Dear Prudence: The “Self Indulgence vs. Self-Care” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Does HR really work for employees — or is it just there for the company? Prudence shares a listener perspective. Then, Prudie and friend of the show Jos Lavery counsel a woman who’s essentially written in just to say how great her life is. A listener asks how to restrain their financially irresponsible fiancé before they both end up broke. Continuing the theme: a husband won’t stop smoking even though his doctors have ordered him to — and he blames his wife for conspiring with them. And finally: is this what a midlife crisis is like?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | To get the full-length members-only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:13.2 | That's slate.com slash P-R-U-D-I-E pod. |
| 0:23.6 | Dear Prudence. Dear PrudPod Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:24.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:26.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:27.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:28.6 | Dear Prudy |
| 0:29.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:32.6 | Help |
| 0:33.6 | Help. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi. |
| 0:35.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you. Thank you. Hello, and welcome back to the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:50.9 | I am Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:54.1 | And this week we've got our guest |
| 0:56.1 | Joss Lavery back in the studio, which is very exciting. I plan on fighting with him to the best of my |
| 1:02.1 | ability. But first, we're going to talk a little bit about HR. We've had a number of office |
| 1:09.0 | etiquette related questions varying from the minute to the devastating over the last couple of weeks. |
| 1:17.5 | And I've been getting a lot of feedback of varying perspectives about whether or not going to HR is actually very helpful. |
| 1:24.6 | There are a really interesting number of opinions that we've been getting in from people |
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