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Update: She Has To Fire Her Best Friend Who Helped Her Get The Job!

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Firing somebody is always uncomfortable. But one way to up the ante is when you have to fire your best friend that hired you for the job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:06.5

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0:07.9

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0:12.6

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0:14.4

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0:15.4

The Bert show.

0:16.4

Alright, so Friday we took a call from a Bert show listener

0:18.9

that was so stressed out and for good reason, man,

0:21.0

when you are a manager, you firing people you hate it so how

0:25.2

about if you have to fire your best friend all right I gotta pull it up sorry I got very

0:30.6

into that last conversation that we just had.

0:33.0

All right, so what had happened was,

0:35.0

she got a job and her friend was the one

0:38.0

that helped her get this job.

0:40.0

And now the boss is asking her to fire her friend.

0:43.9

And she doesn't disagree with her boss

0:45.5

as far as like her friend's performance.

0:47.8

She just hates that she was one that helped me get this gig

0:51.7

and now I have to turn around and fire her.

0:54.0

And we talked on the show whether or not you'd want your boss to be the one to fire you

0:58.0

or your friend to be the one to fire you.

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