HR Besties: Favoritism and Nepotism
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Plan B on the corp card
- Cringe corporate speak: dry run
- Hot topic: favoritism and nepotism in the workplace
- What can favoritism look like?
- Creating an inclusive culture is key
- Feeling like the least favorite at work
- What can be done?
- Nepotism
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So in my 21 years, I've seen some crazy shit on expense reports. |
| 0:10.2 | So let me tell you about the one that was really the most wild. Plan B. |
| 0:16.4 | Planned B. Like you, oh, the pill, not like you have a plan A, so you're going to plan B. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like this trip, like this trip didn't go as plans, so we're going to do plan B. Yeah, literally. Literally plan B, the pill from a Walgreens too. So I had the, they wrote that, the Walgreens wrote that. I mean, most of the times people talk about HIPAA, and HIPAA doesn't actually apply to most people. |
| 0:40.0 | But, like, do they... the, they wrote, the Walgreens wrote that. I mean, most of the times people talk about HIPAA |
| 0:37.6 | and HIPAA doesn't actually apply to most people, but like, well, did they, did they have the |
| 0:42.2 | receipt? Oh, questions. Well, okay, so here's, yeah, here's, here's the backstory. So, |
| 0:46.4 | obviously, I'm not per se involved in finance, but it came to my desk being HR. And this is how |
| 0:53.9 | usually they come to my desk. |
| 0:55.2 | So the VP of finance had gotten one of a receipt from one of our recent sales manager's |
| 1:03.1 | trips. And it was a Walgreens receipt. And it was kind of ripped. So he requested another receipt or |
| 1:09.6 | a, you know, a better receipt. And of course, the guy's like, |
| 1:12.3 | I'm sorry. I don't have it. That's all I had. Blah, blah, blah, blah. You know, all these excuses. And so it was a lot, it was actually quite a lot of money for a Walgreens. And if you know, Plan B, because I Googled it just a minute ago, because I didn't know how much it is. It's only $50. So that wasn't even the concern yet, right? We're not even concerned with what we need to know what is on and what could possibly |
| 1:31.2 | be personal expenses. So long story short, the VP of finance goes round and round with the sales |
| 1:37.9 | manager until finally he's able to produce the whole receipt. And on that whole receipt was a lot of things that, like, beer purchases, things that |
| 1:47.6 | add a Walgreens too. |
| 1:49.4 | Like, anyway. |
| 1:51.9 | Random things, but on it is a Plan B pill. |
| 1:56.3 | Now, I don't remember, you know, this didn't happen that long ago, too. |
| 1:59.1 | I don't remember exactly what it said on the, I don't, like, I don't happen that long ago, too. I don't remember exactly what it said |
| 2:01.0 | on the, I don't, like, I don't think it said plant B on the Walgreens receipt. I'm not sure what it said. |
| 2:09.4 | It's like the long medical name. It was something enough that the VP of Finance approached me. |
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