MESS with Sydnee Washington & Marie Faustin - "The Jobs Expert" with Cousin Andrew

Episode Date: December 2, 2016

Sydnee & Marie end up helping all those who might need a little employment advice on a new episode of The Unofficial Expert they talk with Marie's cousin Andrew.----Listen to The Unofficial Expert... Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus:https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus----BONUS EPISODES AVAILABLE NOW ON PATREON:www.patreon.com/TheUnofficialExpertBUY UNOFFICIAL EXPERT MERCH:https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-unofficial-expert-podcastFOLLOW THE UNOFFICIAL EXPERT:https://www.instagram.com/UnofficialExpertFOLLOW SYDNEE:https://www.instagram.com/JustSYDbwhttps://twitter.com/justsydnycFOLLOW MARIE:https://www.instagram.com/Reeezyhttps://twitter.com/MsReeezyFOLLOW ANDREW:https://www.instagram.com/mcgui_guyTHE UNOFFICIAL EXPERT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCASThttps://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/the-unofficial-expertSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Listeners of Unofficial Expert podcast, Zipcar, is offering $25 of free driving credit at Zipcar.com. To earn $25 of free driving credit, go to JoinZipcar.com slash UnofficialExperts. Again, that's JoinZipcar.com slash UnofficialExperts to earn free driving credit. Hey. Hi, guys. Oh, my God. It's Sydney. And Marie. And this is the Unofficial Expert.
Starting point is 00:00:27 We are. We're math smart, yo. yeah we are yeah we are and we're here to uh test other people who think they're smart in all fields various of foolishness in various fields of foolishness yes we're trying to see how smart people are and then we want to show them that they're not as smart as they think they are sometimes oh maybe they are maybe they are let's not be so negative okay well good cop bad cop yes you are definitely bad cop all day what i was trying to say that you were bad cop what that's crazy bitch you got nerve that's not like a bad cop i don't even curse speaking of good cop marie what were you a good expert at this week uh this week i was an expert
Starting point is 00:01:10 at living my best life because i yelled at a white woman on the train um and i was like oh i think i'm ready to die so i'm obviously an expert at living on the edge because i could have got shot are you serious yes i yelled at a white lady because she she was trying to get on before i got off so i yelled at her she had like one of those like triple wide strollers so she you know she was she had the wig on and the hat on top of the wig and there was like a wig on top of the hat it was a lot happening and i was like i'm trying to get off if if i can't get off you can't get on and her and like all her babies is like shira and like please don't be disrespectful what she was being disrespectful when she accosted me with her triple wide stroller okay wrap it up ladies
Starting point is 00:02:02 where are you gonna have so many people not liking us today i'm pretty sure jewish women don't listen to this podcast they will my demographic they will you can't don't be don't be negative what is really wrong with my mic sounds like you're an expert at not fully plugging in your microphone this week i feel like yeah no but have you seen that you see people do that all the time like like when you're coming when someone's coming out you're supposed to wait for them so you can get in anything off the bus into a building not new not new new york oh well i'm like that if somebody holds if i hold the door for you you have to say thank you or i'm pulling you back and shutting the door in your face i'm an expert at being polite until you disrespect me right i say please
Starting point is 00:02:44 i say thank you i'm one of these people who says sorry a lot i'm like oh sorry sorry sorry do you sorry yes in social situations i'm like oh sorry but i'm trying to wean myself off of that i only say sorry when i'm sorry now i don't and i ain't sorry i hear you say sorry that much because i'm not sorry i ain't sorry i actually don't even know how the song goes but you know what i mean what were you an expert at this week starting up random conversations in the uber pool so you were like a jehovah's witness in the uber pool huh yeah i was starting up conversations that led to me plugging our show okay plugging the things that are happening in my life okay so you how many uber pools did you take this week
Starting point is 00:03:33 about 10 what yeah 10 ubers this week yes this is why you ain't got no money you're an expert at not saving money i had five dollars uber pool okay in the city five ten dollars that's fifty dollars well i had to take one leaving work how much did that uber cost 16 16 okay boom that was on monday now run me through the rest of the uber pools how much was the most expensive one you're an expert in getting all in my business all of my finances i'm trying to let you know that you need to be a little bit wiser with your money as a representative of the unofficial expert, okay? Because we don't have, like, a budget, okay?
Starting point is 00:04:25 Listen, the Uber pools is for my story, so basically it's towards my career of betterment. Because the less... It's art. The more Uber pools you take, the less petty cash you have for Marie here on the show. Oh, my God. Who gonna buy these sandwiches now?
Starting point is 00:04:45 That's why you don't have no sandwiches today. We don't have craft services. We don't have no yogurt. We have a yogurt from last week. We have an old ass moldy yogurt. I'm like, is this granola? No, I think that's mold. I spent $20 on a regular yellow cap today.
Starting point is 00:04:58 You're terrible. I'm doing really bad. I did walk. I walked 15 blocks. But you still paid $20 and then you walked the rest of the way? Because the devil is always working. Oh, yes. The devil also has a savings and a checking account.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Do you have those things? No, you don't. I have a checking. you have a checking account yes i do at uh city bank that sounds terrible they email me and they say oh you know it's so glad that you're like been banking with us and i was like have i really been banking with y'all have you you got no money for them with them i mean i'll be having these direct deposit checks but i haven't had like a big check deposited in such a long time that's you ain't got no money because you're spending all your coins on uber pools you see that full
Starting point is 00:05:43 second uh so sydney is obviously an expert at not being that smart and i'm an expert at also not being that smart because that white lady could have gotten me killed and if you died then it would just be the unofficial expert with sydney washington and i feel like that sounds pretty good but people would be like but she kind of dumb though so i don't know if i want to listen to this she dumb and where's her friend with the good radio voice that would be me anywho today we have a great guest oh we have a great guest i'm so excited to bring in this guest okay so can i introduce him this is my uh my youngest cousin but also he really is an expert in what we've called him in for today today we have andrew mcgill how you doing i see you working
Starting point is 00:06:33 on that voice, that WBLS voice. It sounds pretty sexy. That smooth voice. Yes, that's like middle of the dial. That's a 95, 98.7. 98.7. Back to you. Ooh, that sounds really good.
Starting point is 00:06:48 So Andrew is actually my cousin. He's my youngest cousin. He the baby, but he's a grown-ass man, right, Andrew? You're grown. He looks very grown. His beard just grew in this year. I got a beard. His beard is giving me Rick Ross freeway vibes.
Starting point is 00:07:02 I love it. I'm adulting real hard So Adulting Trying to figure out my life Your eyes are very brown today What is going Going on
Starting point is 00:07:10 You trying to trap An old bitch tonight That's what you are Brown trapping ass eyes And you got a Honey contact soon Nah You got the true blends
Starting point is 00:07:19 Nah these my eyes These my eyes Do you have a true blends Foxy brown Inga Type eye Eye contact in right now Andrew
Starting point is 00:07:27 Let's just Let's go Just look at what Andrew Got on right now Because I feel like People need to see With their ears right now Hold on, Marie.
