When the Watercooler's Lit AF
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 27 March 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- "There was a bug!"
- Cringe corporate speak: Executive Presence
- Hot topic: Gossip in the Workplace
- Why is office gossip harmful?
- Personal vs. professional gossip
- Gossip is a symptom of lack of effective communication in the office.
- Information hoarding for job security.
- When gossip is used as a weapon.
- The executives are the worst gossipers!
- How HR can help you curb gossip.
- If they're gossiping about you - it's not a you issue, it's a them issue!
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | I'd love to share with you all the most embarrassing thing I've ever done at work. |
| 0:08.2 | Yes. |
| 0:09.1 | And this is something that I've been meaning to make a TikTok on for the last couple of years. |
| 0:14.2 | No shit. |
| 0:14.9 | But every time I start doing it, I start laughing. |
| 0:18.0 | And I laugh. |
| 0:19.7 | I laugh too hard and I just can't, you know what I mean? And then it's like, |
| 0:23.1 | I'll get to it. Man, two and a half years later, I've yet to do it. But I was on a business trip |
| 0:28.7 | with my boss and it was one where we took the company car, which is rare, right? Because typically, |
| 0:34.7 | especially being in Texas, like I have to fly everywhere, right? It's a big, big-ass place. What's the company? Like, what kind of car? Big truck. Oh, okay. Like huge truck. Like extended cab, double, whatever, spoken like a true tux. And I can't even like describe a truck. I was visioning like a limo. So, okay. No, but like massive, massive truck. |
| 0:54.6 | And because my boss, he was such a prima donna, I had a drive, of course, you know. |
| 1:00.3 | Which is fun. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah, driving Mr. Daisy, which is fine, high maintenance. |
| 1:04.9 | Anyways, we were, you know, headed back after our trip and we decided, of course, to drop the truck off so we can get |
| 1:12.9 | our vehicles, go home, whatever. And I said, gosh, but the truck is so dirty, right? Like, I always want to |
| 1:20.4 | return things better than I got them, right? And, you know, driving, you know, in the middle of nowhere it's like all fly this nasty right so |
| 1:30.9 | just the whole truck the windshield just covered in bugs and so i said hey let's just run through the |
| 1:36.0 | car wash here before we drop the truck off and he's like oh great idea and he's like go ahead and |
| 1:41.2 | fill it up too oh okay thanks bitch so like i get up i fill up the truck |
| 1:45.4 | and then you know i have to wash it basically i can't believe he didn't make me do it by hand |
| 1:49.3 | but you know yeah exactly you know but but i take it you know through the through the car wash and |
| 1:56.4 | we get in the car wash again it, it's my boss and myself. |
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