Speaker 1: 0:10

serious, serious. Thank you and welcome to another episode of the carolina otaku podcast. I am afro and I'm here with my co-host.

Speaker 2: 0:19

Yes, lexi, you got it this week good job shut up.

Speaker 1: 0:25

Uh, welcome back you guys. Uh, yeah, welcome back. I mean, oh, you know how we start these things off. We see how everybody, what's everybody been up to? The last time we talked, we knew that, uh, lexi was on her travels. She was doing some traveling, on the way to some traveling. Yeah and um, I haven't been doing shit. Oh wait, was I off that week? Was that the week I was off?

Speaker 2: 0:55

No, that was not, because in the last episode you put Well, I put it, not him. But like you know, there are little conversations about you being in the fields.

Speaker 1: 1:05

Yeah, I was off that week. That was the week I was off, that was two weeks.

Speaker 2: 1:07

That was two weeks ago.

Speaker 1: 1:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:10

Yeah, so you were like in the middle of that week.

Speaker 1: 1:12

Oh yeah, I was in the middle, okay, cool. How was your trip to California?

Speaker 2: 1:22

California. It wasn't bad. It's so long to get there and I hate it. I don't like driving to the big airport near me, so I like take a smaller regional one and it just makes it longer. But um, I don't know you just want me to give out my location, don't you?

Speaker 1: 1:48

I didn't think that was like a. I didn't. What is your major airport in um South Carolina? All right, you don't have to go crazy, but we have.

Speaker 2: 2:04

The one that's where I live is an international airport. You can go different places, but For non One way like no layovers it has to be like a really big city and even then it's selective, unlike the big airport that's like two hours down the road. You can go anywhere and get a one-way with no problem, like I did it when I went to hawaii. I went straight from hawaii to there on the way back.

Speaker 1: 2:39

So yeah, oh okay, damn, I'm thinking about that, huh, okay, so yeah, that that was that and how was your um? How was it though?

Speaker 2: 2:52

that's what I was getting to. Thank you, but it was fun. We did late training and then we went to a baseball game and I was rooting for I was like the only one there that was rooting for the Braves, but we won kick butt, so proud, proud Like. But we were in a suite and like I didn realize that part of california does not get hot like everywhere else. Like I have a friend that lives like two hours away from where I was and he has desert temperatures, like he's getting like 90 hundreds whatever. I'm two hours away, I am getting like mid 60s, mid 70ss, coming from where I'm from. We had 80s, 90s here that took some getting adjusted to. I got this blanket while I was there.

Speaker 1: 3:49

Hold that up again. What is it?

Speaker 2: 3:52

That's the disco giants. Wow, wow. I got that while I was there. Who is it? What is it? The Francisco Giants. Yeah, wow, yeah, wow. So I got that while I was there and that was pretty much it. I came back Wednesday, so it was just like a quick like and I was back to it and then did anything else happen? I don't think anything else major happened since then, just getting ready now for TwitchCon next month.

Speaker 1: 4:21

So yeah, it's awesome not much on my side, just back to work. Um, what else? Yeah, just really work. That's kind of been the what else man. It just really worked. That's kind of been the bulk of it. One of my at the range I worked at the range this past Sunday. Oh wait, did I tell you, did I bring up that story about me going to the range and I wasn't supposed to work?

Speaker 2: 4:54

Yeah, you did.

Speaker 1: 4:57

Which you ended up working anyways.

Speaker 2: 4:59

Yeah, because somebody called out.

Speaker 1: 5:02

No, the motherfucker didn't call out, he just didn't show up.

Speaker 2: 5:07

We'll show. He just didn't show up there's no calling out.

Speaker 1: 5:11

He just didn't show up. One of the people that I work with, he uh, ex-military dude, all that shit. He was sitting down talking. He was like he was watching the olympics. He was watching the shooting portion of it, right, so they shoot like.

Speaker 1: 5:33

I think it's like 22, 22s I think it's like 22, right, and he was like I can do that and he's actually a really good shot. He, he's actually a really good shot. He does competitions and all that shit, right, and he, he's like he's gonna be selling some of his firearms to make some money for the type of firearm that he needs to actually practice with, and these things run about like $1,300 off the top People that I work with the manager there, like I said, he's a young kid, he's like 26, 27. But every time I go there I bought a new gun and I'm like yeah, dude, I know I'm not surprised, you're like I'm not surprised?

Speaker 1: 6:28

Yeah, I'm not surprised, man. I know you got one, that's what's up. No, he's a cool guy though, but it's just. No, he's a cool guy though, but it's just um. He's like yeah, man, I'm gonna do the olympics and see if I can get into it. That means you have to go to a training facility. In the training facility, I think it's like like fucking milwaukee or some shit like that. You know, he, he has what? Four years the the practice. So I think he saw Homie from Turkey and was like yes.

Speaker 2: 6:58

I've seen so many memes about him I have one saved in my phone, but that's crazy I can do that.

