ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod -23rd November, 2025

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Fletchy overheard a wild conversation...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From the Zedium Podcast Network, it's Fletchpawn and Haley's Little Bit of Pod. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. And I love overhearing a conversation. Oh my God, Sam, what have you heard? Like, you know, if you're at a cafe, you're right next to people. And I'm actually really bad at this myself. I think we are as well when we go to a cafe. You're oblivious to the people sitting next to you.

Oh, and we chat. And we chat. And we chat about all kinds of things. I mean, if it's juicy, we'll be like lowered voices. Yeah, yeah. If it's super juicy, we'll actually text each other at breakfast. Or you'd just be like, are you listening to this? If you overhear something?

Haley, holy, holy. But I would know I was at the airport with our friend Matt. We were both on the same flight back from Wellington weekend. We love that. And behind us. And we had our backs sitting to some Australian, like, corporate bigwigs, business people. Oh, wow. Yeah.

And you could tell by the conversations, they were like, up to Auckland for three days. And then what times our flight to Singapore? They were flying everywhere And they were back to Sydney And they were like Oh should we have a day off On the day we land And the boss is like

We don't have time No we should I tell you what Email the team now Tell them not to come in on that Friday And I was like Oh we've got so I know I couldn't work out

What company it was But that's when they were chatting And they were like Exex they were like the high Big Because they know One stage looked at them And I was like

Oh they look like They paid lots of money And they were in a big company And they got to discussing an employee and whether or not they should give him a 25% pay rise

far out 25% and they were like okay and then they all just debated it they were like and then one of them was like and I remember this line

we will have to see a 25% output in their work It is so I don't you think it's just mad to think that like people are in these chats yes

determining something so life changing for someone and in that moment someone one of them can be like, nah, no, no, no, we're not doing that. And it's gone. And he'll never know, well, she'll never know. No, and then one of them was like, well, that will make their Christmas bonus

$10,000. I was like, $10,000 Christmas bonus. That's a nice little touch, isn't that insane? And they debated this for like five or six minutes. And I was just the whole time just like, listening. 10K just before Christmas, just like plop on top of whatever you earn. I remember when I first moved to Auckland, one of my friend's wife's, wife at the time

worked in finance his wife and she was getting a Christmas bonus because it worked in finance and mortgages exactly what I was getting paid for the entire year like it was insane I was like just for Christmas

because it's been a big year it takes me 52 weeks but it was just insane listening to like the behind the scenes of the corporate I love that I love you over her conversation was someone who lives such a different life to me. And then you're just like so curious.

I'm hoping there's someone in Australia that's had a 25% salary increase and is working now 25% harder. And we'll probably be able to buy you a big Christmas present. He missed his own natural out. Yeah. Yeah, he did. Yeah. You took a big pause and then you set a second sentence on.

Gosh. Miss the natural out. And he did it all on his own. We haven't finished. Also good than just hearing you say it again, fuck working 25% harder for 25% more money. If I'm working 25% harder. I want 50% more money. You actually work in reverse.

The more money you earn, the less you want to work. I call it Dutch working. That is a Dutch option. I want a Dutch option. I want to, it's like a Dutch option. You do Dutch work. It starts high and I'll meet you low.

It's called negotiation. Yeah, that's good. And plus, if you're working 20, if you're, yeah, 100%. That was a natural out too. No, I'm not finished taking down capitalism, one brick at a time.