origin city.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
He Lisco El Paso club met in Florida had flags
on their name tags, so guests felt comfortable talking in
their native tongue English. Are we in Florida?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Hey, I don't know what that.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I don't know where that flag's from, but uh English, Yes.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Chris did my father in law's boat club in Florida,
they have they have the flag on their name tags.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Okay, Christin that's a marina.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
That's diver down all.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
The people who are from different countries.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
English. All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I don't know what we solved there, but we solved it.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Just make up policy if there isn't one.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That's what Diane did. It turned out she was right.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Scary. This DM says worked at a local level when
hospital in the ICU care for a prisoner and we
had our first and last names on our IDs. Two
weeks later, I received a bouquet of flowers sent from prison.
It was very scary. Now we only use first name
and first letter of last name.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Why why would it be scary.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
A prisoner is sending you flowers from prison? Why are
they in prison?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
I get mailed from prisoners all the time.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Difference between a letter and an arrangement? Yeah, seeking an arrangement.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
First name Elliot, last name Siegel. Come on and mate,
send me some send me some flowers. The Yeah, no,
I mean, I guess, I guess you could see where
that would throw. But maybe maybe it was just his
way of going, thank you for such great care.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Well, we don't know what was said on the card,
you know, thank you for it was scary?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah, no, no, I understand that. I understand that.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
But was it scary because and I'm she's entitled to
feel however she But maybe it was a guy who
was like, what does he spending money on?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Right? His commissary? So what if?
Speaker 7 (22:53):
What if it was his way of going, you know what,
thank you for saving my life, whether it.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Was saving my life or just treating me kind and
taking care of me.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
As a thank you, I'm sending you flowers.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Now using the contextual clues, I'm guessing it was not.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The it's that's a good assumption.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
But whether it was, no matter how it was, it
wasn't received that way.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
No, they changed their policy. You don't have to lie
there at that hospital. You can say it's not our policy.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Hi, Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
This is Richie Man. I'm born and raised from up there,
but I actually been in TuS or almost plenty.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh do good for you? What can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Actually, I'm a concierge down here, and yeah. I mean,
if you're from the United States, it just says either
you can take a city or a town, it doesn't
really matter. But it's only your first name.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So you had your first name, but you could put
on there, like if you were from if you were
from Baltimore, you could either have it say Maryland or Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Uh, yeah, mine says Maryland.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Just yeah, you just go with Maryland.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
But did at the at the hotel that you're at,
you have people like if I if I work there
and I'm from Montreal, would I put Montreal or would
I just put like the Canadian flag, We.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Don't really have flags. It's just either it just says
it underneath the name. But I mean you could do Montreal,
or you could do Canada or Canada. Right, pty much
open to you. How you want to represent yourself?
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I gotcha, I gotcha. All right, very good, very good,
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
And we missed a huge one where there are no
name tags, but apparently names are requested quite frequently. Wait,
no name tag, no name tags?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Is it? Is it customer facing?
Speaker 5 (24:43):
You could say that, man, this is good. I can
see give you feel We didn't.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Give me a field, give me a field like retail.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
How about I just say field?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Baseball players their names on the back of their jerseys,
not or.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
What about umpires? Oh that's good, the DM says. When
unhappy with decisions on the playing field, coaches, players, and
sometimes parents ask for our names frequently.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Uh yep. First name Harold, last name Beaver.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Good lock. Usually we don't give it out, but you
just tell them that the assigner knows my name.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
No, that's good, that's good, And you know what, that
will calm that parent down.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I'm not telling you, but the assigner knows.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Okay, Maybe the parent just wants to send flowers.
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