Men At Work Podcast - BONUS CLIP: How to Deal With an EVIL Receptionist...

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

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Uh, here we go. Someone sent this in. The receptionist where I work is unbelievably rude. When I arrive in the morning, she rolls her eyes at me, will not make eye contact when I am talking to her about work related things. And if I ask her, she has read my email, she replies with, oh, I did see something from you. I just figured it wasn't important or why can't you just call me to discuss that? I've had enough. How can I manage this without making the situation worse? So she's had a bad problem with a receptionist. You have any receptionist for the next six days that you have a job? no no receptionist but I think my idea would be why don't you tell her see if she can smile more why don't you ask her she should tell her she smile a little bit more 100%. Tell her say hey you have really nice legs I think you should smile more oh yeah I think

are those mutually exclusive are those correlated in any way you can really nice legs smile more why you why you're so angry with those hot fucking legs Oh my God, you're so mean to be And all I want to do is tell you how huge your tits are What is your deal, lady?

That is probably like a thing nowadays. I mean, I think people are watching a lot of cuck porn If I know how my algorithm is working right now And what it's feeding me A lot of people are watching a lot of things right now Well, there's a reason that's in your algorithm is me No, no, no Dude, seek out

I don't want to go deep into it My algorithm is now showing me She-mail stuff Dude, don't tell me that On the front page I'm telling you On the front page I hand to God

We're on the Patreon I'd admit it if I ever looked at it If I ever felt a little bi-curious I don't It's sending me Fucking gang bang But one of them Are a she-mail

It's insane That's the weirdest And I'm just like Knock it off And they and they hide it so inconspicuously so that when you hover over it it shows the little preview

that's when I get hit with it I'm like that's not fair that's a reverse or no card I don't appreciate it Pornhub clean it the fuck up all right Do not show me a fucking Gmail again again you piece of shit

Unless I'm in key west At the fantasy house Then I'll check it out For a minute Back to more important things I actually I worked with receptionists A lot of Conquist

So like I feel like I'm actually One of the one of the best people to answer this question All right, let's hear So I hated receptionist So when I got there I did a lot of like scheduling job interviews And sometimes it would be with like High Executives of Comcast and stuff

And The receptionists were like so mean They were always like now He doesn't have time there He doesn't have time there I mean you're looking at like They give us like that little scheduling assistant On Microsoft Outlook and stuff

It was just red red red red and I'm doing like eight person panels and I'm trying to find like 15 to 30 minutes for this person they don't give a shit it's a lower level job that they're never going to interact with this person at all but like you find out that like you have to go through the receptionist and then you like find out that like the receptions like handles everything once I was able to like kind of be introduced to these ladies they do kind of warm up to you now are they bridge trolls do you have to answer like three riddles just to get on the executives like calendar yeah you do like are they they're like cupa troopers like in mario they just

protect dows it's fucking insane but you come to find like they are the most powerful people in that company yeah i guess if they're the one interfacing with all the goings in the outs they do have the indas they must sign are have to be ironclad yeah because like On the other end, you realize how stupid these executives are. And, like, I'm talking about, like, Fortune 500 company, like, dudes that are going to change the landscape of the entire world in, like, the next decade. Yeah. Like, guys that are just moving and shaken, powerful people, disrupting industry. Like, these are the people that I'm trying to get some stupid fucking software developer for an interview scheduled on their, on their calendar and stuff.

but like they're fucking idiots can't tie their shoes together can't put on a tie you walk in introduce yourself there's coffee spilled on their stupid fucking shirt they just happen to be brilliant fucking people and they're just controlled by these literal arthritic carpal tunnel coffee breathing having motherfuckers bridge trolls well i think the fucking the the receptionist and the CEO almost kind of share like a kindred spirit in a weird way because I think a lot of these CEOs are fucking idiots they're just like human

mascots so they're the mascot for the company and then the secretary is the mascot for the CEO and she relays the goings on to the CEO but secretly they're both kind of fucking idiots but they're the most powerful people almost 100%.

That's actually not the worst that's a good point that like a secretary might rank in the top 30 most important careers that you could have. It depends. Yeah, it depends. Like, if you're doing it for a VP, like, step your game up. Like, VPs are like, they're fine.

They're okay. They, like, they fraternize with the C-suite, but they don't, they're not, they're not doing, you know, they're not the ones that are, like, deciding if we should bomb Yemen or take out, you know, Madison, Wisconsin's internet just because we feel like doing it. Well, actually, technically they are. Everybody that's called the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State. There's some powerful fucking secretaries out there for Christ. That is true. That is true. But to help this person, you got to schmooze them.

You got to play the game. Like, I was lucky enough, 6-5, strong jaw. I just smile at them. I reminded them all of their grandchildren. Sorry, dude. You don't want me to put my stats out there? God, don't give them to me. Not even a good phrase, folks.

Not even a good. You might be a CEO, dude. God, don't even give them to me if you don't want you put my stats out there. Big dog. But, like, I mean, I would, I would, I would, I would bring them a little, little present here or there, schmooze these ladies a little bit. And then it's, it's nice. It's nice how you, like, finally hook them in. Make a little, make a little joke at them a little bit, you know, because it's so boring up there, too. It's quiet. It's all filled with, like, glass panes and everything. You're in the cloud so you can't see outside. It's a very sad, sad environment up in, up in the C-suite at Comcast. I can imagine, especially modern offices, because, like, the secretaries, you watch, like, those old Hollywood movies. Those secretaries, they fucking, they didn't even sign NDAs. Yeah, so here you go. So here you go.

The ones that are like, like, like, the, the only thing that I knew about a secretary before I joined Comcast was like Lloyd from Antirash. So I just thought every secretary was gay and Asian. Sure. And like not far off. Well, very far off if it's in Philadelphia. It's like all like the, all the, all the secretaries are like young, like asexual, but they're like from Delco. Is that right? yeah like they're because they're they're great at their job because they're all hard asses

okay that's fair their job is literally to be like you can't get on this guy's calendar okay yeah they're very good at being like they're like yeah no I mean so like it's like it's like you're trying to you're trying to get in their good graces but you're also like you're kind of an asshole you're kind of a cunt and then you see them fucked up over over the weekend in a bar and you guys like kind of like hit it off plus you have something over over their head for the rest of their life and then they'd be nice to you Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.