HR Besties: Friends at Work
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Flu shot
- Cringe corporate speak: Out of pocket
- Hot topic: Friends at work
- Can you really, really have friends at work?
- Choosing friends wisely
- Professional burning
- Forming relationships outside the office
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Flu shots in the office. |
| 0:05.8 | Have you all ever had to get a flu shot for work? |
| 0:09.3 | Many times. |
| 0:10.6 | Healthcare. |
| 0:11.5 | Got it. |
| 0:12.4 | Right. |
| 0:13.5 | Lee? |
| 0:14.4 | Yeah, I wanted to get it. |
| 0:16.2 | I wasn't, like, forced to. |
| 0:18.1 | Well. |
| 0:19.6 | Well. |
| 0:20.7 | I have not worked in health care. I have worked in food service, but I also once |
| 0:26.2 | worked at a law firm where we got, and I can't exactly tell you if we were required to get them or not, |
| 0:33.7 | but I know that they had them set up for us right in the office. |
| 0:40.7 | And likely because in a law firm, they want you to work as much as possible. |
| 0:42.8 | So don't get sick. |
| 0:44.4 | Exactly. It's for your care. |
| 0:48.5 | But more importantly, don't mess up our client's needs, self-sacrifice. |
| 0:55.8 | But why I say, I can't remember if they were required, is they were in the office. And so it wasn't even like a building-wide thing, go to a thing. So we had to sign up for sign up. And so I went to sign up. |
| 1:01.7 | And I go into a little conference room and I walk in and there's the nurse with the flu shot. |
| 1:07.2 | And there's also our head of HR. It's sitting there at the table and he was like a grown, older, older man. Like checking people off. Literally. Literally. Yes. And this is why he is. Yes. And so I remember looking around and like glancing in my mind thinking like, is this a print camera type show. But of course, I'm also like a junior associate. So I'm not |
| 1:27.8 | going to say anything. So I woke in close the door and like the blinds down. But so I said. |
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