HR Besties: When HR Doesn't report under the CEO
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
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🗓️ 18 September 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Workplaces can be sh*tty
- Cringe corporate speak: Smell test
- Hot topic: Reporting structures
- When HR reports to the CFO
- Effective communication
- Titles are meaningful to an organization
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | So this story is from Reddit. |
| 0:07.0 | We were doing an investigation regarding sexual harassment via text on work phones. |
| 0:13.0 | And when IT sent us all the texts from the whole company during the specific time frame, raw data with no names, just numbers and text. For us to |
| 0:22.9 | sort through and work through, we thought we had found it. However, the ones that we had found |
| 0:28.5 | when cross-reference were actually consensual texts between the CEO and controller, who were |
| 0:36.8 | having an affair, both married. |
| 0:39.3 | We also had to counsel that same CEO for watching poop porn on his work computer. |
| 0:47.8 | No, no. |
| 0:49.3 | This activity was flagged by our IT security group. |
| 0:53.6 | Poop porn. |
| 0:54.7 | Can you imagine how thrilled I was to sit down and tell a grown man to use his own |
| 1:01.2 | computer for those activities? |
| 1:04.0 | I didn't even know there was such thing as poop port. |
| 1:06.3 | Ah, never mind. |
| 1:07.5 | There is. |
| 1:08.5 | Two girls, one cup. |
| 1:09.6 | Oh, yes? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. Right. Nobody'd be one cup. Oh, yeah. Yes? Yeah. |
| 1:11.8 | Oh, right. |
| 1:12.7 | Nobody'd be Googling. |
| 1:14.4 | Like, I think I blocked that out intentionally. |
| 1:16.2 | But I appreciate the care, the level of the HR care here that people don't always see, but that she's not, she's, she's not shaming, but just use, use your personal device. |
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