HR Besties: What to Do if You Hate Your Job
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- The best busser
- Cringe corporate speak: heads up
- Hot topic: what to do if you hate your job
- FYI, hating your job affects every aspect of your life
- What makes someone hate their job? Identifying what really makes someone dislike their job vs. what is tolerable or enjoyable at work can help solve the issue
- How to make the most of jobs we hate so they don't affect our lives outside the organization
- Setting boundaries can make a huge difference
- Communicating with leaders, management and colleagues if possible (once again, ChatGPT can be a helpful tool!)
- Don't let a bad job convince you that you're bad at your job
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So have you all ever heard that sometimes it's not a good thing to be too good at your job? |
| 0:12.6 | Right? |
| 0:13.6 | I mean, I think sometimes we talk about this online. |
| 0:16.7 | I know I do, right? |
| 0:17.7 | Because what happens is you get kind of pigeonholed into just doing that. |
| 0:23.8 | And it may prevent you from being promoted, right? People are relying on you doing that thing so well |
| 0:31.2 | that it limits really your movement within an organization. Well, I've got a great example where I did something |
| 0:40.2 | so well that everyone hated me, right? And that happens too. So I'm going to take you all back |
| 0:48.7 | to Chewy's TechSmex, which was my first paid job that the IRS recognized, right? |
| 0:56.0 | I was a hostess. |
| 0:58.0 | And one day, like no bussers showed up. |
| 1:04.0 | And, you know, of course, you know, there's a couple of hostesses and it's like, oh, okay, |
| 1:10.0 | hey, Lee, can you be a busser? |
| 1:13.1 | And I was like, yeah, yeah, I can be, you know, because tips, you know? |
| 1:19.2 | And I was really excited about it. |
| 1:21.1 | And I was hustling like no one's business. |
| 1:26.8 | Oh, I was so good at being a busser. I was cleaning the shit out of everything. I mean, tables were free and open. It was so efficient. I mean, I don't think I have worked a job as efficiently as I did busing tables at a Tex-Mex restaurant. |
| 1:46.3 | Like, no shit. |
| 1:47.2 | And I enjoyed it, you know? |
| 1:48.9 | And I was good at it. |
| 1:50.4 | And I didn't have to talk to anybody. |
| 1:52.2 | That was probably the best part. |
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