ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 21st May, 2025

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; it's a spill over! Have you ever received a bad review?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the ZM podcast network, it's Fletch, Fawn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to a little bit of pod. We're gonna do an overflow pod today. It's a thing we do when we do a phone on top of gone air. If you haven't listened to the big pod yet, probably recommend listening to that one first. And we have such an overwhelming response from our listeners that we do an overflow pod. And here we are doing today's, have you received a bad review? that we do in overflow pod and here we are doing today's have you received a bad review? We talked about this because Haley received a slightly unfavorable reviews from some grumpy old white dude that didn't like women talking

about their pubes. Yeah I read a few more of his reviews just to sort of you know put myself at ease and yeah every time oh need he refer to his member in the aisle. Just kind of like why is he probably got a free ticket in there like we need someone to review a show and he's like, Oh, do it. Yeah. I go review the orchestra do you know what I mean? Don't review like a. No, because that new orchestral hit, Pubis on Fomali.

Pubis on Fomali by Tchaikovsky, of course. Yeah. And he won't be happy about that. He will not be happy. No. Right. Some of the reviews, I hired a landscaper once and they came and did some work, did a horrible job,

but instead of us leaving them a review, they left a business I own a bad review, even though they hadn't taken us up on our business. They did a bad job. They must have saw the bad review coming and preempted it with a bad review. Yeah, yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I'm a beauty therapist. I got a bad review from someone because I gave them a bikini wax and they gave me one star out of five because it hurt. I mean, you're ripping out your pubes.

Yeah. Also, and we do apologize for bringing out pubes to the petrol brand. Patrick Smelly. Sorry. Really sorry. He hates hearing about pubes, even though this is apparently something most people are dealing with. We've all got them.

Yeah. All dealing with them. But my target audience is mostly, you know, women in their 30s to 40s and just this one guy, you know? So I'm disappointed it didn't land with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was for him. Yes. Jess, Jess one here, the OG Jess, not Alpha Jess.

If you've listened to the show, this will make some more sense than if you haven't. If you haven't. But I'm not claiming, even if you listen to the show, that any of it makes any sense. It's nonsensical. It's the whole show, nonsensical. I got a poor review on Trade Me Once for calling out a crappy seller who F'd me around.

I still gave them a three, which I thought was generous. I'd bent over backwards to make the sale happen. And then they gave me a one and completely F'd up my perfect five-star rating. That son of a bitch. Oh my god. This is why I hate selling stuff on TradeMe. The people. Kill me, eh?

And the bending over backwards of people. I know. Yeah. Are you able to actually, if you could drop it off, that would be great if you work anywhere near, I could pick it up from your work. I'm not putting this, I can't fucking pick it up. I don't want you coming to my work.

Or when they buy something big and they're like, could you organise freight? You're fucked, you don't live in the right city, that's your problem. Yeah, you organise the freight. Sorry, I've got really worked up. You do, as a TradeMe, you're a buyer and a. You're fucked, you don't live in the right city, that's your problem. Yeah, you're all nice and afraid. Sorry, I've got really worked up. You do, as a trade man, you're a buyer and a seller. Aficionado.

Yeah, as a content creator, the comment section of the videos I make is often bad reviews. I make food, and the comments are always like, no, I wouldn't have done it that way. You actually don't have to. You haven't made it or tasted it. Yeah, and also then do it. Yeah, kind of a niche review, but my husband and I were on that Cadbury Dream Factory show back in 2014 What dream factory that kind of rings a bell? I think that Cadbury Dream Factory dreams come true Yeah, I think it was actress in New Zealand reality show where viewers submitted their dreams to TV3. Oh god

Why would you do that with a fucking horse room. Oh no The couch will be a horse. No, it wasn't like dreams I saw a horse once. The bed is a horse! The first episode aired on the 23rd February 2014 my birthday I turned 32 years old that day. The show is presented and hosted by Brooke Howard Smith and his helpers are Kimberly Crossman former Sticky TV host Walter Nielans and and performer Guy Montgomery. What? Guy Montgomery was on Dreams actually?

And yeah, that just made people's dreams come true. Like, you know, about my dream would be I had to go skiing in the Southern Alps. Oh, right. Anyway, one reviewer described us as an uncool young couple, and it stuck with me ever since. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I haven't gone to the show, but not the people on it. But then I guess if you go on a reality show, you're getting rated, aren't you? Oh, yeah, totally. I used to own a catering business and my partner's dad died. So he was my father-in-law.

