Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: There's an app for that?

Episode Date: May 16, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. How far do you go for a job being tracked by GPS? Seriously, how far do you go? This woman in California, Murna Arias, she's suing her former employee Intermex because her lawsuit claims the company was invading her privacy, wrongful termination and unfair business practices. Now, she's seeking $500,000 in damages.

What happened? Well, she went to work for Intermex. 36-year-old single mother of two. They gave her an app on her cell phone. Her job is visiting bodegas and Hispanic business owners to convince them to install Intermex machines across Central California. They made her put this app on her phone, X-O-R-A, Zora, which tracks you. They told her, you have the app on. we need to know where you're at 24-7.

She did not like that. She did not like that at all. They needed to have their phones. Now, according to this, I was thinking that, well, if you shut your phone off, is the GPS still working? And I believe money phones, they probably still are. But they told her that, you know, they didn't want her to shut the phone off, keep it on.

And they knew where she was at all the time. so she and another employee deleted the app. A few weeks later, they were both fired. Seriously, what do you do? The job is on the road, right? She's not in an office. She's out traveling. They like to know where she's at and whether she's doing her job and she's okay.

I mean, you always throw in the four-year safety line. But how far do you go? 24-7. I believe that I would, I don't know, why not, I don't know, disable the app. Friday, off work, app disabled.

Monday working, app disabled. So that you could still use that, have that phone with you. Take business calls if needed. If that phone is all in one. Or your two phones. Hello. Two phones.

one phone work then you leave the work the work phone wherever you want to when you're off like i don't know the mailbox three houses down a restaurant two miles away from your house that you pick up every monday i don't know you just leave it on the counter it's your house of course but it stays there right you go home you put it on the counter that's it somebody calls for work there you go, you take some message, you call them back, or, you know, you're right there, you answer it. But you have the other phone that you take with you when you're on the road, when you're off. What if someone calls and you're on the road and you can't take their call? Well, I'll get it when I get home.

I'm supposed to be off anyway. But if you make the deal, right, the deal's deal. That's part of the deal of working for the company. It doesn't appear, though, this lady, there's a lot of unanswered questions in the story, which is a little disappointing. It doesn't appear as though that was part of the deal when she was hired to be able to be tracked 24-7. But I do understand the tracking during business hours when she's supposed to be working. But if that's part of your contract, you're working for us, you're taking calls for us 24-7, you're out making sales on these other days.

This is your app. We need to know where you're at. We need to know where you're at. At all times, 24-7, we must know where you're at, what you're at. doing, how fast you're going, and who you're with. Welcome to the new world. Welcome to the new world. And my favorite new app, which I want to say, I believe that I was, I should be,

they should be thanking me for this. I want to say that they should be, they should have contacted me and said, oh my gosh, Jeff, that we thought of this because of you and because of, you know, Sam Kemperson before you. Sam Kinnison used to go on stage. He's a comedian. He's been dead for 100 years now. Nobody knows who the hell he is. But he used to go on stage.

And he used to, when he was on stage performing, he would ask if anyone had to break up with their girlfriend or boyfriend. Wanted to break up with them, but didn't know how to tell him. If they were here on a date with someone else because they wanted to break up with their person that they were with. And he'd find someone and then he would call them and break up for them. Which was if you can, you know, I'm sure it's on the internet, that whole internet thing. Sam Kettison and you see him doing that.

It's fantastic. Some of the funniest things ever, him calling people and telling them that, yeah, she doesn't want you anymore. Get out of our life! Well, this app now from Australia, you can pay to have someone break up with your someone else for you. It's being too lazy to break up for him. Founding Christy Mazins loved her ability to always find the best words in tough situations. So now she's using it to her advantage. If you're willing to spend it, it's like five bucks.

It's cheap. It's give you a breakup message. get a box of tissues, some flowers. So she'll send a breakup message to the person you want to break up with. I'm writing on behalf of Jeff, although he cares and respects you. He is afraid to confront you. He believes your relationship has run its course. It's painful to say goodbye to someone that you don't want to let go.

It's even harder to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. However, Jeff says he's not ready for marriage, children, and all the responsibilities to come with. It chemistry has also been lacking, and he believes it cannot. be forced. This is a difficult time. And five years together has created many treasured memories. I hope you understand. Well, we can still be friends. Regard. Now, that's kind of a cool idea. I just want to say that I'll do it for free. Let me be your breakup app. I offered this many years ago and I'll offer it again on the air. I'll bring it back. If you call me 888-90-0-33-933. 1888-90-3033.

If you don't have the guts to break up with someone that you want to break up with, I'll be the one to do it for you. I'll try to be nice about it, but you never know. You never know what might happen. But I'll be the one to do it for you so that you're clean. You're clean. And you know what? I'll do it for free.

Now, talking about apps that follow you everywhere, keep your GPSed. There's a new drone that I want. I want this drone bad. Okay? You have a little, you throw it up in the air and it follows you around. Of course, you know, it's like you use your phone. It's got a little pack thing that you put it in your pocket, so it's following that. But it films everything, so it's filming you.

I just tweeted it at Jeffie. It is fantastic. It runs for about, I think, it runs about 15, 20 minutes. It's got a 12 megapixel still, 360 degree panorama, twilight is about 25 miles an hour, goes underwater, lasts about 20 minutes on the charge. And it's got a range of about 100 feet. So you keep within 100 feet of it, it'll crank,

it'll follow you everywhere. I want. It is fantastic. And there's like five or six hundred bucks. You can order them now. I just tweeted it at Jeffrey Armora. I'll put it up on my Facebook page, Jeffrey Fisher as well.

Self-flying drone. I'm telling you, you throw it up. It files. You can film everything. Fantastic. Forget the gatekeepers of movies and films and videos. You are your own gatekeeper. Create.

Go. Do. Think about who you can put that little thing on, then the drone would follow them. Ooh, might be trouble. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.