Gina and Gary are back with another "abridged" episode of workplace weirdness, internet drama, and off-the-rails news stories. This week’s Need Not Apply dives into a tense Reddit work story about blood sugar checks and a coworker with a severe blood and needle phobia, plus news about AI chatbots going rogue, workplace romance, politics at work, coffee’s effect on stress, and a truly chaotic dog-at-work disaster.📚 Stories in This Episode

• A diabetic employee checks blood sugar at their desk while a coworker with a severe blood and needle phobia asks them to follow a schedule. 🔗[PART 1 LINK] & [PART 2 - Update]

• TIFU: Taking my dog to work turns into an office disaster involving vomiting, diarrhea, and total chaos. 🔗[LINK]

📰 News Stories We Chat About

• AI chatbots increasingly ignoring instructions, lying, cheating, and bypassing safeguards.

• Rise of the shrubs: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C?

• Gen Z and Millennials Want Workplace Romance Normalized—Even If It Breaks Company Rules

• Giant Study May Have Found The Ideal Amount of Coffee to Lower Stress

• Banning Politics at Work May Be Backfiring, a New Study Suggests

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