Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Getting in Trouble at Work for Twerking in Front of My Boomer Colleagues

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

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The Jono Ben and Megan podcast, thanks to Dilma. Goodness really does taste great. Dilma, making the world a better tea. I'm in trouble for management. I feel like I'm being told off now. Yeah, I have been, for two things, I got in trouble with management, and I hope they're listening right now. But when I first got the job...

Is that part of the reason why you're getting in trouble? Maybe this might be the third reason I got in trouble. Before I started the job, I prefaced this. I was like, hey, I'm likely to break my phone screen, but the other one, I was like, I'm... Is that the first thing you said? That was the first thing I said. Because you're going to work fine, right?

Yeah, I've a work fine, so. I was like, hey, by the way. You know you could have get that to yourself. No, but like I need a pretty... She wanted a sturdy phone case. I just want to let them know like, hey, I'm likely to break. Back to the important stuff. They, I let them know, I was like, hey, I'm really bad at spelling.

Like, it's likely to become a problem. And now I've been told three separate occasions, Grace, you can't spell pretty much. And so now I have to get producer Troy to check everything. Not you can't spell the word pretty much. No. It's just you can't spell in general. In general.

Can you smell pretty much? P-R-E-T-Y space, much. How many times have I seen to you passive-aggressively? You've spelled that wrong on the gram. Yeah, probably a lot. If you ever see anything on social, it's me. But now I have to get Troy to check it right there. And so this has been brought up on a couple of occasions,

but to be fair, you did say you were a shocking spelling. I pre-warned them, thank you. She's got dyslexia. It's not fear. It's fine. It's such a funny thing to pre-warn your bosses about. By the way, I'm really sure. reworn about anything.

I think they knew enough about us. All the bad things that they hide us. And if not, they slowly find out and go, why do we hire those people? And then what's the other thing you've been getting in trouble for? The second thing, I got an email being like, hey, Grace, just in your emails, just watch out a bit. You're being a bit savage. And I was like, oh, okay, I think it's the Gen Z and me. I don't do the, you know, the, hey, how are you going?

I just get to the point. You're not doing the email dance. I'm not doing the email. What? Why? Why do I email dance? I don't like the email dance. I just do it, but I don't like it. See, I don't care about it.

Hope you doing well. Yeah, hope this finds you well. Hope this thing is. I'm trying to add a new one in now. Hope you're safe and well. Oh, that's nice. I do say thank you, though. I do say thank you.

I always have to write the email and then go back and go, oh, there's no niceties and write it up the top afterwards. Yeah, see, I don't think about that. And so, but are you also starting with, hey devers, sleigh queens and emails? Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, that's nice. Every email, all my professional emails are sleigh divas, hey queens, She's been pulled up on the emails.

Yeah, I've been put up on the emails, my professionalism. But hey, it is what it is. This is what we actually want to chuck open. Oh, 800 of the hits, 4-4-8-7. What's the funniest thing you've got in trouble for at work? Or maybe someone you work with has been hauled into the office for. Spelling's a good one. And being savage on emails?

We'll have to share how Justin Bieber got us in a bit of trouble. I've got a Justin Bieber one too. Oh, really? Yeah. We deserved it, though. Oh, 800 of the hits. Yeah. Yeah, oh, and it's 4, 48, 7.

What are you thinking about? You're thinking about something, that. No, it's right. So, I think about Justin B, whether we deserved it or not. I had a friend who works in the corporate world. He left it like four minutes to five one day recently. And then God on the next day was called into a meeting, and they were like, we need you to make up those four minutes.

Oh, wow. No. That's not, it wouldn't have been a productive four. They would have just been sitting there waiting. That's ridiculous. What are you getting done in four minutes? To logging off potentially. knowing their work, then what does it matter?

Well, Justin Bieber actually was a real big bono contention in our previous workplace. He got us in trouble for the funniest thing you got in trouble for at work. Yeah, because we're obviously doing the TV show at the time, John and Ben, but working at the Rock. And we got Justin Bieber on the TV show, which was the biggest get ever. He was coming in. I remember that. It was great.

It was awesome. Justin Bieber's coming in the show, but for the Rock audience. Couldn't add a worse. And the Rock bosses, this was like, who are you hanging out with? Oh, yeah. It was like taking Satan to the Vatican. You had him on the TV but not on the radio. No, but of course.

Oh, but you're associated now with Bebs. It's showing us putting it on our Facebook page and stuff. It's like, yeah, and stuff like that because it's big for the TV show, but for The Rock, it's like, what are you doing? Justin Bieber. Diplomatic incident. And then Justin Beaver was coming into the same building for an interview on another radio station and our boss, Brad, bless him, at the Rock,

was threatening to hide in the stairwell and ambush Bieber. I think that might have been the same. It might have been us interviewing him. him at the other radio station because was at the time he was wearing his purple hat, his famous purple hat. He left it in the studio with us. So we held it to ransom and all took pictures of it and said we made him come back and everything before we were giving him his hat back. But we ended up getting like a very serious phone call saying just give it back. Just give his hat back. Oh really? We were all taking photos like come and get your hat, Bieber, but no, no, we'll give it back.

I hazard a guess he could probably afford another. I know, right? Everybody says I love that hat. All right, let's guess the calls and text. Sort of swabbed his DNA. Anon, welcome. Funniest thing you've been in trouble for? At work.

Anon? Oh, yes. My emails. Oh, you got trouble for emails like Producer Grace. What'd you do? Well, nothing, really. I've just been responding to one of my managers at head office, and she sent me an email back that says,

thank you for your communication in regards to that. I'd like to say that your emails have been lacking a greeting are often briefed in their nature and sometimes there is a delay in your response. Oh, so they wanted a, hey, hope you're doing well. They wanted the nice easing. Oh, that's funny. I'd be fine if I worked there.

Yeah, you would be, yeah. Now we have Anonymous number two joining us. Hi, so I work at a workplace where there is a significant age gap between me and my colleagues. I am significantly younger than them. And we were talking about trends, you know, that we grew up with. And I was like, yeah, you know, like wall twerking. And they were like, what? I was like, you know, rule twerking.

You know, you do a handstand upside down and then you twerk. And they're like, no, that's not a trend. So your feet are up the wall. You do a handstand, feet on the wall. And then, yeah. You shake your booty. Please tell me this is going where I think it's going. It is absolutely going where you think it's going.

So I was like, yeah, like I used to do it at university all the time. And they were like, you can't do that. And to be fair, I cannot. But, hey, I was like determined to show them. I had two kids later, 30 kGs more heavier and I was going to do this, okay? So I hiked up my dress into my bank. Oh, God. And I was like, this is how you do it, guys.

And I choose you not. The second I tried to attempt this, the CEO, the entire board of trustees of our company, walked past the glass of the boardroom. Your world war's working. It was horrific. Did you get an email or was it a meeting? I got a, hey, you have, you know, your dedicated lunchtime

and what you do during that time is. You can twerk on your own time. Better twerk stories. So good. That is brilliant.