WEBVTT 00:00:02.023 --> 00:00:09.814 Had you actually read the email, you would know that the podcast you are about to listen to could contain explicit language and offensive content. 00:00:09.814 --> 00:00:16.480 These HR experts' views are not representative of their past, present or future employers. 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:19.707 If you have ever heard my manager is unfair to me. 00:00:19.707 --> 00:00:26.548 I need you to reset my HR portal password, or Can I write up my employee for crying too much? 00:00:26.548 --> 00:00:28.827 Welcome to our little safe zone. 00:00:50.893 --> 00:00:58.383 Welcome to JDHR, the podcast by two HR professionals who want to help you get through the workday by saying everything you're thinking, but say it out loud. 00:00:58.383 --> 00:00:59.165 I'm Warren. 00:00:59.648 --> 00:01:00.189 I'm Cece. 00:01:01.341 --> 00:01:08.634 So, yeah, our last episode ran incredibly long, but the audio is better Not great, but better. 00:01:08.634 --> 00:01:11.769 This episode will be able to make it even better. 00:01:12.879 --> 00:01:16.106 I blame the old fashioned, I was just on it. 00:01:18.161 --> 00:01:19.144 We need to do it more often. 00:01:19.144 --> 00:01:20.870 Encourage it, encourage it. 00:01:20.870 --> 00:01:22.305 So yeah, it was really good. 00:01:22.305 --> 00:01:24.948 We're not going that long today, y'all, I promise. 00:01:24.948 --> 00:01:30.209 I actually only have like one or two things on my agenda for this, so yay. 00:01:30.209 --> 00:01:39.281 But before we get too far along, I want to thank our original jaded hr rock star hallie, michael and bill, our other patreon supporters. 00:01:39.281 --> 00:01:42.105 You too can support us on patreon, follow the the show links. 00:01:42.105 --> 00:01:48.542 Yay, get that out of the way, but we're really proud to have some supporters on Patreon. 00:01:48.542 --> 00:02:05.766 I was thinking just the other day I've been getting a hell of a lot of solicitations from these companies that haven't listened to JTHR, wanting to promote their persons on the speaking bureau or whatever tour or whatever, and like, oh, this person has a PhD and can bring this to your case. 00:02:05.766 --> 00:02:08.126 Okay, yeah, you haven't listened to us. 00:02:08.126 --> 00:02:12.989 You know that if you'd listened to one episode, you'd know that's not what we're about. 00:02:13.620 --> 00:02:15.007 We're not your target demographic. 00:02:15.480 --> 00:02:16.485 Yeah, we're not going to. 00:02:16.485 --> 00:02:24.368 We're not going to fit that too well, but I haven't gotten one in a long time, but I would get these just god-awful type of solicitations. 00:02:24.368 --> 00:02:25.752 Would you advertise our product? 00:02:25.752 --> 00:02:33.013 Non-name, brand personal body trimmers and uh, uh, uh, medicines and things like that? 00:02:33.073 --> 00:02:44.162 like no, no, no see that makes you shit your pants yeah, lose 20 pounds tomorrow, uh, but, uh, I haven't gotten any of those along. 00:02:44.162 --> 00:02:45.948 Not that I'm complaining that I haven't gotten any of those along. 00:02:45.948 --> 00:02:48.518 Not that I'm complaining, but I haven't gotten any of those in a long time. 00:02:48.818 --> 00:02:49.039 Nice, yeah. 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:59.219 So yeah, it's been a busy week for me and yeah, between work and school and personal, but I'm looking forward to recording this. 00:02:59.219 --> 00:03:06.187 We talked about maybe postponing it, but I'm like no, I got to do it today because nothing else is going to fit before we have to publish my schedule. 00:03:06.187 --> 00:03:13.686 But yeah, but I survived two whole weeks at home all by myself and I didn't burn down the house. 00:03:13.686 --> 00:03:15.352 I didn't starve to death. 00:03:15.352 --> 00:03:18.062 Actually, the house is in better condition. 00:03:18.062 --> 00:03:25.306 I did some touch-up painting from little dings and dents that happened when we moved in almost a year ago and did some other little things around the house. 00:03:25.306 --> 00:03:29.132 It was a crappy three-day weekend and I ended up doing chores. 00:03:30.354 --> 00:03:39.788 I kind of enjoy those weekends once in a while when it's just like the weather is either extremely cold or just crappy and you just get stuff done around the house. 00:03:39.788 --> 00:03:40.669 I don't mind. 00:03:40.689 --> 00:03:48.010 Yeah, I got a lot done and I thought I did one thing, but this morning it was our refrigerator. 00:03:48.010 --> 00:03:51.871 You have this French refrigerator doors where you can open the left one. 00:03:51.871 --> 00:03:53.907 It has a little flap and it doesn't always catch. 00:03:53.907 --> 00:03:59.512 I thought I fixed it yesterday and then this morning I go and open the refrigerator and it did not. 00:03:59.512 --> 00:04:06.444 So that might be for the upcoming weekend, if we make it out alive after, depending on which station. 