1 00:00:02,303 --> 00:00:04,826 Speaker 1: Had you actually read the email, you would know that 2 00:00:04,847 --> 00:00:08,092 the podcast you are about to listen to could contain explicit 3 00:00:08,092 --> 00:00:10,095 language and offensive content. 4 00:00:10,095 --> 00:00:14,733 These HR experts' views are not representative of their past, 5 00:00:15,095 --> 00:00:16,699 present or future employers. 6 00:00:16,699 --> 00:00:19,987 If you have ever heard my manager is unfair to me. 7 00:00:19,987 --> 00:00:25,001 I need you to reset my HR portal password, or Can I write 8 00:00:25,042 --> 00:00:26,829 up my employee for crying too much? 9 00:00:26,829 --> 00:00:29,086 Welcome to our little safe zone . 10 00:00:29,086 --> 00:00:31,466 Welcome to Jaded HR. 11 00:00:44,859 --> 00:00:47,904 Speaker 2: Welcome to Jaded HR, the podcast by three HR 12 00:00:47,923 --> 00:00:50,366 professionals who want to help you get through the workday by 13 00:00:50,387 --> 00:00:52,750 saying everything you're thinking, but say it out loud. 14 00:00:52,750 --> 00:00:53,771 I'm Warren. 15 00:00:54,673 --> 00:00:57,335 Speaker 3: I'm Cece, I'm Bill, all righty. 16 00:00:58,503 --> 00:01:00,287 Speaker 2: We have a special guest. 17 00:01:00,287 --> 00:01:01,491 It's Bill. 18 00:01:01,491 --> 00:01:06,171 You hear us talk about every episode as our Patreon supporter 19 00:01:06,171 --> 00:01:11,510 , and a couple of weeks ago, bill shot me a message about a 20 00:01:11,611 --> 00:01:16,969 really cool story and I had to reach out to him to invite him 21 00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:19,686 to be on board, and he was able to join us. 22 00:01:19,686 --> 00:01:22,962 So thank you very much for joining us, bill, and I'll go 23 00:01:22,983 --> 00:01:25,909 ahead and use this time, too, to give a shout out to our other 24 00:01:25,989 --> 00:01:29,807 Patreon supporters Hallie, the original Jaded HR, rockstar and 25 00:01:30,067 --> 00:01:30,347 Mike. 26 00:01:30,870 --> 00:01:38,493 So yeah, so first for everybody, we love feedback from listeners 27 00:01:38,493 --> 00:01:38,493 . 28 00:01:38,493 --> 00:01:42,206 We don't get a boatload of it, we don't get much at all, but it 29 00:01:42,206 --> 00:01:42,807 seems like it comes in waves. 30 00:01:42,807 --> 00:01:43,748 If you will, and hopefully this will start a new wave of 31 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:44,111 feedback from listeners. 32 00:01:44,111 --> 00:01:44,899 Boatload of it, we don't get much at all, but it seems like 33 00:01:44,864 --> 00:01:45,046 it comes in waves. 34 00:01:45,046 --> 00:01:47,314 If you will, and hopefully this will start a new wave of 35 00:01:47,355 --> 00:01:51,843 feedback from listeners, if you have a crazy story, an antic or 36 00:01:51,923 --> 00:01:54,227 something like that that you want to tell, let us know. 37 00:01:54,227 --> 00:01:56,540 Some people wanted to be on the show. 38 00:01:56,540 --> 00:01:58,868 Other people have not wanted to be on the show when I reach out 39 00:01:58,868 --> 00:01:59,840 to them to tell their story. 40 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,947 But yeah, let us know, we will have you on board. 41 00:02:02,947 --> 00:02:05,914 So, bill, thank you very much for joining us. 42 00:02:05,914 --> 00:02:09,764 I mean this is great and personally, thank you for 43 00:02:09,884 --> 00:02:12,812 supporting the show for this time on Patreon, because it 44 00:02:12,872 --> 00:02:13,173 helps. 45 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:16,228 Speaker 3: Well, it's been a great listen. 46 00:02:16,228 --> 00:02:17,001 You know you guys. 47 00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:19,187 When I found you guys, I was looking for somebody to give me 48 00:02:19,266 --> 00:02:21,192 some advice on how to be an HR manager. 49 00:02:21,192 --> 00:02:26,100 I've only been doing it for a couple of years, but you guys 50 00:02:26,121 --> 00:02:26,602 hit a different need. 51 00:02:26,602 --> 00:02:29,449 I needed to hear about people who had the same problems that I 52 00:02:29,449 --> 00:02:29,750 did. 53 00:02:30,771 --> 00:02:33,704 Speaker 2: Exactly and I don't think anything we really say is 54 00:02:33,783 --> 00:02:36,628 too unique to any of us. 55 00:02:36,628 --> 00:02:42,085 Like we said, the poop rite of passage If you haven't dealt 56 00:02:42,104 --> 00:02:43,828 with poop, you're not in HR yet. 57 00:02:43,828 --> 00:02:45,670 Be poop, there will be poop. 58 00:02:46,611 --> 00:02:47,974 Speaker 3: There will be, there always is. 59 00:02:48,822 --> 00:02:49,545 Speaker 2: And it thinks like that. 60 00:02:49,545 --> 00:02:49,941 It's just. 61 00:02:49,941 --> 00:02:51,707 There's a billion other shows out there. 62 00:02:51,707 --> 00:02:54,562 If you want to learn, actually learn something, there's a. 63 00:02:54,562 --> 00:02:55,506 There's a hundred. 64 00:02:55,506 --> 00:02:58,568 I've listened to many of them, or not many of them, quite a few 65 00:02:58,568 --> 00:02:58,848 of them. 66 00:02:58,848 --> 00:03:01,686 Of the ones that give actual advice, my favorite, I'll go 67 00:03:01,725 --> 00:03:04,867 ahead and say, is Good Morning HR with Mike Coffey, who was on 68 00:03:05,149 --> 00:03:06,109 with us in December. 69 00:03:06,109 --> 00:03:08,831 That's my favorite one to actually learn from. 70 00:03:08,831 --> 00:03:12,694 But you have Kyle Road and Rebel HR and other great ones 71 00:03:12,715 --> 00:03:15,257 that you can actually learn something on HR Besties. 72 00:03:15,257 --> 00:03:16,341 You can learn from them as well . 73 00:03:16,341 --> 00:03:20,586 Yeah, you can learn from them, so they're a little more akin to 74 00:03:20,586 --> 00:03:24,951 us, but yeah, so, bill, tell us why you're here. 75 00:03:26,593 --> 00:03:32,201 Speaker 3: So, so a couple of weeks ago you guys were going I 76 00:03:32,222 --> 00:03:33,549 don't even remember what the topics was, it was like two or 77 00:03:33,568 --> 00:03:35,014 three sessions ago but and I was like you know what I just got 78 00:03:35,034 --> 00:03:37,804 to share this story because it's still fresh in my mind. 79 00:03:37,804 --> 00:03:41,652 It's a, it's a this year story and of course, there's been some 80 00:03:41,652 --> 00:03:44,649 updates to this story since I shared it with you. 81 00:03:44,649 --> 00:03:48,246 But I'll go ahead and start at the beginning. 82 00:03:48,246 --> 00:03:49,590 We have a division of the company. 83 00:03:49,590 --> 00:03:54,631 It's about 300 and something people spread across four 84 00:03:54,670 --> 00:03:58,967 different locations, but the majority of them are here in the 85 00:03:58,967 --> 00:04:01,921 area where I'm located with the headquarters, and there's about 86 00:04:01,921 --> 00:04:04,349 180 people in this building. 87 00:04:04,939 --> 00:04:07,802 It's a new building, so there's there's problems with the 88 00:04:07,842 --> 00:04:08,283 building. 89 00:04:08,283 --> 00:04:12,719 We've moved in recently and one of my favorite people in the 90 00:04:12,740 --> 00:04:15,566 building comes to me and goes hey, I need to talk to you about 91 00:04:15,566 --> 00:04:19,802 some stuff, and she just starts telling me about all these 92 00:04:19,882 --> 00:04:22,507 rumors that are going around the building. 93 00:04:22,507 --> 00:04:29,841 And the first rumor was you know, we got somebody in the 94 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:34,610 women's restroom doing lines of Coke and I was like, how do you 95 00:04:34,651 --> 00:04:35,492 know it's Coke. 96 00:04:37,661 --> 00:04:38,644 Speaker 4: I mean great question . 97 00:04:39,206 --> 00:04:41,050 Speaker 3: I've got stories about that too from my past. 98 00:04:41,050 --> 00:04:42,802 But how do you know it's Coke and so. 99 00:04:42,802 --> 00:04:45,225 And then they're telling me, me , well, they're finding powdery 100 00:04:45,266 --> 00:04:46,668 residue and all that kind of stuff. 101 00:04:46,668 --> 00:04:49,579 So I I was like, well, maybe it's, maybe it's a 102 00:04:49,620 --> 00:04:52,091 misunderstanding of what's going on, and we put you know, the 103 00:04:52,153 --> 00:04:54,581 red, the red sharps boxes in there, thinking it was somebody 104 00:04:54,642 --> 00:04:57,810 who had a problem dropping their needles in the in the trash or 105 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:58,300 something like that. 106 00:04:58,300 --> 00:04:59,281 Right, so we did that. 107 00:04:59,281 --> 00:05:00,884 And then she was like there's another rumor. 108 00:05:00,884 --> 00:05:02,586 I was like, oh no, she goes. 109 00:05:02,586 --> 00:05:08,600 There is sounds of pleasure coming from the women's restroom 110 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,785 several times a week. 111 00:05:10,785 --> 00:05:13,189 And I'm like, oh my god, what, what? 112 00:05:13,189 --> 00:05:15,093 What? 113 00:05:15,093 --> 00:05:20,103 I was like this is just somebody, like maybe someone's 114 00:05:20,142 --> 00:05:22,269 having a rough day in the restroom, whatever right. 115 00:05:22,269 --> 00:05:24,666 And I was like she goes well, are you gonna do anything? 116 00:05:24,666 --> 00:05:25,896 I was like she goes well, are you going to do anything? 117 00:05:25,896 --> 00:05:26,480 I was like, absolutely not. 118 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,762 I'm not going to touch that one , right, there's no way in or 119 00:05:29,862 --> 00:05:33,709 out of that situation that will keep you out of jail. 120 00:05:35,814 --> 00:05:39,588 Speaker 2: Okay, especially as an HR dude having to deal with 121 00:05:39,608 --> 00:05:42,725 that in a women's restroom, you're going to be the creepster 122 00:05:42,725 --> 00:05:44,288 automatically, yeah, so now? 123 00:05:44,288 --> 00:05:44,971 Why are you so concerned? 124 00:05:44,990 --> 00:05:47,098 Speaker 4: women's restroom you're going to be the creepster 125 00:05:47,098 --> 00:05:47,660 automatically, just yeah. 126 00:05:47,660 --> 00:05:48,862 So now, why are you so? 127 00:05:48,923 --> 00:05:49,403 Speaker 3: concerned. 128 00:05:49,403 --> 00:05:51,350 Well, now there's the setup right. 129 00:05:51,350 --> 00:05:54,601 So it's now Monday evening. 130 00:05:54,601 --> 00:05:59,562 It's about six or seven o'clock on a Monday evening in June and 131 00:05:59,562 --> 00:06:02,028 I get a call from the senior program manager. 132 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:04,966 Hey, we'll call you tomorrow. 133 00:06:04,966 --> 00:06:08,386 We'll give you some more details, but we had one of our 134 00:06:08,826 --> 00:06:13,442 our junior program managers pull in four women that work for him 135 00:06:13,442 --> 00:06:17,612 and ask them individually if they were masturbating in the 136 00:06:17,672 --> 00:06:23,067 women's restroom shit yes exactly. 137 00:06:23,067 --> 00:06:25,913 I may have used a few more colorful phrases at that moment 138 00:06:26,033 --> 00:06:26,593 but yes. 139 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,786 So, of course, come in the next day, I've got to go brief my 140 00:06:32,826 --> 00:06:35,353 boss and who I work for, the CFO . 