HR Besties: The Secret Life of the Overemployed
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Brostel warehouse
- Cringe corporate speak: moonlighting
- Hot topic: all things over employment
- Why is job stacking so popular?
- Staying financially afloat in a post-covid world
- The internet and the gig economy boom
- The pros and cons of fractional work
- When can job stacking and side hustles become a conflict of interest?
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever heard of somebody having a second job? |
| 0:07.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes. |
| 0:10.0 | What if that job was using tools and resources from their first job? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, yeah, I mean, maybe if they're self-employed. |
| 0:21.5 | Maybe they're employed by somebody else. |
| 0:23.2 | They're not just using tools and resources, but also a location. |
| 0:26.8 | Oh. |
| 0:28.3 | So I won't hide the ball anymore, but so I was once helping an organization, and as part of their work, they had the use of warehouses to store things, like equipment and all of those |
| 0:39.5 | things. And if you take anything else or nothing else from this episode, know that if you have one of those |
| 0:44.2 | facilities, maybe make sure that there's two people who aren't in cahoots over that location, |
| 0:48.4 | because this person was the only one really that went in and out of that warehouse. Well, |
| 0:52.4 | the only one employed by this organization. |
| 0:55.4 | Because one day, we had found out this person was using this warehouse to store things |
| 1:01.3 | and also to have people come over. |
| 1:05.6 | This warehouse became a nighttime club. |
| 1:10.1 | And this meant a club of the warehouse, which was a warehouse, |
| 1:13.2 | was divided up into a club space, into bedrooms, had candles, had mattresses, had all of |
| 1:21.0 | these things for nighttime activities. And this was a while ago. So this is before like the, I don't know, only fans type days. |
| 1:29.8 | But this was in the Craigslist days. |
| 1:43.7 | Wow. We found out. And they're like, have you ever looked? Someone's like, have you not, you not look? How do you all not know about this thing? The people, other people that were supporting this company were like, I don't know. How would we know? Yeah. They're like, if you look up the address on Craigslist, see what you see. |
| 1:47.0 | And on Craigslist, it was a flyer for like a type of part. |
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