Pull over on the freeway, it's a PowerPoint Emergency! | Corporate Horror Stories Pt. 2 with Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this second installment of corporate horror stories, Nora is joined by Becca Platsky of Corporate Gossip to hear all of your work horror stories – the good, the bad, and the juicy. For full ad-free episodes, the full back catalog and a listener community, you can join us ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠. Want to be on the show? Call or text 612.568.4441 or book a call ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, it's Nora. If you like what we've done here on Terrible Thanks for asking, you might
0:06.3	want to check out our YouTube channel. We have two new videos going up every week over at
0:12.9	YouTube.com slash at feelings, A-N-D, co. That's feelings and co. There's a link to it in our show description. So see over on
0:23.2	YouTube if that's what you're into. What a sales gal I am. Okay, everyone, so look at the numbers
0:30.4	from Q1 and you'll see that there's a sharp bit. Alex? Oh, I think you're frozen. And that's why
0:36.4	it's crucial that we mean.
0:38.0	E, that sounded important.
0:40.1	Because if we don't act, nah, we've lost him.
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0:54.1	And he's back.
0:55.6	So I hope that was all clear.
0:56.8	To verify I see E.cote.com.
0:58.1	OK.
0:58.3	OK.
0:58.4	SLAIMS.
1:19.2	Hi, I'm Nora McInerney, and this is thanks for asking a call and show about what matters to you.
1:47.1	And I want to start this episode with a story, the year's 2011. And my boyfriend, soon to be husband, is getting brain surgery. They discovered a brain tumor. In his brain, they had to take it out. They had to open his skull and remove that brain tumor. And a VP at the ad agency where I worked had a laptop brought to the hospital so that I could work on a PowerPoint presentation, a deck, as we called them for a new business pitch, because as this person joked, I wasn't doing the surgery and I would
1:53.5	have a lot of time on my hands and I did that. I did it. I honestly, I want to say I did it happily,
1:59.7	even though looking back, I think I did it
2:01.3	happily simply because I did not want to sit with the fear, the terror, really, the grief of
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