HR Besties: HR Pet Peeves
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Corporate tipping
- Cringe corporate speak: across the finish line
- Hot topic: HR pet peeves
- Clothing complaints
- Showing appreciation goes a long way
- Meetings without purpose
- Deflecting monkeys
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So you know now when you go to a restaurant or order something at the grocery store, |
| 0:11.2 | they'll turn that screen around, and it's like tip them out. And you get to pick. It's 20, 25, 75 percent, |
| 0:19.2 | you know, whatever. And you pretty much. Right. And you get it because often |
| 0:24.1 | people in those roles also may have to work multiple of those to just afford to live. And, |
| 0:29.7 | but then business owners will, you know, put the cost on customers, but it creates that pressure, right? |
| 0:34.9 | Have you ever heard of tipping in a professional office environment? |
| 0:39.3 | No, but I'd like to. Yeah. I'd like to learn more. I want to screen. I'm going to put a tip |
| 0:44.2 | jar on my desk. I mean, I work from home, but you know. Like in a little nature, like you help |
| 0:49.9 | and employ, like think through advocating for like a pay raise, they get through, and then they get |
| 0:54.6 | it, giving them that portion of it, right? Well, so I had this happen to me in my first |
| 1:00.0 | corporate job out of college that I've talked about some. That was corporate sales. And my role |
| 1:05.9 | was what they now call a BDR, like business development representatives. I'm cold calling at the time, |
| 1:13.7 | like a fortune 1,000 CFOs to schedule appointments for somebody else who had, you know, a variety of real and made up titles that we made sound like |
| 1:18.6 | and very, very, like, which I think the official title was associate director internally. |
| 1:23.6 | I think extra, it'd be like, my super duper galactic amazing wizard is coming to town. |
| 1:29.2 | Like, would you like to have the pleasure? |
| 1:31.6 | So in that, we were paid like on a salary basis that I think changed over time. |
| 1:37.5 | I think that role did get reclassified potentially as eligible for over time. |
| 1:42.2 | But that's another story. |
| 1:43.1 | But we got paid on a salary basis. And then we did get bonus. Like, we had bonuses by the companies. But also, I found out at the end of the year, we were at lunch with friends at our house for happy hour. And this person was like, what did your, they called a marketer? They're like, what did your marketer that you were assigned to? Because it was like a dotted line. They weren't your boss, but you were assigned to them. Oh, would your marketer give you? What was you talking about? |
| 2:03.9 | Like a holiday gift? Like, no, like a bonus. Like, what do you mean? Like, we got a salary. We got bonuses from the company. But I found out some of these different marketers who had these goals, and of course it depend on, they would give ranges to their |
| 2:18.3 | person that was scheduling appointments for them just out of their own pocket. Oh, hello. |
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