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This is everyday life I'm not rich or poor just somewhere in between, but my love and family is greater than money. Endeavor Empire is a lifetime of memories as well some issues I faced throughout the course of our lifetime. God is number one in my life as it should be, this is who I am, I don't sugarcoat or make excuses so I chose to do this and I know that it may make some hate or like me and I'm fine it. My life is a blessing and though there were tough times I have persevered through what God has put forward in me as a father.
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When Workplace Frustration Leads You Down a Dangerous Road
Have you ever felt so undervalued at work that you considered taking matters into your own hands? This revealing episode tackles the dangerous territory of workplace revenge and the thin line between feeling justified and crossing ethical boundaries.
Ready to navigate workplace challenges with integrity intact? Listen now, and if you've faced similar situations, reach out at d6empire357@gmail.com—I'd love to hear your story on a future episode.
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Thank you so, thank you, so, so Well, here in his mind, a man that is admired, fun, compassionate, understanding and very sarcastic. But hey, that's who he is. The advice can either be good or misunderstood, but he does speak from experience. So sit back, listen up, volume up and let's talk about it no-transcript.
Speaker 3:How's everybody doing out there? Just letting y'all groove with this artist. Her name is Sarah the Instrumentalist. She didn't have a lot of tracks, but the tracks she did have they're mostly going to be playing at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 3:I want to welcome you all to the show. My name is Icon. Welcome to, let's Talk About it. I hope everybody's doing good, everybody's having a fantastic day. I know I am Fantastic week, but hopefully everybody's doing alright.
Speaker 3:You know I'm feeling good, the weather's good, the world's still crazy as shit, but hey, whatever, we gotta get through this somehow, right? So? But you know me, I ain't't the politician guy, so there's enough of that shit going around online, so you damn sure need to hear from me. You got 200 and a million and one people that's tuning into politics and I ain't one of them. But in any event, oh, I feel so good when I'm welcoming y'all to the show, trying to get back in the swing of things and get back on my mojo, get back on my grind. So the crazy thing is, my damn printer went out, so I'm going to be reading this email off my screen. What I usually like to do is take the emails, imprint them and export them to the printer so I can read it, because I'm getting older and my eyes just ain't what they used to be.
Speaker 1:I ain't that old, damn it. But you know, you know what I'm trying to say I have to read from the paper.
Speaker 3:You know I like looking important like the news media, but I have a letter that came in anonymous and, like I said, when you guys email me, you can remain anonymous. However, there was no follow-up. There was a follow-up but the email that was that it was sent from was deleted. So I hope this finds this person. Uh, this podcast finds this person and I hope this is advice that I give you a sound mind, advice, because this letter had some, quite some issues in it. Um, kind of a not really weird, but I understand where this person's coming from, but we're going to get into that. Kind of not really weird, but I understand where this person is coming from, but we're going to get into that. So I entitled this podcast the Unhappy Employee. I'm not sure where this employee comes from or where this employee is at, but again, I'm going to read this off my screen. Bear with me. You know I got my vape and I got my juice and we gonna get through it. So here we go. Oh yeah, and you know you might get my phone going off, but I was trying to silence him, but I said the hell with it, whatever this is gonna get. This is real, it's gonna get, anyways.
Speaker 3:Icon icon. How are you doing today? I'm fine. Thanks for asking. You know it just had to be a rough day and you know good week, and you know it's a hot thing, not a joke.
Speaker 3:I choose to remain anonymous due to what I'm about to tell you. Don't worry, I'm not confessing murder or something of that nature. Who could think you not? Because you know I want to buy. Knocking at my damn door was there, you are a key witness to this. No the hell, I'm not, but I fear I will soon be caught. But here goes.
Speaker 3:I've been working for this company that shall be nameless due to the backlash you or I might receive, but I have been with this company for two years now and it's retail. First off, I ain't going to receive no kind of backlash because this ain't got shit to do with me. I'm just a guy that's reading your letter and then you know, but the person they don't know who you are. So this could be one in a billion people in the world, preferably probably the United States because it's letter so well-written. Anyways, I've been with this company for two years. It's retail sales.
Speaker 3:At first it started well and I really didn't have any complaints or issues. Excuse me, but over the course of time I started to get discouraged on how I was being treated by management. I wouldn't say that I'm a modern employee, but in my mind I was a good employee. What I meant by that is that I was probably late more times than I should. But hey, what difference does it make if I'm getting the job done right? No, not right, we'll get into that later.
Speaker 3:Well, in any event, I come to work, started out as a cashier. Within four months I was promoted to assistant manager, I got a pay increase and things were starting to look up, or so I thought. This place is like revolving doors. Some, if not most, employees usually don't make it past the 90-day period. I'm not totally sure what is due. Could be the company, or it could be management, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:Well, with the shortage of workers, I've been pulling 50 to 60 hours a week and uh, 60 hours sick, 50 to 60 hour shifts due to the store manager being out due to surgery, and that was fine in the beginning. But it's gotten to the point where I was ready to quit myself, but the DM talked with me and said whatever I wanted to make me stay. So it asked me what I wanted to make me stay. So I asked for an increase in pay. She talked to the higher ups and they said it would be fine. So my pay was increased. I also asked for additional help, and that again worked out great, or so I thought. I feel that I have been overworked and very underpaid. So I threatened to quit.
