HR Besties Happy Hour: Updates From Jamie and Taylor Swift
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our first Happy Hour of Season six, Besties! Whew, this is one hell of a week.
In this Happy Hour:
- Updates on Jamie's layoff story
- Taylor Swift and Life of a Showgirl
- Cringe Corporate speak on the New Heights podcast
- The four quadrants of workplace communication
- Checking in with our old friend Thomas J. Henry
- Leigh's dream
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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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's happy hour. |
| 0:05.0 | Cheers. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm ready for a drink. |
| 0:08.0 | I don't know about y'all. |
| 0:10.0 | Cheers. |
| 0:11.0 | Of course, it's only hump day. |
| 0:20.0 | That's okay. |
| 0:20.9 | You can drink any day. |
| 0:23.2 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:25.7 | I'm looking at Jamie here. |
| 0:27.8 | If you listen, and of course you did, you listen to the first episode to kick off our fall season here. |
| 0:36.0 | Jamie shared, unfortunately, a layoff story, right? So she's very |
| 0:41.4 | vulnerable with all of us, but created some waves, didn't it, Jamie? I mean, what the fun? So we're going to |
| 0:48.4 | get some updates from Ms. Jackson today. Like, what has happened since we aired that episode? |
| 0:56.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, I didn't know I'd have an update. |
| 0:59.3 | Jamie, you want to fill us in? |
| 1:00.9 | Go back and listen to our first episode. |
| 1:05.1 | It was coping with job loss of the season. |
| 1:08.3 | It was two Wednesdays ago. |
| 1:10.5 | I tell my layoff slash letting go slash firing story. |
| 1:15.7 | And it's pretty wild. But essentially, I received a lot of comments, DMs, responses, emails, phone calls from everyone saying that they've been in similar |
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