HR Besties: Bringing Your True Self to Work
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Motion lotion
- Cringe corporate speak: Move the needle
- Hot topic: Personal lives at work
- Investing the time to know your employees
- Feeling safe to share (or not share!)
- Questions/Comments
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Tune in to "HR Besties," a business, work and management podcast hosted by Leigh Elena Henderson (HRManifesto), Ashley Herd (ManagerMethod) and Jamie Jackson (Humorous_Resources), where we navigate the labyrinth of corporate culture, from cringe corporate speak to toxic leadership. Whether you're in Human Resources or not, corporate or small business, we offer sneak peeks into surviving work, hiring strategies, and making the employee experience better for all. Tune in for real talk on employee engagement, green flags in the workplace, and how to turn red flags into real change. Don't miss our chats about leadership, career coaching, and takes from work travel and watercooler gossip. Get new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, follow us on socials for the latest updates, and join us at our virtual happy hours to share your HR stories.
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| 0:00.0 | You know what workplaces rarely have on-site HR, but are probably the ones that most need |
| 0:09.6 | HR? |
| 0:11.3 | Restaurants. |
| 0:12.5 | Oh, absolutely. |
| 0:14.3 | People always say that, right? |
| 0:15.5 | There's no HR in restaurants, but there should be. |
| 0:17.5 | Yeah, God. |
| 0:18.4 | I started out, and I mean from quick service restaurants, which some people call fast food in the industry, we call quick service. |
| 0:26.1 | Yes. |
| 0:26.5 | To like the fine dining. |
| 0:28.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:28.9 | There is some, I guarantee you your finest meal, if you could see a peek behind that into the dishwashing station, into the line, the language. I mean, I think this delicious. Oh, my God. Like, the biggest education. The language is fine. Right? I was like, oh. I had. I mean, I grew up every year growing up, except for when I worked in a restaurant, when I grew about 10 years in two months, meaning I learned how |
| 0:54.3 | I went from 17-year-old, 16-year-old Ashley, innocent, A.F, to still innocent, but have heard, like, |
| 1:01.5 | but guests. I worked at an Italian restaurant in Louisville, and it was the most fun workplace |
| 1:07.1 | because it was one of those situations that, like like all my friends and I worked there. |
| 1:29.6 | And also we worked with then like the crew that was like in their 20s had worked in restaurants for a while. And then we had some of the lifeers. Yes, yes, yes. That like, you know, like that. And then the restaurant owner and the language would like, you know, like a customer complain about this is why I would never complain in a restaurant because I'd be like, um, excuse me. The woman at table for, you know, she had, Fuck her! |
| 1:30.5 | You get to fuck out of or complain about this is why I would never complain in a restaurant because I'd be like um excuse me um the |
| 1:27.9 | woman at table for you know she had fuck her if you get to fuck out of here tall she could suck my |
| 1:33.1 | you know oh no cook her motherfucker you know yeah like you're just like I think I will translate |
| 1:41.2 | that for her yes and I remember also, I was like 17. |
| 1:44.6 | And I, |
| 1:45.0 | but this job, I was making so much money because it was in cash. I wanted to save for spring break. I didn't want to get in trouble. So I certainly didn't tell my parents what it was going to be inventilator. And my parents talked to you. It was like, I remember they'd like run out once we ran out of like a cheesecake. And so we ran out of the strawberry sauce for the top. |
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