Speaker 3:But this time it was a little bit different. Instead of more money, my PTO was increased from two to four weeks sorry, give me a second, just texting. Uh, my pto was increased two to four weeks off. I thought that was good at the time, but again wasn't feeling it. So I asked for more money and they rudely said no, because I'd already had a pay increase and that was it. So of course, I got into my feelings. I wasn't having it. I felt I was old money. So I would find a way to make a difference. This shit don't sound good at all, with whatever and however I could. So I started dipping in the honey pot and at first I was scared and nervous, but then knowing I could. But first I was scared and nervous, but then knowing I could get away with it. So I started taking a little here and a little there, because I work hard and I feel that what I am owed, what I am due, I'm so tired of corporate greed when they're the ones doing all the work, when we are the ones doing all the work and most of them don't have a clue as to what needs to be done.
Speaker 3:They sit behind a desk and bark orders and don't do nothing but numbers and money. They step on us like we're bugs and they don't care. So why should I? I'll tell you that in a minute. I mean, what's the point of working for a company that doesn't appreciate their workers? Did you know? I work from sunup to sundown. Meanwhile the DMs and hires get to go home and chill, relax, vacation, hang with their kids when they want.
Speaker 3:I'm sick and tired. It's been going, it's it's. I'm sick and tired. I am sick and I'm tired of it. When is it going to be enough for me to have a life I want? I'm sure that I'm wrong for what I did, but that time, that time will come. The time will come when I take responsibility, but for now I will enjoy the ride because I still work for them and there's still no help.
Speaker 3:I'm stressed, and though I don't have kids, I do have a boyfriend, which I'm almost positive he's cheating on me because I'm never there. He brings me lunch and then he says he has to go really quickly. But that's another letter for you. Hell, at this point he's having fun, he's having fun, my friends are having fun and I'm stuck here at this place working my ass off. So, again, I will get what's coming to me and that's that. But maybe you understand, maybe you don't, but I want advice from you. You help someone that I know a while back and I listened to that podcast and things turned around for them. I don't know if it'll turn around for me, but at this point I'm willing to risk it all.
Speaker 3:I know you've had some jobs that you didn't like and you decided to get. Even so, please share your thoughts with me. Well, I say, this letter is not like any letter that I've ever had, quite different. Not only you're admitting a confession of guilt and a crime I mean well, a crime of theft, but I don't know. I guess that's just why you choose to remain anonymous, and that's probably a good thing, why you did, because I don't like to get's. I guess this is why you choose to remain anonymous, and that's probably a good thing, why you did, because I don't like to get in shit and I don't like to get involved in shit like that.
Speaker 3:In any event, going back through your letter, um, you work for this company, um, for two years and you was promoted within a system manager within four months and you got a pay increase. That's good. That's good. Um, I gotta say, if you felt that you weren't adequately sufficient in your pay raise, I probably would have asked for more. You know, I would have asked for more or I would have walked plain and simple.
Speaker 3:Um, you've been pulling 50 to 60 hours a week, damn, because I don't pull that much. Well, I pull that with one job, but that's because the pay is good and I love the work that I do. Now the second job is probably about 20 to 25 hours a week. So, roughly total, I may be working 70 hours a week, but still a little time because I have two days off back to back. Um, I can understand your frustration, but then again, I kind of can't, because I think that if you're working in a place and you want to be happy, you have to find that happiness that makes you happy.
Speaker 3:Um, I agree with some of the things that you say in this letter, that you're tired of corporate greed. Well, here's the thing about corporate greed Not all companies operate the same. All companies are different. Now, I know that in some companies where you see, like the big wigs or the owner may come down and they don't pay attention to the workers but they pay attention to the management, and why is that? I don't know, especially since we're the ones who make their companies go round and we are the ones who make the money. Now, everybody has a difficult job to do in the corporate world. Now I know that when we see these people, these corporate people and, yes, I do feel the way that some do like to bark orders.
Speaker 3:For those of you who wondering, I don't work for a corporate company. My second job is a corporate company. My first job is owned independently. So, as I said before, I work for companies that are owned, like, either locally or individually, by either a family or a person. Why? Because I think they know how to treat their people, and the companies that I have worked for, that I have worked for, have treated not corporate companies but independently owned companies, they treat their employees with respect and they understand companies. But independently owned companies, they treat their employees with respect and they understand.
Speaker 3:Now, I may have had maybe one or two in my lifetime that was a family owned company that didn't treat me well, but I just left. You know, as some of you might know, my last job that my pay had dropped significantly in pay. I was making $25 an hour and then they dropped me to 19 because they lost the contract and I had been with this company for six years and they had the money they had. I mean, they had the work, they had the money. But my pay gets dropped because they lose a contract and the contract wasn't because of me, it was because somebody else came in and bid and they gave them, you know, a discount on what they can do and what they can do. So I didn't choose to get even with that company. I just choose to go serve my talents where they were better served and that would be at another company, which is what I felt you should have done.
