1 00:00:02,023 --> 00:00:04,546 Speaker 1: Had you actually read the email, you would know that 2 00:00:04,567 --> 00:00:07,812 the podcast you are about to listen to could contain explicit 3 00:00:07,812 --> 00:00:09,814 language and offensive content. 4 00:00:09,814 --> 00:00:14,474 These HR experts' views are not representative of their past, 5 00:00:14,814 --> 00:00:16,480 present or future employers. 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,707 If you have ever heard my manager is unfair to me. 7 00:00:19,707 --> 00:00:24,722 I need you to reset my HR portal password, or Can I write 8 00:00:24,762 --> 00:00:26,548 up my employee for crying too much? 9 00:00:26,548 --> 00:00:28,827 Welcome to our little safe zone . 10 00:00:50,893 --> 00:00:54,076 Speaker 2: Welcome to JDHR, the podcast by two HR professionals 11 00:00:54,095 --> 00:00:56,036 who want to help you get through the workday by saying 12 00:00:56,097 --> 00:00:58,383 everything you're thinking, but say it out loud. 13 00:00:58,383 --> 00:00:59,165 I'm Warren. 14 00:00:59,648 --> 00:01:00,189 Speaker 3: I'm Cece. 15 00:01:01,341 --> 00:01:05,948 Speaker 2: So, yeah, our last episode ran incredibly long, but 16 00:01:05,948 --> 00:01:08,634 the audio is better Not great, but better. 17 00:01:08,634 --> 00:01:11,769 This episode will be able to make it even better. 18 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:16,106 Speaker 3: I blame the old fashioned, I was just on it. 19 00:01:18,161 --> 00:01:19,144 Speaker 2: We need to do it more often. 20 00:01:19,144 --> 00:01:20,870 Encourage it, encourage it. 21 00:01:20,870 --> 00:01:22,305 So yeah, it was really good. 22 00:01:22,305 --> 00:01:24,948 We're not going that long today , y'all, I promise. 23 00:01:24,948 --> 00:01:28,927 I actually only have like one or two things on my agenda for 24 00:01:28,968 --> 00:01:30,209 this, so yay. 25 00:01:30,209 --> 00:01:33,525 But before we get too far along , I want to thank our original 26 00:01:33,566 --> 00:01:38,338 jaded hr rock star hallie, michael and bill, our other 27 00:01:38,459 --> 00:01:39,281 patreon supporters. 28 00:01:39,281 --> 00:01:41,805 You too can support us on patreon, follow the the show 29 00:01:41,825 --> 00:01:42,105 links. 30 00:01:42,105 --> 00:01:46,171 Yay, get that out of the way, but we're really proud to have 31 00:01:46,251 --> 00:01:48,542 some supporters on Patreon. 32 00:01:48,542 --> 00:01:52,460 I was thinking just the other day I've been getting a hell of 33 00:01:52,501 --> 00:01:55,489 a lot of solicitations from these companies that haven't 34 00:01:55,530 --> 00:01:58,626 listened to JTHR, wanting to promote their persons on the 35 00:01:59,028 --> 00:02:03,475 speaking bureau or whatever tour or whatever, and like, oh, this 36 00:02:03,475 --> 00:02:05,766 person has a PhD and can bring this to your case. 37 00:02:05,766 --> 00:02:08,126 Okay, yeah, you haven't listened to us. 38 00:02:08,126 --> 00:02:10,661 You know that if you'd listened to one episode, you'd know 39 00:02:10,981 --> 00:02:12,989 that's not what we're about. 40 00:02:13,620 --> 00:02:15,007 Speaker 3: We're not your target demographic. 41 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,485 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not going to. 42 00:02:16,485 --> 00:02:19,844 We're not going to fit that too well, but I haven't gotten one 43 00:02:19,866 --> 00:02:23,486 in a long time, but I would get these just god-awful type of 44 00:02:23,647 --> 00:02:24,368 solicitations. 45 00:02:24,368 --> 00:02:25,752 Would you advertise our product ? 46 00:02:25,752 --> 00:02:31,008 Non-name, brand personal body trimmers and uh, uh, uh, 47 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:33,013 medicines and things like that? 48 00:02:33,073 --> 00:02:38,366 like no, no, no see that makes you shit your pants yeah, lose 49 00:02:38,407 --> 00:02:43,881 20 pounds tomorrow, uh, but, uh, I haven't gotten any of those 50 00:02:43,961 --> 00:02:44,162 along. 51 00:02:44,162 --> 00:02:45,828 Not that I'm complaining that I haven't gotten any of those 52 00:02:45,848 --> 00:02:45,948 along. 53 00:02:45,948 --> 00:02:47,554 Not that I'm complaining, but I haven't gotten any of those in 54 00:02:47,574 --> 00:02:48,518 a long time. 55 00:02:48,818 --> 00:02:49,039 Nice, yeah. 56 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:56,168 So yeah, it's been a busy week for me and yeah, between work 57 00:02:56,247 --> 00:02:59,118 and school and personal, but I'm looking forward to recording 58 00:02:59,139 --> 00:02:59,219 this. 59 00:02:59,219 --> 00:03:01,480 We talked about maybe postponing it, but I'm like no, 60 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,164 I got to do it today because nothing else is going to fit 61 00:03:04,224 --> 00:03:06,187 before we have to publish my schedule. 62 00:03:06,187 --> 00:03:11,414 But yeah, but I survived two whole weeks at home all by 63 00:03:11,455 --> 00:03:13,686 myself and I didn't burn down the house. 64 00:03:13,686 --> 00:03:15,352 I didn't starve to death. 65 00:03:15,352 --> 00:03:18,062 Actually, the house is in better condition. 66 00:03:18,062 --> 00:03:20,429 I did some touch-up painting from little dings and dents that 67 00:03:20,429 --> 00:03:23,544 happened when we moved in almost a year ago and did some 68 00:03:23,584 --> 00:03:25,306 other little things around the house. 69 00:03:25,306 --> 00:03:28,632 It was a crappy three-day weekend and I ended up doing 70 00:03:28,671 --> 00:03:29,132 chores. 71 00:03:30,354 --> 00:03:32,625 Speaker 3: I kind of enjoy those weekends once in a while when 72 00:03:32,685 --> 00:03:36,337 it's just like the weather is either extremely cold or just 73 00:03:36,399 --> 00:03:39,788 crappy and you just get stuff done around the house. 74 00:03:39,788 --> 00:03:40,669 I don't mind. 75 00:03:40,689 --> 00:03:45,804 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a lot done and I thought I did one 76 00:03:45,843 --> 00:03:48,010 thing, but this morning it was our refrigerator. 77 00:03:48,010 --> 00:03:51,049 You have this French refrigerator doors where you can 78 00:03:51,049 --> 00:03:51,871 open the left one. 79 00:03:51,871 --> 00:03:53,907 It has a little flap and it doesn't always catch. 