HR Besties: Out of Touch Leadership
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- The pantless employee
- Cringe corporate speak: call out
- Hot topic: out of touch leadership: what does it mean to us? What does it look like?
- Leaders just who don't have a clue about the lives of team members
- Kissing up and stomping down
- Leaders that are more focused on metrics and measurements rather than people... you might lose your best employees
- Privilege and "mo money, mo problems"
- Encouraging our leaders and executives to try understanding the lives of employees inside and outside the workplace
- Encouraging HR to give the real feedback to leaders whenever possible
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | manager catches employee pantsless on video oh my god uh-oh this is not my story but this is someone very close to me |
| 0:15.6 | lee is this you no that i wasn't pantless that day not that day at work you were but you were not caught on camera no i wasn't pantless that day. Not that day. |
| 0:21.3 | At work. |
| 0:22.1 | You were, but you were not caught on camera. |
| 0:23.9 | No, I wasn't caught. |
| 0:24.9 | That's it. |
| 0:25.5 | I wasn't caught. |
| 0:26.3 | Exactly. |
| 0:26.5 | I mean, I'm more clever for them than that. |
| 0:28.9 | So the manager got a motion detected notification around 2 a.m. |
| 0:35.3 | And started reviewing footage because there was no sign of like a break |
| 0:39.9 | in or anything that had happened, but there was motion rejected. So honestly, he thought maybe it was |
| 0:46.1 | some sort of animal or maybe there was something that like broke in. They had had a problem with |
| 0:52.6 | mice before. Maybe that's what set it off. So as reviewing, |
| 0:56.8 | he sees one of his female, who's a lead, pantsless, walking around at 2 a.m. Come to find out. |
| 1:05.6 | When he starts having a conversation asking why she was at work at 2 a.m. Pantless, she had been out drinking that |
| 1:13.3 | night before at the bar, and she was pretty wasted and unfortunately made a terrible decision |
| 1:19.3 | to get in her car. And on her way home, she hit a deer and totaled her car. In that moment, she decided that work was close enough |
| 1:30.4 | that she was going to go to work because her car was totaled. It was no longer driveable. |
| 1:37.5 | And she was going to hide out at work. But she had an accident. And I'm not talking about with |
| 1:42.6 | the deer. I'm talking about in her pants. |
| 1:44.8 | So she went ahead and took her pants off also at the scene of the crime. |
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