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HR BESTIES

HR Besties: Questies for the Besties

HR BESTIES

HR Besties LLC

Management, Business

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Today's agenda: 

  • Swish swish
  • Cringe corporate speak: fireside chat
  • Hot topic: answering questies sent by our fellow Besties
  • Receiving feedback: is it all worth listening to?
  • Keeping your social media activity on the DL
  • How to deal with the negative feedback
  • So your work bestie got promoted... what now?
  • What are some mistakes that we've made and how did we recover?
  • Questions/Comments 

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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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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, picture this. You are in your monthly departmental meeting and you are going over all of your

0:12.4

metrics for the month and what you and your team did. And you hear in the background, swish, swish, swish.

0:19.6

But you're very into your presentation, like,

0:22.1

you're knee-deep in numbers and explaining why the metrics look like this, this month, then,

0:28.4

then you could only see your presentation. You can't see people's faces because, you know,

0:33.3

it's teams and it's y'all know. And then you start hearing people coming off mutant giggling and you're like

0:38.9

okay i have something on my face because i can't see myself i only see my presentation like what's going

0:44.1

on and someone goes there's a dinosaur behind you my youngest which this was three years ago so's eight now, so this is when he was five,

0:57.1

had just gotten his T-Rex dinosaur costume like the day before.

1:02.2

And we put batteries in it, it's the blow-up kind, you know.

1:05.3

And of course, it was a teacher admin day.

1:08.1

Of course it was, because random admin days in the middle of the

1:11.2

week and I was working from home. And he, I guess, I put it on and unbeknownst to me was standing

1:17.5

behind me literally like swishing around like kind of dancing and it's here at costume. Oh my God.

1:24.5

It was hilarious. Like we don't usually record that meeting because there was like proprietary information,

1:29.1

but we all were joking how we wish we would have recorded it because how it happened was so funny.

1:33.6

So I finish actually, I go ahead.

1:36.9

I finish my presentation.

1:39.5

We move on to the next like head of their department.

1:42.5

They go over theirs.

1:43.6

And I'm still on camera, though. And then Johnny proceeds to then get in my dinosaur costume, which that year actually won, best Halloween costume at work. But it was me riding a dino. Oh, yeah. I love this. Invite the person. Yeah. It's so funny. Yeah, that's cute.

2:01.9

So then he gets in that. And it's too big for him because it's an adult. And he's like,

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