August 18, 2025 • 17 mins
Woman Sues her former employer because she didn't have to do anything; still got paid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One oh seven nine KBPI and your show time for
stupid stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop y'all all stop, Yeah you are stupid stories.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Bro. You buys school zones. Be on the lookout for
those blinking yellow lights.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh yeah, So here's a question. Do you want to
leave a legacy? Fifty four percent of Americans hope to
leave their mark on the world, or at least for
your kids anyway. Sixteen countries competed in the World Humanoid
Robot Games in China this weekend. Soccer kickboxing. Lots of
(00:36):
falling down if you got to see the highlights. However,
you know what they're using this for? To collect data
on taking your job? Uh? Yeah, it's it's wild. They're
developing team functioning skills, working with other robots and how
to figure out problems. They say that's gonna be come
and beneficial for assembly line work and a few other things.
(00:57):
All they're doing is just getting data on how to
take your jobs, which is cute, isn't it? But apparently
five hundred robots, two hundred eighty teams, sixteen countries pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah. The fastest robot there did the fifteen hundred meter
in about six minutes and some change. The fastest human
can do it in about four minutes. Okay, so they're
not overtaking us yet physically, but it won't be long.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Six point thirty four the human doesn't how much?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Just under four minutes for men and it's like four
seventeen for women. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So right now, you know they had to do that, right,
They had to make it so they.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
See him backing a little uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. Yeah, because it's the very first humanoid games. You
gotta give him a targe. You gotta give him something
shoes for right. By establishing a competitive showcase platform determined
aims accelerate, enhance the integration of robots into human life,
(02:04):
they're taking your job, contribute to economical social progress, fossil
deep integration of science, technology, sport, and culture. Yeah, that's
that's crazy, man. See these things especially because they learned quickly, man,
and they can learn even faster. What dear, what Volkswagen
(02:26):
is doing. You'll see how they can just turn these
things up. Let's see, Giving yourself the flu vaccine is
now well, it is now an option for you. There's
new nasal spray called flu Mist Home. It's available in
thirty four states to give yourself a vaccine for the
flu with nasal spray.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh for you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Vaccine people out there, I'm gonna touch another. It's crazy
to see all the vaccine stuff now and it I
mean three hundred percent increase and this, you know infan
dead mortality, the thirteen hundred percent increase and you know,
cardiovascular systems issues for you know, young Adults's crazy. I
don't think I think the COVID vaccine damaged a lot
(03:13):
of because now it's all come out as munch of
lives and this and that, and the that damaged people
is trusting vaccines. For sure. It definitely pushed people away
from vaccines. They should have made that mandatory as mandatory
as they did. But now paying the price at and T,
how long were how long are we have we been
(03:35):
customers of AT and T for our office cell phone?
I've got the cell phone for work. They've been paying
for it for since two thousand and like one or two,
and I think that whole time has been on AT
and T. But AT and T customers they're about to
get paid. They're gonna get part of one hundred and
seventy seven million dollar data breach settlement. Some people could
get as much as seventies.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, it's crazy. So if you're an A T and
T customer and you got burned by that breech deal
a year or two ago, you could be getting a check.
It's crazy. A hikerd Calfrey got rescued after I got
stuck behind a waterfall for two days.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Stuck behind a waterfall, huh, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's where you. I mean, isn't that where all the
treasures are hiding? Where all the that's where all the
gold is, sure, but trapped behind it? Yeah, I ain't trapped.
Maybe you couldn't get out because of the water.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
His hairb Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Forty ye ood men. Connectut was rescued after he got
stuck in the playground side meant for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Dummy, Oh no, how big was he?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't know. This is funny. He got stuck in
the middle part of the side. Fire trucks had to
come out and get it. Like, if you're the fat
dude to get stuck in kids side, you just caused
your kid a lot of painful I'm making fun of
your dad scenarios.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Because those tube slides are they give you quite a
bit of clearance.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Sheah, not enough though, Let's see. If you want your
son to be rich, name him Robert. Study found it's
the most common name among fortune five one hundred CEOs.
