Jimmy

Yeah, I know Luke. What about him?

Guys, look, Veronica is awesome. Do not give her her hard time at all, please. No, we're not. I'm complimenting her, if anything.

Look, Veronica, here's the deal, and I should have told you this from the very beginning, and I'm sorry, but I actually have an actual lady I met in the last few weeks who's also named Veronica that I am in love with, and that is who the text was intended for.

Look, all I want to do is I just want to say, please, please, let's just go back to normal. Just act like you didn't see the text. And let's just act like we used to, but when we used to see each other.

It could be worse than mine, man.

Man, I'm going to jump right into it. So I met this wonderful lady on one of the dating apps. And it was one of those times where we actually clicked. It wasn't just a one and done type situation. We started hanging out for like two weeks straight. Nine or ten days out of those two weeks.

Yeah, well, what happened? Well, one of the days, we didn't hang out. I hung out with my fellas, and we were watching a game. And they were, of course, asking me, you know, where you been? We haven't heard from you. You know, I kind of told them the whole deal.

Yeah, I mean, they totally were. I mean, they were pushing me and juicing me up. I was convinced that you were going to die alone, buddy. Uh-huh.

Yeah, I was starting to worry about that same thing.

Yeah, I mean, all that was great. And as the night went on, we had a few more drinks. They kept asking me more and more questions.

And I started getting a more, you know, loose-lipped. And I kind of told my friends, which is kind of how I felt, that I think this might be the girl I love. Whoa.

After only a few weeks?

Yeah. In this situation, it did. I mean, that's all from the time I woke up to the time I slept. She was all I was thinking about.

Well, so as that night went on, I continued drinking. A few shots were involved, I believe. And they're like, dude, man, if you feel this way, have you told her? Why don't you tell her?

And that was probably the wrong time for them to kind of push me in that way because... Oh, no.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you sent that? Yeah, I mean, it was about a paragraph long. Way, way, way too much. Probably a few typos in there, too, I'm sure.

This is the worst part. This is the awkward part.

I wish that would have been the situation. I might not even be talking to you all right now. Oh, no. There were photos involved, too? No, no, no, no. Woke up the next morning feeling pretty raunchy, as you can imagine, and there was a reply. But the reply was from my boss.

What?

She has the same name.

So she actually said, we'll talk about this next week with a wink emoji.

Hold on.

Is that what you're thinking? Well, I was hoping, but then we ended up having a meeting at the office a few days later. And what happened? She said that she's feeling the same way about me as I feel about her.

And now you guys know why I need your help.

Yeah, I was frozen. I did not want to lose my job, and I just want things to go back to normal. So I really, really need your all's help on this one. Oh, my God.

Yeah.

Hello? Hey, Veronica.

Oh, hopefully good things.

Oh, my goodness. Veronica, you know, I think before we hook up on that meeting, I think we need something we really need to talk about.

Sorry, I did not mean a hook up at the meeting. Look, anyway, let me tell you why we need to talk.

You know the text that I sent late Saturday night. I do know the text. honestly I don't think I thought the whole thing through what do you mean you didn't think it through you are attracted to me right

I'm attracted to you. I mean, how could anybody not be attracted to you?

Did you say boy toy?

Don't worry. You know, the reason I bring it up, look, I know we both love our jobs. And I don't know if you thought about it. I just started thinking about it. And I just don't want this to get out in any way and harm either one of us.

Hi, John. How are you doing today? I'm doing great, brother. What's up, man? So my question is I'm trying to figure out how to navigate a job that I really hate while trying to find other opportunities and support my family. Tell me about it, man. To give you a little back story on that, towards the end of last year, I had a job I really loved. I was doing work that I enjoyed in engineering.

The company had a downturn. A lot of people were laid off. Also, I was envisioning that soon... Most of the company was laid off and I was at the point where I would be laid off soon or expecting to be laid off any day now. So going to work, I was expecting to be out. So I was scrambling, trying to find a job, interviewing with places. I never really got an offer until this one company that I knew

After the interview, I really wasn't thrilled with it. The commute wasn't very good. Without anything else, I ended up having to take that job. Once I got here, I realized I have no passion to do the job. I don't want to really be there. I'm not really liking any of the people I work with. The commute sucks.

At this point, it's dragging my life down to the point where I'm not wanting to do things and stuff. It's just really... Like I would want to quit the job, but obviously you're always told never to quit a job unless you got another one lined up. So that's where I'm at.

I mean, that's the way I feel often. Or at least right now, that's all I'm doing is just trying to take care of my family. How old are your kids, man? I've got a daughter who's 11 and a son who's 8.

So we just recently moved to a new house a couple years, about three years back with So we're in a new place. We kind of took on a bigger Morgan and stuff like that. So it's a lot of kind of weight carrying on my shoulders to make sure that we can stay there. And my kids are able to grow up in a nice area.

You're a good man. It's hard to look at it that way. I find myself negatively thinking about this. I've really screwed up my life this one. I keep thinking I'm going to be stuck here.

Yeah, okay. I'm really doing that.

Yeah. I feel you there. Cause I'm similar. Okay.

Never noticed before?

Yeah, that's my fear is that just that this is going to be the next one. Same thing over and over again.

Okay. It's not that bad yet, but it's not good, I would say. Yeah.