Starting point is 00:07:34 Can you just introduce him as whatever expert he is first? Well, I'm going from head to toe, and then we're going to get his hat. I was going to go head to toe. What kind of expert is he? Andrew is our, Andrew got, Andrew, what are you? Like an employed, consistently got mad weird jobs expert. I have a, I'm an expert in having a lot of jobs. Staying, no, having a lot of jobs.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Yeah, having a lot of jobs. I got a lot of weird Some are weird Some are cool Well I see you have On a Sweet Chick hat right now So Sweet Chick is Sweet Chick is a restaurant
Starting point is 00:08:08 In the Lower East Side And Bedford Ave Are we doing a Sweet Chick plug? No You didn't have to get the address You didn't have to Sweet This is now sponsored by
Starting point is 00:08:15 Sweet Chick's It's a chicken and waffles restaurant That's a Sweet Chick But there's a Jordan logo on it So it's a Jordan logo But he's holding a chicken And a waffle I'm gonna tell Sweet Chick
Starting point is 00:08:23 No Sweet Chick better not They better not I don't like that merchandise at all I want them to do better I thought it was a skinny DJ Khaled I was like No
Starting point is 00:08:31 So Andrew What do you do As Sweet Chick So I used to Bus and host At Sweet Chick Okay Bus and host
Starting point is 00:08:38 They normally Don't let the bus Or speak to people They like Get back in the kitchen Get your ass Back in the kitchen So you're
Starting point is 00:08:42 You're two and one But you're only Getting paid for one Yeah I don't work There anymore Oh So we can shit on But I'm still
Starting point is 00:08:48 I'm still on the roster I'm still on the roster But I'm not playing Oh so you're Doing this all wrong Yeah I'm on the bench I'm not What do you mean
Starting point is 00:08:54 You're not working There right now You like pick up shifts If you need to If they need someone there They're like yo we're gonna keep you here so they'll call you last minute on a sunday at 8 p.m like right before they close we need a host right now but andrew's got to stay on the roster so he can come in
Starting point is 00:09:07 whenever he's downtown so he can pick up some chicken and waffles okay if you're not on the roster you can't get the hook up now is that from the place of the box of chicken that you gave us from at that comedy no no that was a different can we can we take it back so sydney and i had We were at a comedy show at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan. Andrew was at the show, too. He runs out. He sends me a message. He's like, yo, Marie, do you want some chicken?
Starting point is 00:09:31 I got some chicken. I was like, you legit just left. He's like, I got chicken. Come get it. I come outside. Andrew is holding a crate of chicken. It was actually a box. It was like a U-Haul mover's box full of chicken.
Starting point is 00:09:46 It was supposed to be things like your ex-boyfriend's shit that you don't want anymore. That's what should have been in the box. But instead it was just chicken I was at a previous engagement No you weren't Don't call it an engagement Be honest Because you were with us
Starting point is 00:10:00 And then you left And two minutes later You had a crate of chicken Wait be honest What is this Engagement It was a graduation party And the kid's mother was like
Starting point is 00:10:08 Yo take this chicken That's racist And you took the chicken I took all the chicken There's more There are more boxes of chicken It was like a box of Kmart Frozen chicken
Starting point is 00:10:18 But it was cooked But it was all breast and thighs And it was like, ain't no wings Ain't no drumsticks I don't like breast and thighs And I actually left the box at my friend's house So you took it from your friend's house and then you brought it back to your friend's house? No, I brought it to someone else's house and I just left it there
Starting point is 00:10:33 Now let's talk about how we ate the chicken in the street Yes, like a bunch of scavenger-ass Negro Chicken was good, it was good chicken It was I Okay, so you had a job at Sweet Chick Now where are you employed right now? Oh, so I work at a law firm down on Wall Street right now When did that happen?
Starting point is 00:10:51 So wait, let's talk about his outfit. You weren't there today. No, I start my new job tomorrow. But this is not what you're wearing tomorrow. No, I actually have to shave a little bit of this beard. Just please don't wear this outfit ever again. I feel like we need to tell. Angela has on light gray sweatshorts.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Yes, sweatshorts. Not sweatpants, sweatshorts. Sweatshorts. You know, teach your own. It's a heather gray, like thin terrycloth. Very thin. A jogging short The material is nice
Starting point is 00:11:22 It's very good material And then he has a white t-shirt It's very Target It's giving me like a Kmart That's what you do when you got money baby I'm a mom I'm a mom in Kansas City I have like two kids
Starting point is 00:11:37 And I'm going to the store They look like sleep shorts Like you woke up and forgot you had to do this today And then you ran out the house in your pajamas With a sweet chick hat Those are like the Victoria's Secret's like semi-annual sale throwaway. Yeah, so let's get back to what I do. I'm an expert.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Had a lot of jobs. I'm going to start off with the first job I had. Okay, start off. Wait, how many jobs have you had? From right now, 15. 15. 15 jobs in how many years? What, 2007?
Starting point is 00:12:12 You had 15 jobs in nine years? Nine years, 15 jobs. That's pretty... Cindy, 15 jobs. 15 jobs? Yeah. But he's not a temp. He'd just be working...
Starting point is 00:12:22 Okay, let's go through the list. Okay. What's the first job you've ever had? First job I ever had, I was working at this place called Lord's Bakery. Oh, you was baking. You was whipping that work?
Starting point is 00:12:29 At Flatbush. I was a... You was making beef patties. I was a cashier. Patty cake, patty cake. I worked there for a week because they thought I sold $100 from the register.
Starting point is 00:12:38 Did you? No, I just counted the register wrong. I literally just counted I could see that. I could totally see that. I could see you completely counting $100 off.
Starting point is 00:12:46 How off were you? $100 off. Just $100? And they thought I stole it. Just $100? At a bakery? Yeah, they need that money. They ain't got no money. They need that money. They need that money. So what kind of stuff did they have? It was like pies and cakes and stuff? It was pies and cakes. It was nasty. The place got a B, so we had to
Starting point is 00:13:02 kill flies. You know, we don't have time for that. We don't have time for no Bs. Yeah, that's disgusting. You know, I saw a video, a news report once. They had like undercover footage at a Junior's Cheesecake factory or whatever. Oh, Junior's is Junior's? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:13:18 And there were roaches and rats running between the cakes on display. It's basura. I've never had Junior's cheesecake after I saw that. I've had it before, though. Was it good? Not, like, to be making a big deal about it. But you thought, like, those chocolate drops were good? It was just rat drops.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Okay. It felt very, like, boxed. Boxed cheesecake. Well, I mean, if both daddies eat cheesecake. Okay. Lord's Bakery actually has really good cheesecake. But it's disgusting. Okay, so after Lord's Bakery, they thought you stole $100, which you did take? Which I didn't. I didn't take the $100.
Starting point is 00:13:49 You just couldn't count? I just couldn't count. Well, then he went to school in Brooklyn. Oh, no. Okay, well, yeah. Shout out to Midwood. Shout out to Midwood. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:57 So then after the bakery job, what did you do? I worked at a sketchy government job. I don't know. It was like I was doing pamphlets. You ever seen those people that are on the streets and they have that little book and they're like, hey, you need some jobs? And you have to write your name in your email. No, Andrew.
Starting point is 00:14:10 I've never heard of that. I've never seen that. Well, I got a job through that, and I was working in this office. I don't know what I was doing. You get your job from somebody who's like barking. Who's on the street. He's barking for jobs, pretty much. Barking for jobs.
Starting point is 00:14:22 That's terrible. I mean, I only worked there for like two days. Clearly. So, after you were at the bakery for a week, then you were at this job for two days. Two days, two days. Okay, so we're legit, we're, what is this, nine days of work here? Nine days of work, nine days of work. Okay.