Oh FDA. Man in a full gesture costume pulled a
dagger and threatened the dude for being too loud while
(05:28):
he's mowing his lawn. Okay, seems a little odd, a
little different, but you know what you're doing a jester
costume and full on a one hundred degree heat. It's brutal, right,
isn't It's the clown outfit.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And yeah, the the shoes right, oh yeah, yeah, seem
kind of like belly bouncy goofy shoes and whatnot, like
mc hammer pants or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A woman in Minnesota is being shot at in her
car outside of her home, and her boyfriend he didn't
come out to help her.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh bad boyfriend, the horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What would you do in that case.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If Julie was being shot at in her car? Yeah,
I'm not coming out either, sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To anyway, he didn't come out because he was gaming.
Oh and he had on headphones and he didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well that's justifiable. It wasn't like he was looking out
the window.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Right right, you're on your own, honey, that's funny. Uh.
A guy featured in the Netflix show called I Am
a Stalker. Pled guilty, pled not guilty too, stalking stalking, Yes, yes,
talking to a woman in Illinois. Oh, I'm not a stalker.
(06:49):
Twenty eight year old gu named Michael J. Fox got
a rest in your Chicago Atrey drove drunk, crashed into
a car, fled the scene, tried to outrun the cops,
and then crashed into a second car.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Say it isn't so, MJ. Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, he only hit speeds of seventy miles per hour.
Because I know you'd be worried about that. Uh. Volkswag
and shady as hell. This is what Volkswag is doing.
And this is just one of many companies they're gonna
start doing this. But they just debuted a new subscription plan.
(07:25):
Oh you gotta love subscription plans.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So this subscription plans for electric vehicles. They make people
pay extra to unlock the full amount of horsepower for
your car. Now, it's crazy, but right now they started
rolling this out in the UK. It's planning on making
its way over here. Their Voltswagen. This is just an
(07:49):
example the ID three electric car has two hundred and
twenty eight horsepower. But if you if you don't pay
the fee, which is twenty bucks a month, so it's
you know, it's just enough where you're like, well, it's
not bad, but you know, twenty bucks a month, still
paying the ass right cause you know, all these things
(08:11):
are gonna start ratting it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, that's like what you're paying for a Netflix
subscription these days, is it. I think it's roughly twenty bucks.
Hopefully it's not more than that. I haven't been looking
really well.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If you don't, so if you don't pay the twenty
bucks a month, then you only get two hundred horse power.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh what are they dropping you? How much? Thirty thirty
horse power? Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah. Now they're framing it as giving people options. They
give a job, like Grandpa, you might you might only
need two hundred horse power, but if you need a
little more, zip you can pay twenty bucks a month
and you get two hundred and thirty oars power. So
they're claiming it's nothing new because they're saying historically many
(08:55):
gas and diesel vehicles have been offered with engines they say,
of the same size, but with possibly oh, choosing one
with more potency. They're not the first company that has
tried to, you know, gougeous customers. Remember BMW try to
do this a couple with a couple different things too.
I think the heaters.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, it was heated seats back in twenty twenty three
and they had such a backlash that they dropped it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, appaarlu. There's an option to paying a one time
fee of eight hundred and eighty dollars and they'll keep
it unlocked supposedly for the lifetime of the car. But
you see this, that and right right, they're just getting
more ways to control how you drive, what you drive,
when you can drive it, everything else.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's crazy and they're really milking it because at the
end of the day, all it is is probably a
push of a button.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's just somebody to download. Somebody had a keyboard on
the other end and says, what's your customer number? All right,
your check is cleared. Enjoy your thirty horse power, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And that's tip of the iceberg. You're gonna see more
and more companies do the same crap. Just oh, we
have the power to monetize what you're doing, or how
you're doing. Okay, we can do that and then just milk.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You for money. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You can see that becoming. Like for some electric cars
that have a lot of power, you could definitely see
them doing like tiers like hey, if you want seven
hundred horse power, you can have it. You just gotta
pay this amount. And if you want five hundred, it's
this amount. Three hundred it's this amount, and you know,
(10:37):
be a considerable It's wild. It's like a membership, man,
I mean charge.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Maybe if you had multiple cars and you're like, I
only drive this in the summer, so I'm only gonna
pay it in the summer. Maybe you go back and forth.
I don't know, just to.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I know, it seems like a cheap way to get
money out of people. You know, it's just another another
way to look. It's like an airline. Companies are oh you
right a window, see that that's a that's gonna be
an up charge. And I'll see that it's an up charge.
How they're just getting you for everything, all right? So
speed of getting you for everything. This woman sues a
company that paid her for twenty years for doing nothing.