Speaker 3:Now, I understand you getting in your feelings, but let me tell you something. I understand you getting in your feelings, but let me tell you something. If a company increases my PTO from two to four weeks, you best believe I'm going to try to make the best of it if I can, if I can. Now you say this company is like a revolving door, so it sounds like you know the outs and ends of the way this company works and, with that being said, you're choosing to do something that you know is not right, that you can ultimately get caught. For you didn't say that this company had cameras. And let me tell you something just because we think we can get away with it doesn't mean we should do it, because karma does come around. What goes around comes around, and when you get caught then you're left looking stupid Like well, I didn't think I was going to get caught. Trust me, in the end everybody gets caught.
Speaker 3:Now I am not one to indulge and say well, what you did was right, because I think what you did was wrong. And what if you started dipping in the honeypot? That means you're stealing money for the company. I don't give a shit how bad a company treats me. I would never resort to stealing money or anything from that company because why? They have bigger people than you do. Okay, this is what. This is what their litigators do. They do this shit for a living and they have a fun time doing it. They can wreck your life and make your life a living hell.
Speaker 3:Why would you risk that? Why would you want to risk that? I wouldn't. I mean, we've all had shitty jobs. We've all had companies that we didn't like. We've all had people that we didn't like to work for and we either did one or two things. We either suck it up when we do the job or we quit, plain and simple, we quit. But never would I stoop to a level to stealing money. I stole once when I was younger, and that was when I was I don't even think I was a teenager yet, but I was a new and up and coming teenager and I stole something like I said that I thought resembled a pager, but it was like a heart monitor from Walmart. And I tell you, my mom liked to whoop my ass and wrung my damn neck. I didn't steal again, I didn't. It's just not in my nature.
Speaker 3:So you talking about um, you're upset with the corporate people because the DM and hires you to go home and chill with you. That's true. Listen, I've been in jobs where, like I said before, the corporation or the company would come down and they don't say too much to the little people, but they want to talk to their people, which is management. Why is that? And I'm not saying all companies are like this, because you have some companies that pay attention to their people. Now, me personally, I don't mind meeting these people, but I know what they come there to do. Some come there to get straight to the point and talk business. They don't give a shit about you or anything but the numbers and the money, and that's some companies. I'm not speaking for all companies, companies that I work for. I've seen like I used to work for Rent-A-Center and the CEO, which um, was Mark Spieth. At the time, um came to our store and looked at us like we were just his servants, and I get it.
Speaker 3:You know you have some corporate people or some CEOs that think that you are beneath them, but some understand and some don't understand that we are the ones who make your company go around. We are the ones on the front line, we're the one taking the shit and you're not. Anybody can call a corporate number and corporate can pick up and they can listen to them, but when it all comes down to it, they're not on the front lines and I get it. I get it, I definitely get it. So but that doesn't deter me from me being me.
Speaker 3:If I'm at a company and I don't like the way things are going, I'm going to find my way out. If it doesn't, if I'm there and I like my job, I will try to either use their open door policy I think the open door policy sometime is good and sometimes it's just not good Um, and what I mean by that? There are some companies that take that shit seriously. Other companies like there was a company I used for using open door policy where they went right back and told the lot manager. He gets an attitude and comes back down and talks to the employee and say well, why did you call them when you could have just talked to me? That's not an open door policy, because an open door policy should be that you should be able to remain anonymous. And then that gets filtered down to your regional or your DM. Then your DM has a talk with that manager or that store manager or the lot manager, whoever in power, and say hey, this is what's going on. We have a complaint against employee that, saying that you're doing this, this, this and this, that and the other. Now I experienced that I went over a store manager's head, um, when I was working for a company, and the backlash I received is that I got fired, like maybe months later, for inappropriate use of a discount card, but I don't give a shit, because he got served his papers too, because apparently he was embezzling.
Speaker 3:So while I think that what you're doing is completely, 100% wrong, I think in the end you're going to get caught. I don't know if you choose to keep going this route, because it's not going to end. Well, you know people that get caught embezzling. It might be a short amount, you may not be taking 100 here or 100 there, you might be taking small amounts, but in the end, that shit adds up. So what I'm telling you is that you're talking about you're going to be along for the ride.
Speaker 3:You don't have kids, which is good. You're saying you want to risk it all. I wouldn't, because companies like if you work for a big outfit, they can make your life a living hell. They can fix it. So you don't work in the same city, same state. This shit will follow you around.
Speaker 3:So my suggestion to you is to stop. Stop. If you're stressed out behind a job that you don't like anymore, this is what you do. You continue to do that job until you find something better, but never, never, take your frustration out on a company that can pretty much squash you like the bug that you are or that you would be. I'm not calling you above. That's just what they're going to think of you, because you got to remember if you steal from a company and they put you in jail, they go after your damn livelihood because they have a point to prove and they have people that do this shit for a living because they have a point to make. So I've seen companies do that, you know. I've seen companies wreck people, you know, all over a little maybe. Well, shit, I mean, let's be honest. Let's say hypothetically that you're stealing 1500, hypothetically that you're stealing $1,500. Hypothetically that you're stealing that, well, companies like that just go after this shit for the hell of it.