Starting point is 00:14:34 How much money did you make in those days? From the bakery, I made $200. Ooh. But $100 was stolen. $100 was stolen. It was $100 with a $100 bonus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, they owe me shackles on your feet.
Starting point is 00:14:53 That's not even the right song. I think you owe me something. No, I'm wrong. Oh, my back, you pay your tax. Go now, shorty. Go, Junior Wine. Okay, after the nine days of work that you had, what was the third job that you had? Oh, I worked at V.I.M., VIMS.
Starting point is 00:15:11 Oh, okay. So V.I.M. is like a third generation Jimmy Jazz. Okay, but now for our beige listeners, V.I.M. is like, where do white people get that? Like a Pac-Sun for niggas. So all the surf stuff that you pick up at Pac-Sun, you pick up like your street wear at V.I.M. That's actually really good. Actually, no, Jimmy Jazz is the Pac-Son for niggas. And V.I.M., it's like if you are doing really bad,
Starting point is 00:15:45 like you can't afford Jimmy Jazz. Damn. You didn't get your check never cleared. Oh, come on. But you got to go to the club that night. They ain't got no name brand at V.I.M.? No, they got some name brand. What brand?
Starting point is 00:15:55 What brand? They got Jordans. Not real Jordans. They got Jordanes. Yeah. They don't have real Jordans there. Air Jordans. You think they have real Jordans.
Starting point is 00:16:04 No, they have real Jordans. They only bring like six, but they have real Jordans. You think that they're Jordans. I actually had to talk to a customer like that. A customer said, all right, she bought Jordans. I worked there for two years. Oh, okay, two years. She bought Jordans, and I'm standing there with my boss, and she's like, are these real?
Starting point is 00:16:18 No. And I said, nah, lady. Definitely not. I was like, nah. Because I was joking around with her. Because I'm like, if you came to this store to buy Jordans. You already do a bid. You already, what do you want?
Starting point is 00:16:29 She's like, oh. You passed the food lock. And my boss was like, shut up. VIM is open until like 10 p.m. Yeah, it's open until 10 p.m. we had a lot of I worked in Bay Ridge
Starting point is 00:16:38 like 86th street and it was great it wasn't that bad BM is really bad Andrew you were at VIM doing what like obviously stealing money
Starting point is 00:16:46 from the register I was a stock boy and a salesman but that stock room was so sad because it was just it was like me by myself in like rows of sneakers
Starting point is 00:16:55 one of my friends got a concussion sneakers that nobody wants yeah air jordans the sneakers that your uncle thinks that he's like
Starting point is 00:17:02 swagoo in them he's like Oh, Swagoo. Swagoo. Oh, I was like, Swagoo? Is that what the kids are saying?
Starting point is 00:17:09 No, Swagoo. He think he's dripping in Swagoo with his feel-outs. Well, he was not, but it was also like instead of Nikes, it was like Knicks.
Starting point is 00:17:16 No, they were real sneak. People would be playing BIM. There's some real stuff there. I mean, it was BIM and Bay Ridge. It was a lot of hand-me-downs. It was pretty terrible.
Starting point is 00:17:24 It was whatever the Jews, the Hasidic Jews weren't rocking, they were in BIM. BIM is like a consignment shop for broke dudes in Brooklyn. Yes, it is. It's like Buffalo Exchange
Starting point is 00:17:33 for broke dudes. I'm so mad. It's like, wait, hold on. It's like, I'm sorry, is that a coolie you got on? Listen, you could find your whole court suit outfit there. Yeah, that's what,
Starting point is 00:17:45 people that have to go to, if you have probation, like go to VIM, get you a nice blazer. Get a baggy charcoal suit. Nice blazer. And wear like a faux Prada patent leather shoe.
Starting point is 00:17:55 There'll be no lining in the blazer. Oh no, it's going to be thin. No lining in the pants. No pockets. We're going to see all the prints. It's going to be the pockets that are like stitched on the tags falling off everything so andrew after vim after your
Starting point is 00:18:07 two-year stint at vim where did you go after that so i still technically work at v i didn't get fired from this job so you wait you let us shit on vim for about what yeah i didn't get i mean i just like stopped i was like hey my i told my boss hey this is why you get fired because first of all you don't have any integrity no i don't get i haven't gotten fired you stealing and not No, I didn't get fired. I'm still on the roster. I'm just not playing. You stealing?
Starting point is 00:18:36 You don't have no integrity? Andrew, you on too many teams. You let people shit on it? As cool as V.I.M., whatever. What you going to do? What you want? What you going to do? Yeah, because they don't have a podcast in Bay Ridge.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Yeah, they don't have a PR in person. Those people don't listen to anything. Not even the customers that come in there. They be like, we got this in this size. And look, I asked you for a six. Well, we have it in a 16. That's what you going to get. That's real.
Starting point is 00:18:59 That's real. Okay, so tell us the next job. I played V.I.M. Where were you at? So after V.I.M., man, what did I do? Oh, after V.I.M., I worked as an intern at this company called Tex Pride. Ooh, that sounds like a cover, a shell corporation. No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:19:14 It was actually really terrible. They sold emojis, so like branded emojis for like different schools. So it's like LSU If you love that team They have different Emoji stuff for it All this other crap How the hell
Starting point is 00:19:32 You get that That sounds like A Craigslist find Nah so one of my friends He went to NYU Poly Did he go to NYU Or did he like
Starting point is 00:19:40 Security guard Nah nah He went to NYU Did he pass through In NYU Like he had to walk Through he had to Get to the train
Starting point is 00:19:48 Was he cleaning The windows Around NYU Nah he was enrolled He delivered something And had to go to NYU To drop it off Listen Andrew
Starting point is 00:19:56 tell the truth no he was enrolled and uh he's like yo let's it's an internship they'll pay like they don't pay you but like you get fruit every week and it was in the summer and i was like cool and y'all doing bad so y'all like i'll take it i'll take a peanut butter and jelly sandwich we actually we had like the ends cut off i'll take that we had like a 30 dollar um stipend for the week but uh for the week for the week listen listen listen listen that's like some third world country i think they got more money a week for food in haiti that is crazy You should have went back to put a bakery for all that. Hit the bakery.
Starting point is 00:20:29 We didn't know it was $30 a week until like the third week. Then y'all dumb. No, no. I got three weeks in and didn't realize you were only getting $30. No, we spent more than $30. So the guy comes up and he's like, hey, you guys spent like over $100 on food like these last two weeks. We can't feed you for the next like two weeks.
Starting point is 00:20:48 That's why you should have went back to the bakery and stole another $100. He on the roster. My friend's like, yo, I just told him that my grandma in Pakistan is dying and, like, I need to go to the funeral. So he never showed up ever again, and I just stopped showing up. And then I recently figured out that they sold their company for a million dollars. Okay, so what was that going to do for y'all? But they still made $30 a week. I don't know. I thought I was a wimp.
Starting point is 00:21:15 They made $100 million. They made a million dollars. You know you can't even get an unlimited MetroCard for $30? No. It's $31. $31. It'll be $32 because you need to pay for the card. Oh, you got to get that card as well.