80 00:03:53,907 --> 00:03:57,225 I thought I fixed it yesterday and then this morning I go and 81 00:03:57,667 --> 00:03:59,512 open the refrigerator and it did not. 82 00:03:59,512 --> 00:04:04,383 So that might be for the upcoming weekend, if we make it 83 00:04:04,443 --> 00:04:06,444 out alive after, depending on which station. 84 00:04:06,444 --> 00:04:09,467 40 inches of snow in northeastern North Carolina, 85 00:04:09,507 --> 00:04:09,768 what? 86 00:04:09,768 --> 00:04:11,568 No, that's crazy. 87 00:04:11,568 --> 00:04:14,951 It's legitimate apps and things like that are putting us 88 00:04:14,972 --> 00:04:19,776 somewhere between 18 and 24 inches the next two days and, 89 00:04:19,915 --> 00:04:22,278 yeah, it's going to be hecked by . 90 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:27,483 We'll say they're out there treating the roads in mass right 91 00:04:27,483 --> 00:04:28,447 now, and I saw some plow trucks lined up. 92 00:04:28,447 --> 00:04:30,632 I'm like, okay, they're planning ahead and things like 93 00:04:30,651 --> 00:04:35,836 that, so maybe it won't be so bad I need to there's a weather 94 00:04:35,875 --> 00:04:37,139 guy here in ohio. 95 00:04:39,423 --> 00:04:40,024 Speaker 3: He's just like. 96 00:04:40,024 --> 00:04:41,567 I'm trying to look it up really quick. 97 00:04:41,567 --> 00:04:43,411 This is going to kill me. 98 00:04:43,411 --> 00:04:45,574 Southwest Ohio weather freak. 99 00:04:45,574 --> 00:04:52,110 He's just this amateur meteorologist and he's right 100 00:04:52,211 --> 00:04:53,754 more often than the news. 101 00:04:53,754 --> 00:04:56,309 So I follow a dude in Ohio. 102 00:04:59,141 --> 00:05:02,490 Speaker 2: I don't have any of those local things. 103 00:05:02,490 --> 00:05:05,408 Gosh, what was the weather app I used to have? 104 00:05:05,408 --> 00:05:07,822 I took it off, but it would just say it's fucking hot as 105 00:05:07,884 --> 00:05:12,112 balls oh yeah, it was called like wtf weather, I think it 106 00:05:12,153 --> 00:05:12,252 would. 107 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:13,545 Just, I loved it. 108 00:05:13,545 --> 00:05:16,035 I ended up taking it off for whatever reason, but I was like 109 00:05:16,055 --> 00:05:20,045 it's hot as balls, don't go outside, you'll die, yep. 110 00:05:20,045 --> 00:05:25,774 So I guess on to the wonderful world that is HR. 111 00:05:25,774 --> 00:05:30,793 First, to follow up on our last episode no new executive orders 112 00:05:30,793 --> 00:05:33,420 , but no further guidance either on anything. 113 00:05:33,420 --> 00:05:36,625 I've been doing some webinars, and it's just sort of everybody 114 00:05:36,665 --> 00:05:40,593 holds, still, holds, still like okay, well, that was my plan all 115 00:05:40,593 --> 00:05:43,526 along, but, yeah, no further word. 116 00:05:43,526 --> 00:05:46,540 But I will say that that episode got a lot of downloads. 117 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:48,728 It seemed to be, even though it was an hour long, and 70 118 00:05:48,767 --> 00:05:50,560 percent of people listened all the way to the end. 119 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:51,343 So, thank you if you. 120 00:05:51,343 --> 00:05:54,350 You people made it to at least 95. 121 00:05:54,350 --> 00:05:57,463 I think when they get, though, and the final goodbyes or 122 00:05:57,483 --> 00:06:00,711 whatever, as people click next on their little podcast player, 123 00:06:01,052 --> 00:06:03,045 they don't need to hear us say the ending. 124 00:06:03,045 --> 00:06:06,221 So yeah, so if y'all like that type of stuff, let us know. 125 00:06:06,221 --> 00:06:08,067 We can do more of that. 126 00:06:08,468 --> 00:06:09,108 Speaker 3: What's going on? 127 00:06:09,108 --> 00:06:11,865 We can just hide under our desks and eat our hair together. 128 00:06:11,865 --> 00:06:12,567 It's fine. 129 00:06:12,788 --> 00:06:13,790 Speaker 2: We don't know what's happening. 130 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:16,382 We really don't. 131 00:06:16,382 --> 00:06:17,624 It's crazy. 132 00:06:17,624 --> 00:06:20,528 Out there, I don't have any hair left to eat. 133 00:06:20,528 --> 00:06:22,930 It's been gone. 134 00:06:22,930 --> 00:06:23,812 That's what happened to it. 135 00:06:23,812 --> 00:06:25,353 I'll use that as an excuse. 136 00:06:25,353 --> 00:06:26,536 Let's see. 137 00:06:30,906 --> 00:06:34,454 Well, one of the main things I had was and the story I read 138 00:06:34,514 --> 00:06:38,745 wasn't related to HR, it was about the vocal minority and the 139 00:06:38,745 --> 00:06:40,930 silent majority and it wasn't even politics. 140 00:06:40,930 --> 00:06:45,161 It was more like family politics versus Republican 141 00:06:45,180 --> 00:06:47,242 Democrat type stuff, but using those terms. 142 00:06:47,242 --> 00:06:51,803 But some of the things it said in this it was a dumb article. 143 00:06:51,803 --> 00:06:54,024 I think it was BuzzFeed or something, one of those places 144 00:06:54,045 --> 00:07:02,048 that you hate to go. 145 00:07:02,048 --> 00:07:08,031 So, but one of the things this article was talking about was 146 00:07:09,112 --> 00:07:12,432 how you have like an aunt or somebody like that who is a 147 00:07:12,473 --> 00:07:15,935 know-it-all and puts out these ideas, regardless how right or 148 00:07:15,975 --> 00:07:20,916 wrong they are, and tries to put it out as the gospel of the 149 00:07:20,956 --> 00:07:22,237 world that they live in. 150 00:07:22,297 --> 00:07:25,699 Essentially and I was sort of pertaining that to an influencer 151 00:07:25,699 --> 00:07:29,502 so that aunt would be like a social media influencer who's 152 00:07:29,622 --> 00:07:33,223 putting out garbage that we were tired of hearing, like quiet 153 00:07:33,285 --> 00:07:37,665 quitting and like the rage, resignations and all these 154 00:07:38,329 --> 00:07:41,867 wonderful terms that we've had to put up with the last couple 155 00:07:41,887 --> 00:07:42,108 of years. 156 00:07:42,108 --> 00:07:43,824 I don't think a lot of people. 157 00:07:43,824 --> 00:07:45,819 Well, I should go back. 158 00:07:45,819 --> 00:07:46,963 I don't want to believe. 