HR Besties: Romantic Relationships at Work
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- When Jamie met Josh
- Cringe corporate speak: fish off the office dock
- Hot topic: Office relationships, situationships and everything in between
- Mandates and policies won't stop office romances
- What have we seen?
- Formatting the handbook language and reporting structures
- Abuse of power and maintaining professionalism
- Relationships vs. drama, affairs and tricky power dynamics
- Being mindful of the F-Word (favoritism)
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So back in 2011, I was working as a human resources generalists at Marriott. |
| 0:12.7 | And I actually really enjoyed my job. |
| 0:14.2 | It was hard. |
| 0:15.2 | The lowers were long. |
| 0:16.9 | But I really did enjoy my job until one day, this kind of cute boy, I mean, okay, he was cute. |
| 0:23.3 | He was cute. |
| 0:24.3 | This cute boy joined us, and I did it as orientation. |
| 0:28.7 | Didn't think anything of it because I'm HR, right? |
| 0:30.4 | No big deal. |
| 0:31.9 | Well, this boy proceeded to ask me out for three months straight. |
| 0:37.0 | And I mean like... |
| 0:38.2 | I thought you meant like during orientation. |
| 0:40.1 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:40.9 | I know, me too. |
| 0:41.7 | I was like, damn. |
| 0:42.5 | How soon after you like met him, did he ask you up? |
| 0:45.5 | It was probably like a good couple weeks because he would like come into my office and just like |
| 0:51.4 | randomly try to talk to me. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm like, God, I hate that he's so cute |
| 0:55.1 | because I want to like tell him to fuck off. But, you know, we found out that we like randomly |
| 1:02.3 | went to the same high school, but I would have never known him. I was five years older than him. |
| 1:07.0 | So we never were in high school together. And we just had like a lot of weird |
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