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Brooke and Jeffrey

Awkward Tuesday: Sayonara Senior Center

Brooke and Jeffrey

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The guy in today’s Awkward Tuesday Phone Call made a completely boneheaded mistake with his new career and now he needs to make the uncomfortable call to quit after just one week…

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0:00.0

It's awkward.

0:02.4

It's Tuesday.

0:03.8

It's awkward Tuesday phone call.

0:06.7

We're in the middle of a time called the Great Resignation right now.

0:10.3

Yeah.

0:10.8

Where people are leaving their jobs, switching careers at a record pace in this country.

0:16.3

Yeah, that's true.

0:17.1

We've seen it here at the radio station.

0:20.2

I wish I could see it here in the studio sometimes. Me too, brother. You're wishing that for yourself, right? In fact, how crazy would it be if I just walked out right now? It's just fucking never came back. Not that crazy. These times, I wouldn't blink in my bro. Jeff, no, come back. I'll take over. What's up, everyone? We need you. Jeff, you don't have any other skills. You have no other skills to offer to the professional world. You just walk back in the room. You have to stay here. I'm going to stay because I kind of want to hear what happens to the guy that emailed the show. Oh, that's true. I'm only doing it for the listeners, not for anybody in here. You are hireable. I'm just telling you. Oh, thank you. I would have begged you to stay, but that's okay. Damon is the one that emailed us for help about something going on with his job. Damon, welcome to the show, man. Hey, what's going on, bud? She walk out on us, David. Damon, I hope you have a better resume than anybody in radio does. I hope your coworkers actually like you.

1:13.0

What kind of business do you work in?

1:15.4

Well, I mean, I don't want to get super specific about business, but it's...

1:19.3

It's radio.

1:20.8

Is it a competitor?

1:22.9

I mean, can you tell us, is it a desk job?

1:25.1

Is it a...

1:25.9

What kind of job is it?

1:27.0

Well, let me ask a more interesting question than that. Tell us about, uh, you're not good. Again, I told you. It's a desk job. It's a desk job. Okay. So what's going on in your life and your career? Like, what made you email us? Well, so I've been like just basically applying for a lot of

1:45.6

different jobs I was in this dead end career the company wasn't doing well at all so I just

1:51.6

figured you know it was it was time to get out so I started looking okay and you know just

1:56.8

applying online you know probably like 70 80 different jobs online just oh my gosh you know, probably like 70, 80 different jobs online. Oh, my gosh. Oh, wow. You'll take anything besides the job you're currently working. I'm guessing his cover letter says, to whom this may concern? Yep. Because you are just mass sending those out. Yeah. How is that going? Well, I wasn't getting anything for a while. Okay. And there is this one. I mean, I can't tell you the name, but it starts with an E. Okay. And I see it in my inbox, and I immediately freak out because out of all of them, this is probably like one of the top places I would want to work. It's like a dream job. Is anyone else going through all the E companiescompanies in their head right now? Or is it just me? I can think of like two. Yeah. I only got one. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. So you're excited. Yeah. Within this company, I've heard you move up the ladder and you can move up pretty quick. And so I was really excited. I'm thinking I'm going to have to go through like 16 stages of interviews,

2:52.6

background checks, psych test.

2:54.2

Oh, this is a legitimate company then you're talking about.

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