159 00:07:47,002 --> 00:07:50,632 A lot of people think that this is the norm, but you do have 160 00:07:50,961 --> 00:07:54,526 that very small group of people that are super highly 161 00:07:54,668 --> 00:07:59,283 influenceable and they think, oh , I need to rage quit, or I need 162 00:07:59,283 --> 00:08:02,870 to do this, or this is what's happening to me, whether all 163 00:08:02,891 --> 00:08:06,240 this ghosting stuff on the internet people, companies are 164 00:08:06,281 --> 00:08:09,468 ghosting you, applicants are ghosting you, and things like 165 00:08:09,509 --> 00:08:09,709 that. 166 00:08:09,709 --> 00:08:13,584 So I just sort of I took it that the vocal minority are 167 00:08:13,625 --> 00:08:17,800 these influencers and the silent majority are the rest of the 168 00:08:17,841 --> 00:08:20,427 family is like, okay, yeah, go ahead and have another drink, 169 00:08:20,728 --> 00:08:24,444 aunt Susie, we know what's going on here and you can say what 170 00:08:24,463 --> 00:08:24,944 you're going to say. 171 00:08:24,944 --> 00:08:27,709 We're just whatever, but a few of them, oh, yeah, yeah, that's, 172 00:08:27,709 --> 00:08:29,192 that's absolutely right. 173 00:08:29,192 --> 00:08:32,365 Anyways, that's that's what I was I took away from the article 174 00:08:32,365 --> 00:08:35,601 that like said, I don't know how I ended up down that rabbit 175 00:08:35,642 --> 00:08:38,028 hole in the first place to to get there. 176 00:08:38,028 --> 00:08:42,543 So, yeah, I just I just can't think people are that dumb and 177 00:08:42,562 --> 00:08:45,149 gullible as like we see on social media. 178 00:08:45,169 --> 00:08:48,686 Speaker 3: Yeah, they are no Like what it is. 179 00:08:48,686 --> 00:08:52,419 It's the same stuff we've seen over the past few decades. 180 00:08:52,419 --> 00:08:57,190 We're just putting a snazzy new label on it and then people get 181 00:08:57,190 --> 00:09:00,484 like you know it's all in the marketing, so people buy into it 182 00:09:00,484 --> 00:09:00,484 . 183 00:09:01,186 --> 00:09:01,989 Speaker 2: Quiet quitting. 184 00:09:02,009 --> 00:09:07,559 Speaker 3: Yeah, the marketing is everything it's bad to it. 185 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:08,462 Quiet quitting marketing is that it's? 186 00:09:08,462 --> 00:09:09,989 It's the same shit that's been going on in the past, or at 187 00:09:10,009 --> 00:09:11,774 least in similar economic times, where you kind of see these 188 00:09:11,815 --> 00:09:14,741 patterns, but now we just market it so it looks cute on a 189 00:09:14,782 --> 00:09:20,691 hashtag yes, that's, that's it. 190 00:09:20,730 --> 00:09:21,793 Speaker 2: Cute on a hashtag? 191 00:09:21,793 --> 00:09:25,522 That's that's exactly what, because it's all soundbites and 192 00:09:25,601 --> 00:09:26,423 it's all like. 193 00:09:26,423 --> 00:09:29,566 I have several news aggregators and part of the things I 194 00:09:29,926 --> 00:09:34,471 aggregate is HR news and I see all these things that come from. 195 00:09:34,471 --> 00:09:37,113 One thing that's irritating me is I go through these. 196 00:09:37,113 --> 00:09:38,794 Now I mentioned BuzzFeed. 197 00:09:38,794 --> 00:09:47,042 Everybody knows they're just god awful, just got awful. 198 00:09:47,062 --> 00:09:48,547 It's somebody with maybe barely a high school education that 199 00:09:48,606 --> 00:09:50,913 found something and wants to write 250 words on something 200 00:09:50,933 --> 00:09:52,740 stupid they saw on social media and have no clue what they're 201 00:09:52,779 --> 00:09:53,946 talking about most of the time. 202 00:09:53,946 --> 00:09:58,123 But there's companies like I'll call them out Forbes and Inc 203 00:09:58,624 --> 00:10:01,291 and some other companies that used to do really good work and 204 00:10:01,311 --> 00:10:04,788 now I'm saying you're just doing this clickbaity stuff. 205 00:10:04,788 --> 00:10:09,711 That's style over substance and if that's the way you want to 206 00:10:09,750 --> 00:10:11,501 take it, it's like is I? 207 00:10:11,501 --> 00:10:14,729 Before I click on things, generally speaking, I look at 208 00:10:14,749 --> 00:10:17,803 the source and if it's not a source, I want to read it from, 209 00:10:17,965 --> 00:10:20,818 and a lot of times I'll even block if it keeps coming up as 210 00:10:20,859 --> 00:10:22,342 something, for whatever reason. 211 00:10:22,342 --> 00:10:24,847 I still haven't blocked buzzFeed, but I see these 212 00:10:24,888 --> 00:10:27,653 sources and I know what I'm getting into as soon as I see it 213 00:10:27,653 --> 00:10:27,653 . 214 00:10:28,682 --> 00:10:33,172 But, anyway, that was my little thing that happened to me this 215 00:10:33,413 --> 00:10:33,613 week. 216 00:10:34,221 --> 00:10:37,289 Speaker 3: I feel like BuzzFeed is the current day National 217 00:10:37,350 --> 00:10:40,785 Enquirer, like it's the stuff you read while you're in the 218 00:10:40,846 --> 00:10:43,251 bathroom or waiting in a waiting room. 219 00:10:43,251 --> 00:10:46,871 Like that's what BuzzFeed is, and I just feel like it's kind 220 00:10:46,892 --> 00:10:47,700 of a guilty pleasure. 221 00:10:47,700 --> 00:10:49,164 You know what you're getting. 222 00:10:49,164 --> 00:10:50,590 Yeah. 223 00:10:51,580 --> 00:10:54,807 Speaker 2: And if you are gullible enough to think that 224 00:10:55,087 --> 00:10:57,092 anything they say has any validity. 225 00:10:57,092 --> 00:11:01,640 Oh, and I'm an HR professional with 27 years of experience and 226 00:11:01,782 --> 00:11:05,086 I say this is the secret If an article starts with a HR 227 00:11:05,105 --> 00:11:09,123 professional of 25 years says whatever, that instantly says 228 00:11:09,984 --> 00:11:11,668 99.9% chance. 229 00:11:11,668 --> 00:11:14,974 I'm not clicking unless it's just pure morbid curiosity. 230 00:11:14,974 --> 00:11:19,842 And when I click it I say I know what I'm getting into and I 231 00:11:19,842 --> 00:11:22,370 accept my punishment for doing it. 232 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:27,917 But yeah, I got the secret, and the secret that's going to get 233 00:11:27,976 --> 00:11:30,325 you a job interview with Google tomorrow. 234 00:11:30,325 --> 00:11:31,970 I got the offer tomorrow. 235 00:11:31,970 --> 00:11:33,956 That's one rabbit hole. 236 00:11:33,956 --> 00:11:39,178 I went down, but you had a little story to share as well. 237 00:11:39,980 --> 00:11:40,501 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 238 00:11:40,501 --> 00:11:40,842 Okay. 239 00:11:40,842 --> 00:11:45,235 So I giggle because we're coming up on that time of year 240 00:11:45,975 --> 00:11:48,979 where we're going to have a little pop and turnover because 241 00:11:48,999 --> 00:11:52,722 people like to stick around, didn't wait for their bonus to 242 00:11:52,763 --> 00:11:54,686 come, and then they peace out. 243 00:11:54,686 --> 00:12:04,212 And I was on a call the other day and someone who was 244 00:12:04,232 --> 00:12:05,414 presenting on the call was sharing their screen and as they 245 00:12:05,414 --> 00:12:07,701 were sharing their screen, they closed the window and continued 246 00:12:07,701 --> 00:12:08,582 the conversation. 