Starting point is 00:21:29 So what were y'all getting for lunch? It was like $100 a week. We was just going all out. Fish and chips. Fish and chips from where? Y'all could have went to a Chinese spot. Y'all going to like a sit-down spot to get food? Like, yeah, like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Starting point is 00:21:42 No, you got to go to the Hood Chinese restaurant. Yeah, but that's not by NYU. Oh. That's not by TechServe or wherever the hell Angie was working as an ITT tech dude. Okay, next job, next job. The next job. Wait, how long were you with an intern there? Oh, like two weeks.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Two weeks, okay, boom. I see a pattern here. I feel like you're good at getting jobs, but you're not good at keeping them. No, no, no, he's good at keeping them. He's not good at quitting them because he still has all of these jobs. Yeah, I still haven't quit.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Any of them. But they're not good references because they're like, I've never seen this guy again. The who? Andrew what? We have an Andrea who worked here. What's the next job after TechServe?
Starting point is 00:22:18 So after TechSpride, I started working at Project Happy. What the hell is that? I work with kids that have autism, mental disabilities, physical disabilities. Oh, so you're familiar with this project? Absolutely. Okay. Well, that's because you're a little bit autistic.
Starting point is 00:22:31 I was like a disabilities counselor. I'm still, because I still technically work there. You hear that? Well, let's not talk much about that. Well, how many years were you, how long were you at Project Happy? Four years. Oh, okay. So you were really doing your job there.
Starting point is 00:22:43 They really liked you. So what kind of stuff were you doing with these kids? Did the kids like you? Yeah, kids are cool. So these different kids, they have different disabilities. like my group all i mean the first year i had these as boys and girls and they all had um they're all like had different ranges of autism so we just play basketball okay so you were just getting paid to play basketball swim can you swim yeah swim uh no no i was gonna be like can you
Starting point is 00:23:05 play ball that's what oh so uh we played volleyball we just do a bunch of stuff okay so that's cute hanging out with them and for four years yeah but now i have all the girls like that are in wheelchairs so all right and uh one kid who's in a wheelchair that i like stay with him help him eat oh is this the wheelchair basketball league that you're coaching yeah wait you wait the same thing or this is something else it's all it's the same thing but you are coaching them i don't they all they know how to play they're like obviously because they can't i mean oh it's grown men you were coaching oh oh sydney you've seen him not ball i could just tell by them them shorts you got on i would dunk on you that's another well that's because you're six foot four that's it
Starting point is 00:23:44 Okay, ladies, six foot four. Do you hear that? Six foot four. I got nice eyes. You do have really nice eyes. They're very beautiful. And I got a nice voice. He has a nice voice, but he is a terrible fashion sense.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Terrible fashion sense. And that card be getting declined. Oh, my God. My God. Well, so the other job I had. I can't believe you blew him up like this on the podcast. Well, I just want the truth out. Because I got salary now, so it's all good.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Oh, right, right, right. I'm doing that. Well, hold on, hold on. Let's work our way to the salary. What was after Project Happy? Oh, so Project Happy, I was DJing. So I've been DJing. Oh, he's a DJ?
Starting point is 00:24:22 How long have you been DJing? Wait, that's really on the books? It's not. It's under the book. It's under the table. It's under the book. I don't pay no tax. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:24:32 He popped his T-shirt collar on that one. I don't pay no tax. But yeah, I've been DJing since I got out of high school. So like five years now. and where what parties do you play clubs um i was just at the kempton hotel on like 47th this saturday oh nice uh i do this place called m15 right off canal street every friday night oh that sounds like a fun wait what's it called m15 isn't that like a corner store no that sounds like a bus you work on the manhattan 15 city b okay that's a local bus it's a it's an establishment
Starting point is 00:25:11 it's an establishment okay well we're gonna look it up and then that's dope what do you what do you usually play i play everything a little q-tip a q-tip i play whatever okay my like the boss he wants top 40 and like all this other stuff but you slide in some of the ratchet stuff whatever well what's your go-to song to like start a party off go-to song it's like r kelly ignition like everyone is like that are we at a bar mitzvah no r kelly i'm telling you ignition well everybody does love ignition r kelly ignition everybody does that's a song that'll make everyone dance no 10 out of 10 times you play r kelly ignition it might not be the first song but in the somewhere in the night it must be somebody's bachelorette so what's the song that you're ending the night
Starting point is 00:25:53 off with like what's your like all right go home last call what song is are you playing fuji's fu la la la no he's playing uh candy rain oh yeah because that was the song that They always play it at the end of the clip. They're like, all right, bye. Do-do-do-do-do. Yeah. Do-do-do-do-do. My love, do you ever dream of?
Starting point is 00:26:16 Okay, we're hurting people's ears. No, I thought we were harmonizing really well. Rain of. Please stop. Okay, so you DJ. Next job. Uh-huh. Next job.
Starting point is 00:26:27 Andrew is actually looking at his resume while we're speaking. He's got a Google Doc of all his jobs. So I used to work for Lincoln Center. Lincoln? When did you have a job there? I was a tour manager. A tour manager? And here's the bathroom.
Starting point is 00:26:43 And here's the third bathroom from the first bathroom. Sir, let me please take your bath. No, I really was a tour manager. Andrew, a tour manager. What's right below manager? You just skipped right to manager? Yeah. But like tour manager?
Starting point is 00:26:56 Like tour manager. I thought you were a tour guide? No, no, no. I was actually a tour manager. A tour manager? not here so you would manage the people who were giving tours no that was a no he was managing the people who were coming in for the tours what the hell were you doing at lincoln center so um we'd go to different schools and have this like program where we'd have people from philharmonics
Starting point is 00:27:19 come by or different performers so i'd have to like hang out with the performers show them where their room is show them set up the whole i don't think there's a tour manager So here's your bottled waters. I'm sorry, we didn't see it on your rider that you wanted white flowers, so we want you yellow hydrangeas. M&M's with peanuts or just plain? I saw on the
Starting point is 00:27:42 it said that you didn't want any red M&M's, so I ate those. Oh, I'm sorry. You don't like the blue ones either? You said you like white lilies? Okay. They don't have that at the bodega. What was your uniform? You had to wear like a green shirt.
Starting point is 00:27:58 That's it? A green t-shirt? I can't really talk to you with your legs out. You cross your legs. Like, you got your legs out. They're very dry. I just, I feel some type of way. I can't believe you two came out in the middle of the creation. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Well, next job. My next job. Wait, how long were you at Lincoln Center as a tour manna here? I'd say like two months. That's a long time. Is it? Well, there's a probation period with the job. So, and you didn't even make it through.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Isn't probation normally 90 days? Is it? Two months is not... Two months is not... He didn't even make it through probation. Did you get fired or you quit? I quit. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Okay, so you're not still on the roster there. Next job. What else? What's the next job? I used to work at the Standard East Village. I was a bellman. I do remember that for a hot signal. I don't see you wearing that uniform at all.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Really? I can see Andrew wearing a uniform. His shoulders. No, it'd be too short. His shoulders are like... I killed it in that bow tie. Ooh. Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Was it a pre-tied bow tie or you had to tie it yourself? It was pre-tied. Are you crazy? It was a pre-tied bow tie. How long were you at the standard? I'd say eight months. I don't even think it was that long. So you had health insurance, obviously.
