Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call. I
Speaker 1: feel like we do a lot of these where we
Speaker 1: help people in their relationships. Yeah yeah, you know, with
Speaker 1: their boyfriends, with their wives, or their roommates. But we
Speaker 1: don't do a lot of calls where we help people
Speaker 1: who have a problem with their boss. No. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like I know, and didn't that person get fired?
Speaker 1: I think it's because if we accidentally ruin someone's job,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of guilt on our shoulders. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: if we ruin someone's relationship whatever, husband, I'm sure a career. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but this makes me nervous because a guy named Ian
Speaker 1: apparently has an issue with his boss and he wants
Speaker 1: our advice on how to handle it. Ian, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Hey guys, can I just ask right off
Speaker 1: the bat? Do you work at like a real professional
Speaker 1: setting indoor? Just like an ice cream stand? I work
Speaker 1: in an office building. We're going to give you terrible advice? No, No,
Speaker 1: we're We'll do our best instantly more important than ours. Yea,
Speaker 1: So tell us about the situation that you're dealing with
Speaker 1: with your boss. What's going on? Okay, So I have
Speaker 1: been working at this new job for about three months. Okay,
Speaker 1: I really like it. Everyone's cool. I'm good at the work,
Speaker 1: and my boss is a very tough lady, and I
Speaker 1: really like her that I do. I respect her. She's
Speaker 1: very good at her job. Yes, he keeps people in line,
Speaker 1: and some people really thrive in that type of environment, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good to have somebody at your work that actually
Speaker 1: knows what they're doing. Absolutely absolutely. I would love to
Speaker 1: have that here with one of us. But for an
Speaker 1: idea there, Jeffrey, keep hoping. So what's going on with
Speaker 1: you and your boss? So this is really kind of embarrassing,
Speaker 1: But it started out the first couple of days that
Speaker 1: I was working there. She called me by the wrong name.
Speaker 1: Oh God, she called me Richard. I don't know where
Speaker 1: she got that, because no one in the building is
Speaker 1: named Richard and Richard hard to confuse those two. Wasn't
Speaker 1: there someone that we used to work with, Jeffrey that
Speaker 1: always called you the wrong name? Am I thinking of?
Speaker 1: I think that was probably you, Brooke. No one forgets me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you were calling me the wrong guy. You're probably look
Speaker 1: all about yourself again. Okay, So what did you do
Speaker 1: when she started calling you Richard. I didn't do anything
Speaker 1: because this happened only a few days into me working there,
Speaker 1: and then over the last couple of months, I've realized
Speaker 1: that that she actually thinks my name is Richard, and
Speaker 1: she calls me not only Richard, but the abbreviated form
Speaker 1: of Richard, which I don't think I can say on
Speaker 1: the radio. You can say, no one, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: fine by there's like I have an uncle with that name.
Speaker 1: What about Okay, talk about him on the radio. Sorry,
Speaker 1: keep going with your story. So you at no point
Speaker 1: corrected her. I know it seems weird, but I was
Speaker 1: just kind of intimidated, and I thought somebody else would
Speaker 1: say something because other people had overheard her call me Richard.
Speaker 1: And so now I'm in this point where I'm nervous
Speaker 1: that by not correcting her, I kind of look like
Speaker 1: a doormat. Yeah, you're past the point of correction. Almost
Speaker 1: so are other people calling you that too, just her.
Speaker 1: You know, people will come up to me after a
Speaker 1: meeting or something and be like, why is she calling
Speaker 1: you Richard? Oh that's so awkward for you. How could
Speaker 1: she not? I mean, doesn't she see paychecks? Like maybe
Speaker 1: she's not the one that signs your paycheck. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what she sees. I just know that
Speaker 1: people know, and I think we're all just too scared
Speaker 1: to ask. Yeah, I'm super awkward, dude, She's going to
Speaker 1: be so embarrassed. Yeah, that's a really awkward conversation to have. So, Ian,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that that's why you've emailed us. You want
Speaker 1: our help to call your boss and tell her, actually,
Speaker 1: my name isn't Richard, it's Ian. Yeah. Yeah, this should
Speaker 1: be a really quick call. I have a feeling it
Speaker 1: won't be. Oh man, can we just call him, be like, hey,
Speaker 1: my name's it isn't that? Can you just change your name?
Speaker 1: That's that's what I was gonna It might be easier,
Speaker 1: just legally change it. That's what Alexis would do. She
Speaker 1: hates confrontation. Yeah, I just call me whatever, Just keep
Speaker 1: me hired, all right. So our task is now to
Speaker 1: come up with some advice on how to help Ian Richard.