141 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:39,550 I go brief the CEO and tell them and they're like, oh well, 142 00:06:39,630 --> 00:06:40,031 what do we do? 143 00:06:40,031 --> 00:06:41,887 I was like, well, we're going to fire him. 144 00:06:41,887 --> 00:06:44,747 That's, that's the first thing we're going to do. 145 00:06:44,747 --> 00:06:48,649 We do need to do some sort of investigation to make it all 146 00:06:48,730 --> 00:06:52,406 clean, but he's going to get fired if even one of those women 147 00:06:52,406 --> 00:06:53,427 cooperates. 148 00:06:53,427 --> 00:06:55,872 That story, yeah, oh my gosh. 149 00:06:55,872 --> 00:06:59,766 And so I went over to the building and I asked all four of 150 00:06:59,766 --> 00:07:03,733 the ladies that got dimed out their program manager and got 151 00:07:03,773 --> 00:07:04,454 the whole story. 152 00:07:04,454 --> 00:07:08,446 And what it turns out is this guy decided he was going to take 153 00:07:08,446 --> 00:07:11,908 it upon himself Monday morning to ask the four women. 154 00:07:11,908 --> 00:07:15,389 Now he has eight people who work for them. 155 00:07:15,389 --> 00:07:20,983 Seven of them are women and he only asked four of them and they 156 00:07:20,983 --> 00:07:24,485 were the four better looking of the women who worked for him. 157 00:07:25,206 --> 00:07:27,100 Speaker 4: Oh my God, it just keeps giving Ugly. 158 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:28,346 Women can't do that. 159 00:07:28,365 --> 00:07:30,404 Speaker 1: Nope Ugly women can't do this. 160 00:07:32,644 --> 00:07:35,024 Speaker 3: So I talked to each of the women, I talked to the 161 00:07:35,064 --> 00:07:35,646 supervisor. 162 00:07:35,646 --> 00:07:39,483 It turns out that he did that and then an hour later went into 163 00:07:39,483 --> 00:07:42,151 his supervisor's office and was like, hey, I think we should do 164 00:07:42,151 --> 00:07:42,351 this. 165 00:07:42,351 --> 00:07:45,024 And she told him under no circumstances, no. 166 00:07:45,024 --> 00:07:48,370 So he just clammed up and didn't say nothing. 167 00:07:48,370 --> 00:07:51,783 And it was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon when 168 00:07:51,863 --> 00:07:54,992 one of the women finally went to her to the boss and was like 169 00:07:55,079 --> 00:07:58,947 hey, this happened today and that's when it all went downhill 170 00:07:58,947 --> 00:07:58,947 . 171 00:07:59,870 --> 00:08:02,204 So Tuesday, I roll in, I get the investigation going. 172 00:08:02,204 --> 00:08:04,274 The four women all rogered up. 173 00:08:04,274 --> 00:08:05,781 Yep, this is exactly what happened. 174 00:08:05,781 --> 00:08:06,723 They wrote statements. 175 00:08:06,723 --> 00:08:10,793 I went back to my boss and I said immediately, make him go 176 00:08:10,853 --> 00:08:12,464 away, there's no way to salvage this. 177 00:08:12,464 --> 00:08:16,899 So in the middle of it, this is the week of sexual harassment 178 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:17,360 complaints. 179 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,148 By the way, 15 sexual harassment complaints in four 180 00:08:21,168 --> 00:08:25,644 days, hey, different complaints and they're not in the same 181 00:08:25,685 --> 00:08:26,281 complaints, right. 182 00:08:26,281 --> 00:08:29,156 And most of them were just like petty, like oh, look, hr is in 183 00:08:29,177 --> 00:08:30,541 the building taking care of this problem. 184 00:08:30,541 --> 00:08:32,788 Maybe they'll listen to this one and make this other guy go 185 00:08:32,808 --> 00:08:33,270 away, right? 186 00:08:33,270 --> 00:08:34,923 And that's where a lot of them ended up. 187 00:08:34,923 --> 00:08:38,840 So the next one was I was in the building and one of the 188 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:40,201 program managers pulls me inside . 189 00:08:40,201 --> 00:08:43,888 Hey, one of our admins just came to me and said that her 190 00:08:44,268 --> 00:08:46,951 program manager that she works for was asking her 191 00:08:47,072 --> 00:08:48,754 recommendations about lingerie. 192 00:08:48,754 --> 00:08:53,024 I'm like no, no, no, no. 193 00:08:57,562 --> 00:08:59,528 So, I went and talked to her. 194 00:08:59,528 --> 00:09:01,500 She gave me her statement and it was he. 195 00:09:01,500 --> 00:09:03,965 They had formed a friendship and he thought it was a 196 00:09:04,004 --> 00:09:07,171 different kind of friendship and that he could ask some advice 197 00:09:07,471 --> 00:09:09,495 about lingerie that he needed for his wife. 198 00:09:09,495 --> 00:09:12,549 And I told him yeah, that you're dumb. 199 00:09:12,549 --> 00:09:17,230 Guy's been doing being a program manager for like 20 plus 200 00:09:17,230 --> 00:09:17,451 years. 201 00:09:17,631 --> 00:09:22,024 Speaker 4: You're dumb oh my gosh oh. 202 00:09:22,765 --> 00:09:25,909 Speaker 3: So then of course, the girl who made the complaint 203 00:09:26,010 --> 00:09:28,394 didn't like how we handled that situation, because we fired the 204 00:09:28,474 --> 00:09:31,826 one guy, but we didn't fire this guy, and then she rage quit. 205 00:09:31,826 --> 00:09:34,028 She sent an email out to everybody in the building 206 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,783 Basically saying how she was unhappy, and I mean, everybody 207 00:09:38,804 --> 00:09:39,807 in the building got this email. 208 00:09:39,807 --> 00:09:41,206 It was printed on email. 209 00:09:41,206 --> 00:09:44,062 It was probably three pages long about how bad the 210 00:09:44,101 --> 00:09:44,863 management was. 211 00:09:44,863 --> 00:09:48,304 That's unfortunate. 212 00:09:48,304 --> 00:09:51,687 A week after that, of course, the story just keeps building on 213 00:09:51,687 --> 00:09:52,328 itself, right? 214 00:09:52,328 --> 00:09:55,390 Because we still have to figure out the whole masturbation and 215 00:09:55,471 --> 00:09:57,253 coke lines in the bathroom problem, right? 216 00:09:57,753 --> 00:09:59,073 Speaker 4: We didn't even figure that out. 217 00:09:59,333 --> 00:10:01,235 Speaker 3: We haven't yet, but that's coming. 218 00:10:01,235 --> 00:10:02,937 Oh wait, there's more. 219 00:10:02,937 --> 00:10:08,148 I have a lady check out that works in that building and she's 220 00:10:08,148 --> 00:10:08,669 like telling me. 221 00:10:08,669 --> 00:10:09,996 I was like and the last question I ask anytime I'm doing 222 00:10:09,996 --> 00:10:12,325 an exit interview is there anything you would like to tell 223 00:10:12,365 --> 00:10:14,831 me that you didn't feel comfortable telling anybody else 224 00:10:14,831 --> 00:10:14,831 ? 225 00:10:14,831 --> 00:10:17,407 Your name won't get used if I have to take action because 226 00:10:17,427 --> 00:10:19,360 you're no longer here, so it's not a big deal. 227 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:20,361 And she did. 228 00:10:20,461 --> 00:10:23,666 She dad had dumped on me and one of the things that she gave me 229 00:10:23,745 --> 00:10:26,129 the name of the person doing coke lines on the in the 230 00:10:26,168 --> 00:10:31,215 bathroom and how she had been caught like, walked in on doing 231 00:10:31,975 --> 00:10:37,009 the coke lines and I was like, oh okay, so I go down there. 232 00:10:37,009 --> 00:10:38,332 And I was told went to the director. 233 00:10:38,332 --> 00:10:39,986 I was like, hey, this is what I'm going to do. 234 00:10:39,986 --> 00:10:42,960 I'm going to pull her in with a witness, another a female 235 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:44,065 witness, preferably her boss, who, strangely enough, is the 236 00:10:44,085 --> 00:10:44,547 boss in the whole story. 237 00:10:44,547 --> 00:10:45,731 And I'm going to pull her in with a witness, another female 238 00:10:45,751 --> 00:10:46,918 witness, preferably her boss, who, strangely enough, is the 239 00:10:46,937 --> 00:10:47,419 boss in the whole story. 240 00:10:47,419 --> 00:10:51,587 And I'm going to ask her if she's ever done coke lines on 241 00:10:51,607 --> 00:10:53,251 the bathroom floor or a bathroom counter. 242 00:10:53,251 --> 00:10:57,931 And if she says yes, we'll have her go do a drug screening, see 243 00:10:57,931 --> 00:10:57,931 . 244 00:10:57,971 --> 00:11:01,006 If it's positive, we'll use our EAP, get her into a drug 245 00:11:01,067 --> 00:11:04,225 treatment program and, depending on if she passes the drug 246 00:11:04,245 --> 00:11:07,272 treatment program, we'll allow her to come in to work for us 247 00:11:07,812 --> 00:11:11,703 without any adverse action and they're like okay, if she says 248 00:11:11,845 --> 00:11:15,336 no, I'm still going to send her to do a drug screening, but at 249 00:11:15,376 --> 00:11:17,623 that point she's suspended until I get the results back. 250 00:11:17,623 --> 00:11:20,971 And this is on a friday, so I'd get the results back on monday 251 00:11:21,301 --> 00:11:23,187 and if she's positive, we terminate her immediately. 252 00:11:23,187 --> 00:11:25,615 If she's positive, we terminate her immediately. 253 00:11:25,615 --> 00:11:27,982 If she's not positive, we go on like nothing happened. 254 00:11:27,982 --> 00:11:30,450 And she can be mad at me Not a big deal, right? 255 00:11:30,450 --> 00:11:31,861 I'm the guy they pay to get mad at. 256 00:11:31,861 --> 00:11:36,129 So I had her, she said, of course. 257 00:11:36,129 --> 00:11:37,832 She said, no, I don't do drugs. 258 00:11:37,832 --> 00:11:40,384 I don't do drugs in the bathroom, not at all. 259 00:11:40,604 --> 00:11:45,653 No, I do them in my office and so I'm like okay, well, in 260 00:11:45,692 --> 00:11:49,105 accordance with our drug policy, I am authorized to send you for 261 00:11:49,105 --> 00:11:53,212 a command or a company directed your analysis and you will go. 262 00:11:53,212 --> 00:11:54,605 And you will go to this location. 263 00:11:54,605 --> 00:11:57,818 Your supervisor is going to escort you, right, because I 264 00:11:57,839 --> 00:11:59,303 learned that lesson 30 years ago and we'll get the results on 265 00:11:59,323 --> 00:12:00,626 monday and you're just going to go home after you do the drug 266 00:12:00,647 --> 00:12:01,990 screening and I'll call you in on monday or tuesday when we get 267 00:12:01,990 --> 00:12:04,236 the results on Monday, and you're just going to go home 268 00:12:04,297 --> 00:12:06,543 after you do the drug screening and I'll call you in on Monday 269 00:12:06,583 --> 00:12:07,927 or Tuesday when we get the results back. 270 00:12:07,927 --> 00:12:10,381 She's like okay, and she goes well. 271 00:12:10,403 --> 00:12:11,466 Can I ask some questions now? 272 00:12:11,466 --> 00:12:13,548 I was like sure, no problem, right? 273 00:12:13,548 --> 00:12:15,287 I want to make sure it's all clear and transparent. 274 00:12:15,287 --> 00:12:16,261 She goes well. 275 00:12:16,261 --> 00:12:18,687 Who told you they saw me doing drugs in the bathroom? 276 00:12:18,687 --> 00:12:22,634 I was like what she goes, yeah. 277 00:12:22,634 --> 00:12:23,294 Who told you that? 278 00:12:23,294 --> 00:12:25,756 I was like I'm not going to tell you that and in the back of 279 00:12:25,756 --> 00:12:27,764 my head I'm like that automatically means that you 280 00:12:27,825 --> 00:12:28,488 know you did it. 281 00:12:28,940 --> 00:12:31,344 Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just going to say we didn't say that 282 00:12:31,423 --> 00:12:35,668 anyone locked in on you, and so now I'm thinking she did it. 283 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:37,826 Speaker 3: I got my law degree from Law Order. 