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Auteur(s): Gina and Gary Cavallo
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 Need Not Apply is a podcast where we read your real life work stories and react with levity and advice from our personal experience in the work world. Submit your stories to Neednotapplypod@gmail.comGina and Gary Cavallo
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  • Episode 58 - Vegan Is Artificial and Other Customer Facts

    Episode 58 - Vegan Is Artificial and Other Customer Facts
    Feb 4 2026

    This week on Need Not Apply, we flip the script.
    We’re usually telling these stories from behind the counter... but this time, we’re stepping into our other role: the customers. Same chaos, same entitlement… just viewed from the opposite side of the register.

    We kick things off with Groundhog Day logic, global listeners (shoutout Japan 🇯🇵), dash cam supremacy after Gina’s car takes a direct hit from flying ice, and a brief campaign to abolish Mondays entirely. From there, we wade straight into customer-land where logic goes to die.


    🧾 This Week’s Stories (Linked Below)

    🍧 A man confidently declares that “vegan means artificial” while interrogating a gelato employee who deserves a raise and a medal
    🍽️ A full-grown man throws a holiday tantrum after being asked to move tables — and somehow decides it’s discrimination
    🥪 A Walmart sandwich maker completely loses it, hands out BOGO subs like a man possessed, then corners Gina for her number while her boyfriend hides several aisles away
    🥐 A hotel clerk attempts to gaslight a couple out of a paid breakfast, turning $10 into a full-blown customer service endurance test


    And because that wasn’t enough, we break things up with some truly unhinged news:


    This week’s news & distractions include:

    🌍 The Wallace Line — the invisible boundary that keeps Asian and Australian wildlife mysteriously separated
    🧪 Romans using human feces as medicine (yes, really — and they added herbs to help with the smell)

    🎵 Neil Young pulling his music from Amazon and giving his entire catalog to Greenland for free☕ Vietnamese police seizing tons of fake coffee made from soybeans instead of actual coffee
    🕷️ Pelican spiders — ancient assassin spiders that hunt other spiders with horrifying patience | IG Reel
    🎮 Google’s new AI world generator that has game developers and investors quietly panicking

    As always, we spiral, we laugh, we question humanity, and we try to make sense of why being a customer somehow turns people feral.

    📩 Have a work story, customer horror, or public meltdown we need to hear?
    Send it to neednotapplypod@gmail.com

    📲 Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @NeedNotApplyPod
    ▶️ YouTube: Need Not Apply Podcast


    Don’t forget to punch out — we’ll see you at the water cooler. 💧
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    1 h et 15 min
  • Episode 57 - When the Villain Becomes the Hero

    Episode 57 - When the Villain Becomes the Hero
    Jan 28 2026
    Clock in, grab your badge, and prepare to quietly judge strangers on the internet — because this week, we’re knee-deep in Am I the A$$hole workplace chaos. From petty boundary-setting that somehow turns into a full-blown reputation shift, to coworkers who simply refuse to learn someone’s name, to the moment you realize the person undermining your professional credibility isn’t even from your job — this episode is all about respect, power, and what happens when people keep testing limits. Gina and Gary unpack a lineup of stories where the phrase “I tried being polite” shows up right before things get extremely awkward, extremely petty, or extremely overdue.🧾 This Week’s Stories (Linked Below)AITA for ignoring a coworker who refused to use my actual name?Eight years at a company vs. one new hire who decides names are optional. OP sets a boundary, sticks to it, and discovers that consequences have a way of arriving… on a rainy night. 🏷️🌧️🔗 Link: [Story 1 – Ignoring coworker who won’t use my name]AITA for calling my hot-tempered coworker “emotional”?When HR won’t intervene and “that’s just how he is” becomes the default excuse, OP flips the script — and suddenly the office vocabulary shifts in a very specific direction. 🔥🧠🔗 Link: [Story 2 – Calling an angry coworker emotional]WIBTA if I started calling my white coworkers by random “white” names?One employee, one very easy name, and a year of “close enough.” OP considers matching energy to make a point — and sparks a conversation about microaggressions, memory, and who’s expected to be patient at work. 🪪📛🔗 Link: [Story 3 – Wrong names at work]AITA for walking out when my fiancé introduced me as a bookkeeper?This one isn’t about a coworker — it’s about someone who should’ve been in OP’s corner. Professional titles, public disrespect, and a moment that turns an engagement into a reality check. 🥂📊🔗 Link: [Story 4 – The bookkeeper fiancé]Halfway through, we clock out of Reddit and into the news — because the real world is also… kind of the a-hole sometimes.The Guardian: “High on … mustard? Cannabis industry teams up with chefs in push to stand out” 🔗 Link: [Article 1 – Cannabis culinary collaborations]SciTechDaily: “Goodbye, Cavities? This Natural Amino Acid Helps Teeth Fight Sugar” 🔗 Link: [Article 2 – Arginine & cavities]ScienceDaily: “Scientists sent viruses to space and they evolved in surprising ways” 🔗 Link: [Article 3 – Viruses evolved in space]AP News: “New homes needed for more than 450 pet rats found in NYC suburbs” 🔗 Link: [Article 4 – Pet rats rescue]Harvard Business Review: “When AI Amplifies the Biases of Its Users” 🔗 Link: [Article 5 – AI & user bias]AP News: “AI use at work has increased, Gallup poll finds” 🔗 Link: [Article 6 – AI use at work / Gallup]📩 Send us your work chaos (even a tiny one): NeedNotApplyPod@gmail.com📲 Follow: @neednotapplypod (IG + TikTok) | Need Not Apply Podcast (YouTube)🕔 New episodes every Wednesday at 5 AMSee you at the water cooler… and please, for the love of HR, use people’s actual names. 🧊👀
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    1 h et 13 min
  • Episode 56 - 1 Year and No Accrued PTO

