November 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Jack and Nikki pose a question about workplace etiquette, discuss dealing with other people's kids and explain why it's not a good idea to share naked pictures of yourself with strangers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're listening to the Jack and Nikki Show podcast
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Join Jack and Nicky live weekday mornings from six to
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Studio and text lines are open as we discuss a
question of workplace etiquette.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You could call us.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can text us at triple eight, triple seven, sixty
six forty. You can also text us at three five
sixty five to one. And my question to you is
a simple one. What is your policy on asking co
workers about changes in their appearance?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
WHOA okay, okay, what kind of changes in appearance?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I'm going to give you a specific example. We
have a coworker who looks like somebody punched him in
the face. Oh no, And I saw and I started
to say, did somebody punch you in the face? And
then I paused because you know, little Jackie popped up
on my shoulder on one side, Jackie Angel Jackie Devil
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on the other, and Jackie angels like.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Be careful, Jackie, you might hurt his feelings. He could
go to a jar and Devil Jackie was like, do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It, do it?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Make fun of him?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And I just kind of kept looking at my shoulders
and then ran off. I think that confused and probably
more than anything. But I don't think to me, it's
a big deal to just say, hey, did someone punch
you in the face? But that could be insulting to
someone who has not been punched in the face and
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yet somehow their face has been rearranged. Yeah, okay, I
don't know what happened to this dude.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't think asking did somebody punch you in the
face is the right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Way to That's not the right way to do it.
Is there an appropriate way to do it? I mean,
should you even ask, hey, what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I think it depends on how much of a visual
difference there is, Like is it so intense that like
the noses bandaged and there's bruising across the entire Well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We don't work with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Like did they get their nose broken, like they were
punched right in the face or was it just like
a sucker punched to the side or like, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
A jar or it looks like a big black eye.
Black eye, Yeah, is what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Big black eye.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Looks like somebody just put his lights out, So I
don't know. I'm just again. So there's that, there's that
very specific question, and then you can have more subtle questions,
like when people when their weight fluctuates. I've noticed that
nobody thinks anything of walking into a room and saying, hey,
are you losing weight? You look thinner. Nobody thinks anything
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of that. But if you reverse that, nobody walks in
and says, hey, are you putting on weight? You look fatter, right,
Nobody says that yeah, yeah, yeah. But people don't blink
at a weight loss compliment because it comes across as
a compliment, Whereas I guess if you look like you
put on a few pounds, people are like, I don't
want to hear this. This is not a conversation that
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we should be having.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, head down, walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right, So it's that, And then of course, you know
you have these people that maybe they show up and
the hair is a different color or a different style,
or you know, it's all gone or you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, and you just in your casual, everyday life, you
think nothing of making a comment or asking a question.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right, But but at work, But at work.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Because all it takes is to step on somebody's toes
a little bit, and you know, the next thing you know,
you're in HR and you're being told, Hey, you and
Devil Jackie needed to shut up and stuff up asking questions?
So generally, how do you handle this where you work?
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And have you seen people run into issues with this?
Have you maybe had somebody go to HR on your
You have some really really funny stories about people who
did go to HR because somebody asked him a question.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Oh, yeah, that would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know what's a rough one is people do sometimes
make this mistake, well, where are you expecting? Oh, I'm
not pregnant, right, I'll see you at HR. Yeah, it's
a simple question. How do you address change in appearance
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when it comes to co workers? Should you even attempt it?
Texts coming in, Cale's also pouring in on the studio line. Now,
Nikki jumped in front of me and got on the
text line. Yeah, saw some things, started gasping and then
begged me to not look at the text line so
that she it revealed these stories to me live on
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the air. So I'm going to be hearing these stories
with you guys right now for the first time.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yes, all right, Micki Drake, I'm going to start with.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The most reasonable one, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
In my opinion, I think it depends on how close
of a coworker they are to you, Like, do you
guys go out after work get drinks? Do you guys
talk frequently? Are good friends outside of work?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
If not, maybe you.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Can still ask what happened, just not by saying did
you get punched in the face?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Okay, that sounds reasonable to me. Sure, Yeah, because you
do have different levels of coworker. You have coworkers who
are also your personal friends, yes, they hang out with
outside of work, and then you have coworkers who are just.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That they are co workers.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yes, okay, so that would makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Also, can I toss in you should? I think look
at the history of that person as well. If you
work with somebody who routinely goes to HR with complaints
about your co workers, you probably want to one. Yeah,
try to avoid that bit of a minefield.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I thought you were going to say, look at the
history of your coworker.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Do they frequently come in with a black eye? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's a good point. Yeah. Is this a common thing?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah? You seem to be scraped up a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Okay, here's a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Uh, just ask dang bro new makeup routine.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I see you've decided to go with the Laurel black
eye line.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yeah. Yeah, new palette they have.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah that's a that's a good look. It's it's bold.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, choice never precocious.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
This person says, switch to the HR position. So you're
the authority on asking questions.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Okay, all right, maybe you have you know something in
your future there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Jack, Yeah, I'll bring people in. Can you imagine if
I were in an HR office? Can you imagine people
would come.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
In with the problem is so much?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh, I would be fired immediately, it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Would be Yeah, all right, here's the story for you.