(11:16):
You know, you might have that dream as a kid
that you know you'd earn millions without without ever doing anything,
without lifting a finger. That norm is a pipe dream, right, Sure,
well that dream came well came a reality for a
French woman. She's a French woman named Lawrence. It's a
weird name for a female, but she's fifty nine. She's
(11:41):
suing this company Orange, which is a big telecom company
in Europe and man she apparently assumed him because for
the last twenty years they paid her for doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, now, I mean, what does nothing entail?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So she received full salary, she was left without any roles, responsibilities,
and the worst part was, according to the lawsuit, there
wasn't any human connection either. She has explained the scenario
that has harmed her mental health and left her feeling
invincible or my bad invisible as well. She said, yes,
(12:21):
I was paid, but I was treated like I didn't exist,
like I wasn't there, like I was invisible. She was
trained as an HR assistant, she said it motivated her
to thrive and eventually grow within the business. But with
her being diagnosed with epilepsy and him aplegia, oh it's
(12:46):
paralysis that affects one side of the body, she was
shifted from that role. The company says it gave her
a secretarial position to accommodate her health problems. However, she
stated the support ended by two thousand and two. Listen, now,
most people that would get get paider to another'd be
(13:09):
pretty happy about it, right, Like you had a full salary,
everything benefits whatever, right, I mean, you would like that.
I would like that.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And she didn't have to go to the office or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Nope, So she went through an occupational health assessment because
the company relocated, and it stated she was not fit
for the move, which sidelined her to a greater extent.
From that funny from that particular phrase, Lawrence says, she
(13:42):
was placed on standby. Now she said, this is two
thousand and two, so she was placed on standby in
case they ever needed her. But remember the company moved
and she wasn't physically fit for the move, so they
just said, okay, then you're on standby. She didn't have
to show up for work, didn't have to do anything,
(14:03):
wasn't assigned anything. However, they still paid her.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
She's basically on call. We hat something, we'll call you. Yeah,
not a bad gig, right, sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For twenty years. They did that. Twenty years. They paid
this woman full salary, get for full benefits. Orange. She
claims Orange, her company not only failed to provide meaningful duties,
but also ignored its legal responsibility to make reasonable accommodations.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Let's see, I feel like they made very reasonable accommodations.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, she calls it discrimination because they didn't assign her
any meaningful roles. I did, but they paid her for
twenty years, and they finally just terminated because they said,
we no longer need just what ever is after twenty years.
So now she's suing them. I mean, think about that, man,
that's the best option possible, not doing anything for twenty
(15:08):
years and then sue the company when you know you're
about to retire and get you a big you know,
get your final paycheck and a fat retirement check.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean, it sounds like she had a lot of
time on her hands. She should have found a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean, why didn't you? It's just crazy that she
says it's their fought for not giving her any meaningful
motivation or job duties, and now she wants more money
after they paid her to do nothing for twenty years.
I mean, really, can you get an easier job than that?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I mean I would take up like crochet or something
and just sit there on the clock, just didding away.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But you don't. Yeah, you could just do whatever you
want your on call.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It sounds like they lost your number.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, they kept paying her. A middle school teacher in
spring Hill, Florida's facing charges at their payers. Well he
got drunk between classes and looks really drunk. So this
is in spring Hill, it's just north of Tampa. Could
you leave during lunch?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Uh? Yeah? In high school we could, you could.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I wasn't. We weren't allowed to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
No, Yeah, we had open campus.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So apparently this guy crashed his car to a fence
in the school's parking lot, and apparently campus police found
a thirty two year old English teacher passed out behind
the wheel, still in dry like his car was still
in gear. It happened eleven forty five in the morning
(16:39):
on the second day of school, like damn.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So after one day he had a uh damn these
kids moment.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, they saw a bunch of single serving alcohol bottles
in his car next to him. He refused to do
a blood test at the hospital. Cop not he smelled
like alcohol. They posted about it on Facebook. Several people
left comments saying they were shocked because he's an excellent teacher.
They charged him with driving under the influence. He also
had a DUI back in twenty fourteen, so not a
the first one, but there you go. That's a terrible
(17:11):
way to injure second day of school in God all right.