00:04:06.444 --> 00:04:09.768 40 inches of snow in northeastern North Carolina, what? 00:04:09.768 --> 00:04:11.568 No, that's crazy. 00:04:11.568 --> 00:04:22.278 It's legitimate apps and things like that are putting us somewhere between 18 and 24 inches the next two days and, yeah, it's going to be hecked by. 00:04:25.660 --> 00:04:28.447 We'll say they're out there treating the roads in mass right now, and I saw some plow trucks lined up. 00:04:28.447 --> 00:04:37.139 I'm like, okay, they're planning ahead and things like that, so maybe it won't be so bad I need to there's a weather guy here in ohio. 00:04:39.423 --> 00:04:40.024 He's just like. 00:04:40.024 --> 00:04:41.567 I'm trying to look it up really quick. 00:04:41.567 --> 00:04:43.411 This is going to kill me. 00:04:43.411 --> 00:04:45.574 Southwest Ohio weather freak. 00:04:45.574 --> 00:04:53.754 He's just this amateur meteorologist and he's right more often than the news. 00:04:53.754 --> 00:04:56.309 So I follow a dude in Ohio. 00:04:59.141 --> 00:05:02.490 I don't have any of those local things. 00:05:02.490 --> 00:05:05.408 Gosh, what was the weather app I used to have? 00:05:05.408 --> 00:05:12.252 I took it off, but it would just say it's fucking hot as balls oh yeah, it was called like wtf weather, I think it would. 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:13.545 Just, I loved it. 00:05:13.545 --> 00:05:20.045 I ended up taking it off for whatever reason, but I was like it's hot as balls, don't go outside, you'll die, yep. 00:05:20.045 --> 00:05:25.774 So I guess on to the wonderful world that is HR. 00:05:25.774 --> 00:05:33.420 First, to follow up on our last episode no new executive orders, but no further guidance either on anything. 00:05:33.420 --> 00:05:43.526 I've been doing some webinars, and it's just sort of everybody holds, still, holds, still like okay, well, that was my plan all along, but, yeah, no further word. 00:05:43.526 --> 00:05:46.540 But I will say that that episode got a lot of downloads. 00:05:46.540 --> 00:05:50.560 It seemed to be, even though it was an hour long, and 70 percent of people listened all the way to the end. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:51.343 So, thank you if you. 00:05:51.343 --> 00:05:54.350 You people made it to at least 95. 00:05:54.350 --> 00:06:03.045 I think when they get, though, and the final goodbyes or whatever, as people click next on their little podcast player, they don't need to hear us say the ending. 00:06:03.045 --> 00:06:06.221 So yeah, so if y'all like that type of stuff, let us know. 00:06:06.221 --> 00:06:08.067 We can do more of that. 00:06:08.468 --> 00:06:09.108 What's going on? 00:06:09.108 --> 00:06:11.865 We can just hide under our desks and eat our hair together. 00:06:11.865 --> 00:06:12.567 It's fine. 00:06:12.788 --> 00:06:13.790 We don't know what's happening. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:16.382 We really don't. 00:06:16.382 --> 00:06:17.624 It's crazy. 00:06:17.624 --> 00:06:20.528 Out there, I don't have any hair left to eat. 00:06:20.528 --> 00:06:22.930 It's been gone. 00:06:22.930 --> 00:06:23.812 That's what happened to it. 00:06:23.812 --> 00:06:25.353 I'll use that as an excuse. 00:06:25.353 --> 00:06:26.536 Let's see. 00:06:30.906 --> 00:06:40.930 Well, one of the main things I had was and the story I read wasn't related to HR, it was about the vocal minority and the silent majority and it wasn't even politics. 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:47.242 It was more like family politics versus Republican Democrat type stuff, but using those terms. 00:06:47.242 --> 00:06:51.803 But some of the things it said in this it was a dumb article. 00:06:51.803 --> 00:07:02.048 I think it was BuzzFeed or something, one of those places that you hate to go. 00:07:02.048 --> 00:07:22.237 So, but one of the things this article was talking about was how you have like an aunt or somebody like that who is a know-it-all and puts out these ideas, regardless how right or wrong they are, and tries to put it out as the gospel of the world that they live in. 00:07:22.297 --> 00:07:42.108 Essentially and I was sort of pertaining that to an influencer so that aunt would be like a social media influencer who's putting out garbage that we were tired of hearing, like quiet quitting and like the rage, resignations and all these wonderful terms that we've had to put up with the last couple of years. 00:07:42.108 --> 00:07:43.824 I don't think a lot of people. 00:07:43.824 --> 00:07:45.819 Well, I should go back. 00:07:45.819 --> 00:07:46.963 I don't want to believe. 