January 13, 2025 • 30 mins
Jack and Nikki take a look at dramatic and hilarious ways people have quit their jobs, judge parents based on the behavior of their children and discuss the growing trend of people fighting for the right to disconnect from their employers during personal time.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Here's the story that's going viral this morning about a
Walmart employee with a unique approach to quitting his job.
And because it's current ear and journalisms in the state
it's in, we don't even know where this happened, because
why would we need that information. A Walmart employee quit
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his job by, first of all, dumping a gallon of
milk on the floor. Okay, so step one pulls out
a gallon of milk, takes the top off, pours it
out in the floor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The unidentified worker then turned that milk into a slipping
slide as he ran and slid through the milk. Managers
quote begged him not to do it. He then got up,
soaked in milk and strode purposefully from the store.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's fantastic, as.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
People cheered and dogs bark, I am.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Guessing a dairy slipping slide.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
A dairy slipping slide, okay. So now my first thought
when I saw this story was you mean begged him
not to. How about managers didn't allow him to. How
About they had him escort it out by security, right right?
I mean, why would you stand and allow that. I
think they wanted to see it happen. I know if
I'm a manager and somebody starts doing that, the other
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managers are like, get security. I'm gonna go wait, wait,
let's see where this is going.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Slowly, get security, Like you can get security.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
This would make it look like we're doing our job,
but like, do it at a snails pace.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
This is a big store. Take your time and walk
to do it. All right, don't get on a phone,
don't use a radio. Let's give him a chance to
flesh this out. Okay. Now, obviously this guy doesn't plan
to ever work there again, nor would he ever be
able to work there again, so he may come to
regret it. If he goes and checks the job market,
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then things don't work out on the dairy farm that
he's planning on going to. But he's out for good.
And my question to you guys, we haven't talked about
this for a long time on the show. This has
has come up in the past, obviously because it's a
it's a rich vein of comedy. But people quitting their
jobs in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Sure, you know, very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Very dramatic fashion. And that's what I want to get
into now. Studio and text lines are open eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. I want to
hear about how you quit your job or somebody you
worked with quit their job, and let's say dramatic and
or hilarious fashion in a piece I'm proud to call
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excellent exits. Okay, it's your exit from your job and
it was excellent. See how this comes.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Together, Nikki, I see how it comes together. It's flowing wonderfully.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, the alliteration is very important when you're doing segments
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Excellent exits, excellent exits.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. Studio
or text line. Do you have any examples, NICKI, Drac
maybe some dramatic exit you've seen over the years.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I don't have any exciting exits or excellent exits, just regular, Yeah,
regular exits. I know some people who unintelligibly exited before
they had a new gig, before their next job was
in line, and then that turns into problems.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
But that's the that's the only thing I could think
of off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I've seen that happen.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, it's unfortunate, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's poor planning. Yeah. Okay, Well, look I've
I've seen some things and I've been involved in some
things over the year. Well, I mean, you know, I've
talked about this on the show in the past. I've
been fired in dramatic fashion. I mean, I didn't choose
to leave my job working the front desk at the
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ski lodge at Snowshoe. I was fired because they caught
me sleeping under the desk. But to be fair to me,
it was the overnight shift. I wasn't doing it at
three o'clock in the afternoon. But it was just in
a nutshell. For those of you are not familiar with
the story, it was a lobby full of angry people
wanting to know where I was. I was asleep under
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the desk. I heard them out there pounding on where's
the front desk guy? Where is he? And I had
to crawl up out of there with BedHead and go here.
And I remember they went there he is he was
sleeping under the desk and then my manager showed up
fired me in front of those people, and they did
erupt in cheers. They clapped, which was not good for
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my self esteem as I walked through taunts and booze
on my way out to my car to go home
because I just been caught sleeping under the desk. Pretty
dramatic exit, Yeah, I think we can.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I think that's an exciting exit. Not an excellent exit,
but an exciting exit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, kind of a shameful exit. Really, yeah, I guess
we'll take We'll take shame. You got a shameful exit.
I'd like to hear that too. We're talking excellent exits
this morning, now, aren't we. You quit your job in
dramatic fashion. Tell us about it. You saw a coworker
quit in dramatic fashion. A witness to history, if you
will tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We have somebody standing by in the studio. Line. But
before I get to our caller, Nikki Drake and her story,
what are you seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Text line?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The last job I quit was a very toxic environment.
When I left, I walked into the President's office, took
my shoes off, through them on our desk and said, here,
fill these. I'm out and I walked out of the office,
down the elevator into my car in my socks. It
was the best decision I ever made. However, I did
have to buy a new pair of shoes.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, Now this is interesting to me because that sounds
like it was a spur of the moment decision because
she didn't have backup shoes or let's say, stunt shoes
that she could throw down. Right, So you just have
a pair of shoes with you, like an old pair
of shoes that you're gonna throw out anyway, like your
your your gardening shoes. So the shoes you do your
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yard work in sure, right, you take those in there
at the end of their life cycle and you throw
those down and make your point, and then you leave
in your good shoes.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Or you went to Walmart and bought like a size
you know, sixteen shoe, right, and or make shoes.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
To fill and you left those on the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, or you rob a clown on your way and
take the shoes. I think you throw the shoes down,
and then you also go and here, fill this and
it's a big wig, and fill this and it's a
big red nose and this and you hit her with
a pie.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Think seltzer water goes off out of the flour that
you throw down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
For sure, all of that, all of it, well you
know that actually had a point in the beginning, and
then it's that's on us. Yeah, all right, let's go
to the studio line. You were on the Jack and
Nikki show what you got?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
So I worked at Pizza Hut like in two thousand
and seven, say no more, no, I'm kidding god. This
guy used to walk to work from Salem. Well, he
walks to work, he comes in, he speaks to everybody,
he walks back to the disher, dishwasher, asks for a cigarette,
walks to the back, and we didn't see him no
more like none.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Are you sure that man actually existed? That wasn't some apparition.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I promise he stood in the back, smoked a cigarette
and somebody was like, he was gone. Let's say anything.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's it. Well, that's interesting, I mean, that's that's you know,
just pulled a disappearing act. It's not specially dramatic. It's
more of a mystery. Did anybody ever see him again? Period? Anywhere?
