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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is becoming quite popular.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We've got a gentleman by the name of Malcolm on
the phone with us right now.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Malcolm, welcome to Tired, Get Fired. You're there with having it.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We appreciate you calling. We understand you have a problem
with your boss. Is it your boss or your job
or both? Tell us which and tell us what you
do for a living.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm a CPW in New York City. I clean to
play grounds, the bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
What's the CPW.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
City park worker? You know? It keeps the parks clean
so the kids can play and make sure there's no trash,
the trees, a trim like that.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
And we thank you. We thank you for what you
do our children for us.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I appreciate that. And so I got this. I got
this supervisor over my head. Now I'm trying to work
my way up to chain, but I feel like she's
holding me up and not letting giving the refas I
need to grow.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, all right, Malcolm, it's said here in the letter
for you to get on Tired, get Fired explains a
little bit about let me just bring people up to
speed and Marie really quickly.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He's been a CPW for a little over a year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now he's trying to get up to something called the
a P s W. What is an ap s W?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh the APSW?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'll be on this trash truck care I get to
drive the trash trucks. The money is stepped up, it's
more benefits. So you know, it's like you know, you're
growing into the civil service.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, and your direct boss her name is Sharon, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, look how his voice changed just like that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All right, well, tell us a little bit about Sharon.
And while you're having a problem with the with Sharon,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
What's she? What's what's the problem?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She's like you got that takeer to leave it attitude.
And it's just a job, you know what I mean.
I'm doing my best. Every time I need some help
or some resources, she just in my af you know,
she just give me, give me crap.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well could if could I just throw this out to you, Malcolm.
I don't mean to offend you, but do you think
you may have a problem with your supervisor because she's
a woman?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Does that?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do you not like.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Some authority?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And no, no, I think there's some women in authority
when they can't control the man at home. They bring
it to work, okay, all the crap that you can't
take it at home. So I feel like she's taking
it out.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
On me, Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Just you or a crew? Is there a crew of you?
Or is it just you?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Is not everybody else? Get a team or two? She
had me by myself. I haven't got a team partner yet.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Once she picks up the phone and says hello, then
you're gonna you have two minutes to unload on her
because you're gonna try to get yourself fired within two minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If you can get yourself fired within two minutes, you
get six week severance. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's like a dream package now, only you're getting fired
and you're able to collect unemployment while looking for another job,
and you got this six week sevens on the side here,
so work.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh, let's go, let's go. I need this.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, he's ready, he's ready to get fired.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, all right, okay, here we go. Here we go, tired,
get fired?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Hello, shareman speaking, Hey Sharon, this is Malcolm. What can
I do for you? Malcolm?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I'm down here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The forty projects. I'm cleaning off the bathrooms.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Okay, Malcolm, I can't. I can't do this with you
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You mean you can't do this right now.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I've been down here all day cleaning this up, and
y'all supposed to send me some help.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Malcolm is talking about you've been doing your job. Thank you,
thank you for doing your job. What do you want
the one that needs to do your job?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Get off of your.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Phone, Malcolm Quae. You sound like you have a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You know, I've been working my flood off trying to
get that aps W job.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And you said, Malcolm, if you're share an exam, okay,
to pass the exam in order to be an APSW,
I I did No, you did not. You did not,
and your past test we would not be would not
be ADPW the players all day. Thank you for doing
(04:17):
the job that you're paid to do. The problem is
you here, don't DM me. The problem is you, Malcolm.
I'm trying to actually help you keep the job you
have now and you're not the best CPW. So let's
not even talk about moving to an APSW. I'm not
only dealing with you, I'm dealing with about seventeen other
employees doing my inspections. Putting in everything that I need
(04:38):
to put in, putting in your time so that you
can get paid. The reason why you're even at the
location that you're at is because I was trying to
save your tail. I mean, you can't even do simple
things like cut the branches back off the fence line.
You don't even know how to work a lopper, let
alone a broom, and yet you're talking about why you
haven't moved up. Maybe because you don't know how to
speak to people. Maybe it's because you don't know how
(04:59):
to present your so and you're ungrateful. How Come it's
never you? How Come you never look inward and say,
I am the problem. I'm at where I'm at, and
like because of the decisions that I need Malcolm, Wow up?
Whoa up?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Whoa? Oh my yoa whoa what I got?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Times up?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Times up? We just heard times up?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Whoa? Times up? Times up?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Times up?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Times up? Times up? Whoa?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Wait? Whoa?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You didn't whoa whoa? There was a lot of issues
that he.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Congratulations, Malcolm, you're one of only three people in the
seven months we've been doing Tired Get Fired that weren't
able to wasn't able to get themselves fired. Uh uh Sharon, Uh,
before you hang up my uh, my name is Sean Hamilton.
