Canned

Corey discovers the math just isn't mathing. 

Anne was a pioneer for women in the field. "It was a constant battle being accepted." Learn more about Anne on her website. Want a CANNED sticker? We're running a pledge drive. Venmo anything over two dollars (US listeners) or five dollars (non-US listeners), send your mailing address, and you'll get a CANNED sticker in the mail. Everything goes to pay for operating expenses: Zoom: $176.45 Podbean: $119.18 Host Gator: $43.17 Calendly: $132.42 Headliner: $95.99 We're close to fully funded. Stretch goal? Switch to Riverside at $288/seat.

Amy and Pam ask the important questions like... How do you fuck up being a mermaid? 

Donna says she'll be haunted for the rest of her days about why she got fired.  We hope that's not true, but we get, given that she was, by all accounts, a hero at her job. 

Grant helps us navigate the messy feelings of getting fired.  Get in touch with Grant at Counseling 4 Nerds.  Find a therapist at Psychology Today. ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack Find a therapist at Psychology Today  Learn more about Grant at Counseling 4 Nerds

Frank doesn't trust the man. At all.  ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

Katie still flips off the building when she drives by. ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

Shauna's safe choice ends up being not so safe.  ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

Scott has had better New Year's greetings.  ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

Che's name just isn't on the schedule.  ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

Jessica has few regrets but she wishes she hadn't hugged her asshole ex-boss.  ----more---- Want to tell your story or offer a job to a guest? Contact us at talktocanned@gmail.com. CANNED is an FADJ collaboration between Pam Mandel and Amy Guth. Intro/outro track: Better by Dizzy Canned logo by Doug Mack

"If you have a platform that is for a purpose, it's very easy to keep it on topic and solve problems for that purpose. And that's true whether it's an LLM, that it true whether it's a social network ... when technology is meant to serve a purpose for a community, it often does an incredibly good job... And when you have a person whose goal is just to make money ... that's when it gets to its worst purpose."  In this episode, Anil Dash on AI: how it's being used as an excuse to eliminate jobs, how to use it effectively, and how to make a better case against it. Also, Prince. 

Hey folks! I'm on a panel at this event on March 19th, 2026 at Obec Brewing in Ballard. Please come say hi. 

Dee burns herself down to keep her role and was rewarded by the expectation that she'd keep burning herself down.    Thanks to Todd Manley at Earsight Studios for his help with this episode. 

Shelley McIntyre helps us grapple with reinventing ourselves after we get canned. How do we redefine the experience of getting fired and what to we do next?  Find more about Shelley at Burn the Map.  

Producer Amy and Host Pam review the absolute sh!tshow that work and the job market has been in 2025. Eff bombs a-plenty, heads up, it's who we are.  

Lianna learns a lot of valuable lessons from her first "big girl" job (her words, not mine) including how you shouldn't do all the work at once. Pace yourselves, kids, there's little benefit in finishing early. 

It seemed like a great opportunity and Kevin believed in the cause, but "smellgate" made things awkward. Like, really awkward.  Here are the reasons you might be eligible for unemployment if you quit a job in Washington, where I live, the rules may be different in your location. 

"Layoffs are unfortunately a time where unions really show why they're important."  Zach posts about Workers Comp to Instagram, follow him to find out about their next event.  Ian -- Zach's co-creator for Workers Comp -- tells his story in E11, here. 

"The media landscape is changing." Yeah, Ian already knows that.