HR Besties Happy Hour - People Be Peopling Everywhere
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another Happy Hour, Besties! We're sure as hell glad it's Friday.
In this Happy Hour:
- Is Friday the most productive day?
- Leigh's trip to Iceland
- Addressing the tragic passing of Denise Purdom
- Everybody deserves support (yes, even HR)
- Who's coming to see us at HR Tech?
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday besties. |
| 0:07.1 | Woo-woo. |
| 0:12.0 | We made it again. |
| 0:16.2 | What a long work week that was. |
| 0:17.7 | Yes. |
| 0:18.4 | What the heck. |
| 0:19.8 | Well, I know, especially after a short one last week |
| 0:22.4 | for those of us in the U.S. that had Labor Day off, going from four days back to five days is like, |
| 0:28.6 | it's like working a month. Yeah, it really is. It feels like the longest week ever. And, you know, |
| 0:34.6 | research says you don't get a lot of productivity out of five days employers. Why don't you drop that back to four? |
| 0:41.7 | For real, for real. I know. We need to move that way, right? Gosh, I can Henry Ford back in the day with that five-day work week. Of course, versus seven. |
| 0:50.0 | Right. I know. I always dog on Henry Ford, like in my memes and people are like, but he changed it from seven. I was saying, yeah, I know. I always dog on Henry Ford, like, in my memes, and people are like, but he changed it from seven. I'm like, you don't get the point. It's just a joke. But what would you say is like your least productive day of the week? I'm curious. Friday. Oh, absolutely. Really? Yeah. Oh, my God. I feel like I'm the most productive Friday because like I've not done shit all week. So then you're hurrying. |
| 1:13.1 | So I feel like I'm the most productive Friday because like I've not done shit all week. |
| 1:19.4 | So then you're hurrying. So I'm like cramming it all in on Fridays. I would say probably like Tuesday for me. |
| 1:22.5 | Like Mondays I'm pretty busy, but like Tuesdays I would say that I'm. |
| 1:27.9 | See, I do my cram in Thursday. Yeah. Preping for goofing off on Friday. |
| 1:30.9 | Friday's like when I do all my appointments and stuff. |
| 1:32.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | I mean, you know, I fit in those errands and, you know, I'm having the lunch date or whatever. You know, like I fluff up Friday. |
| 1:39.0 | We need to ask that question in our stories. |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.1 | Because I'm just curious about that. |
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