Starting point is 00:29:04 Yeah, for like a month, and then I was like, I quit. Wait, how long does it take for your health insurance to kick in? I think it's a six-month probationary period. You got probation for six months to be a bellman? They want to see that you're not going to drop somebody's bag on their foot? Drop no bags. You're not going to... Were people giving you tips?
Starting point is 00:29:24 Yeah. What's the highest tip he ever got as a bowman? Dang. Come on. It was $100 that he stole from this lady's purse. Maybe like $100 or something. That's the most? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:36 You weren't working hard enough. I was doing a night shift. I was an overnight bowman. Oh, that's the time where you're like, that's where you'd be like, you need hookers? You need hugs? What you need? There's been a lot of hookers. I mean, there was one guy who came in.
Starting point is 00:29:47 He didn't even live at the hotel or stay at the hotel. He was a drug dealer. he was so bad at his job though because he's always come and talk to us in the front desk and it's like
Starting point is 00:29:55 wait how did he look he was a white dude white t-shirt black jeans oh that sounds like Sidney's ex-boyfriend oh no he was a raggedy
Starting point is 00:30:03 old white man first of all I did not have a white man that was my ex-boyfriend who was black white man white man
Starting point is 00:30:10 but he was and he would try to like be friends it was like it'd be three in the morning and he'd be talking about his life he'd be talking about
Starting point is 00:30:17 but when did the hoes come the hoes Yeah, you said the hookers. Oh, the hookers were coming like 4 or 4 in the morning. I'd have to bring them up to the room. You would have to escort them up. See, that's a tour manager right there.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And you should get more money for that. You see how he got that position because of the Lincoln Center job. They should have given you more money because they were like, listen, I'm protecting y'all good. And you could have been a pimp. You could have segued that hooker tour manager job. I was like, hey, do you need help? And she's like, hmm? And I was like, oh, nothing.
Starting point is 00:30:48 She was like, do you need help? Trying to get him out that life. Trying to save these hoes, man. You should have given her like a Christian work pamphlet. Why didn't you give her the information for the tech serve job? She could have got another job. Because I didn't, I forgot about that. You just slide her a whole bunch of resumes.
Starting point is 00:31:03 You're like, listen, this helped me out. Just fill these out. Just fill these out. You got to get out of this life, girl. He's like, you know what? There's a bakery looking for a host. Like, make the money. Don't let the money make you.
Starting point is 00:31:14 And she was like, you got to use what you got to get what you want. don't give me none of those ronnie ho quote quotes uh ebony andrew after the standard you do you still work there no i quit you quit because the night shift sucks night shift sucked and then yeah it's just it wasn't fun i didn't have fun anymore all right so what was your next job after that next job um i work i still work in this company called gsa so i teach uh japanese kids english online you teach do you speak japanese no i speak japanese you don't need to know japanese to speak english to teach and you japanese kids you speak english properly yeah i'm an english lit major i graduated from hunter college you were all english lit no but i was
Starting point is 00:31:57 don't give me that for all these jobs that you've had what like it sounds like you just don't be you don't show up when you're done what do you mean like you'd be like i'm not coming back tomorrow yes it's hard to marie don't that run in a family it does oh damn no it does Because every job No no she right Because every job that I've ever had I've never been at a job longer than six months One and every job that I've ever quit
Starting point is 00:32:25 I legit will be walking out on like a Tuesday Like you know what I'm just not going to come back tomorrow And you're like I'm going to take this vase too And yes I like to take like parting gifts Yeah our parents taught us a lot Do you steal things from these jobs No I don't steal I mean umbrellas like they don't need them
Starting point is 00:32:39 Well I mean you gotta take an umbrella from a hotel They be having the thick ones But like you don't take like you don't be like taking like printing paper or like tissue paper uh but no you live in yeah well yeah andrew's a good guy and so andrew how much money have you saved from all of these jobs and you're like saved saved saved money what is a safe money to blow hold on hold on hold on sydney how much money have you saved from all your jobs oh here we go i've actually only had uh about three jobs And you were making how much money at these jobs?
Starting point is 00:33:12 I plead the fifth. I plead the fifth. Yeah, Sidney don't save money either. She don't even know how to spell savings. No, because I was working. I mean, it was like a 16-hour dollar. I was like, all right. Andrew, how old are you?
Starting point is 00:33:24 I'm 23 right now. You're 20. You're out here grinding. 23 and you got 12 jobs under your belt. Maybe more. You probably have some jobs that you're just not going to talk about. I just forgot about it. What's the craziest job you've ever had?
Starting point is 00:33:35 uh oh i worked one day at uh that's not like one of my i was a i was a sous chef for one day or a prep chef for one day you were chopping up like you were chopping up carrots julian julian carrots yeah and it was no it was like fish so so i was at this really nice restaurant on the on first ave what's it called first and well it was like first and don't say first no not first and first first and like third is it's a really nice like a fancy upscale restaurant first and yeah what fancy restaurant no i'm serious oh shit i don't know in the east village it was actually first and third that's near karma lounge where we have our show the second you see that plug see how see full circle that's how you do it that's how you do it
Starting point is 00:34:23 i passed it to you you're like john starks yeah and i was whoever john starks was throwing kobe kobe and shack right yeah you're shack why am i i'll be shack i'll be shack i'm not shack You're Kobe Well Kobe's not gonna pass the shack So you gotta be Shaq Oh it was called Even though your hair Is giving me Kobe vibe
Starting point is 00:34:44 Fuck you Remember when Kobe had the fro Yeah Yeah It looks good It looks good I'm Iman Shupert Iman Shupert
Starting point is 00:34:52 Tiana Taylor's fiance It's called Impeleon I don't know Impeleon We gonna look that up So we gonna use your name How many stars The Impeleon got
Starting point is 00:35:00 We gonna order some stuff Andrew walked in for a day As a killer guillard guillard andrew you worked at what happened you quit because fish bones got in your eyes no it was really hard i didn't know that you were there for a day yeah it was just i was just i was in a basement why are you trying to act like that's not your life you be in basements but i was like cutting like it was it was so dumb i was because the fish had scales on it so i was taking the knife and i was just rubbing the scales off yeah that's how you take
Starting point is 00:35:29 the scales for seven like for four hours but how much money was you making i didn't make no money it was like a trial period oh my god yeah so what happened is they didn't like the way you scale these fishes so you didn't get invited back for day two you had one job andrew scale the fish that's it and it was bad every job i've ever had was terrible all the jobs you have a lot of jobs i think i probably have had like 20 jobs that's crazy but i'm just a little bit older than andrew I'm like 24. So. 24.
Starting point is 00:35:58 24. Oh, my God. You're never going to let that 24 go. Sydney, let me live my 24-year-old life. Don't be upset because everybody knows you were born in 1982. Shut up. Is that the year? 82?
Starting point is 00:36:12 No, it's not, actually. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. 83. That's true. Yeah, the craziest job. I had a job once Where I was working
Starting point is 00:36:22 As an assistant To this dude That was selling Like insurance Or something That sounds so boring It was like In the middle of the summertime
Starting point is 00:36:27 I would call it Shorts and like a tank top And it was like Just his desk And then my desk And he was like Marie can you Set up these interviews
Starting point is 00:36:37 To come in Because it was like He was trying to get people To come in to do sales work Or something Yeah And then I got in trouble Because I wore
Starting point is 00:36:43 He was like Your shorts are too short They're not office appropriate He never came back I was like This is not even a real office You had the boom booms out It was hot.