After that?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You know what, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A mysterious disappearance, right, wouldn't that be interesting if it's
like we not only did we not see him working
here anymore, no one ever saw him again anywhere by
a missing report, right, Yeah, see what happened?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
It was so long ago?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah? And where was this pizza hut?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Bridgeport?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
God?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He walked from Salem? Yeah, every day.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
He only worked there a couple of days. But the
days that he did, he walked there.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh that's a walk.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Maybe that's why he quit.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I'm guessing that factored into it.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Listen, I never asked I never saw him again? Well,
I would ask.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Maybe he's listening and he'll call in this morning and
we can solve this mystery.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Hey appreciate the call, Thank you, bye. So I'll just
toss this in the Uh. The Bridgeport Pizza Hut is
my pizza hut of choice.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh it is.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I am not a compensated endorser, and I don't always
eat at pizza, but when I do, I choose the
Bridgeport Pizza Hut. And I like to compliment people for
quality work. And I will tell you I've never had
a bad experience there. Every time I go there, the
pizza is cooked perfection, And I opened the box and
look at it and then just gush with compliments and
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they're like, thank you, we appreciate that. You're making it awkward.
Why are you crying and trying to hug me. It's
a pizza, just wrapping up your excellent exit stories here.
And somebody texted something in that they want us to
take a look at. So we're going to take a
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look right now. You did ask for it. That's exactly right.
You asked for it, and we're gonna do it. Okay.
Somebody texted in this link to Metro's agony Ant. I
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guess is somebody that it's like a deer abby thing.
Do you know think about agony Ant. I don't know
what this is, but anyway, somebody said, why don't we
talk about this? Okay, so let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's the story of a frustrated anonymous groom who wrote
to agony Ant to complain about his bride to Bee's
love of pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh okay, okay, sure.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We know that people love pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Some people are obsessed.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Some more than others. According to this man, she has
cho cho chosen to use pumpkin spice cocktails, orange ornaments,
and fallen leaves on their wedding day. He writes, while
I like the season, my wife's plans for the ceremony
make it seem like I'm an obsessive fan of autumn agony.
Aunt suggested a compromise, saying that he should tell her
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gently that the pumpkins and leaves are too overpowering and
ask if she would be willing to make some minor changes. Okay,
let me make sure I've got my gavel handy. Okay,
would you like to comment on this before I deconstruct it?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Niki Drake, I'm I mean, yeah, it's just like, you know,
maybe toned down the pumpkins a little bit and just
have that conversation be like, hey.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This theme, you're going a little heavy handed. Yeah, let's
go later on the theme. Keep the theme. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's good that you're marrying somebody that you feel like
you can't even have a basic conversation about decore will Well.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We also don't know how much of a bridezilla she's being.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's a fair point. Yes, that's a fair point.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That is something to take into consideration.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But now with that in mind, there would be another
reason to not marry her, potentially definitely if if you're
that out of control for your wedding day and a
guy can't even who is marrying you, can't even talk
to you about the dake war. Yikes. But here's what
I would say. First of all, sir, no one is
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looking at the decore and judging you. Sure nobody's nobody's
doing nobody's like this guy. Boy, he's really out of
control with the pumpkin spots. Nobody's thinking that's true. Okay,
Number one, so relaxed, and number two, you're a man. Look,
just rent a tuxedo, show up, say your vows, shut up,
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and then focus on the honeymoon. We're done here the.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Jack and Nikki Show on wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We think now is the time to talk to you
about your children.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Unorthodox and totally irresponsible.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Parent ever responsible irresponsible individuals.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
This is cruely irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The worst thing you can do as a parent, the
worst parent.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ef You must think we're the worst parents in the world. Oh,
we're gonna determine that right now. It's the story of
a woman named Caitlin who was taking her four year
old son to schu when she realized that he was
wearing two entirely different shoes. Oh no, so she did
what any reasonable person would do. She ran to the
internet to tell the story. And here it is for you,
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and you're mis n pleasure somehow.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
This morning, my four year old gets up, he gets
this like clothes on. He does that. It's not a
lot to ask, but like he's for so lower expectations.
And he gets in the car and I don't realize
until we've we've lost the house. We've been out of
the house for like a bit. He's wearing two different
shoes and that like two different crocs, Like one rainbow
came out tidie clock, I think it is tidi and
then the other one is an open toed blue sandals.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh God, called the fashion police Comte mom failed.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
How I didn't notice this, I don't know, but it's
hilarious because I was like, baby, your shoes don't match,
and he's like, Mama, shoes on. And I was like, yeah, okay, cool, yeah,
you're wearing shoes. Let's just be happy about it because
it was like, there, he's like shoes on. He like,
did not understand that they don't match. She needed to
match your shoes. He was just like, I'm wearing shoes
and I was like, yeah you are, and I'm proud
of you for getting yourself dressed.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, now the problem here is, you know, the other
kids say this, the teacher see it, the other parents
see it, and they're probably not going to say anything.
They might crack a joke about it, right, but then
you know they're going to drive off, they're going to
walk away, and they're gonna go kind of a mom
doesn't even pay attention to her kid putting his shoes on.
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What else is going on in that house?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I mean this, I'm very glad that the toddler did
this on their own, like that is fantastic, But it
could have also been a case of toddler meltdown, like, no,
these are the two shoes I want to wear and
I'm not going to You know, they're gonna just scream
and kick and shout and yeah, it's either let them
wear the.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Two mismatched shoes or it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So it's gonna be bad for the kid. Yeah, yeah,
if you're my kid, it would be a studio. Lines
are open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
You can text us as well. I'm curious, parents, what's
it like to be in a situation like this? What
is it like to be judged by other people based
on your kid? Their appearance there behavior? Do you have
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any of these mom fails as they are known, that's
what they're calling a mom fails? You you failed as
a parent. Can you give us some examples of maybe
how your kids showed up at school? Maybe maybe not presentable.