284 00:12:37,885 --> 00:12:38,749 Speaker 4: I know how this works . 285 00:12:40,940 --> 00:12:43,282 Speaker 3: So I'm expecting now her drug screening to come back 286 00:12:43,361 --> 00:12:44,644 positive for something. 287 00:12:44,644 --> 00:12:47,306 Her supervisor and her get over there. 288 00:12:47,306 --> 00:12:47,846 I get a call. 289 00:12:47,846 --> 00:12:51,350 I'm in the middle of shoving Mission BBQ in my face because 290 00:12:51,750 --> 00:12:55,592 it's lunchtime and I answer the phone and the supervisor's like 291 00:12:55,894 --> 00:12:57,154 she doesn't want to do the drug screening. 292 00:12:57,154 --> 00:12:59,417 I was like, okay, well, here's her choice. 293 00:12:59,417 --> 00:13:05,065 She can do the drug screening and run the risk that she's 294 00:13:05,085 --> 00:13:06,791 going to get terminated with a positive, or she can be 295 00:13:06,811 --> 00:13:08,537 terminated now for refusal to do the drug screening in 296 00:13:08,557 --> 00:13:09,500 accordance with our policy. 297 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:11,184 And so the lady quit. 298 00:13:11,184 --> 00:13:17,361 That day turns out she was both our coke line user on the 299 00:13:17,381 --> 00:13:20,547 bathroom counter and our women's restroom masturbator. 300 00:13:20,547 --> 00:13:22,249 Oh, she was both. 301 00:13:22,249 --> 00:13:23,551 She was both. 302 00:13:23,551 --> 00:13:24,211 She was both. 303 00:13:24,211 --> 00:13:25,333 What a twist. 304 00:13:25,333 --> 00:13:28,160 So she was going in the restroom getting high, getting 305 00:13:28,181 --> 00:13:30,048 high and then rubbing one out yeah. 306 00:13:32,023 --> 00:13:32,504 Speaker 4: Oh my. 307 00:13:32,544 --> 00:13:32,947 Speaker 1: God. 308 00:13:34,562 --> 00:13:35,326 Speaker 2: And cocaine. 309 00:13:35,326 --> 00:13:38,523 It's almost like it's a passe drug now. 310 00:13:38,523 --> 00:13:41,806 You know, in the 90s and 80s, I was like is it the? 311 00:13:41,865 --> 00:13:42,226 Speaker 3: 80s again. 312 00:13:44,403 --> 00:13:47,924 Speaker 2: Yeah, robin Williams' line cocaine is God's message 313 00:13:47,966 --> 00:13:49,210 to you that you have too much money. 314 00:13:49,210 --> 00:13:54,804 But if it weren't, for cocaine, saturday Night Live would never 315 00:13:54,804 --> 00:13:56,629 have been a thing, that's true. 316 00:13:56,730 --> 00:13:58,946 Speaker 3: Right, some of my favorite comics would have never 317 00:13:58,946 --> 00:13:59,528 been comics. 318 00:13:59,528 --> 00:14:00,431 Yeah, exactly. 319 00:14:01,542 --> 00:14:02,538 Speaker 4: That's so funny. 320 00:14:02,538 --> 00:14:02,900 That is insane. 321 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:03,961 I didn't expect the twist at the end. 322 00:14:03,961 --> 00:14:06,767 So she, that is insane, I didn't expect the twist at the 323 00:14:06,888 --> 00:14:06,967 end. 324 00:14:07,729 --> 00:14:10,453 Speaker 3: Yeah, one fell swoop, we got two rumors killed. 325 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:14,663 Speaker 2: So, and I have to ask was she one of the four good 326 00:14:14,702 --> 00:14:16,567 looking women or one of the three non? 327 00:14:16,587 --> 00:14:17,529 Speaker 3: good looking women, um. 328 00:14:17,529 --> 00:14:23,268 Of the four women, she was probably the better of the four. 329 00:14:23,268 --> 00:14:29,972 However, you could tell like I have some background. 330 00:14:29,972 --> 00:14:31,767 I did 25 years in the United States Navy. 331 00:14:31,767 --> 00:14:34,791 One of the things that I did was deal with people and their 332 00:14:34,831 --> 00:14:38,244 criminal mishaps while active duty and you can tell when 333 00:14:38,283 --> 00:14:41,205 someone's using drugs, like I didn't have to ask her the 334 00:14:41,225 --> 00:14:42,909 questions to know she was going to lie to me. 335 00:14:42,909 --> 00:14:45,174 There were the signs, right. 336 00:14:45,174 --> 00:14:47,427 Yeah, the sunken, sallow face. 337 00:14:47,427 --> 00:14:48,945 She'd lost weight. 338 00:14:48,945 --> 00:14:52,202 She was like stupid stick skinny because you know Coke 339 00:14:52,222 --> 00:14:52,864 does that to you. 340 00:14:52,864 --> 00:14:54,926 Yeah, oh gosh. 341 00:14:55,186 --> 00:14:58,389 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it was Wow. 342 00:14:58,389 --> 00:15:03,614 See, I think you get some sort of award because you had like a 343 00:15:03,693 --> 00:15:06,677 mix of like 10 things all in one scenario. 344 00:15:06,677 --> 00:15:16,620 You know, bathroom, you don't have to go as far as poop but 345 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,243 bathroom stuff, masturbation, drugs, lingerie harassment. 346 00:15:18,263 --> 00:15:20,423 Speaker 4: I mean, wow, that would be like one really great 347 00:15:20,485 --> 00:15:22,586 episode of an HR sitcom. 348 00:15:22,966 --> 00:15:23,847 Speaker 2: Yeah, it would. 349 00:15:23,847 --> 00:15:26,450 It would be like you couldn't, you could. 350 00:15:26,450 --> 00:15:28,552 How do you do episode two? 351 00:15:28,552 --> 00:15:31,293 What do we do next? 352 00:15:31,313 --> 00:15:34,336 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't run that as the pilot episode, 353 00:15:34,919 --> 00:15:36,304 that's for sure. 354 00:15:36,325 --> 00:15:37,729 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's oh wow. 355 00:15:37,729 --> 00:15:43,582 And see, I honestly fully believe and I think every 356 00:15:43,663 --> 00:15:46,605 listener will fully believe every word of what you're saying 357 00:15:46,605 --> 00:15:49,562 , because we've been there, we've done that Maybe not 358 00:15:49,621 --> 00:15:53,663 exactly, but we could see that happening Whereas someone who 359 00:15:54,205 --> 00:15:56,350 doesn't do HR is like what are you talking about? 360 00:15:56,350 --> 00:15:58,067 You're full of shit, you know, or something like that. 361 00:15:58,779 --> 00:16:02,447 Speaker 3: Well, it's like my COO hates to see me Monday 362 00:16:02,466 --> 00:16:02,707 morning. 363 00:16:02,707 --> 00:16:05,953 I try not to go to his office first thing Monday morning, 364 00:16:09,159 --> 00:16:10,383 because when I walk in there first thing Monday morning it's 365 00:16:10,403 --> 00:16:11,284 stuff like this as we leave, he goes. 366 00:16:11,284 --> 00:16:12,628 You just can't make this up, can you? 367 00:16:13,250 --> 00:16:18,647 Speaker 2: No, you can't, you really really can't. 368 00:16:18,667 --> 00:16:22,201 Speaker 4: Oh, man you do deserve an award that was 369 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:22,441 awesome. 370 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:27,125 Speaker 2: Hopefully since then, your work is getting, you know, 371 00:16:27,125 --> 00:16:30,047 less exciting for a little while. 372 00:16:30,267 --> 00:16:32,668 Speaker 3: For about 30 days and then it came back with a 373 00:16:32,708 --> 00:16:33,109 vengeance. 374 00:16:33,109 --> 00:16:35,591 Oh boy, yeah, some of those players. 375 00:16:35,591 --> 00:16:39,714 The lady that rage quit in the middle of all that. 376 00:16:39,714 --> 00:16:42,096 She wrote an EOC complaint. 377 00:16:42,096 --> 00:16:44,037 So we've got that going for us. 378 00:16:44,057 --> 00:16:44,798 Speaker 4: That's unfortunate. 379 00:16:48,082 --> 00:16:48,624 Speaker 2: Fun stuff. 380 00:16:48,624 --> 00:17:01,363 Well, you know, that is very lightning of a story, but let's 381 00:17:01,562 --> 00:17:02,625 see if we can keep things going from there. 382 00:17:02,625 --> 00:17:04,788 So, cece, we didn't get to all of our stories last episode and 383 00:17:04,807 --> 00:17:07,653 we recorded I was saying off the air, we recorded for an hour 384 00:17:07,692 --> 00:17:08,473 and 40 minutes. 385 00:17:08,473 --> 00:17:11,041 I think we got the episode down . 386 00:17:11,041 --> 00:17:12,928 I got it down to like an hour and 15 minutes or something like 387 00:17:12,928 --> 00:17:14,270 that, hour 10, hour 15. 388 00:17:14,270 --> 00:17:16,708 So we missed one of the stories . 389 00:17:16,708 --> 00:17:21,251 So what employee behaving badly do you have? 390 00:17:21,251 --> 00:17:22,034 Oh my gosh. 391 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,368 Speaker 4: Okay, so this was like a few weeks ago. 392 00:17:24,368 --> 00:17:29,181 Do you have, oh my gosh. 393 00:17:29,181 --> 00:17:30,144 Okay, so this was like a few weeks ago. 394 00:17:30,144 --> 00:17:31,527 There was a individual who, just you know, loves to have a 395 00:17:31,547 --> 00:17:36,298 social media presence and loves to do a day in my life video 396 00:17:36,318 --> 00:17:38,321 blogs as she's working. 397 00:17:38,321 --> 00:17:42,949 So this was an individual who is a store manager inside of a 398 00:17:43,028 --> 00:17:49,742 Mac cosmetics that was inside of the LAX airport and she did a 399 00:17:49,782 --> 00:17:54,673 lot of these a day in my life vlogs through her entire career 400 00:17:54,813 --> 00:18:01,590 as a Mac cosmetics representative, and I guess she 401 00:18:01,631 --> 00:18:03,594 got called in at a no in the middle of her. 402 00:18:03,881 --> 00:18:06,161 By the way, it was in the middle of her day in my life, which I 403 00:18:06,201 --> 00:18:11,171 thought was so what a great day it was such a great day because 404 00:18:11,191 --> 00:18:13,763 she did get fired like in the middle of her day in my life, 405 00:18:13,844 --> 00:18:16,940 and all of her mac mascara was like running down her face as 406 00:18:16,980 --> 00:18:19,724 she was carrying her box out, like it was very dramatic. 407 00:18:19,724 --> 00:18:24,732 But apparently what she was doing was she was videotaping 408 00:18:24,853 --> 00:18:27,121 everything like, everything Like . 409 00:18:27,121 --> 00:18:31,153 She was videotaping and recording and capturing her 410 00:18:31,233 --> 00:18:33,039 pulling up to the employee parking lot. 411 00:18:33,039 --> 00:18:37,386 She dangled her badge in front of the camera before she scanned 412 00:18:37,386 --> 00:18:37,487 it. 413 00:18:37,487 --> 00:18:42,474 In giving everyone a clear view of, like what that security was 414 00:18:42,474 --> 00:18:42,474 . 415 00:18:42,474 --> 00:18:51,886 That security was, she showed herself going in to like their 416 00:18:51,906 --> 00:18:53,152 back office, getting the money out of the safe, putting the 417 00:18:53,172 --> 00:18:54,578 money in the canister, showing people what that canister looked 418 00:18:54,578 --> 00:18:54,799 like. 419 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:58,988 So if you were walking to the LAX like airport and you saw 420 00:18:59,087 --> 00:19:02,321 like this very particular briefcase, you knew there was 421 00:19:02,362 --> 00:19:03,184 cash in there. 