Starting point is 00:36:51 It was like July. Ain't nobody here. Yo, your poom kosh was out. My poom kosh? The poom kosh, the toto, the tutu, everything was out. I was like, what? It's hot. He said, we hired you, not your poom kosh.
Starting point is 00:37:06 I was like, but this is what's making all the sales. He said, you can come in, but your poom kosh has to stay out. But people were coming in in these button-up. People didn't know what they were coming in for. like they would show up and they'd be like oh this oh this i got an interview for this because they kept seeing your poop gosh you're like this is it and i had one of those desks where like it didn't have a back it was like a table so they were like oh she got on shorts and toes not done oh no i don't want to work here there's only two desks in this place
Starting point is 00:37:39 exactly you sat at your desk i was there for three days damn yeah three days so that was the shortest i think or maybe i've had jobs for like a day where like i trailed for stuff and then they were like yes no i actually just quit this uh i was working at this motorcycle company what in uh brooklyn do you know i don't know how to ride do you want to ride on a backseat in my cali i don't know that song i've only been oh yeah i don't know what song yeah that song is Keith Urban Keith Urban That sounds like Cece Winans
Starting point is 00:38:12 Yeah, something, something It's really a goss from a gospel album Kirk Franklin His early stuff Is it Kirk Franklin or Kurt Franklin? It's Kirk Franklin Is it? Kurt Franklin
Starting point is 00:38:25 It's not Kurt Franklin No, it's not Kurt Kurt Do you want a revolution? Thanks, Kirk Is it Kirk? do you want a revolution okay i said do you want to actually quit this um motorcycle like i actually quit it well how did you quit i sent like because my okay this will happen let me let me so
Starting point is 00:38:48 so uh wednesday i'm leaving the shop and i'm like yo can uh can you give me a set schedule because i'm only working for two weeks and i'm like yo can you give me a set schedule well what time did you have you coming in you can't be coming in like one to five and it was like i can't do that yo you are so related to marie you're so related to her one to five is a solid sketch i know but i'm like i need some stability in my life i'm waking up at one to five what's wrong with you that's perfect it wasn't too much it was too much marie's like i can't believe they want me to come in from nine to nine to five that makes no sense no it was ten to three and i still couldn't get there on time oh they find my black ass so quick
Starting point is 00:39:32 they're like marie today's gonna be your last day i was like not tomorrow i can't come in one more chance they were like today's your last day turn in your materials and leave yo they had a security guard I wanted to throw something at her so bad. They gave you your box and everything. There was nothing in the box. I was there for like three weeks. Did they kick you out like Jazzy Jeff?
Starting point is 00:40:03 She was like, please turn in your ID badge and go. And I was like, I can't finish. It's not even three o'clock. I can't even. They wouldn't even let you get that last hour. But the worst part was I had to go get my lunch in the fridge. Oh, no. Did I walk in shame?
Starting point is 00:40:17 I had to go gather my yogurt and stuff. Did you really go and get your yogurt? Yeah, I went to get my yogurt. I was like I'm not leaving this for them They don't deserve this What kind of yogurt was it? It was like the yogurt
Starting point is 00:40:31 That when you like It was like a Chobani Oh so you threw it on there? You had to throw the stuff in Oh so you're making money Oh come on man It was like a dollar yogurt Right there
Starting point is 00:40:38 Definitely not a dollar That's more than a dollar That's like $1.75 If you go to ShopRite Or Stop His Shop Whatever the hell it is What's the name of the place? Shop and Shop
Starting point is 00:40:46 Stop His Shop You get like a It's like 5 for 5 Oh 5 for 5 So they wanted you to come From 1 to 5 And that's just too much for you. No, I wanted him to send me a set schedule so he didn't have to text me all the time.
Starting point is 00:40:57 1 to 5 was cool. But what else were you doing? I was fixing motorcycles. Wait, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. 1 to 5 didn't work for you? Well, Sidney, because he has like 12 other jobs. You know he's on the roster at The Bakery, VIM, Project Happy, Lincoln Center. I just needed to know when he wanted me to come.
Starting point is 00:41:15 But he wanted you there at 1 to 5. No, but he'd always text me. What were the other times that he would text you? No, every single day he's like, yo, come through 1 to 5. So you had a set schedule. What's the problem? No, but it was a text. I wanted like an actual like, hey, this is where I'm coming in.
Starting point is 00:41:29 Boom. You're asking for too much. You are asking for too much. I would just show up every day 1 to 5, whether I got a text or not. So I said, email me. Marie lying too. She's like, I can't believe they're texting me. Shut up, Sidney.
Starting point is 00:41:39 So I said, email me the schedule. Wednesday goes by, nothing happened. Thursday, nothing. Oh, they let that black ass go. So Friday, I sent him like a text. I sent him an email. I'm like, hey, Jeremy, what's going on? Hey, Jeremy, what's up?
Starting point is 00:41:53 I'm like, yo, can you send me a sketch of you? I hope everything's good. Sincerely yours, Andrew McGill. Boom, done. Ooh, you know how to end it. You know how to end it. Sincerely yours. Sincerely yours.
Starting point is 00:42:01 But did you spell sincerely incorrectly? How do you spell sincerely? How do you spell sincerely? I feel like, okay, I'm going to spell it, and then Sidney's going to spell it, and then you're going to spell it. Ready? Sincerely is S-I-N-C-E-R-L-E-Y.
Starting point is 00:42:17 Sidney, how do you spell sincerely? Wait. Go ahead. What? Sincere. No, put your phone down. I don't want autocorrect to help you. That's a, yeah, I'm a visual.
Starting point is 00:42:25 Let me write it down. Spell sincerely. Let me just write it down. Yeah, write it down. How do you spell sincerely? It's a S-I-N-C-E-R-E-L-Y. She moved to E. She moved to E.
Starting point is 00:42:37 Shut up. How do you spell it? How do you spell it? Don't mess up the equipment, fool. I'm sorry. Andrew, how do you spell it? S-I-N-C-E-R-L-E-Y Okay
Starting point is 00:42:50 Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah Hold up, hold up, hold up Hold up, hold up, hold up Hold on, let me take my phone Andrew, that's the one That you put down first Is the one that we gonna take Alright, cool
Starting point is 00:42:59 Sincerely yours Okay, okay So are you a warm regards guy? I'm the warmest regards I'm a best Best Best is my favorite Oh, Sydney was right
Starting point is 00:43:09 Hey That's why you got no job I don't use sincerely I just use and Marie called me dumb can you take that back no that's your dumb you keep that dumb give me my notebook back I just want to see what you spelled so I can she felt sincerely Andrew you spelled it the same way what you mean I spelled it like Sid no you didn't yeah I did no you were like hold on no no no wait and then you said the first one yeah the first one was mine L-E-Y and you hush okay all right we gonna we gonna play it back We won't play back
Starting point is 00:43:41 We won't check the tape I won Run it back Run it back Sidney you know what you win? What? Absolutely nothing So
Starting point is 00:43:49 Man you still got them shorts on You can't say nothing to me You're right Okay so you I don't even remember What we was talking about So Friday goes by You didn't send me anything
Starting point is 00:43:57 Saturday goes by I send him an email None of this matters Okay hold on We gotta do this quiz Okay Damn well you're not Gonna let him finish?