Speaker 1: 7:08

He's going to give it a try. I am going to see what he has, though, for sale. I want to see what he got Other than that. Just um, working planning out shit, um, around the house looking at. I'm gonna be buying some shipping containers soon just for storage. One to turn. I want to get two of them. Turn the other one into a gym, get back into this weightlifting. Yeah, I think that's about it. That's about it, yeah.

Speaker 2: 7:50

Before this podcast, he had a previous podcast talking about his weightlifting.

Speaker 1: 7:56

Oh yeah, that was years ago. That was pre-COVID going into COVID. That was a long time ago. That was a very, very long time ago. Oh man, but yeah, I did, dude, very long time ago. Oh man, um, but yeah, I did, um, but dude it trying to get like weights, like gym equipment is expensive as fuck. You can go on facebook marketplace, you can go on like rogue. You can go on titan, you can go on. How do you say that shit? Iloco, iloco, whatever it's like international. But I'm looking for competitive bumper plates and KG, because I don't want to do pounds, I want KG, calibrated plates and bars. You got to get squat stands. So I'm thinking maybe I should get something that, like, I can fold up into the wall and all that shit. I'm just like man, what if I put weight on that shit and that just takes down my whole fucking wall? Don't be mad at shit, like it's so much.

Speaker 1: 9:10

It's so much shit when you think about it. And then you go on Facebook Marketplace and nothing against Facebook Marketplace. You gotta make your money any way you can. But a lot of these motherfuckers you have used equipment Right, it's used. Don't put shit up there at new price. Like, don't put shit up there at new price. Like, don't put shit up there at new price, shit it's like. It's like people that, like like um, sell like you know.

Speaker 2: 9:47

No, that reminds me of you saying that. So I'm in a tesla group, right, yeah, and this and this guy in this Tesla group has a Model Y. It's like a 22 Model Y right, and he wants to sell it for $60,000.

Speaker 1: 10:05

I might as well just go get a new one.

Speaker 2: 10:06

I might as well get a new one right. But he's like well, I got all these aftermarket parts. And everybody's like don't, nobody want those aftermarket parts that you have on there. What aftermarket parts? And everybody like don't, nobody want those aftermarket parts that you have on there. What aftermarket parts can you put on tesla? You can put a lot of stuff on tesla, yeah, okay, um, and so like everybody's like ain't no way, because ain't no way. He's like well, I got time, I, I can wait. So you just want to get some global ass sucker to pay 60k for this fucking car. It's like, it's crazy, like people will actually think like it's used, it has depreciation value, just like everything, anything else yeah right, you, and it's a.

Speaker 1: 10:49

It's an electric car at that. So if you ain't reaching, if you ain't changing, it's not petrol. So you can't be on some shit like oh yeah, constant oil changes, battery has been replaced, new tires, interiors nice, clean, mint, low mileage and all that shit. You have four or five big ass batteries. Are you going to replace them? Shits?

Speaker 2: 11:18

No, Well, technically it's like one big battery pack and then there's a 12-volt battery in the back and the 12-volt battery is the one that usually goes out. And that's when people online are like I can't get into my car and my car is completely dead. It's because that 12-volt battery is dead. So it's not the whole entire car, it's just it's a 12 volt battery that controls like most of the internals, but it's not the main main battery. Like. That's like twelve thousand dollars to replace or more when it goes out. But even with that you have an eight year, I think, like hundred thousand mile warranty on it. So if it does happen within that timeframe, they they will replace it completely. So yeah, Gotcha, gotcha.

Speaker 1: 12:02

It is the same with like people that like sell like firearms. Like I swear to everything that I love, if you put almost 2000 or 3000 rounds into a damn firearm and then you post repost that shit. You ain't cleaning that motherfucker, you ain't changed out no barrel, you ain't changed no trigger, you ain't do nothing and you just like oh, I'm tired of this shit, let me just put this shit up for sale. And you put that shit up for sale, damn near at MSRP price price. Because let's say you, you got a, a staccato and you put that shit up at like, you paid I don't know, maybe like two or three grand for it. You put all these rounds into this shit. Let's say you put this shit in comp, you, you do it using a competition, all this shit. Let's say you put this shit in comp, you do it and use it in competition. All this shit. You have your friends try it out. Hey, try this man. This shit is fucking dope. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Target Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. You drop it and all this shit. And then you put that bitch up for like $2,500.

Speaker 1: 13:09

I'm like, dude, get the serious, you're gonna throw in some extra mags or something. It's in a box of ammo, a couple boxes of ammo. What you talking about? That's crazy to me. That's crazy. I see that often. I see that shit often. Anywho, motherfuckers don't know how to. In their head, they're trying to get the best bang for their. They're trying to get some of their money back but, you still have a used product, price it as such.