422 00:19:03,184 --> 00:19:07,442 But she was timestamping everything so people could 423 00:19:07,624 --> 00:19:08,244 follow her. 424 00:19:08,305 --> 00:19:12,701 Basically, and the best part was and this is my favorite she 425 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,589 actually recorded herself like logging into the POS, which, if 426 00:19:16,690 --> 00:19:19,405 you could slow it down, you can see her employee code. 427 00:19:19,405 --> 00:19:20,269 You could see everything. 428 00:19:20,269 --> 00:19:23,402 So, anyway, oh, and she also recorded herself taking a nap in 429 00:19:23,402 --> 00:19:27,930 the back, which was but I just wanted to, you know, just kind 430 00:19:27,970 --> 00:19:31,602 of throw that out there and being and saying like you don't 431 00:19:31,923 --> 00:19:35,630 need to record everything, like we should know less of each 432 00:19:35,730 --> 00:19:40,145 other, I don't need to know like you going to work in the 433 00:19:40,185 --> 00:19:43,152 morning, let's just all take a step back and put the phones 434 00:19:43,211 --> 00:19:43,553 down. 435 00:19:43,903 --> 00:19:46,262 Speaker 3: Yeah I don't know about you guys, but there's 436 00:19:46,323 --> 00:19:49,070 things in my 20s that I'm glad there's no photographic evidence 437 00:19:49,070 --> 00:19:55,595 of honestly exactly yes, exactly there is definitely. 438 00:19:55,755 --> 00:19:57,259 Speaker 4: Oh, I was talking about this with someone, 439 00:19:57,378 --> 00:19:59,845 actually there was that. 440 00:19:59,845 --> 00:20:00,887 It's so funny you brought it up . 441 00:20:00,887 --> 00:20:03,500 It was one of those like generational things, like gen c 442 00:20:03,561 --> 00:20:10,182 doesn't know what it's like, but honestly, like we I think they 443 00:20:10,201 --> 00:20:11,951 said millennials are the last generation to know life before 444 00:20:11,971 --> 00:20:16,701 social media and like we had the freedom to act like fools and 445 00:20:16,781 --> 00:20:18,568 not have everyone record us. 446 00:20:18,568 --> 00:20:22,971 Like we had like that luxury. 447 00:20:22,971 --> 00:20:25,988 So anyway, put your phones away when you're at work. 448 00:20:25,988 --> 00:20:26,950 Just put them away. 449 00:20:27,171 --> 00:20:32,844 Speaker 2: Yeah, like put them away Apparently at my work 450 00:20:33,023 --> 00:20:36,088 there's someone whose desk is not far from mine, who I've 451 00:20:36,189 --> 00:20:39,474 never known, is doing social media videos and everything. 452 00:20:39,474 --> 00:20:42,510 And another employee said oh, I saw you walking behind this 453 00:20:42,570 --> 00:20:45,200 person's desk while they were doing a social media thing. 454 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,021 I'm like what are you? 455 00:20:46,021 --> 00:20:50,852 I'm like, really, they're recording social media stuff, 456 00:20:50,872 --> 00:20:51,353 did I mean? 457 00:20:52,623 --> 00:20:55,308 Speaker 3: anyways, that's I would say I would say about 458 00:20:55,328 --> 00:20:57,580 every six months I have that conversation with my team like 459 00:20:57,621 --> 00:21:01,048 hey, you guys understand that back here is not a place to 460 00:21:01,088 --> 00:21:04,645 record, or you want to have private phone calls go outside. 461 00:21:04,645 --> 00:21:09,486 But but this is HR, lots of things happen in here and it 462 00:21:09,506 --> 00:21:10,828 doesn't need to leave HR. 463 00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:11,710 Speaker 4: Yeah. 464 00:21:12,111 --> 00:21:14,883 Speaker 2: One person I've worked with very briefly for two 465 00:21:14,883 --> 00:21:19,333 times, but she had this rule that I've carried with me ever 466 00:21:19,393 --> 00:21:23,846 since the four walls rule, and within these four HR walls we 467 00:21:23,905 --> 00:21:27,771 can say and do all sorts of abhorrent shit that vent 468 00:21:27,932 --> 00:21:29,775 ourselves the HR safe space. 469 00:21:30,075 --> 00:21:34,247 Yes, If we want to say that Warren is the dumbest ass 470 00:21:34,287 --> 00:21:37,032 employee, what the fuck did Warren do today? 471 00:21:37,032 --> 00:21:40,763 Oh my gosh, we can say that as loud and with as much tone and 472 00:21:40,824 --> 00:21:45,551 attitude with each other as we need just to get it off and be 473 00:21:46,153 --> 00:21:49,723 you know, get that out of your system so you don't say it to 474 00:21:49,744 --> 00:21:50,826 the employee themselves. 475 00:21:50,826 --> 00:21:54,844 And I love that rule and it led to a lot of great conversations 476 00:21:54,844 --> 00:21:55,946 the four walls rule. 477 00:21:56,508 --> 00:21:57,509 Speaker 4: Laughing. 478 00:21:57,509 --> 00:21:59,701 One of my really good friends, her husband, just started with 479 00:21:59,741 --> 00:22:03,811 an Australian based company and he says like their work culture 480 00:22:03,852 --> 00:22:07,123 at this specific company is very different, like people are 481 00:22:07,143 --> 00:22:10,550 throwing the c word around and like all it's very lax. 482 00:22:10,550 --> 00:22:15,385 And he was in a meeting one day and someone said they, they 483 00:22:15,425 --> 00:22:21,862 called someone lasagna okay as a nickname and they're like yeah, 484 00:22:21,862 --> 00:22:24,990 he doesn't know, that's his nickname and they're like why is 485 00:22:24,990 --> 00:22:25,171 it? 486 00:22:25,299 --> 00:22:29,190 lasagna and someone said because I'm not gonna do an australian 487 00:22:29,289 --> 00:22:32,284 accent because I'll kill it but he said his, his head's so 488 00:22:32,443 --> 00:22:40,199 fucking baked he can't get shit done oh man I don't know why. 489 00:22:40,199 --> 00:22:42,702 The four walls just reminded me of that and I thought that was 490 00:22:42,722 --> 00:22:43,483 was hilarious. 491 00:22:43,483 --> 00:22:46,347 His head's so fucking baked he can't get shit done. 492 00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:48,131 Speaker 2: Let's see here. 493 00:22:48,131 --> 00:22:50,374 So the news. 494 00:22:50,374 --> 00:22:54,005 I'm going to keep the theme going of people behaving badly 495 00:22:54,625 --> 00:22:57,731 and we have two really good examples since our last 496 00:22:57,771 --> 00:23:02,407 recording of people behaving badly, and I'm not going to I 497 00:23:02,428 --> 00:23:04,673 don't I don't even know if the guy's name was released. 498 00:23:04,673 --> 00:23:10,369 He was the polish ceo who was at the us open and the polish 499 00:23:10,450 --> 00:23:12,942 tennis player and I don't follow tennis at all people, so I'm 500 00:23:12,962 --> 00:23:16,355 not going to go with the names, but he was giving out, signing 501 00:23:16,416 --> 00:23:20,943 autographs and giving things away and he hands this cap to 502 00:23:20,984 --> 00:23:21,444 this kid. 503 00:23:21,444 --> 00:23:24,608 Looks like he's 10, 12 years old, but this Polish CEO 504 00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:30,115 snatches it from the tennis player's hand and then gives it 505 00:23:30,155 --> 00:23:30,756 to his girlfriend. 506 00:23:30,756 --> 00:23:35,050 He's like oh, he's the cat that ate the canary happy, and he's 507 00:23:35,111 --> 00:23:35,811 all this and that. 508 00:23:35,811 --> 00:23:41,383 And the kid's like giving him just, you know, you monster type 509 00:23:41,383 --> 00:23:42,384 , look type thing. 510 00:23:42,384 --> 00:23:43,865 You monster type, look type thing. 511 00:23:43,865 --> 00:23:47,186 And that CEO later released a statement and saying you know he 512 00:23:47,186 --> 00:23:51,890 didn't realize that the hat was intended for the kid. 513 00:23:52,590 --> 00:23:55,692 Speaker 4: Oh no, he knew, he knew, just watching every minute 514 00:23:55,692 --> 00:23:58,355 of that he knew every second of what he was doing. 515 00:23:58,835 --> 00:24:02,557 Speaker 2: So you know that's just total bullshit with that 516 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:04,861 and that irritated me. 517 00:24:04,861 --> 00:24:08,791 But at least he had the gumption to acknowledge the fact 518 00:24:08,791 --> 00:24:10,826 , acknowledge what happened, even though he might have been 519 00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:11,189 lying. 520 00:24:11,189 --> 00:24:13,948 Oh, I didn't realize it was intended for the kid. 521 00:24:13,948 --> 00:24:15,487 Yes, it absolutely was. 522 00:24:15,487 --> 00:24:17,386 The whole rest of the world realized that. 523 00:24:17,386 --> 00:24:18,189 Why couldn't you? 524 00:24:18,189 --> 00:24:25,363 But the more famous one now is your, philadelphia Karen, and I 525 00:24:25,403 --> 00:24:29,143 just realized I saw another video about this. 526 00:24:29,143 --> 00:24:30,707 This was in my the. 527 00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:34,718 The home game was in miami, so they were philly fans down in 528 00:24:34,778 --> 00:24:37,183 miami or florida marlins. 529 00:24:37,183 --> 00:24:41,151 Now I guess you'd say that you know the, the homeroom ball. 530 00:24:41,151 --> 00:24:42,173 Nobody catches. 531 00:24:42,173 --> 00:24:43,303 It's bouncing around florida. 532 00:24:43,303 --> 00:24:47,786 Dad bends over in front of this lady, picks it up and gives it 533 00:24:47,826 --> 00:24:50,532 to his son and everybody's all happy except for that lady who 534 00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:52,384 swore it was hers and she's. 535 00:24:52,384 --> 00:24:55,952 He stole it out of her hand and he's yelling and she's yelling 536 00:24:55,992 --> 00:25:00,330 and screaming at him and ultimately the dad just says get 537 00:25:00,330 --> 00:25:03,040 the fuck out of here and gives the ball back to the lady. 538 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:03,903 It's not worth it. 539 00:25:03,903 --> 00:25:08,912 But now social media says that she was been identified and been 540 00:25:08,912 --> 00:25:09,753 fired from her job. 541 00:25:09,753 --> 00:25:12,047 If social media is right, she's a? 542 00:25:12,047 --> 00:25:15,826 Uh works on a school board somewhere up in New Jersey or 543 00:25:15,887 --> 00:25:16,990 something like that that's. 544 00:25:17,151 --> 00:25:20,125 Speaker 3: That's what I saw, but then I saw another post the 545 00:25:20,164 --> 00:25:22,289 day after that said that it wasn't her. 546 00:25:22,289 --> 00:25:24,259 Yeah, oh, so yeah, who the day? 547 00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:26,001 Speaker 2: after that said that it wasn't her. 548 00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:26,883 Yeah, oh, so yeah, who knows? 549 00:25:26,883 --> 00:25:30,165 But wherever she works, hopefully she doesn't work there 550 00:25:30,165 --> 00:25:35,471 anymore, because that type of volatility you know the CEO, he 551 00:25:35,511 --> 00:25:37,473 was just being a jerk and grabbed a hat there was no 552 00:25:37,614 --> 00:25:40,616 volatility, anger, rage, whatever in that. 553 00:25:40,616 --> 00:25:44,166 This lady lost her shit altogether and first it's sort 554 00:25:44,186 --> 00:25:47,542 of par, for course, for a Phillies fan in any sport, yeah 555 00:25:47,583 --> 00:25:48,887 worst fans ever. 556 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,388 Yeah, and actually I know we have listeners in Philadelphia. 