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Sit at The Bar September Lady, Going Into The Office, And Leftover Thieves - TICKED OFF TUESDAY
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I know you're angry. It's Tuesday and it has no feel. The weekend was fun. You're still hungover from the eating and next weekend is too far away. What will you do with your day? It's time to get ticked off. Complain with your gripe. Right now, your friend Uncle J Train is here to tell you that you're right. It's a ticked off Tuesday. Ticked off Tuesday. You're angry and you don't even know why. Enjoy this podcast. It'll help you get to Friday.
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Hello and welcome to the J Train Podcast. This is J Train Jared Freed coming to you live from Delray Beach, Florida. That's right, every Tuesday is a ticked off Tuesday. Are you mad? Are you angry? Well, come on into TikTok Tuesday and complain with me. All you got to do, email the show, jtrain, podcastmail.com, complain about anything you want. You will be heard. I will find a way to have a conversation, to sing a duet with you, converse with you, debate with you a little. Maybe I push back, maybe I don't. Sometimes I'm like, yeah, that complaint valid, great. And then I find a new road for us. Oh, and another thing, that's me. That's my job. Sometimes you complain, you know, I, I'll, I'll see you, I'll feel you. I'm going to ask that you today see and feel me because I know the responses I get to the complaint I'm going to do for myself. We start with my complaint. We get to the listener complaints. I have four, we have two sponsors. I also, all the complaints are from Patreon subscribers. So if you want to be put to the top of the pile, you gotta sign up for Patreon. That's where I do Coffee with J Train. You comment on Coffee with J Train, the most recent one with your complaint, then it gets read here on the show. Every link is in the bio of this episode. So the five bucks a month it does go into the show. It does help to produce this show, to put out the, the great clips we're putting out and the audio that we're getting out on time every day. I, I listen. I, I, we put out a great show here. I really do believe in it. J Train podcast going on what I think 13 years, 12 years at this point, which is crazy, or a version of this show has existed for a long time. I'd love for you to share it. I'm going to ask you on Ticked Off Tuesday to respect the rules of Ticked Off Tuesday because I'm going to complain about something that is. I've never gotten. It's why I don't complain about it anymore. It's why I don't seek it out. There's this kooky woman, and I've been. If you've listened to me on all platforms or any other platform, you've heard me complain about this in some version or another. There's a kooky old woman who's like a realtor, who came up and I'm putting large quotes up, came up with a thing called Sit Alone September, Sit at the Bar September. And she's like a Fun watch on TikTok. Let me give her her flowers. She's this older woman that you'd never want to have to, like, spend more than 15 minutes with, but you're fun and, but it's fun to see her online and to say you'd like to spend more than 15 minutes with. And she's got a big martini glass in her hand and she looks like the grandma from the Nanny. And she's like, hey, listen, ladies, what you gotta do is go and set a bar in September by yourself because that's how you meet a man. That's her. That's my impression of her. And I'm going to complain about her, but it's not her fault. I, I, I. So if I had seen her sit alone September, I would have seen that and gone, yeah, that's kind of the, the vibe of the U UP podcast, the dating advice perspective perspective that I've always given that that is in. I've always talked reasonably about dating because my thought was, I'm funny, so that's why it'll do well and people will come back for more. My when people would ask me, I remember, to have a guest on the J Train podcast and we'd give advice and they'd be like, wow, you, like, give advice. I'm like, that's the only way this is fun. You have to take the question seriously, give some thoughtful advice, but, you know, be funny while you do it when you can find the fun in it. That's the whole goal of everything. I do find the fun in being honest and respectful and all those things. And it drives me crazy because we live in a world where you see all these complaints about comedians and. Or maybe I see it because it's my algorithm. I'm in the comedy world. So I see, oh, these, you know, that these men are assholes. Or they're these, these guys don't have, you know, aren't inclusive and I do these things without thinking of them. I take the emails, I try to be respectful. I only say things I believe in. I'm not doing hot takes to just get on an algorithm to piss someone off so that you can get someone so angry that someone will defend you. And then all of a sudden your video gets traction. I am not desperate in that way. And I will tell