Speaker 1: 13:46

That's all. Come on now, anywho, that's what I've been doing. That's what I've been doing since the last time we talked. Damn, hold on. You know what's crazy. I actually had one of my eye moments and I actually wrote something down. Okay, eye moments, alright. So wrote something down. Okay, high moments, alright. So the first thing that the first thing that I wrote down was so I've been a wrestling fan kind of forever.

Speaker 2: 14:36

It's just something that I've just yeah, I was too when I was younger, so yeah, so I used to like on everything I love.

Speaker 1: 14:46

I used to hate stone cold. I used to hate stone cold.

Speaker 2: 14:52

I did too for a little bit, and they kind of grew on me and like yeah back in the day when netflix was like still selling fucking dvds and shit.

Speaker 1: 15:01

Um, a lot of the wwe like documentaries were on netflix at the time. Yeah, awa, ecw, all that shit like how it started and what it became. Stone cold had his own documentary and it showed like from his beginnings to where he was now and seeing what, where he started. I mean, this motherfucker had hair when he started. Yeah, like blonde hair.

Speaker 2: 15:28

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 15:29

And seeing where he became. It was great and I had mad respect Every documentary that I had, like that I watched the Ric Flair and all that shit. Mad respect for them, right? I love Stone Cold. Now, like Stone Cold is dope as fuck. I go back and rewatch YouTube videos within the Attitude era of him, like I swear, if I drank beer I would just take two cans, always open them bitches up, smash them bitches and just throw them in there because that shit was so sick. This is when I was high, y'all, I was high as shit. So I was sitting here and at this desk and I was just, you know, flinging through videos and I was like, damn y'all, that shit is so cool. Yeah, so you know, that was was one of the high moments. And then the other high moment was I was getting into this song by this Indian rapper called Big Dogs.

Speaker 2: 16:27

What song was it?

Speaker 1: 16:29

It's called Big Dogs. That's the name of it, but I don't want to mispronounce his name. It's H-A-N-u.

Speaker 2: 16:39

oh yeah I got this all on my, I got it on my like, so on. That's why I was like what's the name of it?

Speaker 1: 16:44

yeah, that shit goes hard as shit. Um, he's part of uh, is he part of? Def Jam India? I did research on him. He grew up in Texas, yeah right, and then he moved back to India, right, and like.

Speaker 1: 17:07

I saw a video recently where he did this shit with like. He did like a I think it was like a Instagram live or some shit and in his song he mentions like I think it was like a instagram live or some shit and in his song he mentions like. You know, rolling down the street listening to project pet, and he actually got on the call with project pat and project pat was like hey, man, we gotta do a remix on this and I need to. I want to get on that shit and I want to get my brother, juicy j, on that shit too. Tell me that shit is going to bang. So that was high moments, right, that was just a high moment, okay.

Speaker 1: 17:40

Anyway, on today's episode, on today's episode of Masterpiece Theater we will be talking about and this was like when I come up on top with you guys, honestly, it's kind of like sometimes it's on a whim and then I kind of just text Lexi and I'm just like, hey, what? And it's just like, okay, yeah, that's a good one. Um, but this episode is about when is it time to leave the job that you have? When does it become like like, oh shit, it's time to go? It can be a tech we're going to specify tech because that's what we work in but it can be any fucking thing any job, career, not career, but any industry. When is it time to like get up and just say, all right, I think I need to change. I think I need to, you know, do something different, because this shit ain't it. I know Lexi and I both have our stories, but I think the for me. I think, okay, this is going to be like real shit that has happened.

Speaker 2: 19:15

What else was it going to be? Made up stories? We don't tell no lies on here.

Speaker 1: 19:21

So I worked for Charles Schwab CrowdStrike, a German company called Salonis, and the company that I work for now. And when I started at Charles Schwab, it was basically FinTech, so finance tech, right and it was honestly they say, oh, it's not a call center, but it was a call center. We had an application called Portfolio Center which allowed advisors and brokers to bring in data, reconcile it and then make reports from that data that comes in the trade and stuff like that. And I was there for three years. I came in with four, four people, three women and I was the only guy right and all three of them left. I was the only one within that class Because I was like I'm not leaving this fucking job, manita, this could take me somewhere.

Speaker 1: 20:22

But I mean it kind of did, because I got the experience that I needed, made it up to a Tech 2 there and all that shit. But going through all that, doing the same shit every day, I was waking up, driving to a parking ride, taking a Triangle Transit bus into downtown Raleigh and then walking to the building, be there, get off, work and then walk to the bus, stop, get on the bus and come back home.

Speaker 2: 20:53

That's too much.

Speaker 1: 20:55

I was doing that shit every fucking day and I would hear people like we were in cubicles people talking about their fucking kids, people selling shit that their kids are selling. Joe, when I was growing up it was these shits called joe corby's pizzas. It was these little square fucking. Oh, it was circular pizzas but it was joe corby's pizzas. They were fucking shit. Um, cookie dough and fucking popcorn and oh, come by, this, we're fundraising for this and scholastic shit. And oh, my daughter had a dance recital. It was cool and all this I like. Oh my God, shut up.