This is the last text I have for you. I
had a coworker who told another coworker after she came
back from eternity, leave that now she had a baby
and a butt.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That didn't go over.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well he was wrong, or he wasn't wrong, But that's
not the point.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's not the point.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, this may have been a solid observation on his part,
but one better left.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
On s said, yeah, so at least you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
No, no, no, I did not. We do have somebody
on the studio line I want to get to here,
but I'm going to toss this in the co worker
in question here who looks like he's been touched in
the face. So what I did was some weaseling.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You did weaseling.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I did weasling.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Instead of asking him directly, I asked the people around him.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
To gossip with others.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's the thing, and that's the thing this is, these
are just questions. I'm only Yeah, gossip would imply that
I'm sharing knowledge.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Okay, Yes, that's true. You're being inquisitive, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, I'm mister curious. Okay, that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I just asked somebody who is closer to him
than I am, because, as this first textra pointed out,
people with tighter relationships. So I went to somebody who
knows him better than I do, and I said, what
happened to this dude? And the answer is apparently he
fell down a flight of steps and it was captured
on somebody's ring doorbell, and it's hilarious. I know, I
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want to see it. I don't know how we're gonna
get our hands on that footage. But apparently that's the
thing that happened, and God willing, we can get that.
W VQ socials, All right, let me go to the
studio line. Thanks for holding. What do you have for it?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Oh? I have a horrible story. I hadn't seen a
particular coworker in several months, and it was a large
we worked in a very large place of business, and
she came in and she was noticeably then like super skinny,
and I was like, oh, so, and so you look great,
My gosh, you've lost weight. And she had actually been
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awful medically with bowel cancer.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh god, oh god.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
If you could have seen the way everybody else in
the room looked at me like they were like, it
looks could kill I would have been dead. But I
sincerely didn't know. So from that point forward, if you've
lost weight, if you gained what wait, guess what. Amanda
doesn't comment on that at all at all.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
This is a tale of warning.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I learned my lesson, and even that the person that
I was speaking to, that associate like she's just her
shock and her face too, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sorry I did not know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, if it makes you feel any better. That's one
of the best stories I've ever heard, so we we
appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Have a good day The Jack and Nikki Show wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Let's talk about children and the adults who are terrible
at parenting them.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Unorthodox and totally irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'm the worst parent.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ever, responsible irresponsible individuals.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
This is irresponsible, the worst thing you can do as
a parent, the worst parent.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You must think we're the worst parents in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, this instance, yes, I certainly do. This is a
really wild story. This woman got into a fight with
a mom at a cost Co because of a misbehaving child,
and it almost turned into the cuffs and or a
slap fight and hair pulling.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Let's get the story straight from the woman's mouth.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
So I was in the bathroom and there was a
small child that crawled under the stall, and I said, Hey,
is this anybody's child? Nobody said anything. I said Hi,
And where's your parent?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Nobody's saying anything?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Hi? Is this your child?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Child?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Where are they?
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Did they escape the cage that they were placed in?
Where's your parent?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They don't say anything.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Then at this point, the child has whitting paper towels
and throwing that. This woman comes walking down of the stall,
super nonchalant, you know, like let's go, and I go, well,
hold on, this child just went under a stall. She said, well,
they weren't doing anything bad. I said, no, they are.
Don't tell me how to parent my kid. And I go,
don't make me parent your kid. And so this other
woman noways, comes down of stone and she goes, don't.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You talk to her like that.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
She's doing the.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Right thing here. And then this woman she's trying to
like almost sling at me.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
She's trying to grab at me, and I'm like, when
I said, don't do this in front of your kid,
I said, if your child wasn't here, it'd be a
different story and I'd be having a different conversation with you.
But the fact that your child's here, God tells us
enough about your rental skills.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
She's not doing anything wrong.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
She's sneaking under the stalls.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
She's going under the stall of a stranger. And then
she's wadding up wet paper towels and throwing those right.
And while this woman is in the stall with this
kid's head stuck under there, I guess she is asking, hey,
Is this somebody's kid? Are you in here? Is there
a parent around? Yeah, that's being ignored because I guess
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the mom's over there, you know, dropping a big load
and she doesn't want to be bothered. Probably over there,
you know, staring into her phone, sweating profusely, straining at stool.
We've all been there. But you can't just ignore your
kid when other people in the restroom are begging you to,
you know, do something with your kid. This is truly
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an awful situation. And I feel bad for this woman
because this woman and that we just heard from sounds
very reasonable, right, And she even says to this other woman,
let's not have this fight in front of your kid.
So she's showing all kinds of concern for this woman's
kid that this woman is not showing. And she's trying
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to be respectful and responsible, yes, and do everything the
right way. That the problem that you have is you've
heard that old saying that you can't you can't win
an argument with a stupid person because you know they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's a good old thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
They're not gonna get what you're saying. They don't understand,
they don't understand the argument that you're making and they
just drag you down with them instead of you know,
you pulling them up, they drag you down. And that's
what that sounds like to me. This poor woman is
just being dragged down by an imbecile. Yeah, and I
know either one of these people, but my guess is
there's probably a difference in thirty IQ points between the
two of them.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I just don't understand how that kind of behavior.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How indeed, how in the world can you defend that?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Like, and the original poster was being very kindly, Hey,
is this anybody's kid? Right?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Like some like just trying to nicely handle the situation.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, while while the kid is just under the
stall door.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Watching a stranger on the toilet. If that was anybody
other than a child, they would have.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Been arrested well, of course, and rightly.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So Yeah, I think this woman was very understanding and
I think she did the best that she could possibly
do in that situation. My question to you is this,
I think we're probably all on the same page with
this one, but I will ask you if there's anything
else you can think of that could have been done
in that particular instance, then by all means, let us
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know triple eight, triple seven sixty six forty call us
textas you can text us at three five sixty five one.