I just think this is really interesting because you know,
as a parent, there's a whole other layer of judgment.
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And I mentioned this a few minutes ago. You know,
for people who don't have kids, you go out, I
go out, people are going to judge us just based
on how we are put together and how we are behaving. Okay,
so if I show up somewhere and I'm dressed appropriately
and I behave appropriately, then people will make that judgment.
If I'm dressed inappropriately, if I'm acting like a freak,
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well they're going to judge me on that. But what
about parents who have kids who may or may not
be behaving appropriately or dressed appropriately, and now the parents
get judged on that, and that may or may not
be fair because I know some really good people with
truly awful children, and I know some truly awful people
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with very good kids. I know some completely incompetent parents
who basically the kids are raising themselves and they're doing great,
and they're doing great, yeah right. And I know some
really good parents with some really screwed up kids. So
I just think this is very interesting because you know,
people are going to judge you based on your kid
Triple eight, triple seven, sixty six, forty textas and let's
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get into this. I see some lines re lighting up,
so you guys have to say, next, Nikki Drake, what
else are you seeing?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm seeing here.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I've been a mom for five years and learned the
most that most other parents will just laugh and give
you a friendly I get it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Non parents are the judgmental and hateful ones.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I get that. This is why I want to have
this conversation this morning on the show. Yeah, because you
and I do not have children, right, And when I
look at these situations, I always keep that in mind.
I think, you know, I don't know what it's like
to have a kid. I don't have one, right, and
I know what a handful I was as a kid. Yeah,
which is why my parents gave up on me and
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just packed their stuff and left early on disbanded. So
I try to keep that in mind because you don't
know what it's like. No, yeah, but other parents do
they get it? Yeah, yeah, it's good text. All right,
give me another, Oh, another one.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Okay, let's see here. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
My son went to the pediatrician once with his underwear
inside out and told the doctor I made him do
that so he could wear them longer.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, I mean you can get twice the use I
guess out of your underpants if you wear them one
day and then turn them inside out and wear them
a second day.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Quick thinking on the kids part.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh all right, how dirty were those underpants that that?
The pediatrician was like? How long have you been wearing these?
And why are the stains on the outside. Okay, let's
just go to the phone. Here, you are on the
Jack and Nikki Show. What you got for?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So my ex cousin and I are divorced, and I'm
the parent who as long as they have on clothes
and shorts underneath of their dresses and skirts they've got
on clothes.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Is that why you and your husband are divorces?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
No? It is not?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
But he's he was the person who would always like
want them like semi presentable clothing and everything. And I
mean there's a time and place where everything. I understand that.
But in the morning, I have four of them, and
it is not a battle worth fighting.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, four kids.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, sometimes it's not a fight worth fighting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I have four, yes, okay. So as a result of
these lost battles, let's say, in your part, what are
these kids showing up at school in clothes?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Clothes?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I assume that, but I mean, what's the problem is
where I'm getting at. What are they showing up in
that's inappropriate style?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
My youngest half, the stuff she wears doesn't match, But
she's learning that she can wear her clothes and show
her style and she's comfortable. She loves it, and that's
what matters to me.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, So do people comment on the fact that her
clothes don't match, or do other kids point and go,
you can't wear that together. Look at that top, in
that bottom. These colors are in opposition. Okaygarten, right, some
really caddy uhgarten kindergarteners in there? The breath a fashion
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police on her? All right, So that's.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oldest she's she's very much she wants a certain clothing
and if they grow out of it very quickly.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How old your oldest?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Ten? Okay? All right. So the worst thing that's happened
then is colors that don't match. That's the worst thing
that's happened.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, We've had some outfits that have been pretty questionable
to me, and I'll ask her. I'll be like, do
you feel pretty? And she's like, I feel beautiful? And
I'm like, that's all that matters?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Is it? Though? It is that all that matters? I mean,
I'm assuming it's appropriate, right, that's the faceline. Okay, all right,
then that because that's what matters. If it's Viking helmet
and no pants on, I don't care. How pre do
you feel? That's not gonna go? Yeah, you gotta wear something? Yeah,
all right, ma'am, thank you for the call. You're welcome, Nikki.
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Any texts that you would like to do before I
drop back into these mini ring Let's see.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh, when I still dressed my kids.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I know at least one of them had to go
to daycare with no shoes at least once because I
forgot to push shoes on them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh god, oh god. Now you know people saw that
and went, this kid doesn't have any shoes.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
On, right, Yeah, I would have just blamed the kid
for a temper tantrum and just been like, you know,
it wasn't worth the fight.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Assuming somebody actually said something.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, if they say anything, yeah, I just blame the
kid at that.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See, my concern would be that nobody actually says anything
to you that just all through the day as your
kid's doing his Tarzan routine. People were seeing that and muttering,
what kind of a mom sensors.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
You are?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
We're on the Jack and Dicky show, which story.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Yeah, So, my uh, little one, he's in kindergarten and
he started a new school this year, and about his
third week of school, he got really sick, So of
course I took him to the doctor. They put him
on a couple different kinds of medicine, one of which
was steroids, and yes, he had a really bad reaction
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to the medication. He went to school that week and
he was still on it for three of the days
because he started on a Friday, so he ended up
having to go to school and was taking it, and
he was awful. He ended up getting suspended three times
in a week and a half, like the week that
he was on it, and then the week after he
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actually ended up getting suspended three times in kindergarten. I
felt like the worst parrot in the world. But I'm like,
I explained to him them that, like he's on medication,
like I talk so doctor like it's definitely because of that.
But I think after the first day he got suspended,
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he thought that like, oh this is you know, I
could stay home. I'm sick. I don't want to be
there anyway, So he tried to get kicked out this
second day.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And I have to imagine that you showing up and
going to the principal's office and saying, listen, listen, I
can explain why my kindergarteners getting into fights. He's on steroids.