Speaker 1: How to help Ian confront his boss finally after three
Speaker 1: months and let her know that she's been calling him
Speaker 1: by the wrong name since he was hired. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: could really use the help. Thank you. Okay, well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna play a song, we'll come back, we'll give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of advice, and then we'll let you
Speaker 1: make your awkward Tuesday phone calls if you're just joining us.
Speaker 1: One of our listeners, Ian has requested our help because
Speaker 1: he just started working at a new job about three
Speaker 1: months ago. The entire time he's been there, his boss
Speaker 1: has been calling him by the wrong name. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: she's been calling him Richard, even though his name is Ian.
Speaker 1: He's not sure how that's happened, and he hasn't corrected
Speaker 1: her either, because he's been too nervous. Since she's kind
Speaker 1: of an intimidating type of boss, he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: get into her bad graces. But now he finally wants
Speaker 1: to come clean. He wants to set the record straight
Speaker 1: and let her know once and for all, Hey, my
Speaker 1: name's not Richard, it's Ian, and she tends to use
Speaker 1: the other form of Richard. But he's looking for our
Speaker 1: advice on how to bring it up to her without
Speaker 1: making it too awkward. And whatever advice we give, what
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that we don't do, because
Speaker 1: this has been running through my mind is we can't
Speaker 1: make your boss feel stupid in Yeah, it's a good
Speaker 1: point because if she's one of those hard charging type
Speaker 1: of personalities, she's not going to like being called out.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, absolutely, Well, and it's not your intention either, right,
Speaker 1: Like you don't want to call her out, per se.
Speaker 1: You don't want to make her feel stupid because you
Speaker 1: like her, I mean, and she likes you, right yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm still a new employee, you know, so I
Speaker 1: don't want her to have weird feelings around me. I
Speaker 1: don't want this to be a thing that persists between us. Okay,
Speaker 1: So maybe we have some advice for you, Brooke, Do
Speaker 1: you have anything? Yes, here's what I think you should do, Okay,
Speaker 1: instead of you know, because she's your boss, right, so
Speaker 1: you don't want to be putting her in her place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what I think you do is you kind of let
Speaker 1: her realize her own mistake. Like maybe you tell a
Speaker 1: story about you know, your co workers and how you
Speaker 1: love it when every day the secretary he tells you
Speaker 1: good morning, Ian and that just makes you feel good.
Speaker 1: And that's the type of place you like to work at.
Speaker 1: So thank you for creating that environment. Data that doesn't
Speaker 1: make it sound like a weird employee. Basically, I'm won't
Speaker 1: say that, but you do. Those are all truths, Like
Speaker 1: you really like your new job. I mean, maybe you
Speaker 1: have a personalized cup, Like, hey, have you seen my
Speaker 1: new mug? A lot of people call their bosses to
Speaker 1: tell him another right, has a picture of a boat? Oh?
Speaker 1: I just thought that, maybe like add some other description
Speaker 1: in and how does that sound? Ian? Yeah? You know,
Speaker 1: I actually kind of like that idea using my name
Speaker 1: in the third person. Yeah, okay, okay, maybe not in
Speaker 1: your own way. Don't print it on a custom mug
Speaker 1: and bring it up to it. It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: So we're about to do this. I just thought of
Speaker 1: something though, Ian, what are we gonna do when you
Speaker 1: start off the phone call? Because she's not going to
Speaker 1: recognize this phone number. Are you going to introduce yourself
Speaker 1: as Ian? Or are you're gonna introduce yourself as Richard?
Speaker 1: You have to do Richard. She doesn't know who Ian is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I have to introduce myself as Richard. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be awkward just in itself, and so she's gonna
Speaker 1: be like, would you just called yourself that? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: are you ready to do this? Man? I'm ready to
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, I'm gonna dial her phone number right
Speaker 1: now and let you make the awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Hello, Hey, Dana, it's Um Richard. Oh hey, Dicky,
Speaker 1: how's it going. I wanted to run something by you
Speaker 1: real quick, if that's okay? Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wanted to let you know. Um. I was in
Speaker 1: the break room yesterday with Yale and I was telling
Speaker 1: her about the new client we brought on, and I
Speaker 1: like told her about it, gave her a quick rundown,
Speaker 1: and Rille was really excited and and she was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Ian, Wow, that's great, that's awesome. So
Speaker 1: oh well, yeah, that's great. Hey, thanks for letting me know.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Yeah, but did you catch what she
Speaker 1: said about about Ian? Yeah? Ian? Is that the new
Speaker 1: buyer on the accounts? No? It okay? So who is Ian?
