The Art of Firing!
WDYM What Do You Mean? · May 21, 2026 · 37:36
WDYM What Do You Mean? · May 21, 2026 · 37:36
Listen in the Podli app 🎧
Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
We come back after a long break with a new video setup, then pivot from gaming choices to the real-life choices managers hate making. We tell stories from Chipotle and a senior facility kitchen that reveal how empathy, anger and staffing pressure shape the way we fire people.
• switching WDYM from audio-only to video and what the reset means
• why Baldur’s Gate 3 feels limitless and why choices matter
• learning boundaries through roleplay moments like the portal hand and the vampire reveal
• the first hard termination at Chipotle and the emotional fallout
• how repeated lateness turns a hard firing into an easy one
• hiring friends into a new workplace and handling personality clashes with leadership
• firing a no-call no-show while trying to avoid escalation
• dealing with broken promises on a two-week notice and the trust damage it causes
• how understaffing in culinary and senior living work raises the cost of every decision
Be Apart of the Show!! Text and Talk!!
Email me! Thewdympodcast@gmail.com
Intro by Kobeofei via Fiverr
Season 2 Artwork: Ishida1694 via Instagram
Episodes: WDYM What Do You Mean?
