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 --> 00:00:28.861 Welcome to our little safe zone. 00:00:28.861 --> 00:00:38.426 Welcome to Jaded HR. 00:00:46.451 --> 00:00:53.456 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. 00:00:53.456 --> 00:00:55.917 I'm Warren and I'm Patrick. 00:00:55.917 --> 00:01:11.129 Yes, for a few weeks now we've been teasing a super special episode this episode and just like anything else that you try and plan so hard, you plan all you want and then God laughs in your face. 00:01:11.129 --> 00:01:18.429 So unfortunately, cece's under the weather and has actually lost her voice, so that does not make for good podcasting. 00:01:18.429 --> 00:01:30.093 The goal was to have all four of us me, patrick, feathers and CeCe all together and just rehash the last five years of jaded HR. 00:01:30.093 --> 00:01:32.623 And that has you know. 00:01:32.623 --> 00:01:35.111 Like I said, make a plan and God laughs in your face. 00:01:35.959 --> 00:01:37.025 And now you're just disappointed. 00:01:37.025 --> 00:01:38.986 You're stuck with just a little old me. 00:01:38.986 --> 00:01:39.828 Oh no, no. 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:46.933 I'm looking forward to this because, you know, go back to the OG of the first days. 00:01:46.933 --> 00:01:51.629 Yeah, I remember bringing up the idea of wanting to do a podcast. 00:01:53.102 --> 00:01:56.370 I remember we had lunch at Mission, barbecue and hashed out some ideas. 00:01:56.549 --> 00:01:59.126 Yeah, yeah, it was a lot of fun. 00:01:59.126 --> 00:02:00.763 And you know we got. 00:02:00.763 --> 00:02:05.033 You know COVID hadn't quite when we planned it all out, covid hadn't happened. 00:02:05.033 --> 00:02:09.139 And you know that's when everybody and their brother started launching podcasts. 00:02:09.139 --> 00:02:10.782 It was during COVID. 00:02:10.782 --> 00:02:21.149 But we went in and we planned, and we planned and we planned and we recorded a bunch of episodes beforehand and we figured out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it. 00:02:22.663 --> 00:02:24.670 And then Phil didn't catch that, covid wait. 00:02:25.401 --> 00:02:28.210 No, we didn't catch the COVID weight, but it was a lot of fun. 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:34.133 And listening to some of those COVID episodes and earlier episodes it's really interesting. 00:02:34.133 --> 00:02:36.504 You know you use the term in one of them, it. 00:02:36.504 --> 00:02:41.348 You know some of our ideas age like milk and it's very, very true. 00:02:41.348 --> 00:02:48.174 And thinking of some things, I remember one of our first maybe 10 episodes or something like that. 00:02:48.174 --> 00:02:54.150 That's when the Crown Act got passed and I was so like why the fuck do you need a Crown Act? 00:02:54.150 --> 00:02:58.512 Nobody discriminates on hair or, in my case, lack of it or anything like that. 00:02:58.512 --> 00:03:00.199 And it wasn't a few months later. 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:05.889 And then you have a court case and I'm like how stupid can people be? 00:03:05.889 --> 00:03:16.032 And you know, I just maybe I don't know, maybe I'm just living in a too ideal of a world being a jaded podcast like what. 00:03:16.032 --> 00:03:17.181 We don't need a crown act. 00:03:17.181 --> 00:03:23.010 That's stupid and proved me wrong has. 00:03:23.031 --> 00:03:25.995 The whole premise of the podcast is that even how did that age? 00:03:25.995 --> 00:03:27.667 Do you feel after five years? 00:03:27.667 --> 00:03:29.282 The premise. 00:03:29.623 --> 00:03:35.766 You know I don't think I've been as jaded the last two or three, especially the last year. 00:03:35.766 --> 00:03:41.927 You know CC and I come and everyone's all this isn't going to be that jaded of an episode or anything like that. 00:03:41.927 --> 00:03:43.224 But stay tuned, fans. 00:03:43.224 --> 00:03:51.270 I've got a real jaded episode coming up soon and yes, I still have not launched the Office rewatch episode yet. 00:03:51.270 --> 00:03:54.590 Yeah, I'll get to that, it's coming soon. 00:03:56.201 --> 00:04:09.807 We've been promising, you know we just started if you haven't listened, patrick, we've started going through the Office podcast or the Office episode by episode and breaking it down on hr standpoint and funny points and things like that. 00:04:09.807 --> 00:04:10.790 And the. 00:04:10.790 --> 00:04:20.704 The one we we recorded and we had some technical difficulties and that's what's taken so long was diversity day, which is one of the best episodes. 00:04:20.704 --> 00:04:23.908 But we, you know we talked about it. 00:04:23.908 --> 00:04:28.521 You, they, nbc no, no major network's going to touch half the shit. 00:04:28.521 --> 00:04:28.923 They did. 00:04:28.923 --> 00:04:36.408 You know 20, you know 20 years ago when those episodes came out and but now you know some of the. 00:04:36.408 --> 00:04:38.516 You know the diversity day is a perfect example. 00:04:38.516 --> 00:04:47.904 Harassment is another perfect example, I mean, of things that they couldn't make it through the sensors for network television any longer. 00:04:47.904 --> 00:05:01.779 But yeah, that episode it's coming, just like Christmas it's coming, I will sit down and devote some time to actually edit, because we got disconnected, I think twice, if not three times, and the audio didn't sync up right. 