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Featuring reading: “I’m Sorry I Was a Bad Eagle. Please Stop Making Me Eat That Disgusting Man’s Liver.” by Amanda Lehr.

Editing help by Josh Klasco. Mastering by Alex Gilson, who also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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Featuring readings: “Black Millennial Nursery Rhymes” by Khadjiah Johnson and “Shark Tank: Myths and Legends Edition” by Johnny Mo.

Editing help by Josh Klasco. Mastering by Alex Gilson, who also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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Editing help by Josh Klasco. Mastering by Alex Gilson, who also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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Josh Klasco wrote and performed the voiceover in the salt & pepper commercials.

Editing help by Josh Klasco.

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Alex Gilson mastered the episode. Alex also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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With Sam Polito as Nathan Jenkins “Job-Creatin’” Aitkins. Check out Sam’s Twitch channel!

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Alex Gilson mastered the episode. Alex also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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Featuring Neil Rogers as Dr. Farber.

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Julia McCloy read “I’m the Man With the Flower Growing Out of his Butt in the Hieronymous Bosch Painting and I’m Putting in My 2 Weeks Notice.”

Julia is a very funny writer you should follow here:

• Website: http://juliamccloysteffen.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/_juliamccloy
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julia_mccloy/

Josh Klasco provided editing assistance. Josh has previously contributed COVID Cover Letter here at Spooky, and his other humour writing, including “Biden Sucks, Vote Biden” from McSweeney’s, can be found at https://www.joshklasco.com/.

Alex Gilson provided engineering. Alex also handles sound on Adult Swim’s fantastic This is Branchburg podcast with Brendan and Cory.

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• Have you ever wondered what was the best holiday present that the readers of Evil HR Lady ever received was? Friend, we’ve got you covered.
• Josh Thompson and his emotional support clown received wide coverage, including this piece from The Guardian. Honk honk! Splat!
• And as for being drenched in gore... Frankly, it’s hard not to be sick.

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• Do you hate yourself? Well then, subject yourself to Kevin Carmichael’s absolutely worthless article here. I dunno, maybe this is written for the hate-click economy and we shouldn’t give it the time of day...
• The ‘deskterior’ phenomenon is addressed by the BBC here. Perhaps elsewhere too? Oh, and feel free to order Sam one of these mega-sweet Bernie Sanders dolls. Or, if you are more into locking up the parents of truant school children, there’s a doll for you as well.
• Want to enjoy some of the hits from the Work It countdown? The Work It anthem first appeared (in full) in episode 3 on leadership. Get down to Funky Janet in episode 8 at our holiday party.
  • This next song deserves its own indented bullet point! What can you say about Quincas Moreira and Bongo Madness?! Our theme/buffer music was one of the first things that got us excited to do Work It. We found it in the YouTube audio library and were immediately like, “That’s it! That’s the one!” Quincas was nice enough to answer our email giving his blessing for us to use it in the show when we were preparing our first episodes. Thank you, Quincas! You absolutely rule.

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• As much as I don’t care to send them the traffic, here is The Economist’s 410-word absolute pot-boiler about some managers took an improv class. Perhaps you’ll find it more edifying to read The Nation’s ‘The Economist’ Has a Slavery Problem or The Atlantic’s The Economist Is Sorry About Its 'Not All Slave Masters' Book Review.
  • (Though obviously the magazine that writes paycheques to Rahm Emanuel, David Frum and Jeffrey Goldberg should be razed as well.)
• Want to take your very own Canada Job Bank quiz? Have you also tricked yourself into thinking it’ll make great radio? Well friend, here ya go!
• Here’s everything you wanted to know about working at Leggett & Platt but were afraid to ask!

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• It’s CFMU’s annual fundraiser! So we’re live in studio. Not to oversell it but: we did our best?
• Please consider supporting this valuable, essential community broadcaster at cfmu.ca/donate

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• Wowza! It’s the War & Peace of communications guidebooks, Mailchimp’s Tone & Voice!
• This Abbot & Costello scene may have had some minor influence on the Hu’s Up First scene. It is arguable, in the very least.
• Here are just a couple of the many pieces about Netflix and Amy Klobuchar being nightmare employers.
  • Amy Klobuchar’s abusive behaviour, laid out by HuffPost and BuzzFeed.
  • Netflix’s rotten working conditions have been described by Quartz, Vanity Fair, and even the investigative journalists at Variety!
• In case you haven’t seen them (preferably in a double-feature!), here’s the “stuff” scene from The Devil Wears Prada, and here’s Alec Baldwin’s convincing turn as a huge a-hole in Glengarry Glenn Ross.