247 00:12:08,582 --> 00:12:10,620 However, they forgot that they were still sharing their screen. 248 00:12:10,620 --> 00:12:11,003 They closed the window and continued the conversation. 249 00:12:11,003 --> 00:12:13,244 However, they forgot that they were still sharing their screen 250 00:12:13,684 --> 00:12:18,729 and, unbeknownst to them, they shared their most recent 251 00:12:18,788 --> 00:12:24,903 documents, which happened to be their resume, which it said 252 00:12:25,144 --> 00:12:27,409 right under there thank you, windows 10. 253 00:12:27,409 --> 00:12:31,620 Like this individual has been edit was editing it earlier this 254 00:12:31,620 --> 00:12:35,255 morning, to which I was like, oh my gosh, there's people on 255 00:12:35,275 --> 00:12:35,856 this call. 256 00:12:35,856 --> 00:12:41,312 Like this person's manager was on the call, by the way, but I 257 00:12:41,332 --> 00:12:45,221 was like I need a texter, but I don't know people. 258 00:12:45,221 --> 00:12:46,830 It was just not paying attention. 259 00:12:46,830 --> 00:12:49,131 Beware when you share your screen. 260 00:12:49,131 --> 00:12:50,513 Just a friendly PSA. 261 00:12:51,994 --> 00:12:56,476 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I told you and I'm not going to name the 262 00:12:56,658 --> 00:13:00,681 university involved in this, but it went viral, on my algorithm 263 00:13:00,740 --> 00:13:01,120 at least. 264 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:06,085 Apparently, a university professor was sharing his screen 265 00:13:06,085 --> 00:13:08,726 if it's Canvas, blackboard, whatever they Moodle, whatever 266 00:13:08,767 --> 00:13:12,134 they use on it, and you can see all their tabs that they have 267 00:13:12,214 --> 00:13:12,433 open. 268 00:13:12,433 --> 00:13:15,461 So they have these university type tabs, and then one of the 269 00:13:15,490 --> 00:13:18,134 tabs they had open in the background was Pornhub. 270 00:13:18,335 --> 00:13:22,844 Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, that that's a fail oh my gosh, you 271 00:13:23,010 --> 00:13:24,697 absolutely take a screenshot, by the way. 272 00:13:24,697 --> 00:13:27,389 That is the correct course of action in that situation 273 00:13:28,793 --> 00:13:30,139 screenshot and share. 274 00:13:30,539 --> 00:13:30,780 Speaker 2: Yes. 275 00:13:31,871 --> 00:13:33,977 Speaker 3: I always laugh when people put like their personal 276 00:13:34,018 --> 00:13:38,317 bookmarks on their browser and when they share their screen you 277 00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:41,910 can kind of see, like what it is they do when they're not 278 00:13:41,951 --> 00:13:45,503 working, especially if you're broadcasting to an entire like 279 00:13:45,604 --> 00:13:49,397 audience or you're sharing your screen for you know the whole 280 00:13:49,437 --> 00:13:51,777 organization Like why are you putting that on there? 281 00:13:51,777 --> 00:13:54,177 Why are you putting such divisive things on there? 282 00:13:54,177 --> 00:13:59,241 Why can't you just be a little savvy about what you're putting 283 00:13:59,322 --> 00:13:59,682 out there? 284 00:14:01,909 --> 00:14:05,941 Speaker 2: And sometimes I think people do some of these stupid 285 00:14:05,961 --> 00:14:07,596 things sort of on purpose for attention. 286 00:14:07,596 --> 00:14:11,679 I don't know if the Pornhub would be something on purpose 287 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:12,000 for attention. 288 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,407 I don't know if the porn hub would be something you do for 289 00:14:13,466 --> 00:14:13,648 attention. 290 00:14:13,687 --> 00:14:14,129 Speaker 3: I don't think. 291 00:14:14,129 --> 00:14:14,890 I don't think that. 292 00:14:14,890 --> 00:14:17,073 I think this person just made a mistake. 293 00:14:19,216 --> 00:14:21,259 Speaker 2: Oh, man. 294 00:14:21,259 --> 00:14:27,114 So yeah, it's, it's crazy, um, but oh, another thing I wanted 295 00:14:27,154 --> 00:14:29,235 to share and I don't know if I talked to. 296 00:14:29,235 --> 00:14:31,158 I don't think we talked about it on the last episodes. 297 00:14:31,158 --> 00:14:34,660 We were all down the DE executive order rabbit hole. 298 00:14:34,660 --> 00:14:37,999 I've been speaking for months about my son and his search for 299 00:14:38,019 --> 00:14:38,841 an internship. 300 00:14:38,841 --> 00:14:39,442 Oh, yeah. 301 00:14:39,811 --> 00:14:42,938 And one company, I'll just say Disney. 302 00:14:42,938 --> 00:14:44,182 He applied. 303 00:14:44,182 --> 00:14:50,523 So he applied on Wednesday, january 29th for a position on 304 00:14:50,562 --> 00:14:53,578 Disney and they only had it up online for five days and it went 305 00:14:53,578 --> 00:14:53,919 down. 306 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:55,351 You go to LinkedIn. 307 00:14:55,351 --> 00:14:59,041 It says no longer available, closed X many days ago, and 308 00:14:59,061 --> 00:15:00,572 things like that, and you go to their website. 309 00:15:00,572 --> 00:15:02,339 It's not there period anymore. 310 00:15:02,339 --> 00:15:08,961 But he applied on the 29th and then on Friday, the 31st he got 311 00:15:09,182 --> 00:15:12,417 a questionnaire to answer and he filled that and turned that in 312 00:15:12,576 --> 00:15:13,220 immediately. 313 00:15:13,220 --> 00:15:18,216 And then, leon February 7th, he got an unmanned video interview 314 00:15:18,216 --> 00:15:19,940 where they tell you what the question is. 315 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:22,865 Give you 30 seconds to compose yourself, get it, come up with 316 00:15:22,904 --> 00:15:23,264 an answer. 317 00:15:23,264 --> 00:15:25,557 Then it records you making your answer. 318 00:15:25,557 --> 00:15:27,596 We had one of those interviews. 319 00:15:27,616 --> 00:15:28,139 Speaker 3: I have a pinball. 320 00:15:30,692 --> 00:15:32,557 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're interesting. 