Speaker 1: 21:37

So it just got. It just became really fucking annoying and I guess that's one reason that you might want to leave. But then the other big thing for me was I was really kind of just deep into it in a, just in a regular cycle, comfortable, just going to work, doing I had to do blah, blah, blah, leaving. I remember waking up. I was had to be dreaming, waking up in the middle of the night. I mean up and just saying thank you for calling technical support. My name is Christopher.

Speaker 2: 22:16

I woke up saying that I woke up saying that.

Speaker 1: 22:20

I woke up saying that and as soon as I went and used the bathroom and laid back, washed, my hands laid back down, I said it's time to go. It's time to fucking go, because this is me not leaving work. At work, I'm bringing this shit home and it's in my sleep. That shit is shit, that shit, I don't want that. And then my manager, who's probably one of the best managers I had, uh, jason.

Speaker 1: 23:01

Jason was probably one of the best managers that I had. He, um, more of like a philosophy, religion philosophy type guy. So the way that he approached being a manager wasn't like you're doing this wrong, doing this wrong, doing this wrong, but he understood that people are people and kind of went that way with it and that was great. But, um, my performance started to go down. And when you hear they record these calls and he just noticed he can listen to it and they give ratings and stuff after the call and all that bullshit. And he noticed he was like I remember we were in a meeting and he was like you don't want to be here anymore, do you? And I was like not really man.

Speaker 2: 23:57

No, not really.

Speaker 1: 23:59

Not really. And when he said that, I told him, being honest, I was like, dude, I'm applying to other jobs, man, and he was like I might have to be doing interviews while I'm in the office and he was like that's fine, block out an office space and you just block that time off and just go do what you got to do and it was it. It was kind of like, okay, he understands it, he sees the, the work, that the effort was going down, and he was just like you've been in this for a minute, man, almost three years. I know it's like, yeah, you gotta go on and do other shit. So he definitely understood that. But me waking up and saying that shit like out loud and it wasn't a dream, it was like I actually said this shit out my mouth. That's when it was time, it was really time to go there. Plus, a lot of the managers really started to get on my fucking nerves at that job. Really bad, like it started to get really fucking annoying.

Speaker 1: 25:13

And then, lo and behold, after I left, maybe like a year or so later, that application got sold to another company called Tamarack, which was right across the street. So everybody that I worked with, except for the manager, my manager, manager above my manager, jason. She ended up staying. Everybody else moved over to the other building across the street and Everybody else that was left the manager above got cut. They cut him. So I was like all right, everybody that I worked with still had a job. I was happy about that, cause fuck everybody else. So that's, that's when. That's just one of the jobs. When I knew I was ready to go, I got two to go. But when, when?

Speaker 2: 26:04

so my, my is gonna be like similar to his um. So, like my first big girl job or whatever, um was at verizon. I worked there literally almost eight years before I quit, literally like seven years and 11 months. That's how long and so months. Yes, is it like the job? Okay, you guys know how people are when they don't get their way and it's like taking that abuse for so long or whatever. And just like same thing, like for about four, four, five. No, it was about like three, four years. I had to travel and commute 45 minutes one way to get to work and like, yeah, I got old so I moved, or whatever. But like I knew it was bad for me.

Speaker 2: 27:03

When, like you can't take that job, stress away. Like, like similar to him, I would be asleep and I would just say thanks for calling verizon wireless. Is electra speaking? How may I help you In my fucking sleep? Or, the closer I get to my job, my stomach like stinks, like you feel it, like you just do not want to be there. You mentally are not there.

Speaker 2: 27:32

It's bad when, like a lot of your co-workers are on anti-anxiety meds because of where they work or like everybody there has some type of vice either. It's, you know, anxiety meds, smoking, you know you want to call us and you know everybody's doing to do with each other, like it's just everywhere and Like it's just everywhere and it's that. And when you see, like paramedic, like a month before I quit, the paramedics had been to my job three times in one month, back to back to back, and I'm just like a girl that was on my team they had to come take her out by a structure because she was so stressed out from working there Like you see shit like that, and you're just like all right, no, like you gotta go. But, like I said, it's like they put it in your head like we're gonna go, we'll give you all these opportunities, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah. But then, like you your head, like we're gonna go, we give you all these opportunities, yada, yada, yada blah, blah blah.