But let's expand this out beyond just this one situation,
and I want to talk to you about anytime you've
had an issue with someone else's kid in a public place.
This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. I think it's
pretty extreme that you have somebody's kids stick their head
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under the stall door while you're taking a dump. I
think that's that is a little extreme, a little extreme.
But you know, we've all been in public places and
seeing kids out of control. What happened, how did you
deal with it, how did it end? Were you able
to find any kind of a solution? Was the parent
completely unreasonable? I'm sure that everybody listening to this right
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now at some point has been in a public place
where you've had an issue with somebody else's kid because
that kid is not being parented. That's my guess. I'm
going to play the numbers on this one. I think
the odds are in our favor, So you guys please
make with the stories eight eight eight seven seven seven
(15:57):
sixty six forty call us. You can text this three
five six five one. I want to know what happened
and how you dealt with it, and maybe you know,
take some pointers from you. Let's wrap up this conversation
here about you dealing with other people's kids in public places.
Oh wow, this text just popped in. I haven't had
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time to vet.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
In the middle of vetting.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Novel, Nikki Drake. Go ahead and start on it, and
let's see where it goes. You can always bail out
if it becomes inappropriate.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
My husband and I hosted Christmas once and his sister's
kid was picking up glass decorations and slamming them down
on a glass shelf. Nobody said a word or did
anything about it, so we stepped in and asked him
to stop, and took the glass decoration.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
And put it up where he couldn't get it.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Okay, seven years later and we are now being told
how unwelcome we made them feel by doing that.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And then when it's.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Your siblings kids, you shouldn't say anything and just let
it go.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh I disagree.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh, I disagree wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yes, Texter, we are definitely on your side on this one.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, I got you back here. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, that's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I am of the opinion that children should defer to adults.
And anytime you're in a situation like this where you
are an adult and a kid is doing something destructive,
then you certainly are within your rights to keep them
from destroying property or injuring themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yes, exactly that situation. Oh gosh, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, again, it's wild. But like you said earlier, that
any of these parents can defend this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And there your nieces and nephews, like, are you do
You just sit back and just you're the fun uncle.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like when I was a kid, not only could my
parents spank me, but the relatives could all spank me.
Everybody in the town was allowed to spank me. I
would go over to my buddy's house if we'd get
in trouble, his mom would hit me with a broom. Okay,
sometimes she did it even when I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Well, of course, yeah, that's why are you reading over there?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Another text came in and I was making sure it
wasn't inappropriate.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Here's an example.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We were in booths in a restaurant and the kid
was standing up and hitting his mom on the head.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
He turned to hit my wife.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
WHOA.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I gave him the eye and he turned down and
started crying.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And I'm sure the parents were upset. You gave our
son the odd How there are you.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Cry with just a look?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
How did you do that? Let me take notes?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's unbelievable. Okay, thank you for that text. I saw
a kid having a tantrum in a grocery store. The
parents asked her to stop throwing produce. Asked her to stop,
she did not. I don't know how much that ended
up costing them. Wow, I hope it was a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yet that's not the time to negotiate with your kid.
You know what little Gallagher Junior of They're smashing melons
all over the floor. Honey, would you like to stop
destroying the produce that we're gonna have to pay for? A?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah? No?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Okay, Well I guess we'll just stand here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And one more kid was screaming beside me in a
just a haunt. I asked the parents if they could
keep him quiet. They suggested I perform an act on
myself that I don't think is physically possible.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
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and Nicki Drake on one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's Jack and Nicki with a look at a man
should he be called such who has made a terrible
misstep on a dating website?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Dysfunctional? Yes, what in the world is going on? Donum
giant freak? The terrible ideas part of the family tradition. Wow,
just like that show Big Brother. You don't see that
on Animal Planet. To be honest, I've never seen such dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm going to assume that at the very least you've
heard of Ashley Madison, the dating website for married people. Yes, okay,
at the very least you've heard of it, and let's
be honest, half of you are probably actually on it,
but you're just not gonna admit that. Well, here's another
reason to not be on a dating website for married people. Okay, okay.
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This is a story out of Ohio. A Beechwood, Ohio
man was blackmailed after chatting with someone he met on
the Ashley Madison infidelity website. The quote unquote man and
his online date chatted on the app for a while
and then decided to switch to video chatting. Uh oh, yes,
(20:57):
let's take this to a video. And they did, and
when they did, they got frisky. Okay, I'm not making
this up. This is the actual story. They got frisky.
I'm gonna assume that's barking, sitting up, rolling over. So
he probably when fetched a stick at some point, came
back with the newspaper and now, yeah, whatever, however you
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define getting frisky, here's the problem. After the frisky session,
she then threatened to release an explicit video of his
o face unless he paid her one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Wow, that's right now. I think as extortion goes, he
got off easy.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
That's a unique one.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, okay, poor choice of words when you think about it.
But one thousand dollars that's all she asked for. She
could have gone for way more. I mean, this guy,
she's got him pants down, you know what I mean.