Obviously, I had to go to the funeral. I knew two weeks in advance. That's a long time out from a funeral. You're putting them in the fridge. I had to cancel a wedding that I had in two weeks time. I knew this would be a problem for the bride, so I found her another company. I paid the extra cost, and I said,

listen, I'm unable to make it, but these guys will come. They're more expensive. I'm gonna cover the difference. She took me up on that offer, then proceeded to leave bad reviews all over my Google and Facebook, even come to where I work in person, it came to work, where I work in person to complain.

And I said, yes, I know, but my father- work where I work in person to complain and I said yes I know but my father-in-law died and they said I don't care That's fucking ruthless. I That what I like about that is someone has solved your problem immediately Yeah, yeah, you have to understand you have Shannon told you you wouldn't even know it was a problem. Yeah Yeah, I know they didn't come to you with a problem and ask you to solve it They saw the problem before it even became your problem. Some people.

When I sat my restricted and full license test both with different instructors, they both gave me the exact same feedback. Look, I'm gonna pass you, but I probably shouldn't. I'm just glad I sat those tests while I was still young and hot, because I definitely wouldn't be getting one of those pity passes these days. Not, yeah.

Yeah. The hotness fades and then you just left with nothing. Yeah, you're a terrible driver and you're a minger You know that's Like that triangle, you know, you've got it. You can't be all three. No, you can't yeah. Yeah What am I? What are you two hot and funny? What's the other one? good driver What are you picking on the pyramid of hot funny and good driver Good driver.

What are you picking on the pyramid of hot, funny and good driver? Hot and funny. Hot and funny. We're all hot and funny. I can drive. I can drive, but I'll take hot and funny. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You drive.

I drive. Yeah. Undeniably hot and undeniably funny. Yes. Correct. OK, well we're all the same. I get on I worked at Ballantyne's in Christchurch for overseas listeners. That's like a department store. Yeah High-end sort of department. Yeah

And I was mystery shopped and the woman said when she came out of the fitting room I completely ignored her and was talking to another staff member about my upcoming trip to South Africa. Probably you were that was my buyer We're not Another staff member about my upcoming trip to South Africa. Probably you were. That was my buyer. We looked nothing. I mean, I've worked in retail. It's not always a barrel of laughs. It can be quite boring. The problem was, I wasn't talking about my trip to South Africa.

My buyer was visiting the shop. Oh, and so. And they were talking about their trip to South Africa. We looked nothing like a path. We had brown hair, but my manager would not take it off my record. Oh, for real. That would annoy me. That would annoy me too. my manager would not take it off my record. Oh, far out. That would annoy me,

because it's not something you did. The injustice of it. I wouldn't stand for it. But also, if you're talking to your buyer, it's a relationship, so you're making a relationship. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like talking to them. Yeah.

But that's part of working a retail. Oh my God, you look so nice. Where are you going? Oh my God, yeah, my daughter went, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, meh, off you go. A coworker in a large sports tournament I worked at went to my boss and reviewed me as rude and abrupth meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh meh because of their race. Myself and another manager are both immigrants to New Zealand and the team was 95% working holiday visas and probably the most ethnically diverse crowd I've ever seen in my life. We reviewed the camera footage of the couple arriving, being greeted by three staff

within the first two minutes and then going off and sitting in a corner that was out of sight. They were checked on again and they said they left by minute seven. We replied to their negative review and said I had to host them after we gave them a $200 voucher to appease them even though yeah, they know fuck them I wouldn't have given them about you. I would have told me to get fucked I make the car sure fucked I made I Made the catcher once it did not rise as much as I want it to and now there's a place by me and Vaughn that Makes the catcher so good. I would I ever, ever make it?

Yeah. Make it yourself when for like, what is it? $10? $12, $10? I've got two great bread places near me. Yeah, why bother? Great sourdough, great focaccia. Yeah, whatever.

Do they do a brioche bun for burgers? No. I'm not ever eating a homemade burger off any other sort of bun ever again. Yeah, brioche is a way to go. Do you know where the dry sesame seed topped bun? No. To my place, they're like, oh, we'll do burgers, I'll bring the bread. Yeah, brooches later. Do you remember the dry ass sesame seed topped bun? No. To my place, they're like, oh, we'll do burgers,

I'll bring the bread. Yeah, bring the brooches. And I'll send you back. So the Fakasha lady, a lady purchased one off me, messaged me two days later to say it was dry, and she wanted her money back. It's full of oil, and it wouldn't have been dry, and it's two days later, and then I told her to return it,

and apologize, she told me they'd eaten the whole thing. Yes, it wasn't that bad was it? so people then send back meals? oh the steak was overcooked well where's three quarters of it gone? can't have been that inedible yeah I think we're gonna tell her to fuck off too yeah actually

fuck off