00:07:47.002 --> 00:08:09.709 A lot of people think that this is the norm, but you do have that very small group of people that are super highly influenceable and they think, oh, I need to rage quit, or I need to do this, or this is what's happening to me, whether all this ghosting stuff on the internet people, companies are ghosting you, applicants are ghosting you, and things like that. 00:08:09.709 --> 00:08:24.944 So I just sort of I took it that the vocal minority are these influencers and the silent majority are the rest of the family is like, okay, yeah, go ahead and have another drink, aunt Susie, we know what's going on here and you can say what you're going to say. 00:08:24.944 --> 00:08:29.192 We're just whatever, but a few of them, oh, yeah, yeah, that's, that's absolutely right. 00:08:29.192 --> 00:08:38.028 Anyways, that's that's what I was I took away from the article that like said, I don't know how I ended up down that rabbit hole in the first place to to get there. 00:08:38.028 --> 00:08:45.149 So, yeah, I just I just can't think people are that dumb and gullible as like we see on social media. 00:08:45.169 --> 00:08:48.686 Yeah, they are no Like what it is. 00:08:48.686 --> 00:08:52.419 It's the same stuff we've seen over the past few decades. 00:08:52.419 --> 00:09:00.484 We're just putting a snazzy new label on it and then people get like you know it's all in the marketing, so people buy into it. 00:09:01.186 --> 00:09:01.989 Quiet quitting. 00:09:02.009 --> 00:09:07.559 Yeah, the marketing is everything it's bad to it. 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:08.462 Quiet quitting marketing is that it's? 00:09:08.462 --> 00:09:20.691 It's the same shit that's been going on in the past, or at least in similar economic times, where you kind of see these patterns, but now we just market it so it looks cute on a hashtag yes, that's, that's it. 00:09:20.730 --> 00:09:21.793 Cute on a hashtag? 00:09:21.793 --> 00:09:26.423 That's that's exactly what, because it's all soundbites and it's all like. 00:09:26.423 --> 00:09:34.471 I have several news aggregators and part of the things I aggregate is HR news and I see all these things that come from. 00:09:34.471 --> 00:09:37.113 One thing that's irritating me is I go through these. 00:09:37.113 --> 00:09:38.794 Now I mentioned BuzzFeed. 00:09:38.794 --> 00:09:47.042 Everybody knows they're just god awful, just got awful. 00:09:47.062 --> 00:09:53.946 It's somebody with maybe barely a high school education that found something and wants to write 250 words on something stupid they saw on social media and have no clue what they're talking about most of the time. 00:09:53.946 --> 00:10:04.788 But there's companies like I'll call them out Forbes and Inc and some other companies that used to do really good work and now I'm saying you're just doing this clickbaity stuff. 00:10:04.788 --> 00:10:11.501 That's style over substance and if that's the way you want to take it, it's like is I? 00:10:11.501 --> 00:10:22.342 Before I click on things, generally speaking, I look at the source and if it's not a source, I want to read it from, and a lot of times I'll even block if it keeps coming up as something, for whatever reason. 00:10:22.342 --> 00:10:27.653 I still haven't blocked buzzFeed, but I see these sources and I know what I'm getting into as soon as I see it. 00:10:28.682 --> 00:10:33.613 But, anyway, that was my little thing that happened to me this week. 00:10:34.221 --> 00:10:43.251 I feel like BuzzFeed is the current day National Enquirer, like it's the stuff you read while you're in the bathroom or waiting in a waiting room. 00:10:43.251 --> 00:10:47.700 Like that's what BuzzFeed is, and I just feel like it's kind of a guilty pleasure. 00:10:47.700 --> 00:10:49.164 You know what you're getting. 00:10:49.164 --> 00:10:50.590 Yeah. 00:10:51.580 --> 00:10:57.092 And if you are gullible enough to think that anything they say has any validity. 00:10:57.092 --> 00:11:11.668 Oh, and I'm an HR professional with 27 years of experience and I say this is the secret If an article starts with a HR professional of 25 years says whatever, that instantly says 99.9% chance. 00:11:11.668 --> 00:11:14.974 I'm not clicking unless it's just pure morbid curiosity. 00:11:14.974 --> 00:11:22.370 And when I click it I say I know what I'm getting into and I accept my punishment for doing it. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:30.325 But yeah, I got the secret, and the secret that's going to get you a job interview with Google tomorrow. 00:11:30.325 --> 00:11:31.970 I got the offer tomorrow. 00:11:31.970 --> 00:11:33.956 That's one rabbit hole. 00:11:33.956 --> 00:11:39.178 I went down, but you had a little story to share as well. 00:11:39.980 --> 00:11:40.501 Oh my gosh. 00:11:40.501 --> 00:11:40.842 Okay. 00:11:40.842 --> 00:11:54.686 So I giggle because we're coming up on that time of year where we're going to have a little pop and turnover because people like to stick around, didn't wait for their bonus to come, and then they peace out. 00:11:54.686 --> 00:12:08.582 And I was on a call the other day and someone who was presenting on the call was sharing their screen and as they were sharing their screen, they closed the window and continued the conversation. 