you right now, the people that you follow, that you that put out the hot take things are desperate. They got to make money, they got to make numbers, they got to pay their rent. So they're going to say something they don't believe in so that they can get you to argue in the comments so that their video takes off. They. This is the reality of the world. Again, we're in the We're. It's Ticked Off Tuesday. So I feel okay sitting here whining and complaining. If, if you called me whining, someone would agree with you and I'm a whiner, but we're in Ticked Off Tuesday. Where am I going with this? So if I saw this video with Sit down September, sit at a bar September, sit at the bar of September. If I saw kooky old woman, I go, yeah, she's doing stuff we've done with better packaging. She has a more watchable packaging than me, Jared Freed, who looks like your cousin, who the kid you went to camp with. And if I'm not being funny enough, there's no reason to share my video. My. I believe my difficulty level is way more than hers. My ability to have a video pop off, it has to be so poignant, so funny that you get past the fact that I look just like your friend. And you know when you send it to a friend, you have to go, trust me, trust me. I, I. Because when you show a video to a friend, it's a lot on you. I get it. You can't just show a video to a friend. It's gotta, it's gotta wow them. And when it's kooky old lady real estate woman thing, Real let's sit at the bars of dinner right away. She's winning the look alone, she wins. I'm just. And listen, I'm telling you how it is. I'm getting angry at like a phantom person that's disagreeing with me. And oh, Jared, you're inventing things. I'm inventing nothing. I've been on the Internet from the beginning, okay? I've been here, I've been putting out shit for a long time. Me with mediocre Results. Just enough to get you here. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being a part of TikTok Tuesday again. I would never. I've gotten to the point where if I saw this video, I would. I just would move on. It wouldn't. It would be whatever then. I keep getting tagged in all her sit at the bar September crap. I'm getting tagged. Oh, she stole your thing. They're sending it to me. Listen, this is a complaint within a complaint. That's how good of a complainer I am. Sending it to me does nothing. What am I going to do? I'm not going to spend my day with me. I guess I'm going to go to my podcast and complain about it. But people send it to me whenever they see something that I've done before. They're taking your thing. How about you message the hack, not the original, not the person who was saying things honestly. And again, sit at the bar. September, going to a bar by yourself is not like my invention. It is how I talk about dating. If you enjoy a thoughtful solution to your dating problem, the U podcast is the place for that. J Train Podcast Mailbag Monday is the place for that. So when people go, oh, it is a good idea that I go to a bar by myself. Maybe I'll meet someone new. Fuck off. You needed an old kooky woman to tell you that. That annoys me. But also, don't come to me where all I do is just be honest. All I do is just say how I feel. Because it would work on me. It would work for. For me. So that now I'm being brought to this kooky old woman and getting annoyed because every I'm getting tagged in it. And honestly, it's not a hundred times. Let's call it 50 times. That's not a lot considering the amount of people I have following my various accounts. It's enough, though. It's enough. Imagine 50 people come up to you and go, hey, didn't you do that thing? Oh, she's making money off the thing you do or you did and you go, Jared, when did you say sit at the bar of September? No, I had the Summer dating Challenge, which came from, I need a refresh. And I was thinking, what would refresh me as a dater? Someone who's a longtime dater, who's been in this game a long time, has seen the apps come and go and gone from dating websites to dating apps to Snapchat to Instagram to DMs. Who knows the game. I know it Intimately. I, I'm in it. So I said for the summer dating challenge, and it did get some virality, don't get me wrong. It did kind of pop off on, I think, the UOP TikTok account, but it not. It was never, like, attributed to us. And it basically was, hey, every Wednesday night, go to a bar by yourself and put your phone in your pocket. Don't take it out, look around. It was, hang out with your married friends once a month. Find married friends, hang out with both spouses. Make a plan to hang out with your married friends once a month for three months. It was, join a fitness class. Join a class at a new gym. And it was delete the apps. That was the thing. And I did it with the listeners. And I would say I found a net positive result from the gimmick. Now I'm on J Date and I've done some videos for them. So I have emerged from the summer dating challenge to JDate. And I think the exercise of it all came from a very honest place, a very good