557 00:25:52,388 --> 00:25:53,290 You know they're going to hate me. 558 00:25:53,290 --> 00:25:57,147 Philadelphia is one of the physically dirtiest cities I 559 00:25:57,208 --> 00:25:58,432 think I've ever been in. 560 00:25:58,432 --> 00:26:00,507 Maybe St Louis has got it topped. 561 00:26:00,507 --> 00:26:02,160 St Louis might have it topped. 562 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:12,040 Sorry, listeners in St Louis, but a few years ago I went with 563 00:26:12,060 --> 00:26:13,203 my son and we're going around all the touristy areas in 564 00:26:13,223 --> 00:26:13,986 Philadelphia and there is filth. 565 00:26:13,986 --> 00:26:15,108 We're in like near the Liberty Bell area. 566 00:26:15,108 --> 00:26:19,922 There is filth everywhere, needles in public places and 567 00:26:21,023 --> 00:26:22,646 like unhinged crazies. 568 00:26:22,646 --> 00:26:26,012 Out there there was one unhinged person who was just 569 00:26:26,053 --> 00:26:27,806 going nuts and me and my son walked into the. 570 00:26:27,806 --> 00:26:28,810 There was a bank nearby. 571 00:26:28,810 --> 00:26:30,318 Hey, let's go into this bank. 572 00:26:30,318 --> 00:26:33,386 We have no business being here, but I don't think a crazy is 573 00:26:33,406 --> 00:26:36,663 going to come in here and we just sort of watched him walk by 574 00:26:36,663 --> 00:26:38,669 and we left just because it was just. 575 00:26:38,669 --> 00:26:43,984 Philadelphia is and I have many , actual many friends who live 576 00:26:44,306 --> 00:26:45,690 around Philadelphia. 577 00:26:45,690 --> 00:26:49,840 It's just a filthy, dirty, disgusting little city, not 578 00:26:49,881 --> 00:26:50,986 little city, but it's. 579 00:26:51,319 --> 00:26:53,307 Speaker 4: I was just going to say you guys need to get your 580 00:26:53,326 --> 00:26:56,865 sports fans in order Because, I don't know, I heard they also 581 00:26:56,884 --> 00:27:00,133 have a jail in their stadiums because they just get so rowdy. 582 00:27:00,133 --> 00:27:02,224 Just get your people in order, yeah. 583 00:27:02,265 --> 00:27:04,029 Speaker 2: Sorry. 584 00:27:04,550 --> 00:27:07,987 Speaker 4: Sorry, that woman, just being a Phillies fan, was 585 00:27:08,007 --> 00:27:09,471 the icing on the cake it was. 586 00:27:09,759 --> 00:27:12,926 Speaker 3: You know, though, the team came through, though, and 587 00:27:13,107 --> 00:27:16,545 really they resolved the issue, and I think, probably one of the 588 00:27:16,545 --> 00:27:18,607 best ways it turns out, it was the kid's birthday. 589 00:27:19,131 --> 00:27:20,859 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that day I didn't love it. 590 00:27:20,940 --> 00:27:27,064 Speaker 3: And so they brought him like a swag bag, yeah, that 591 00:27:27,027 --> 00:27:27,086 day. 592 00:27:27,086 --> 00:27:27,980 And so they brought him like a swag bag, yeah, and then the the 593 00:27:27,980 --> 00:27:29,829 team that that was the stadium brought him a swag bag with a 594 00:27:29,794 --> 00:27:30,212 whole bunch of stuff in it. 595 00:27:30,212 --> 00:27:32,400 And then the team the phillies actually brought him down after 596 00:27:32,420 --> 00:27:35,871 the game and got got him to get a signed bat from the guy that 597 00:27:35,891 --> 00:27:36,740 hit the home run. 598 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:41,369 Speaker 2: Yeah, so and you know , kudos to both the marlins and 599 00:27:41,390 --> 00:27:43,760 the phillies organizations for doing that. 600 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,849 Yeah, because, and the thing is , it's not one of those things 601 00:27:46,869 --> 00:27:49,826 that we're finding out those players knew what was happening 602 00:27:50,488 --> 00:27:53,727 right then and there, and one of the screenshots I showed, 603 00:27:53,747 --> 00:27:57,058 they're doing pitch one and it's a home run and they show all 604 00:27:57,078 --> 00:27:57,440 the commotion. 605 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,646 They do pitch two and they're going back to the commotion 606 00:28:00,867 --> 00:28:05,141 after the thing and they're going back and forth and I'm 607 00:28:05,162 --> 00:28:06,878 like geez, lady, you are completely unhinged. 608 00:28:07,380 --> 00:28:09,150 Speaker 4: It's just the audacity. 609 00:28:09,150 --> 00:28:12,548 It's the audacity, like that's my ball. 610 00:28:12,548 --> 00:28:13,851 You gotta be fast. 611 00:28:14,622 --> 00:28:14,721 Speaker 1: And. 612 00:28:14,741 --> 00:28:15,404 Speaker 4: I will say this. 613 00:28:15,404 --> 00:28:20,540 So, mr CEC, uh, like we go to a few concerts and we've been to 614 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,636 a concert before where, like he caught the pick of a guitarist 615 00:28:24,656 --> 00:28:28,186 who like threw it, and my and and mr cc loves to play guitars, 616 00:28:28,186 --> 00:28:32,500 so but he caught the guitar and there was a kid behind him who 617 00:28:32,539 --> 00:28:35,255 wanted the guitar pick and he just sucked it up and gave it to 618 00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:40,090 the kid and like it's not that big of a deal, like I get I'm so 619 00:28:40,090 --> 00:28:42,737 sorry, if you are a sports fan, it could be that big of a deal. 620 00:28:42,737 --> 00:28:46,364 I get it, people you know, but I don't know. 621 00:28:46,364 --> 00:28:50,497 So now we have a thing where whenever we go to see a show, he 622 00:28:50,497 --> 00:28:52,181 brings some fake pics with them . 623 00:28:52,181 --> 00:28:54,425 So if he catches, the real pic he will 624 00:28:54,486 --> 00:28:57,659 Speaker 2: give the fake pic to the child oh, that's what you 625 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:58,520 need to start doing. 626 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,826 You start to you start bringing fake balls you know now I've 627 00:29:01,792 --> 00:29:02,034 attended. 628 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,009 you know I was a baseball umpire for 15 years but I've attended 629 00:29:02,974 --> 00:29:03,140 a number. 630 00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:04,008 To start doing you start bringing fake balls. 631 00:29:04,008 --> 00:29:04,478 You know, now I've attended. 632 00:29:04,478 --> 00:29:07,070 You know I was a baseball umpire for 15 years but I've 633 00:29:07,112 --> 00:29:08,071 attended a number of games. 634 00:29:08,071 --> 00:29:13,782 I've never been even near a foul ball or a home run ball in 635 00:29:13,803 --> 00:29:17,221 the stands, never, not close to it Once. 636 00:29:17,221 --> 00:29:19,787 So I was like, and yeah so. 637 00:29:19,787 --> 00:29:23,020 And then these people who seem to always be in the right place 638 00:29:23,060 --> 00:29:23,722 at the right time. 639 00:29:24,464 --> 00:29:25,027 Speaker 4: Always yeah. 640 00:29:26,915 --> 00:29:32,295 Speaker 2: So, okay, I've got a couple of stories here. 641 00:29:32,295 --> 00:29:36,646 One of them I was speaking to my best friend from junior high 642 00:29:36,934 --> 00:29:40,365 and for those of you who are younger than me, that's middle 643 00:29:40,404 --> 00:29:40,665 school. 644 00:29:40,665 --> 00:29:45,740 Anyways, he is for the past few years he's been a director at a 645 00:29:45,740 --> 00:29:50,484 state agency and he got notification for the first time 646 00:29:50,816 --> 00:29:54,415 since he's been director that they get to not only hire but 647 00:29:54,696 --> 00:29:55,981 it's adding a headcount. 648 00:29:55,981 --> 00:29:59,260 It's one person, a whopping one person they're adding to the 649 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:04,192 headcount and you know he's been searching and searching and 650 00:30:04,232 --> 00:30:07,082 he's just getting so pissed off through these interviews. 651 00:30:07,082 --> 00:30:10,992 And you know he's his current team. 652 00:30:10,992 --> 00:30:13,599 He has got a lot of people with a one to three years of 653 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:14,080 experience. 654 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,357 He's got like two people in that five to 10 years of 655 00:30:18,438 --> 00:30:20,823 experience and then everybody else is like him who've been 656 00:30:21,223 --> 00:30:25,641 doing it for 25 plus years, and so he wants someone with like 657 00:30:25,962 --> 00:30:29,094 five to 10 years of experience, that middle ground, to sort of 658 00:30:29,173 --> 00:30:31,358 even out his team a little bit. 659 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:35,007 But he's doing all these interviews and he's finding 660 00:30:35,047 --> 00:30:36,048 these people. 661 00:30:36,048 --> 00:30:38,782 He's being sent these resumes with people with five to 10 662 00:30:38,803 --> 00:30:41,861 years of experience, but they have one year here, two years 663 00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:46,561 there and he asked them questions that if someone's been 664 00:30:46,561 --> 00:30:49,316 working in their field for five to 10 years should know, and 665 00:30:49,355 --> 00:30:50,157 they don't have a clue. 666 00:30:50,157 --> 00:30:53,606 He says they've got one year of experience, five times and 667 00:30:53,626 --> 00:30:54,115 things like that. 668 00:30:54,115 --> 00:30:57,022 And then the term he used, which I thought was just 669 00:30:57,103 --> 00:30:58,875 brilliant, I'm going to steal it from him. 670 00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:00,839 He says they're job tourists. 671 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:06,101 They come in and they you know, oh, portland, oregon, so cool 672 00:31:06,181 --> 00:31:06,643 place to go. 673 00:31:06,643 --> 00:31:08,596 I'm going to go there and get a job and do this for a little 674 00:31:08,615 --> 00:31:08,776 while. 675 00:31:08,776 --> 00:31:11,923 And then, oh, let's go to Santa Fe, new Mexico, and that's a 676 00:31:11,964 --> 00:31:12,807 cool place to go. 677 00:31:12,807 --> 00:31:16,980 And you know, they just they jump around not focusing on 678 00:31:17,079 --> 00:31:19,403 they're getting jobs, they're employed, but they're not 679 00:31:19,423 --> 00:31:20,565 focusing on their career. 680 00:31:21,445 --> 00:31:26,516 And the thing is he can hire either one of two positions and 681 00:31:26,557 --> 00:31:27,721 he's running the problem with both. 682 00:31:27,721 --> 00:31:29,882 He hasn't decided which way he's going to go, so he's 683 00:31:29,942 --> 00:31:31,796 advertising both One. 684 00:31:31,796 --> 00:31:34,143 The main thing he really wants is someone to work out in the 685 00:31:34,182 --> 00:31:38,075 field and do field work, and that's his first priority. 686 00:31:38,075 --> 00:31:40,858 But if he can't find that, he's willing to settle Not settle. 687 00:31:40,858 --> 00:31:45,744 But he's also looking at a data scientist to do the work. 688 00:31:46,165 --> 00:31:55,095 Their field people come in and do their own data work and he 689 00:31:55,115 --> 00:31:56,337 says I could have more people out in the field more often. 690 00:31:56,337 --> 00:31:57,820 If I have a data scientist doing the backend stuff but he 691 00:31:57,881 --> 00:32:02,829 can't find either that they have know they they're have real 692 00:32:02,869 --> 00:32:03,270 experience. 