00:12:08.582 --> 00:12:10.620 However, they forgot that they were still sharing their screen. 00:12:10.620 --> 00:12:11.003 They closed the window and continued the conversation. 00:12:11.003 --> 00:12:27.409 However, they forgot that they were still sharing their screen and, unbeknownst to them, they shared their most recent documents, which happened to be their resume, which it said right under there thank you, windows 10. 00:12:27.409 --> 00:12:35.856 Like this individual has been edit was editing it earlier this morning, to which I was like, oh my gosh, there's people on this call. 00:12:35.856 --> 00:12:45.221 Like this person's manager was on the call, by the way, but I was like I need a texter, but I don't know people. 00:12:45.221 --> 00:12:46.830 It was just not paying attention. 00:12:46.830 --> 00:12:49.131 Beware when you share your screen. 00:12:49.131 --> 00:12:50.513 Just a friendly PSA. 00:12:51.994 --> 00:13:01.120 Yeah, and I told you and I'm not going to name the university involved in this, but it went viral, on my algorithm at least. 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:12.433 Apparently, a university professor was sharing his screen if it's Canvas, blackboard, whatever they Moodle, whatever they use on it, and you can see all their tabs that they have open. 00:13:12.433 --> 00:13:18.134 So they have these university type tabs, and then one of the tabs they had open in the background was Pornhub. 00:13:18.335 --> 00:13:24.697 It's like, yeah, that that's a fail oh my gosh, you absolutely take a screenshot, by the way. 00:13:24.697 --> 00:13:30.139 That is the correct course of action in that situation screenshot and share. 00:13:30.539 --> 00:13:30.780 Yes. 00:13:31.871 --> 00:13:51.777 I always laugh when people put like their personal bookmarks on their browser and when they share their screen you can kind of see, like what it is they do when they're not working, especially if you're broadcasting to an entire like audience or you're sharing your screen for you know the whole organization Like why are you putting that on there? 00:13:51.777 --> 00:13:54.177 Why are you putting such divisive things on there? 00:13:54.177 --> 00:13:59.682 Why can't you just be a little savvy about what you're putting out there? 00:14:01.909 --> 00:14:07.596 And sometimes I think people do some of these stupid things sort of on purpose for attention. 00:14:07.596 --> 00:14:12.000 I don't know if the Pornhub would be something on purpose for attention. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.648 I don't know if the porn hub would be something you do for attention. 00:14:13.687 --> 00:14:14.129 I don't think. 00:14:14.129 --> 00:14:14.890 I don't think that. 00:14:14.890 --> 00:14:17.073 I think this person just made a mistake. 00:14:19.216 --> 00:14:21.259 Oh, man. 00:14:21.259 --> 00:14:29.235 So yeah, it's, it's crazy, um, but oh, another thing I wanted to share and I don't know if I talked to. 00:14:29.235 --> 00:14:31.158 I don't think we talked about it on the last episodes. 00:14:31.158 --> 00:14:34.660 We were all down the DE executive order rabbit hole. 00:14:34.660 --> 00:14:38.841 I've been speaking for months about my son and his search for an internship. 00:14:38.841 --> 00:14:39.442 Oh, yeah. 00:14:39.811 --> 00:14:42.938 And one company, I'll just say Disney. 00:14:42.938 --> 00:14:44.182 He applied. 00:14:44.182 --> 00:14:53.919 So he applied on Wednesday, january 29th for a position on Disney and they only had it up online for five days and it went down. 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.351 You go to LinkedIn. 00:14:55.351 --> 00:15:00.572 It says no longer available, closed X many days ago, and things like that, and you go to their website. 00:15:00.572 --> 00:15:02.339 It's not there period anymore. 00:15:02.339 --> 00:15:13.220 But he applied on the 29th and then on Friday, the 31st he got a questionnaire to answer and he filled that and turned that in immediately. 00:15:13.220 --> 00:15:19.940 And then, leon February 7th, he got an unmanned video interview where they tell you what the question is. 00:15:19.940 --> 00:15:23.264 Give you 30 seconds to compose yourself, get it, come up with an answer. 00:15:23.264 --> 00:15:25.557 Then it records you making your answer. 00:15:25.557 --> 00:15:27.596 We had one of those interviews. 00:15:27.616 --> 00:15:28.139 I have a pinball. 00:15:30.692 --> 00:15:32.557 Yeah, they're interesting. 