Speaker 1: Why are you telling me? Um? So? Ian is? It's
Speaker 1: actually me? I don't understand. What do you mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my real name. I'm Ian. H What do you
Speaker 1: mean like your middle name? No? I mean like it's
Speaker 1: my first name. Why don't you go by Richards? I
Speaker 1: actually don't Okay, I'm confused. What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1: So I don't want this to come across bad or
Speaker 1: make you upset, But since I've been hired, you've been
Speaker 1: calling me by the wrong name. What. Yeah, my name's
Speaker 1: actually not Richard, it's Dan h Richard or Ian. Wait
Speaker 1: what's going on here? So? Hi Dana. Yeah, we're a
Speaker 1: morning radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning,
Speaker 1: and we heard what a great boss you were. Yes.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So is this some like like a prank
Speaker 1: call or something? No I wish no, yeah, no, this
Speaker 1: is a segment that we do call the Awkward Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Phone calls are later in the show. Yeah, we do
Speaker 1: do prank calls, but this isn't it. Um. This is
Speaker 1: a segment where we help our listeners have an awkward
Speaker 1: conversation over the phone. Own. Okay, I'm really I'm really
Speaker 1: confused your guys. I think I think he maybe explain
Speaker 1: why we're here. Yeah, okay, Ian, why don't you give
Speaker 1: it a shot? Yeah? Wait, who's he in again? Okay?
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, yeah, your employee is his actual name
Speaker 1: is not Richard, it's Ian. That's part of what this
Speaker 1: call is. Go ahead, Ian, okay. Yeah, we're still confused
Speaker 1: about an now, Okay, okay, Well, it's just that since
Speaker 1: I've been hired, Dana, you've been calling me Richard, but
Speaker 1: my name is actually Ian, and I didn't want to
Speaker 1: correct you or bring it up in front of people,
Speaker 1: and I didn't want you to feel embarrassed. And it's
Speaker 1: been a long time, so now I feel embarrassed. So
Speaker 1: I thought that for some reason, this would be the
Speaker 1: best way to approach this. It sounds like Ian maybe
Speaker 1: having some regrets about his method, but we're all here
Speaker 1: now and he really likes you as a boss. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for Richard Ian right now,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's wondering how that mix up happened. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: I think I figured it out. I okay, I see
Speaker 1: what's happened here. Okay, Yeah, this is not good. Would
Speaker 1: you mind? Well it's okay, there's no judgment here, like
Speaker 1: we all make mistakes, but I know that Ian would
Speaker 1: love some clarification. Yeah. Well, okay, So during the interview process,
Speaker 1: I had it narrowed down to a few candidates, and
Speaker 1: we were doing everything remotely at the time. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: all this time I thought we'd hired Richard. I must
Speaker 1: have given HR the wrong resume. What wait, play that
Speaker 1: awkward sound again. Oh my god. Yeah, you should never
Speaker 1: have actually been hired. I apologize for that, but we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to take care of this. Oh wait, what
Speaker 1: does that mean? No, he likes his job. He loves
Speaker 1: his job. You can't fire him. What you didn't take
Speaker 1: care of this? Does that mean you're letting me go? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't know if the protocol is for this is
Speaker 1: this has never actually happened in my career. I've never
Speaker 1: even heard of this. Oh wait, wait wait, hold on, wait,
Speaker 1: wait wait yeah, hold on, Dana, because this is your mistake. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I thought we weren't pointing fingers. Well, you just said
Speaker 1: that you submitted the wrong resume to HR. You shouldn't
Speaker 1: punish Ian for that, And I mean you need to
Speaker 1: circle back around here with you. No, I don't think
Speaker 1: you get taken. You don't get take back seas on
Speaker 1: hiring someone. I don't think it works like that. He's
Speaker 1: been a good employee so far. Right. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: you liked me, Dana. Well, I mean I don't know
Speaker 1: I liked Richard. Well, if you want to just keep
Speaker 1: calling me, Richard, you can just keep calling me Richard. Wait,
Speaker 1: wasn't this a prank phone call this whole time? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: actually Richard, Yeah, jokes, jokes, got it, Richard, you pulled
Speaker 1: it off. Way to go, Richard, Yeah, I got you, Dana,
Speaker 1: my name actually is Richard. Yeah. Well, um, that was
Speaker 1: that was certainly confusing. I guess it was fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got me. He said he wanted to set you
Speaker 1: up because he loves his job so much and being
Speaker 1: so well yeah, yeah, that's that's what we specialize in.
Speaker 1: It is really complicated phone pranks, lots of jokes at
Speaker 1: them too. Well. I mean I can take a joke
Speaker 1: as much as the next guy. So yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Diane. Yeah. Yeah, see what I did there
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