693 00:32:03,270 --> 00:32:05,319 He's almost at the point where he's going to go to a college 694 00:32:05,339 --> 00:32:08,452 and just hire an entry level either way and develop them 695 00:32:08,493 --> 00:32:10,382 himself and he says it sucks that he's. 696 00:32:10,382 --> 00:32:13,054 Half his team is one to three years of experience and he 697 00:32:13,094 --> 00:32:16,403 wanted you know some more people because he wants to be out in 698 00:32:16,423 --> 00:32:19,416 the field and he says with all these one to three year people 699 00:32:19,877 --> 00:32:22,984 he's training and doing things like that in the field but he's 700 00:32:23,025 --> 00:32:24,387 not doing the work himself. 701 00:32:24,387 --> 00:32:26,303 So it's just really interesting . 702 00:32:26,303 --> 00:32:29,765 But I love the term job tourist with that. 703 00:32:31,939 --> 00:32:33,443 Speaker 3: I guess you can afford to do that if you don't 704 00:32:33,523 --> 00:32:34,727 have to worry about finances. 705 00:32:35,295 --> 00:32:36,380 Speaker 2: Yeah, bingo. 706 00:32:36,380 --> 00:32:38,541 I think that's the thing. 707 00:32:39,537 --> 00:32:40,361 Speaker 3: There's a good story. 708 00:32:40,361 --> 00:32:42,077 You guys of course know Adam Sandler. 709 00:32:42,077 --> 00:32:42,538 That's the thing. 710 00:32:42,538 --> 00:32:43,000 There's a good story. 711 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:43,800 You guys of course know Adam Sandler. 712 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,626 There in the 90s, apparently, he chose his jobs, the movies 713 00:32:46,646 --> 00:32:50,337 that he was going to do, based on where they were being filmed, 714 00:32:50,337 --> 00:32:52,403 so that he could take his family on vacations. 715 00:32:52,403 --> 00:32:53,246 That's funny. 716 00:32:54,617 --> 00:32:56,203 Speaker 2: Hey, if you could do it. 717 00:32:56,203 --> 00:33:00,201 That's why he's doing 50 First States in Hawaii and things like 718 00:33:00,201 --> 00:33:00,481 that. 719 00:33:00,994 --> 00:33:03,203 Speaker 4: What was the one that they went to Africa blended? 720 00:33:03,203 --> 00:33:05,582 Was that the one where it was like Drew Barrymore and they 721 00:33:05,602 --> 00:33:08,498 were like a blended family and they like both go like that 722 00:33:08,518 --> 00:33:10,403 would have been a really cool family vacation, yeah. 723 00:33:12,816 --> 00:33:15,182 Speaker 2: Adam Sandler, drew Barrymore, in that that 51st 724 00:33:15,201 --> 00:33:17,858 States and those that year, they did a bunch of Never Been 725 00:33:17,898 --> 00:33:18,220 Kissed. 726 00:33:18,220 --> 00:33:20,454 Was that, yeah, never Been Kissed? 727 00:33:20,454 --> 00:33:22,175 And a bunch of other cool ones. 728 00:33:22,957 --> 00:33:26,298 Speaker 4: Honestly, this is not HR related, but I watched Happy 729 00:33:26,298 --> 00:33:26,979 Gilmore 2. 730 00:33:26,979 --> 00:33:32,141 Oh yes, a couple weeks ago I was delightfully surprised at 731 00:33:32,402 --> 00:33:33,662 how much I enjoyed it. 732 00:33:33,662 --> 00:33:38,144 I was a big Happy Gilmore fan the original but I just thought 733 00:33:38,345 --> 00:33:41,885 the sequel was just so well done it was, and all of his 734 00:33:42,026 --> 00:33:45,367 daughters and his wife were in it and I was like he's such a 735 00:33:45,387 --> 00:33:45,928 good family. 736 00:33:45,948 --> 00:33:50,090 I mean I like I saw him do stand up like he did like a stand up 737 00:33:50,131 --> 00:33:53,192 show, a live show here and he's like half singing, half stand up 738 00:33:53,192 --> 00:33:53,192 . 739 00:33:53,192 --> 00:33:55,313 He just seems like such a good guy. 740 00:33:55,313 --> 00:33:58,721 Yeah, like I really hope he, I really hope he's not like the 741 00:33:58,761 --> 00:34:00,866 next Dave Grohl who just let us all down. 742 00:34:02,835 --> 00:34:03,798 Speaker 2: Oh, oh, really hope he's not like the next dave 743 00:34:03,818 --> 00:34:04,442 grohl who just let us all down. 744 00:34:04,442 --> 00:34:05,486 Oh, oh, don't, don't break my heart about dave grohl. 745 00:34:05,486 --> 00:34:06,892 I have not heard any negative things about him. 746 00:34:06,913 --> 00:34:07,434 Speaker 4: Oh, you didn't hear. 747 00:34:07,434 --> 00:34:10,547 Like a year ago he came out that he had like a kid outside 748 00:34:10,648 --> 00:34:12,976 of wedlock, like outside of his marriage, and like there's a 749 00:34:13,036 --> 00:34:16,105 woman in some country that like has like a one-year-old or a 750 00:34:16,144 --> 00:34:18,878 two-year-old okay wow I. 751 00:34:18,898 --> 00:34:22,467 Speaker 2: I was thinking he was going to be that's bad, but I 752 00:34:22,487 --> 00:34:23,668 was thinking it was going to be a lot worse. 753 00:34:23,668 --> 00:34:27,144 He was going to be a racist, or yeah, yeah, or something like 754 00:34:27,545 --> 00:34:27,666 that. 755 00:34:27,666 --> 00:34:32,704 Dave Grohl he's one of my all-time favorite musicians, 756 00:34:32,826 --> 00:34:33,728 artists, whatever. 757 00:34:35,297 --> 00:34:35,980 He let us down. 758 00:34:35,980 --> 00:34:41,463 Well, I have three more little quickie things today, and this 759 00:34:41,704 --> 00:34:43,989 one will go with what I just spoke about. 760 00:34:43,989 --> 00:34:46,463 This comes to us from LinkedIn. 761 00:34:46,463 --> 00:34:51,706 The writer is Liz Ryan and her byline is coach. 762 00:34:51,706 --> 00:34:53,478 You know my feeling on coaches. 763 00:34:53,538 --> 00:34:57,326 Creator, ceo and founder, human workspace author. 764 00:34:57,326 --> 00:34:58,909 Blah blah, blah, blah, blah blah. 765 00:34:58,909 --> 00:35:04,144 So she does everything, but the attention gettinggetting meme 766 00:35:04,204 --> 00:35:07,641 is you don't need to ask candidates about resume gaps. 767 00:35:07,641 --> 00:35:10,527 They're irrelevant and none of your business. 768 00:35:10,527 --> 00:35:14,844 And that just triggered me right off the word gap, and I'll 769 00:35:14,844 --> 00:35:19,440 read it's like I don't know a paragraph she wrote there's no 770 00:35:19,501 --> 00:35:23,378 reason or justification for asking a candidate why they have 771 00:35:23,378 --> 00:35:24,101 a resume gap. 772 00:35:24,101 --> 00:35:25,143 That's their personal life. 773 00:35:25,143 --> 00:35:27,981 Would you ask a consultant what they've been doing since their 774 00:35:28,023 --> 00:35:29,246 last consulting engagement? 775 00:35:29,246 --> 00:35:32,864 If they gave me a chronological list and I saw a big gap, yes, 776 00:35:32,985 --> 00:35:33,505 I would ask. 777 00:35:33,505 --> 00:35:35,041 But that's another thing. 778 00:35:35,536 --> 00:35:38,380 Continuing what she wrote, why does anyone have to justify 779 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,086 stepping off the conveyor belt, or even for a few months? 780 00:35:41,086 --> 00:35:43,735 Do you see how toxic and controlling the question what 781 00:35:43,755 --> 00:35:45,181 were you doing during this gap is? 782 00:35:45,181 --> 00:35:48,340 If you can see that you are someone who can lead through 783 00:35:48,380 --> 00:35:51,902 trust rather than fear, if you can't see why this question is 784 00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:55,922 wildly inappropriate, pay close attention next time you ask and 785 00:35:56,385 --> 00:35:58,898 see if a candidate fights back tears remembering a family 786 00:35:58,938 --> 00:36:00,003 member's illness or death. 787 00:36:00,003 --> 00:36:03,619 What someone was doing during a break is simply none of your 788 00:36:03,659 --> 00:36:07,385 business and I am going to call giant bullshit on that one. 789 00:36:07,385 --> 00:36:13,318 Yes, I've said it on the podcast before In 2011, I was 790 00:36:13,378 --> 00:36:18,525 laid off twice in that same year and in 2002, I was terminated 791 00:36:18,565 --> 00:36:20,721 for cause and that I had a three-month gap. 792 00:36:20,721 --> 00:36:24,478 And when people ask oh yeah, I lost my job because I sucked at 793 00:36:24,518 --> 00:36:28,523 my job at that time and I really said something you know, not 794 00:36:28,543 --> 00:36:30,378 that directly, but yeah, I didn't. 795 00:36:30,378 --> 00:36:31,764 You know, I tried something new . 796 00:36:31,764 --> 00:36:32,840 It didn't work out for me. 797 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,356 I ended up losing my job. 798 00:36:34,815 --> 00:36:38,862 Speaker 3: But answer the question even if it is okay, no, 799 00:36:38,862 --> 00:36:42,271 I was just to say like there's some times where you know, 800 00:36:42,472 --> 00:36:46,206 especially like I got a background screens, I see all 801 00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:49,072 those and you can see when someone spent time in jail or 802 00:36:49,099 --> 00:36:51,887 something like that, and and it matches up where that gap is and 803 00:36:51,887 --> 00:36:54,266 sometimes you just want to see if they'll they'll say anything, 804 00:36:54,266 --> 00:36:57,239 you know, and like recently I had a guy who's sitting in my 805 00:36:57,318 --> 00:36:59,204 office we're getting, we're onboarding him right, we're 806 00:36:59,224 --> 00:36:59,625 hiring him. 807 00:36:59,625 --> 00:37:02,130 He's not going to get kicked out the door, because I already 808 00:37:02,170 --> 00:37:03,213 looked at his background screening. 809 00:37:03,213 --> 00:37:03,681 But I asked him. 810 00:37:03,681 --> 00:37:05,625 I was like, hey, look, I see this gap in here. 811 00:37:05,625 --> 00:37:06,824 What's going on? 812 00:37:06,824 --> 00:37:09,382 And he goes oh yeah, I spent some time in jail for a stupid 813 00:37:09,422 --> 00:37:11,389 decision that I made when I was a little younger. 814 00:37:11,389 --> 00:37:13,387 I was like well, as long as you learn from it, move on. 815 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,045 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, have a tragedy in your life or your 816 00:37:26,065 --> 00:37:27,469 family that you know, I don't know a spouse died and you 817 00:37:27,489 --> 00:37:28,875 needed some time off, or maybe you wanted to be a stay-at-home 818 00:37:28,894 --> 00:37:28,956 mom. 819 00:37:28,956 --> 00:37:31,362 Those are legitimate answers and you don't have to go into 820 00:37:31,422 --> 00:37:32,045 too much detail. 821 00:37:32,045 --> 00:37:35,641 And I tell you what when I ask that question if you start going 822 00:37:35,641 --> 00:37:39,110 into too much detail in a long story, more than a single 823 00:37:39,291 --> 00:37:44,842 paragraph or so means you're bullshitting me. 824 00:37:44,842 --> 00:37:46,164 You know, if you're going to tell me this long, drawn-out 825 00:37:46,184 --> 00:37:47,208 story, okay, I'm not believing that. 826 00:37:47,208 --> 00:37:50,224 But oh, yeah, I took some time off to spend time with my kids, 827 00:37:50,304 --> 00:37:54,159 my family, or I had an illness, or you know, you know, or I had 828 00:37:54,179 --> 00:37:55,461 something personal going on in my life. 829 00:37:55,461 --> 00:37:56,885 That's all you have to say. 830 00:37:56,885 --> 00:37:58,708 But I, I don't want to. 831 00:37:58,708 --> 00:38:01,967 I I kind of want to hear what, because if you're starting to 832 00:38:01,987 --> 00:38:04,079 bullshit me, then things are going sideways. 