Speaker 3:They're going to eat you up in litigation. They're going to put on court costs and fines. You're going to end up paying all this money. Is it really worth it to you to do that then? Not only that, it's going to be on your record. Is it really worth that? It's not. It really isn't. You know you're talking about. You're a model employee and you're late to work.
Speaker 3:Don't give people a reason to not dislike you but to come down on you. If you find a job that you like, be the best person that you can be. If you feel that the job is not being supportive of you, it's simple Find someplace else to go. You don't have to stay there and keep taking it, but never in my life would I resort to stealing something from a company because I feel I'm owed a higher wage. You might be owed a higher wage, but you know what you do. You go find that company that's willing to risk taking a chance on you and you prove yourself to that company so you can get the wage.
Speaker 3:I think the thing is that's hard for most of us not, well, most of y'all because it ain't hard for me. I think that when we're in a job and we're comfortable, we get complicit and we get complacent and then, even though we know that that job is doing wrong, we don't want to go somewhere and start all over. But that's what happens. You can't come in off the bat unless you're highly recommended and your resume speaks for itself. You can't come in here demanding what you should get paid. They want to see what they're investing in. I'm going to give you an example. Give you an example and yes, that example is me Mostly all retail jobs that I've been in, or any job that I've been in, for the exception of some. I come in, I show up to work. I don't showboat, I don't show out, I show up when I go in there and I put my work down. My work speaks for itself. I get looked at almost within maybe two weeks to a month of being management.
Speaker 3:Now, the second job that I have now, my resume was highly to them, highly qualified to be a manager, a store manager. I didn't want to be a store manager, I just wanted to go to work. The only reason why I became an assistant manager is because the store manager I work for she's a very good woman and we had lost other managers due to our other manager being out. But I had came in here and you know I'm a quick learner. I'm a quick learner, I like to go to work. I don't like to be late if I don't have to.
Speaker 3:But almost any job that I'm in, I immediately get looked at for management. You know, it doesn't matter what it is, I'm not bragging on myself. I'm confident in what I do, I'm confident in the work that I do, I'm confident of my ability to do the job. And when you do that and when you prove yourself to these people, then that's when the money starts rolling in. You know, I had gotten a raise. I was happy about that. But again, this is not my bread and butter. My primary job is where I make my money and I love that job and I'm not leaving that job for anything.
Speaker 3:I was asked if I thought about, you know, becoming a store manager. I was like no, not really, because I don't really want the responsibility. I don't like being barked at over things that I can't control. But they want me to control. So there's certain aspects of the business that you can't control that they expect you to control. Like, if you're in retail sales and your sales are down, why are your sales down? It's just not one person. It could be the store as a whole, it could be anything, it could be inventory issues, it could be problems with this, it could be coworker, it could just be the environment that you're placed in. So when you prove yourself to these people, then that's when things start happening. But you don't start taking things into your own hand and saying, well, I'm going to get what I'm owed. You're not only going to get what you're going to get owed, but you're going to get what's coming to you. And though you think this ride is a good ride, this ride ain't going to last forever. I can tell you that right now. Excuse me. Oh, it's good, so excuse me. Oh, lord, it's good, so excuse me.
Speaker 3:I know sometimes in life we get a little bit jealous of what people have because we don't have it. I don't have it, I don't get that way. I mean, when I'm at my first job and I pull up to these monstrosities of houses and thinking like, damn, why do I not have that? I don't think that I'm happy for the people and what they have. Let me tell you something. I delivered a dumpster to a house that was worth $4.2 million. I've never seen a house worth $4.2 million and the damn wall looked like it was marble. It had the marble. The animals on there. I mean, this damn thing was. This thing was like fit for a king. But I wasn't jealous of that.
Speaker 3:Listen, I don't know how people, where people got to where they are in their success. I wish them well and I wish them happiness. Do I wish it was me? Not really. I'm happy with the life that I have. I don't need to be rich to be happy. All I need is my family. And well, I ain't got no friends. So you know, I ain't got no friends. Friends, but well, maybe the people I work with, but most of all my family.
Speaker 3:I'm not one to sit back and see. If somebody has something nice, I need to go for it and get and try to get like them, because that's not me. I'm going to continue to work for me and my family. Though I play the lottery, maybe one day I win, maybe one day I won't, but that doesn't stop me from saying, well, they got this, why can't I have it? Why would I want to try to take something from somebody when I can just work for it Now, even though some of us may feel our lives didn't turn out the way that we had hoped and expect and we weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, that's the hand you get dealt.
Speaker 3:And I got to say some people go out there and they make a life for themselves or a situation for themselves because they work hard at it and that's fine and that's good. But never would I want to sit back and try to steal from anybody, because it's just not who I am. It's not fair, it's not right, it's downright malicious and mean. You know, I don't understand why people steal, I don't. You know. We see these videos of people going to stores, taking out bags and stuff and then we wonder why the stores get closed down. This is exactly why. This is exactly why because you feel that you're owed something that you don't want to pay for. If the whole world was owed something, we wouldn't be a world, we'd be in chaos, we'd be in turmoil, we'd be going at each other's throat. It would definitely be the walking dead up in the air. It really would. So you know.