00:15:32.557 --> 00:15:49.376 But he had that on the 7th and then, like on the 12th, they sent him an email following up with him and saying, basically, we're going to do a real human I forget what they call it online interview with you using Zoom or whatever the tool is that they use. 00:15:49.376 --> 00:16:00.936 They sent him this 13-page interview guide from Disney what to expect and what to think about and things like that and I was like wow. 00:16:00.936 --> 00:16:01.597 I read through it. 00:16:01.597 --> 00:16:08.379 The only thing that I would say is the links on the PDF they sent him did not work and I found it, the document title. 00:16:08.379 --> 00:16:18.519 I Googled it and I found it on Disney's website itself and still the links didn't work, because it talked about it had an FAQ section you could go, but it was still really cool, really well done. 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:31.201 The interview guide told them about behavioral interview questions and how they want them answered, and it was just like they're giving you a roadmap not to fail the interview. 00:16:31.221 --> 00:16:32.123 I love it. 00:16:33.273 --> 00:16:33.735 I did too. 00:16:33.735 --> 00:16:43.042 I thought it was really the end of February and early March, and they gave them a whole time frame of everything, all the steps from here. 00:16:43.042 --> 00:16:45.649 I was like this is they've been on the ball. 00:16:45.649 --> 00:16:49.269 Oh, and they even told you to start following the people on LinkedIn. 00:16:49.269 --> 00:16:59.501 So he followed the recruiter who he's been in contact with not directly, just only via email, and we cyber stalked the head of the department that this position would be working on. 00:16:59.501 --> 00:17:05.813 But it tells you everybody has a LinkedIn profile, Please research them and all this other stuff. 00:17:05.813 --> 00:17:18.287 I was really impressed, especially for a entry-level position, helping a college kid with not much experience get through, be ready for the interview. 00:17:18.611 --> 00:17:28.567 First of all, I wonder if this is the same thing stuff that they provide like higher level roles, or if this is just part of their like internship it's geared more toward entry level. 00:17:28.567 --> 00:17:32.758 Yeah, yeah, like I'm thinking that that's just cool. 00:17:32.758 --> 00:17:39.445 I think that's such a good service to put people who are doing that entry-level role they don't people don't know. 00:17:39.445 --> 00:17:46.109 This is awesome, that they're basically giving you the roadmap to success and I. 00:17:46.250 --> 00:17:51.251 I downloaded a bunch of behavioral-based interview questions and I started quizzing my son. 00:17:51.251 --> 00:17:57.674 And they even give you, they want you to use the STAR method I think that's what it's called to answer the questions. 00:17:57.674 --> 00:18:23.596 Yeah, and so I quizzed him in some of the most common entry-level interview questions for behavioral interview questions and I would help them work through going through the STAR method and I said let's get five or 10 of these down so that you know if the question's not exactly the same, you can manipulate it into how it's going to be close enough, because you don't have any real in-depth experience that they can drive into. 00:18:23.596 --> 00:18:27.454 But I said if they ask you about school stuff, you've got that, that's what you're doing. 00:18:27.454 --> 00:18:32.054 So I'm looking forward to hearing how the interview stage goes for him. 00:18:32.054 --> 00:18:42.230 But I can only imagine he's moved pretty far along because to apply do the questionnaire I'm sure everybody submitted a resume, got a questionnaire and the questionnaire weeded some people out. 00:18:42.305 --> 00:18:44.730 That little video interview weeded some people out. 00:18:44.730 --> 00:18:47.275 So I got a feeling that there's not a long list. 00:18:47.275 --> 00:18:49.118 But oh, and they said you must. 00:18:49.118 --> 00:18:50.541 They'd say must. 00:18:50.541 --> 00:18:56.076 It was like super highly encouraged to have questions to ask your interviewees. 00:18:56.076 --> 00:19:00.508 So we thought of about 10 questions and he's like why do we need 10? 00:19:00.508 --> 00:19:06.532 I said they may answer some of these questions during the course of the interview and you're not going to ask the question that they just answered. 00:19:06.532 --> 00:19:07.895 It looks like you're not paying attention. 00:19:07.895 --> 00:19:08.356 You're not ready. 00:19:08.846 --> 00:19:18.184 So, I said just have it on your piece of paper and if they say something that we came up with just during the course of the conversation, scratch through it and move on to the next slide. 00:19:18.184 --> 00:19:21.847 Between he and I, we came up with some really unique questions. 00:19:21.847 --> 00:19:26.832 I told him you don't want to Google this, you don't want to chat GBT questions, ask interviewers. 