Topic: Phone Anxiety

3 chapters across the catalog

Carbon Bomb
Episode 1516 2:16:17 - 2:18:46

1516: Carbon Bomb

Gen Z Workplace Anxiety and Face Recognition Issues

Consultants are reportedly charging high hourly fees to help Gen Z employees overcome anxieties such as answering office telephones. There are also anecdotal reports of younger individuals struggling with facial recognition, possibly due to prolonged mask-wearing or a lack of eye contact. These behavioral shifts are being monitored as Gen Z enters the professional workforce.

Losers to Lions
Episode 740 1:48:04 - 1:51:54

740: Losers to Lions

Listener Etiquette, Phone Call Frustrations and Tourette's

Adam Curry vents about the lack of etiquette from callers who don't identify themselves immediately. This leads to an anecdote about a man with Tourette's syndrome on a flight who was removed due to his vocal tics and erratic behavior, which the hosts attribute to extreme social anxiety.