HR Besties: Hot Topics Happy Hour - DEI and Government Employees
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Unlawful audacity: toxic boss edition
- Cringe corporate speak: heads will roll
- Hot topic: catching up on DEI
- Disney classics and a brief mid week happy hour
- What is applicable to private companies?
- Unconscious biases and putting yourself in someone else's shoes
- Expanding talent pools to find the right candidates
- Red flag in leaders: ignoring beneficial hiring choices due to personal biases
- OSHA/agencies
- The attack on HR
- Chopping block performance and having empathy during redundancy
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So I've actually talked about this horrible toxic boss several times before, but I haven't told this story yet. |
| 0:12.9 | And so it goes like this. My youngest son, I had just had him. He wasn't even a year old yet. |
| 0:23.2 | And this was before we knew he had asthma. And so he had gotten very, very sick. And I noticed his breathing seemed to be very labored. |
| 0:29.6 | So I took him to the pediatrician one morning. Of course, I called out of work. And sure enough, |
| 0:35.8 | his oxygen was very, very low. And they immediately sent us |
| 0:39.4 | by ambulance to the Children's Hospital in downtown Nashville. So, you know, he was in the ICU. |
| 0:45.9 | He was on oxygen and breathing treatments. And they were monitoring him. And I was literally laying |
| 0:51.2 | in the hospital bed because he was a small, you know, not even a one-year-old yet at Vanderbilt Children's |
| 0:55.8 | Hospital in Nashville. And my boss called me and asked, how long do I think I'll be out? And I, and I truthfully did not know at that point. I mean, we had just been in the ER for about five, six hours at this point. And I'm like, you know, I'm not sure. I said, I definitely will go ahead and say I won't be there tomorrow. And then I'll keep you updated as much as I can. But I, you know, I don't know. I've never had a child in the ICU before. I don't know how this stuff works. So that was fine. She called me back, not even 30 minutes later, and she asked if my |
| 1:28.9 | husband could stop by on the way to the children's hospital, because he was at work, |
| 1:35.3 | and pick up my laptop. She'd meet him. If she has to stay a few minutes extra, she didn't mind, |
| 1:41.7 | but if he could pick up my laptop so I could work. So sure enough, |
| 1:46.5 | my poor husband, no, goes to my job where she sent one of my coworkers to the elevator to hand, |
| 1:55.8 | not even her, not even well wishes, hand my laptop to my husband so I could work in the hospital. |
| 2:03.3 | Fuck that. |
| 2:04.4 | Please keep in mind, my job, nothing was earth-shattering. |
| 2:07.7 | Like, there was nothing that couldn't have been handled when I got back. |
| 2:12.2 | There was literally nothing that couldn't have waited. |
| 2:16.1 | And that's when I knew that I had to make my exit |
| 2:20.7 | plan. Oh, yeah. I mean, obviously, I wasn't going to do that right there in the hospital with my |
| 2:26.1 | child who was clinging to life. But I could not believe that the fact that she couldn't even come |
| 2:33.0 | out to my husband and hand the laptop to him, but she sent a coworker. |
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