00:05:01.779 --> 00:05:06.833 It's going to take me parsing and cutting and snipping and sliding it back together. 00:05:07.459 --> 00:05:16.422 I don't miss those days of learning your intricate so I knew what signal something to look for in each of the With AI. 00:05:16.482 --> 00:05:19.290 Now I edit almost all of them out with a click of a button. 00:05:19.290 --> 00:05:21.427 It's just all the elements. 00:05:21.427 --> 00:05:24.860 But here's something I have resolved for future podcasts. 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:48.334 I have it written down on sticky right here at the end of my monitor talk slower, because sometimes when I'm getting into something, I start getting really excited and that's when all the ums and the categorical talking happens and I need to just slow down, think about what I'm saying and talk like a real adult human being rather than a six-year-old who is on a sugar high. 00:05:48.334 --> 00:05:53.853 Because even listening back to some of the episodes, I was like wow, I'm just out there. 00:05:54.942 --> 00:05:55.545 We all do that. 00:05:55.545 --> 00:06:01.184 I talk incredibly fast most of the time I've mentioned before. 00:06:01.305 --> 00:06:02.168 I fast cast. 00:06:02.168 --> 00:06:04.728 My minimum speed is around 1.8. 00:06:04.728 --> 00:06:13.175 I'm in college and I'm taking classes online and I can speed the video. 00:06:13.175 --> 00:06:17.011 Now you only get 1 or you get like 0.5. 00:06:17.011 --> 00:06:19.869 They're in half marker so I can't do 2. 00:06:19.869 --> 00:06:27.706 But I could do 1.5 for most of my classes and if I need to back it up, I back it up and relisten, but I can't listen to anything at one. 00:06:27.706 --> 00:06:28.588 X, I, I, I. 00:06:28.588 --> 00:06:37.132 It just drives me insane and I think nobody talks that slow as I'm listening to. 00:06:37.132 --> 00:06:49.028 If I, if I do have to turn it off, turn off the speed, like I don't know, there's some podcasts out there bad, I have to turn it off and turn off the speed, like I don't know, but there's some podcasts out there bad audio, and that I do listen to and things like that. 00:06:49.028 --> 00:06:50.730 So yeah, I've never fast. 00:06:50.930 --> 00:06:51.692 I've never fast. 00:06:51.692 --> 00:06:52.411 What do you call it? 00:06:52.473 --> 00:06:53.273 Speed, fast cast. 00:06:53.894 --> 00:06:55.776 Never fast cast today Podcast. 00:06:56.196 --> 00:06:57.158 Well, or anything. 00:06:57.158 --> 00:07:03.184 One of the one of the one of the podcasts you got me into which I'm not listening to anymore is my brother, my brother, me. 00:07:03.184 --> 00:07:06.548 Now, I could not do them any more than like 1.5, is they? 00:07:06.987 --> 00:07:09.711 they talk really quick they talk very fast, especially when. 00:07:09.711 --> 00:07:17.389 That's why, if me and my brother did a podcast, it would be probably unlistenable because we talk so fast to each other and sound very much alike. 00:07:17.389 --> 00:07:19.999 So yeah, you do sound alike yes, you're very bad. 00:07:20.098 --> 00:07:22.764 Yeah, man, so it's been. 00:07:22.764 --> 00:07:28.014 We're just talking a while off air that it's been almost a year since you were on last. 00:07:28.014 --> 00:07:39.050 You came on for a fourth anniversary and then you also pinch hit a couple of times for Cece when she was on maternity leave Our very generous non-paid maternity leave at Jaden. 00:07:39.190 --> 00:07:39.432 HR. 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.168 What anything fun going on in your world that you want to share. 00:07:43.208 --> 00:07:50.572 For the last almost year, it's funny, my role has been slowly evolving away from HR more and more. 00:07:50.572 --> 00:07:54.029 I'm so much more on the IT side of things, so I'm just trying to figure out. 00:07:54.029 --> 00:07:57.711 I mean, it's like man, am I even able, qualified, to do an HR podcast at this point? 00:07:57.711 --> 00:08:05.031 Well, I was going to say I do think I am, because I'm still in the HR department. 00:08:05.031 --> 00:08:09.682 I'm still in the HR department, I'm still, like, very involved in. 00:08:09.682 --> 00:08:10.904 Well, let's see what your, what was your? 00:08:11.165 --> 00:08:12.005 Oh, I was just going to. 00:08:12.005 --> 00:08:17.853 You know, my company just stole one of your company's employees and I met him for a little while. 00:08:17.853 --> 00:08:19.896 He started Monday, it's only Tuesday today. 00:08:19.896 --> 00:08:22.641 Talk to him a little bit again today. 00:08:22.641 --> 00:08:31.129 I think so far I've got really high expectations, really high hopes for him and he had a nice thing to say about you, but he did say you're a ghost and they aren't allowed to touch. 00:08:31.129 --> 00:08:33.808 They aren't allowed to touch the computer that's on your desk. 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:43.428 Yeah, I went in for the first time into the office I'm still very fortunate that remote has not been taken from me and to get a new computer for here and all that fun stuff but we were talking about. 00:08:43.428 --> 00:08:47.567 I know you guys have touched like AI a few times, but that was something you know. 00:08:47.567 --> 00:08:51.889 We didn't really have a whole lot of topics today besides just kind of shooting around a little bit. 00:08:51.889 --> 00:08:58.389 But we're starting to do some things where it's like man I'm, you know my role in HR is disappearing. 