Stupid Stories, seven thirty seven
One oh seven nine KBPI and your show time for
stupid stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop y'all all stop, Yeah you are stupid stories.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Bro. You buys school zones. Be on the lookout for
those blinking yellow lights.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh yeah, So here's a question. Do you want to
leave a legacy? Fifty four percent of Americans hope to
leave their mark on the world, or at least for
your kids anyway. Sixteen countries competed in the World Humanoid
Robot Games in China this weekend. Soccer kickboxing. Lots of
(00:36):
falling down if you got to see the highlights. However,
you know what they're using this for? To collect data
on taking your job? Uh? Yeah, it's it's wild. They're
developing team functioning skills, working with other robots and how
to figure out problems. They say that's gonna be come
and beneficial for assembly line work and a few other things.
(00:57):
All they're doing is just getting data on how to
take your jobs, which is cute, isn't it? But apparently
five hundred robots, two hundred eighty teams, sixteen countries pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah. The fastest robot there did the fifteen hundred meter
in about six minutes and some change. The fastest human
can do it in about four minutes. Okay, so they're
not overtaking us yet physically, but it won't be long.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Six point thirty four the human doesn't how much?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Just under four minutes for men and it's like four
seventeen for women. Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
So right now, you know they had to do that, right,
They had to make it so they.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
See him backing a little uh huh.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah. Yeah, because it's the very first humanoid games. You
gotta give him a targe. You gotta give him something
shoes for right. By establishing a competitive showcase platform determined
aims accelerate, enhance the integration of robots into human life,
(02:04):
they're taking your job, contribute to economical social progress, fossil
deep integration of science, technology, sport, and culture. Yeah, that's
that's crazy, man. See these things especially because they learned quickly, man,
and they can learn even faster. What dear, what Volkswagen
(02:26):
is doing. You'll see how they can just turn these
things up. Let's see, Giving yourself the flu vaccine is
now well, it is now an option for you. There's
new nasal spray called flu Mist Home. It's available in
thirty four states to give yourself a vaccine for the
flu with nasal spray.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh for you.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Vaccine people out there, I'm gonna touch another. It's crazy
to see all the vaccine stuff now and it I
mean three hundred percent increase and this, you know infan
dead mortality, the thirteen hundred percent increase and you know,
cardiovascular systems issues for you know, young Adults's crazy. I
don't think I think the COVID vaccine damaged a lot
(03:13):
of because now it's all come out as munch of
lives and this and that, and the that damaged people
is trusting vaccines. For sure. It definitely pushed people away
from vaccines. They should have made that mandatory as mandatory
as they did. But now paying the price at and T,
how long were how long are we have we been
(03:35):
customers of AT and T for our office cell phone?
I've got the cell phone for work. They've been paying
for it for since two thousand and like one or two,
and I think that whole time has been on AT
and T. But AT and T customers they're about to
get paid. They're gonna get part of one hundred and
seventy seven million dollar data breach settlement. Some people could
get as much as seventies.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, it's crazy. So if you're an A T and
T customer and you got burned by that breech deal
a year or two ago, you could be getting a check.
It's crazy. A hikerd Calfrey got rescued after I got
stuck behind a waterfall for two days.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Stuck behind a waterfall, huh, I think.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's where you. I mean, isn't that where all the
treasures are hiding? Where all the that's where all the
gold is, sure, but trapped behind it? Yeah, I ain't trapped.
Maybe you couldn't get out because of the water.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
His hairb Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Forty ye ood men. Connectut was rescued after he got
stuck in the playground side meant for kids.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Dummy, Oh no, how big was he?
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't know. This is funny. He got stuck in
the middle part of the side. Fire trucks had to
come out and get it. Like, if you're the fat
dude to get stuck in kids side, you just caused
your kid a lot of painful I'm making fun of
your dad scenarios.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Because those tube slides are they give you quite a
bit of clearance.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Sheah, not enough though, Let's see. If you want your
son to be rich, name him Robert. Study found it's
the most common name among fortune five one hundred CEOs.
