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Brooke and Jeffrey

Phone Tap: Turning Necks and Cutting Paychecks

Brooke and Jeffrey

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In your Phone Tap Brooke's telling a guy that corporate is reducing the size of his paycheck each week, and it might just be what sends him over the edge!

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0:00.0

It's time for your phone tap and today we call a guy who was set up by his coworkers. He's been at the same desk job for almost a decade now. So he knows everything. He's pretty quick with his work. The one thing that's missing though, it's fun. Oh, fun. Doesn't have a whole lot of fun anymore. Is that way we're going to help him? Well, we were actually ready to do this call last week.

0:23.0

But his buddy told us, no, no, no, no.

0:24.9

We got to wait till Monday because he's always extra grouchy at the start of the work week.

0:30.8

So that's when we catch him in your phone tap right now.

0:34.6

It's another phone tap.

0:36.1

And weekday mornings on the 20s.

0:39.5

Hello.

0:40.8

Hi, I'm looking for Josh.

0:43.7

This is him.

0:45.3

Hi, Josh.

0:46.1

My name is Wilma Fingerdew.

0:47.9

I don't think we've ever met.

0:49.8

I'm one of the HR managers for corporate.

0:51.9

How are you?

0:54.2

Yeah, I'm good. How can I help you?

0:56.1

Oh, well, it doesn't sound too great. But yeah, the reason I'm calling is to give you a heads

1:01.4

up that your paycheck will be a little bit smaller than normal from now on.

1:06.5

Wait, excuse me?

1:08.4

Oh, goodness. You must have not got the email. Yep.

1:11.6

It's just the business is going in a different direction.

1:13.6

Different direction?

1:14.6

That's management's decision.

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