Speaker 3:So you know there are some DMs and some higher ups that come in and talk to their people and they praise their people and you have some good people in corporate. Not everybody in corporate is an asshole. They're not. I mean, I give everybody the benefit of the doubt. If you come to me, you talk to me respectfully, I'm going to talk to you respectfully and we may get well. I'm not going to say we, y'all may get jealous of the fact that they have these jobs and that they've never seen the inside of a place where you work. And I still believe that. I think that when you're in corporate, you may not even shop at the same place. You may not even see the inner workings of what your store is. You sit behind a desk all day and I got to say listen.
Speaker 3:So what infuriates me about my second job that I work for is the inventory. The inventory is through the roof. It's ridiculous the way the inventory is ordered. There's no inventory control and they expect us to push out merchandise and keep pushing out. Well, we stock our shelves and we stock our shelves good, but we are not a set, we're not a sales force, we're a retail company, meaning we can't go out and have people come in and we can't arrest you. Well, you buy this because this is good and this is great. So the inventory is an issue for me. I don't like it, but I still love the people that I work with and I work for. But I now try to do the best that I can when I do my job. So but and that's the one grievance that I have with the place that with my second job other than that, I love the people I work with, I love the company I work for.
Speaker 3:I think some things that they do are kind of malicious, because to me and this is my opinion sometimes people in corporate just don't have enough to do besides just sitting around and barking orders. Now, I don't think they're all like that and I'm not down in the company that I work for, but I think that as a company, if you really want to see the inner workings of your company, I think that most core people should at least get out, maybe maybe get out for two weeks in a company and work and see what we go through, because we are the ones that make these companies go around. Without people, then there wouldn't be half these companies wouldn't even exist. Some people would still be doing it on their own and when you come that big of a conglomerate of a company, well, I would say that you'd hope you treat your people right now. I know that hopefully I have some dms or some high ups that maybe listen to my show. I'm not downing or disrespecting anybody, I'm not, because I think that what goes on in some of these companies, a lot of the core people don't really know.
Speaker 3:And here's the thing If you're too big of a company where you can't really know the inner workings of each of your location, I don't know how you fix that. I really don't know. I mean, you have a DM, I mean you have a regional, but they can't even fix it. Sometimes they can and sometimes they can't. But what can you do? I tell you what I can do. I can go to work, I can show up and I can continue to do my job. Nothing makes me feel more satisfying than doing the job that I love.
Speaker 3:If you don't like your job, if you don't like your job, change it. Change it, do something different and find something that makes you happy. Why be stuck in a place? Listen, if the company has a revolving door, it probably is management. It's probably the lack of management, it's probably the lack of and you understand, management has to lead by example, the thing that when I made management in any job that I also have, I make sure to treat the people that's underneath me with respect. I want to treat them like an equal, and 95% of the time that works. So if you have a company that has a revolving door, well, it's definitely management. It could be management. It could be the way the store looks. It could be the way the stores ran management. It could be the way the store looks. It could be the way the stores ran. But if you're saying you're running the store in absence of the store manager, then I think that might be you.
Speaker 3:I don't know when this problem started, don't know how it started, but if you have this attitude of I don't care, y'all, do what the hell I'm going to do. I'm going to do what the hell I want to do. Well, then your coworkers are going to follow by that example. They're going to come to work, show up, get paid, not give a damn, and then they're going to leave and do it all over again. Meanwhile you're suffering because you're working 56 hours a week. It doesn't really have to be that way, unless everybody's on the same page. If everybody's on the same page and we're working together as a team page and we're working together as a team, then you can kind of curb that.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you something If I'm working 50 to 60 hours at a company and that's not my regular shift and that's not what I'm supposed to do, you best believe I'm going to have a talk with somebody, because I have a home life. Just like they have a home life, I have a home life too. I don't want to be stuck at a company for 50 to 60 hours a week and I not have a life. I'm sorry if you're um, if your boyfriend's cheating on you I really am but I need to have some me time and corporate people they have me time. I've yet to see anybody from corporate um work that many hours a week. I don't, I can't't even. I can't even fathom that, not unless you're in the stock markets or you're an attorney or something like that.
Speaker 3:Then I can understand, but in a retail, no, I ain't buying that, I ain't buying it. So this is what I would tell you anonymous. I would have a talk with the people. What I would first do I would stop taking money from the honeypot, because if you think you don't get caught, you will. And if you see somebody that you ain't never seen before, that's related to corporate, like I'm going to say loss prevention, and she comes in like if you know, you know okay. So if you know who your DM is right and you talk to her. And if she comes in with a person that you've never seen before, this is what I always tell people if you see your DM come in with somebody that's unknown and they have a corporate and they have a badge around their neck, it doesn't say loss prevention, I automatically assume it's going to be loss prevention. Because when loss prevention, I automatically assume it's going to be loss prevention. Because when loss prevention show up, they don't dick around, they don't play.