That is not something that's going to be well received.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right, Yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And you guys went down to the gym and he
was down there smoking a cigarette and weightlifting.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Well, the thing that made me the maddest about the
whole situation is the second time he tried to get
kicked out and I had to go in and talk
to the principal and set there with him, and I'm
asking him, like, you know, why are you acting like
this in school? You know you cannot do that, because
he literally, at the end of the day after he
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did it, get kicked out for how bad he was
actually being throughout the day. He was about to be
getting picked up by me and he banged two kids'
heads together and he said, but I didn't hurt them.
And I said, why in the world would you ever
do something like that? You know, you don't put your
hands on anybody. And he's like, well, I've seen it
once on a movie and I thought it'd.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Be cool to do him.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I was like, what, my god, had it coming smack?
I see things, Mom, I've seen things, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, I was so excited.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Listen, we appreciate the call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Have a good day, guy, you too.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Bike.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Some research twenty five mercans and they found that ninety
point four percent of workers support a right to disconnect
law here in the United States. Yes, now Australia. They
have passed this legislation. They already have it, got it, okay,
And what that means is that when you're off the clock,
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you do not have to remain in constant digital contact
with your employers.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And there's no repercussions.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And there are no repercussions. Okay. You don't have to
check your email when you're off the clock. You don't
have to respond to text messages, you don't have to
take phone calls.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
None of it. No work related communication.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You don't have to. Now you can, but you're not
required to, and you can suffer no, as Nikki said,
no rampifications from that. Now. The average American worker, according
to this research, spends an average of two hours and
forty five minutes on digital work communications alone. Your emails,
your texts, right m Seventy eight percent of American workers
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experience dread when opening their work emails. Oh sure been there,
of course, yeah, of course you do. Well, you're putting
in your password, You're thinking, oh, what kind of fresh
hell's waiting on me? In here?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Necessary teams meeting will be in today.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nonsense, waste of time meeting. Uh. Eighty one percent have
work communication platforms on their phones, your emails on your
phone cent okay and that sorry, go ahead, Well, I
just I think this is a very interesting conversation to
have because you know, it didn't used to always be
this way. This is normal for us. But if you
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look at people like back in the seventies and eighties,
technology wasn't there to allow work to spill into their
personal lives. Back in the day, people back then had
no email, no texts, certainly no cell.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Phones, not even a voicemail machine.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Of course, you have an answer machine, right, But basically,
back in the day, you had one phone. It was
in your house and that was it. Yeah, and if
you went to work the next day and your boss said, hey,
I tried to call you and you didn't answer, you
could go, yeah, it wasn't home. And that's the end
of it. That's the whole conversation. You can't be punished.
Nobody's mad. But as you know, the problem now is, hey,
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I sent you a text and I saw that you
read it. I got a read on read Yeah, yeah,
I know you saw it. I left a voicemail. I
sent you an email, right, So technology has just spilled
work into our personal lives. In a way now that
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again wasn't possible back in the day, and I think
we need to make that adjustment. Absolutely right, You have
to adjust to that because it is ridiculous if if
you work all day and then spend your whole evening
on your phone writing emails, sending texts and stuff. So
this is interesting now. Now on the other side of
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that argument, though, because things move faster now than they
used to, you can't you can't be out of the
loop if something is coming up the next day at
work and it's at after hours and you need to
be notified of that. Yeah, then I can see that argument.
I can see that point.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yes, yeah, I had, and I actually I had. This
happened to me once. I don't have my work email
on my phone. I don't check my work email outside
of work.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You came in the next day and the show had
been canceled.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I came in the next day and there was something
that needed to be done, but I didn't have the
time in order to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So I had to let this person know.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Hey, if it's something like this that's an emergency, last
minute late in the evening, you can text me. But
I do not check my email outside of work hours.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And I think that's fair because you give them an
avenue to contact.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yes, say emergency, and if I deem it not an emergency,
then you're on red.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, Well, I just want to know what you
guys think about this. Triple eight, triple seven sixty six
forty You can text us as well. We assume people
listening this morning are working, because if you are not working,
why why would you be up this early in the
morning listening to the Are you an insomniac? Are you insane?
Are you writing some type of anti technology manifesto right now?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
If so, Jack like to read it, I would.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And sign off on it and help deliver it. Should
you be tethered to your employer through email and texts
and harassing phone calls of an inappropriate nature? Some say no,
In fact, many say no. Niki Drake, what are we
seeing on the textual lines?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
When I go to work, I have to leave my
personal life at home and concentrate on work. So when
I'm home, I should concentrate on personal life and leave
work at work.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But in real life that never happens.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I like that thinking.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I like the thinking too.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Another text here, I work in healthcare.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We have the option to sign up for remote to
check emails, finished documentation, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I refuse. When I go home, I don't want to
think about work. Anything work related will be done on
the clock.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, yes, it for you.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You know what's interesting about that though, in whoever texted
this and knows this, and this is what puts you
in such an awkward situation. If you don't do that,
but everybody around you participates in that, then you you
are going to get a mark beside your name as
not being a team player. Sure, because hey, everybody else
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we can contact them after hours, they respond to emails,
they're willing to work with us. But this one person
has the audacity to go home and think that they
should be living their personal life at their house after hours.
It's really unfortunate that it works that way, but it
is a fortunate that way.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And I kind of want to be like, well, I mean,
start charging them like a lawyer does.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, but you know, Mark beside your name, what do
you get starting now? They're charging a fee? I don't
think that's going to help.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Don't you be into
Speaker 6 (30:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Here's the story that's going viral this morning about a
Walmart employee with a unique approach to quitting his job.
