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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Heart podcasts, hear more kids podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free Hard I'll tell you why a
bride is potentially getting sacked because there's something to do
with a wedding very shortly.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But right now, thirteen one oh sixty five is our number.
If you work in HR human is it Human relations.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Or is it a human resources?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So they deal with all the all the complaints and
stuff within a world.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's even called HR much all these days. No experience
with them, but.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
HR deal with they do with complaints and inappropriate activities. Yeah, sure,
all that. Anyway, if you work in HR, I call it,
don't understand it. I would like to hear from you,
and specifically, I want to ask you what's the weirdest
complaint you've ever heard? I believe you want that's what
you're dealing with in HR. So if you can share
(01:02):
the weirdest complaints you've dealt with, I'd love to hear
from you. You can remain anonymous if it's an issue
in the position, you can remain anonymous.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And earlier I think there. Yeah, there definitely is a
confidentiality element to it, so you'd hope so anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Definitely well, you can keep their names out of it,
you can remain anonymous. But yeah, I would love to
hear about the weird complaints that you get. And the
reason I'm talking about it will is because this story
is it's popping off online. Effectively, There's this bride who's
in trouble at work because she's getting all these complaints
at work about her because she hasn't invited a whole
(01:41):
bunch of co works. So one there's one in particular
uninvited coworker who is who is very angry, and she
has said that the bride is creating a hostile environment
at work by not inviting her on the half of
them or inviting nine.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Is we run into trouble?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, so obviously I've got married late last year and just.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Everyone, but well not well everyone, the tech team, the cleaners, everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Had a great relationship with the was coming. I invited
everything beautiful in our direct team. But I did think
it was interesting that like, should I have invited my boss?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm pretty sure I had.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I had the conversation with Pooye where I was like,
do you think dB would would want to be invited
to the wedding? Did he want to be well we
we we run it past never how can I run
it past him?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I don't think you wanted to go?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, well that's what that's what that's what poo he said.
Poo he said he doesn't want to come to your wedding, mate,
and that kind of buried it. Anyway. I do think
that that is interesting, but that's not the topic. The
topic depends on the boss.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Though. I had bosses that would have loved to have
gone to weddings. Sure to your wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Sure are we going to name them?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think Tony would have liked an invite when he.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was around, Well he was at that at the time.
At that time he was still around. He wasn't invited anyway.
Thirteen one oh sixty five is the number. If he's
called different Tony, I imagine that. Surely this isn't Tony
my boss, is it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, Okay, we'll get sector, we'll get doing a sect. Okay,
So topic he is, imagine complaints at work. I want
to hear about the weirdest complaints that you've heard of
at work. So whether this was a complaint made about
you or you work in HR, those are the calls
I want to take Let's take Tony. Let's take Tony
before the song Tony, do you work in HR?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What you do?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And it's called people a culture?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Now? Yeah, people culture. I told you the name that
changed people, people and culture, People in culture.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
People in the culture. Okay, so what people in culture?
What's the weirdest complaint that you heard in the people
and the culture?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Oh, I'm going to a name where I am so
I managed a legal team and some past three months
we've had to change the toilet for how he got
to ply to PLI and so forth.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, well, I've had to go through six supplies or
toilet paper because one of the principles decided the one
ply was a little bit too course, so we went
to three ply, and then the three ply then couldn't
flush that we had all these plumbers coming in and out,
(04:32):
and then we went to a more biodegradable paper softer
on the bum. So that is probably probably in my
in working the industry as s PNC, that's probably topped
it for me.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How did you bring it up with you? Tiny like
the because he said he's a principal, so he's a partner.
So he comes and sits down and how did that conversation?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It was not just the principle, there a few others
that I said. That was two course. So I said,
all right, so did submit sit down facilities and listening
to guys?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Investigation? Investigation? Did you put together a crack team? Mind
the fun.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I've seen the team of interns, because that's what you
use your interns for in the loop department. You seen
your interns into.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Just some beta toilet paper testing. That's that's three roles.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I said, here you go.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wow, some homework for all for all of you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I wanted to come back to me with analysis of
which mine works best to.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
A blind blind wife. I reckon the blind wife and
tell me which run was most cousinstranges that six y five?