Speaker 3:I was fired from Rent-A-Center for paying on a customer's bill and they thought I created a ghost account. I was fired for doing the right thing for a customer because we were told to go pick this thing up from the customer and this customer was a lifelong dedicated customer to Rent-A-Center a lifelong dedicated customer and I was told to visit. Now I'll just go ahead and pay it off, but yet I get crucified for that. Was I mad A little? Did I get upset? No, because when she come in she tried to give me this bullshit of well, they try to do that, that, that reverse psychology bullshit, to get you to admit guilt, but not total. Okay, I paid off a customer's account it's not a ghost account. So I got fired. Was I mad? Not really. I already had another job lined up, had another job lined up, I had, uh, things in the work, so I wasn't really too mad. Did I have to pay the money back? No, because the money went onto a customer's account. It was my money, and how can a company tell you what you can and can't do with your own damn money? But I wasn't mad. It didn't want to make me. Because here's the thing when they did that, I think what was it? Two, maybe two weeks later I was coming home from a job, from a shift, and I think the road was. I don't know what was going on, but anyways, I ended up at the back of the store and you can see the back of the store from the road. I don't know what was going on, but anyways, I ended up at the back of the store and you can see the back of the store from the road.
Speaker 3:Well, the back door was open, but then on this particular door there's no alarm. So I could have easily took my revenge, went in there and went shopping. There were no cameras in the back room. I could have called somebody and been like hey, this door is open, let's go shopping. But I didn't do that. I called the store manager and I said listen, your back door is open. It's the one that's unarmed. Uh, this doesn't have an alarm on it's wide open.
Speaker 3:I'm sitting here looking at merchandise and he was like well, can you stay there until I get there? I said sure, I'll stay here. I said well, have you been in the store? He said no, I don't work here anymore. I don't feel the need to go in. So he came up. He thanked me. He said man. He said most people would have just stole. I said well, I'm not most people, that's not me. He said but you were fired. Yeah, I was fired, but do I feel the need to take out my anger and aggression on Renner Center by stealing some. No, hell no. And I could have made up like a fat cat, but I didn't, because that's not who I am and that shouldn't be the thing.
Speaker 3:The mindset of people I think the problem is today is that social media plays a part in this. If you're not doing wrong, well, hang on, let me make sure I get this right. When you quit a job, quit the damn job, don't post it on social media, don't go to this big. Oh, I'm going to go in here, we're going to make some kind of thing. It's not a big thing. Quit the damn job and move on, because you're only hurting yourself. And then, when you hurt yourself and you're not able to get a job at another place, and then you're trying to figure out well, why, what did I do? Well, you remember that post that you made about you quitting. Why, what did I do? Well, you remember that post that you made about you quitting.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, because let me tell you, the internet is a very dangerous world when you are looking for a new job, because you have some companies that will check your social medias just to see that the person that they're hiring is the person that they want. Now I keep all my shit private, but then again I don't really do anything besides this podcast and just post about maybe positive videos or maybe some outfits that I try on or some outfits that I wear. But that's just me, so anonymous. I think I hope this podcast finds you well, because even though what you feel that you're doing is being justified, it is not. You will get caught, and when you get caught you're going to be pissed off. My advice to you is to stop Stop Think you don't like the job. If you're still at the job, go find another damn job that you can be happy with. We have to navigate the work world. Sure, we're going to go through a lot of jobs that we don't like, but eventually the right one will come along, and when the right one comes along, then we can be happy. But you don't want to risk doing anything to jeopardize your future, because when you jeopardize your future, then you're going to be like well, what did I go wrong? You've got to learn your instrument. Then you practice, practice, practice and then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all, forget all that and just while out, you can be successful. You can do anything that you put your mind to, but don't let something like this hold you back, because if something like this goes on your record, it's going to be very, very, very hard for you and you don't want to be known as that person. So it doesn't matter if you move from city to city, state to state, it's going to be on there. People are not going to trust you, and even though they may ask you what your reasoning is for doing it and you may or may not tell them if you don't tell them they'll be suspect. If you do tell them, they're still going to be suspect. So answer me this anonymous would you rather have this record on your background or would you just rather just say, hey, I'm going to go find something better and different? And please feel free to email me with a follow-up? I really want to know. I do, but two wrongs are never going to make it right.
Speaker 3:If you feel that you're just not happy in this job. Just find something that can make you happy. Don't risk your future, don't risk your livelihood for something like this. You don't have kids now, so you say that's a good thing. That is, either you're young or I'm going to say I'm assuming that you're young, I am, and not young as in teenage, but new, but early twenties, maybe mid twenties. So I'm going to assume that you haven't had a lot of work experience in the work world. So you might be new to this thing, and that's fine. But, young people, this is what I'll say to you when you're starting out in the work world a new work world everything is not going to go your way. You're not going to get your way. This is the way of the world.
Speaker 3:Back in my day, we were just happy to get a decent wage and work, and I know things are different from when I was coming up, because now you have social media. Well, we didn't have that shit. Back in the day we didn't. So when we need to complain to somebody, we need to complain to family or friends or sometimes coworker. Now you got the whole power of the internet, social media and this lovely thing called podcast podcasting. So I would encourage you to reevaluate your life. Think about what you're doing. Think about what you're doing. Think about what you should do. That is right. Thank God you don't have kids, because heaven forbid you should get caught and you get taken to jail because I don't know what people do.
