QAA - Premium Episode 164: Listener Stories Vol 7 (Sample)
Aired: 2022-03-23
Duration: 10:14


=== Finding New Jobs (10:11) ===

[00:00:03]  What's up QAA listeners?
[00:00:04]  The fun games have begun.
[00:00:09]  I found a way to connect to the internet.
[00:00:11]  I'm sorry boy.
[00:00:15]  Welcome, listener, to Premium Chapter 164 of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, the Listener Stories, Volume 7 episode.
[00:00:23]  As always, we are your hosts, Jake Rakitansky, Julian Field, and Travis View.
[00:00:28]  Hey, everyone.
[00:00:29]  It's your friendly QAA Mail Guy here to, once again, share some stories from our beloved listeners about how QAnon is still affecting both their past and present.
[00:00:39]  I'd asked folks to tell us their experiences with pilled friends, families, and co-workers more than a year out from the January 6th insurrection.
[00:00:47]  With COVID numbers falling and more and more states easing their preventative measures, I thought maybe, just maybe, a handful of you would write in with inspiring success stories.
[00:00:57]  Your aunt really turned it around and got back into Xenowarrior Princess.
[00:01:01]  Your co-worker had stopped casually using racial slurs.
[00:01:05]  Unfortunately, it is clear I am far too optimistic, and it might be better to just hire the effects company who did the Tupac hologram at Coachella to create a Storm hologram so that your co-worker will stop trying to convince you that the only reason our stomachs can process pork is because of our reptile DNA.
[00:01:22]  Man, it's so sad.
[00:01:23]  You're just standing with your hands out going, could I maybe have a nice meal?
[00:01:27]  A nice healthy meal for once?
[00:01:29]  And people are just throwing cold fried goods at you.
[00:01:34]  They're just bouncing off your head, just fucking onion rings leaving Grease stains on your scalp from being pelted with them.
[00:01:41]  Hey, here pig!
[00:01:42]  Uh, here pig!
[00:01:43]  An apple!
[00:01:45]  Anything!
[00:01:46]  Anything!
[00:01:46]  Nutrition!
[00:01:47]  A piece of fruit!
[00:01:48]  Not!
[00:01:49]  Not the same thing!
[00:01:50]  Not again!
[00:01:51]  Some clean water!
[00:01:52]  Not the seventh time!
[00:01:53]  No, instead they're coming out with bags from Dylan's Candy Shop just filled with twisty worms and sour colas.
[00:02:01]  But everything is melted and then reassembled again?
[00:02:03]  Like, everything is bricked.
[00:02:06]  For this week's episode, I collected new stories.
[00:02:08]  Thank you for sending them in on short notice, by the way.
[00:02:11]  But I also dove deep into the QAA inbox archives and pulled some stories that had been submitted for past episodes but had yet to be read.
[00:02:19]  The result is a grab bag of your first-hand accounts that stretch from January 6, 2021 all the way up until today.
[00:02:26]  No more football.
[00:02:28]  I'd been working with an electronics distributor based in Macon, Georgia for five years.
[00:02:32]  After falling out with my boss, I put in my two weeks notice.
[00:02:36]  In an effort to keep my knowledge within the company, the higher-ups offered for me to transfer to a different branch rather than leave altogether.
[00:02:43]  I'd wanted to leave Middle Georgia all my life, so the offer was enticing.
[00:02:47]  I wanted to get out of the South.
[00:02:48]  So I picked the furthest branch north that this company had.
[00:02:51]  Walhalla, South Carolina.
[00:02:54]  I moved to Walhalla, South Carolina in October of 2018.
[00:02:57]  It's a small town in the mountains of South Carolina, about 20 minutes away from Clemson University.
[00:03:03]  It's also where the Vikings go if they fight well.
[00:03:06]  I did not know about that.
[00:03:08]  I think that's Valhalla.
[00:03:09]  I think maybe you're confusing the V and the W, probably because you're German.