321 00:15:32,557 --> 00:15:37,417 But he had that on the 7th and then, like on the 12th, they 322 00:15:37,697 --> 00:15:41,571 sent him an email following up with him and saying, basically, 323 00:15:42,032 --> 00:15:45,721 we're going to do a real human I forget what they call it online 324 00:15:45,721 --> 00:15:48,836 interview with you using Zoom or whatever the tool is that 325 00:15:48,875 --> 00:15:49,376 they use. 326 00:15:49,376 --> 00:15:54,595 They sent him this 13-page interview guide from Disney what 327 00:15:54,595 --> 00:15:59,610 to expect and what to think about and things like that and I 328 00:15:59,610 --> 00:16:00,936 was like wow. 329 00:16:00,936 --> 00:16:01,597 I read through it. 330 00:16:01,597 --> 00:16:05,211 The only thing that I would say is the links on the PDF they 331 00:16:05,250 --> 00:16:08,379 sent him did not work and I found it, the document title. 332 00:16:08,379 --> 00:16:10,990 I Googled it and I found it on Disney's website itself and 333 00:16:11,009 --> 00:16:14,519 still the links didn't work, because it talked about it had 334 00:16:14,558 --> 00:16:17,535 an FAQ section you could go, but it was still really cool, 335 00:16:17,655 --> 00:16:18,519 really well done. 336 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:21,755 The interview guide told them about behavioral interview 337 00:16:21,796 --> 00:16:27,273 questions and how they want them answered, and it was just like 338 00:16:28,154 --> 00:16:31,201 they're giving you a roadmap not to fail the interview. 339 00:16:31,221 --> 00:16:32,123 Speaker 1: I love it. 340 00:16:33,273 --> 00:16:33,735 Speaker 2: I did too. 341 00:16:33,735 --> 00:16:38,221 I thought it was really the end of February and early March, 342 00:16:38,850 --> 00:16:42,360 and they gave them a whole time frame of everything, all the 343 00:16:42,419 --> 00:16:43,042 steps from here. 344 00:16:43,042 --> 00:16:45,649 I was like this is they've been on the ball. 345 00:16:45,649 --> 00:16:48,988 Oh, and they even told you to start following the people on 346 00:16:49,028 --> 00:16:49,269 LinkedIn. 347 00:16:49,269 --> 00:16:52,157 So he followed the recruiter who he's been in contact with 348 00:16:52,418 --> 00:16:56,653 not directly, just only via email, and we cyber stalked the 349 00:16:56,714 --> 00:16:59,501 head of the department that this position would be working on. 350 00:16:59,501 --> 00:17:03,309 But it tells you everybody has a LinkedIn profile, Please 351 00:17:03,450 --> 00:17:05,813 research them and all this other stuff. 352 00:17:05,813 --> 00:17:11,519 I was really impressed, especially for a entry-level 353 00:17:11,558 --> 00:17:15,022 position, helping a college kid with not much experience get 354 00:17:15,063 --> 00:17:18,287 through, be ready for the interview. 355 00:17:18,611 --> 00:17:21,143 Speaker 3: First of all, I wonder if this is the same thing 356 00:17:21,143 --> 00:17:25,318 stuff that they provide like higher level roles, or if this 357 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:27,586 is just part of their like internship it's geared more 358 00:17:27,625 --> 00:17:28,567 toward entry level. 359 00:17:28,567 --> 00:17:32,758 Yeah, yeah, like I'm thinking that that's just cool. 360 00:17:32,758 --> 00:17:35,773 I think that's such a good service to put people who are 361 00:17:35,814 --> 00:17:39,445 doing that entry-level role they don't people don't know. 362 00:17:39,445 --> 00:17:43,135 This is awesome, that they're basically giving you the roadmap 363 00:17:43,135 --> 00:17:46,109 to success and I. 364 00:17:46,250 --> 00:17:49,176 Speaker 2: I downloaded a bunch of behavioral-based interview 365 00:17:49,217 --> 00:17:51,251 questions and I started quizzing my son. 366 00:17:51,251 --> 00:17:54,515 And they even give you, they want you to use the STAR method 367 00:17:54,684 --> 00:17:57,674 I think that's what it's called to answer the questions. 368 00:17:57,674 --> 00:18:01,557 Yeah, and so I quizzed him in some of the most common 369 00:18:01,838 --> 00:18:05,172 entry-level interview questions for behavioral interview 370 00:18:05,211 --> 00:18:08,307 questions and I would help them work through going through the 371 00:18:08,346 --> 00:18:12,237 STAR method and I said let's get five or 10 of these down so 372 00:18:12,277 --> 00:18:14,849 that you know if the question's not exactly the same, you can 373 00:18:15,090 --> 00:18:18,405 manipulate it into how it's going to be close enough, 374 00:18:18,445 --> 00:18:22,273 because you don't have any real in-depth experience that they 375 00:18:22,294 --> 00:18:23,596 can drive into. 376 00:18:23,596 --> 00:18:26,250 But I said if they ask you about school stuff, you've got 377 00:18:26,289 --> 00:18:27,454 that, that's what you're doing. 378 00:18:27,454 --> 00:18:30,971 So I'm looking forward to hearing how the interview stage 379 00:18:31,111 --> 00:18:32,054 goes for him. 380 00:18:32,054 --> 00:18:35,666 But I can only imagine he's moved pretty far along because 381 00:18:35,686 --> 00:18:39,550 to apply do the questionnaire I'm sure everybody submitted a 382 00:18:39,590 --> 00:18:41,849 resume, got a questionnaire and the questionnaire weeded some 383 00:18:41,890 --> 00:18:42,230 people out. 384 00:18:42,305 --> 00:18:44,730 That little video interview weeded some people out. 385 00:18:44,730 --> 00:18:47,275 So I got a feeling that there's not a long list. 386 00:18:47,275 --> 00:18:49,118 But oh, and they said you must. 387 00:18:49,118 --> 00:18:50,541 They'd say must. 388 00:18:50,541 --> 00:18:54,090 It was like super highly encouraged to have questions to 389 00:18:54,310 --> 00:18:56,076 ask your interviewees. 390 00:18:56,076 --> 00:19:00,047 So we thought of about 10 questions and he's like why do 391 00:19:00,086 --> 00:19:00,508 we need 10? 392 00:19:00,508 --> 00:19:03,296 I said they may answer some of these questions during the 393 00:19:03,345 --> 00:19:05,048 course of the interview and you're not going to ask the 394 00:19:05,088 --> 00:19:06,532 question that they just answered . 395 00:19:06,532 --> 00:19:07,895 It looks like you're not paying attention. 396 00:19:07,895 --> 00:19:08,356 You're not ready. 397 00:19:08,846 --> 00:19:12,314 So, I said just have it on your piece of paper and if they say 398 00:19:12,654 --> 00:19:15,188 something that we came up with just during the course of the 399 00:19:15,228 --> 00:19:18,184 conversation, scratch through it and move on to the next slide. 400 00:19:18,184 --> 00:19:21,367 Between he and I, we came up with some really unique 401 00:19:21,407 --> 00:19:21,847 questions. 