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CONFESSION #0001 — BROKER DRAMA
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
My broker calls herself a "mentor" but I'm convinced she peaked in 2007 and has been coasting on those glory days ever since. Last week she pulled me into her office to critique my social media strategy. This woman still has a Blackberry, people. A BLACKBERRY. She told me my Instagram reels were "too casual" and that I should "stick to postcards like the pros do." Meanwhile, her idea of digital marketing is forwarding chain emails about interest rates to her entire contact list, including her dentist and her ex-husband. The best part? She takes a 40% split because she "provides training and support." The training is a binder from 2012 with clip art houses on the cover. The support is her interrupting my client calls to ask how to convert a PDF. I smile and nod because I need desk space and MLS access, but I swear the moment I hit my numbers, I'm out. Until then, I'll keep pretending her "power of positive thinking" Monday meetings aren't just her reading horoscopes out loud.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF PROFESSIONAL INDENTURED SERVITUDE UNDER A BLACKBERRY-WIELDING TIME CAPSULE
This court has reviewed the evidence and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the spectacle before it. You surrender FORTY PERCENT of your income to a woman who forwards chain emails to her dentist and reads horoscopes aloud on Mondays, and you call this a mentorship? Judge Escrow has seen hostage situations with better profit-sharing arrangements. The defendant sits in quiet servitude while a human fax machine critiques their Instagram strategy, nodding along to clip art wisdom from the Obama administration, all for the privilege of MLS access and a desk that probably smells like toner and regret. You are not an agent; you are a feudal peasant paying tribute to a technological relic who peaked when flip phones were edgy. This court orders you to stop smiling and nodding immediately because your face will freeze that way and then you'll REALLY never escape. The bailiff will now escort Judge Escrow to his chambers where he needs to lie down because the phrase "power of positive thinking Monday meetings" has triggered something in him.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Blackberry Bondage

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