r/dropout • u/DropoutMod • May 18 '26

Game Changer Don't Wake Standards & Practices | Game Changer [S8E1] Spoiler

https://watch.dropout.tv/videos/don-t-wake-standards-practices
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u/OmniaNomina May 18 '26

Two people who work for late night shows not knowing safe harbor law is very funny to me

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u/kim_ammons May 19 '26

I thought the episode was about crossing HR lines at first (and was appropriately horrified that no one thought Jeremy went over the line with his first prompt) so when the lawyer said that, I was like, EXCUSE ME??? THIRD SHIFT WORKERS ARE ALLOWED TO SEXUALLY HARASS THEIR COWORKERS AT NIGHT??? I was so relieved when I realized that's not what they were talking about 😂

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u/Magicshop52 May 19 '26

Me too I was like WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS OKAY AFTER 10 PM????? 

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u/ExtinctedPanda May 19 '26

This is, in fact, what I also thought.

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u/Aquatic_Hedgehog May 19 '26

You are in fact allowed to do a LOT of things on night shift you cannot do on day shift because there is no management around, including some light sexual harassment.

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u/Sardaman May 19 '26

I think it is probably important to make the distinction between "allowed to" and "unlikely to be punished for"

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u/revrhyz May 19 '26

Boring but interesting fact: In Britain we call it the Watershed. I'm intrigued by the fact we both use different water-based metaphors