place, a very thoughtful place. Because first of all, and also before this, I've been, if anyone's listening, this whole thing of like, I'm having a martini at the bar by myself in the West Village. I was doing that. I was professing that. I was talking about that. And I even got a call from Cosmo and I did an interview with them. And you can find it. I've shared it already. A wonderful writer who does sex and relationship advice for Cosmo. I'm blanking on her name, but I'll link it. We'll link it in the, in the description with her information. I'll put it in the bio. She called me and she was like, well, I've gotten. A lot of people say that. This is, you know, I'm talking about at the bar, September, from this kooky old woman. And everyone. I've gotten a few people that have said, you're someone I should talk to. So then I, I did this rant with her on the phone. She. She probably thinks I'm a crazy person. I'm like. Because to me it's like, okay, if you want to think of creativity, creativity is vulnerability. Creativity is, is, is, is, is saying out loud the things you're feeling and putting them into some sort of form. That is my view on it. If I, if I'm to, like, think it out loud. A lot of TikTok is, is creatively void. People who are marketers, they mimic what they've heard do well and they put it out there as their own under new packaging, which, again, I like a good advertisement. But no advertisement is an original. It's something they've heard before, and they're capturing the zeitgeist to make money off of that thing. That's generally what happens. Very few commercials. Surprise. What is this? They don't start it. If you think about it. Just think about it for a minute. And I was getting tagged in this woman's kooky videos, and Cosmo came to me. And I'm telling the Cosmo woman, she's like, well, what are some tips for sitting at the bar? And. And I'm like, listen, men love being approached. I've said that. I. I know I love being approached. That doesn't mean we're going to be together forever. But I would never get. I would never look at a woman as less than for approaching me at the bar. That's generally how the questions go. When a woman asks, should I go up to a guy? Do I look like I'm being too much or am I being too aggressive? No, men love it. And they don't think negatively of a woman who came up to them in the bar. If you go up with class and being appropriate and confidence, if you go up and say. And start being a dick to them, yeah, a dick's a dick. That's not a good way to go up to anybody. But I'm saying, in. If we live in the land of, like, general, you know, general niceties, it's a. No woman is looked down upon for going up to a guy in the bar and being like, hey, I'm single. Would love to, you know, you. You seem cool. Who's gonna have a problem with that? Also, things you can say to someone at the bar. I said, just say, I love your shoes. Where'd you get them done? Everyone dresses. Men dress for women. Women dress for other women. If you comment on someone's clothing in a positive way, that is their art project that they wore out to the world. I have thoughtful. This the only reason I'm bringing this up. I have thoughtful advice. That is the reason I said, go to the bar on your own. Get out of your own way. Okay, so then I get tagged in these videos and I commented on kooky Old woman's video. Sounds like her social media manager is a listener of the U podcast. That was my shitty way of being like, yeah, I'm not impressed. And I was done with it. I get a response to my comment from, again, you'd be like, how do you know she has a social media manager? Kooky old woman hired someone to make sure to pop off her TikTok. She's not doing sit at the bar September. Kooky old woman doesn't even know what you know, doesn't even know what bars to go to. But she's saying all these things because someone's feeding her these things. I know this. So I was right. Social media manager here responded to my comment. They go, I. They do the thing where they're passive aggressive. They go, I used to listen to the UF podcast. I didn't know this was your thing. We'll take it down if you want. Again, for me to say, sitting at the bar is my thing. Alone is my thing. That's not true. But it does seem as though you heard something work and something that was fun on another podcast. And to say you used to listen to it doesn't matter. I've been talking about sitting at the bar on your own and doing your own thing for years. I just didn't put a fun marketing scheme to it. Again, I'm going on. You're like, jared, these are all assumptions, okay? I'm building a case here. Why am I bringing this up now? Well, then they have get off the apps October. The kooky old woman's back with part two of my summer dating program. Get off the apps October. And then, so I did the interview with Cosmo. I've had the social media manager respond passive aggressively as if, oh, yeah, I used to listen to yours when you were good. That's kind of what she's saying. She's being an asshole. And then I come