🎙️ Need Not Apply Podcast : Airline Chaos Edition ✈️😳

From meteors to zombie rabbits 🐇🍄, Selena Gomez’s scratch-n-sniff billboards 👃✨, and UnitedHealth’s mega-hack 💻🔓… we’re covering the wild headlines before diving into this week’s theme: AIRLINE STORIES 🛫.

👩‍✈️ Drunk pilots, overheated engines, and flight attendants on the edge 😱

🛑 Frontier kicking passengers off planes for literally paying less 💸🙄

🥂 Private jet customers trashing planes (and drinking all the Tito’s) 😂🍹

😤 Plus: crying babies, bad etiquette, and why pickleball is somehow the fastest-growing sport in America 🎾🥒

We wrap it up with distractions of the week: Japanese raccoon dogs 🦝🐾, Freaky Friday nostalgia 🍿, and more questionable theater babies 👶.

💼 So grab your boarding pass, buckle up, and keep your trays in the upright position we’re cleared for chaos.

📰News Stories:

• What to Know About the Horned 'Zombie' Rabbits Hopping Around Colorado | TIME
• Fixing Your Posture: a Hot Longevity Trend That's Like a Free Facelift - Business Insider
• Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty putsup scratch-and-sniff ads in NYC
• Terrible luck: The only person ever killed by a meteorite—back in 1888
• Over 190 million hit in UnitedHealth data breach — confirmed largest in history

✈️ Stories this week include:

1. Story 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pcawuf/comment/haiuv5z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
2. Story 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/pcawuf/comment/hahrms7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
3. Story 3: Here’s my Frontier horror story : r/frontierairlines
4. Story 4: https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/yzq9ji/comment/ix2b7v1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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Welcome back to Need Not Apply, where this week we're diving into the fire — and dragging some nightmare customers with us. This episode is all about the food service industry: stories from servers, line cooks, and fast food workers that’ll have you screaming “YES, CHEF!”... or maybe just screaming.

• A couple who sat past closing, refused dessert... and tipped $5

• A nightmare customer custom-ordering “pre-al dente” vegan pasta

• A brutal first shift on the grill that ends in smoke, shame, and respect

• A Chick-fil-A employee’s tell-all on toxic management and man-baby directors

• Gina loses her wedding ring (but finds out who had it)

• Gary nearly styles his hair with a dehumidifier

• The cursed world of fart jars and bathwater sales

• AI gone rogue, radioactive rhino horns, grass-eating pets, and the animal extinction stories that broke our hearts

  
  

🧠 Need a distraction from your shift? We got you.

📰News Stories:

• ⁠Redditors Claim They Can Smell When Someone Is Pregnant. Is That Really A Thing?⁠

• ⁠ChatGPT Poisoned A Guy Into Psychosis, Case Study Shows⁠

• ⁠AI robot pet hit in Japan as personalities vary based on upbringing⁠

• ⁠China launches ‘world’s first’ humanoid robot mall that operates like a car dealership⁠
• ⁠L’Oréal’s surprising reasoning for picking an OnlyFans model as a brand ambassador⁠
• ⁠When your mind goes 'blank,' your brain activity resembles deep sleep, scans reveal⁠💌 Want your story read on-air? Email us: ⁠NeedNotApplyPod@gmail.com⁠📅 New episodes every Wednesday at 5 a.m. ET📲 Follow us on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube: @NeedNotApplyPod

🍴 Stories this week include:

1. ⁠Nice Guys Always Finish Last...Unless They're Eating at a Restaurant [Wall of Text] [Storytime]⁠
2. ⁠An Unexpected Journey, or So Long and Thanks To All The Fish: The story of my first stage.⁠
3. ⁠Every get a Customer like this before? Long story⁠
4. ⁠This is the only place I know to share my story about my horrible workplace experience. It is a long story (mobile format)⁠

We came to read work drama… but one story took over like it had PTO to burn.
Meet Anna: a 20-year-old coworker who’s confident, confrontational, and catastrophically incorrect.

👩‍🎤 It all starts with a crush...a fellow barista who speaks multiple languages, including Spanish. Anna doesn’t like that. She really doesn’t like that.
So naturally, she…
🔹 Accuses her of faking fluency
🔹 Publicly calls out her accent
🔹 Demands a coworker defend her fragile ego
🔹 Plays victim when no one agrees

When that doesn’t work?
🔹 She shows up at the girl's house uninvited
🔹 Gets herself fired for escalating
🔹 And just when we think she’s done…
🔹 She rents the apartment across the street

It’s unhinged. It’s delulu. It’s five Reddit posts deep.
And the kicker? Even her own sister tells her she’s the problem.