00:19:26.832 --> 00:19:31.894 You're going to get something really stupid that the interviewers heard a billion times and they don't want to hear it again. 00:19:31.894 --> 00:19:36.378 So I said let's use our minds and come up with some questions of our own. 00:19:36.378 --> 00:19:39.361 And yeah, I think we came up with a nice list. 00:19:39.361 --> 00:19:40.701 So I'm really excited. 00:19:40.701 --> 00:19:41.903 Hopefully this will go well. 00:19:41.903 --> 00:19:53.826 This will be a dream for him. 00:19:53.846 --> 00:19:56.193 I think I've mentioned before he's obsessed with roller coasters and theme parks and to work at one. 00:19:56.193 --> 00:19:57.798 For, oh, this is a six-month internship too, it's not just a summer internship. 00:19:57.798 --> 00:19:59.103 So, yeah, we're hopeful, but we're still applying. 00:19:59.103 --> 00:20:02.454 We're still chugging along and discussing it every day. 00:20:02.454 --> 00:20:03.820 I'm probably overly involved. 00:20:03.820 --> 00:20:10.877 I don't want to be a helicopter parent or something like that, but I think he does get the gist that I've been in HR and I've recruited. 00:20:10.877 --> 00:20:12.888 I've spent many years. 00:20:12.888 --> 00:20:16.665 When he was very young, I was a college recruiter and I did this and worked with it. 00:20:16.665 --> 00:20:19.692 So I think he can appreciate my help. 00:20:19.692 --> 00:20:23.327 At least he's pretending, at least to me, that he appreciates my help. 00:20:23.729 --> 00:20:24.671 Oh, that's everything. 00:20:24.691 --> 00:20:32.248 Yeah, so yeah, that's what's going on in our little neck of the world, other than we're. 00:20:32.248 --> 00:20:45.557 I don't know if I mentioned this earlier because of our technical difficulties, but depending on which app and weather station you watch, we're going to get at least 10 inches of snow in the next couple of days, maybe two to three feet, nobody knows. 00:20:45.557 --> 00:20:47.632 There's someone on Facebook that posted something. 00:20:47.632 --> 00:20:48.910 I don't know if it's real or not. 00:20:48.910 --> 00:20:51.374 Of course it's Facebook, so it's got to be real. 00:20:51.374 --> 00:20:57.894 But someone was calling for 40 inches of snow here and I'm like geez, louise, it's crazy. 00:20:58.086 --> 00:21:01.895 And if you are an employer, don't make your people come to work. 00:21:03.506 --> 00:21:12.529 Yeah, yeah, my boss sent out an email saying it's not supposed to start till midday tomorrow. 00:21:12.529 --> 00:21:17.527 And she sent out an email just don't come to work and be safe and take your computers home. 00:21:17.527 --> 00:21:18.450 And yada, yada, yada. 00:21:18.450 --> 00:21:24.848 And when I was leaving tonight I told her yeah, it was like I'll see you when I see you, because I'm not coming tomorrow. 00:21:24.848 --> 00:21:26.090 I'm probably not coming Thursday. 00:21:26.090 --> 00:21:30.538 Friday is up in the air, depending on everything, how things look. 00:21:30.538 --> 00:21:34.435 But yeah, she's like, yeah, just if you can make it on Friday, make it. 00:21:34.435 --> 00:21:36.192 She's like I'm not expecting you Thursday either. 00:21:36.192 --> 00:21:41.374 She knows I have an hour and a half one-way commute and she was really cool about that. 00:21:41.374 --> 00:22:05.080 Oh, story Not related to HR at all. 00:22:05.121 --> 00:22:11.413 She was actually scheduled to come in tomorrow, but I know the airport's going to be closed down here in the South. 00:22:11.413 --> 00:22:13.518 They don't prepare everything. 00:22:13.518 --> 00:22:18.796 So on Sunday I called the airline and I got a customer service agent. 00:22:18.796 --> 00:22:29.273 Well, first I tried to make the change online myself, but they wanted like a $400 change fee and I said look, there's a winter storm coming and I think this will make it easier for you. 00:22:29.273 --> 00:22:33.653 You have to deal with one less person on Wednesday and we don't have any headaches. 00:22:33.653 --> 00:22:40.232 And the customer service person was sticking to the book and said, well, we can't, unless there's a winter storm warning in effect. 00:22:40.232 --> 00:22:42.794 We won't make those changes without the fee. 00:22:42.794 --> 00:22:48.135 And I was like, oh okay, well, I figured Sunday or no Monday. 00:22:48.135 --> 00:22:48.657 That was Sunday. 00:22:54.045 --> 00:22:59.986 Monday I called again, got a different customer service agent and she started going down the same list oh, I see there's not a winter storm warning in effect for the destination yet, so we can't do anything. 00:22:59.986 --> 00:23:07.230 I said, oh really, I don't want her to be stuck in Baltimore, for who knows how long is that's where her layout is. 00:23:07.230 --> 00:23:13.796 It would have flown her from Utah to Baltimore, no problem, but getting from Baltimore home would have been the problem and she'd be stuck there. 