Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Lynn Choney, where everything

we talk about is related to changing the world of work so that more organizations can

be more effective and less dysfunctional, and employees can be more fulfilled and less

miserable.

I'm your host, Pat Lynn Choney, joined by my co-host, Cody Thompson.

What's the word today, Cody?

mediocre. I'm not doing great. We were we're putting carpet in our house. I was up late

moving all the stuff around. It's really not a not a fun time.

All we're asking for is honesty. So we appreciate that, you know, everybody's not great.

All right. How about you, Tracy? I'm doing great, but Cody, I do love your honesty.

Yeah. Yeah. Also this topic gets me a little riled up. So that's the other mediocre reason,

but we'll explore it. See how it goes. How you doing, Matt? Thumbs up. Thumbs down in the middle.

Thumbs up. Good. Hey, Cody, so what is this topic that's going to rile up? What are we talking

about? Well, we titled it poisonous candy. That's right. Poisonous candy. It's something that looks

good. Looks like we should like it, but then you look at it harder and it's it's it could be very

dangerous. So so we've given away our point of view on this. Here's what we're talking about.

There's something going on in the legislature of California. This is not a political conversation.

It's about policy as it relates to work. And I was thinking as I I read the introduction today

about making employees more fulfilled and less miserable, right? So the state legislature of

California is contemplating. I can't imagine it would pass, but again, we're in California. So

the crazy stuff happens. They're considering limiting the work week in California to 32 hours

for any company above. I think it's 500 employees. So if you have any big company or medium-sized

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