And because it's current ear and journalisms in the state
it's in, we don't even know where this happened, because
why would we need that information. A Walmart employee quit
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his job by, first of all, dumping a gallon of
milk on the floor. Okay, so step one pulls out
a gallon of milk, takes the top off, pours it
out in the floor.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The unidentified worker then turned that milk into a slipping
slide as he ran and slid through the milk. Managers
quote begged him not to do it. He then got up,
soaked in milk and strode purposefully from the store.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's fantastic, as.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
People cheered and dogs bark, I am.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Guessing a dairy slipping slide.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
A dairy slipping slide, okay. So now my first thought
when I saw this story was you mean begged him
not to. How about managers didn't allow him to. How
About they had him escort it out by security, right right?
I mean, why would you stand and allow that. I
think they wanted to see it happen. I know if
I'm a manager and somebody starts doing that, the other
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managers are like, get security. I'm gonna go wait, wait,
let's see where this is going.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Slowly, get security, Like you can get security.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
This would make it look like we're doing our job,
but like, do it at a snails pace.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
This is a big store. Take your time and walk
to do it. All right, don't get on a phone,
don't use a radio. Let's give him a chance to
flesh this out. Okay. Now, obviously this guy doesn't plan
to ever work there again, nor would he ever be
able to work there again, so he may come to
regret it. If he goes and checks the job market,
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then things don't work out on the dairy farm that
he's planning on going to. But he's out for good.
And my question to you guys, we haven't talked about
this for a long time on the show. This has
has come up in the past, obviously because it's a
it's a rich vein of comedy. But people quitting their
jobs in dramatic fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Sure, you know, very dramatic.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Very dramatic fashion. And that's what I want to get
into now. Studio and text lines are open eight eight
eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. I want to
hear about how you quit your job or somebody you
worked with quit their job, and let's say dramatic and
or hilarious fashion in a piece I'm proud to call
(02:58):
excellent exits. Okay, it's your exit from your job and
it was excellent. See how this comes.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Together, Nikki, I see how it comes together. It's flowing wonderfully.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, the alliteration is very important when you're doing segments
on the radio.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Excellent exits, excellent exits.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty. Studio
or text line. Do you have any examples, NICKI, Drac
maybe some dramatic exit you've seen over the years.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I don't have any exciting exits or excellent exits, just regular, Yeah,
regular exits. I know some people who unintelligibly exited before
they had a new gig, before their next job was
in line, and then that turns into problems.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
But that's the that's the only thing I could think
of off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I've seen that happen.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah, it's unfortunate, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Yeah, yeah, it's poor planning. Yeah. Okay, Well, look I've
I've seen some things and I've been involved in some
things over the year. Well, I mean, you know, I've
talked about this on the show in the past. I've
been fired in dramatic fashion. I mean, I didn't choose
to leave my job working the front desk at the
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ski lodge at Snowshoe. I was fired because they caught
me sleeping under the desk. But to be fair to me,
it was the overnight shift. I wasn't doing it at
three o'clock in the afternoon. But it was just in
a nutshell. For those of you are not familiar with
the story, it was a lobby full of angry people
wanting to know where I was. I was asleep under
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the desk. I heard them out there pounding on where's
the front desk guy? Where is he? And I had
to crawl up out of there with BedHead and go here.
And I remember they went there he is he was
sleeping under the desk and then my manager showed up
fired me in front of those people, and they did
erupt in cheers. They clapped, which was not good for
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my self esteem as I walked through taunts and booze
on my way out to my car to go home
because I just been caught sleeping under the desk. Pretty
dramatic exit, Yeah, I think we can.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I think that's an exciting exit. Not an excellent exit,
but an exciting exit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, kind of a shameful exit. Really, yeah, I guess
we'll take We'll take shame. You got a shameful exit.
I'd like to hear that too. We're talking excellent exits
this morning, now, aren't we. You quit your job in
dramatic fashion. Tell us about it. You saw a coworker
quit in dramatic fashion. A witness to history, if you
will tell us about it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
It's a mystery.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
We have somebody standing by in the studio. Line. But
before I get to our caller, Nikki Drake and her story,
what are you seeing on the textual line?
Speaker 5 (05:40):
All right?
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Text line?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
The last job I quit was a very toxic environment.
When I left, I walked into the President's office, took
my shoes off, through them on our desk and said, here,
fill these. I'm out and I walked out of the office,
down the elevator into my car in my socks. It
was the best decision I ever made. However, I did
have to buy a new pair of shoes.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Okay, Now this is interesting to me because that sounds
like it was a spur of the moment decision because
she didn't have backup shoes or let's say, stunt shoes
that she could throw down. Right, So you just have
a pair of shoes with you, like an old pair
of shoes that you're gonna throw out anyway, like your
your your gardening shoes. So the shoes you do your
(06:20):
yard work in sure, right, you take those in there
at the end of their life cycle and you throw
those down and make your point, and then you leave
in your good shoes.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Or you went to Walmart and bought like a size
you know, sixteen shoe, right, and or make shoes.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
To fill and you left those on the desk.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, or you rob a clown on your way and
take the shoes. I think you throw the shoes down,
and then you also go and here, fill this and
it's a big wig, and fill this and it's a
big red nose and this and you hit her with
a pie.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Think seltzer water goes off out of the flour that
you throw down.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
For sure, all of that, all of it, well you
know that actually had a point in the beginning, and
then it's that's on us. Yeah, all right, let's go
to the studio line. You were on the Jack and
Nikki show what you got?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
So I worked at Pizza Hut like in two thousand
and seven, say no more, no, I'm kidding god. This
guy used to walk to work from Salem. Well, he
walks to work, he comes in, he speaks to everybody,
he walks back to the disher, dishwasher, asks for a cigarette,
walks to the back, and we didn't see him no
more like none.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Are you sure that man actually existed? That wasn't some apparition.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
I promise he stood in the back, smoked a cigarette
and somebody was like, he was gone. Let's say anything.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
That's it. Well, that's interesting, I mean, that's that's you know,
just pulled a disappearing act. It's not specially dramatic. It's
more of a mystery. Did anybody ever see him again? Period? Anywhere?
After that?