Starting point is 00:44:05 No Let him finish Let me finish So what happened? The guy was just like You asking for schedules You uppity You bougie black
Starting point is 00:44:11 You fired. No, he just stopped emailing me, stopped texting me. So I kept emailing and texting him. I'm like, yo, I haven't got paid yet. So I sent him an email. I'm like, yo, Jeremy, you going to pay me this money or what? What are we going to do? So you went into a job.
Starting point is 00:44:22 Sincerely yours, Andrew McGill. Sincerely yours. And then I went to the spot. I went to the spot. I went to the shop. And I looked around. I'm looking around. Ain't nothing there.
Starting point is 00:44:31 He's not there. And I'm like, yo, where's this man at? He closed the shop and he moved. He closed the shop. I thought he left. I thought he left. And I'm like Yo there's something going on
Starting point is 00:44:38 Show me on the run Your message sounded like DMX And then you ended with Sincerely Yeah you gotta Hey yo My flesh of my flesh Blood of my blood
Starting point is 00:44:46 Don't have me come up From there And run Run me my money Nigga Sincerely Sincerely yours Sincerely yours
Starting point is 00:44:55 Angel Well maybe you spelled Yours wrong Was there a comma there No no so I And then in my I don't know why I was like
Starting point is 00:45:03 Maybe he's like Either he left Or he's dead That's the only reason why because he's not at the shop no more i don't know where he's at so i was like if if he's dead and they find his body and they find his phone and they look through that shit they're gonna look at all the emails all the texts i've been sent i'm gonna be prime suspect number one number wow non-murder non-murderous text i was like hey man like i love you like i appreciate everything
Starting point is 00:45:29 that you've let me do but when you gonna pay me though you still wait on that no he actually emailed me he's like oh man things have been crazy blah blah and i was like i sent him this nice man i was like hey i don't feel appreciated my man i didn't say my man i said i don't feel appreciated in this my brother my brother so i quit i was like yo just pay me my money it sounds like you had already he was done with you no i was done with him like when a when a chick when a dude messages a chick over and over again and you're like i'm not interested in you i just i was hungry that one time oh you think he was trying to play me he was trying to play you Talk about he been busy
Starting point is 00:46:01 He has his phone He checks his email every day That's real How you running a business And you don't check your email He just He was sending you spam Sincerely yours
Starting point is 00:46:09 Spam Now We want to see If you're really an expert At all these jobs Yeah Right We want to see
Starting point is 00:46:15 If you really have had 19 jobs Or if you're just Tommy From Martin With no job Yeah I feel like you Looked up a lot of these things And just put it on your resume
Starting point is 00:46:25 Because that's what people do That's actually crazy Their resume be Nothing but Fables and fallacies and lies fallacies and lies fallacies which is basically a lie okay so here we are are you ready yeah i'm ready question number one what are the forms you have to fill out when you're first hired just name two of the forms oh a w2 and uh w2 and no w4 sorry w4 damn niggas it's only it's
Starting point is 00:46:56 two what's the name of the form w4 and then you just feel like a andrew you feel like a direct deposit direct deposit in w4 it's a 1099 a form that i just made up i think because you know i also don't have a job i think it's 1099 w4 okay but you didn't say 1099 okay thank you ed you we're gonna give you a half a point have a point that's all i need okay all Sydney what's the next question Okay What is it called
Starting point is 00:47:27 When a woman takes off of work To have a baby Oh maternity leave Excuse me Okay alright And what about a man When a man takes off That nigga's at home
Starting point is 00:47:38 Chilling Nah sick leave Sick leave No no no When the dude takes off Cause they just had a baby Is that not maternity leave No
Starting point is 00:47:46 I thought it was I thought it was like Is there a term for that Yes Yes. Just guess. Paternity leave? There you go.
Starting point is 00:47:54 Paternity leave. Hey, stupid. English lit, baby. You need to thank Maury for that. Paternity test. Oh, you're right. Paternity test. And then, Sydney, what's the next question?
Starting point is 00:48:05 How many references do you usually need for a new job? Two references. Actually, you can have one, but then... Actually, two is better. So it's either you get a prior boss or a current boss, and then you get like a friend who's like a character what reference excuse me
Starting point is 00:48:22 I said character witness character reference you watch too much Lone Order SVU here's a question for you Andrew yeah if you have a problem at work who do you speak to?
Starting point is 00:48:32 I speak to the HR baby oh HR and HR stands for? human resource wouldn't that be funny if he didn't know? homeroom
Starting point is 00:48:41 homeroom talk to the homeroom teacher yeah I'm here at the human room I'm here for the human room Human rights? It could be human rights. I'm here for human rights.
Starting point is 00:48:51 Have you ever been to HR? Yeah. The HR girl was cool. What happened? She got me the job. I'm Sarah. Okay, but have you had a problem? Has anybody reported you at a VIM in Bay Ridge or something?
Starting point is 00:49:03 Did you have to go to HR for somebody to touch you in an inappropriate place? They were like, show me on this door where they touched you. Did you have to do that? I think my manager at VIM was HR. How is that? They can't have that. Yeah, she's dual position. well andrew had like six jobs
Starting point is 00:49:18 it is complicated so she could fire me and then she could rehire me you're like well i have a problem with the manager and he's like well let me speak to them who's your manager you nigga no because we had two managers and one of the managers fired me and i was like
Starting point is 00:49:36 yo wendy he can't fire me and she's like you're right he can't fire you so she hired me back and he's like why and then he's like how you still here and then she fired you and then he was like i'm not hiring you back I hate you Marie have you ever gone to HR
Starting point is 00:49:49 no you ever been to HR wait didn't you have a problem with somebody at your job and you went to somebody about it
Starting point is 00:49:56 there was this girl there was a girl like making you do work that you weren't supposed to do a word Sydney we gonna bring it back to 2005
Starting point is 00:50:04 we're going all the way back to the archives of my life back to Sony didn't that just happen no I didn't go to HR I sent them a message cause I was hired
Starting point is 00:50:12 as a temp oh you had a paper trail that's what it was Well, I had messaged them and was like, I'm not really understanding what, why we're both doing the same job. And then they were like, you're right. We only need one of you. Bye. Bye.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Oh, no. She's like, dang. She's like, shut up. Your black ass always saying shit. I know. Because I really hated that girl. She was so terrible. Well, because we were both getting paid to do the same thing, but she was making me do the work.
Starting point is 00:50:38 So, I mean. And she was a white woman. Technically, I won because she still has to do her work. I mean, she's making money, but like, it's not that much money. That's real. I've never gone to HR, ever. Like, there's been... Oh, Sydney, didn't you have a problem with your Facebook page?
Starting point is 00:50:51 They were like, oh, you be talking about us at work. Oh. And then now your Facebook page is private because people that you work with were like, oh, Sydney be talking about work and she's not happy here? Oh, Sydney looks disheveled right now. Oh, doesn't she look so... Bewildered. Bewildered.