00:08:58.389 --> 00:09:14.373 And then I'm like you know we're creating these like HR chatbots, faculty manual and all these different like faqs and things, so that really like yeah, hoping that it it gets rid of some of these questions. 00:09:14.373 --> 00:09:30.113 But you know, as the like it hr side of me is has evolved, it's like I'm also kind of almost putting myself out of a job here eventually because I'm really all these things are evolving to the point where it's doing it's freeing up a lot of my time, but it I don't want it to free up too much. 00:09:38.585 --> 00:09:41.899 Well, no, I you know, I don't know exactly what you're doing, but I think AI will continue to evolve and it's going to continue to need your support. 00:09:41.899 --> 00:09:53.801 You know I've quoted any number of times Tim Sackett, who, by the way, a few episodes ago, maybe three or four, I was listening to podcasts, that I was listing podcasts that are on my list that I haven't taken off, that gone away. 00:09:53.801 --> 00:09:55.532 Well, hr Famous is back. 00:09:55.532 --> 00:09:59.205 It ended up in my feed a few weeks ago and I've been listening to it again. 00:09:59.205 --> 00:10:02.111 But anyways, going back to Tim Sackett, I always quote him. 00:10:02.111 --> 00:10:03.976 You're not going to lose your job to AI. 00:10:03.976 --> 00:10:18.498 You're going to lose your job to someone who knows how to use AI, knows how to use AI and you and your position is probably in a very key, critical role that you have the IT knowledge and IT's just. 00:10:18.498 --> 00:10:20.283 I mean AI is just going to continue to evolve. 00:10:20.283 --> 00:10:23.826 I mean, just think of how far it's come in. 00:10:24.767 --> 00:10:39.056 Even the last year, I used and I don't have any examples here I used and I don't have any examples here I used AI to make some beer labels for my homebrew and the graphics, the images were good, but all the words were all jacked up. 00:10:39.056 --> 00:10:48.020 Yeah, it put in not even characters in there that were supposed to look like letters and things, Even when I told it to say specifically write this and it couldn't. 00:10:48.020 --> 00:10:51.822 Now you can say, oh, I want it to say this and it does. 00:10:51.822 --> 00:11:02.072 That's just been in the past few months and it's come so far and it's only going to continue to evolve. 00:11:02.072 --> 00:11:02.573 But I love that idea. 00:11:02.573 --> 00:11:08.630 I know we use the same HRS system, so or you have the higher version of it than we do, but Well, I will say it doesn't. 00:11:08.751 --> 00:11:12.313 It doesn't integrate great, but we're finding ways to stick it in. 00:11:13.341 --> 00:11:15.745 I really want to do that, especially. 00:11:15.745 --> 00:11:29.793 We just launched yesterday, monday, our annual training for all of our employees, and people don't go into the HRS, they go in for annual training, they go in for reviews and they go in for Open enrollment. 00:11:29.793 --> 00:11:31.750 Oh no, we don't use it for open enrollment. 00:11:31.750 --> 00:11:32.451 I want to. 00:11:32.653 --> 00:11:33.335 What's the third thing? 00:11:33.335 --> 00:11:40.904 Anyways, there's a third thing which I can't think of right now that they go in for once, so, but nobody remembers their password. 00:11:40.904 --> 00:11:45.307 So it's been, and even though there's a link at the bottom, oh, forgot your password. 00:11:45.307 --> 00:11:52.792 And in the email I said if you forget your password, please use the forgot your password before you hit the fifth try. 00:11:52.792 --> 00:11:54.952 So you know, I'm locked out. 00:11:54.952 --> 00:11:55.633 I'm locked out. 00:11:56.333 --> 00:12:04.597 One of the best things that we did was go to single sign-on, so people used to use their Microsoft Azure login for the. 00:12:04.597 --> 00:12:12.903 Hrs and yeah, so it's like the same thing that they use for their, you know, workstation and Outlook and Teams, they can use for our HR portal. 00:12:15.025 --> 00:12:16.370 And it's beautiful. 00:12:16.370 --> 00:12:21.715 I wish we'd go in that direction, though I'd still have people like I'm locked out, I can't get in, yeah. 00:12:22.245 --> 00:12:25.585 See, we have that now, but now HR doesn't have to deal with it, it can deal with it. 00:12:25.585 --> 00:12:28.828 It can deal with it Because it's now an IT problem. 00:12:29.551 --> 00:12:30.072 Oh man. 00:12:30.072 --> 00:12:33.639 So yeah, I really would love something like that. 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:50.359 And in terms of HR technology, I really I'm excited, you know, once again, not being so jaded we were talking off there, We'll get to that later but I'm really excited where HR technology is going and what's going to come around the corner, what's going to happen next. 00:12:50.359 --> 00:13:05.413 And I think AI is going to play a critical role, and I know all all the haters out there think oh, ai is screening out resumes and discriminating against me and all this other stuff, I'm like no it's it, it really isn't you. 00:13:05.553 --> 00:13:10.528 You have a sucky resume, but yeah you have a sucky resume, you're applying for the wrong jobs. 00:13:10.528 --> 00:13:13.336 You're, you're, you're not qualified for the ones. 00:13:13.336 --> 00:13:21.162 You these people you see on reddit I've submitted over a thousand applications and okay, yeah, you submitted a thousand applications. 