Episode 67 - No Offense, Honey, But I’m Allergic

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.

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