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You know what, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
A mysterious disappearance, right, wouldn't that be interesting if it's
like we not only did we not see him working
here anymore, no one ever saw him again anywhere by
a missing report, right, Yeah, see what happened?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
It was so long ago?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah? And where was this pizza hut?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Bridgeport?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
God?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
He walked from Salem? Yeah, every day.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
He only worked there a couple of days. But the
days that he did, he walked there.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Oh that's a walk.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Maybe that's why he quit.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, I'm guessing that factored into it.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Listen, I never asked I never saw him again? Well,
I would ask.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Maybe he's listening and he'll call in this morning and
we can solve this mystery.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
I doubt it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Hey appreciate the call, Thank you, bye. So I'll just
toss this in the Uh. The Bridgeport Pizza Hut is
my pizza hut of choice.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Oh it is.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I am not a compensated endorser, and I don't always
eat at pizza, but when I do, I choose the
Bridgeport Pizza Hut. And I like to compliment people for
quality work. And I will tell you I've never had
a bad experience there. Every time I go there, the
pizza is cooked perfection, And I opened the box and
look at it and then just gush with compliments and
(09:21):
they're like, thank you, we appreciate that. You're making it awkward.
Why are you crying and trying to hug me. It's
a pizza, just wrapping up your excellent exit stories here.
And somebody texted something in that they want us to
take a look at. So we're going to take a
(09:42):
look right now. You did ask for it. That's exactly right.
You asked for it, and we're gonna do it. Okay.
Somebody texted in this link to Metro's agony Ant. I
(10:03):
guess is somebody that it's like a deer abby thing.
Do you know think about agony Ant. I don't know
what this is, but anyway, somebody said, why don't we
talk about this? Okay, so let's talk about it.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's the story of a frustrated anonymous groom who wrote
to agony Ant to complain about his bride to Bee's
love of pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh okay, okay, sure.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
We know that people love pumpkin spice.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Some people are obsessed.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Some more than others. According to this man, she has
cho cho chosen to use pumpkin spice cocktails, orange ornaments,
and fallen leaves on their wedding day. He writes, while
I like the season, my wife's plans for the ceremony
make it seem like I'm an obsessive fan of autumn agony.
Aunt suggested a compromise, saying that he should tell her
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gently that the pumpkins and leaves are too overpowering and
ask if she would be willing to make some minor changes. Okay,
let me make sure I've got my gavel handy. Okay,
would you like to comment on this before I deconstruct it?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Niki Drake, I'm I mean, yeah, it's just like, you know,
maybe toned down the pumpkins a little bit and just
have that conversation be like, hey.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
This theme, you're going a little heavy handed. Yeah, let's
go later on the theme. Keep the theme. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
It's good that you're marrying somebody that you feel like
you can't even have a basic conversation about decore will Well.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
We also don't know how much of a bridezilla she's being.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's a fair point. Yes, that's a fair point.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
That is something to take into consideration.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But now with that in mind, there would be another
reason to not marry her, potentially definitely if if you're
that out of control for your wedding day and a
guy can't even who is marrying you, can't even talk
to you about the dake war. Yikes. But here's what
I would say. First of all, sir, no one is
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looking at the decore and judging you. Sure nobody's nobody's
doing nobody's like this guy. Boy, he's really out of
control with the pumpkin spots. Nobody's thinking that's true. Okay,
Number one, so relaxed, and number two, you're a man. Look,
just rent a tuxedo, show up, say your vows, shut up,
(12:19):
and then focus on the honeymoon. We're done here the.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Jack and Nikki Show on wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
We think now is the time to talk to you
about your children.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Unorthodox and totally irresponsible.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I'm the worst.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Parent ever responsible irresponsible individuals.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
This is cruely irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The worst thing you can do as a parent, the
worst parent.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ef You must think we're the worst parents in the world. Oh,
we're gonna determine that right now. It's the story of
a woman named Caitlin who was taking her four year
old son to schu when she realized that he was
wearing two entirely different shoes. Oh no, so she did
what any reasonable person would do. She ran to the
internet to tell the story. And here it is for you,
(13:08):
and you're mis n pleasure somehow.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
This morning, my four year old gets up, he gets
this like clothes on. He does that. It's not a
lot to ask, but like he's for so lower expectations.
And he gets in the car and I don't realize
until we've we've lost the house. We've been out of
the house for like a bit. He's wearing two different
shoes and that like two different crocs, Like one rainbow
came out tidie clock, I think it is tidi and
then the other one is an open toed blue sandals.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh God, called the fashion police Comte mom failed.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
How I didn't notice this, I don't know, but it's
hilarious because I was like, baby, your shoes don't match,
and he's like, Mama, shoes on. And I was like, yeah, okay, cool, yeah,
you're wearing shoes. Let's just be happy about it because
it was like, there, he's like shoes on. He like,
did not understand that they don't match. She needed to
match your shoes. He was just like, I'm wearing shoes
and I was like, yeah you are, and I'm proud
of you for getting yourself dressed.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, now the problem here is, you know, the other
kids say this, the teacher see it, the other parents
see it, and they're probably not going to say anything.
They might crack a joke about it, right, but then
you know they're going to drive off, they're going to
walk away, and they're gonna go kind of a mom
doesn't even pay attention to her kid putting his shoes on.
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What else is going on in that house?
Speaker 4 (14:17):
I mean this, I'm very glad that the toddler did
this on their own, like that is fantastic, But it
could have also been a case of toddler meltdown, like, no,
these are the two shoes I want to wear and
I'm not going to You know, they're gonna just scream
and kick and shout and yeah, it's either let them
wear the.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Two mismatched shoes or it's gonna be bad.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So it's gonna be bad for the kid. Yeah, yeah,
if you're my kid, it would be a studio. Lines
are open eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
You can text us as well. I'm curious, parents, what's
it like to be in a situation like this? What
is it like to be judged by other people based
on your kid? Their appearance there behavior? Do you have
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any of these mom fails as they are known, that's
what they're calling a mom fails? You you failed as
a parent. Can you give us some examples of maybe
how your kids showed up at school? Maybe maybe not presentable.
