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Episode Date: August 30, 2024

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So Dave Dave texted that he's running from another meeting today, so he's not gonna make the morning stand up So I know I'm you know I'm nobody's boss. I'm not trying to run. You know the stand-up For anything was just kind of your own stand up with a microphone Yeah, this is actually a little karaoke machine. I don't know why I decided to use this Holiday party. This is from the holiday party. Yeah, Dave never uses this. I'm sorry I'll put the little karaoke machine down. I'll actually get up off the stage because we just do this at kind of under desks And just kind of like everybody go through like what you're gonna be like working on today

If you have any of like roadblocks or anything like that Yeah This is Darren here. I will be working on cohesion, also trying to sort of synchronize. I guess serendipity is going to be a big part of today in the framework that I'm implementing. Yeah.

And then kind of trying to circle back to to circling back To circle back on all the circle backs. I haven't circled back to And and I was Darren Okay Darren so so yeah, do you have any roadblock anything holding me up for that or? So yeah, do you have any roadblocks anything holding you up for that or? um Sailing on all that or well I did I forgot all my passwords

So if I could I thought that might take up most of my day if I don't get those great figured out So if I get over to IT right after this maybe just run over to IT. I'm no one's boss I know I'm not I'm not Darren's boss You know Dave Dave is all of our bosses, but maybe run it over to IT, get those passwords. Okay. And figure it out. Okay, and I was Darren and let me pass the conch shell to my left. I don't know if this is the right time for this,

but someone's been parking in my spot. Do I, should I bring this up to HR? Can we talk about it as a group? I don't wanna like eat into our... Yeah, I don't know that this is also the right time to talk about this. I mean, it feels like this is like a Dave situation where like Dave would really want to be here to talk about something like this because it feels like this is going to get pretty interpersonal.

I check with IT maybe. Yeah, I don't think that you should check with IT. I see that you're kind of like staring daggers at Trevor right now. I don't know if that's related or if... I mean the vanity plate on that car says Trevor. That could be anybody's car. There's lots of Trevors that work here. Well Trevor, what's your car? What's my car? I take, I ride a bike to work, man.

I don't have a car. But if I did, it would be a fucking pristine 2023 Volkswagen Jetta, baby blue Jetta. That is exactly the car that's in my spot. That's my dream car. So some Trevers live in a great life. And I don't even think we have a sign parking spots. Am I crazy?

Trevor, are you eating... Sorry, are you eating Beth's birthday cake for later? That's supposed to be for lunch. It's not like... No, I bake this. I bake this for breakfast. I can see ha-ber-be on your piece of cake. Oh, and also all the words must have been misaligned on that cake.

Alright, everyone. It seems like maybe we're getting into stuff that we would actually really want Dave here to address. Where is Dave? Where is Dave? He's running from another meeting. He said he wasn't actually going to make it to our morning stand up. And I think it's just he had an earlier morning thing, I think, with maybe the CFO. He was saying that there's a big CFO shake-up thing. I heard he was interviewing other places. Is that true?

Yeah, is that true? Is that true? Ruba, ruba, ruba, ruba. Yeah, I mean, is that true? Is Dave abandoning the team? Man, this cake I made is good. I don't know. I don't know why everyone's looking at me. I don't have any secret information. Dave just happened to send me a message that said he was gonna run late and ask me if I could run stand up for today. It's not... I don't...

Who are you? What is your job? I feel like you're new. I don't who are you what is your job? I feel like you're new Yeah, this is my second day Everyone I'm Sean. I'm the new hire I don't really know what I'm supposed to be doing yet I just yesterday was all HR paperwork for me. So I'm yeah, I don't know why Dave I don't know why he messaged me specifically But maybe it's because I was working with him like pretty closely yesterday He was kind of like trying to get me up to speed on everything that we're doing.

Which I don't know what we do. And frankly, what Darren said, it was Darren, right? Uh, yeah, I'm Darren. Yeah, what Darren said earlier, I couldn't make heads or tails out of that, so I'm not really sure if that's... Everyone seemed to just be nodding along while Darren was talking, I'm not sure if that's kind of something. Everyone?

They're all nodding. Hey, Addle, can I ask you a question? I guess it's kind of a personal question. Yeah, of course, anything. So you know how our friend Aaron just got married this last weekend and we weren't invited to the wedding and it's... That's why obviously she's not here because she's on her honeymoon. And she said no gifts, but I'm going to get her a gift because obviously, you know, she says no gifts, but I'm gonna get her a gift because obviously you know she

says no gifts but you have to get her a gift. Gotta get her a gift. But I'm figuring out my budget for the gift and it's like I don't know what I'm doing I don't know what I can spend I'm like do you have any advice for her how I could or I don't know how you're doing it or? Well I'm using Rocket Money. Have you heard of this? You've seen this? Yeah, Rocket Money. That's the personal finance app that finds and cancels your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and helps you lower your bills so that you can grow your savings. Rocket Money! JPC, I subscribe to Rocket Money because I'm... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand you should use Rocket Money. And I found out that I'm paying for a subscription three times over. So I canceled two of them and just kept the one. Oh, yeah. Um, I, I'm subscribed to a lot of things that I didn't even know about.

Um, I'm subscribed to Aaron's wedding gifts, ideas.com. That's an $800 a month subscription. Um, get Aaron a present.biz, uh, Aaron present finder.gov, which I'm like, that can't be like, I think.govs are pretty regulated, right? Well, JPC, those all sound like pretty good subscriptions. Rocket Money has over 5 million users and has saved a total of 500 million in canceled subscriptions, saving members up to $740 a year when using all of the app's features.

