Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - How Much Did You Cost Your Company? | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: June 10, 2026

Producer Troy reveals how a ribbon purchase froze the work credit card... So we ask what did you cost the company?  From a $300K order to a $150K accidtnaly deal! Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & MeganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You know what I love about this time every morning? So we've got a couple of tent pole moments throughout the show behind the scenes. 618 to 623. Megan applies her eyebrow stuff and eyelash stuff. Muscarra. Yeah. 807 to 815. Ben eats his Greek yogurt.

Those are the two moments that I appreciate you. I look forward to every morning. Very consistent though with your timings on those two activities you do. Well, I try and get through the alpha quiz first before, you know, stuff gets stuck in my teeth with the granola. I do my makeup during the Herald quiz. because that helps me focus. You know, breakfast while they're never getting breakfast.

What do you do? I just sit here, mate. City, are observing, having a great time. He gets distracted by social media now and again. I do. Bloody Instagram. I need to delete it. I'm going to delete it.

I'm not. Now, Troy, producer Troy, we need to bring you into the studio because as a show. We've had our credit card frozen. Well, it's just become unfrozen after a period of freezing, miss spending. The public need answers. I've never had a work credit card before in my professional career. and I've kind of gone a bit crazy.

Did they tell you what the rules and regulations were around having one? No. No, they just kind of said sign your name here, send a copy of your ID, and then a credit card turned up. And I was like, okay, sweet, great. In your defence, the one time I had a work credit card was when I went rogue on the show. Remember I got told off? No one told me there was, like, spending limit.

Oh, you guys bought dinner, your monsters. We went around and we bought food and drinks and, like, oh, hard. You went to the supermarket. We did get told off for overspendings. There's a lot of personal purchases at the supermarket. Don't hand over the card and let's you're going to give provisers. Normally the way it goes as the announcers go,

we want to do this cool, wacky thing. Can you go and buy this? And you have to go and get approval from the bosses. Yeah, right. Can we pay for this in the budget? But with a credit card, I'm like, sweet guys. Yeah, no, it's easy. I'll go buy that thing.

So the issue is we want to open up the phones. 0800 that hits 4487. You know, how much did you end up costing the company? Because one of Troy's purchases was flagged. This is what pushed it over the limit and got the card frozen was the ribbon that I bought for Megan's fridge peeling ceremony.

Shall we peel the plastic off Megan's fridge? It would have been on there for, you know, 10 years. I went to the government contractor of ribbons. They do the NZTA banners when they open new roads. Oh, wow. We could have gone down a step. All the big ribbon ceremonies this company's behind. Yeah, they open a new town, they go to this company.

Hospitals. Yep. And I commissioned a proper ceremonial ribbon that had Megan's fridge peeling ceremony all over. That's right, yeah. But it wasn't so much that. it was the fact that you ordered, what, 10 meters? 10 meters of ribbon.

It was pricey too. It was. Yeah, pushed us right over the limit. Hundreds of dollars worth of ribbon, so they said, hey, enough's enough. What did we do? We gave that ribbon to other people who needed it for ceremonies. I've still got a section. Yeah, I cut it into one meter sections and ship them all out.

It's great. Yeah, see, we used that. We gave it. We should have gone around the country with the ribbon. And I think, yeah. What do you want to open? We'll open it. Yeah, we'll do that.

If everyone that we sent it back, everyone that we sent it to, send it. We can buy more. I want to do a ribbon tour of New Zealand as well. You know that's going to cost more, right? Oh no, but it's a good idea. How much ribbon does one show want to buy? They want to buy more ribbon? Okay, so 800 the hits.

How much did you end up costing your company? Now, whether it was through mispurchasing on a credit card or, oh, Dan, our friend, he does the breakfast show on the edge, Dan. He used to work at West Pack at the bank. Did he have a serious job? Yeah, well, he did until this point. Yeah, and someone came. and they wanted a thousand dollars cash out and he mucked up something he gave them 10,000.

Like he added up at the end of the day and he was like, oh, I'm 10,000 out here. Oh my. Do they get it back? I don't know. I don't think he kept his job after that. That's how he ended up in race. This one? You wonder how some people stay employed, really, don't you?

We had a guy, I won't mention his name, but he worked here previously and he said some wild stuff about a well-known person. That falls under the category of defamation because it didn't turn out, you know, it turned out to be not true. Yeah. Apparently you can't just say stuff about people that's not true. No, no. You have to be careful with a live microphone in front of you.

You do. One of my people I used to work with said a celebrity's phone number on the radio. Got in big trouble. That's wild. A massive phone. Did they go to court, did it? Yeah. But I think the company paid the fine.

You have to really back yourself as an employee not to get fired when you cost the money. Radio, the management and radio must be like, look at all that idiot. we've employed and put microphones in front of their faces. You know, a lot of damage can be done. Thankfully, I've never done anything like that because I reckon I'd just get the boot. I'd be like, no.

So 800 the hits you. What have you cost the company? Some great texts coming through, as Ben said, we'll get to those very shortly. But first of all, we'll go, Happy New Year to you, Roxy. Hello, guys. How we doing?

We're doing well, mate. What'd you cost the company? Not me. I just want to say it. It's not me. Broxie? Who? No. So my cousin worked for a company and they

had a guy there that does, you know, the purchasing and stuff like that. He was supposed to order 50 car batteries. He ordered 500. Cost over $300,000. Oh, wow. Mind you, it's useful to have to, you know,

backup storage of batteries. You never know when your battery's going to run out. Well, that's what my husband is. been, my cousin said, he was like, but we don't have space for 500 batteries. And did they all turn up? They did.

They did. But you would have thought, like, I can understand the mistake, you know, sticky keyboard or whatever, adding an extra zero, but you would kind of think it's a little different from 3,000 to 300,000. Yeah. And the battery salesperson

would have been like, take the rest of the day. Look at this order that's just surely they could take it back you would be like no rebounds you know the battery game highly charged battery game okay roxy appreciate your time

did he keep his job he better get a clue he did and my cousin's actually getting me to make him a t-shirt about it oh that's good i mean it was a mistake out of him all the time yeah they uh i mean these things happens when you are you employ muntas like us

you know we're all muntas really at the end of the day aren't we kiley welcome hello right Would you cost the company, Kylie? I resigned from my position, and they offered me a large K-rides to stay, but were on a buyout. It ended up costing the owners 150 grand to keep me. So the company was being sold?

Yes. At the time. Yes. So how did it go, how did it get up to 150K? Because of the multiplier on the buyout for any additional cost. Oh, nolly. Kiley's like, oops, sorry guys. Time is everything.

Sorry, you know. You know. You have to pay Kylie a little bit more. Oh, that is great. Good on you. Some texts coming through here. Well, I had to explain the one we had before that someone that didn't want to talk about on here. But how did the phone thing work that we teased?

They went away for summer break and everyone had their automatic replies on, basically being like, I'm away until January 16th. We'll be reply then. But someone sent a group message to everyone on the company. And then everyone's automatic replies pinged back, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And they had tens of thousands of texts. up. So it was like, every text was like 50 cents.

How did I not? How does that not happen more? Automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic reply, automatic and they just kept pinging back so it was like there's thousands of me and they came back and each person had like 10,000 messages. Again, the salesperson sparks like, take the rest of the summer off guys. These guys texting each other. I'll keep this coming through. Four for eight seven.