00:23:13.796 --> 00:23:16.694 And I said I really would like to see if there's anything that can be done. 00:23:16.694 --> 00:23:18.171 And she said hold on one sec. 00:23:18.171 --> 00:23:28.140 And so she Googled the weather for Norfolk, virginia, and she goes oh my God, and it was saying like 18 inches of snow on Wednesday. 00:23:28.140 --> 00:23:29.948 She goes oh no, I'm changing this. 00:23:29.948 --> 00:23:30.489 No fees. 00:23:31.230 --> 00:23:32.333 And it just took. 00:23:32.333 --> 00:23:39.788 Someone did OK, there's no winter storm advisory, which the policy probably says is two people said it to make the change without a fee. 00:23:39.788 --> 00:23:46.695 But this lady, she took it on herself to Google the weather for Norfolk, virginia, and it says 18 inches of snow on Wednesday. 00:23:46.695 --> 00:23:53.182 She goes oh no, oh no, I'm changing this for you and I mean it made us very happy. 00:23:53.182 --> 00:23:58.576 Obviously it didn't take anything off of her nose and we're happy to continue. 00:23:58.576 --> 00:24:01.030 It's Southwest Airlines. 00:24:01.030 --> 00:24:04.244 I'll say if I do book generally, I like booking with them. 00:24:04.244 --> 00:24:11.815 You have your Frontier and your Spirit, the discount airlines, but by the time you pay the baggage fees and this and that and the other thing. 00:24:12.316 --> 00:24:13.417 it comes out the same day. 00:24:13.417 --> 00:24:19.058 Trap you with that low oh, fly to Utah for $99. 00:24:19.058 --> 00:24:21.334 Well, oh, but each bag is $50. 00:24:21.334 --> 00:24:26.165 And they charge you for carry-ons too $25 for carry-ons With Southwest, you get two checked bags. 00:24:26.165 --> 00:24:28.847 Anyways, that's my little unpaid advertisement. 00:24:28.847 --> 00:24:32.009 But if you want to pay us Southwest I will gladly take your money. 00:24:32.009 --> 00:24:38.775 But of our little experience I was just thinking that's the type of employee I want to have as the second plane. 00:24:38.775 --> 00:24:40.036 You know the first one. 00:24:40.036 --> 00:24:42.958 Yeah, they were doing their job, they were following the procedure. 00:24:42.958 --> 00:24:44.999 But it took the second lady. 00:24:44.999 --> 00:24:46.859 Just, she said, oh, hold on two seconds. 00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:49.602 She Googled the weather and said, oh, no, we're changing this. 00:24:49.721 --> 00:24:49.962 Yeah. 00:24:50.564 --> 00:24:56.018 And now they have one less person to put up in a hotel in Baltimore tomorrow or wherever it is. 00:24:56.404 --> 00:24:58.868 Listen, I'm all for a solid, but today's flight was an adventure of its own. 00:24:58.868 --> 00:25:02.490 Yeah, exactly, I'm glad she's back home safe. 00:25:03.204 --> 00:25:03.685 Yeah, yeah. 00:25:03.786 --> 00:25:20.404 I can appreciate a standard operating procedure, but I also appreciate that layered with some common sense of the situation, exactly, You're not always going to be able to bend the rules, but I'm not asking for anything special. 00:25:21.866 --> 00:25:25.310 The change fee when I went online to try and do it myself was like $400. 00:25:25.310 --> 00:25:28.414 Yeah, the change fee when I went online to try and do it myself was like $400 a change. 00:25:28.414 --> 00:25:32.219 I was like I've spent enough money recently that I don't want to take on a $400 change fee. 00:25:32.219 --> 00:25:37.270 But yeah, shout out, it was a good experience. 00:25:37.270 --> 00:25:38.153 They made it happen. 00:25:38.153 --> 00:25:44.886 Unfortunately, Today, when she did fly back today was my daughter's day off. 00:25:44.886 --> 00:25:49.108 They had some plans to go out to this that the other day, shopping essentially but they didn't get to do that. 00:25:49.108 --> 00:25:52.190 So, anyways, they had two weeks together, still Nice. 00:25:52.190 --> 00:25:56.432 So, yeah, Anything else fun going on in your village? 00:25:56.492 --> 00:26:01.595 No, you know, we ended performance management just to begin it all over again. 00:26:01.595 --> 00:26:05.136 So that's where we are right now, with work, that goal setting happening. 00:26:05.136 --> 00:26:07.458 But other than that, life's quiet. 00:26:07.458 --> 00:26:11.279 This is a week where nobody is sick, which is magical. 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:14.061 My voice is still cracking. 00:26:14.061 --> 00:26:15.021 I had strep. 00:26:15.321 --> 00:26:28.567 Oh, I don't think we talked, I had the best birthday of my life, because I got strep throat on my 40th birthday. 00:26:28.567 --> 00:26:36.954 So I had like we had these plans we were going to go out, we were going to meet friends for dinner, we were going to go to a bar, the baby was going to stay at my parents house, like all this stuff. 