Oh FDA. Man in a full gesture costume pulled a
dagger and threatened the dude for being too loud while
(05:28):
he's mowing his lawn. Okay, seems a little odd, a
little different, but you know what you're doing a jester
costume and full on a one hundred degree heat. It's brutal, right,
isn't It's the clown outfit.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And yeah, the the shoes right, oh yeah, yeah, seem
kind of like belly bouncy goofy shoes and whatnot, like
mc hammer pants or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
A woman in Minnesota is being shot at in her
car outside of her home, and her boyfriend he didn't
come out to help her.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Oh bad boyfriend, the horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
What would you do in that case.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If Julie was being shot at in her car? Yeah,
I'm not coming out either, sorry.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
To anyway, he didn't come out because he was gaming.
Oh and he had on headphones and he didn't hear anything.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well that's justifiable. It wasn't like he was looking out
the window.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Right right, you're on your own, honey, that's funny. Uh.
A guy featured in the Netflix show called I Am
a Stalker. Pled guilty, pled not guilty too, stalking stalking, Yes, yes,
talking to a woman in Illinois. Oh, I'm not a stalker.
(06:49):
Twenty eight year old gu named Michael J. Fox got
a rest in your Chicago Atrey drove drunk, crashed into
a car, fled the scene, tried to outrun the cops,
and then crashed into a second car.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Say it isn't so, MJ. Fox.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, he only hit speeds of seventy miles per hour.
Because I know you'd be worried about that. Uh. Volkswag
and shady as hell. This is what Volkswag is doing.
And this is just one of many companies they're gonna
start doing this. But they just debuted a new subscription plan.
(07:25):
Oh you gotta love subscription plans.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
So this subscription plans for electric vehicles. They make people
pay extra to unlock the full amount of horsepower for
your car. Now, it's crazy, but right now they started
rolling this out in the UK. It's planning on making
its way over here. Their Voltswagen. This is just an
(07:49):
example the ID three electric car has two hundred and
twenty eight horsepower. But if you if you don't pay
the fee, which is twenty bucks a month, so it's
you know, it's just enough where you're like, well, it's
not bad, but you know, twenty bucks a month, still
paying the ass right cause you know, all these things
(08:11):
are gonna start ratting it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know, that's like what you're paying for a Netflix
subscription these days, is it. I think it's roughly twenty bucks.
Hopefully it's not more than that. I haven't been looking
really well.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
If you don't, so if you don't pay the twenty
bucks a month, then you only get two hundred horse power.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh what are they dropping you? How much? Thirty thirty
horse power? Huh?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah. Now they're framing it as giving people options. They
give a job, like Grandpa, you might you might only
need two hundred horse power, but if you need a
little more, zip you can pay twenty bucks a month
and you get two hundred and thirty oars power. So
they're claiming it's nothing new because they're saying historically many
(08:55):
gas and diesel vehicles have been offered with engines they say,
of the same size, but with possibly oh, choosing one
with more potency. They're not the first company that has
tried to, you know, gougeous customers. Remember BMW try to
do this a couple with a couple different things too.
I think the heaters.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Yeah, it was heated seats back in twenty twenty three
and they had such a backlash that they dropped it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, appaarlu. There's an option to paying a one time
fee of eight hundred and eighty dollars and they'll keep
it unlocked supposedly for the lifetime of the car. But
you see this, that and right right, they're just getting
more ways to control how you drive, what you drive,
when you can drive it, everything else.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
It's crazy and they're really milking it because at the
end of the day, all it is is probably a
push of a button.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It is.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
It's just somebody to download. Somebody had a keyboard on
the other end and says, what's your customer number? All right,
your check is cleared. Enjoy your thirty horse power, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And that's tip of the iceberg. You're gonna see more
and more companies do the same crap. Just oh, we
have the power to monetize what you're doing, or how
you're doing. Okay, we can do that and then just milk.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You for money. Man.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
You can see that becoming. Like for some electric cars
that have a lot of power, you could definitely see
them doing like tiers like hey, if you want seven
hundred horse power, you can have it. You just gotta
pay this amount. And if you want five hundred, it's
this amount. Three hundred it's this amount, and you know,
(10:37):
be a considerable It's wild. It's like a membership, man,
I mean charge.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Maybe if you had multiple cars and you're like, I
only drive this in the summer, so I'm only gonna
pay it in the summer. Maybe you go back and forth.
I don't know, just to.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I know, it seems like a cheap way to get
money out of people. You know, it's just another another
way to look. It's like an airline. Companies are oh you
right a window, see that that's a that's gonna be
an up charge. And I'll see that it's an up charge.
How they're just getting you for everything, all right? So
speed of getting you for everything. This woman sues a
company that paid her for twenty years for doing nothing.
