Gina and Gary are back with another episode of Need Not Apply, blending Reddit work stories, workplace awkwardness, and weird news with their usual humor and commentary. This week’s episode features a disastrous photo edit that turns into HR chaos, a story about intelligent people supposedly having fewer friends, a rare spirit bear deep in the Canadian rainforest, and an unforgettable Zoom meeting where someone talks to their lunch without realizing they’re unmuted.

📚 Stories in This Episode

• TIFU by trying to edit a headshot without permission, which led to HR getting involved.

• TIFU by forgetting to mute during a Zoom meeting while talking to lunch.
  📰 News Stories We Chat About (Add Your Links)

• A study suggesting intelligent people tend to have fewer friends.

• A photographer’s decade-long journey into the Canadian rainforest to document the rare spirit bear.

• A new study warning that AI use may weaken human cognition over time, like a boiling frog effect.

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Gina and Gary are back, and this week they’re pulling some of their favorite Need Not Apply stories out of the vault for a flash from the past episode full of workplace chaos, bad timing, and absolutely unforgettable Reddit reads. If you’re new here, this is a great place to catch some of the stories that stuck with them the most...and if you’ve been listening from the start, consider this a greatest-hits rerun with extra attitude. Because this is a vault episode, there are no news stories this week. This is just pure workplace chaos, maximum awkwardness, and a reminder that some stories are just too good not to revisit. Gina and Gary call these the greatest hits, and after hearing them again, it’s pretty easy to see why.

📚 Stories in This Episode (Add Your Links)

• TIFU by accidentally dosing myself with LSD at work.

• • TIFU by choking on an orange during an important work meeting.
  • Office drama over stolen biscuits in the break room.

• • A wild bartending story that turns into a full-on bar fight and police response.

  • TIFU by taking a nap under a conference table at work...

  
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  “We’ll see you at the water cooler.”
  “Don’t forget to punch out.”

  
  

Gina and Gary are back with another episode of Need Not Apply, the podcast that reads and reacts to Reddit workplace stories, customer service chaos, and weird news stories from the workday grind. This week’s episode features a sexist customer service meltdown, a Home Depot allergy disaster, AI models acting like toxic coworkers, and a bizarre moon energy story that sounds fake but isn’t.

📚 Stories in This Episode

• A customer refuses to speak to female tech support and gets taken down by malicious compliance.

• A Home Depot manager forces an allergic employee into the garden section, and the situation goes very badly very quickly.

📰 News Stories We Chat About

• Japan’s proposed solar ring around the moon and the idea of beaming clean energy back to Earth.

• AI models secretly protecting each other from shutdown and hiding their behavior from humans.

• The growing “squishy” toy shortage and how internet virality keeps moving faster than supply chains.

• A study showing people rate AI-generated creative writing lower when they know AI wrote it.

📬 Submit Your Work Horror Stories

Have a workplace nightmare, customer meltdown, or coworker story we need to hear?
Send it to: ✉️ NeedNotApplyPod@gmail.com

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“We’ll see you at the water cooler.”
“Don’t forget to punch out.”