    Episode 56 - 1 Year and No Accrued PTO
    Jan 21 2026
    Ring-a-ding-a-ding — it’s our pod-iversary. One full year of Need Not Apply, and we’re celebrating the only way we know how: absolute workplace chaos, a little “why are you like this?” retail reality, and a news segment that somehow turns into buttons vs. touchscreens and please don’t frack my attention. Gina’s operating on approximately one functioning vertebra, Gary has 150 alarms and zero intention of clearing his notifications, and yet… we still clock in.Then we get into a lineup of stories that hits every flavor of quitting/firing energy: getting fired from a job you never had, an April Fools “joke” that backfires into raises and karma, a teen realizing their first job is basically dishwashing bootcamp, and a five-year employee rage-quitting straight into a fully remote glow-up.🧾 This Week’s Stories (Linked Below)BORU: “I got fired from Walmart and never worked there” 🔗 Link: [Story 1 – Fired from Walmart you never worked at]BORU: “My boss told me I was fired… April Fools!” 🔗 Link: [Story 2 – April Fools firing prank]r/jobs: 17-year-old dishwasher asks if they can quit after ONE day 🔗 Link: [Story 3 – Should I quit after one day?]r/antiwork: “I just rage quit my job of five years” 🔗 Link: [Story 4 – Rage quit into remote upgrade]📰 Articles & Discussion (Also Linked Below)Kākāpō breeding season returns — a rare conservation win, and why “less intervention” might be the long-term goal 🦜🔗 Link: [Article – Kākāpō breeding]Bring back buttons — Australia/New Zealand safety groups push for physical controls in cars, and why touchscreens = distraction overload 🚗🔘🔗 Link: [Article – Bring back physical controls]“Human fracking” — a piece arguing Big Tech is drilling into our attention like it’s a natural resource (and why that metaphor… unfortunately hits) 📱⛏️🔗 Link: [Article – Human fracking / attention economy]Redheads & orange pigment benefits — pheomelanin may help reduce cellular stress (yes, your hair color might be doing a job) 🧬🧡🔗 Link: [Article – Orange pigment & cellular protection]Implanted vagus nerve stimulation for severe depression — big results for treatment-resistant cases, why it may be slow-acting, and the “at-home stim device” rabbit hole 💛🧠🔗 Link: [Article – VNS depression]Vision recovery may be “rewiring,” not regrowth — the brain rerouting around damage like it’s GPS with attitude 👁️🧠🔗 Link: [Article – Vision recovery / sprouting]Elon says retirement won’t matter in 20 years — sure, buddy. We unpack the AI-utopia claims, the inequality angle, and why “bronze tier AI” feels… too real 🤖💸🔗 Link: [Article – AI makes retirement irrelevant]📩 Send us your work chaos (even a tiny one): NeedNotApplyPod@gmail.com📲 Follow: @neednotapplypod (IG + TikTok) | Need Not Apply Podcast (YouTube)🕔 New episodes every Wednesday at 5 AMSee you at the water cooler… and don’t forget to punch out. 🧊🕺
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    1 h
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