[00:03:16]  Everyone there was welcoming and nice.
[00:03:19]  For a year and a half, I was happy enough in this quiet little town.
[00:03:22]  During that year and a half, there were a couple of things that stick out now, but at the time, seemed mostly harmless.
[00:03:28]  One guy joked about how the Earth was flat, and that the windows on airplanes are just TV screens where they play a fake video of you flying, when you're really just sitting still while they reorganize the world around your plane.
[00:03:39]  That's amazing.
[00:03:40]  I thought that was amazing.
[00:03:41]  Yeah, everything is Star Tours.
[00:03:43]  Yeah, that's what got your story in, by the way.
[00:03:45]  Anonymous, right?
[00:03:46]  Whoever wrote this.
[00:03:47]  I don't know if they signed it.
[00:03:48]  That's what did it.
[00:03:50]  Don't tell them that if they find something funny, they're gonna get it in, okay?
[00:03:54]  Okay.
[00:03:54]  We can't encourage these people.
[00:03:55]  But that was the moment when I was like, oh, I've never heard that conspiracy before.
[00:03:58]  They reorganized the plane around- That's amazing.
[00:04:00]  They reorganized the world around you while you sit in like a Star Tours?
[00:04:03]  There's actually only one plane.
[00:04:04]  It's like a single ride.
[00:04:06]  And everyone shows up at the airport, gets funneled there.
[00:04:09]  At least, I thought it was a joke at the time.
[00:04:11]  A few times I heard people use the n-word, but we were in the mountains in a very conservative area, so it wasn't very surprising.
[00:04:19]  The one thing that really sticks out in my memory was when The New Kid, a 22-year-old ex-Marine, asked me if I knew anything about 4chan.
[00:04:26]  He said he had, quote, read some interesting stuff on there.
[00:04:29]  Now, I was a 4chan lurker back in the late aughts, so I was knowledgeable enough to tell him that he probably shouldn't believe anything he reads on there.
[00:04:37]  Quote, it's mostly just people trolling and trying to mess with each other, I told him.
[00:04:41]  Now I know better than ever what interesting stuff he was reading.
[00:04:45]  When the pandemic hit, the friendly folks that I had been working with became unsurprisingly upset.
[00:04:50]  It's a hoax.
[00:04:51]  This will be over by the end of April.
[00:04:53]  Masks are actually making people sick.
[00:04:55]  I heard it all.
[00:04:56]  The final nail that pilled the entire office was Clemson football being shut down.
[00:05:02]  Without Clemson Games to talk about, I watched as what used to be mindless sports talk was slowly replaced with conspiracy theories.
[00:05:11]  It started off with the old hits about 9-11 and the moon landing, pushed back a little at the time, but honestly, I go to work to work, not try and convince someone else that something they believe is wrong.
[00:05:22]  I slowly started staying in my office more and more, and I started to avoid speaking to anyone.
[00:05:27]  Oh no.
[00:05:29]  It was after the BLM protest broke out, and I heard one of my co-workers adamantly stating that what happened to Ahmaud Arbery was justified that I spoke to my boss.
[00:05:37]  I told him that it was probably time for me to start looking for a new job.
[00:05:41]  I told him that I wasn't comfortable with the political discussions being held around the office, and when I mentioned that I was offended I had heard co-workers using the n-word, I was given a speech about how my boss wouldn't be offended to be called a cracker, and that, and he said the word, is just as offensive as cracker is.
[00:05:59]  Okay.
[00:06:00]  This man's granddaughter is half black.
[00:06:03]  I began looking for another job at that point.
[00:06:05]  Early in the pandemic, jobs weren't as readily available as they are now, so I was left looking for a while.
[00:06:11]  It was during this time that I came in early to do an inventory audit and noticed that the new kid had changed his desktop background to a picture of a capital letter Q with an American flag.