00:13:21.162 --> 00:13:22.868 I'm I'm very sure of it. 00:13:22.868 --> 00:13:25.275 So you know, or what are you applying to? 00:13:25.275 --> 00:13:25.697 That you're? 00:13:25.697 --> 00:13:26.500 Are you? 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:30.048 You know, are you coming out mcdonald's and you want to be a brain surgeon or something? 00:13:30.048 --> 00:13:33.993 It's not going to happen like that. 00:13:33.993 --> 00:13:52.684 So social media is the devil and I've done a very good job of staying away from it lately thing. 00:13:52.705 --> 00:13:53.726 It's also from a, from a potentially taking job away. 00:13:53.726 --> 00:14:08.062 I mean, ai is also now like guiding through step-by-step processes, so like there are our expense tool we use, which I'm also now like the administrator for our expensive travel system because, reasons I still don't know. 00:14:08.062 --> 00:14:11.152 But I mean, yeah, there's like a whole new ai thing that will. 00:14:11.152 --> 00:14:15.852 Oh, I see you've entered in two receipts for this expense report. 00:14:15.852 --> 00:14:19.429 You only need one and, by the way, you're over by your per diem by two. 00:14:19.450 --> 00:14:25.308 You know like, looks at all these different roles and sees what the employee is doing and, like, guides them through. 00:14:25.308 --> 00:14:31.889 Yeah it's, uh, it's, it's pretty, it's a cool front to be on right now and I've always loved the. 00:14:31.889 --> 00:14:36.759 I've always liked the aspect of HR when I was in the office because you get a lot of stories. 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:39.991 That part of it is fun, but I hated the actual HR work of it. 00:14:39.991 --> 00:14:49.995 I don't like the dealing with people, but I love these implementations and integrating the different systems that a company has and making them work. 00:14:49.995 --> 00:14:54.321 That part is very appealing and continues to be a fun challenge. 00:14:54.321 --> 00:15:10.133 But still, being remote, the HR part of it is not as enjoyable because I'm not in the office to hear all of the fun stories and things like that, and that definitely is probably one of the biggest downsides of the remote life. 00:15:10.133 --> 00:15:14.311 I see a bunch of Teams messages come by and like, oh, what was that about? 00:15:14.311 --> 00:15:16.566 I'll like ask our director, like, hey, what did I miss? 00:15:16.566 --> 00:15:19.091 And it's not as fun to get filled in after the fact. 00:15:19.331 --> 00:15:27.013 So now, I never thought that I would like working in a a cubicle environment like we did. 00:15:27.013 --> 00:15:35.336 I I'd never worked in that type of environment, even my first, I don't know five years at the company we worked at together. 00:15:35.336 --> 00:15:54.135 I had my own office or I was sequestered away someplace else and then we got cubes and I really thought I was going to hate it, but I didn't, and part of it's the team we had but listening in and messing with each other and just I don't know it was. 00:15:54.135 --> 00:16:11.442 It was so much fun in hearing what is what you're dealing with, what I'm dealing with, what other people are dealing with and, and you know, commiserating with them or getting a laugh out of it, or something like that the claps after you know you're on the phone for an hour and 30 minutes with one employee and you finally hang up, you know. 00:16:13.438 --> 00:16:16.916 Yeah, exactly those. 00:16:16.916 --> 00:16:22.244 Those are the fun things that are hanging a superman from somebody above somebody's desk and then the VP of HR walks in while we're doing that. 00:16:22.244 --> 00:16:27.885 It was like, oh hi, she didn't bat an eye like just another day in our HR department. 00:16:28.455 --> 00:16:28.957 I do still have. 00:16:28.957 --> 00:16:29.981 I still have a Superman. 00:16:29.981 --> 00:16:32.081 I still have the grass squirrels. 00:16:32.081 --> 00:16:34.255 Okay, I think those were yours. 00:16:34.255 --> 00:16:39.802 I don't remember what the story was with the squirrels, but I still have a lot of these things, the squirrels were mine. 00:16:40.022 --> 00:16:49.591 Desiree got them for me because I was a squirrel and ADD to the extreme, and I left them behind as a memento Keepsake. 00:16:49.591 --> 00:16:55.097 And now, of our team, you're the only one left. 00:16:55.118 --> 00:16:59.849 I start to look at my overall HR career, not just at my current company but at previous companies. 00:16:59.849 --> 00:17:07.699 I'm like man, I tend to hang around and I see a lot of HR teams turn over around me and I kind of start to look inward. 00:17:07.699 --> 00:17:09.144 Am I the problem? 00:17:09.726 --> 00:17:09.826 No. 00:17:10.474 --> 00:17:11.496 Which I know is not the case. 00:17:11.936 --> 00:17:12.596 It is funny. 00:17:13.397 --> 00:17:17.741 I've seen a lot of HR teams come and go at the last two places I've been at, so it's kind of funny. 00:17:17.962 --> 00:17:20.986 Yeah, unfortunately, most of us all left at the same time. 00:17:20.986 --> 00:17:22.007 We left you all. 00:17:22.007 --> 00:17:23.607 All of us left you at the same time. 00:17:23.607 --> 00:17:33.645 When I left, I was the second to go in our team and then I think everybody else came afterwards. 