Starting point is 00:51:07 Okay, because... Perplexed. Well, because I really do still work there and that's where we get our money from. And you go in there and you get your little cheese plate And what not And they got a new risotto balls Oh risotto balls So what's in the risotto balls
Starting point is 00:51:21 Shut up Andrew get out of here What's in the risotto balls Get the hell out I'm so tired of you Listen I can't with you guys Andrew did you have anything else Like any misconceptions Or anything that you learned
Starting point is 00:51:37 In these 15 jobs that you feel like People should know oh have a good just be good in the interview like it doesn't matter it doesn't come on man it don't matter what your resume says on it as long as you can like talk to people and have like it's like just be personable do you show up with that outfit no no andrew's like it doesn't matter what you got on as long as it don't matter what you got on you don't remember that scene in um that will smith movie pursuit of happiness where he comes in and he's like i may not know what this job is i'm gonna and he's like but if i but if you give me a chance i'll find the answer
Starting point is 00:52:14 no i'm serious it works it works trust me he was basically look homeless in the interview but just kill it and then one day you'll grow up and be will smith yeah and you'll have two weird kids and one cute son um two weird kids and one cute son well yeah he has three kids does he have three kids yeah though from his first wife trey oh who cares about trey he's He's like a grown-ass man now. Yeah, Trey's like normal. Yeah, Trey's a grown man. He's mad normal.
Starting point is 00:52:38 He works at the DMV. Oh, come on. No, you know where he works is he works at Lincoln Center as a tour manager. Wait, we're going to ask you. Okay, so we're going to go around as we're closing this out.
Starting point is 00:52:50 And since you've gone on so many interviews, you have to know, I just want everybody to say ask one interview question. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:59 All right, we're going to go around. Wait, interview questions. Oh, Sydney. Sydney, you lost, girl. You already lost. Cindy's buying everybody lunch. So Andrew's going to say it, and then I'm going to say one, and then you guys say one.
Starting point is 00:53:08 Cool? Okay, go ahead. I'm going to take yours. So what is your biggest strength? Ooh, yes, that's a question I always ask. Here's mine. Why do you want to work here? That's the dumbest answer.
Starting point is 00:53:22 I hate that question so much. That's so dumb, because I need money. That's why. And no one's paying my bills, because obviously my ass is not big enough yet. Sydney, what's an interview question? so what are your uh long-term goals and your short-term goals yeah and i said well my short-term goals is like i want to get money get hoes and do what i need to do long term i just want to have a savings account so can you help me have you know a savings account can be a short-term
Starting point is 00:53:49 goal no you can do that today you can go we can go matter of fact let's shut this whole operation We're going to go transfer some cash. We're going to go get some money in Cindy's house. I can't believe she's so terrible. She's got no sayings. Black Americans. Come on. Okay.
Starting point is 00:54:05 Wait, what was your best job? We never even talked about. What was like the best and the worst? Dang, my best job? Mm-hmm. I think working at the Standard was like my best job because I didn't work. I didn't work. You quit though.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Yeah, but I didn't work. It was fun. Okay. So that was the best job. I'd watch Star Wars I'd eat free food I'd hang out Okay I'm here for the food
Starting point is 00:54:28 I'm not here for the Star Wars That sounds like A 50-50 lose-win situation I literally did nothing there So that was your best job That was my best job It was the best And it was the worst job
Starting point is 00:54:36 Because I was there overnight Oh yeah Overnight is terrible It's the worst I've never had an overnight job And the freaks come out Marie Worse
Starting point is 00:54:42 Best job The worst job I had Was probably The one where I wore The poom poom shorts For three days The poom poom The poom poom shorts
Starting point is 00:54:52 That poom kosh was out The poom kosh And then my best job Was the other job I got fired from Because I didn't show up For like a week Because my boss was out of the country And I was like oh she's not here
Starting point is 00:55:07 I don't need to be here But you did show up I mean I would show up late Like I was doing like a one to three Like I was doing that shit You're like oh she ain't here She's in Taiwan I'm gonna come in
Starting point is 00:55:17 I was like she doesn't She can't I'm gonna get here at lunch Contact me from Taiwan And then take lunch And then she called me And she was like Marie where are you at I called the office, and you're not there.
Starting point is 00:55:25 I was like, uh, I went to Duane Reade. I'm right outside. I'm at the pharmacy. And I was on the train. I was crossing the Manhattan Bridge. And it was like, next stop, Canal Street. Oh, no. And I was like, I ain't got to go.
Starting point is 00:55:37 Bye, Carol. Oh, no. And then the next, when she got back, the day she got back, she fired me. So she's terrible. So why was that the, that was the best job? That was the best job. I was making the most money. Yeah, you were.
Starting point is 00:55:48 And I didn't really have to do that much work. and I was doing less than the not a lot of work I had to do and that's why I got fired. Sydney, best worst job? It's crazy. It's the job
Starting point is 00:56:00 that I got fired from as well was my best job because I was making everything in cash. Everything cash money. How much money were you working out with on a slow night?
Starting point is 00:56:09 $600. And on a busy night? $1,200, $1,300. And you ain't got no savings? What? You see these titties on my chest this is my motherfucking savings and yet them titties is not they're not there's not a return
Starting point is 00:56:23 investment on them today okay because you're still paying for everything now i know but it was the best job because i would get money in cash and it was the worst job because i drank way too much i got fucked up and then i developed a bad drinking habit and then i got fired essentially from drinking and they were like you i was like you hired me here to be the party girl and i am the party girl they're like yeah and they're like well party's over today okay pack up your belongings and go they were like they were like lights out nigga what's my mother's name and then they play they play candy rain as you walk down is it rainbows or raindrops i don't know i don't say rain i feel like this show is sponsored by
Starting point is 00:57:11 karaoke but it's not it's not karaoke it's sponsored by black people killing it uh acoustically and uh what's the word where there's no music playing behind you uh acapella acapella no but it's really um sponsored by something else today remember it's sponsored by uh zip card zip card no wait wait oh my goodness sydney i feel like we're gonna have to wrap this up no no no okay Guys, thank you so much for listening to The Univisual Expert. Sydney's about to tell you exactly what we're sponsored by. Yes. Before we do that, Andrew, where can people see you?
Starting point is 00:57:46 Where are you going to be next? What shift, what job, what show? Oh, I'm going to be at the show that you were at a couple days ago. Oh, Irv's on Beekman. Yeah, Irv's on Beekman next month. It's Monday. Okay. What's the first Monday?
Starting point is 00:58:01 Yeah, it's the first Mondays of every month. Yeah, first Monday of every month. Irv's on Beekman. Come check me out. Sydney, where are you at next? Where can people find you? What's your social media? What job are you going to be at, Andrew, that I could just pop by?
Starting point is 00:58:12 I'm going to be on Wall Street, baby. Okay, we'll be there. But we're going to have on Heather Gray sweatshorts. I can't let you in the office like that. Andrew, social media, what do you have to plug? Twitter, Facebook, Instagram? McGildrew at Instagram, hit me up. McGildrew, M-C-G-I-L-L-D-R-E-W.
Starting point is 00:58:34 And I am, you know, you know where I'm at. R-E-E-E-Z-Y And you can catch Sidney and I At the warm up The second Saturday Of every freaking month At Karma Lounge Sidney
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Starting point is 00:59:29 There it is Thanks so much, guys Oh my God, Marie, you're perfect I'm so good I should work for Zipcar I really think you should leave Unofficial Expert and go to Zipcar. Just work for them. You know what?
Starting point is 00:59:39 Let me look at your resume and see if I can tweak it for a bit. Oh, Andrew, thank you so much. Guys, thank you for listening. Sincerely yours, Unofficial Expert. Yes, thank you. Best Unofficial Expert. Warm regards, Marie and Sydney. Sincerely.
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