HR Besties: "Other Duties As Assigned": Surprise Changes at Work
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Really great stitches
- Cringe corporate speak: put a pin in it
- Hot topic: When your job description changes: what can you do?
- New job description and evolving roles can be useful in developing a resume and skillset
- Understanding the legality of role changes is crucial for employees
- Effective communication from leaders can prevent misunderstandings about job responsibilities
- Have we seen this before? (yes, absolutely)
- Self-advocacy is key for employees
- Establishing boundaries to avoid burnout
- Encouraging leaders to communicate changes and expectations transparently to team members
- Creating a supportive work environment benefits everybody
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So you know, sometimes at work, you become close to people when, like, personal things happen, |
| 0:09.6 | like far closer than you may have anticipated when you start your career. |
| 0:13.1 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:14.0 | Trauma bonding. |
| 0:15.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:16.1 | Plus, you're with them for 40 fucking hours. |
| 0:18.6 | Plus a week. |
| 0:20.1 | Well, sometimes even if you've only been with someone for |
| 0:22.1 | about 45 minutes. Oh, overshare. I am very fair-skinned. And why that matters is that as a |
| 0:30.6 | child of the 80s, I had some really bad sunburns, Linden Rec, softball park in Louisville, and otherwise. |
| 0:37.4 | And so as a result, I have to go to |
| 0:39.8 | the dermatologist like a couple times a year and all the things. And so back now, this was years ago, |
| 0:45.1 | back when I was a lawyer in a law firm, so a lifetime ago, I'd gone to the dermatologist and they're |
| 0:50.5 | like, you have a concerning area, we need to remove it. |
| 0:54.5 | Okay, fine. |
| 0:55.5 | That area was on a part of the body that no one ever sees. |
| 0:59.5 | Well, hardly anyone ever sees. |
| 1:01.5 | That is normally covered by undergarments. |
| 1:04.5 | And so I had it done, okay, whatever. |
| 1:07.5 | And they're like, okay, we're going to do it. |
| 1:09.5 | Like, we're going to have these stitches. |
| 1:10.5 | And my dermatologist just like wins all the, you know, magazine awards, these things. She's like, but you got to get the stitches removed in 10 days or whatever. And I was like, oh, shit. I'm like, I had just gotten a sign to this big case. And I'm like, I'm going to be in Kansas City all next week. And she's like, well, could have told me that about like 15 minutes ago. |
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