402 00:19:21,847 --> 00:19:24,250 I told him you don't want to Google this, you don't want to 403 00:19:24,309 --> 00:19:26,832 chat GBT questions, ask interviewers. 404 00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:28,653 You're going to get something really stupid that the 405 00:19:28,692 --> 00:19:31,335 interviewers heard a billion times and they don't want to 406 00:19:31,355 --> 00:19:31,894 hear it again. 407 00:19:31,894 --> 00:19:35,738 So I said let's use our minds and come up with some questions 408 00:19:35,837 --> 00:19:36,378 of our own. 409 00:19:36,378 --> 00:19:39,361 And yeah, I think we came up with a nice list. 410 00:19:39,361 --> 00:19:40,701 So I'm really excited. 411 00:19:40,701 --> 00:19:41,903 Hopefully this will go well. 412 00:19:41,903 --> 00:19:53,826 This will be a dream for him. 413 00:19:53,846 --> 00:19:55,291 I think I've mentioned before he's obsessed with roller 414 00:19:55,311 --> 00:19:56,193 coasters and theme parks and to work at one. 415 00:19:56,193 --> 00:19:57,417 For, oh, this is a six-month internship too, it's not just a 416 00:19:57,438 --> 00:19:57,798 summer internship. 417 00:19:57,798 --> 00:19:59,103 So, yeah, we're hopeful, but we're still applying. 418 00:19:59,103 --> 00:20:02,454 We're still chugging along and discussing it every day. 419 00:20:02,454 --> 00:20:03,820 I'm probably overly involved. 420 00:20:03,820 --> 00:20:06,648 I don't want to be a helicopter parent or something like that, 421 00:20:06,729 --> 00:20:10,317 but I think he does get the gist that I've been in HR and I've 422 00:20:10,356 --> 00:20:10,877 recruited. 423 00:20:10,877 --> 00:20:12,888 I've spent many years. 424 00:20:12,888 --> 00:20:15,717 When he was very young, I was a college recruiter and I did 425 00:20:15,737 --> 00:20:16,665 this and worked with it. 426 00:20:16,665 --> 00:20:19,692 So I think he can appreciate my help. 427 00:20:19,692 --> 00:20:22,747 At least he's pretending, at least to me, that he appreciates 428 00:20:22,747 --> 00:20:23,327 my help. 429 00:20:23,729 --> 00:20:24,671 Speaker 3: Oh, that's everything . 430 00:20:24,691 --> 00:20:30,463 Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, that's what's going on in our little 431 00:20:30,523 --> 00:20:32,248 neck of the world, other than we're. 432 00:20:32,248 --> 00:20:34,714 I don't know if I mentioned this earlier because of our 433 00:20:34,775 --> 00:20:37,489 technical difficulties, but depending on which app and 434 00:20:37,628 --> 00:20:41,205 weather station you watch, we're going to get at least 10 inches 435 00:20:41,205 --> 00:20:44,433 of snow in the next couple of days, maybe two to three feet, 436 00:20:44,835 --> 00:20:45,557 nobody knows. 437 00:20:45,557 --> 00:20:47,632 There's someone on Facebook that posted something. 438 00:20:47,632 --> 00:20:48,910 I don't know if it's real or not. 439 00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:51,374 Of course it's Facebook, so it's got to be real. 440 00:20:51,374 --> 00:20:55,385 But someone was calling for 40 inches of snow here and I'm like 441 00:20:55,385 --> 00:20:57,894 geez, louise, it's crazy. 442 00:20:58,086 --> 00:21:01,394 Speaker 3: And if you are an employer, don't make your people 443 00:21:01,394 --> 00:21:01,895 come to work. 444 00:21:03,506 --> 00:21:11,567 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my boss sent out an email saying it's 445 00:21:11,586 --> 00:21:12,529 not supposed to start till midday tomorrow. 446 00:21:12,529 --> 00:21:16,180 And she sent out an email just don't come to work and be safe 447 00:21:16,279 --> 00:21:17,527 and take your computers home. 448 00:21:17,527 --> 00:21:18,450 And yada, yada, yada. 449 00:21:18,450 --> 00:21:22,544 And when I was leaving tonight I told her yeah, it was like 450 00:21:22,604 --> 00:21:24,848 I'll see you when I see you, because I'm not coming tomorrow. 451 00:21:24,848 --> 00:21:26,090 I'm probably not coming Thursday. 452 00:21:26,090 --> 00:21:30,038 Friday is up in the air, depending on everything, how 453 00:21:30,077 --> 00:21:30,538 things look. 454 00:21:30,538 --> 00:21:33,693 But yeah, she's like, yeah, just if you can make it on 455 00:21:33,753 --> 00:21:34,435 Friday, make it. 456 00:21:34,435 --> 00:21:36,192 She's like I'm not expecting you Thursday either. 457 00:21:36,192 --> 00:21:40,169 She knows I have an hour and a half one-way commute and she was 458 00:21:40,169 --> 00:21:41,374 really cool about that. 459 00:21:41,374 --> 00:22:05,080 Oh, story Not related to HR at all. 460 00:22:05,121 --> 00:22:09,186 She was actually scheduled to come in tomorrow, but I know the 461 00:22:09,186 --> 00:22:11,413 airport's going to be closed down here in the South. 462 00:22:11,413 --> 00:22:13,518 They don't prepare everything. 463 00:22:13,518 --> 00:22:18,074 So on Sunday I called the airline and I got a customer 464 00:22:18,095 --> 00:22:18,796 service agent. 465 00:22:18,796 --> 00:22:22,472 Well, first I tried to make the change online myself, but they 466 00:22:22,492 --> 00:22:25,721 wanted like a $400 change fee and I said look, there's a 467 00:22:25,781 --> 00:22:29,273 winter storm coming and I think this will make it easier for you 468 00:22:29,273 --> 00:22:29,273 . 469 00:22:29,273 --> 00:22:32,789 You have to deal with one less person on Wednesday and we don't 470 00:22:32,789 --> 00:22:33,653 have any headaches. 471 00:22:33,653 --> 00:22:36,685 And the customer service person was sticking to the book and 472 00:22:36,746 --> 00:22:39,790 said, well, we can't, unless there's a winter storm warning 473 00:22:39,832 --> 00:22:40,232 in effect. 474 00:22:40,232 --> 00:22:42,794 We won't make those changes without the fee. 475 00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:48,135 And I was like, oh okay, well, I figured Sunday or no Monday. 476 00:22:48,135 --> 00:22:48,657 That was Sunday. 477 00:22:54,045 --> 00:22:55,769 Monday I called again, got a different customer service agent 478 00:22:55,769 --> 00:22:57,134 and she started going down the same list oh, I see there's not 479 00:22:57,153 --> 00:22:59,180 a winter storm warning in effect for the destination yet, so we 480 00:22:59,240 --> 00:22:59,986 can't do anything. 