Speaker 1: 28:47

But then, like you gotta start thinking about your mental well-being, um, and you know that's more important than anything, like you know, oh yeah, oh yeah it. I. So when, when you're going through that process of thinking about, ok, I think it's time for me to make a change, time for me to move and I'm not talking about staying within the same company and going to a new position. I mean leaving the company as a whole and trying to find something better, that's more comfortable, and I don't know, it gives you a you can breathe. When I left Charles Schwab man, it was actually actually not Charles Schwab was cool, but when I left the German company, that was a breath of fresh air, because I had savings and I was living off the savings and it was just

Speaker 1: 29:42

like, oh my gosh, you wake up every morning I'm applying to jobs, all that shit, and the reason why I left that job? Because it just wasn't exciting to me. It just wasn't there me, it just wasn't there it I was. I talked to my father, I talked to my mother and I talked to my stepmoms. I even talked to my sister about me like leaving that, you know, the German job. And when I, when I put in my two weeks, I felt really good about it. I felt really good about it because it was just like all of this shit that was like here was just like gone, it was gone, like it was it. Honestly, it felt like I stepped outside and it was like sunny outside, you know. And it honestly, I thought outside and it was like sunny outside, you know, and honestly, I thought I heard Bill Withers in the background Singing his ass off.

Speaker 1: 30:52

Right, if you do think about leaving, think about the thing about if you can, when you do leave, do you? When will you get your last check? Will you be able to pay your rent, your bills and all that shit? If you were to leave, do you have something to back, to, back up with? It's always better to. It's always good to find a new job when you already have a job, because there's no. Everything can overlap. If you plan it out well, basically if you really plan it out really fucking well I've done this you leave your job and you start a new job. Basically, by the time you leave your job and you get your last check, you can plan it out to the point where you actually get your first check from your new job. That shit is mint, that shit is so good when it, when it works out like that it works out, when it works out like that it, it's amazing, it's great. But within the tech realm and nowadays, after COVID and stuff, you run into involuntary determinations.

Speaker 2: 32:14

Yep voluntary determinations.

Speaker 1: 32:15

Yep and you run into, especially if you're working from home. You can't leave it at home because you're already in home.

Speaker 2: 32:29

This is your work environment.

Speaker 1: 32:34

So it's different. And nowadays, when let's say, you do want to leave that job and you're on the hunt applying to stuff every day, honestly, I know there's tons of job searches and out there, but honestly you and I both know that LinkedIn is, it seems to be that one and only place where you know you can possibly find something, unless you know people in different places.

Speaker 2: 33:09

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 33:10

But you go to LinkedIn and that's where you can apply to jobs. I know it can be discouraging as fuck to see, oh yeah, I'll apply for this job, but then you see how many other people, other people, this job, shit, and it's in the fucking thousands. You know what I mean. And it's not, and it's one position, that's the other shit. It's one fucking position. And you just have to kind of think about what if you were to leave, like, just make sure you have everything planned out. You know what I mean. If it's really that stressful, go, if you know you're not gonna be. If you hit a certain wall and let's say you applied to different positions within the company and nothing works out, you know they always tell you oh, you should really ask why you didn't get hired. Motherfucker, I don't want to know that shit.

Speaker 2: 34:11

I don't care.

Speaker 1: 34:13

You didn't pick me. I don't care, I really don't care. I've done that. When I was first, like at Schwab, I applied to different positions within the company and I've done that. I asked oh, why didn't you?

Speaker 2: 34:29

why didn't you pick me, or what feedback you know?

Speaker 1: 34:31

yeah, I don't. I really don't give a fuck. I don't want the feedback. The feedback doesn't. You didn't select me, so you giving me Feedback doesn't. You didn't select me, so you giving me this fucking feedback doesn't mean shit. Oh, but you can use this in other situations. Motherfucker, I'm gonna be gone, I'm not. Yes, there are gonna be other situations, but in other situations I'm gonna be outside, coming into the company. You know, there was there's this thing of when you're already within the company, you kind of have you already have your foot in the door and then if you do well within the position that you're already in within the company, then your manager can big you up, make you look better. And for this other position, that's when this company, especially if it's in a totally different department and stuff like that.

Speaker 1: 35:25

Right, so it when you're, when you want to leave. Oh, another thing is also, I'm not really believing in two weeks notices either. I don't. If a job can literally let you go on a fucking dime, on a dime, you wake up. Let me tell you what the worst shit is. Let's say you have a whole family, right? You wake the fuck up. Hey, baby, I'm going to work. You come into your office. Let's say you work from home. Yeah, you know what I mean. You walk into your office, everything is cool, you know, whatever. All that shit, everything's gravy and all that shit. And then you see that you have a meeting with your manager in HR. Oh shit, what the fuck going on here. I'm getting a promotion. No, nigga, we letting you go, send back your laptop. We're going to send out a box to you. Make sure you pack that shit up, because we got to get rid of you. It happens all the time.

Speaker 1: 36:35

Now it does People want to sit here and talk about, like, why are these millennials so, like? You know, just upset and not you know, just, within this world we live in, you just work your job, motherfucker, because they can let people go there, aren't? You can't? What's the big word? There are no unions.

Speaker 2: 37:05

There aren't.

Speaker 1: 37:06

My mom literally just retired and my dad did too, and it's like unions. Oh, let a company know that you're about to unionize.

Speaker 2: 37:16

That's the quickest way to get off the phone. No, like at Verizon. All you had to do was like mention the word union. Hey, who you talking about? Some unions Wanna come offline.