I just think this is really interesting because you know,
as a parent, there's a whole other layer of judgment.
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And I mentioned this a few minutes ago. You know,
for people who don't have kids, you go out, I
go out, people are going to judge us just based
on how we are put together and how we are behaving. Okay,
so if I show up somewhere and I'm dressed appropriately
and I behave appropriately, then people will make that judgment.
If I'm dressed inappropriately, if I'm acting like a freak,
(15:47):
well they're going to judge me on that. But what
about parents who have kids who may or may not
be behaving appropriately or dressed appropriately, and now the parents
get judged on that, and that may or may not
be fair because I know some really good people with
truly awful children, and I know some truly awful people
(16:09):
with very good kids. I know some completely incompetent parents
who basically the kids are raising themselves and they're doing great,
and they're doing great, yeah right. And I know some
really good parents with some really screwed up kids. So
I just think this is very interesting because you know,
people are going to judge you based on your kid
Triple eight, triple seven, sixty six, forty textas and let's
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get into this. I see some lines re lighting up,
so you guys have to say, next, Nikki Drake, what
else are you seeing?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I'm seeing here.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I've been a mom for five years and learned the
most that most other parents will just laugh and give
you a friendly I get it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Non parents are the judgmental and hateful ones.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I get that. This is why I want to have
this conversation this morning on the show. Yeah, because you
and I do not have children, right, And when I
look at these situations, I always keep that in mind.
I think, you know, I don't know what it's like
to have a kid. I don't have one, right, and
I know what a handful I was as a kid. Yeah,
which is why my parents gave up on me and
(17:10):
just packed their stuff and left early on disbanded. So
I try to keep that in mind because you don't
know what it's like. No, yeah, but other parents do
they get it? Yeah, yeah, it's good text. All right,
give me another, Oh, another one.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Okay, let's see here. It's okay.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
My son went to the pediatrician once with his underwear
inside out and told the doctor I made him do
that so he could wear them longer.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, I mean you can get twice the use I
guess out of your underpants if you wear them one
day and then turn them inside out and wear them
a second day.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Quick thinking on the kids part.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh all right, how dirty were those underpants that that?
The pediatrician was like? How long have you been wearing these?
And why are the stains on the outside. Okay, let's
just go to the phone. Here, you are on the
Jack and Nikki Show. What you got for?
Speaker 6 (18:01):
So my ex cousin and I are divorced, and I'm
the parent who as long as they have on clothes
and shorts underneath of their dresses and skirts they've got
on clothes.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Is that why you and your husband are divorces?
Speaker 6 (18:17):
No? It is not?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
But he's he was the person who would always like
want them like semi presentable clothing and everything. And I
mean there's a time and place where everything. I understand that.
But in the morning, I have four of them, and
it is not a battle worth fighting.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, four kids.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, sometimes it's not a fight worth fighting.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I have four, yes, okay. So as a result of
these lost battles, let's say, in your part, what are
these kids showing up at school in clothes?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Clothes?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I assume that, but I mean, what's the problem is
where I'm getting at. What are they showing up in
that's inappropriate style?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
My youngest half, the stuff she wears doesn't match, But
she's learning that she can wear her clothes and show
her style and she's comfortable. She loves it, and that's
what matters to me.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Okay, So do people comment on the fact that her
clothes don't match, or do other kids point and go,
you can't wear that together. Look at that top, in
that bottom. These colors are in opposition. Okaygarten, right, some
really caddy uhgarten kindergarteners in there? The breath a fashion
(19:27):
police on her? All right, So that's.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oldest she's she's very much she wants a certain clothing
and if they grow out of it very quickly.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
How old your oldest?
Speaker 6 (19:36):
Ten?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Ten? Okay? All right. So the worst thing that's happened
then is colors that don't match. That's the worst thing
that's happened.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Well, We've had some outfits that have been pretty questionable
to me, and I'll ask her. I'll be like, do
you feel pretty? And she's like, I feel beautiful? And
I'm like, that's all that matters?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Is it? Though? It is that all that matters? I mean,
I'm assuming it's appropriate, right, that's the faceline. Okay, all right,
then that because that's what matters. If it's Viking helmet
and no pants on, I don't care. How pre do
you feel? That's not gonna go? Yeah, you gotta wear something? Yeah,
all right, ma'am, thank you for the call. You're welcome, Nikki.
(20:17):
Any texts that you would like to do before I
drop back into these mini ring Let's see.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh, when I still dressed my kids.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I know at least one of them had to go
to daycare with no shoes at least once because I
forgot to push shoes on them.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Oh god, oh god. Now you know people saw that
and went, this kid doesn't have any shoes.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
On, right, Yeah, I would have just blamed the kid
for a temper tantrum and just been like, you know,
it wasn't worth the fight.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Assuming somebody actually said something.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, if they say anything, yeah, I just blame the
kid at that.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
See, my concern would be that nobody actually says anything
to you that just all through the day as your
kid's doing his Tarzan routine. People were seeing that and muttering,
what kind of a mom sensors.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
You are?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
We're on the Jack and Dicky show, which story.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Yeah, So, my uh, little one, he's in kindergarten and
he started a new school this year, and about his
third week of school, he got really sick, So of
course I took him to the doctor. They put him
on a couple different kinds of medicine, one of which
was steroids, and yes, he had a really bad reaction
(21:25):
to the medication. He went to school that week and
he was still on it for three of the days
because he started on a Friday, so he ended up
having to go to school and was taking it, and
he was awful. He ended up getting suspended three times
in a week and a half, like the week that
he was on it, and then the week after he
(21:46):
actually ended up getting suspended three times in kindergarten. I
felt like the worst parrot in the world. But I'm like,
I explained to him them that, like he's on medication,
like I talk so doctor like it's definitely because of that.
