Free Food (in Lieu of Pay)
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- The office taco delivery man
- Cringe corporate speak: double click
- Hot topic: Why do people hate pizza parties?
- Don't compensate your employees with food
- Food in the office can be a way to bring people together
- Every person in the organization should be eligible for bonuses
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So I'll tell you, there is no force more powerful in a workplace than the force of food and what food can do to people and how it can motivate and engage them. |
| 0:16.4 | And where I come from, some of you all may or may not know, I am San Antonio. |
| 0:21.5 | Okay, so I'm Hispanic from San Antonio, Texas, and I live in San Antonio. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm very proud of San Antonio, but I'm absolutely a taco connoisseur. |
| 0:30.0 | All right, so I know a good taco and I know where to get them. |
| 0:32.8 | So if you're ever in San Antonio, holler at me. |
| 0:36.7 | I also love eating tacos, especially with the Mexican Coke. |
| 0:52.5 | So that's kind of my go-to there. Oh, yeah, give me that real sugar cane shit. You know what I mean? I drink it right from that glass bottle. Yes. Oh, boy, do I love it. I've seen it. You have good pictures with that on your stories in there. I always pose. Yeah, they look great. I love it. |
| 0:55.9 | And that's just to share, boy, I'm fucking living in a moment right now. I love it. |
| 0:56.3 | I can sense. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah. I always pose. Yeah, they look great. I love it. And that's just to share, boy, I'm |
| 0:54.5 | fucking living in a moment right now. I love it. I can say it. Yeah, I'm having a thing. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. I'm having a day date with myself. But the power of food in the workplace, right? And so, |
| 1:06.0 | as I shared, I love tacos and a lot of the places that I've worked have loved tacos. And I have |
| 1:12.8 | unbelievably, really, a handful of stories about tacos and the drama that tacos have caused. For me, |
| 1:24.6 | personally, as an HR professional and in different departments and in groups. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm not kidding. You know, one that comes to mine is, is that in a prior, a prior organization, a |
| 1:35.4 | prior life, long, long time ago, I think I did a TikTok on this, to be honest with you, because |
| 1:40.7 | it's just one of those crazy career moments. But in that workplace, we were basically |
| 1:46.6 | paying a guy to be a taco delivery person. Now, we didn't realize that. We didn't realize he's |
| 1:51.9 | spending six hours out of his day, basically taking a company golf cart offsite miles down the road |
| 1:59.0 | to a taco place to that after after spending an hour to taking |
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