833 00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:06,746 So, ms Liz, Ryan. 834 00:38:07,086 --> 00:38:10,202 I really could not disagree with you more, and I think most of 835 00:38:10,242 --> 00:38:15,293 the HR community is going to be on there with us. 836 00:38:15,860 --> 00:38:17,945 Speaker 3: Well, unless she's in her 80s, there's no reason to 837 00:38:17,965 --> 00:38:18,387 be a coach. 838 00:38:18,407 --> 00:38:22,963 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know coaches and consultants. 839 00:38:22,963 --> 00:38:25,670 They're just people who lost their job. 840 00:38:25,670 --> 00:38:27,780 Otherwise, most of the time, it seems so. 841 00:38:27,780 --> 00:38:30,867 They were terminated for cause, probably from their employment, 842 00:38:30,867 --> 00:38:33,932 or maybe got laid off and decided to go out on their own. 843 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,027 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm laughing because it's true. 844 00:38:38,001 --> 00:38:40,706 Speaker 3: I have to admit I've met several HR professionals in 845 00:38:41,047 --> 00:38:43,974 my region that are no longer with active companies. 846 00:38:43,974 --> 00:38:46,559 They've decided to start their own business as HR consultants 847 00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:48,728 and I'm like, yeah, you got fired. 848 00:38:48,728 --> 00:38:50,967 I know you got fired because I know the company you're working 849 00:38:51,088 --> 00:38:51,148 at. 850 00:38:51,148 --> 00:38:53,367 They all told me why you got fired. 851 00:38:53,367 --> 00:38:54,965 Because they wanted me to come work for them. 852 00:38:54,985 --> 00:38:56,811 Speaker 4: It's really funny. 853 00:38:58,043 --> 00:38:58,887 Speaker 2: It's crazy. 854 00:38:58,887 --> 00:39:02,570 It's a consultant coach type thing. 855 00:39:02,570 --> 00:39:03,963 Keynote speaker. 856 00:39:03,963 --> 00:39:04,847 Add that to the list. 857 00:39:04,847 --> 00:39:06,626 That's the next thing they'll be doing too. 858 00:39:07,387 --> 00:39:11,309 Speaker 4: That's interesting, honestly, like I don't know. 859 00:39:11,309 --> 00:39:13,126 I don't know how I feel about that, because there is a bit of 860 00:39:13,166 --> 00:39:13,286 me. 861 00:39:13,286 --> 00:39:14,250 I could see both sides. 862 00:39:14,250 --> 00:39:16,527 I could honestly see both sides to that argument. 863 00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:20,385 Speaker 3: You know, if you had plenty of experience to back up 864 00:39:21,929 --> 00:39:24,693 your coaching or consulting, then that would be different. 865 00:39:24,693 --> 00:39:26,867 But some of these folks do it right out the gate. 866 00:39:27,579 --> 00:39:29,126 Speaker 4: Yeah, they really do. 867 00:39:29,126 --> 00:39:33,590 I'm just laughing because I did work with someone who was fired 868 00:39:33,590 --> 00:39:33,590 . 869 00:39:33,590 --> 00:39:36,909 That person started their own consulting business. 870 00:39:36,909 --> 00:39:40,608 Yeah, it's just funny to me. 871 00:39:40,608 --> 00:39:42,286 And they just released a book. 872 00:39:45,159 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 3: Oh, okay. 873 00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:48,652 Speaker 2: How to Get get fired in 10 ways and next are they on 874 00:39:48,672 --> 00:39:50,380 the speakers, apparently masturbating on a toilet while 875 00:39:53,184 --> 00:39:54,346 doing coke is the answer. 876 00:39:55,628 --> 00:39:58,452 Speaker 4: Oh geez, yeah, no, it's. 877 00:39:58,452 --> 00:40:01,440 It's funny, though, and I, I I kind of want to read it because 878 00:40:01,460 --> 00:40:05,307 I'm interested in it, mainly because when we had worked 879 00:40:05,389 --> 00:40:08,134 together, I was the one that usually authored things. 880 00:40:09,221 --> 00:40:13,010 And this individual had a weakness in that area that he 881 00:40:13,291 --> 00:40:13,793 admitted to. 882 00:40:13,793 --> 00:40:17,650 But I'm just laughing because I'm just like I'm interested in 883 00:40:17,670 --> 00:40:18,090 the book now. 884 00:40:18,090 --> 00:40:23,572 Morbid curiosity, like I said. 885 00:40:23,572 --> 00:40:25,844 But you know what, though? 886 00:40:25,844 --> 00:40:29,264 Here's the thing Everyone's out there getting their money, 887 00:40:29,405 --> 00:40:30,226 they're getting paid. 888 00:40:30,226 --> 00:40:34,023 Good on him for figuring it out , because he's probably very 889 00:40:34,063 --> 00:40:37,090 happy doing what he's doing and I'm very happy doing what I'm 890 00:40:37,130 --> 00:40:40,588 doing, so go off, king. 891 00:40:42,460 --> 00:40:44,965 Speaker 2: Like I said, once I get my master's degree I'll have 892 00:40:44,965 --> 00:40:47,891 those three extra letters to put behind my name with all my 893 00:40:47,931 --> 00:40:51,063 other little letters I could put behind it, and I want to just 894 00:40:51,103 --> 00:40:53,628 start having AI write books and sign them and just do 895 00:40:53,668 --> 00:40:54,913 self-published AI books. 896 00:40:54,913 --> 00:40:58,929 You know I've written 35 books in three days. 897 00:40:58,929 --> 00:40:59,851 You know something like that. 898 00:41:00,641 --> 00:41:03,976 Speaker 4: See, isn't that kind of sad, like I feel like now AI 899 00:41:04,016 --> 00:41:07,641 has made it so easy for people to create like AI slop in 900 00:41:07,983 --> 00:41:12,208 self-published book form, and now it's like writing a book. 901 00:41:12,208 --> 00:41:16,186 Quote-unquote is just like I have a podcast. 902 00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,646 Speaker 1: Like, everyone has a podcast. 903 00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:20,807 Speaker 4: Everyone has a book, everyone has something. 904 00:41:20,807 --> 00:41:23,385 It's just like you have two podcasts. 905 00:41:23,385 --> 00:41:26,405 Yes, that's right, I have two podcasts. 906 00:41:26,405 --> 00:41:32,786 Oh my God, it's just funny, ai is taking over. 907 00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:35,027 Speaker 3: But you know, it's a great tool if you use it right, 908 00:41:35,527 --> 00:41:35,789 it is. 909 00:41:36,121 --> 00:41:40,146 Speaker 4: Oh, a thousand percent A thousand percent. 910 00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:41,364 Speaker 2: One of my other courses. 911 00:41:41,364 --> 00:41:43,550 Well, I'm going segueing right in. 912 00:41:43,550 --> 00:41:44,855 I'm taking one of my other courses. 913 00:41:44,855 --> 00:41:46,460 Well, I'm going to segue right in. 914 00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:48,123 I'm taking a class now on operations management. 915 00:41:48,123 --> 00:41:50,349 We're talking about a lot about AI and I'm really digging that 916 00:41:50,389 --> 00:41:51,092 class so far. 917 00:41:51,092 --> 00:41:55,271 But the other class I'm taking this semester is organizational 918 00:41:55,311 --> 00:42:03,487 behavior and I love the practice of it and I won't be terribly 919 00:42:03,568 --> 00:42:03,989 jaded. 920 00:42:03,989 --> 00:42:05,802 It's a couple of weeks in. 921 00:42:05,802 --> 00:42:07,148 It's not that I'm learning something. 922 00:42:07,148 --> 00:42:10,362 I'm getting more or less cued in on things I've already known. 923 00:42:10,362 --> 00:42:12,847 It's like oh, there we go, and things like that. 924 00:42:12,847 --> 00:42:19,684 But I had quiz number one last week and it's talking about the 925 00:42:19,724 --> 00:42:21,646 functions of organizational behavior. 926 00:42:21,646 --> 00:42:23,588 Are we going to get quiz now? 927 00:42:23,889 --> 00:42:26,373 Speaker 4: Oh well, I can ask you these two questions. 928 00:42:26,432 --> 00:42:32,541 Speaker 3: I took screenshots of oh, okay, it's been 10 years 929 00:42:32,561 --> 00:42:35,211 since I did my master's degree, so go easy on me. 930 00:42:35,211 --> 00:42:38,320 Why do employees behave the way they do? 931 00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:41,568 Speaker 4: Jackassery Coke People be peepling Coke Coke 932 00:42:41,608 --> 00:42:42,652 People be people-ing. 933 00:42:45,226 --> 00:42:47,329 Speaker 2: Coke, cocaine. 934 00:42:47,329 --> 00:42:50,663 I mean, why do? 935 00:42:50,663 --> 00:42:54,012 There's some great theories behind it and things like that, 936 00:42:55,262 --> 00:42:58,851 but it's because, yeah, jackassery just being an asshole 937 00:42:58,851 --> 00:43:00,322 douchebag, whatever you want to call him. 938 00:43:00,443 --> 00:43:04,324 Speaker 4: Yes, correct answer, I am going to take a less jaded 939 00:43:04,443 --> 00:43:08,076 approach to this question, if we shall, and I don't even know if 940 00:43:08,076 --> 00:43:09,300 this is a correct answer. 941 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:11,085 This is just through my lens. 942 00:43:11,085 --> 00:43:15,878 In my crazy mind, I think people behave the way they do in 943 00:43:15,878 --> 00:43:20,228 organizations because 99 of the people are not psychopaths and 944 00:43:20,248 --> 00:43:22,800 they come to work and they want to do a good job and their 945 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,815 definition of a good job varies from person to person and 946 00:43:26,914 --> 00:43:30,485 sometimes those things create conflict oh you are, I think, 947 00:43:30,565 --> 00:43:31,467 one of the right answers. 948 00:43:31,507 --> 00:43:32,891 Speaker 2: I wish I had did you? 949 00:43:33,030 --> 00:43:34,141 Speaker 3: did you read that out of the book? 950 00:43:35,422 --> 00:43:38,527 Speaker 4: no, I am just that brilliant oh, I forget the term. 951 00:43:38,949 --> 00:43:39,909 Speaker 2: I just took the quiz. 952 00:43:39,909 --> 00:43:40,992 Hold up, I'm going to find it. 953 00:43:40,992 --> 00:43:42,094 I'll edit this out. 954 00:43:42,114 --> 00:43:47,806 Speaker 4: Oh, this is so fun If people on my master's cohort 955 00:43:47,867 --> 00:43:48,670 can see me now. 956 00:43:50,021 --> 00:43:52,005 Speaker 3: I remember when I was doing my master's years, I 957 00:43:52,065 --> 00:43:56,463 answered a quiz probably in the same class, and the guy actually 958 00:43:56,463 --> 00:43:59,710 failed the quiz on me and told me to rethink the answers. 959 00:43:59,710 --> 00:44:02,096 Not as a military member, oh. 960 00:44:02,117 --> 00:44:03,059 Speaker 1: A whole new, a military member. 961 00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:05,987 Speaker 3: Oh, a whole new concept for me Interesting. 962 00:44:07,210 --> 00:44:07,699 Speaker 4: How was that for you? 963 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,853 Speaker 3: Well, I was 20 years institutionalized, so it was a 964 00:44:11,873 --> 00:44:12,393 little harder. 965 00:44:13,217 --> 00:44:13,920 Speaker 4: That's interesting. 966 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:18,369 Speaker 2: I can't find the actual answer to or what the 967 00:44:18,509 --> 00:44:21,762 yeah the topic that that falls under, but it does have 968 00:44:21,822 --> 00:44:24,661 something to do with what you said it's about. 