Speaker 3:So, like I said, some companies like to make an example out of people. Some companies like to be like well, you know what, we're going to make an example of her, that way they can talk about it at their events. I mean, they may not use your name directly, but you got to figure. Somebody will know you and if you do, excuse me, if you do decide to quit, don't post it, don't do no live video. Just do the thing graciously and amicably. Give you two week notice. You know.
Speaker 3:If you're looking for another job, let your company say hey, listen, I appreciate my time here, but I feel that what I'm getting is still not fair. But I'm going to look for other employment and either one or two things are going to happen. They're either going to bid you farewell and wish you well or they're going to give you a raise. But let me explain something to you. Two years is good with a company. I get that and I understand that. I understand you want more money we all want more money but you got to get a little bit more experience. Under your belt it sounds like you were promoted within and I don't know if you have any other management experience because you didn't say any of that.
Speaker 3:But when you make your way in a company and you're able to move up, the not really the corporate ladder, but move up in the steps as far as ranking money, well, do that. But if you don't, if you want to keep saying I need this and I need that, that's going to be a problem for them, because we all know any of us can get replaced by any given time. Some companies in some States have um, what is that law? They have? Um, and some states have what is that law they have I forgot the name of this damn thing no fault law or oh, at will state, which means you can be terminated at will and there's no explanation needed.
Speaker 3:So I would be careful if I was you. If you're getting the money now and you're getting four weeks paid vacation, why don't you do yourself a favor and see what you can do to make your job better and your life better in the company that you work for better? Why not do that? Why not talk to your DM and say hey, listen, I need to see if we can get some people in here so we can do what's right? Why not again reevaluate? Do some things different instead of trying to be the problem, solve the problem. Don't make yourself the problem. So you got to be smart about this. You really do, oh.
Speaker 3:God this vape is good. Anonymous, once you start doing all these things, I guarantee you'll see a difference. But don't go through life thinking that you're owed anything. You continue to work hard. In time it will pay off. And when it pays off and the reward is good, you're like oh my god. Yeah, this you know. And it's not the fact of me being right, it's just the fact of me giving you advice to say, hey, don't do what you're doing, don't go down that road, don't go down that path. Do you really want that on your record? And I know I keep saying that because I'm trying to emphasize that it's never fun when you either get caught stealing, because it makes your job, your search for a job, harder and you'll be lucky to be getting either a factory or a janitor job, and is that the job you want? Do? Do you want to work for pennies and be treated with disrespect?
Speaker 3:I knew a guy that I didn't know when I was working for him. He was a sex offender, he was a convicted sex offender and I mean they treated this guy not really like totally shit, but he had issues and it seems to me that he still didn't learn because he was, he was filthy and it seems to me that he still didn't learn because he was filthy and he had did some shit that I heard that I wasn't too happy about and I honestly didn't like to work with the guy I really didn't but he had later gotten fired because he was dirty and he was nasty and one day he came to work and his clothes were covered in bed bugs. He was so immune to this shit that they had to close down the warehouse and the office and fumigate. Was that sad to see him go? Not really, because knowing what he did and what landed him the way that he did, and it sounds like he would have done it again. But I'm not judging him. I mean, thank God in the world we worked in there was no kids around for him to either look at or either say things so it's a warehouse, but it's what it is, it's whatever.
Speaker 3:So you have to find your way in life. Find your way in life, do what is beneficial to you. If this is affecting your home life, well, you got to change some things around, you got to do things different. Um, your boyfriend, on the other hand, I I can't speak to that, I don't know. Again, you don't have any kids. So if this job is putting that much stress on you and you don't understand, you guys don't understand. If a job is stressing you out so bad, that can weigh on your health. When it weighs on your health, it starts taking a toll on you.
Speaker 3:Now I'm 47 years old. I only have one gray hair that I can see, but I get confidence every day that you, while you're 47, you sure don't look it because I don't let stress get to me. If there's a way I can work something out, I'm going to work it out. If there's a way for me to talk about, I'm going to talk it out. I'm not going to resort to violence, threats or anything that could hurt me potentially in the future, because actions have consequences and when they have huge consequences, then you're left looking like stuck, like Chuck, like again what did I do? What did I do wrong?
Speaker 3:So anonymous, as we get ready to wrap this up, I hope, hope that you really reconsider what you're doing, stop stealing money, and I know if some people are listening to this and they work in retail, they're going to try to figure this out. I don't know who this person is. Don't email me, because there's no name. There's just an email and the email address, which is already gone, because I try to do a follow-up with some questions on, because I try to do a follow-up with some questions, but that thing came back. The email is unavailable, it's no longer listed. So clearly, this person who was doing this had every intention of covering their tracks and that's fine, because on my show you can remain anonymous as long as you ain't confessing murder. Then we good to go, because I don't read shit like that. If I read shit like that, then they're gonna be looking at me like and trying to get my computer and spoof my computer and figure out where did it come from. We can pull that information out. I want no parts of that.
