HR Besties: Work Life Balance
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Workplace wubbie
- Cringe corporate speak: core competency
- Hot topic: all things work-life balance - who is responsible and is it achievable?
- What does work-life balance look like to us?
- The B word (boundaries)
- Unbalanced power dynamics - work-life balance is a shared responsibility but not always an equal opportunity
- Balance is fluid and circumstantial
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | A wooby. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm starting this like a Lee. |
| 0:10.9 | A looobie. |
| 0:12.6 | Have you all ever heard of a whooby? |
| 0:15.1 | It's like a passy, right? |
| 0:17.2 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | So it's kind of like a comfort. |
| 0:19.6 | I'd never heard of this term in my whole life. |
| 0:21.6 | We neither. I'm a pasty person. I mean, not now. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, I, I, I, I, no shame, no kingshame in here on this podcast. Right. Right. Never. |
| 0:32.4 | So the wooby was a nickname that was given to an employee for someone that was pretty high up in the company. |
| 0:41.4 | And how this all came about is essentially at this place of employment that I worked, we had a CFO. |
| 0:47.6 | And I'm not sure if this was their first CFO job, but they were a little unsure of themselves. |
| 0:53.6 | And so they needed a comfort item. |
| 0:56.7 | They needed a wooby. Their wubby was a person. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And this person, |
| 1:07.5 | insanely intelligent, probably actually could have held that role. Yeah, doing the job for him. |
| 1:12.4 | Yeah, like totally could have held the role. |
| 1:15.4 | Just didn't actually want it, I don't think. |
| 1:17.6 | I think they were happy with where they were at at that time. |
| 1:22.2 | And so it became a thing where everyone in the company then started referring to this other person as the CFO's Wobby. |
| 1:33.3 | So like, did you invite the Wobie to the meeting? |
| 1:37.4 | Don't forget the Wobby. |
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