onto TikTok, and now I'm on the algorithm. Here's the TikTok. She's on Jenna and Hoda or Jenna and Friends. I've been on Jenna. I would love to go back. Jenna does it. You know, when you're a single man going on day on daytime shows, talking about dating, they make you into something you're not. They actually make you into a gross guy. Who is the problem? Who? They. They. They make you feel like. I've done this with Jenna. I've been on a show with her. I'm her age, and she makes me feel like I am. She kind of makes me feel infantile and immature and acts as if I. I'm like this, like, horrific person who's fudgeing with women. But when Kooky Grandma, Nanny Grandma comes on, she's. This is. She's her bigger, biggest promoter because Just like dude with a sign and kooky grandma. They are easier to consume than me. Who's your cousin and why would I be thoughtful? I'm a piece of shit. So here's the video that came up that. That enraged me. And we're going to play this on the clip. Here's kooky grandma, who's already taken Sit at the bar September. That's something we did on you up podcast. Get off the apps October. That's something we talked about for the summer on the summer dating challenge. And here's her. Her November. Here's where she outs herself as a creative list vacuum whose social media manager got a little lazy. Not her. This woman didn't ask for this. I. I think she's probably a nice woman. She seemed fun. Her social media manager got lazy. This is her November. Here we go. Did you know she made September sit at the bar September? She didn't. No, she didn't. Look at. She doesn't even know where she is. Look at her. Here's Never Stay at Home November. That's her big idea. That's her huge follow up. Did we even try? Do we even spend 10 minutes coming up with a name? Never stay at Home November. It's called out miss. There's Thanksgiving. There's family holidays. Have you thought of how this works? Let's hear her explanation, which is kooky. Batshit. Oh, yeah, look at she. Cheers. She doesn't know where she is. She goes out seven nights a week. My husband and I always ate out. And every night. And when you're in real estate and you're walking around. She knows real estate. She doesn't know shit about dating. Westville is so ho. Well, I live up or east side. Yeah, I mean, the bars are there, the restaurants are there. So nice. Even in your own neighborhood. Girls just go to that bar nearby. Yeah, you see your name. Okay, she's doing the same shtick with a new name. This is not advice. This is. She's run out of ideas. This is what enrages me. She's now back on Jenna and Friends with nothing repeating. She just said sit at the bar. She's doing the same bit as the bar September. She couldn't even come up with a good name. 10 minutes. I. I never stay at home November. She's talking about. She's not even relating the name to the advice. We're going to go out seven nights a week, ma'. Am. Seven nights a week in November. What do we just have one of the Scrooge McDuck banks that we swim in our money all day long. How much you think we're going out every night of the week. We're going to drink every night, hoping to talk to someone. This is an advice. Never stay at home. November is the worst name for it. They did. They spend five minutes. I can give you five better names. How about Neighborhood November? She talks about the neighborhood, how there's all these bars and restaurants call it Neighborhood November. Explore your own neighborhood. Go see the restaurants that you always look over because they're right next door and you say, I'll go to them another time. Oh, Jared, that's pretty thoughtful. That's a wow. Did you think, no. This is what I do. How about no show November? We're not watching any shows. We're going out. We're not binging. How about no couch November? We're leaving our couch behind and we're going to go out. We're going to walk, we're going to go to a gym class, we're going to go to a bar, we're going to go to a restaurant in our neighborhood. That's called actually thinking this through. We're not going out every night of the week in November. We're going to come home to our parents on Thanksgiving and they're going to tell us how fat we've gotten. And they're going to go, why? Well, the kooky old woman told me go out every night of the week. Also, I have a debilitating alcohol problem now. Hey, mom and dad, can you help me dry out over November 25th because this kooky old woman ruined my life. November to remember. How about you make a memory in your neighborhood during the month of November? November to remember is me copying a car sales commercial. She could have taken the car. She's taken other things. How about house with their spouse? November? That's taking my other part of the summer dating challenge and saying we're going to go to someone's house and hang with their spouse. That's how we're doing November. That's a better idea than we're going to go to a bar. She's redoing it. This is what gets me crazy. It's like you took it, you didn't acknowledge me, and