You and I'm sitting here with Marie, my partner. We're
on w k T radio here in New York City
on the iHeart radio platform.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You're on a feature called Tired to Get Fired. Malcolm.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, that's a good sense of humor, he's laughing.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Malcolm called us to get on this feature. Apparently he
didn't tell us the whole situation. He has a certain
amount of time to get himself fired from you, to
get six week severance, and he was not successful. Wow wow,
Oh yes, Sharon, you're on the air right now. In
a minute, we're gonna take you off the air and
we're gonna offer you an incentive in order to allow
(06:16):
us to air this call tomorrow morning on the Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
First of all, you work. What do you do for
a living, Sharon?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I work for the city and I oversee you roughly
about seventeen to twenty employees. And our job is to
keep the parks playground clean. And he's horrible at the
job he has now and he wasn't warm.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh my awful.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
But I don't want him fired. I don't want the
guy fied.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh you're a what a great woman you are. To
keep trying with you right now, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's too late, quite clear, it's become quite clear why
mel comes calling. Yes, all right, uh wow, this has
gone sideway, this has gone completely said.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
He really wants to get fired, Sharon.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I cannot elevate him. This is a situation where he
has to elevate himself. He has to take a civil
service exam, which I'm not in charge of giving out.
He also needs to get a CEO, which I've been
telling him to get since he got here last year.
If he does those things, then he can move up
to an APSUB. But he doesn't even have the CEO
permit right now, and he wants to go back and
forth about being okay, I want to be fired.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You don't understand Sharon is giving you a wonderful opportunity here.
She's on your team. She wants to see you to
be off my team.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I need a six week sever that's who we need.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I want you to take advantage of the free therapy
program that we have at work. I want you to take.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Some wonderful everyone's stand up for Sharon plays.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Study material.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
First time we're ever clapping for the boss.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
This is not a boss, right.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
He just wants to I don't know, I don't Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He wants a free ride. He wants that free ride.
He wants that easy out. We Sharon, thank you so much.
We're gonna take you off the air. We're gonna offer
you an incentive. Malcolm, we don't know what to tell you.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Give me yo, I mean, and get it over.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
He
This is becoming quite popular.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We've got a gentleman by the name of Malcolm on
the phone with us right now.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Malcolm, welcome to Tired, Get Fired. You're there with having it.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We appreciate you calling. We understand you have a problem
with your boss. Is it your boss or your job
or both? Tell us which and tell us what you
do for a living.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I'm a CPW in New York City. I clean to
play grounds, the bathrooms.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
What's the CPW.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
City park worker? You know? It keeps the parks clean
so the kids can play and make sure there's no trash,
the trees, a trim like that.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
And we thank you. We thank you for what you
do our children for us.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I appreciate that. And so I got this. I got
this supervisor over my head. Now I'm trying to work
my way up to chain, but I feel like she's
holding me up and not letting giving the refas I
need to grow.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Okay, all right, Malcolm, it's said here in the letter
for you to get on Tired, get Fired explains a
little bit about let me just bring people up to
speed and Marie really quickly.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
He's been a CPW for a little over a year.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Now he's trying to get up to something called the
a P s W. What is an ap s W?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Uh the APSW?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I'll be on this trash truck care I get to
drive the trash trucks. The money is stepped up, it's
more benefits. So you know, it's like you know, you're
growing into the civil service.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, and your direct boss her name is Sharon, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, look how his voice changed just like that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All right, well, tell us a little bit about Sharon.
And while you're having a problem with the with Sharon,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
What's she? What's what's the problem?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
You know?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
She's like you got that takeer to leave it attitude.
And it's just a job, you know what I mean.
I'm doing my best. Every time I need some help
or some resources, she just in my af you know,
she just give me, give me crap.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well could if could I just throw this out to you, Malcolm.
I don't mean to offend you, but do you think
you may have a problem with your supervisor because she's
a woman?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Does that?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do you not like.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Some authority?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And no, no, I think there's some women in authority
when they can't control the man at home. They bring
it to work, okay, all the crap that you can't
take it at home. So I feel like she's taking
it out.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
On me, Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Just you or a crew? Is there a crew of you?