But I think after the first day he got suspended,
(22:06):
he thought that like, oh this is you know, I
could stay home. I'm sick. I don't want to be
there anyway, So he tried to get kicked out this
second day.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Yeah, yeah, it was awful.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And I have to imagine that you showing up and
going to the principal's office and saying, listen, listen, I
can explain why my kindergarteners getting into fights. He's on steroids.
That is not something that's going to be well received.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right, Yeah it was.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
It was.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
And you guys went down to the gym and he
was down there smoking a cigarette and weightlifting.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Well, the thing that made me the maddest about the
whole situation is the second time he tried to get
kicked out and I had to go in and talk
to the principal and set there with him, and I'm
asking him, like, you know, why are you acting like
this in school? You know you cannot do that, because
he literally, at the end of the day after he
(22:59):
did it, get kicked out for how bad he was
actually being throughout the day. He was about to be
getting picked up by me and he banged two kids'
heads together and he said, but I didn't hurt them.
And I said, why in the world would you ever
do something like that? You know, you don't put your
hands on anybody. And he's like, well, I've seen it
once on a movie and I thought it'd.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Be cool to do him.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
I was like, what, my god, had it coming smack?
I see things, Mom, I've seen things, all right.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Well, I was so excited.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Listen, we appreciate the call. Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (23:33):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Have a good day, guy, you too.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Bike.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Some research twenty five mercans and they found that ninety
point four percent of workers support a right to disconnect
law here in the United States. Yes, now Australia. They
have passed this legislation. They already have it, got it, okay,
And what that means is that when you're off the clock,
(24:03):
you do not have to remain in constant digital contact
with your employers.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
And there's no repercussions.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And there are no repercussions. Okay. You don't have to
check your email when you're off the clock. You don't
have to respond to text messages, you don't have to
take phone calls.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
None of it. No work related communication.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
You don't have to. Now you can, but you're not
required to, and you can suffer no, as Nikki said,
no rampifications from that. Now. The average American worker, according
to this research, spends an average of two hours and
forty five minutes on digital work communications alone. Your emails,
your texts, right m Seventy eight percent of American workers
(24:46):
experience dread when opening their work emails. Oh sure been there,
of course, yeah, of course you do. Well, you're putting
in your password, You're thinking, oh, what kind of fresh
hell's waiting on me? In here?
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Right?
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Necessary teams meeting will be in today.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Nonsense, waste of time meeting. Uh. Eighty one percent have
work communication platforms on their phones, your emails on your
phone cent okay and that sorry, go ahead, Well, I
just I think this is a very interesting conversation to
have because you know, it didn't used to always be
this way. This is normal for us. But if you
(25:25):
look at people like back in the seventies and eighties,
technology wasn't there to allow work to spill into their
personal lives. Back in the day, people back then had
no email, no texts, certainly no cell.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Phones, not even a voicemail machine.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Of course, you have an answer machine, right, But basically,
back in the day, you had one phone. It was
in your house and that was it. Yeah, and if
you went to work the next day and your boss said, hey,
I tried to call you and you didn't answer, you
could go, yeah, it wasn't home. And that's the end
of it. That's the whole conversation. You can't be punished.
Nobody's mad. But as you know, the problem now is, hey,
(26:07):
I sent you a text and I saw that you
read it. I got a read on read Yeah, yeah,
I know you saw it. I left a voicemail. I
sent you an email, right, So technology has just spilled
work into our personal lives. In a way now that
(26:28):
again wasn't possible back in the day, and I think
we need to make that adjustment. Absolutely right, You have
to adjust to that because it is ridiculous if if
you work all day and then spend your whole evening
on your phone writing emails, sending texts and stuff. So
this is interesting now. Now on the other side of
(26:49):
that argument, though, because things move faster now than they
used to, you can't you can't be out of the
loop if something is coming up the next day at
work and it's at after hours and you need to
be notified of that. Yeah, then I can see that argument.
I can see that point.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yes, yeah, I had, and I actually I had. This
happened to me once. I don't have my work email
on my phone. I don't check my work email outside
of work.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
You came in the next day and the show had
been canceled.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I came in the next day and there was something
that needed to be done, but I didn't have the
time in order to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
So I had to let this person know.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Hey, if it's something like this that's an emergency, last
minute late in the evening, you can text me. But
I do not check my email outside of work hours.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And I think that's fair because you give them an
avenue to contact.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Yes, say emergency, and if I deem it not an emergency,
then you're on red.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, Well, I just want to know what you
guys think about this. Triple eight, triple seven sixty six
forty You can text us as well. We assume people
listening this morning are working, because if you are not working,
why why would you be up this early in the
morning listening to the Are you an insomniac? Are you insane?
Are you writing some type of anti technology manifesto right now?
Speaker 3 (28:06):
If so, Jack like to read it, I would.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And sign off on it and help deliver it. Should
you be tethered to your employer through email and texts
and harassing phone calls of an inappropriate nature? Some say no,
In fact, many say no. Niki Drake, what are we
seeing on the textual lines?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
All right?
Speaker 4 (28:28):
When I go to work, I have to leave my
personal life at home and concentrate on work. So when
I'm home, I should concentrate on personal life and leave
work at work.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But in real life that never happens.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I like that thinking.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I like the thinking too.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Another text here, I work in healthcare.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
We have the option to sign up for remote to
check emails, finished documentation, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I refuse. When I go home, I don't want to
think about work. Anything work related will be done on
the clock.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, yes, it for you.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
No.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
You know what's interesting about that though, in whoever texted
this and knows this, and this is what puts you
in such an awkward situation. If you don't do that,
but everybody around you participates in that, then you you
are going to get a mark beside your name as
not being a team player. Sure, because hey, everybody else
(29:21):
we can contact them after hours, they respond to emails,
they're willing to work with us. But this one person
has the audacity to go home and think that they
should be living their personal life at their house after hours.
It's really unfortunate that it works that way, but it
is a fortunate that way.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And I kind of want to be like, well, I mean,
start charging them like a lawyer does.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, but you know, Mark beside your name, what do
you get starting now? They're charging a fee? I don't
think that's going to help.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Don't you be into
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Mhm
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