Introducing "Work Appropriate": Big Office Feelings with Josh Gondelman

Unholier Than Thou

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 903 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by her immensely popular newsletter, author Anne Helen Petersen turns her attention to the wild world of work in Work Appropriate. Featuring guest appearances by the smartest people Anne knows - they have real jobs, we promise - the show delivers humorous but practical workplace advice for a range of listener questions like “how do I get my manager to stop texting me after hours,” to “what do I do when my company thinks our toxic culture can be fixed with Taco Tuesdays?” The problems may be limitless but so are the solutions! In this episode work, host Anne Helen Petersen teams up with comedian and TV writer Josh Gondelman to answer questions that range from petty (what if I hate the company holiday gift?) to systemic (is it okay to give up on advocating for my voice to be heard?).To hear even more episodes don’t forget to subscribe to Work Appropriate. If you’re interested in submitting your very own questions, head to workappropriate.com

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anne Helen Peterson, host of Crooked Media's new podcast, Work Appropriate, a show about all of the bullshit and humor of modern day work culture.
0:10.0	I assume that you are very busy sending emails or looking for someone to pick up your shift so we'll make this quick.
0:15.5	Here are three ways to know if my new show work appropriate is for you.
0:20.0	Do you have a manager who expects you to care about work outside of work hours?
0:25.0	Do you struggle to know when it's time to ask for a promotion and when it's time to cut bait and get out of there?
0:31.0	Do you resist the urge to be petty towards your coworkers at least once a week, if not once a day?
0:37.0	If you answered yes to any of these questions, I hope you'll stick around to enjoy a preview of episode one.
0:42.0	While you're listening, don't forget to subscribe to Crooked. stick around to enjoy a preview of episode one.
0:42.8	While you're listening, don't forget to subscribe
0:44.7	to Crooked Media's Work Appropriate wherever
0:46.9	you get your podcast.
0:48.6	And now, here's Work Appropriate.
0:50.7	Enjoy. enjoy. appropriate. A new podcast where we answer how to reduce the number of meetings that are clogging your calendar,
1:25.0	or maybe you're wondering whether or not it's actually time to quit your job,
1:29.0	or maybe you're just trying to decide if it's okay to donate that hideous fleece vest you got as a work gift.
1:35.2	Nothing is too weird, too personal, or too hard.
1:39.7	Because even if I don't have the answer, there's a good chance my guest host will.
1:44.8	Every week I'll be joined by a new co-host with real expertise to guide us through these questions.
1:50.8	Because the world of work is super complicated, often bizarre, never unexciting, and we have so much to talk about. I'm not someone who has ever been really interested in the history of work.
2:07.7	Like I've never taken a business class or even like an e-con class. I don't have an MBA. I was a math late in high school, just like a stone cold nerd, and I then became an academic in film studies, film and media studies, and then I became a journalist.
2:27.0	But when you look at those fields, they have some of the shittiest work cultures out there,
2:32.9	academia journalism, just garbage work culture.
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