Speaker 3:So, in any event, as we get ready to close it out, if you guys are ever going through something you want to talk to me about, let's talk about it. You can feel free to email me at d6empire357.com. You can follow me on all social medias except facebook and snapchat, because I don't have those. Well, I got Facebook, I don't really post them that much. I'm on TikTok, ig, the V me and the hot choc. But I was on blue sky but I got off of blue sky.
Speaker 3:But, as I said again, I'm just getting back in the swing of things. I'm moved, I'm happier, things are looking up, I feel good about life and everything is in its place, you know. So, no matter what people do to us, it's how we respond to the people that do things to us. We got to think about our actions. We got to think about it. Do we really want this, this, this problem, or do we want to solve the problem? And for me, I'm all about solving problems. I don't care if you don't like me, I don't care if you do like me. I'm going to solve the problem. I'm not going to get upset, I'm not going to get angry, I'm not going to get an attitude. I'm not going to try to make something out of nothing, because that's not who I am as a person. I want to instill upon my kids and myself that I can be that bigger person, that better person.
Speaker 3:You know, we see a lot of videos out here when we go to work and we see coworkers getting into it over the most stupidest shit in front of customers. Now, I admit I've gotten into it with a coworker, but I kept it 100 and I kept it real. I kept it classy. I kept it to a level of respect and a level of decency. Never would I get up in a co-worker and just put them on blast. So I hope that doesn't happen to you. I hope they don't take you out in cuffs for the world to see Because, again, depending on how much you steal and what you steal, I can't speak for every company. Every company is different. If a company feel that you owe them money back, plus interest and the VIG, then hey, they're going to get their money. Oh, yeah, they're going to get their money. They're definitely going to get it.
Speaker 3:So you have to make the decision, you have to be smart. So, again, I would encourage you to find something that is good for you. Find something that is less stressful If it's good for you. Find something that is less stressful If it's affecting your home life. I'm not saying quit tomorrow. I'm saying don't quit unless you have a backup, I mean, unless you got rich parents, and that's a different story. But I don't know Because, again, this letter is anonymous. But if you have something that you might want to do and want to start doing because you got to look at it this way, think of this what if you had your own company and people started stealing from you? Well, they would think the same way. You think, oh, we feel like you, oh, I'm, I'm, I'm old, this and I'm going to get it. So, but you just got to be smart about things.
Speaker 3:You know, as people in these jobs, we shouldn't take things like this into our hand. I've seen a video where a guy got fired and he took a forklift and he just tore up the warehouse. Why would you do that? They're going to come after you anyways. You tearing up product, you tearing up equipment, just walk out. You got fired, leave.
Speaker 3:And I understand some of these people that's been in these jobs, that's got tenure, and some of these jobs are. You know, it's your heart and soul. You put your blood, sweat and tears into it and you're happy about what you're doing. But remember this for every job I mean the job that you have there's always another job, even in that same field, that you can do. You know, I see a lot of this stuff on social media and I don't like. I don't like it and I don't comment on. I just think it's just stupid. You know, instead of just tearing up stuff, why don't just walk out, because when you walk out, you get to go home, you get to be happy, you get to wake up and find another job and for what I hear now, companies can't really given specific reason on either why you were terminated or why you quit. But I don't think they can ask if you're re-hireable. Some say yes, some say no, but you don't want that. So here we go, people, we're getting ready to close this thing out.
Speaker 3:Anonymous, I hope the best for you. I really do. I hope that you find your way in life. I hope that all good things come to you in a good way. I hope that you're able to find some kind of balance within yourself. I hope that you're able to find a job that you like and that you love and that you can just be happy with and that you can just be happy with. But if you don't think you're going to get caught, you're going to get caught.
Speaker 3:Nobody stays on top forever. Choose yourself, even when it's hard. Never forget how far you've come, everything that you've gotten through, all the times you've been pushed on and even felt you couldn't. All the mornings you got out of bed, no matter how hard it is, all the times you wanted to give up but got through another day. Never forget how much strength you have learned and developed along the way. A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances, instead of your circumstances having power over you. Remember that if life has taught me anything, it's taught me that I'm always in control. Life is, it's full of experiences, lessons, heartbreak and pain, but it also has shown me love, beauty, possibilities and new beginnings. I embrace that. It makes us who we are. After, every storm that comes is a clear sky. Remember that tough times don't last forever. Tough people do so.
Speaker 3:I want to say thank you to my listeners. Thank you for tuning into the show or listening to this show. Um, again, d6 Empire 357 at gmailcom is where I'll be taking your letters. Feel free to write me. You got any comments, complaints, gripes or you just want to talk about something? Let's talk about it. I'm still looking for somebody to co-host a show with me. Maybe you can come on the show. We can do either online or a call or whatever. We can talk about things.
Speaker 3:I am just now getting ready to navigate the world of TikTok and try to do a live show. I'm going to try. Keyword is try. Don't know how good it's going to go, but hey, whatever it is what it is. So until next time, I want you guys to take care of yourself, take care of each other. God bless you. We're going to leave you with the last track, with Sarah the instrumentalist. It's going to be called On the Way Because I'm on my way. In any event, I wish you guys the best. Hopefully you have a good day, a good week. Until next time, take care of yourself, thank you, let's go.
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