MSG Presents: Characters From Corporate: Great for Sex, Bad For Work

A 41 year old woman from DC, now in Potomac, Maryland, has climbed to senior manager at a Fortune 500 company. A handsome coworker who once reported to her asked her out, they got intimate right before COVID, then she ghosted him because he sits lower on the ladder and makes less money. 

Eric and Big Stew unpack her guilt, status anxiety, and whether she is the real character from corporate for choosing image and income over a man she clearly likes.

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Transcript

We have a submission, , characters from corporate. Characters from corporate, so characters from corporate.

We did have somebody send in a characters from corporate submission, so I'm gonna read it real quick, we're gonna get into it real quick. So they said, what's up, Eric and Big Stew. I am from, originally from DC, but living Potomac, Maryland. I'm a black woman, gen Xer, age 41. I've done well in corporate and I'm a senior management manager at a Fortune 500 company, right?

She said, well anyway, a year ago a brother was hired in the company. He's well below me in terms of his title and job and everything, and he actually was reporting to me at one time. This guy's very, very attractive man. He draws a lot of attention from the ladies, and he is a little bit older than me, but he's less [00:01:00] accomplished.

We did become, so he asked me out on a date. We became intimate right before COVID, and then I ghosted on him. Damn. He's been reaching out and I'm wondering, you know, I'm, I'm still trying to fight this mentality that I have about my man should make more money than me, or at least the same amount of money.

Maybe I'm the character from corporate.

And she says, what do you guys think? Is she the character from corporate with? So the guy, so she's a senior manager. She's doing her thing. This brother comes in, he gets hired at a certain point. He's, he's a, he's lower in the hierarchy, so to speak. He even reported to her at a certain time. But he obviously has swag.

The ladies like him, she eventually liked him as well. They went out, I guess she was struggling with the fact that he was lower on the totem pole than [00:02:00] her. They, but not enough for them not to be intimate. So they got intimate right before COVID. Then she just disappeared on the man, and she's, I, you know, I guess she's fighting with that.

She wants to know what do we think? What if somebody did that to, to us, I guess is how we have to think about it. Well, it depends, man. I mean, see, I got questions. I got questions. I, I want to know what the intention was that brother could have just been out for, just trying to hit himself and ain't thinking much about it, you know?

True. You know, she, she, you know, what was her like if she, she, she must be feeling the brother. If she feeling bad about it now she must really like him. And if that's the, if she, if she like. Then she gotta get over herself. She, then she is the character from corporate. If she's, she's liking him, she, you know, she feel bad, then she's the character and then she need to get off a high horse and rock with the dude.[00:03:00] 

It don't matter. But she probably don't have it in her to, to admit that she probably don't, it probably make the relationship too tough because she's, you know, worried about what other people will think and say. Absolutely. There you go. So that's, that's, that's my take on it. So sister, either you're going to, you know, be a standup woman and say, nah brother, the money don't matter.

That's my immaturity. I like you. I don't care what the people say. So let's go ahead and give it a shot or leave it alone. Okay? Just leave it alone. Sage advice. Love it. Yeah. That's why shout, shout out to Washington DC and the whole DMV too. Yeah, man. So we gotta, we gotta send that, that submission a, a gift bag.

We need to send them a gift bag. And thank you for that. Yeah, characters from corporate. I do think, sister, I do think you're a character for, for doing that. [00:04:00] My thing is this, you, if you know, like you said, like if the dude was just trying to smash and keep it moving, you wouldn't have any guilt. You'd be like, eh, it is what it is, what I'm worried about him for.

But apparently the guy must have been a nice guy, somebody that you could consider moving forward with. But you are caught up in his stats. Right? And I'm not gonna judge that. If you're worried about your status, then that is what it is. That could be what got you where you are right now, you know, playing those corporate games and stuff.

So, you know, I hope it works out for you. Follow your, follow your gut. That's all I can tell you. I wonder now, I also wonder too, yeah, I wonder how many other, he must have smashed a number of women at work. He might be that, you know, maybe he might, because if they talking about him, she know, she know the lady's talking about him.

Well, lemme to that point, I wonder this too, right? Because I've seen situations like this, like when a dude is, is on that level and he, he [00:05:00] smashed a bunch of people there. It wouldn't really look as bad for you to be with the guy, I guess then, I mean, he seemed like a highly sought after guy. You know, it seemed like all the ladies might wanna be with this guy, so yeah, he don't have the money and all of that.

But I mean, some things may supersede that it seemed like it would be less embarrassing if all these people wanted him and some of 'em they got with him wouldn't be as big of a deal. I don't know. This is how I look at it. Yeah. I'm standing. I like, yeah, I think I'm standing by the, the initial she, she's the character.

Make a decision. Make decision, rock with 'em or leave them alone and stop being a character from corporate. Stop being a character from corporate. Wow. I can't wait to get some more of these stories. Please hit us up and send us your, your most salacious stories. The interesting stories. I, I wonder if anybody deemed me a [00:06:00] character from corporate.

I have to ask somebody, but yeah, I can't, I can't wait till next week to do the next segment of that. Have you ever, I shouldn't ask you that. I'm not gonna ask you. Go ahead brother. In a situation like that at work, have you been intimate with people at work? Yeah, I absolutely have. But my strategy was always, let's keep this private.

And thankfully, you know, the ladies that participated in that. They co you know, they were cool with that, you know, and that's what it was. I was raised to never play where you work. Great advice. Yeah. And I, I, I've, I've done it

in 2 workplaces. Yeah. Oh, where you did actually play. Yeah. Yeah. And, and fun to go to work like that [00:07:00] and based going to work. Very exciting, I'll tell you that. Yeah. No, I, I think my words got misconstrued. Oh, okay. I didn't do it at work, but there were two, two jobs I had in which I did mess around with somebody I worked with.

Got you. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I, I wasn't. Okay. I wasn't one of them TV guys that's in the office getting it in. No. No. Okay. Okay. That's good. I know, I know a lot of that happens. I know a lot of Yeah, it does. It does. I've always protected the workspace, but man, great episode, man. Great show today.