Crying at work
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What happens when work is the thing that’s making us cry … at work? Plus: Reema asks her old boss an awkward question.
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| 0:00.0 | You know those conversations you play over and over and over in your head, but find really difficult to actually have? |
| 0:07.4 | That's exactly what Death's Sex and Money does. It gets those thorny issues out into the open. |
| 0:13.0 | It's hosted by Anna Sal, who has surprisingly comfortable conversations with her guests about uncomfortable topics, |
| 0:19.5 | like the highs and lows of divorce, about near-death experiences and funny one-night stands. |
| 0:25.6 | All of these things shape the way we live and the decisions we make. |
| 0:29.2 | Some of her guests are famous, some not, and very often they're from the community of listeners, |
| 0:34.2 | all talking about what we're figuring out as we go along. |
| 0:37.7 | Join in and find Death's Sex and Money from WNYC Studios, wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:45.0 | I 100% have a kind of work. I almost cried today at work. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm not even joking. |
| 0:50.5 | This is Sarah Menendez. She works on the digital team at Marketplace. |
| 0:54.6 | So we're like the top places that you'll cry like what's the ranking. |
| 0:58.2 | I would say that my desk is the most frequent. |
| 1:01.8 | And then after that, the bathroom, honestly 90% of the time, it's just at my desk very quietly, |
| 1:09.5 | but we work at an open space. |
| 1:11.4 | And when things get really bad, there's one spot in Marketplace, a lot of us go, including myself. |
| 1:17.4 | So then that's when you have to go, you have to go, is there anyone here? |
| 1:21.2 | Studio H. It's quiet. |
| 1:25.3 | It's cold. There's a pillow. |
| 1:27.7 | Hi, you can tuck yourself into a corner where nobody can see you. |
| 1:31.6 | I've actually sat down right here with this pillow. |
| 1:35.0 | Just cried me too. |
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