They're right, this guy is busted. Yes, one thousand dollars. Well,
he tried to pay her, but the transaction failed for
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whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
No, so he called the police.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The police took a report, put him on hold, and
laughed NonStop for five minutes, and then came back and
told him they're going to have to close the case.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Due to a lack of information. Oh no, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Know where he goes from here, but this is a
cautionary tale for you. I can't believe I'm in this position,
but here we are. If you meet a stranger on
the internet and they suggest that you have a video
conference and then that you take your pants off, don't
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do that. Okay, that's a bad idea, not a idea,
it's not at all, no matter what, especially if you're married,
you shouldn't be doing that anyway. But this is not
even good for single people. Nobody needs to have this
recorded and shared with anyone else. I mean, you've got
to think about what you're doing, for God's sake. Wow,
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all right, you.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Know, would be really nice a warning.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Wouldn't it be great if we could go into an
O'Reilly's commercial? Right now, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You got fired? Why, well, it's no wonder they finally
caught you doing that in here? Working hard, hardly working?
Am I I thought you were working? I'm working here?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Are you gonna get me fired?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I'm working? I regret offending my coworkers.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Expected to work.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay, it's happened again.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It keeps happening, and from what we can gather, this
is not a great idea. It's a guy who suspected
that his coworkers were.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Stealing his lunch.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh and so he came up with a plan to
deal with that, and yes, it did involve laxatives. Here
he is explaining exactly what he did.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I put thirty servings of laxatives into my lasagna that
I made and brought it to work and placed it
in the company fridge to catch the coworker who had
been stealing that lunch from the company fridge with my
name on it for the past like three months.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Checked the fridge and somebody ate a lot of this lasagna.
So I went back to my desk, which is located
pretty close to the bathroom, and over the next hour
I watched as four different people from my office use
the bathroom. Two of those people use the bathroom twice.
I keep watching, they never return, and at the very
next day I show up to work, the lasagn is
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gone and the coworkers who went to the bathroom twice
were not at work. I thought to myself that these
are definitely the people who stole out lasagna. And I
caught them, except no, an email went out company wide
that told me that the two coworkers who were not
at work were in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Okay, let me give you a little advice here, d
I mean, you have committed a crime, and it's possible
that you would have gotten away with it if you
hadn't gone on the internet and run your big trap
about it. Sure, because that now they know what happened.
(25:18):
If these people, wait, thirty laxatives, which is a massive dose,
I mean, why are you putting that much in it?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Well, I don't think it's not just like one piece
of lasagna, right, you know, but it's a larger thing.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
So I don't know how that equates over the entire.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I don't know how big the lasagna was. Uh huh,
Like yeah, apparently not big enough. Apparently it was just
the right size to end up hospitalizing a couple of people, right, Okay,
But again, if if these people are sick and hospitalized
and they don't have any idea what's going on, does
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he not have enough sense to go better keep this myself.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
This is not something to be broadcasting. No, He's like, hey,
ever bought it? I'm poisoned? A bunch of people. What
are you doing all right? Nikki?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I know that you are at the legal desk right now, sure,
which is very close to your work desk. We have
a lot of desks in here. What what have you
found in the legal desk? I remember we had this
conversation once before when somebody pulled this stunt. And if
I'm remembering right, somebody actually texted in here and said, hey,
I'm an attorney. You can't do this.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
So even if a coworker is stealing your food, you
could still face criminal charges. Yeah, if they get sick
or harmed because you added something to the food they're stealing,
So you could it could be you know, poisoning charges,
potentially assault, criminal mischief.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
There's a reckless disregard.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
There's a whole plethora of options, which would you like,
Oh wow, I'll.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Just give them the menu, spin the wheel of charge, yes,
off you go. Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And you and I were kind of surprised by this
because the argument that a lot of people make is hey,
it's my food. I can do whatever I want with
it because nobody else should be consuming it.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
And his name was on it, name on it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That seems to be a reasonable argument. But, as the
attorney explained to us, if you believe that there's a
chance that somebody else will consume this and you adulterate it,
it's on you. You legally cannot do that. Yeah, it's
basically kind of entrapment. It's a form of entrapment, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Now what I did learn is, yes, you can talk
to HR, you know, begin your paper trail there. But
you need a paper trail because you can also report
the theft of your lunch.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
To the police. Really, yes, because it is theft.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Okay, now now that's a whole new wrinkle. Yeah, this
is a whole new rinkle.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So if it and then you have a paper trail
and you keep reporting it to HR to the police.
However many times it's happening and he said this was
going on for three months in his case. And if
they're security cameras, then you can have you know, you'll
be able to get the footage from there, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So instead of poisoning your coworkers, you should turn them
into the police.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Can you imagine the eye roll that you would get
if you called the police?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
The eye roll would be so hard.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
How hard would the eye roll be you could hear.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Whatever the phone, right, I'd like to report a crime.