now we're seeing how creative you actually are and not her. She's fine. She's a fun old woman who found some bucks on TikTok and she's riding the wave. It's a social media manager. I would fire that person. Fire them. They're not doing their job. They just said, yeah, just go do the same thing as September with a new name that you didn't even think of. Neighborhood November is the name. That's the name. I can't believe I've spent this much time on this. 22 minutes. Because I'm a creative. I can do that. I can do 22 minutes on kooky Old Nanny Woman. This is the clip. You can share this clip. Send it to her. Send it to her social media manager who used to listen. Oh, I used to, when it was good. Now it doesn't really relate to my life because I got a boyfriend. You'll be back. He'll go, I don't respect you. You don't really work hard at your job. Neighborhood November. There's the name. I just did your job. Jtrain podcast gmail.com jtrain podcast mail.com. you can send in your complaints, but if you, if you want to get involved. The Patreon members are using their plat, their, their membership. All these are Patreon subscribers and I got two sponsors. Cornbread Hemp. This is a new sponsor. Life can be crazy. So when you're ready to unwind, it's time for CBD gummies from Cornbread Hemp. Their organic CBD gummies are made to help you feel better, whether it's stress and poor sleep or just needing a moment to unwind. Cornbread Hemp only uses the best part of the hemp plant, the flour. So you're getting the purest, most potent cbd. 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I got four complaints from the listeners. I've already done mine. I'm sweating. I want to hear back. Listen, I acknowledge that that complaint can only happen in Ticked Off Tuesday, a podcast that I have built with my bare hands to complain because the feedback is generally like, well, I guess she did it better. I guess you weren't funny enough. Yeah, that's all things I acknowledge. Feather Feather. My Ticked Off Tuesday is about people taking home leftovers from holidays. I you you found the right place for this complaint. I am not a leftover guy. I'm generally I I guess with leftovers when they're when I find them in the fridge, I'm happy they're there. But it's the travel to get there that I am off put by. So my family has always been the family that hosts, but we don't do a great job of keeping track of who is coming. So there's always extra food. And I have no problem with people taking something home. But now it has gotten extreme. This year people came, said they couldn't stay, but would make a plate to go, no, no, no, I'm with you. If you want my leftovers, you got to deal with my mom, my dad, their stupid questions, their assumptions that make you feel uncomfortable, the name they scream from your childhood that you haven't thought of in years but somehow makes you feel embarrass. If you want the leftovers, you better pay the toll. And the toll is the awkwardness and the stomach turning crap that comes from family and can only come from family. You can't just show up, hey, I gotta go in five Minutes. Let me go fill up. I'll go. Aunt Stacy, I'll talk to you next time. No, no, no. So then I have to sit here with Aunt Stacy and hear her stupid stories? No, you want the leftovers, you pay the talk. A different person went into the Tupperware drawer to make their own take home box. Someone else started cutting a cake and putting it right into a container because they would rather eat dessert at home. Yeah, so would we all. We all don't want to eat amongst family watching us eat and going, you're having another piece of cake. Yeah, we want to eat by the light of our fridge with no one judging us. But that's why the carrot cake is here and not there. If you want that, you got to make it yourself. Make your own carrot cake, put it in your fridge, and now you can have some alone time. But if you want the good stuff made by Aunt Stacy, who's great at baking but horrible at conversation, you got to deal with that. Conversation would rather eat dessert at home. That is such an insane response. Hey, what are you doing with the cake? Yeah, I don't want to eat here amongst family because you guys make it weird. So I'm gonna bring it home so I can watch, you know, my shows while I eat the cake. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is stuff. It is funny. Like, this is stuff that I was brought up. Like, my parents looking at me going, no, if I have to be there, you got to be there. And this is all before everyone there got to eat. Yeah, no, no. I, I, you need a. You don't have a strong enough dictator. Whoever's running that house, they got to lay down some rules. I'm fine hosting and being generous, but this is too far. We'd love to hear your thoughts. We are in full agreement. Appetizers happen with the appetizers. Dinner happens with the dinner. Dessert happens with the dessert. And if you want it, you gotta be here. And you gotta deal with aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents who are annoying. And then at the end of the meal when we're all sitting there and you're going, ugh, get me out of here. I never want to talk to these people again. Someone goes, does anyone want to take stuff home? And that's when you can take stuff home. When you're full of food and you're full of regret for talking to any of these family, we'll send you home with a gift and not until then. And I would say, I would make an announcement. Hey, everybody. We want to make sure Everyone gets enough food. Some of you. And then when I said some of you, I would stare at the person who is most guilty of the crime. And some of you, as I stare, I'm doing this. We don't even put the video out. If we put the video out, you'd see me staring. Some of you. And then full stop. Pause. Quiet. Some of you look directly at Uncle Bob. Some of you stare at Uncle Bob. 1B, 2B. Like to take leftovers before we've ended the event. We will not be doing that anymore. If you want leftovers, I'm going to put out tinfoil for people to wrap up whatever they want. We only start taking leftovers once the tinfoil has emerged from the cabinet. It is then and only then that leftovers will be taken. That is the rule of the house. If you don't want that, you can find the door over there. That's how I would do it. That's how you do it. I don't, I don't see anything wrong with the advice I just gave. This is a long one. We got a long. I'm ticked off because I had a job interview today that felt like I was talking to a robot. The recruiter read questions straight off a script, including, is your highest qualification a master's degree and do you currently work at this employer? That's crazy. Now what are we doing? What was the job for all of these details included in my resume, I used to apply for the job. Then she asked me my salary expectations, and when I told her, she said that I asked. And when I told her, she said that what I asked for was $25,000 less than the top of their budget. I then mentioned that I actually used to work for the same company three years ago and made more back then with less experience. She then pulled up my old salary from 2022 and read it back to me to, to the scent. She had some attitude like I was lying about my salary being more, but it was $200.77 higher than their range, which in my opinion is more. Especially when you consider inflation. I even checked an online inflation. Oh, so you're, so you're counting inflation. I mean, that is, that is ticky tacky. But I, I, I, I just don't understand what this interview. It's been a while since I've been in an interview. I even checked an online inflation calculator which confirmed I need to be making like $13,000 more than I when I left to break even. To make it worse, she told me I Could get to my desired salary through annual merit increases, but that would obviously take years. Then she dangled a 10% bonus when that is very standard in my industry. I'm already getting 15% where I am now. I know this sounds like a cheap company, but it's actually not. It's a huge company that usually pays pretty well. Like I said, I worked there previously for six years, but in a different division and in a different city. I, I agree with your complaint. Like, to me, none of this conversation has to do with you getting the job. That's the frustrating part. Like, if I'm you, like this whole, you got ha. You have a half hour to see if you're the right fit for this position. And now they're playing this guessing game on what do you expect to make? It's like, just sit here and be human with me. I'm here because I want this job. You're here because this assumption of desperation is the annoying part. And I, and I, when they say, well, how much do you think you'll be making? And, oh, you really thought it was that much? It's like, I'd like the job. I don't need the job. I'd like to be a huge part of your company. And I mean, to me, this is showing you how they value their, their employees and how much they want to work together versus you work for them. To me, I want to be at a place where it's collaborative, where we can all dish this out and you can say to me, ah, I don't know if that's the right idea, but I like where you're heading. And, and you say to them, I don't know if we can do it that way, but we should do it this way. That's called figuring out the best solution to a problem. And if you're doing this where they're testing you on the amount you're talking, the minute you're talking about, well, based on inflation, I'd be made. They don't value you. None of this is important. Hey, let's talk about the job. What do you need? What do I need? How can we make this work? And when you're getting into this minutiae and the facts and figures, it's like, why are we having this interview to begin with if you aren't excited about meeting me for a job? To me, if you're interviewing me at a senior position as it sounds, it doesn't sound like you're out of college. You have experience that is valuable to them. They have A job that is valuable to you. Let's work this