Taylor and her boss Tony share a unique and heartwarming relationship that feels more like family than a typical boss-employee dynamic. Tony, who is much older, has become like a grandpa to her, and their bond extends beyond the workplace. Taylor, who goes by @tgerbs on TikTok, frequently shares fun clips of their interactions, from covering his office with sticky notes to taking him for car rides. In one of her recent videos, Taylor prank-called Tony multiple times to see how long it would take for him to get annoyed. The video, which has nearly 2 million views, captures how endearing and patient some bosses can be.
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Taylor loves her job, and Tony is known as the best boss around. In her TikTok bio, Taylor describes her content as "A little bit of me, a lot about my boss." Her latest idea was to see how many times she could call Tony before he got irritated. She put this hilarious plan into action and shared the video on TikTok. The overlay text in the clip reads, "Seeing how many times I can call my boss over and over again until he gets mad." In the 2-minute video, Taylor is seen sitting in her office, giggling as she repeatedly calls Tony from the office landline.
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The video is divided into six short clips. In the first clip, as Tony picks up her call and says, “Hello," she speaks, "Hey, did you, did you talk to Lou about the inspection?” Quite diligently, Tony replies, "Yes I did I called him before so he should be out there.” She then asks him to email her the results. "All right, bye," he said and the call was disconnected. In the second clip, Taylor once again dials a phone call to her boss and he greets her with a “Hello” from the other end. “You just called me,” he sounds surprised. "Yeah, I know. Did you see my email with that voicemail?" she asks, to which he innocently replies, "Yes I did." In a serious tone, Taylor says, "All right, can you just respond and let me know?" He says surely he will respond, but how will he do anything unless she stops calling him? After exchanging byes, they hang up once again.
The video then shows her making the call number #3. "Um, are you gonna be here tomorrow?" she asks. He replies he won't be coming the next day, so she asks when will he come. He responds, "Maybe Friday morning, maybe.” She insists that he needs to “definitely come” because someone wants to have a meeting with him. There is a slight pause on the call, after which he replies, “All right,” and then they hang up.
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On the fourth call, the boss seems to feel slightly annoyed. He says, "Now what could you possibly want? You've called me five ti—"... "Can we get breakfast on Friday?" she cuts through his sentence, and the man begins laughing at the other side. "Yes, yes we can get breakfast, so that means I'm buying and you're flying, you're going to get it." Before disconnecting the call this time, she says, “All right, I won’t call again.” But creating a comical scenario, she does call him the fifth time.
"Now what do you want?" the boss asks. "Can you approve my request off for next week?" she asks. "Yes, as soon as I get a chance to look at it. Good lord," he replies. "All right thanks," she responds, hanging up the fifth call. By their sixth call, the boss begins to feel puzzled. But Taylor shifts the mood to humor by saying, "Hey stranger, feel like I haven't talked to you in a while." The boss bursts into laughter, saying she has called him six times. "But you answered every time," she exclaims.
"Why don't you just write everything down and then call me one time?" he suggests. She dismisses his suggestion, saying, "Look, it says a lot because you answered every single phone call...I would've blocked you by now." He tells her he answered her phone just to make sure the business runs smoothly. “Hahaha always answers my calls,” Taylor wrote in the caption. People in the comment section are swooning at the hilarious interaction, addressing how the boss is so nice and sweet.
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@valinto commented, “He seems like an amazing boss!” @tomn6684 said, “He’s like your second dad.” @afgmo1776 added, “He's more like a father than a boss. I would answer my daughters' calls every time too, no matter how many times they call me.” @vmyrasol95 commented, “This is absolutely a beautiful working relationship!”
You can follow Taylor on TikTok to watch more lighthearted interactions between her and her boss.
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.