I had a paint water and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yeah it was in the common area, but you don't
want to someone someone took my sandwich, right, Like, we'll
send a detective over right away, sir.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean it's probably safer than putting the laxatives in.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The lasagna and then maybe having to.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Face poisoning assaults, reckless disregard to criminal mischief charges.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Certainly say, yeah, you being embarrassed for being ridiculous is
way better than you being prosecuted for being a murderer.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
And could you imagine if the police had to show
up and serve them with some sort of you know,
civil suit.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
They had to show up and write write a ticket, right.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Jack man and the money, Well, no two
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Tell a kilt the intre
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Studio and text lines are open as we discuss a
question of workplace etiquette.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You could call us.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You can text us at triple eight, triple seven, sixty
six forty. You can also text us at three five
sixty five to one. And my question to you is
a simple one. What is your policy on asking co
workers about changes in their appearance?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
WHOA okay, okay, what kind of changes in appearance?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, I'm going to give you a specific example. We
have a coworker who looks like somebody punched him in
the face. Oh no, And I saw and I started
to say, did somebody punch you in the face? And
then I paused because you know, little Jackie popped up
on my shoulder on one side, Jackie Angel Jackie Devil
(01:11):
on the other, and Jackie angels like.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Be careful, Jackie, you might hurt his feelings. He could
go to a jar and Devil Jackie was like, do.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It, do it?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Make fun of him?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Do it?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
And I just kind of kept looking at my shoulders
and then ran off. I think that confused and probably
more than anything. But I don't think to me, it's
a big deal to just say, hey, did someone punch
you in the face? But that could be insulting to
someone who has not been punched in the face and
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yet somehow their face has been rearranged. Yeah, okay, I
don't know what happened to this dude.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I don't think asking did somebody punch you in the
face is the right.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Way to That's not the right way to do it.
Is there an appropriate way to do it? I mean,
should you even ask, hey, what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Or?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I think it depends on how much of a visual
difference there is, Like is it so intense that like
the noses bandaged and there's bruising across the entire Well.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We don't work with Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Like did they get their nose broken, like they were
punched right in the face or was it just like
a sucker punched to the side or like, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
A jar or it looks like a big black eye.
Black eye, Yeah, is what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Big black eye.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Looks like somebody just put his lights out, So I
don't know. I'm just again. So there's that, there's that
very specific question, and then you can have more subtle questions,
like when people when their weight fluctuates. I've noticed that
nobody thinks anything of walking into a room and saying, hey,
are you losing weight? You look thinner. Nobody thinks anything
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of that. But if you reverse that, nobody walks in
and says, hey, are you putting on weight? You look fatter, right,
Nobody says that yeah, yeah, yeah. But people don't blink
at a weight loss compliment because it comes across as
a compliment, Whereas I guess if you look like you
put on a few pounds, people are like, I don't
want to hear this. This is not a conversation that
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we should be having.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, yeah, head down, walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Right, So it's that, And then of course, you know
you have these people that maybe they show up and
the hair is a different color or a different style,
or you know, it's all gone or you.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, and you just in your casual, everyday life, you
think nothing of making a comment or asking a question.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Right, But but at work, But at work.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Because all it takes is to step on somebody's toes
a little bit, and you know, the next thing you know,
you're in HR and you're being told, Hey, you and
Devil Jackie needed to shut up and stuff up asking questions?
So generally, how do you handle this where you work?
(04:06):
And have you seen people run into issues with this?
Have you maybe had somebody go to HR on your
You have some really really funny stories about people who
did go to HR because somebody asked him a question.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Oh, yeah, that would be interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You know what's a rough one is people do sometimes
make this mistake, well, where are you expecting? Oh, I'm
not pregnant, right, I'll see you at HR. Yeah, it's
a simple question. How do you address change in appearance
(04:40):
when it comes to co workers? Should you even attempt it?
Texts coming in, Cale's also pouring in on the studio line. Now,
Nikki jumped in front of me and got on the
text line. Yeah, saw some things, started gasping and then
begged me to not look at the text line so
that she it revealed these stories to me live on
(05:02):
the air. So I'm going to be hearing these stories
with you guys right now for the first time.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yes, all right, Micki Drake, I'm going to start with.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
The most reasonable one, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
In my opinion, I think it depends on how close
of a coworker they are to you, Like, do you
guys go out after work get drinks? Do you guys
talk frequently? Are good friends outside of work?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
If not, maybe you.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Can still ask what happened, just not by saying did
you get punched in the face?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Okay, that sounds reasonable to me. Sure, Yeah, because you
do have different levels of coworker. You have coworkers who
are also your personal friends, yes, they hang out with
outside of work, and then you have coworkers who are just.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
That they are co workers.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yes, okay, so that would makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Also, can I toss in you should? I think look
at the history of that person as well. If you
work with somebody who routinely goes to HR with complaints
about your co workers, you probably want to one. Yeah,
try to avoid that bit of a minefield.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
I thought you were going to say, look at the
history of your coworker.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Do they frequently come in with a black eye? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's a good point. Yeah. Is this a common thing?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah? You seem to be scraped up a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Okay, here's a suggestion.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Uh, just ask dang bro new makeup routine.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I see you've decided to go with the Laurel black
eye line.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Yeah. Yeah, new palette they have.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah that's a that's a good look. It's it's bold.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, choice never precocious.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
This person says, switch to the HR position. So you're
the authority on asking questions.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Okay, all right, maybe you have you know something in
your future there.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Jack, Yeah, I'll bring people in. Can you imagine if
I were in an HR office? Can you imagine people
would come.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
In with the problem is so much?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Oh, I would be fired immediately, it.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Would be Yeah, all right, here's the story for you.
This is the last text I have for you. I
had a coworker who told another coworker after she came
back from eternity, leave that now she had a baby
and a butt.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That didn't go over.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well he was wrong, or he wasn't wrong, But that's
not the point.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's not the point.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No, this may have been a solid observation on his part,
but one better left.
