HR Besties: Unequal Treatment at Work
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Laying down the law in HR, respectfully
- Cringe corporate speak: hard stop
- Hot topic: unequal treatment at work: hourly wage vs. salary, department vs. department, field work vs. corporate and everything in between
- Unequal treatment in the workplace is an issue for everybody
- Basic benefits and respect should be equal for all employees
- Benefits and perks hold different values for each team member
- Culture is shaped by everyone's behavior in the workplace
- Small gestures made by leaders can send huge signals throughout an organisation
- Listening to employee needs is crucial
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever known that you were going to fire somebody in like the first 30 seconds |
| 0:10.9 | you've met them? |
| 0:12.8 | Actually, I haven't onboarding before. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm like, this isn't going to work out. |
| 0:16.7 | It's not going to work enough, right? |
| 0:18.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:18.7 | Your gut is never wrong on these, I think, probably. |
| 0:21.4 | No, it's not, right? So I was starting a new job, and it was a job where it just popped up. |
| 0:31.1 | It's the holidays. It's an emergency because the person before me up and quit because it was too much. |
| 0:38.3 | It was an integration of a multi-billion dollar business, right? |
| 0:42.3 | And they needed a nature integration leader on the ground, ASAP. |
| 0:45.3 | So over a weekend, I relocate and move cities, right? |
| 0:50.3 | And yeah, so left the job on Friday, heard about the new job on the Monday left the |
| 0:56.4 | job on Friday took the weekend to grab my shit and leave right and I started on Monday I |
| 1:02.0 | well I had to leave all my shit there but I had to pack a bag right and then go back over my |
| 1:06.0 | holidays and actually relocate at a later time but, so it's the first day and a guy walks into my office |
| 1:16.2 | and he's standing over my desk. He's not sitting down and he doesn't introduce himself. |
| 1:23.8 | He just starts saying, when do we get our raises? We were promised more money. When do we get |
| 1:30.8 | paid? When do those raises go in? Mind you, it's been, you know, five months into the integration |
| 1:38.2 | and the acquisition date was maybe six, seven months ago, and they were told all sorts of things, right? |
| 1:45.8 | And I have no idea because it's my first day. All I know is that everything's blood red from a |
| 1:51.2 | nature integration standpoint. And I don't know the status of shit. I don't know whether they've |
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