481 00:22:59,986 --> 00:23:04,555 I said, oh really, I don't want her to be stuck in Baltimore, 482 00:23:04,615 --> 00:23:07,230 for who knows how long is that's where her layout is. 483 00:23:07,230 --> 00:23:10,174 It would have flown her from Utah to Baltimore, no problem, 484 00:23:10,244 --> 00:23:13,012 but getting from Baltimore home would have been the problem and 485 00:23:13,032 --> 00:23:13,796 she'd be stuck there. 486 00:23:13,796 --> 00:23:16,353 And I said I really would like to see if there's anything that 487 00:23:16,373 --> 00:23:16,694 can be done. 488 00:23:16,694 --> 00:23:18,171 And she said hold on one sec. 489 00:23:18,171 --> 00:23:23,553 And so she Googled the weather for Norfolk, virginia, and she 490 00:23:23,573 --> 00:23:27,558 goes oh my God, and it was saying like 18 inches of snow on 491 00:23:27,558 --> 00:23:28,140 Wednesday. 492 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:29,948 She goes oh no, I'm changing this. 493 00:23:29,948 --> 00:23:30,489 No fees. 494 00:23:31,230 --> 00:23:32,333 And it just took. 495 00:23:32,333 --> 00:23:36,291 Someone did OK, there's no winter storm advisory, which the 496 00:23:36,291 --> 00:23:38,923 policy probably says is two people said it to make the 497 00:23:38,963 --> 00:23:39,788 change without a fee. 498 00:23:39,788 --> 00:23:42,420 But this lady, she took it on herself to Google the weather 499 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:46,394 for Norfolk, virginia, and it says 18 inches of snow on 500 00:23:46,414 --> 00:23:46,695 Wednesday. 501 00:23:46,695 --> 00:23:51,192 She goes oh no, oh no, I'm changing this for you and I mean 502 00:23:51,192 --> 00:23:53,182 it made us very happy. 503 00:23:53,182 --> 00:23:56,952 Obviously it didn't take anything off of her nose and 504 00:23:57,294 --> 00:23:58,576 we're happy to continue. 505 00:23:58,576 --> 00:24:01,030 It's Southwest Airlines. 506 00:24:01,030 --> 00:24:04,244 I'll say if I do book generally , I like booking with them. 507 00:24:04,244 --> 00:24:07,055 You have your Frontier and your Spirit, the discount airlines, 508 00:24:07,184 --> 00:24:11,134 but by the time you pay the baggage fees and this and that 509 00:24:11,153 --> 00:24:11,815 and the other thing. 510 00:24:12,316 --> 00:24:13,417 it comes out the same day. 511 00:24:13,417 --> 00:24:19,058 Trap you with that low oh, fly to Utah for $99. 512 00:24:19,058 --> 00:24:21,334 Well, oh, but each bag is $50. 513 00:24:21,334 --> 00:24:24,569 And they charge you for carry-ons too $25 for carry-ons 514 00:24:24,585 --> 00:24:26,165 With Southwest, you get two checked bags. 515 00:24:26,165 --> 00:24:28,847 Anyways, that's my little unpaid advertisement. 516 00:24:28,847 --> 00:24:31,609 But if you want to pay us Southwest I will gladly take 517 00:24:31,630 --> 00:24:32,009 your money. 518 00:24:32,009 --> 00:24:36,472 But of our little experience I was just thinking that's the 519 00:24:36,532 --> 00:24:38,775 type of employee I want to have as the second plane. 520 00:24:38,775 --> 00:24:40,036 You know the first one. 521 00:24:40,036 --> 00:24:42,336 Yeah, they were doing their job , they were following the 522 00:24:42,376 --> 00:24:42,958 procedure. 523 00:24:42,958 --> 00:24:44,999 But it took the second lady. 524 00:24:44,999 --> 00:24:46,859 Just, she said, oh, hold on two seconds. 525 00:24:46,859 --> 00:24:49,382 She Googled the weather and said, oh, no, we're changing 526 00:24:49,402 --> 00:24:49,602 this. 527 00:24:49,721 --> 00:24:49,962 Speaker 3: Yeah. 528 00:24:50,564 --> 00:24:52,409 Speaker 2: And now they have one less person to put up in a 529 00:24:52,449 --> 00:24:56,018 hotel in Baltimore tomorrow or wherever it is. 530 00:24:56,404 --> 00:24:57,945 Speaker 3: Listen, I'm all for a solid, but today's flight was 531 00:24:57,965 --> 00:24:58,868 an adventure of its own. 532 00:24:58,868 --> 00:25:02,490 Yeah, exactly, I'm glad she's back home safe. 533 00:25:03,204 --> 00:25:03,685 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. 534 00:25:03,786 --> 00:25:06,789 Speaker 3: I can appreciate a standard operating procedure, 535 00:25:07,411 --> 00:25:12,617 but I also appreciate that layered with some common sense 536 00:25:12,657 --> 00:25:17,131 of the situation, exactly, You're not always going to be 537 00:25:17,151 --> 00:25:20,404 able to bend the rules, but I'm not asking for anything special. 538 00:25:21,866 --> 00:25:23,848 Speaker 2: The change fee when I went online to try and do it 539 00:25:23,868 --> 00:25:25,310 myself was like $400. 540 00:25:25,310 --> 00:25:26,813 Yeah, the change fee when I went online to try and do it 541 00:25:26,833 --> 00:25:28,414 myself was like $400 a change. 542 00:25:28,414 --> 00:25:30,156 I was like I've spent enough money recently that I don't want 543 00:25:30,156 --> 00:25:32,219 to take on a $400 change fee. 544 00:25:32,219 --> 00:25:37,270 But yeah, shout out, it was a good experience. 545 00:25:37,270 --> 00:25:38,153 They made it happen. 546 00:25:38,153 --> 00:25:44,165 Unfortunately, Today, when she did fly back today was my 547 00:25:44,185 --> 00:25:44,886 daughter's day off. 548 00:25:44,886 --> 00:25:46,968 They had some plans to go out to this that the other day, 549 00:25:46,988 --> 00:25:49,108 shopping essentially but they didn't get to do that. 550 00:25:49,108 --> 00:25:52,190 So, anyways, they had two weeks together, still Nice. 551 00:25:52,190 --> 00:25:56,432 So, yeah, Anything else fun going on in your village? 552 00:25:56,492 --> 00:25:59,733 Speaker 3: No, you know, we ended performance management 553 00:25:59,933 --> 00:26:01,595 just to begin it all over again. 554 00:26:01,595 --> 00:26:04,057 So that's where we are right now, with work, that goal 555 00:26:04,076 --> 00:26:05,136 setting happening. 556 00:26:05,136 --> 00:26:07,458 But other than that, life's quiet. 557 00:26:07,458 --> 00:26:11,279 This is a week where nobody is sick, which is magical. 558 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:14,061 My voice is still cracking. 559 00:26:14,061 --> 00:26:15,021 I had strep. 560 00:26:15,321 --> 00:26:22,801 Oh, I don't think we talked, I had the best birthday of my life 561 00:26:22,801 --> 00:26:28,567 , because I got strep throat on my 40th birthday. 562 00:26:28,567 --> 00:26:30,769 So I had like we had these plans we were going to go out, 563 00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:32,932 we were going to meet friends for dinner, we were going to go 564 00:26:32,951 --> 00:26:36,314 to a bar, the baby was going to stay at my parents house, like 565 00:26:36,354 --> 00:26:36,954 all this stuff. 