Speaker 1: 37:26

We're gonna watch a little video. Fuck, you say nigga, union, a union. Oh, okay, okay, okay. How many of y'all wanna do this union thing? Let me see your hands. Raise your hands up for me. Yeah, one, two, three, four, five, six. Let's have a little chat real quick.

Speaker 1: 37:44

Motherfuckers, motherfuckers going to the office, come out with boxes with all they shit in it. You have to, I think, in this work, especially within tech. In tech, it's not about you giving what the company wants, because they're going to get what they want anyway. They're going to make their fucking money. It's really about you get what you can get and you bleed that shit dry. You move the fuck on to bigger and better things.

Speaker 1: 38:21

I could I always recommend to people two to three years, two to three, more than five, you're not, you're not going up, you're staying stagnant. Two to three years Get all the knowledge that you can get. Take that shit, grasp that shit, learn from it. Get free shit that you can. If they're willing to pay for certificates, they're willing to pay for certs, all that shit. Get it. Oh yeah, just bring it out. You can always ask shit. Hey, hey, would you guys, um, you know be interested? Or can I go into like salesforce training if I wanted to. Yeah, yeah, you can definitely do that. Just let us know, find what you want to find and we can get that approved. Do that shit, go take the fucking test, do all of shit and then, as soon as you get that motherfucker, get the fuck out.

Speaker 1: 39:22

Use them as they use you, because they can let you go. Like that you wake up, have a good ass breakfast and you gone. Then you got to sit there and scramble and think what the fuck am I going to do? Because crying ain't going to do shit for you. You got to make moves, you got to do what you got to do. You know what I mean. That's why I'm always the person that's like always, always be applying, always be applying Always, because you never know. Always be applying Always, because you never know what the fuck you can get that phone call and it could be somebody saying hey, saw your resume, want to get you through this interview process, like it. We want to get you moving. When can we get you going? You never fucking know when it can actually happen like that, and you kind of. If you don't want the stress, if you don't want the headaches, then the anxiety like my, I don't. I don't think she'll care if I say this.

Speaker 1: 40:39

My mother was off for almost like three weeks one year this was like I want to say 2022 and she came. This is when I was calling every day. Her brother and sister passed away, so I'm calling her to make sure that everything is cool, make sure she's good every day, all that shit. And she went back to work after these three weeks and she said when I was, I literally was in the stairwell going downstairs and I just had like this panic attack. And as soon as my mother said that, I said ma, it's time to go, it's time. I was like ma, it is time to retire, it is time to leave this shit. When you start, when that shit happens and it's never happened before 47 years and it's never happened before 47 years and it's never happened before it's time to go. Me personally, I really think the panic attack happened because, since you were off for so long and it wasn't like you didn't think about work for so long and it wasn't like you didn't think about work, it didn't even cross your fucking mind because you were away just doing your own shit and enjoying the days off you come back into this fucking hellscape and it's just like it.

Speaker 1: 42:16

Honestly, it's like this is gonna sound really crazy. This is some real anime shit right here. It's like this is gonna sound really crazy. This is some real anime shit right here. It's like it's like shanks using his hockey and it's so much pressure on you that you just can't move shit. That's how strong it is, and if you know what I'm talking about, you know what I'm talking about. You know what I mean. It's it's luffy, using his observation hockey and making everybody just stay still. That's. That's that feeling. When you see it on the show, you're like, oh my God, I do not want to feel that. I don't ever want to feel that, because you can't do shit and you're just stuck. That's a bad feeling. I told her I was like it's time to fucking retire.

Speaker 1: 43:14

It's time to go. Two, three years later, she's gone.

Speaker 2: 43:21

Now she finally did it.

Speaker 1: 43:26

I was like, oh my gosh, man, when you, if you do want to leave, leave or just make sure you have your stuff in order. If you want to give a two weeks notice, you can because I'm in courtesy. But honestly, I've seen motherfuckers that just don't come in and say, hey, I ain't coming back. Or motherfuckers that take a break and don't even come back at all. Don't even come back at all. The't even come back at all. The nigga said, fuck this, I ain't going back. I've seen that. Fuck you and this job and this company.

Speaker 1: 44:10

Do you know how many people I know that work for Spectrum Because it's big here in North Carolina? Spectrum because it's big here in north carolina, and you can probably ask anybody that has worked for spectrum. But spectrum is when you're, they let go of people quick. Their turnarounds are insane. Unless you're in a really high position, which most companies are like that you're doing customer support. You're are insane unless you're in a really high position, which most companies are like that you're doing customer support.