Speaker 6 (07:39):
On s said, yeah, so at least you didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
No, no, no, I did not. We do have somebody
on the studio line I want to get to here,
but I'm going to toss this in the co worker
in question here who looks like he's been touched in
the face. So what I did was some weaseling.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You did weaseling.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I did weasling.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Instead of asking him directly, I asked the people around him.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
To gossip with others.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
That's the thing, and that's the thing this is, these
are just questions. I'm only Yeah, gossip would imply that
I'm sharing knowledge.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
Okay, Yes, that's true. You're being inquisitive, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, I'm mister curious. Okay, that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I just asked somebody who is closer to him
than I am, because, as this first textra pointed out,
people with tighter relationships. So I went to somebody who
knows him better than I do, and I said, what
happened to this dude? And the answer is apparently he
fell down a flight of steps and it was captured
on somebody's ring doorbell, and it's hilarious. I know, I
(08:45):
want to see it. I don't know how we're gonna
get our hands on that footage. But apparently that's the
thing that happened, and God willing, we can get that.
W VQ socials, All right, let me go to the
studio line. Thanks for holding. What do you have for it?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Oh? I have a horrible story. I hadn't seen a
particular coworker in several months, and it was a large
we worked in a very large place of business, and
she came in and she was noticeably then like super skinny,
and I was like, oh, so, and so you look great,
My gosh, you've lost weight. And she had actually been
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awful medically with bowel cancer.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Oh god, oh god.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
If you could have seen the way everybody else in
the room looked at me like they were like, it
looks could kill I would have been dead. But I
sincerely didn't know. So from that point forward, if you've
lost weight, if you gained what wait, guess what. Amanda
doesn't comment on that at all at all.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
This is a tale of warning.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I learned my lesson, and even that the person that
I was speaking to, that associate like she's just her
shock and her face too, and I'm like, oh my gosh,
I'm so sorry I did not know.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, if it makes you feel any better. That's one
of the best stories I've ever heard, so we we
appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Have a good day The Jack and Nikki Show wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Let's talk about children and the adults who are terrible
at parenting them.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Unorthodox and totally irresponsible.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I'm the worst parent.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Ever, responsible irresponsible individuals.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
This is irresponsible, the worst thing you can do as
a parent, the worst parent.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
You must think we're the worst parents in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, this instance, yes, I certainly do. This is a
really wild story. This woman got into a fight with
a mom at a cost Co because of a misbehaving child,
and it almost turned into the cuffs and or a
slap fight and hair pulling.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Let's get the story straight from the woman's mouth.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
So I was in the bathroom and there was a
small child that crawled under the stall, and I said, Hey,
is this anybody's child? Nobody said anything. I said Hi,
And where's your parent?
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Nobody's saying anything?
Speaker 9 (11:18):
Hi? Is this your child?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Child?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Where are they?
Speaker 9 (11:20):
Did they escape the cage that they were placed in?
Where's your parent?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
They don't say anything.
Speaker 9 (11:24):
Then at this point, the child has whitting paper towels
and throwing that. This woman comes walking down of the stall,
super nonchalant, you know, like let's go, and I go, well,
hold on, this child just went under a stall. She said, well,
they weren't doing anything bad. I said, no, they are.
Don't tell me how to parent my kid. And I go,
don't make me parent your kid. And so this other
woman noways, comes down of stone and she goes, don't.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
You talk to her like that.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
She's doing the.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Right thing here. And then this woman she's trying to
like almost sling at me.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
She's trying to grab at me, and I'm like, when
I said, don't do this in front of your kid,
I said, if your child wasn't here, it'd be a
different story and I'd be having a different conversation with you.
But the fact that your child's here, God tells us
enough about your rental skills.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
She's not doing anything wrong.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
She's sneaking under the stalls.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
She's going under the stall of a stranger. And then
she's wadding up wet paper towels and throwing those right.
And while this woman is in the stall with this
kid's head stuck under there, I guess she is asking, hey,
Is this somebody's kid? Are you in here? Is there
a parent around? Yeah, that's being ignored because I guess
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the mom's over there, you know, dropping a big load
and she doesn't want to be bothered. Probably over there,
you know, staring into her phone, sweating profusely, straining at stool.
We've all been there. But you can't just ignore your
kid when other people in the restroom are begging you to,
you know, do something with your kid. This is truly
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an awful situation. And I feel bad for this woman
because this woman and that we just heard from sounds
very reasonable, right, And she even says to this other woman,
let's not have this fight in front of your kid.
So she's showing all kinds of concern for this woman's
kid that this woman is not showing. And she's trying
(13:18):
to be respectful and responsible, yes, and do everything the
right way. That the problem that you have is you've
heard that old saying that you can't you can't win
an argument with a stupid person because you know they're stupid.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
It's a good old thing.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
They're not gonna get what you're saying. They don't understand,
they don't understand the argument that you're making and they
just drag you down with them instead of you know,
you pulling them up, they drag you down. And that's
what that sounds like to me. This poor woman is
just being dragged down by an imbecile. Yeah, and I
know either one of these people, but my guess is
there's probably a difference in thirty IQ points between the
two of them.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
I just don't understand how that kind of behavior.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
How indeed, how in the world can you defend that?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Like, and the original poster was being very kindly, Hey,
is this anybody's kid? Right?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Like some like just trying to nicely handle the situation.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, yeah, while while the kid is just under the
stall door.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Watching a stranger on the toilet. If that was anybody
other than a child, they would have.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Been arrested well, of course, and rightly.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
So Yeah, I think this woman was very understanding and
I think she did the best that she could possibly
do in that situation. My question to you is this,
I think we're probably all on the same page with
this one, but I will ask you if there's anything
else you can think of that could have been done
in that particular instance, then by all means, let us
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know triple eight, triple seven sixty six forty call us
textas you can text us at three five sixty five one.
