00:00So this went viral on Reddit. It's about a guy who forgot his girlfriend's birthday.
00:06That's not good.
00:06Yeah. So what she did was he did apologize. That was not enough.
00:11Yeah, you got to do more.
00:13Okay. So she put him on a performance improvement plan.
00:17Oh, boy.
00:18I love it.
00:19He posted this on Reddit and the man said his girlfriend handed him a formal work style document
00:25complete with titles like employee and manager laying out exactly how he failed by forgetting her birthday
00:33and what he needs to do to fix it.
00:35Oh, wow. Well, at least she's communicating.
00:38Yeah, there you go.
00:38The plan spelled out his shortcomings, lack of planning and thoughtfulness and require new quote unquote action steps
00:45like using calendars and reminders plus scheduled check-ins in months, weeks and even days before the future important dates.
00:54Oh, wow.
00:55He admitted he felt weird signing it, duh, especially since he had already tried to make it up to her
01:01with a nice dinner,
01:02but she insisted he take it seriously and even encouraged him to post it online.
01:07Now, the online reaction, mostly on her side.
01:11Many call the move funny but fair, saying forgetting a partner's birthday is a big miss
01:16and the over-the-top corporate approach was just a creative way to make sure it never happens again.
01:23Yeah, I mean, this is going to stand out in his mind for sure.
01:26For sure. He ain't going to forget it now.
01:27I had to sign a contract saying that I would not forget her birthday again.
01:31And this is, again, a performance improvement plan.
01:33I mean, I think that's funny, a little over-the-top.
01:37All you really got to do is put it in your calendar.
01:39Right.
01:39And then say, can you remind me about this a week before or maybe two weeks before?
01:44I had those reminders.
01:45Or if you've got a really important thing, put it in the month before.
01:49Hey, you know, JR's birthday is coming up in one month.
01:53Might need to start thinking about it.
01:54Right.
01:55You're planning and whatnot.
01:56Right.
01:57But you say it is a little over-the-top.
02:01Performance improvement plan.
02:03I like it.
02:04I mean, most guys I know would not sign that.
02:08They'd throw it in their face and be like, you're on.
02:10I'm not signing that.
02:11They leave.
02:11They walk out the door.
02:12I'm not having it.
02:13No, you're not.
02:14Are you signing something like that if Christian did to you?
02:16I'm not, but I did blow it this year because I went to a bachelor party the weekend of her
02:22birthday.
02:22Yes, you did.
02:23That was bad.
02:24Yeah.
02:25Now, I cleared that way ahead of time, but still, that was not a-
02:28It doesn't matter.
02:29You're right.
02:29It doesn't matter if you cleared it.
02:31It doesn't matter because it obviously did not get cleared at all because I heard about it a ton.
02:34So, yeah.
02:35But you made up for it with that huge diamond, you know, you bought it.
02:39That was years ago.
02:41That wasn't like I'd buy it right afterwards.
02:44Anyway, performance improvement plan.
02:47Lana, are you putting Paul on notice if he ever gets your birthday?
02:50I can't give Paul something like that.
02:53He's going to laugh in my face.
02:55Get that out of here.
02:57Yeah, get that out of here.
02:57And go with it.
02:58We're not signing that.
02:59Yeah.
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