Speaker 1: 44:41

You're on that phone. You're working from like 8 to like 5am doing that overnight shit. You get home, you sleep and you just gotta go back in and do all that shit. Some people like that shit, but they rotate motherf go back in and do all that shit. Some people like that shit, but they rotate motherfuckers in and out and most of the time, most of those spectrum places are usually some of the most dangerous motherfucking places to be, because people be coming in there mad as shit why my building's goddamn high. I don't know, bitch, talk to that, nigga. I'm out the door. Who the fuck is, denise? I don't know who the fuck that is. Nigga. I'm leaving, I'm going home. I've heard stories of people that were at the Spectrum and then people coming up there with like shooting shit up, like that's real shit yeah it's time to go.

Speaker 1: 45:44

It's time to go, man. It really is. It's really time to go. I think a lot of people get comfortable. I think some people do get scared. If they were to leave, I don't know what to do. I know some motherfuckers that got like master's degrees and I know that they could be making so much fucking money, so much money. Some people actually love what they do, which is amazing. That's great. I wish I wish on everything that I love, that I can wake up every morning and be like damn, I love my job, everything that I love, that I can wake up everyone and be like damn, I love my job. I don't think I can say that. It's almost been 10 years working in tech, almost 10 years working in corporate America.

Speaker 1: 46:40

On Instagram, we see all these people oh man, you got to be an entrepreneur, entrepreneur, this entrepreneur, that Entrepreneur, this. Read this book, read that book, read that book, read that book. You know what you should do. You should go into fucking the whole currency exchange shit and all that crap. Go into that shit. Make all this fucking money.

Speaker 1: 46:58

Nigga, you broke, you, broke, broke, broke, broke. You know what I mean. You see all this shit all the time. You broke ass, nigga. Go get your fucking money up. You know what I mean. You got women out here. Men say this, women say this Nigga, you broke. You know what I mean. You see, this shit, that shit could be discouraging as fuck. It could be some scary shit out there. Everybody want to be a fucking entrepreneur, everybody want to do this, which is great. It's good to have that passive income. When I mean passive income like, I mean like people are like oh, you shouldn't be working when you're, you shouldn't be really putting too much work when you're doing passive income. What if it's something that I actually enjoy doing and I don't see it as work, but I'm able to make money from it?

Speaker 2: 47:47

That's passive income to me. Yeah, because you're not putting that much effort into it necessarily to the point where it like causes you stress.

Speaker 1: 47:56

Right, exactly, fucking, exactly. That's the big deal. That's the big deal. That's the big deal. You know what I mean? It's? You know me talking about the whole broke shit. It just reminds me, like when I'm scrolling through Instagram and Facebook, that fucking balloon shit. That balloon shit is crazy. Whoever came up with that is a fucking genius. But that balloon, could you picture? This is what calls a ruckus. Could you picture if they did that balloon shit with people that were in this whole anime realm?

Speaker 2: 48:35

Could you picture that? Do not give people ideas. Do not give people ideas.

Speaker 1: 48:40

Could you picture that? Can you picture the questions that would come up? They'd be like. They'd be like alright, here's our first contestant. Let's say it's like women, right, and they get the positive element. It's a guy coming in and you know that they're all like, you know otakus and into the anime shit. They are like different, just ranges of them, right, and they're just like. They're just like um, so do you, uh, do you guys have any questions or anything? Yeah, um, so my question is do you think goku was a deadbeat father, like shit, like that? You know what I mean or, or, or, uh, okay, hold on, wait, wait time.

Speaker 2: 49:26

I'm talking about see your version and my version was completely different. I might as well all the way left like my balloon. My problem was like actual anime characters, so like, let's say, like the guy would be like goju and then, like the women, would be like various, like anime characters and like, for instance, let's say, it's like fey, she pops a balloon and she's like, yeah, no, he's too scrawny for me, or something whatever. Like you know, boom.

Speaker 1: 50:05

That that's where my mind went with the popular characters so like if somebody were to pick, like if you were to compare, like are you saying? Like somebody would ask the question like okay, if you had to choose Goju or Deku?

Speaker 2: 50:22

No like the like, no like actual like the anime character would be the guy. So each would be like yeah.

Speaker 1: 50:33

Oh, if Goju fucking walked out, ain't nobody popping that fucking balloon?

Speaker 2: 50:40

You never know. Look, there are certain characters that won't get balloon pops nobody popping that fucking balloon.

Speaker 1: 50:44

You never know. Look, there are certain characters that won't get balloon pops. Alright, goju, oh shit. I think Naruto wouldn't get any balloon pops. But also, I think if you hate Naruto, then you like Sasuke. Okay. So who won't get balloon pops? Goju Kakashi. So I think if you hate Naruto, then you like Sasuke. Okay. So who won't get balloon pops? Goju Kakashi. Kakashi ain't getting no fucking balloon pop. Kakashi ain't never getting no balloon pop. Come on, I mean, I mean, I ain't getting no balloon pop eyes. It's all the eyes.

Speaker 2: 51:23

Yeah, it's eyes.