But let's expand this out beyond just this one situation,
and I want to talk to you about anytime you've
had an issue with someone else's kid in a public place.
This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. I think it's
pretty extreme that you have somebody's kids stick their head
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under the stall door while you're taking a dump. I
think that's that is a little extreme, a little extreme.
But you know, we've all been in public places and
seeing kids out of control. What happened, how did you
deal with it, how did it end? Were you able
to find any kind of a solution? Was the parent
completely unreasonable? I'm sure that everybody listening to this right
(15:36):
now at some point has been in a public place
where you've had an issue with somebody else's kid because
that kid is not being parented. That's my guess. I'm
going to play the numbers on this one. I think
the odds are in our favor, So you guys please
make with the stories eight eight eight seven seven seven
(15:57):
sixty six forty call us. You can text this three
five six five one. I want to know what happened
and how you dealt with it, and maybe you know,
take some pointers from you. Let's wrap up this conversation
here about you dealing with other people's kids in public places.
Oh wow, this text just popped in. I haven't had
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time to vet.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
In the middle of vetting.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Novel, Nikki Drake. Go ahead and start on it, and
let's see where it goes. You can always bail out
if it becomes inappropriate.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
My husband and I hosted Christmas once and his sister's
kid was picking up glass decorations and slamming them down
on a glass shelf. Nobody said a word or did
anything about it, so we stepped in and asked him
to stop, and took the glass decoration.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
And put it up where he couldn't get it.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Okay, seven years later and we are now being told
how unwelcome we made them feel by doing that.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And then when it's.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Your siblings kids, you shouldn't say anything and just let
it go.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh I disagree.
Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh, I disagree wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yes, Texter, we are definitely on your side on this one.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, I got you back here. That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Yeah, that's absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I am of the opinion that children should defer to adults.
And anytime you're in a situation like this where you
are an adult and a kid is doing something destructive,
then you certainly are within your rights to keep them
from destroying property or injuring themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yes, exactly that situation. Oh gosh, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Okay, again, it's wild. But like you said earlier, that
any of these parents can defend this kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
And there your nieces and nephews, like, are you do
You just sit back and just you're the fun uncle.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Like when I was a kid, not only could my
parents spank me, but the relatives could all spank me.
Everybody in the town was allowed to spank me. I
would go over to my buddy's house if we'd get
in trouble, his mom would hit me with a broom. Okay,
sometimes she did it even when I wasn't doing anything wrong.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
Well, of course, yeah, that's why are you reading over there?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Another text came in and I was making sure it
wasn't inappropriate.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Here's an example.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
We were in booths in a restaurant and the kid
was standing up and hitting his mom on the head.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
He turned to hit my wife.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
WHOA.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
I gave him the eye and he turned down and
started crying.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
And I'm sure the parents were upset. You gave our
son the odd How there are you.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Cry with just a look?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
How did you do that? Let me take notes?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
That's unbelievable. Okay, thank you for that text. I saw
a kid having a tantrum in a grocery store. The
parents asked her to stop throwing produce. Asked her to stop,
she did not. I don't know how much that ended
up costing them. Wow, I hope it was a lot.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yet that's not the time to negotiate with your kid.
You know what little Gallagher Junior of They're smashing melons
all over the floor. Honey, would you like to stop
destroying the produce that we're gonna have to pay for? A?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Yeah? No?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Okay, Well I guess we'll just stand here. Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
And one more kid was screaming beside me in a
just a haunt. I asked the parents if they could
keep him quiet. They suggested I perform an act on
myself that I don't think is physically possible.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
The Nerve Center of North Central West Virginia, Jack Loger
and Nicki Drake on one O two wv AQ.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's Jack and Nicki with a look at a man
should he be called such who has made a terrible
misstep on a dating website?
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Dysfunctional? Yes, what in the world is going on? Donum
giant freak? The terrible ideas part of the family tradition. Wow,
just like that show Big Brother. You don't see that
on Animal Planet. To be honest, I've never seen such dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I'm going to assume that at the very least you've
heard of Ashley Madison, the dating website for married people. Yes, okay,
at the very least you've heard of it, and let's
be honest, half of you are probably actually on it,
but you're just not gonna admit that. Well, here's another
reason to not be on a dating website for married people. Okay, okay.
(20:33):
This is a story out of Ohio. A Beechwood, Ohio
man was blackmailed after chatting with someone he met on
the Ashley Madison infidelity website. The quote unquote man and
his online date chatted on the app for a while
and then decided to switch to video chatting. Uh oh, yes,
(20:57):
let's take this to a video. And they did, and
when they did, they got frisky. Okay, I'm not making
this up. This is the actual story. They got frisky.
I'm gonna assume that's barking, sitting up, rolling over. So
he probably when fetched a stick at some point, came
back with the newspaper and now, yeah, whatever, however you
(21:19):
define getting frisky, here's the problem. After the frisky session,
she then threatened to release an explicit video of his
o face unless he paid her one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Wow, that's right now. I think as extortion goes, he
got off easy.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
That's a unique one.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, okay, poor choice of words when you think about it.
But one thousand dollars that's all she asked for. She
could have gone for way more. I mean, this guy,
she's got him pants down, you know what I mean.