969 00:44:24,661 --> 00:44:27,809 You know people do things based on the situation. 970 00:44:27,809 --> 00:44:33,284 Essentially I can't find the exact term in my notes it ties 971 00:44:33,344 --> 00:44:34,728 into your psych class. 972 00:44:34,768 --> 00:44:38,804 Speaker 3: If you've taken that already, you know people are 973 00:44:39,226 --> 00:44:41,963 nurture versus nature and then you get put into a social 974 00:44:42,023 --> 00:44:46,942 situation and someone else's nurture nature is different and 975 00:44:46,961 --> 00:44:48,547 they're not always congruent. 976 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,628 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly so I just I wanted to put my jaded 977 00:44:52,728 --> 00:44:53,068 answer. 978 00:44:53,068 --> 00:44:55,867 I put the correct one in for that answer. 979 00:44:55,867 --> 00:44:56,550 I love it. 980 00:44:56,550 --> 00:44:59,869 And then you led to another answer. 981 00:44:59,869 --> 00:45:04,021 The next question on this quiz I screenshotted was why is one 982 00:45:04,101 --> 00:45:06,028 individual more productive than another? 983 00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:10,706 Speaker 4: Intrinsic motivation. 984 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,164 Speaker 3: Because they're not a jackass. 985 00:45:13,184 --> 00:45:14,288 Speaker 4: Because they're not. 986 00:45:15,010 --> 00:45:20,541 Speaker 2: Yeah, once again, it's almost the same answer that 987 00:45:20,541 --> 00:45:24,530 their situational values and values behaviors per the 988 00:45:24,550 --> 00:45:25,532 situation are. 989 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,086 Speaker 3: Well, and I also find that age and longevity in the 990 00:45:29,126 --> 00:45:31,753 job also drives some of that productivity issues. 991 00:45:31,753 --> 00:45:35,882 Someone who's been in the job forever I have one that kind of 992 00:45:35,902 --> 00:45:39,052 slacks off a little bit and has to be kind of redirected, 993 00:45:39,599 --> 00:45:41,367 whereas the employee- that's only been here for. 994 00:45:41,367 --> 00:45:45,110 Yeah, there's an employee that works here for like two years 995 00:45:45,219 --> 00:45:47,148 and she's like on top of it all the time. 996 00:45:47,148 --> 00:45:50,489 So, there's kind of a difference in mentality there 997 00:45:50,530 --> 00:45:50,610 too. 998 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,646 Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly. 999 00:45:52,646 --> 00:45:54,628 So I've been finding that fun. 1000 00:45:54,628 --> 00:45:56,186 I'm enjoying the class. 1001 00:45:56,186 --> 00:45:58,969 Like I said, I'm not quote unquote, learning new things, 1002 00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:00,847 but I'm just picking up on things. 1003 00:46:00,847 --> 00:46:03,440 We're a whole weekend so I'm not. 1004 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,407 It's not like I've gotten a lot of it, but it's it's going 1005 00:46:06,467 --> 00:46:07,708 pretty well so far. 1006 00:46:07,708 --> 00:46:14,248 So, yeah, what is there anything else anybody has on the 1007 00:46:14,248 --> 00:46:15,250 cover today? 1008 00:46:15,250 --> 00:46:16,351 Anything else on? 1009 00:46:16,413 --> 00:46:17,094 Speaker 4: anybody's mind. 1010 00:46:17,094 --> 00:46:20,925 Well, first of all, I think that we should. 1011 00:46:20,925 --> 00:46:25,550 We should have a weekly segment or like an episode segment, 1012 00:46:25,590 --> 00:46:28,974 where we go over what Warren learned in grad school that week 1013 00:46:28,974 --> 00:46:30,335 and we can do quizzes. 1014 00:46:30,699 --> 00:46:33,146 Speaker 2: Well, this organizational behavior class 1015 00:46:33,206 --> 00:46:35,893 might give me some good ammo for that, I know. 1016 00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:40,268 Speaker 4: But talking about people misbehaving, just really 1017 00:46:40,309 --> 00:46:43,063 quick, this was on Reddit, so take it with a grain of salt if 1018 00:46:43,103 --> 00:46:45,231 it's on Reddit, but it made me crack up. 1019 00:46:45,231 --> 00:46:50,967 So, people, it's malicious compliance, which I love some 1020 00:46:51,047 --> 00:46:55,914 good malicious compliance, especially when the rules are 1021 00:46:56,054 --> 00:46:57,255 nonsense and don't make sense. 1022 00:46:57,255 --> 00:47:01,987 So this individual said that they at their company, a new 1023 00:47:03,130 --> 00:47:05,574 they had like kind of like a dress casual situation. 1024 00:47:05,574 --> 00:47:10,347 However, some new leader came in and really wanted people to 1025 00:47:10,407 --> 00:47:14,193 stick to the dress code that was in the handbook, which, like, 1026 00:47:14,353 --> 00:47:17,385 why, like we've had this conversation so many times. 1027 00:47:17,385 --> 00:47:20,862 People are professionals, let them be professional but their 1028 00:47:20,922 --> 00:47:24,719 handbook wasn't revised since like the 90s or something Like. 1029 00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,427 It was just a very outdated dress code. 1030 00:47:26,427 --> 00:47:31,172 So some examples were that men had to wear suit, tie, jacket, 1031 00:47:31,619 --> 00:47:36,554 women had to wear blouses, knee-length skirts, nylons, 1032 00:47:37,036 --> 00:47:37,277 nylons. 1033 00:47:38,402 --> 00:47:39,445 Speaker 2: Going back to the 50s . 1034 00:47:40,588 --> 00:47:40,809 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1035 00:47:41,420 --> 00:47:47,460 A little leg action, yeah go back to the 50s, yeah, and so, 1036 00:47:47,481 --> 00:47:48,764 anyway, a few employees decided to follow the dress code to a t. 1037 00:47:48,764 --> 00:47:52,693 So we had individuals who were showing up to work in suspenders 1038 00:47:52,693 --> 00:47:58,523 in full-on, like wedding, like wedding suits, tuxedos. 1039 00:47:58,523 --> 00:48:03,492 There was people who showed up in shoulder pads and the nylons 1040 00:48:03,552 --> 00:48:04,721 and closed-toed pumps. 1041 00:48:04,721 --> 00:48:07,889 So they said it was a small team that started it. 1042 00:48:07,889 --> 00:48:11,327 By the middle of the week almost the entire office looked 1043 00:48:11,367 --> 00:48:16,402 like it was out of a corporate museum and very quickly did that 1044 00:48:16,402 --> 00:48:17,065 new leader. 1045 00:48:17,065 --> 00:48:21,440 Partner with HR to revise the dress code. 1046 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,824 Partner with HR to revise the dress code. 1047 00:48:24,706 --> 00:48:27,512 Speaker 3: That's one of those tricky areas too, especially now 1048 00:48:27,512 --> 00:48:27,512 . 1049 00:48:30,025 --> 00:48:30,326 Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. 1050 00:48:30,326 --> 00:48:31,550 A thousand percent. 1051 00:48:35,019 --> 00:48:36,286 Speaker 2: I've told this story, I'm sure on the podcast, before 1052 00:48:36,286 --> 00:48:38,375 , but my brother he was in the Army, did 20-some-odd years 1053 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:40,306 retired as a full-bird colonel. 1054 00:48:40,306 --> 00:48:45,061 But when he was a major he got hired for a job he didn't even 1055 00:48:45,121 --> 00:48:48,909 apply to, to be a military science instructor at the United 1056 00:48:48,909 --> 00:48:50,740 States Military Academy, west Point. 1057 00:48:50,740 --> 00:48:55,128 And so he's there and he's doing his thing and everything's 1058 00:48:55,128 --> 00:48:55,771 going well. 1059 00:48:55,771 --> 00:49:00,887 And one of his head people come to him and say well, you know, 1060 00:49:01,068 --> 00:49:03,422 one of the reasons we brought you on is you're so highly 1061 00:49:03,463 --> 00:49:07,027 decorated and all that and we would like to see you wear more 1062 00:49:07,340 --> 00:49:09,047 and more of your ribbons and things like that. 1063 00:49:09,047 --> 00:49:11,387 He goes no, these are the ones that are important to me, these 1064 00:49:11,427 --> 00:49:12,090 are the ones I like. 1065 00:49:12,090 --> 00:49:14,722 He goes I don't need to wear them all, I'm not going to wear 1066 00:49:14,742 --> 00:49:15,003 them all. 1067 00:49:15,463 --> 00:49:19,148 And they sort of got him to the point where they're telling wear 1068 00:49:19,148 --> 00:49:19,148 . 1069 00:49:19,148 --> 00:49:21,391 And he says I don't think there's anywhere in the UCMJ 1070 00:49:21,411 --> 00:49:23,556 that I have to wear all my ribbons. 1071 00:49:23,556 --> 00:49:28,762 And he goes well, we'd really really like you. 1072 00:49:28,762 --> 00:49:30,606 We want to impress on you how much we'd really like you to, 1073 00:49:30,646 --> 00:49:32,989 because it'll impress the kids, the students and things like 1074 00:49:33,010 --> 00:49:33,170 that. 1075 00:49:33,170 --> 00:49:38,585 So for two weeks my brother wore his dinner tuxedo with not 1076 00:49:38,646 --> 00:49:42,132 only the ribbon of everything he's had but the full metal of 1077 00:49:42,273 --> 00:49:43,173 everything he's had. 1078 00:49:43,173 --> 00:49:45,266 And for two weeks he walked around. 1079 00:49:45,266 --> 00:49:49,945 He said I looked like a third world country dictator walking 1080 00:49:49,965 --> 00:49:52,945 around the hallways at West Point in my dinner tuxedo with 1081 00:49:53,326 --> 00:49:54,820 all these things, he said. 1082 00:49:54,820 --> 00:49:58,085 After two weeks he went back to wearing the he said six or 1083 00:49:58,144 --> 00:49:58,746 eight ribbons. 1084 00:49:58,746 --> 00:50:01,784 That actually meant something to him and nobody said a word to 1085 00:50:01,784 --> 00:50:02,989 him about it ever since. 1086 00:50:04,460 --> 00:50:07,164 Speaker 4: Did anyone not tell him that it was a requirement to 1087 00:50:07,164 --> 00:50:09,610 have 15 pieces of flair? 1088 00:50:10,672 --> 00:50:12,434 Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly. 1089 00:50:13,041 --> 00:50:15,762 Speaker 4: My brother wouldn't get that reference, it is very 1090 00:50:15,963 --> 00:50:19,565 like Jim, all of the office, when Dwight sends out the dress 1091 00:50:19,605 --> 00:50:21,670 code memo and he shows up in his tux. 1092 00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:22,572 I do, I do. 1093 00:50:22,572 --> 00:50:24,320 I just Malicious. 1094 00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:25,824 Compliance is fantastic. 1095 00:50:25,824 --> 00:50:26,447 I love it. 1096 00:50:26,447 --> 00:50:27,548 Yeah, it's delicious. 1097 00:50:27,969 --> 00:50:28,972 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 1098 00:50:28,972 --> 00:50:33,028 Well, with that, I think we'll call this episode to an end. 1099 00:50:33,028 --> 00:50:34,052 Bring it to an end. 1100 00:50:34,052 --> 00:50:37,079 Our voice artist at the beginning is Andrew Kolpa, and 1101 00:50:37,141 --> 00:50:40,666 the music is the Underscore Orchestra song the Devil, the 1102 00:50:40,706 --> 00:50:41,007 Devil. 1103 00:50:41,007 --> 00:50:43,670 So, as always, I'm Warren. 1104 00:50:43,670 --> 00:50:57,065 I'm Cece and I'm Bill and we're here helping you survive. 1105 00:50:57,065 --> 00:50:57,666 Hr1. 1106 00:50:57,666 --> 00:51:00,570 What the Fuck moment at a time. 1107 00:51:00,570 --> 00:51:01,771 Yay, yay, thank you.