out. And if you're not excited to interview me, what are we even doing here? If I'm a waste your time, then this is a waste of my time as well. That's. I. I'm with you. I just think the whole, like, everything you wrote, we're already in a bad interview. I'm. I'm. I'm just assuming there's no job here. They're just trying to convince me out of it. I used to have this. I remember going into, like, New York, everyone said, you got to have an internship. Got to have an internship for your resume. And I'm like, okay, I'll do whatever, you know? And they're like, well, what do you want to do? And I'm like, I don't know. I have no idea. I'd like an internship because you told me I should have one. I'd like to go to work. I'd like to do anything. And then you have family, friends, be like, hey, I got a place that you can, you know, go interview, go talk to them. And you go to New York. And you. And I would say, yeah, this is a way for me to get experience in the office world. And I'd be at whatever interview I was at, and they go, well, where will you live? And I'm like, what does this have to do with you? I live on the street. Is this a job that I can help you and you can help me? How will you be living? Well, that's not your fucking problem. Sounds like you're trying to convince me out of even doing this at all, which I'm fine with, because you don't seem to have a need for me. Jtrain podcastmail.com, jtrain podcast@gmail.com and ticked off Tuesday. I am sweating. It's going to be a long one. Two more to go. Jared, I'm going to add some complaints about the office. I'm here on a Tuesday and listen to this morning's ticked off Tuesday on my drive in our office, like many others, increased the return to work in office days to four this calendar year, claiming that the face to face collaboration is important for productivity. Well, I cannot tell you how many people will sit at their cube office and call each other from down the hall. Then the rest of us, trying to be productive are listening to the echoes and can hear people through the speakers and their regular voice. It's seriously insane to me. Hold on. So you're basically at work? Well, I cannot tell you how many people will sit at their cube office and call each other from down the hall Then the rest of us trying to be productive are listening to Echoes and can hear the people through the speakers and their regular voice. It's seriously insane. So they're talking to each other phone to phone from like an office that's like 10ft away from each other and they're and you're listening the whole conversation. Not to mention most of us also work with a ton of people in other countries. So we're sitting at our cubes most of the time anyways. Can they just be honest with us and tell us the real reasons we need to be here? Who is fall? Who is falling for the face to face productivity? Thanks from a. Please let me work from home more girly. And if you need to talk to each other, walk over. Okay, I agree with you. If this face to face thing is important, your work should be facilitating that and making that happen. I agree with you. Any day you are there. Here's the thing, what they do and I agree with your complaint when you're sitting like this could have been an email is basically what this email is. If it could have been an email, you are now, and I think the word is correct, you are now fomenting distrust with the workforce. Don't pee on me until it's raining. That's what they're doing. If you're telling me that I need to be here, then make that be true. Create programs that make me feel fulfilled by coming here. And I do agree with them a little. Being in an office and having the energy of walking into work and being there for the day, I do think there are benefits to that. But we live in a world where at home can be done. So you as an employer, as a manager, to me this is management. This is mismanagement. If I had a team of people and they're watching as meetings are happening over the phone, then they don't trust the company and they're going to leave here at the drop of a dime. They're not going to work harder, they're not going to work better for the company because they're going to think it's them versus the company and not them with the company. That is the job of management. So you are being mismanaged and that is frustrating. I think all of us I envy. Like listen, it is very easy to go down the road of skepticism and cynicism. The job of management is to delude you into thinking we're all on the same team. And my benefit is your benefit and our benefit. That's how a great company happens. How do we make it so we all win? And it's not just me punching in you want. It's why people make bartenders into owners of the restaurant. They give them a piece because the bartender who owns a place treats it better, you would think, based on incentive than the person who's just checking into work. The bartender who owns a place cleans up the bar a little bit better because it's his, it's hers, it's theirs. So this would annoy me. You're