00:17:33.645 --> 00:17:38.656 So, yeah, no, but that was absolutely a lot of fun. 00:17:38.676 --> 00:17:39.839 And now I'm entering tomorrow. 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:51.719 I've got a conference to go to for that's hr specifically to the industry I work in, the engineering and maritime industry I work in, and then two weeks from now is the virginia state sherm conference and I'm going to. 00:17:51.719 --> 00:17:56.709 I'm going to be really coming back with some ammo during and after that. 00:17:56.709 --> 00:18:00.946 We'll be recording before it ends, but I'm just commuting there. 00:18:00.946 --> 00:18:09.248 I'm not going to spend the night or anything like that, but when it sounds like they're charging for parking, I may as well get a hotel room and spend the night. 00:18:09.248 --> 00:18:10.779 But I'll deal with that. 00:18:10.779 --> 00:18:12.144 I'll deal with that. 00:18:12.144 --> 00:18:17.773 But, yeah, a lot of fun things going on, but I do, I really am into AI. 00:18:17.773 --> 00:18:31.685 I'm hoping that you know the HRS system, that you know they did this whole long spiel not January of 25, but January of 24, about they're all in on AI. 00:18:31.685 --> 00:18:36.584 They're all in, and a year and four months later now we don't have anything. 00:18:37.696 --> 00:18:38.942 Not been a whole lot on that front. 00:18:38.942 --> 00:18:44.982 They're also sunsetting a lot of their older things that we still use, that we're having to oh really. 00:18:45.798 --> 00:18:47.477 Yeah, my version does not have that. 00:18:47.477 --> 00:18:57.288 But, like you said, you've got the Supreme Edition, we've got the Beginner's Edition of it, but I do enjoy it a little bit there. 00:18:57.288 --> 00:19:01.685 So the past five years what I don't know how often you've listened. 00:19:01.685 --> 00:19:02.650 You don't have to sell. 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:07.640 You don't have to butter me up and say, oh, I listen to every episode because I know you don't, but I download all of you every episode. 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:08.865 Oh, you download them all. 00:19:08.884 --> 00:19:21.886 See, apple we were talking a little while earlier up until of february or april 2023, that would count as a download and if you actually played it for more than six seconds, I'd get a play stat out of it. 00:19:21.886 --> 00:19:40.490 But Apple realized they were double counting and you know, all these shows that were supposedly having millions and millions of downloads only had millions, and likewise we went from thousands of downloads to a thousand downloads or so, like that, after they fixed that. 00:19:40.490 --> 00:19:43.664 But, yeah, a lot of fun things. 00:19:43.664 --> 00:19:55.089 Going back to year one and two with us, was there any episode that stood out to you as one of your favorite episodes to do? 00:19:58.154 --> 00:19:59.740 it out to you as one of your your favorite episodes to to do. 00:19:59.740 --> 00:20:04.736 I always liked the, the one where we went off tangent on harry potter, because that was just a very spur of the moment off tangent one. 00:20:04.736 --> 00:20:14.827 I enjoyed the we tried to do like a get our hr team on a zoom call to do an episode and that was like a disaster but it was fun. 00:20:15.088 --> 00:20:18.058 Yeah, we had a virtual happy hour, that was. 00:20:18.058 --> 00:20:19.182 Yeah, that was cool. 00:20:19.201 --> 00:20:19.623 I was trying to. 00:20:19.623 --> 00:20:20.605 I was trying to go back. 00:20:20.605 --> 00:20:22.819 One thing I've been proud of is I was really proud. 00:20:22.819 --> 00:20:25.406 I was always really proud of like the titles of episodes. 00:20:25.406 --> 00:20:41.484 But I think you've actually done a pretty good job of like for the most part, every now and then getting in some more creative titles and keeping it yeah I think you've done a good job of keeping the title game going, which I really appreciate yeah, so we didn't ever discuss this before the. 00:20:41.765 --> 00:20:43.955 Well, patrick was originally with us. 00:20:43.955 --> 00:20:54.663 He did all the editing that's why he was so very familiar with my pattern in the sound wave and he also did the the title creation and things like that. 00:20:54.663 --> 00:21:06.130 Now, before ChatGPT and all that stuff, well, our host Buzzsprout, they offer, and I pay a little bit extra to use their AI services, but it does a lot. 00:21:06.130 --> 00:21:17.055 You know, a little plug for our host Buzzsprout when I upload an episode it will give me suggestions for titles and I'll talk about that a little bit more next week. 00:21:17.055 --> 00:21:18.838 That's on my, my rant for next week. 00:21:18.838 --> 00:21:33.863 But also, like two or three episodes ago, the title was weaponizing incompetence and I you know that's something cc said in the middle of the episode and I I wrote it down to say that's like that's, the title is a good one. 00:21:34.123 --> 00:21:34.743 And things like that. 00:21:34.743 --> 00:21:39.049 But I've also used AI for it'll generate. 00:21:39.049 --> 00:21:41.343 What it does is it gives you a list of five titles. 00:21:41.343 --> 00:21:43.742 You can pick them or you can enter your own. 00:21:43.742 --> 00:21:44.920 It does the show notes. 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:46.660 It's funny with the show notes. 