They're right, this guy is busted. Yes, one thousand dollars. Well,
he tried to pay her, but the transaction failed for
(22:04):
whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
No, so he called the police.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
The police took a report, put him on hold, and
laughed NonStop for five minutes, and then came back and
told him they're going to have to close the case.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Due to a lack of information. Oh no, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Know where he goes from here, but this is a
cautionary tale for you. I can't believe I'm in this position,
but here we are. If you meet a stranger on
the internet and they suggest that you have a video
conference and then that you take your pants off, don't
(22:41):
do that. Okay, that's a bad idea, not a idea,
it's not at all, no matter what, especially if you're married,
you shouldn't be doing that anyway. But this is not
even good for single people. Nobody needs to have this
recorded and shared with anyone else. I mean, you've got
to think about what you're doing, for God's sake. Wow,
(23:05):
all right, you.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Know, would be really nice a warning.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Wouldn't it be great if we could go into an
O'Reilly's commercial? Right now, let's talk about this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
You got fired? Why, well, it's no wonder they finally
caught you doing that in here? Working hard, hardly working?
Am I I thought you were working? I'm working here?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Are you gonna get me fired?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
I'm working? I regret offending my coworkers.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Expected to work.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Okay, it's happened again.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
It keeps happening, and from what we can gather, this
is not a great idea. It's a guy who suspected
that his coworkers were.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Stealing his lunch.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Oh and so he came up with a plan to
deal with that, and yes, it did involve laxatives. Here
he is explaining exactly what he did.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I put thirty servings of laxatives into my lasagna that
I made and brought it to work and placed it
in the company fridge to catch the coworker who had
been stealing that lunch from the company fridge with my
name on it for the past like three months.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh my god, I.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Checked the fridge and somebody ate a lot of this lasagna.
So I went back to my desk, which is located
pretty close to the bathroom, and over the next hour
I watched as four different people from my office use
the bathroom. Two of those people use the bathroom twice.
I keep watching, they never return, and at the very
next day I show up to work, the lasagn is
(24:37):
gone and the coworkers who went to the bathroom twice
were not at work. I thought to myself that these
are definitely the people who stole out lasagna. And I
caught them, except no, an email went out company wide
that told me that the two coworkers who were not
at work were in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Okay, let me give you a little advice here, d
I mean, you have committed a crime, and it's possible
that you would have gotten away with it if you
hadn't gone on the internet and run your big trap
about it. Sure, because that now they know what happened.
(25:18):
If these people, wait, thirty laxatives, which is a massive dose,
I mean, why are you putting that much in it?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Well, I don't think it's not just like one piece
of lasagna, right, you know, but it's a larger thing.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
So I don't know how that equates over the entire.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
I don't know how big the lasagna was. Uh huh,
Like yeah, apparently not big enough. Apparently it was just
the right size to end up hospitalizing a couple of people, right, Okay,
But again, if if these people are sick and hospitalized
and they don't have any idea what's going on, does
(25:56):
he not have enough sense to go better keep this myself.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
This is not something to be broadcasting. No, He's like, hey,
ever bought it? I'm poisoned? A bunch of people. What
are you doing all right? Nikki?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I know that you are at the legal desk right now, sure,
which is very close to your work desk. We have
a lot of desks in here. What what have you
found in the legal desk? I remember we had this
conversation once before when somebody pulled this stunt. And if
I'm remembering right, somebody actually texted in here and said, hey,
I'm an attorney. You can't do this.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
So even if a coworker is stealing your food, you
could still face criminal charges. Yeah, if they get sick
or harmed because you added something to the food they're stealing,
So you could it could be you know, poisoning charges,
potentially assault, criminal mischief.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
There's a reckless disregard.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
There's a whole plethora of options, which would you like,
Oh wow, I'll.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Just give them the menu, spin the wheel of charge, yes,
off you go. Okay.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And you and I were kind of surprised by this
because the argument that a lot of people make is hey,
it's my food. I can do whatever I want with
it because nobody else should be consuming it.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
And his name was on it, name on it.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
That seems to be a reasonable argument. But, as the
attorney explained to us, if you believe that there's a
chance that somebody else will consume this and you adulterate it,
it's on you. You legally cannot do that. Yeah, it's
basically kind of entrapment. It's a form of entrapment, it is.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Now what I did learn is, yes, you can talk
to HR, you know, begin your paper trail there. But
you need a paper trail because you can also report
the theft of your lunch.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
To the police. Really, yes, because it is theft.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Okay, now now that's a whole new wrinkle. Yeah, this
is a whole new rinkle.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So if it and then you have a paper trail
and you keep reporting it to HR to the police.
However many times it's happening and he said this was
going on for three months in his case. And if
they're security cameras, then you can have you know, you'll
be able to get the footage from there, hopefully.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So instead of poisoning your coworkers, you should turn them
into the police.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Can you imagine the eye roll that you would get
if you called the police?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
The eye roll would be so hard.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
How hard would the eye roll be you could hear.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Whatever the phone, right, I'd like to report a crime.
I had a paint water and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
Yeah it was in the common area, but you don't
want to someone someone took my sandwich, right, Like, we'll
send a detective over right away, sir.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
Yeah, I mean it's probably safer than putting the laxatives in.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
The lasagna and then maybe having to.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Face poisoning assaults, reckless disregard to criminal mischief charges.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Certainly say, yeah, you being embarrassed for being ridiculous is
way better than you being prosecuted for being a murderer.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
And could you imagine if the police had to show
up and serve them with some sort of you know,
civil suit.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
They had to show up and write write a ticket, right.
Speaker 8 (29:05):
Jack man and the money, Well, no two
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Tell a kilt the intre
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