[00:06:21]  At the time, I was only tangentially aware of QAnon because of the Roseanne news story, but I knew enough to know that these guys were even deeper than I had thought.
[00:06:31]  I was still looking for a job and avoided talking to anyone at the office.
[00:06:35]  I came in, did my duties, and otherwise kept to myself.
[00:06:39]  By the way, the joke's on this person because we hired your co-workers to push you towards this podcast.
[00:06:45]  And now, look at you.
[00:06:46]  No, this sounds like a fucking nightmare.
[00:06:48]  I mean, work sucks already.
[00:06:50]  So funny.
[00:06:51]  Work is already, like, not that, it's not great.
[00:06:54]  Locked in the office hoping you won't hear the N-word.
[00:06:56]  Yeah.
[00:06:58]  Watching slowly as all of your coworkers like computer desktops like change to like you know gallows and like queues and flags and I don't know.
[00:07:07]  It's always good too when it's an ex-marine you know.
[00:07:11]  Because I was no longer being social, my boss decided that I must no longer be doing my job.
[00:07:16]  He suspended me for an entire week without pay based on a trumped up chart that I was on my phone too much.
[00:07:23]  Amazing.
[00:07:23]  The irony!
[00:07:24]  The irony here!
[00:07:26]  That this person was suspended because they were being too online.
[00:07:32]  Robert, are you okay?
[00:07:33]  You haven't said the n-word all day.
[00:07:38]  I notice you still have a, looks like a, I don't know, some sort of beach landscape on your windows.
[00:07:45]  You know, we sent out those PNGs last week.
[00:07:47]  There were quite a few to choose from, including Hillary chasing Trump with two babies in his hands.
[00:07:55]  Don't you like flair, Robert?
[00:07:57]  I notice that you still have kept your Michael Flynn life-size cutout in the closet.
[00:08:03]  Yeah, I'm gonna need you to change your background to Q.
[00:08:10]  Did you get the memo?
[00:08:12]  The following day, I was performing a drug test for a new company.
[00:08:16]  And a week later, I quietly went into the building and removed all of my belongings.
[00:08:21]  And my clothes.
[00:08:22]  And I set myself aflame with gas.
[00:08:26]  I filed a complaint with the company where I detailed the route that this particular branch was headed down, and I put in my letter of resignation.
[00:08:33]  Spent October of 2018 listening to Q Clearance and every QAA episode.
[00:08:37]  I will not let myself be caught off guard by far-right extremist rhetoric again.
[00:08:42]  Thank you for the podcast.
[00:08:44]  Ian.
[00:08:44]  Good luck finding a job in the South.
[00:08:46]  That's like a... Just kidding.
[00:08:50]  We love... Thank you for sharing that awful, that terrible story.
[00:08:53]  I mean, I'm really glad you ended up finding a new job.
[00:08:56]  Yeah, and we love you Southerners.
[00:08:57]  We're not trying to... Yeah, we love all our Southerners.
[00:08:59]  It's just, you guys have more, you know... The difficulty is 1.5.
[00:09:05]  You're one-handing down there.
[00:09:06]  You're not two-handing.
[00:09:08]  And you don't have the jumping attack talisman equipped.
[00:09:12]  Are they one-handing because they're jacking off?
[00:09:14]  No.
[00:09:14]  Sovereign Coworker.
[00:09:16]  I travel for work, so I get to meet a lot of interesting people out there.
[00:09:20]  I just started a job yesterday, and off the bat, I could tell by his comments that one of my co-workers was kind of pilled.
[00:09:27]  He was saying he doesn't need the vaccine, his body will keep him safe.
[00:09:31]  I also got the slightest hint of sovereign citizen from him.
[00:09:34]  So let's jump to today.
[00:09:36]  We somehow got talking about pork and he's telling me how there is a parasite in pork that won't activate till it hits the enzymes of a human stomach because our DNA is half human and half reptile.
[00:09:46]  I'm trying to keep a straight face but this older guy we're working with looks really confused by it.
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