lying to my face. You don't care about me and my mental well being, my health, my physical well being from home where I'm in my comfy cozies. Would be better if I could do the same thing at home that I'm doing here. Every time you are in the office, when you don't feel, you have to feel again. They can't tell you how to feel. They have to make you feel like you should be in the office. Whether that's true or not, it doesn't matter. That's the job of management to make you believe. Even if management said, we are doing lunch every Wednesday, is this type of meat. You're going to get a new meal every Wednesday and you're. And if everyone was like pumped for this meal, then you'd go. Even that would make you feel. And again, anyone could walk up and be like, they don't give a fuck about you. And you could go, yeah, but this is how I get through the day, is believing that this place cares about me. And this is them saying, we don't give a fuck about. You sound like I'm a revolutionary. J train podcast@g.com sign for the Patreon. We. We need the Patreon. I gotta make you feel a part of it. We. Well, it does. Good. The money does go back into the show. I mean, we have a. There's a YouTube of me working on material from the seller. That is wonderful. V. Put it together. It's 50 minutes long. 50 minutes of like, you can see what it's like to go to work at the comedy seller. It is a very true to form video. All right, last one. I'm currently coming to you from my ac Less Uber right away. Doesn't matter. Nothing is better. Nothing. There is no good that outweighs being hot. So it doesn't matter how good the experience if it's hot. Ruined. There was a comedy club that is now New York Comedy Club. But it was stand up New York, and it was on the Upper west side. And I started there. I used to go there for every open mic. That's where this podcast was housed. And they really, to me, talk about mismanagement. They had it. They could have been the best. And they messed it up big time. They messed it up with me. My special came out and they didn't even put it on their socials. They, they could have bragged about it. They could have said, and again, this goes back to being how you made to feel, feel value. That they could have bragged. This guy was in our club doing our open mics. We have a relationship with him that's personal. Go watch the Netflix special. And they didn't do that. And I messaged the guy, the owner, and I said to him, I really feel badly that this is how it went. I can't believe that you wouldn't take me as your own. I said that. And he tried to say, well, if you had reached out and let us know, fuck off. That pissed me off. Never again wouldn't perform there. They have a. I think they do a thing in the. In Times Square now at a restaurant. I would never. And. And you'd say, jared, well, never, never. Gotta have I. You gotta have some, some, Some principles in this world. Okay, so. Oh, the reason I bring up this, you know, bitter story of mine, I remember I was there on like a Saturday night. It was packed and the AC stopped working. And I used to always say, it doesn't matter how funny we were tonight, the club did us a disservice by not having AC because everyone's going to walk out and go, it was hot. I don't remember any of it. The AC is broken in my Uber and it's an 80 degree day. I get into the Uber already overheating because he's arrived in two minutes when the estimated wait time was 10 minutes. So I had to throw all my stuff in, in my bag and race to the car. When I get into the car, seatbelt buckled, he looks at me and says, air condition is broken. Is that okay? Wow. That should have been messaged before. At that point, I'm in the car, I'm buckled. Yeah, you're not getting out. By the time I call another Uber, I'm going to be running late to the airport. So, yes, sir, AC being broken is going to have to. Have to be okay. Truly though, is it too much to ask the ride I'm paying sitting $60 to have for some for. Is it too much to ask that the ride I'm paying $60 for is to have AC. Truly though, is it too much to ask the ride I am paying $60 for to have some AC, especially when I have a 14 hour day of travel ahead? Would prefer not to start the day sweaty. Rant over. Sincerely, hot and sweaty. I agree with you. That should be Listen when the, when the Uber messages you hey, the the driver is hearing impaired like things like that. That should also include the AC is broken. Would you like to find a different Uber? That that, that, that. And because you can't get out of the Uber and then you got to cancel it, you got to find a new Uber. No, this is horrible. And also before you and if they can't do that, stop me before I'm running in. Hey, before you get in, just letting you know like set the expectation because now it's going to be windows down 80 degrees, still hot on the way to the airport, you probably wore a sweatshirt because airports are cold. So now you're sweating it out in your sweatshirt. No Horrific TikTok Tuesday. Every Tuesday. Tell a friend back next week. Boom.