00:26:36.954 --> 00:26:41.518 And like the Thursday before I'm like, oh, I'm sick. 00:26:41.518 --> 00:26:44.401 And then I went to the doctor and he's like you got strep. 00:26:44.401 --> 00:26:46.682 I don't ever get strep throat. 00:26:51.984 --> 00:26:53.948 My strep throat was worse than COVID that I got a few weeks earlier. 00:26:53.968 --> 00:26:57.153 Yeah Well, you've knocked all the illnesses out for 2025 already. 00:26:57.273 --> 00:27:06.359 I don't know man, Tuberculosis is out there and measles is out there, so hey, there's still a chance. 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:10.250 Oh gosh, it's okay, I've been vaccinated yeah yeah. 00:27:10.892 --> 00:27:11.815 No, and the bird flu. 00:27:11.815 --> 00:27:12.696 Don't forget the bird flu. 00:27:12.696 --> 00:27:18.163 I could always get the bird flu. 00:27:18.163 --> 00:27:19.451 There are $9 eggs in some places. 00:27:19.451 --> 00:27:21.884 They're saying I haven't bought eggs but $9 a dozen for eggs. 00:27:23.107 --> 00:27:28.645 So eggs are kind of a big thing in our house, like we eat eggs almost every morning. 00:27:28.645 --> 00:27:39.979 The baby's eating and I guess that's our luxury now is egg I don't know you might go get eggs or starbucks honestly, it's probably this. 00:27:39.979 --> 00:27:47.296 Actually, I think the eggs are more expensive uh, well, I mentioned the snow. 00:27:47.455 --> 00:27:49.420 I did make the mistake. 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:52.067 I told my wife I'd go to the grocery store and pick up some things. 00:27:52.067 --> 00:27:59.652 I told her I'd do it Monday while I was out and about, as I did run a couple errands Monday and I forgot to get them. 00:27:59.652 --> 00:28:08.637 So I went to the grocery store today, the day before snowstorm, and I got what I needed and it was a zoo. 00:28:08.637 --> 00:28:20.816 It was an absolute zoo there and I was just like if I, and then, like two of the self checkout registers didn't work, they only had two cashiers working with lines out the union everywhere. 00:28:20.816 --> 00:28:23.094 That was not. 00:28:23.094 --> 00:28:24.289 That is not a good thing. 00:28:24.410 --> 00:28:39.576 Honestly, could you imagine managing that situation, like people call out you're understaffed, machines are down and everyone's in there for milk and bread, that is a nightmare situation that I don't wish on anyone. 00:28:40.885 --> 00:28:42.873 No, no, I do not either. 00:28:42.873 --> 00:28:46.234 I think that most of the people in the store were behaving themselves. 00:28:46.234 --> 00:28:48.893 I was getting a little grumpy at the lines. 00:28:48.893 --> 00:28:58.616 I was thinking, if you don't have that many cashiers, you have lines and you don't have all your self-checkouts working, you should get like 5% off for each self-checkout. 00:28:58.616 --> 00:29:00.211 That's not either working or open. 00:29:00.211 --> 00:29:08.990 Don't get me started on Walmart, my least favorite place on earth, when they have 30 self-checkout registers and only six of them are open and they don't care. 00:29:08.990 --> 00:29:12.294 Just yeah, we don't have the staff. 00:29:12.294 --> 00:29:14.710 You don't have staff for self-checkout. 00:29:14.710 --> 00:29:18.560 Anyways, that's my loathe for Walmart as a whole. 00:29:18.560 --> 00:29:18.884 Different story. 00:29:18.884 --> 00:29:21.352 Well wait, I thought the robots were supposed to take the jobs. 00:29:22.615 --> 00:29:23.356 Yeah, yeah. 00:29:23.356 --> 00:29:25.732 Why don't they please take those jobs? 00:29:27.705 --> 00:29:29.511 The robots are calling out this is where we are. 00:29:29.511 --> 00:29:30.474 Ai has totally come full circle. 00:29:30.494 --> 00:29:30.776 There we go. 00:29:30.776 --> 00:29:43.314 Oh yeah, the robots have become sentient and they're having an emotional day and they need to take a personal they're unionizing, they're sick outing, uh. 00:29:43.354 --> 00:29:46.980 So yeah, we'll land the plane right there. 00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:55.779 Please join us next week for our very special Diversity Day episode of our rewatch of the Office. 00:29:55.779 --> 00:29:57.792 So it's going to be a lot of fun. 00:29:57.792 --> 00:30:04.164 So be sure to check it out, share, give us any ideas you have for other shows to make an HR tie into. 00:30:04.164 --> 00:30:13.157 So, with all that wonderful, the fun stuff said, I want to thank Andrew Coppa, the voice artist, for the introduction and the intro. 00:30:13.157 --> 00:30:19.471 Outro music is the underscore, orchestra with the song the Devil, the Devil, and, as always, I'm Warren. 00:30:19.571 --> 00:30:20.213 I'm Cece. 00:30:21.630 --> 00:30:24.009 And we're here helping you survive HR one. 00:30:24.009 --> 00:30:25.695 What the fuck moment at a time. 00:30:37.468 --> 00:30:37.868 Yeah.