85. You're Fired!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 101 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about getting fired, at-will employment, and how terrible U.S. labor protections are! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared BOOK PRE-ORDER: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/ SOURCES: https://erd.dli.mt.gov/labor-standards/wage-and-hour-payment-act/wage-and-hour-faq https://www.kingsleykingsley.com/examples-of-wrongful-termination https://ins-globalconsulting.com/news-post/terminate-employment-europe/ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/at-will_employment http://tinyurl.com/mr2xwwtu ⁠https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/the-most-unionized-states-in-america⁠ ⁠https://www.pongoresume.com/articles/493/does-a-union-job-provide-security-.cfm⁠ http://tinyurl.com/2wx53vk3 ⁠https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24343/w24343.pdf⁠ http://tinyurl.com/5jcnzyk4 http://tinyurl.com/v45twdwt http://tinyurl.com/3sffrtmh http://tinyurl.com/52uvu7k9 http://tinyurl.com/ymmubv2m http://tinyurl.com/ydphwafh ⁠http://www.rbs2.com/atwill.htm⁠ http://tinyurl.com/ycxdm766 ⁠https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31545640/⁠ http://tinyurl.com/3vw9yapv http://tinyurl.com/uwbwpfm4 ⁠https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/us-at-will-employment.html⁠ ⁠https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2001/01/art1full.pdf⁠ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5739436/ ⁠https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/but-youre-still-so-young-book-excerpt.html⁠ http://tinyurl.com/k694zj3b ⁠https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423193/⁠ http://tinyurl.com/yck83kph https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19533897/unemployment-suicide-risk/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:28.8	So, Kenna, how was your birthday month off? Woo-hoo. Did you do anything exciting?
0:35.6	Oh my God. I went to Colorado to visit my parents.
0:40.7	I went to a water park.
0:43.5	I went to Disneyland.
0:45.6	I had a rager at my house.
0:47.9	Yeah, your party was fun.
0:49.0	Yeah.
0:49.5	And I went to a little Tokyo.
0:53.2	So it was really fun. Yeah, that sounds super fun. How was your birthday?
0:57.9	Mine was pretty good. I did a road trip. I'm trying to see all the states. I've seen 40 states
1:03.0	out of 50. So I did a road trip from Nashville, Tennessee, up through Kentucky, Indiana, to Detroit, Michigan,
1:10.6	and then back down through Ohio.
1:13.5	Wow.
1:14.2	And it was really fun.
1:15.1	And I have like two friends from Fresno who moved to Nashville.
1:19.2	So they've been trying to get me come out for like a decade.
1:21.1	So that was exciting to see them and really nice.
1:23.8	Yeah, it was super, super fun.
1:25.8	And then we also did a trip for my boyfriend's birthday, which is July 27th. And yes, we're both Leo's. If you are an astrology person, I know, shock me. So for his birthday, we went up like through California driving north. And he has an off-road car. So we went kind of up through like Lone Pine, up along the east side of the mountain range that becomes
1:44.2	like Yosemite. And I'd never been to that part of California before. So it was super fun and
1:48.2	silly and we stayed in this like dirty little weird motel. And it was fun. Very nice. Yeah. I have
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