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• Yes, Sam realizes he said “episode 16” in the intro when he should have said “15”. You can’t fire him, he quits!
• Our closing banter on recent union news could send you down a reading-list rabbit hole. Here’s some pieces on:
  • The ‘surging’ popularity of unions, from Gallup.
  • The New Museum, from Artnet
  • The dog days at Buzzfeed
  • Anchor Beer’s union drive
  • The Vice union
  • Unionization at The New Yorker and the media industry in general
  • The GMG Union
  • The LA Teacher Union strike

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• Yes, Sam knows how bad he butchered Amy Klobuchar’s last name. I’m sure she’ll be over to yell at us shortly.
• Were you joyfully ignorant of private prison stocks before this episode? If you wanted proof of the malignancy of humankind, here ya go. And yes, it is patently obvious that investors in them should be burned alive.
• Here’s that Baroness von Sketch scene. Were we unfair? Or are they enemies of the working class? If the latter, blame Sam – Janet put him in charge of misogyny on the show.
• When in doubt, Sam references the old gods of the Cthulhu mythos for a gag. He did it here with Azatoth, he’s done it before, and no doubt he’ll do it again.
• Big Star’s “Thirteen” is a nice song, isn’t it?

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• Here’s the article on team-building tips with the super-sweet SSL certificate.
• We do actually want to read Team of Rivals one of these days. No matter how bad the Spielberg movie was.
• It doesn’t come up in the episode, but Sam and his friend Julia also wrote a satirical piece on team-building games for ICE agents. Give them a hit! (Do I mean give the link a hit? Or punch ICE agents? Hmm....)

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• JanetFest is of course referencing things like the Fyre Festival and the similarly doomed workshops of Instagram self-promoter Caroline Calloway.
• If you enjoyed The Influence scene, this wasn’t the first parody of that sci-fi film series: check out Bobal Fett, Job Hunter from the job hunting episode.

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• The scene about favourite quotes to inspire entrepreneurs draws on this blog post from BigCommerce.
• You probably already know all about the story of Juicero. That said, here’s an update on CEO Doug Evens from Gizmodo.
• You can find the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report that says children should study entrepreneurship here, though we were consulting this Globe & Mail summary – even though they no longer employ any Allemangs, the bums!
• If you enjoyed the Juicero movie trailer, you may like some of our other fake trailers: take the gritty Boss Baby reboot from episode 3, for instance, or Bobal Fett, Job Hunter from the job hunting episode.

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• We give a little bonus nod to our beautiful, attribution-free theme song in the karaoke scene. It’s called Bongo Madness, and it’s buy one Quincas Moreira. Thank you for the madness, Quincas!
• Obviously, if you hear the Work It Saloon sketch, you can see Sam’s been playing too much RDR2. It’s almost inevitable that we’ll start begging for bits soon... Follow us on Twitch and keep yer eyes peeled, pardner.
• If you liked the Red Carpet scene, you might like our “interviews” with Jamie Dimon or John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer from earlier episodes.
• If you liked the etiquette video scene, there are some equally charming vintage educational videos in our First Jobs episode and our Women in the Workplace episode.

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• The Zenefits email scene and Watercooler Wipeout are from Work It episode 01 on office romance.
• The fake trailer for Bobal Fatt, Job Hunter is from Work It episode 02 on job hunting.
• Leadership Bootcamp and Clips from our TEDtalk are from Work It episode 03 on leadership.
• Apology is from Work It episode 04 on women in the workplace.
• The Lake BlueSky camp counsellor scene and You’re a Grown Up Know educational video scene are from Work It episode 05 on first jobs.
• And finally, last and least, No-Man and Executive Time are from Work It episode 06 on work/life balance.

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• “6 Tips For Better Work-Life Balance” was goofing on this article from Forbes.
• ‘Executive time’ was extensively documented and, frankly, we don’t want to talk about it anymore...
• Here’s the Musky old boy talking about the insufficiency of a 40-hour work week.

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