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Brooke and Jeffrey

Phone Tap: Fire Raymond

Brooke and Jeffrey

iHeartPodcasts

Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

We’re calling a woman who's at work to tell her that because her boss is out of town, it’s now HER job to do “boss things” like firing Raymond.

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0:00.0

Imagine you work in an office with 40 other people on your team. And your boss is out sick and they say, you're in charge. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah. I love imagination. Oh, man. Pretty cool until they say, oh, yeah, also you have to fire three people today. So good luck. Oh, no. Because that's what I'm about to tell one lady who's filling in.

0:21.3

Will she give the axe to one of her best friends at work?

0:24.3

Oh, my God.

0:25.5

I just wanted them to get a long lunch period, okay?

0:28.1

You'll find out how it goes in your phone tap right now.

0:30.7

It's another phone tap.

0:32.1

In a weekday mornings on the 20s.

0:36.5

Hello, this is Mandy. No, I'm serious. Harry and the Henderson stands the test of time. It's just as funny now as it was 20 years ago. Hello. Hello, this is Mandy. Hey, is this Mandy? Yeah. Hey, this is Mark up in corporate. Oh, hi, Mark. How are you? I'm good. Yeah, I know your supervisor, Tanya, has been out the last couple days. She's sick and you've been kind of filling in, right? Right, yes. Yeah, no, we hear a lot of positive things. Oh, all right. Well, thank you. Yeah. I mean, not really. I just know that's the right thing to say when people do that. So I don't know if you're doing great or horrible, but we do appreciate you doing something. I can say that.

1:15.8

Thank you. I think. Anyway, the reason for my call is we were going to have Tanya do this, but since she's out, you're going to need to fire three employees today.

1:27.1

Huh? You're going to need to fire three people. And really doesn't matter who. Just choose whoever. I'm just filling in for her. Like, I'm sure she could do that when she gets back. That's really not. Well, no, we need it done today. And so since you're filling in for her, just knock that out for us. I have a squash game, so I got to run. You can't just get in touch with her and just let her do it. Well, no, she's sick. I can't do that. That's your job now. Well, I've never done this before. You think that maybe somebody hire up like yourself or somebody else in corporate can do this because like I'm okay

2:03.3

well no like that would be awkward I I don't want those people to hate me I don't want them to hate me

2:09.8

either they they're my friend I know I know but you'll you'll get over it all right so can you just do it

2:15.5

in the next hour please and report back to me when you're done.

2:18.3

No, no, no, no, no.

2:19.1

Don't hang up.

2:19.9

Don't hang up.

2:20.5

Listen, I cannot do this, okay?

2:23.7

You can.

2:24.4

I'm telling you you can do this.

2:26.3

I'm giving you full permission.

2:28.0

I don't even care who it is.

2:29.7

Oh, no.

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