Speaker 1: 51:25

Um shit. See, now you got me thinking. Now you got me thinking who else wouldn't get the? Um, oh, do you think, uh, uh, oh, do you think, uh, uh, oh, my god, boar head inosuke huh, yeah. Do you think inosuke would get the balloon pop? Yeah, I think someone. I don't like it, do you?

Speaker 2: 52:02

think Inosuke would get the balloon popped. Yeah, I wouldn't pop the balloon on him. I don't like it.

Speaker 1: 52:06

I think some women would like the B-shit. I think some women would like the boy head yo. I think they like he got that.

Speaker 2: 52:15

Proceed on, proceed on. I don't know why I even said anything. I should just let it roll.

Speaker 1: 52:20

No, that's a Damn. That's a good one, though that's crazy. If that shit happened in real life and you get people to come out as the cosplay characters, that shit would be wild, oh my gosh Yo.

Speaker 2: 52:39

Man, if that ever happens if somebody takes that idea, just tag us. I just, I just need to see it yeah, tag us, motherfucker, real shit.

Speaker 1: 52:49

Oh, that'd be crazy. We can do that on discord, wouldn't it? That'd be crazy, we could do that discord, god damn. Um, anyway, anyway, all right back, serious shit. If you want to leave your job, just just take it. Just really think about it before you do it. If you know you're stressed, if you know that you're like your manager's getting on your fucking nerves I had that. I've had that shit before too. Motherfuckers that take the job yes, you're supposed to take your job serious, but motherfuckers that take that shit to a whole nother level. All the other managers are cool, except for this nigga fucking John. To the point where, to the point where you is, you hit a word john, you're just like. You're just like I can't stand that motherfucker, god damn.

Speaker 1: 53:55

Oh yeah, man, but it when in tech realm you always be on your toes, get as much as you can out of these jobs and move the fuck on. A lot of people might not agree with that shit. I don't know. Hey, that's a nice shirt.

Speaker 2: 54:17

That's mad random.

Speaker 1: 54:18

Thank you, yeah, no, that's a nice shirt, damn that's cool. Yeah, I no, that's a nice shirt, damn that's cool. Um yeah, I don't know what to say. Anything else you want to add? Anything you want to?

Speaker 2: 54:30

um, just like he said, you know, be ready. My thing is just like start like thinking about getting another job, start learning like skills, um, the kind of beef up your resume. Um, for instance, like I knew I didn't want to be at this certain job anymore. Um, and so like I started learning sequel and so luckily it came in handy, because the next job I got, on the like on the interview thing, it was sequel questions, not like have I not learned that like it would have been sol? Um, so just you know, tweaking your resume, getting the ready, getting your references, everything in order. And like I'm not big on the two weeks either. Yeah, because when it's time to go, it's time to go, and in some cases, like we see it, like you put in your two-week notice. As soon as you do that, like bam you out, like what. So you know?

Speaker 1: 55:47

do you? I have one more question for you. Do you remember, like from the jobs that you had, do you have you ever had like a good manager, like a manager that you were just like, yeah, that person was a good manager and actually understood people like as a whole?

Speaker 2: 56:06

Yeah, I would say I have. Like um, I've had some really good managers, like you know, help me with career growth, um, and giving me opportunities and like, listen to me and like, like he said when his manager knew that he didn't want to be there just by the tone of his voice. Like a good manager will notice that right away. And I've had some ancient managers that just they should not have been a manager in the position. They abused that power so much. But whatever, um, and when your job makes it aware that you were just a number to them, it's time to go.

Speaker 2: 56:53

Like I I've heard this, I've told this story like maybe once or twice before, um, but like when COVID was around and everybody was getting sick, we went back home remote.

Speaker 2: 57:08

I almost died twice in that year, um, for various things, and so, like it happened in march and it happened in july and the time it happened in j, I was in the hospital for like 10 days and I remember the day I got, the day after I got out, I was telling my job that I just got out the hospital. Oh, they were asking me for like papers, like a signature from my daughter that I got transitioned to my doctor's care and I was like, okay, well, I just got out of the hospital the day before like I will call and I would get one. They're like, they called my two, three times. No, they didn't call me, excuse me. They texted me two, three times asking for it and I finally got it. But I'm just like what, what the hell? And so I guess it was because the next day they were doing the layoffs, they let go like 80 something people, and one of my friends that I worked there with she was one of those people, and so I was just like, yeah, it's time to go.

Speaker 1: 58:23

Yeah, yeah, just if you know it's time to go. You know it's time to go talk to people that you are close to, I mean like people that before you do it talk to, like parents or your siblings and stuff, motherfuckers that you know you can sit down and have this type of conversation with and just hear the feedback. The decision that you make is your decision, not anybody else's. But just make sure you have all your P's and Q's together before you actually do it and then say see ya.

Speaker 1: 59:04

Out before you actually do it and then say see ya out. But um, thank you guys for listening to another episode and um, follow us on jesus.

Speaker 2: 59:16

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Speaker 1: 59:33

Bye, bye, I gotta back out. Okay, there we go.