HR Besties: When your Work Bestie is the only thing keeping you employed
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Spilling more SHRM tea
- Cringe corporate speak: push the envelope
- Hot topic: all things work besties and celebrating National Work Besties Day!
- Why we love our workplace partners in crime
- How to find and support your work bestie
- Showing appreciation for our office besties can go a long way
- Emotional Support People
- FYI, October 18 is our HR Besties Podcast anniversary!
- Questions/Comments
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Tune in to "HR Besties," a business, work and management podcast hosted by Leigh Elena Henderson (HRManifesto), Ashley Herd (ManagerMethod) and Jamie Jackson (Humorous_Resources), where we navigate the labyrinth of corporate culture, from cringe corporate speak to toxic leadership. Whether you're in Human Resources or not, corporate or small business, we offer sneak peeks into surviving work, hiring strategies, and making the employee experience better for all. Tune in for real talk on employee engagement, green flags in the workplace, and how to turn red flags into real change. Don't miss our chats about leadership, career coaching, and takes from work travel and watercooler gossip. Get new episodes every Wednesday, follow us on socials for the latest updates, and join us at our virtual happy hours to share your HR stories.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, we gave you all an update on SHRM, right, and everything that's going on with the Society of Human Resource Management. Resources, do they say a resource management? |
| 0:19.1 | No, it's only resource. It's like, I feel like it's like the Bernstein Bears, you know, miss this thing. |
| 0:24.8 | It's human resource management. |
| 0:26.6 | So, yeah, fun fact. |
| 0:27.6 | Fun fact, right? |
| 0:28.9 | I don't even know what we do. |
| 0:30.3 | All right. |
| 0:31.2 | So interesting feedback from listeners since then. |
| 0:36.8 | We have received so many DMs about this, so many comments, |
| 0:41.6 | right? I mean, some definitely stand out. I'm going to read this comment briefly here. Someone says, |
| 0:48.4 | yeah, as a former employee, this tracks. Everyone who works at Sherm knows that Shirm does not meet their own standards. |
| 0:56.9 | I was there almost three years and their leadership is a joke. Employees stressed out, they need |
| 1:02.0 | anxiety meds, employees having panic attacks in the office, asking employees to work longer |
| 1:06.8 | hours with no additional compensation. They are a joke. So people obviously, you know, |
| 1:13.9 | sharing, raising their hands that, you know, they're not surprised that there's some, what, |
| 1:19.6 | litigation going on here with SHRM and some EEOC complaints and all of that, right? So it's an exciting time. Also receive this one that is pretty |
| 1:32.9 | memorable here. I am an employee at Sherm. Wanted to thank you for explaining the current |
| 1:39.3 | lawsuits that are happening. The employees are in the dark of what's happening. All we know is our |
| 1:44.1 | CEO randomly announced. We have four EEOC lawsuits. are happening, the employees are in the dark of what's happening. All we know is our CEO |
| 1:44.5 | randomly announced we have four EEOC lawsuits against us, one random meeting day. The SHIRM CEO, |
| 1:53.6 | Johnny C. Taylor, is reorganizing the company again and announced mass layoffs by November 14th. |
| 2:00.5 | This follows months of toxic behavior from him, calling us privilege, lazy, and competent on a recorded Zoom call. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. As we are recording this, it is Friday, October 10th. We do not have an answer. Isn't that correct, Ashley, on what happened |
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