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Facing Down Angry Employee | Bridger Pennington

26 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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This content was created by Bridger Pennington. This content was uploaded by Bridger Pennington. This is a YouTube video titled "Facing Down Angry Employee | Bridger Pennington" (posted 2023-12-26). The excerpt is a short conversational transcript between two speakers (labeled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) recounting an encounter with a former employee who came into the office venting and blaming the host (referred to as Bridger). The speakers describe listening to the employee, offering him an open invitation to film ads and face public scrutiny, and the employee declining — the clip focuses on handling criticism, conflict with an ex-employee, and the offer of public accountability.

I had a guy come in my office.
This is a former employee, and he was all really bugged out at me. And we talked right here. I'm the kind of the social figure of our companies. And he's like, everything's about you.
We always talk about your business, your thing, and it's always about Bridger.
And I let him vent at me for like 4 or 5 minutes. And I said, anything else? He kept going. He added some more. I was like, anything else you got? And he just kept venting. He was venting about his whole job and his career, just everything. He was very, you know, in a tough spot in his life. And so I sat there and I said, hey, I do not like doing this. I actually have an open invitation to anyone in my company to come film, to come do ads. So, if you want to do that and then every morning wake up on Instagram and have people calling you an idiot, a scammer, your wife's this and that and your hair is dumb and whatever the comment is, be my guest. Open invite. If you want to come film literally tomorrow, it's not like a fake invite. Come in, the studio is yours. Come film. And he kind of sat back in his chair. He said, oh yeah, I don't want that.