just barking at me (barking sounds)

I'm like, yo (laughter).

Turns out people bring dogs to work.

That's dope.

I love dogs too, but not when they bark at me.

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- When I first started at Buzzfeed,

I worked in the kitchen, I worked at the front desk,

but I always spent my time in the kitchen.

I remember that they were shooting

a video there starring Quinta.

Who is like this little in real life.

She was like reaching up on the shelf.

Like she was reaching up to get like a mug.

And I was looking at her and I was watching her struggle

and I was noticing that there was

like a crowd of people right next to her

that like didn't help her and I

was getting more and more upset

cause I'm like look at her,

she's clearly struggling.

So I walk over like all happy

and I'm like, ugh, like grab a mug.

I'm like here you go Quinta, I'm so sorry.

Like blah, blah, blah, just like so angry for her.

And she's like no Curly, like, um...

And she points and there's like a camera

and it was a scene for the video.

And I just remember being like

oh I'm happy that you know that like,

I've got your back.

Like it was kind of cool you know,

like I'm one of the real ones and now it's on film.

Now you know.

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- This is like embarrassing to even talk about.

Curly had shared a post about women

like selling their used underwear online.

I was like, oh, I'm just interested in this,

I'm gonna click this link, so I clicked it,

and then I kind of forgot about it.

And I had it opened in a new thread.

And then I immediately went to this meeting

with like five of my other coworkers.

During the meeting we were talking

about the Olympics and so I pulled up this video,

and I turned it around and like played it for everyone

and we're like oh that's so cool.

The video kept repeating so I didn't

want it to keep playing, so I exited out.

And the next tab was this website.

Honestly you guys should like show what it looks like

because it's like this part of a woman with underwear on,

and like a big picture and I was like oh my God,

I swear I wasn't like, trying to do this,

I just clicked this thing that Curly posted.

I swear it was Curly, like totally

throwing him under the bus.

And everyone was like sure Maycie,

like no big deal and I just got so red.

And it was really embarrassing.

- Before working at Buzzfeed,

I used to be in the United States Navy.

USS Ronald Reagan CVN 76.

Finest ship on the fleet.

That's right.

I'm a military guy you know,

transferring over to the civilian world

and especially coming to Buzzfeed,

God damn, it's completely different yo.

Ella was my boss, right?

She's right here behind the camera.

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And I remember she was like you have

to be here at nine o'clock in the morning.

And I'm like, yes ma'am.

I almost saluted and everything,

you know what I'm saying?

I showed up, I'm actually early

cause you know in the military,

early's on time, on time you're late.

I'm ready, I'm sitting down ready to go.

Nobody's in the office.

Like everybody's late.

You know, even Ella.

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And I notice the next day,

I'm here early in the morning.

I'm here, ready to go, where's everybody?

Nobody's still in the office.

I was like 9:30, I think that's when

people started trickling in here and there.

Oh, man, the traffic is bad.

I'm like, I couldn't say that in the military.

I get in trouble.

And then I remember Ella was like

it's an hour lunch break, it's at 12 o'clock.

I'm like okay cool.

In the military, you always gotta check out with somebody.

And they always, they take time.

It was only 30 minutes.

You gotta come back in 30 minutes.

An hour?

That's cool, that's cool.

12 o'clock came along and I'm walking around,

I'm like who, who do I check out with guys?

And people are like, I don't know.

And they left me.

So I'm like walking around not knowing what to (beep) do.

And I saw Ella and then I panicked.

I'm like oh my God, she thinks I'm not doing anything.

(laughter)

I panicked, I ran outside,

and I did not know what to do.

I stood there like an idiot.

I was not used to not being micromanaged.

- We filmed a video a couple years ago at a farm.

And we basically taste tested this stew.

The farmer guy wouldn't tell us what was in the stew.

He just sat next to us and was like try it.

We were on our way out and I was like,

oh there's an egg there, there was

just an egg that had been laying.

And there was nothing, no animals around

and he was like, oh yes, for you.

And I was like, for me?

He was like yes take it.

I was like okay.

And I'm like, what egg is this?

And he was like, it's a duck egg.

And I was like, is it gonna hatch?

And he was like if you keep it warm it will hatch.

Next thing I knew I like kind of froze

and I was just riding home with this duck egg

and I was freaking out because I'm like

what do I do?

I asked like a couple of people at work the next day.

I was like do I hatch this egg?

Or do I have an omelet?

Like I don't know.

Of course, at Buzzfeed the overwhelming

response was to keep the egg.

I talked to the girl next to me, Chantel,

who said that she happened to have an incubator.

And I was like, oh, okay, perfect.

After a couple of days had passed

I was like messaging the farmer

and I'm like okay, so we put it in an incubator, now what?

And he was like, oh you're too late now.

And I was like what?

And he was like, it's not gonna hatch,

you had to get it in right away.

And I was like, oh okay.

He's like, but no worries, I'll fix that.

And I was like what do you mean you'll fix that?

Two days later I get a package in the mail.

And it was like from this weird address.

I was like oh no.

I open it and then there was like seven eggs in it.

And then the worst part is like

where it says duck and then it has arrows

pointing to like four of the eggs.

And then there's another part where it says turkey.

And it has arrows pointing to two of the turkey eggs.

And I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna be a mother of seven

and two of them are gonna be different species.

Like I don't, I can't do this!

I brought Chantel in, I'm like what do we do?

I don't know.

And she's like, okay let's just have 'em all hatch

and then we'll see what happens 'cause as it turns out

like it was very unlikely that even like one would hatch.

We only told a few people because we didn't want the office

knowing that there were seven eggs in there.

We had them thinking there was one the whole time,

but really it's like I'm stressing out,

Chantel is stressing out, the people that knew

there were seven were stressing out

cause we're like, there's seven in there,

like oh my God what are we gonna do if they hatch?

I don't know.

Basically only one ended up growing

and I was out of town when the hatching was starting

and it was my brother's graduation.

And like literally, like moments

before my brother's about to walk on stage,

I get a video call from Justin

and he called me being like your duck's about to hatch.

And I was like oh my God it's hatching!

What?

And so then he like shows me the screen

and it's like everyone's lined up

like around the little incubator

and then yeah, I mean I wasn't there,

but I watched the duck hatch on camera.

And it was crazy.

So then we had a duck in the office

so that people could chill with him.

He would wander around the office freely.

Like literally, he would like chase

people on the way to their desk.

He (beep) everywhere.

Where is the poo coming from?

I don't know.

You don't eat that much.

Where are you, what are you (beep)?

I don't understand.

Teaching him how to run and swim

and like play outside was really fun.

But that's how Pip came to be.

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