(11:16):
You know, you might have that dream as a kid
that you know you'd earn millions without without ever doing anything,
without lifting a finger. That norm is a pipe dream, right, Sure,
well that dream came well came a reality for a
French woman. She's a French woman named Lawrence. It's a
weird name for a female, but she's fifty nine. She's
(11:41):
suing this company Orange, which is a big telecom company
in Europe and man she apparently assumed him because for
the last twenty years they paid her for doing nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, now, I mean, what does nothing entail?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
So she received full salary, she was left without any roles, responsibilities,
and the worst part was, according to the lawsuit, there
wasn't any human connection either. She has explained the scenario
that has harmed her mental health and left her feeling
invincible or my bad invisible as well. She said, yes,
(12:21):
I was paid, but I was treated like I didn't exist,
like I wasn't there, like I was invisible. She was
trained as an HR assistant, she said it motivated her
to thrive and eventually grow within the business. But with
her being diagnosed with epilepsy and him aplegia, oh it's
(12:46):
paralysis that affects one side of the body, she was
shifted from that role. The company says it gave her
a secretarial position to accommodate her health problems. However, she
stated the support ended by two thousand and two. Listen, now,
most people that would get get paider to another'd be
(13:09):
pretty happy about it, right, Like you had a full salary,
everything benefits whatever, right, I mean, you would like that.
I would like that.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And she didn't have to go to the office or anything.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Nope, So she went through an occupational health assessment because
the company relocated, and it stated she was not fit
for the move, which sidelined her to a greater extent.
From that funny from that particular phrase, Lawrence says, she
(13:42):
was placed on standby. Now she said, this is two
thousand and two, so she was placed on standby in
case they ever needed her. But remember the company moved
and she wasn't physically fit for the move, so they
just said, okay, then you're on standby. She didn't have
to show up for work, didn't have to do anything,
(14:03):
wasn't assigned anything. However, they still paid her.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
She's basically on call. We hat something, we'll call you. Yeah,
not a bad gig, right, sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
For twenty years. They did that. Twenty years. They paid
this woman full salary, get for full benefits. Orange. She
claims Orange, her company not only failed to provide meaningful duties,
but also ignored its legal responsibility to make reasonable accommodations.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Let's see, I feel like they made very reasonable accommodations.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, she calls it discrimination because they didn't assign her
any meaningful roles. I did, but they paid her for
twenty years, and they finally just terminated because they said,
we no longer need just what ever is after twenty years.
So now she's suing them. I mean, think about that, man,
that's the best option possible, not doing anything for twenty
(15:08):
years and then sue the company when you know you're
about to retire and get you a big you know,
get your final paycheck and a fat retirement check.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
I mean, it sounds like she had a lot of
time on her hands. She should have found a side hustle.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean, why didn't you? It's just crazy that she
says it's their fought for not giving her any meaningful
motivation or job duties, and now she wants more money
after they paid her to do nothing for twenty years.
I mean, really, can you get an easier job than that?
Speaker 1 (15:41):
I mean I would take up like crochet or something
and just sit there on the clock, just didding away.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
But you don't. Yeah, you could just do whatever you
want your on call.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It sounds like they lost your number.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Yeah, they kept paying her. A middle school teacher in
spring Hill, Florida's facing charges at their payers. Well he
got drunk between classes and looks really drunk. So this
is in spring Hill, it's just north of Tampa. Could
you leave during lunch?
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Uh? Yeah? In high school we could, you could.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I wasn't. We weren't allowed to.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
No, Yeah, we had open campus.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So apparently this guy crashed his car to a fence
in the school's parking lot, and apparently campus police found
a thirty two year old English teacher passed out behind
the wheel, still in dry like his car was still
in gear. It happened eleven forty five in the morning
(16:39):
on the second day of school, like damn.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So after one day he had a uh damn these
kids moment.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, they saw a bunch of single serving alcohol bottles
in his car next to him. He refused to do
a blood test at the hospital. Cop not he smelled
like alcohol. They posted about it on Facebook. Several people
left comments saying they were shocked because he's an excellent teacher.
They charged him with driving under the influence. He also
had a DUI back in twenty fourteen, so not a
the first one, but there you go. That's a terrible
(17:11):
way to injure second day of school in God all right.
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