00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:47.804 It'll be interesting to see. 00:21:47.804 --> 00:21:56.296 It shouldn't have any problem with your name, but with CC, sometimes it gets her name right, sometimes it doesn't, and it's all over the place. 00:21:56.296 --> 00:22:04.136 With the AI it does transcripts and creates chapter markers and does all that other fun stuff that nobody uses. 00:22:04.136 --> 00:22:06.017 I don't use chapter markers. 00:22:06.017 --> 00:22:12.699 I don't think my podcast player can handle chapter markers or anything like that, but it does a lot for me. 00:22:13.278 --> 00:22:17.898 Editing the software I use to edit is done AI. 00:22:17.898 --> 00:22:23.021 I let the cat out of the bag that I between. 00:22:23.021 --> 00:22:35.622 I'll take credit for most of them, but between Cece and I, generally speaking, there's about 400 to 500 ums we edit out of the podcast and you can tell. 00:22:35.622 --> 00:22:43.074 If you go back to like two years ago, the technology it was very you could tell it was clipped out. 00:22:43.074 --> 00:22:43.894 Something was clipped out. 00:22:43.894 --> 00:22:50.587 Now you can't tell, and that's something that I find really the technology is doing. 00:22:51.261 --> 00:22:56.320 If we did a video podcast, it can keep me in my ADD eyes, sort of. 00:22:56.320 --> 00:23:03.307 Even if I'm looking away, it can keep my head looking at the monitor and looking into the camera, even though I'm not doing that. 00:23:03.307 --> 00:23:04.404 But we aren't. 00:23:04.404 --> 00:23:04.926 You know. 00:23:04.926 --> 00:23:09.646 We keep toying that we're going to do some video podcasts, but it's a lot of work to do. 00:23:09.646 --> 00:23:13.894 Just what the hell we're doing much less having to deal with video as well. 00:23:13.894 --> 00:23:17.122 So, yep, one thing I do want to announce. 00:23:17.122 --> 00:23:25.292 I meant to say earlier, patrick your logo that you created five years ago, or over five years ago now, is going to be sunsetted. 00:23:25.292 --> 00:23:26.253 You use the term. 00:23:26.253 --> 00:23:27.275 It's so funny. 00:23:27.375 --> 00:23:27.855 I just. 00:23:27.855 --> 00:23:29.685 I just looked at it on your email. 00:23:29.685 --> 00:23:36.548 I was like I cannot believe they're still using that logo that I created, I think, at work, just using like Microsoft pay. 00:23:36.548 --> 00:23:43.105 Yeah, no, literally like I didn't use any program, it was something free, I just had a computer at work. 00:23:43.105 --> 00:23:48.440 So free. 00:23:48.460 --> 00:23:49.142 I just had a computer at work. 00:23:49.142 --> 00:23:50.306 So yeah, cc created one and it's really cool. 00:23:50.306 --> 00:23:51.067 It'll be on this podcast. 00:23:51.067 --> 00:23:53.213 It'll be the episode, so y'all take a look at the thing. 00:23:53.253 --> 00:23:54.196 I think it's really cool. 00:23:54.196 --> 00:23:56.468 She did a good job on that and yeah, there's. 00:23:56.468 --> 00:23:57.250 There's just a lot. 00:23:57.250 --> 00:24:02.826 I think this year we're going to try and continue with the, the office rewatches. 00:24:02.826 --> 00:24:13.394 Like I said, the only reason the last episode it's been a month now that it hasn't been launched is just the technical difficulties we encountered and the time it's taking to get it straightened out. 00:24:13.394 --> 00:24:15.720 But we'll get it out and we'll start again. 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:22.567 It is the, like I said, the Diversity Day episode, so it's a great episode. 00:24:24.221 --> 00:24:25.728 You'll do the safety training one. 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:34.132 That's another good hr related one yes, safety, and I just love any time toby he gets to do something. 00:24:34.132 --> 00:24:34.853 He gets really. 00:24:34.853 --> 00:24:36.342 You know I talk about I get excited. 00:24:36.342 --> 00:24:40.060 I start talking with when there's a time he actually gets to do some hr work. 00:24:40.060 --> 00:24:45.411 He's like getting excited and and things like that and until at the end he comes very jaded. 00:24:45.411 --> 00:24:48.605 One of my favorite lines is when he's talking to Aaron. 00:24:48.605 --> 00:24:51.488 He goes HR's a joke, can't do anything. 00:24:51.488 --> 00:24:57.067 I forget the exact line, but yeah, hr's a joke and I was like aw, they ruined Toby. 00:24:57.067 --> 00:25:00.984 Then you're like, yeah, it's kind of true. 00:25:01.467 --> 00:25:02.229 Yeah, yeah. 00:25:02.229 --> 00:25:20.454 I could only imagine what a show like the Office would be today, with more technology and things like that, ai usage and the shenanigans that Jim could get into, or even a oh gosh, michael Carroll's character is just escaping me. 00:25:20.454 --> 00:25:23.930 You said Steve Carell's character. 00:25:23.930 --> 00:25:26.869 No, michael Carroll, the bald, tall guy. 00:25:26.869 --> 00:25:28.825 Very inappropriate. 00:25:29.126 --> 00:25:32.787 Gosh, I'm just going to name office characters and you tell me he's not in the office. 00:25:33.984 --> 00:25:34.779 Oh, not in the office. 00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:37.125 He's the salesperson that comes in every once in a while. 00:25:37.125 --> 00:25:38.088 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:25:38.249 --> 00:25:44.348 Oh God, yeah, I don't know his, but anyways, he's highly, he's got the well-hung license plate, license plate. 