HR Besties: Gen Z Work Culture Clashes
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Whipped vodka
- Cringe corporate speak: Chinese wall
- Hot topic: all things Gen Z in the workplace
- WTF is the Gen Z stare?
- Gen Z employees aren't the problem
- Embracing the opportunity to teach team members the skills they need to be a part of an organization
- Managers can learn how to have productive conversations about workplace behavior
- Phones and multitasking
- Manager training and development is key
- Gen Z wants feedback and has an important impact on the workplace
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so I want you all to imagine being in a ballroom full of all of your co-workers, all your |
| 0:13.1 | colleagues, your boss, your boss's boss, everyone. |
| 0:16.7 | It's in all hands, okay? |
| 0:18.9 | You with me? |
| 0:19.9 | You have a guest speaker. |
| 0:22.2 | The guest speaker walks in and he's like a mini celebrity at your company, okay? |
| 0:27.6 | Because he's the founder. |
| 0:30.4 | Okay? |
| 0:31.3 | Yes, crowd, cheering. |
| 0:33.4 | Everyone's excited. |
| 0:34.2 | We haven't heard him speak yet, right? |
| 0:36.5 | We're excited. |
| 0:54.5 | We finally get to meet the founder of the company, right? Gets up on stage, presenting, throwing a lot of F bombs. The whole room starts to kind of look around at each other and be like, wow, okay. All right. |
| 0:55.5 | Well, I mean, me. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm not approved. |
| 0:57.1 | Y'all know that. |
| 0:58.6 | I cuss like a sailor myself. |
| 1:02.1 | But in a work setting, I was to take it back. |
| 1:10.3 | And I could see my coworker bestie on the other side of the ballroom because we were given the job of holding the mics for people that had questions in the audience, |
| 1:14.1 | because, you know, HR thing. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, that's such an HR job. |
| 1:18.5 | So I see her, we make eye contact and we're like, what the fuck in our heads? |
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