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HR BESTIES

HR Besties: HR Horror Stories... The Unhinged Files

HR BESTIES

HR Besties LLC

Management, Business

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back, Besties! With the year coming to an end, we thought we'd highlight some of our most insane, unhinged and *facepalm* moments as HR professionals.


Today's agenda: 

  • Toe sucking
  • Flying dentures
  • Nightmare startup
  • Love square
  • When HR saves the marriage
  • Bovine piss
  • The hidden Plan B
  • The vaccine checker
  • Ear licking

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Yours in Business + Bullsh*t, 

Leigh, Jamie & Ashley


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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, 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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1:04.0

Toes sucking.

1:07.0

All right. Now, personally, I've never had my toes suck.

1:10.3

That I can recall, but I went to a state school, so I can't remember everything, okay?

1:13.8

But toe sucking, not kink shaming, right? So if you're listening to this and you're like, okay, she's kink shaming me, absolutely not. I'll try anything a couple times.

1:21.5

All right, so absolutely not kink shaming whatsoever. But toeucking in the workplace on company time without consent.

1:32.0

Thoughts.

1:33.2

Oh.

1:35.5

I mean, y'all are having a reaction, right?

1:37.8

I mean, what the hell?

1:40.5

No better EHS campaign that I could think of.

1:47.2

You know, wear your steel toes, not to protect your toes from injury, from machinery, but literally from your co-workers sucking them off.

1:52.4

Was that sneaking under the cubicle? Yeah, like I have so many questions. You have so many,

1:55.7

so get this, right? Imagine, your female employee goes into the break room. You think you can get

2:00.4

peace, right?

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