00:25:44.388 --> 00:25:46.232 Yes, yeah, I can tell you all about him. 00:25:46.232 --> 00:25:47.586 I can't tell you his name. 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.843 I did not know that actor's name. 00:25:48.843 --> 00:25:50.608 Oh, okay, he's everywhere. 00:25:50.608 --> 00:25:51.731 I think it's Michael Carroll. 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:54.307 Anyways, I'll edit all this out. 00:25:55.760 --> 00:25:56.564 Nah, leave it in. 00:25:56.564 --> 00:25:57.907 That's fun, that's fun. 00:25:58.470 --> 00:25:58.671 Let's see. 00:25:58.671 --> 00:26:04.815 But for the next year of Jaded HR, yeah, I think that that's one of the directions we're going to go. 00:26:04.815 --> 00:26:09.448 I think with the office episodes I do want to get more guests again. 00:26:09.448 --> 00:26:14.060 It's just, it's challenging to do and get people lined up. 00:26:14.060 --> 00:26:17.750 I mean today's a perfect example we're going to try and have four. 00:26:17.750 --> 00:26:21.103 Non, I mean you're a guest, but you're not a guest. 00:26:21.103 --> 00:26:30.736 You know, trying to get four people lined up and trying to do that, you know, to do the must-listen to HR episodes and my schedule just became crazy then. 00:26:30.736 --> 00:26:36.868 Getting guests is hard, especially when we only record at night and so many oh, I can record at 8 am. 00:26:36.868 --> 00:26:39.204 I'm like I'm not even fucking awake at 8 am. 00:26:39.204 --> 00:26:42.353 Much less able to record from my office. 00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:53.089 You know a funny story my assistant I don't talk about the podcast at work, my, my assistant found out through Lisa who we used to work out. 00:26:53.089 --> 00:27:03.023 We ran into her at a conference and that's how she found out about the podcast and I'm like I hope she doesn't think badly of me after listening to a few episodes. 00:27:03.023 --> 00:27:14.782 But also on St Patrick's Day, one of our other employees was we had a cookout on St Patrick's Day and I think it was done by her department and she comes. 00:27:14.782 --> 00:27:16.066 Oh, I was listening to your last episode. 00:27:16.066 --> 00:27:19.821 I'm like whoa Ruh-roh, ruh-roh, but I've never said anything. 00:27:19.821 --> 00:27:22.968 I do love my job, and I'm not just saying that because people at my work listen now, but I love my job. 00:27:22.968 --> 00:27:27.096 I'm not and I'm not just saying that because people at my work listen now but I love my job. 00:27:27.096 --> 00:27:31.910 I'm very happy there and I don't have a lot of drama to deal with overall. 00:27:31.950 --> 00:27:34.366 So which doesn't give you a whole lot of ammo for the podcast. 00:27:34.386 --> 00:27:34.768 It doesn't. 00:27:34.768 --> 00:27:36.586 It doesn't give me as much ammo. 00:27:36.625 --> 00:27:37.249 You got to tell things. 00:27:37.249 --> 00:27:38.305 Look, you guys like the show. 00:27:38.305 --> 00:27:39.861 You got to shake things up a little bit. 00:27:39.861 --> 00:27:42.143 I need ratings. 00:27:43.644 --> 00:27:46.165 Well, speaking of ratings, I need ratings and I need reviews. 00:27:46.165 --> 00:27:49.048 We haven't had a review in quite a while. 00:27:49.048 --> 00:27:53.111 So if you leave a review good, bad, indifferent I'll read it on air. 00:27:53.111 --> 00:27:54.652 Go on on your podcast player. 00:27:54.652 --> 00:27:55.393 I know mine. 00:27:55.393 --> 00:27:56.733 I use Pocket Cast. 00:27:56.733 --> 00:27:58.575 You can now rate on a scale. 00:27:58.575 --> 00:27:59.275 It's just stars. 00:27:59.275 --> 00:28:01.717 You can't put comments in there, but that helps people find us. 00:28:01.717 --> 00:28:04.724 Reviews, support us. 00:28:04.724 --> 00:28:22.462 There's all sorts of links to support us on, either through our podcast host, buzzsprout, or buy me a beer or patreon there's all sorts of ways and that really helps keep things going and takes a load off, you know, by renting the or getting a software license for a year and things like that. 00:28:22.462 --> 00:28:23.786 It's not, it's. 00:28:23.786 --> 00:28:24.386 You know. 00:28:24.386 --> 00:28:27.252 I'm still in the hole After five years. 00:28:27.252 --> 00:28:30.500 I don't even want to think how much in the hole I'm in. 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:36.165 For hosting and microphones, I'm about to buy a new microphone, as you saw earlier today we're having. 00:28:36.165 --> 00:28:41.321 As we're trying to get on, I might get a try and get a new microphone, I don't know. 00:28:41.403 --> 00:28:44.166 But Mine's going on five years strong. 00:28:45.548 --> 00:28:46.089 No, you weren't. 00:28:46.089 --> 00:28:48.452 You weren't using that, or are you still using on your desk? 00:28:48.452 --> 00:28:49.734 I can't see that yeah. 00:28:49.815 --> 00:28:50.615 It's the same. 00:28:50.615 --> 00:28:52.359 That's the same one, okay. 00:28:52.381 --> 00:29:12.929 I still have that as a backup in my in my little closet that if I, if it breaks down the $25, we got $25 microphones but now I've upgraded to the Samsung SM7U, which is the same microphone Michael Jackson used to record the Thriller album Wow, but it's famous with the podcasters now. 00:29:12.929 --> 00:29:24.836 But yeah, I might end up divorced if my wife found out exactly how much money I spend between hosting and editing software and all this other trivial stuff for it. 00:29:25.537 --> 00:29:27.238 You don't do it for the money, it's for the passion. 