The Jordan Harbinger Show
1090: More Workplace Fails and Bad Boss Tales | Feedback Friday
13 Dec 2024
When your hostile colleague starts dating a suspiciously perfect man online, do you warn her or let karma take its course? Welcome to Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger (@JordanHarbinger) and Gabriel Mizrahi (@GabeMizrahi) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback, or tell your story on one of our upcoming weekly Feedback Friday episodes, drop us a line at [email protected]. Now let's dive in! On This Week's Feedback Friday: You work at a brokerage firm where your colleague "Dolores," a self-appointed office manager in her sixties, went from being your mentor to your archnemesis after you made the mistake of pointing out some of her mistakes. When she started gushing about a handsome British architect she met through an online word game, you noticed some concerning patterns. Should you have warned her that she was definitely being set up for a scam, or was it right to let karma run its course? As a rising chef, you notice something off about your new boss's behavior, particularly around tip distribution and suspicious activities at odd hours. When the tips seem inconsistent and large wads of cash appear from nowhere, you start connecting troubling dots. What dark discoveries await? You're a department manager at a supermarket when your elderly janitor calls you in for an emergency with the freezer compressors. Upon arrival, you find him nearly naked, operating the floor buffer in just his underwear, claiming "it gets hot in here." But that's just the beginning of his odd behavior... You're a court reporter at an Ohio newspaper where your editor makes bizarre demands — like covering two trials simultaneously and writing about judicial rulings before they're issued. When you point out these impossibilities, he responds with "That's no excuse!" Where does this surreal situation lead? Recommendation of the Week: Gmail keyboard shortcuts Working under the brilliant but destructive Helga, you navigate an environment where your leader's intelligence becomes a weapon rather than a tool for growth. As she critiques every move and demands constant rewrites without clear justification, you wonder if you can endure the true cost of working under such "genius." At an addiction treatment center run on nepotism, you encounter a CEO's son-in-law COO who exhibits concerning behavior — from inappropriate touching to racist comments. When a coworker is suddenly fired for exploring other opportunities, you realize your position might be precarious... Your boss styles himself as a mix between Tony Soprano and Michael Scott, oversharing personal tragedies within minutes of meeting you. When he reveals himself to be a volatile character who demands employees "die for his company," you start planning your escape. But can you get out unscathed? Have any questions, comments, or stories you'd like to share with us? Drop us a line at See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, the community service officer directing traffic beneath this broken traffic light of life conundra, Gabriel Mizrahi. And I got my white gloves on and everything. That's right. Going way too hard with the hand motion. Why do they do that? I guess it has to be visible.
Why do they do that? Traffic cops are so extra with the hands.
They are, but it probably kind of... intense. Also, you don't want to get hit by a car. So you got to wave around. You know what it reminds me of? I don't buy it for the record.
No, I think that they're just eating up the stage time and they were like failed mimes or something. And they're like, I'm going to enjoy this. They can't just wave somebody through.
They have to make this like huge theater kid from high school turned law enforcement.
I don't need this prestidigitation. Just tell me where to make a left and let me get on with my life. I don't understand.
You know what this reminds me of? Those North Korea traffic ladies. You've seen those, right, when we were there? Of course, yeah. What's weird about them, not only is it that they don't have traffic lights, that's strange, of course, but the fact that they use these ladies that stand on those little podiums in the middle of the intersection, what's weirdest about that
is not the uniforms, the makeup, the whole thing. What's weirdest about that is they do all of the motions, even when there's like three cars in a mile, and there's no cars in the intersection. So they're still doing it, like as if there's just a full load of cars. It makes absolutely no sense. Just take a break until a vehicle pulls up. 20 cars in Pyongyang that have gasoline.
I mean, that's kind of like the bartender we met in that remote hotel way in the north or whatever. We walked in, there was nobody in the bar, but she's just behind the bar, like on duty waiting for somebody to come in and order a drink.
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