🎪 Oh, and there’s more:

We also read a short but insane story about a narcoleptic bouncy castle driver whose teenage coworker was told, “Just grab the wheel if he passes out.”
🚩 Safety? Never heard of her.
🏁 Liability? They don’t have that either.

😅 Meanwhile, in our pre-story banter:

🛒 Costco parking lot chaos & human speed bumps
🐝 Updates from the wasp war (spoiler: duct tape is a character now)
💄 A viral AI-generated makeup ad sparks an ethics debate
🤖 Microsoft says we can’t tell real from fake images — and then sells us a tool to try anyway
🎭 Plus: Jason Momoa’s acting... does it exist?

✉️ Got Your Own Work Saga?

We want it. Retail? Restaurants? Corporate HR nightmares? Send it our way.
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Clock in for the chaos, coworkers. The kettle’s on. ☕

Welcome back to Need Not Apply, where the vibes are chaotic, the wasps are aggressive, and the workplace stories are anything but boring.

This week, Gary and Gina are under siege — not from coworkers (yet), but from yellow jackets taking over their apartment. Between buzzing invaders, DIY pest control, and two deeply unbothered cats, they share a behind-the-scenes glimpse at what it’s like trying to record a podcast inside an accidental hive.

Naturally, that spirals into:
🐝 Home life vs. wildlife: yellow jackets, hornets, and one truly cursed centipede encounter
🥵 Weird internet cooling hacks (Greek yogurt on your windows — we wish we were kidding)
🧊 The war on heat, including aluminum foil insulation and a collective loss of dignity
🎮 Random game stats, snack tangents, and apartment therapy fails

Then it’s on to this week’s lineup of malicious compliance greatness — four stories of petty, perfect revenge served corporate-cold:

1. Train Your Replacements – OP’s boss plans to fire them… and asks them to train two interns first. They comply. It backfires. Beautifully.

2. Wrong Ticket? Right Price. – A customer demands the wrong thing and insists they’re right. Turns out, that’ll cost extra.

3. “Suck It Up or Leave” – A manager tries to bully the office MVP into silence. Instead? They leave. The fallout is immediate.

4. Three for One Special – One post, three quick and spicy tales of malicious compliance at work. Think of it as a sampler platter of chaos.

If you’ve ever smiled through a ridiculous task and thought, “Okay… if you say so,” this episode’s for you.

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Like, follow, leave a review — and remember: sometimes the best way to fight back is by following directions a little too well.

Timestamps

00:00 - 02:00: Introduction and setting the scene.

02:01 - 05:00: Discussing the unexpected invasion of yellow jackets.

05:01 - 10:00: Strategies to deal with the wasp problem.

10:01 - 15:00: Humorous anecdotes about home life and unexpected critters.

15:01 - 20:00: News segment - unusual cooling methods and gaming statistics.

20:01 - 25:00: Malicious compliance stories from the workplace.

25:01 - 30:00: More workplace stories and personal reflections.

30:01 - 35:00: Closing thoughts and listener engagement.

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You think you know your coworkers? Oh, honey — you have no idea.

In this episode of Need Not Apply, Gary and Gina dive headfirst into some of the most jaw-dropping, rage-inducing, and downright unbelievable workplace stories we've ever come across.

But first, a little catch-up:
☕ The emotional toll of remembering strangers' names (retail trauma is real)
🐾 Why their cats insist on becoming uninvited podcast guests
🛍️ Gina’s Ulta gift card saga — customer service or customer disservice?
💄 Skincare hot takes, old-school NARS nostalgia, and the downfall of good packaging
📞 Gen Z phone anxiety — why is calling someone now a federal offense?
🤖 The rise of AI scammers and the paranoia spiral that followed
🌍 And yes, a few environmental tangents (because why not?)

Then it’s off to the coworker chaos.

We’re talking about:

• The barista who barked at customers (and later became a cop)

• A hotel manager who used God, scarecrows, and wreaths as tools of terror

• A help desk tech with a whiteboard and a vendetta

• And a Game Master–turned–Keymaster who tried to pay rent with fake currency... and almost impaled himself with a house key

We cover manipulation, martyrdom, silent treatments, whiteboard meltdowns, and actual physical threats — all wrapped in humor, hot takes, and a few “is this real life?” moments.

If you’ve ever worked with someone who made you question your sanity (or your career path), this one’s for you.

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