00:29:29.381 --> 00:29:30.987 I do it for the passion. 00:29:30.987 --> 00:29:33.788 I was trying to think for the gram, but it's not quite the gram. 00:29:33.788 --> 00:29:36.907 Do it for the cast? 00:29:36.907 --> 00:29:38.905 Yeah, for the cast. 00:29:38.905 --> 00:29:44.423 There we go, but yeah, that's really all I can think of for right now. 00:29:44.423 --> 00:29:53.832 I'm really sorry that Feathers has apparently a volleyball game tonight and, like I said, cc6, so it's just not the best night. 00:29:53.832 --> 00:29:55.542 I wanted to get us all at some point. 00:29:55.542 --> 00:30:00.534 I'll get everybody on again and things like that, because it can be a lot of fun. 00:30:00.534 --> 00:30:07.030 I'm hoping to run into some of our former co the SHRM conference, uh, in a few weeks now. 00:30:07.030 --> 00:30:10.868 Uh, a few episodes ago I did mention I'll be there and I'll be handing out cards. 00:30:10.868 --> 00:30:12.547 I did not get the cards made. 00:30:12.547 --> 00:30:14.487 I'm not going to get them paid at this point. 00:30:14.487 --> 00:30:27.942 I've just, I've been really, really, truly up to my ears and everything in life work, family, the school a family, the school, a little bit of everything. 00:30:27.962 --> 00:30:30.087 So it's just been, it's been, but still come up to you and ask for ask for an autograph. 00:30:30.107 --> 00:30:41.603 Yeah, you know, yeah, I will be doing some self-promotion, I'm sure, at the, without being obnoxious can you post a lot of conferences, have like tag, like twitter tag, yeah, like hashtags and stuff. 00:30:41.603 --> 00:30:48.130 I don't know what do they do that now or how they would even do that, but you can like get a sneak, a few things in like oh, we're all HR. 00:30:48.130 --> 00:30:50.685 Did you listen to Jane in HR this last episode? 00:30:50.685 --> 00:30:51.588 Oh that's so great. 00:30:53.401 --> 00:30:59.974 Like I said, I've already started my annual conference of show notes. 00:30:59.974 --> 00:31:10.209 What I'm going to be talking about and I think it'll be probably the most jaded episode we've done in a very long time we were talking off there the first year or two. 00:31:10.209 --> 00:31:17.145 We were pretty jaded and then we've become less jaded and actually a couple of them have been pretty damn informative. 00:31:17.145 --> 00:31:19.551 Dare I say, oh no, yeah. 00:31:19.551 --> 00:31:22.826 So it's, it's crazy. 00:31:22.826 --> 00:31:25.425 Yeah, a lot of good stuff going on. 00:31:25.425 --> 00:31:28.821 It's, it's crazy. 00:31:28.821 --> 00:31:29.503 Yeah, a lot of good stuff going on. 00:31:29.525 --> 00:31:37.630 Let's see, before we get too far along with our getting ready to sign off and all that, do want to thank our patreon supporters hallie, the original jaded hr rock star, michael and bill they they support us on patreon as well. 00:31:37.630 --> 00:31:38.571 You can too. 00:31:38.571 --> 00:31:48.287 And and I'm thinking about maybe doing a episode cc and I were talking about doing an episode Cece and I were talking about doing an episode where we invite our Patreon supporters on as guests. 00:31:48.287 --> 00:31:53.307 So, michael, bill, hallie, we're working on that. 00:31:53.307 --> 00:31:54.599 It's just a matter of timing. 00:31:54.599 --> 00:32:00.326 And making it convenient for us, convenient but able to be done. 00:32:00.326 --> 00:32:02.426 Yeah, convenience is out the window. 00:32:05.221 --> 00:32:06.426 It's a fun idea, though I like that. 00:32:07.060 --> 00:32:11.579 Anything you have to you want to put out there about before we we sign off for today. 00:32:12.461 --> 00:32:13.121 Don't look for you. 00:32:13.121 --> 00:32:13.881 Don't look for me. 00:32:13.881 --> 00:32:18.763 I'm not out there, I'm hiding, I'm a rogue, I'm in the shadows. 00:32:18.763 --> 00:32:20.703 I might be there, but you won't see me. 00:32:22.305 --> 00:32:24.425 Yeah, I, I, I'm going to be there. 00:32:24.425 --> 00:32:34.490 I'll be there with my assistant and if you see a middle-aged bald guy with a gray goatee or white at this point, it's Hampton Roads, richmond and DC area. 00:32:34.490 --> 00:32:38.092 That's the majority of our listeners. 00:32:38.092 --> 00:33:00.772 But New Jersey is very strong, ohio is very strong, illinois very strong, and the funny thing is the Ohio area that's strong is not where CC lives or anything like that. 00:33:00.772 --> 00:33:05.250 I asked her where are these towns in relation to you? 00:33:05.250 --> 00:33:08.559 And she's like, oh no, that's way out out out there. 00:33:08.760 --> 00:33:28.094 So yeah, so yeah, please, you know, please continue to listen, because we're going to have that office episode soon, and then I'm hoping Cece will be out from under the weather in a couple of weeks and we will be back in two weeks with a new episode, and I think there'll be a lot of fun, as long as our plans don't go awry. 00:33:28.094 --> 00:33:30.488 So that's all I have for today. 00:33:30.488 --> 00:33:37.300 So, as always, I'm Warren, I'm Patrick, and we're here helping you survive HR one what the fuck. 00:33:37.300 --> 00:33:38.421 Moment at a time. 00:33:38.421 --> 00:33:51.023 Thank you.