566 00:26:36,954 --> 00:26:41,518 And like the Thursday before I'm like, oh, I'm sick. 567 00:26:41,518 --> 00:26:44,401 And then I went to the doctor and he's like you got strep. 568 00:26:44,401 --> 00:26:46,682 I don't ever get strep throat. 569 00:26:51,984 --> 00:26:53,688 My strep throat was worse than COVID that I got a few weeks 570 00:26:53,728 --> 00:26:53,948 earlier. 571 00:26:53,968 --> 00:26:55,611 Speaker 2: Yeah Well, you've knocked all the illnesses out 572 00:26:55,671 --> 00:26:57,153 for 2025 already. 573 00:26:57,273 --> 00:26:59,877 Speaker 3: I don't know man, Tuberculosis is out there and 574 00:26:59,917 --> 00:27:06,359 measles is out there, so hey, there's still a chance. 575 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,250 Oh gosh, it's okay, I've been vaccinated yeah yeah. 576 00:27:10,892 --> 00:27:11,815 Speaker 2: No, and the bird flu. 577 00:27:11,815 --> 00:27:12,696 Don't forget the bird flu. 578 00:27:12,696 --> 00:27:18,163 I could always get the bird flu . 579 00:27:18,163 --> 00:27:19,451 There are $9 eggs in some places. 580 00:27:19,451 --> 00:27:21,884 They're saying I haven't bought eggs but $9 a dozen for eggs. 581 00:27:23,107 --> 00:27:26,247 Speaker 3: So eggs are kind of a big thing in our house, like we 582 00:27:26,247 --> 00:27:28,645 eat eggs almost every morning. 583 00:27:28,645 --> 00:27:33,979 The baby's eating and I guess that's our luxury now is egg I 584 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,154 don't know you might go get eggs or starbucks honestly, it's 585 00:27:39,296 --> 00:27:39,979 probably this. 586 00:27:39,979 --> 00:27:46,654 Actually, I think the eggs are more expensive uh, well, I 587 00:27:46,694 --> 00:27:47,296 mentioned the snow. 588 00:27:47,455 --> 00:27:49,420 Speaker 2: I did make the mistake. 589 00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:51,846 I told my wife I'd go to the grocery store and pick up some 590 00:27:51,866 --> 00:27:52,067 things. 591 00:27:52,067 --> 00:27:55,635 I told her I'd do it Monday while I was out and about, as I 592 00:27:55,675 --> 00:27:59,652 did run a couple errands Monday and I forgot to get them. 593 00:27:59,652 --> 00:28:03,887 So I went to the grocery store today, the day before snowstorm, 594 00:28:03,887 --> 00:28:08,637 and I got what I needed and it was a zoo. 595 00:28:08,637 --> 00:28:14,465 It was an absolute zoo there and I was just like if I, and 596 00:28:14,486 --> 00:28:17,336 then, like two of the self checkout registers didn't work, 597 00:28:17,424 --> 00:28:20,354 they only had two cashiers working with lines out the union 598 00:28:20,354 --> 00:28:20,816 everywhere. 599 00:28:20,816 --> 00:28:23,094 That was not. 600 00:28:23,094 --> 00:28:24,289 That is not a good thing. 601 00:28:24,410 --> 00:28:26,191 Speaker 3: Honestly, could you imagine managing that situation, 602 00:28:26,191 --> 00:28:31,815 like people call out you're understaffed, machines are down 603 00:28:32,236 --> 00:28:36,829 and everyone's in there for milk and bread, that is a nightmare 604 00:28:36,869 --> 00:28:39,576 situation that I don't wish on anyone. 605 00:28:40,885 --> 00:28:42,873 Speaker 2: No, no, I do not either. 606 00:28:42,873 --> 00:28:45,673 I think that most of the people in the store were behaving 607 00:28:45,693 --> 00:28:46,234 themselves. 608 00:28:46,234 --> 00:28:48,893 I was getting a little grumpy at the lines. 609 00:28:48,893 --> 00:28:51,731 I was thinking, if you don't have that many cashiers, you 610 00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:55,849 have lines and you don't have all your self-checkouts working, 611 00:28:55,849 --> 00:28:58,616 you should get like 5% off for each self-checkout. 612 00:28:58,616 --> 00:29:00,211 That's not either working or open. 613 00:29:00,211 --> 00:29:03,210 Don't get me started on Walmart , my least favorite place on 614 00:29:03,269 --> 00:29:06,356 earth, when they have 30 self-checkout registers and only 615 00:29:06,356 --> 00:29:08,990 six of them are open and they don't care. 616 00:29:08,990 --> 00:29:12,294 Just yeah, we don't have the staff. 617 00:29:12,294 --> 00:29:14,710 You don't have staff for self-checkout. 618 00:29:14,710 --> 00:29:18,560 Anyways, that's my loathe for Walmart as a whole. 619 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:18,884 Different story. 620 00:29:18,884 --> 00:29:20,789 Speaker 3: Well wait, I thought the robots were supposed to take 621 00:29:20,789 --> 00:29:21,352 the jobs. 622 00:29:22,615 --> 00:29:23,356 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. 623 00:29:23,356 --> 00:29:25,732 Why don't they please take those jobs? 624 00:29:27,705 --> 00:29:29,511 Speaker 1: The robots are calling out this is where we are 625 00:29:29,511 --> 00:29:29,511 . 626 00:29:29,511 --> 00:29:30,474 Ai has totally come full circle . 627 00:29:30,494 --> 00:29:30,776 Speaker 3: There we go. 628 00:29:30,776 --> 00:29:34,892 Oh yeah, the robots have become sentient and they're having an 629 00:29:34,912 --> 00:29:37,422 emotional day and they need to take a personal they're 630 00:29:37,563 --> 00:29:43,314 unionizing, they're sick outing, uh. 631 00:29:43,354 --> 00:29:46,980 Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll land the plane right there. 632 00:29:46,980 --> 00:29:51,972 Please join us next week for our very special Diversity Day 633 00:29:52,653 --> 00:29:55,779 episode of our rewatch of the Office. 634 00:29:55,779 --> 00:29:57,792 So it's going to be a lot of fun. 635 00:29:57,792 --> 00:30:00,568 So be sure to check it out, share, give us any ideas you 636 00:30:00,609 --> 00:30:04,164 have for other shows to make an HR tie into. 637 00:30:04,164 --> 00:30:08,425 So, with all that wonderful, the fun stuff said, I want to 638 00:30:08,445 --> 00:30:12,410 thank Andrew Coppa, the voice artist, for the introduction and 639 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:13,157 the intro. 640 00:30:13,157 --> 00:30:16,608 Outro music is the underscore, orchestra with the song the 641 00:30:16,648 --> 00:30:19,471 Devil, the Devil, and, as always , I'm Warren. 642 00:30:19,571 --> 00:30:20,213 Speaker 3: I'm Cece. 643 00:30:21,630 --> 00:30:24,009 Speaker 2: And we're here helping you survive HR one. 644 00:30:24,009 --> 00:30:25,695 What the fuck moment at a time. 645 00:30:37,468 --> 00:30:37,868 Speaker 1: Yeah.