Or is it just you?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Is not everybody else? Get a team or two? She
had me by myself. I haven't got a team partner yet.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
All right, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Once she picks up the phone and says hello, then
you're gonna you have two minutes to unload on her
because you're gonna try to get yourself fired within two minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
If you can get yourself fired within two minutes, you
get six week severance. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
It's like a dream package now, only you're getting fired
and you're able to collect unemployment while looking for another job,
and you got this six week sevens on the side here,
so work.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Oh, let's go, let's go. I need this.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Okay, he's ready, he's ready to get fired.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, all right, okay, here we go. Here we go, tired,
get fired?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Hello, shareman speaking, Hey Sharon, this is Malcolm. What can
I do for you? Malcolm?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I'm down here.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
The forty projects. I'm cleaning off the bathrooms.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Okay, Malcolm, I can't. I can't do this with you
right now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
You mean you can't do this right now.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I've been down here all day cleaning this up, and
y'all supposed to send me some help.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Malcolm is talking about you've been doing your job. Thank you,
thank you for doing your job. What do you want
the one that needs to do your job?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Get off of your.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Phone, Malcolm Quae. You sound like you have a problem.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
You know, I've been working my flood off trying to
get that aps W job.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
And you said, Malcolm, if you're share an exam, okay,
to pass the exam in order to be an APSW,
I I did No, you did not. You did not,
and your past test we would not be would not
be ADPW the players all day. Thank you for doing
(04:17):
the job that you're paid to do. The problem is
you here, don't DM me. The problem is you, Malcolm.
I'm trying to actually help you keep the job you
have now and you're not the best CPW. So let's
not even talk about moving to an APSW. I'm not
only dealing with you, I'm dealing with about seventeen other
employees doing my inspections. Putting in everything that I need
(04:38):
to put in, putting in your time so that you
can get paid. The reason why you're even at the
location that you're at is because I was trying to
save your tail. I mean, you can't even do simple
things like cut the branches back off the fence line.
You don't even know how to work a lopper, let
alone a broom, and yet you're talking about why you
haven't moved up. Maybe because you don't know how to
speak to people. Maybe it's because you don't know how
(04:59):
to present your so and you're ungrateful. How Come it's
never you? How Come you never look inward and say,
I am the problem. I'm at where I'm at, and
like because of the decisions that I need Malcolm, Wow up?
Whoa up?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Whoa? Oh my yoa whoa what I got?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Times up?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Times up? We just heard times up?
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Whoa?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Whoa? Times up? Times up?
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Times up?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Times up? Times up? Whoa?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Wait? Whoa?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You didn't whoa whoa? There was a lot of issues
that he.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Congratulations, Malcolm, you're one of only three people in the
seven months we've been doing Tired Get Fired that weren't
able to wasn't able to get themselves fired. Uh uh Sharon, Uh,
before you hang up my uh, my name is Sean Hamilton.
You and I'm sitting here with Marie, my partner. We're
on w k T radio here in New York City
on the iHeart radio platform.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
You're on a feature called Tired to Get Fired. Malcolm.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, that's a good sense of humor, he's laughing.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Malcolm called us to get on this feature. Apparently he
didn't tell us the whole situation. He has a certain
amount of time to get himself fired from you, to
get six week severance, and he was not successful. Wow wow,
Oh yes, Sharon, you're on the air right now. In
a minute, we're gonna take you off the air and
we're gonna offer you an incentive in order to allow
(06:16):
us to air this call tomorrow morning on the Morning Show.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
First of all, you work. What do you do for
a living, Sharon?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I work for the city and I oversee you roughly
about seventeen to twenty employees. And our job is to
keep the parks playground clean. And he's horrible at the
job he has now and he wasn't warm.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Oh my awful.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
But I don't want him fired. I don't want the
guy fied.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh you're a what a great woman you are. To
keep trying with you right now, it's too late.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It's too late, quite clear, it's become quite clear why
mel comes calling. Yes, all right, uh wow, this has
gone sideway, this has gone completely said.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
He really wants to get fired, Sharon.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
I cannot elevate him. This is a situation where he
has to elevate himself. He has to take a civil
service exam, which I'm not in charge of giving out.
He also needs to get a CEO, which I've been
telling him to get since he got here last year.
If he does those things, then he can move up
to an APSUB. But he doesn't even have the CEO
permit right now, and he wants to go back and
forth about being okay, I want to be fired.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
You don't understand Sharon is giving you a wonderful opportunity here.
She's on your team. She wants to see you to
be off my team.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I need a six week sever that's who we need.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
I want you to take advantage of the free therapy
program that we have at work. I want you to take.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Some wonderful everyone's stand up for Sharon plays.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Study material.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
First time we're ever clapping for the boss.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
This is not a boss, right.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
He just wants to I don't know, I don't Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He wants a free ride. He wants that free ride.
He wants that easy out. We Sharon, thank you so much.
We're gonna take you off the air. We're gonna offer
you an incentive. Malcolm, we don't know what to tell you.
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Give me yo, I mean, and get it over.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
He
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