Now, $740 a year would be helpful for Erin and her new spouse. I mean, yeah, and I guess we're not allowed to know who they are, because every picture of them is just a black outline. It's been completely cut out of the picture. Yeah, it's a zero mascot, and let's just say they're on their honeymoon, or should I say honey nut moon? And we and we won't say we won't and we won't say but what we will say

Is stop wasting money on things you don't use cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to rocket money.com slash riddle That's rocket money dot com slash riddle rocket money dot com slash riddle I'm hungry for cereal now. Me too Just canceled my cereal subscription Well, I guess here at horizon innovations what we tend to do is sort of hungry for cereal now. Me too. Just canceled my cereal subscription. Well, I guess here at Horizon Innovations, what we tend to do is sort of eliminate this sort of roadblocks that appear on the road to synergy to sort of streamline the process,

I guess is what Horizon Innovations mostly does. Yeah. I'll go next. I got a really busy day today. I've been in and out of meetings pretty much all day. If you see me in one of the conference rooms alone, it's because I have booked the conference rooms, and I do not want to be-

Trevor, is that my office chair? I wasn't under the impression that we had assigned office chairs in the office. I've got my own, it's for my back. Yeah, they said that that's actually off assigned office chairs in the office. I've got my own it's for my back Yeah, they said that that's actually something you're not supposed to do you actually every chair in the office It's like it's like how we don't have desks like assigned to each one. Yes, we do. Yeah, we absolutely do They have pictures of our family. Yeah, of course. Everyone has their own desk Wait a minute. I'm in and out of meetings pretty much all day. So hold on a second

Heath has the conch shell but Trevor you're holding another conch shell did you bring a conch shell from home? I baked this this morning so I basically do not disturb all day basically so I don't need I don't if you need something from me email me and I'll get to it in a couple weeks but do not come up and initiate a conversation with me. Now I might come up and initiate a conversation with you about fantasy baseball that's's, you know, what I do with my downtime is my downtime, okay? We all deserve breaks. I think we can all admit that. Didn't... Didn't we get banned from playing fantasy anything or doing betting of any kind

because several of us got financially ruined last spring? Okay, great. I mean, it's not money. We're not doing money anymore. We're doing Trevor bucks, which is something you can buy directly from me and so it's not I buy it with Bitcoin Hey, everyone could buy it in whatever ways. Okay. I don't want this. I bought one Trevor going in it was $36,000 I know this whole stand-up to turn into like the Trevor show because I said I'm like stacked today like it's one of my craziest Mondays ever so Does anyone know when Dave's getting back or whatever? Cause I never have to deal with all this kind of like noise.

Well, Dave is here. I'm a top earner. Sorry, I don't have the shell, but I have another question, Sean. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I'm again, I, yes, I guess you could ask a question for me. It's my second day. It says that we have an all hands meeting

in like four minutes. And I'm wondering if we could just roll this meeting into that meeting or we have to like do the whole song and dance of everyone going back to their desk and then us all like, can we just flow into that in like a way that's natural? I just don't wanna have to. Actually, every meeting is supposed to end

two, three minutes early so that we can make it over to the next meeting if there's going to be a venue change to the meeting and the All Hands is in a bigger room. We all want the three minutes back, right? That's where I look at my emails. All right. Well, I guess we'll all see. Hold on.

Why is everyone having such a visceral reaction to me this morning? Okay. I've been quiet this entire meeting. I have no blockers. I think it's just what happened on Friday, Eugene. Sorry, Heath here. I've been holding the conch shell. I of course was on vacation six years ago, walked by the building, went in to use the bathroom, and I've been here ever since. Not sure what I'm doing. I am receiving a paycheck, but I don't do any work at all

Every single day for the last six years and I would love to see my family again But every time I open the door to leave I enter through the back door of this building So it's sort of empty with Heath's voice Heath's voice is just awesome Heath Whatever you're doing today. Keep doing it man. You're killing. I think not another raise. Don't give me another raise, please I'll need to go home, please Can I just say can I just address that it shouldn't what we do? After hours on a Friday should not affect how people feel about people on a Monday Okay, cuz if work ends at 5 and I do something really crazy That's like kind of me showing my

personality for the first time that shouldn't affect how people feel about me on a Monday. We're all kind of looking at each other we're all nodding we think it should. Yeah I know Friday was my first day and which is wild to have Friday be your first day but I kind of appreciated it because I got the E's into the week and then hit the weekend, so that was nice. What Eugene did was, I would say at any company that I've worked for, borderline unacceptable. And I know it's not my place because it's just my second day

and Dave didn't really put me in charge of the meeting, but I would just like to say to Eugene, I guess shame on you for what you did. Yeah, yeah, I think we all kind of agree, shame on you for what you did Yeah, yeah, I think we're all kind of agree shame on Eugene yeah what Eugene did was actually Awful was awful to see yeah, sorry about that. That sucks that that happened to you. He's liked it He loved it. Okay, it feels like the meeting is supposed to be starting right now I'm just trying new things just trying to figure out, you know where the borders are Alright guys, we do we go back to our desk or just do we roll into the meeting?

I'm starting to get really stressed out the other meeting starting like now so like That would be a question for Dave who's not here But he said he was gonna be here for the next meeting so I guess if the meeting is starting right now that Dave should Be I mean at any point kind of? popping up I'm assuming. Oh, Sean, it looks like HR opened their door and they're trying to call you in for something. Uh, okay, yeah, it's probably more new hire, new hire paperwork. So maybe, yeah, maybe just roll into the next meeting, I'm going to pop into HR and then I'll kind of join up when I don't know

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