Corporate Ghosting
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Incentive trip gone wrong.
- Cringe corporate speak: Boots on the ground.
- Hot topic: ghosting in the hiring process.
- Our ghosting stories.
- Why you may be getting ghosted.
- Don't take it personally!
- What does this indicate from a company culture perspective?
- How not to ghost a prospective employee.
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | You know, they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
| 0:07.3 | But I think in HR you'd also say it's paved with holiday parties and sales incentive trips. |
| 0:15.3 | So a workplace I know years ago had a sales incentive trip. And I wouldn't exactly call it a trip |
| 0:24.7 | because it was more of about a 20-hour excursion. And so it was whatever team had done the best |
| 0:30.6 | would get this bus trip to go to a casino and back overnight. There were no hotel rooms. |
| 0:37.3 | Oh, my God. It was just just an overnight, |
| 0:41.2 | you know, go in the afternoon, come the next morning. So no hotel rooms, which is a benefit at |
| 0:46.5 | times because the road to hell definitely is paid with corporate hotel rooms. Yes. But so, |
| 0:51.7 | you know, party, party all night. Like you're going hard. Going real hard. Yeah. Real hard. But so not only is it a casino, but, you know, when you go there, you need money to spend at the casino. And so to make it matter on the bus ride up, they did trivia. Like trivia, oh, do this and get like a couple hundred bucks. |
| 1:11.8 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:12.4 | Like, yeah, like, so what kind of trivia? |
| 1:14.2 | Maybe, like, you know, good email subject lines. |
| 1:17.2 | Like, oh, what percentage to sale? |
| 1:18.6 | No, no, no, no work exactly related trivia. |
| 1:23.2 | More specific trivia about members of the team and some personal aspects. |
| 1:29.5 | Ooh. Sounds like an HR nightmare. |
| 1:32.0 | Truly. And legal, probably. |
| 1:35.1 | And one of the questions, for example, was how many people has insert name slept with at the |
| 1:42.8 | company? Oh, my gosh. No. No. And of course, because this is, |
| 1:48.1 | you know, groups of rowdy people who are. Everyone's drinking on the bus. Everyone's drinking. |
| 1:51.5 | So you're not in the mindset to say, excuse me, can I see the handbook who I can raise a concern |
| 1:56.1 | about this. Yeah. No, no. I'd like to report this. 12.7. It was like 50-something was the answer. Impressive. I don't wait. But they were real answers? Real answer. Like they did research. Exactly. Like the fact that you'd ask that question. Yeah. And that you'd answer as well. Yeah, that you'd answer. Yeah, great, that the person would answer and that they'd thought about this ostensibly before the drinking started to be prepared for this trivia question. |
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