You're working, h give us the call. What's the weirdest
complaint you've had? That is pretty good? That's pretty good.
So let's go to Kelly here. Now, Kelly, you don't
work in people in the culture. You actually had a
complaint made about your two people in the culture. Yes,
(06:05):
I did. What was it about? Kelly?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
So when I was nursing, I was looking after this
station in rehab and her daughter actually complained that I
was looking after it too well because she didn't want
to go following.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Jesus did So when the person sits you down and
runs this complaint by you, are they kind of giggling
at the same time or do they kind of have
to take that seriously?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
No? No, she was quite serious.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right right? So then did you did you tone it down.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
And complain to the nursey the manager that I was
looking after her mother too well?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So did you did you rein it in? Did you
rain it in a little bit? Did you did you
rain in your care?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Not at all. I just kept doing what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How much were you doing? Was it giving foot rubs
and like making treats?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Like was it just usual just making her comfortably.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Looking after doing your job? I can't, for the life
of me figure out what's wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Obviously, it's an issue you for the daughter there that
Kelly set the bar so high that she if she's
given foot rubs for example, and for example, it's a neglectful.
So my dad comes home from Hsbital and it's like,
was giving me a foot rub every day? But I
going to call people in culture.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You'd be going people in culture at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Rub And I'm definitely not saying that Kelly was giving
the foot rubs there. I think she said that she
was just giving custard. I might have misheard her. Now
we've got a call from anonymous here. Hello Anonymous. I
love it when someone calls anonymously.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
The voice distor as well.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Now you you work in people in culture, I certainly do.
Okay formerly known as hr okay. What's the weird everyone
years news to me? What's the weirdest complaint you ever heard?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, one day I was in my office and one
of I heard that one of our contractors had to complain.
And he came up to see me and said that
there was one of our staff members washing his private
parts in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What in the in the sink?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In the sink, that's impressive and so and how's you
reach the right levels? Or a small stool? So?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Did he did he name the basin washer?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Did was the was the basin washer named?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yes? Yes? And I met with the person?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Hang on, hang on? So you had to you had
to arrange a meeting a person who was washing their
privates in a basin? Yes, what did you say? The
meeting was about.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
That somebody had seen you washing your private parts in
the basin and and what was the reason for that
end And he said, well he saw a prostitute at lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Whoah, God, that's honest.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Whoa what do you do with that?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Well? I would have probably sacked him, but okay, he wasn't.
He stayed on.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he stayed sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You told you told management And they were like, well,
that's that's not against company policy.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yes, oh so does he does he? I'm not sure
if you're across his information, but so is he continuing
to do the thing that he does.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
I don't work there anymore. He doesn't work there anymore.
Before many years ago, but a very memorable story.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, was he ducked out to see them, Like he
didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He ducked out. He ducked out. It was his lunchtime.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It does raise an interesting question, doesn't it, Like, well,
I mean, ultimately, what someone does in there private life
outside of work, you start to getting into discrimination areas there.
Because he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Anything illegal that I think he needs to go to
a public basin. Then he's bringing it to the workplace
when he washed.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Where do you draw the line with what somebody washes
in the workplace bathroom?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I think someone using the communal work basin to wash
the downstairs. I think that crosses the line. Yeah, I
think Maca's toilet.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And goings has got to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Maas.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Let me just ask you anonymous though, so like obviously,
like legally, you've got an issue there, right, because if
you start saying to him, you know you can't do
this in that in your workplace, then he goes, will
you discriminating against me for my choice is outside of work?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Mm hmm. That that didn't happen. We didn't get that far.
He just yep, it was just well, it was a
mistake and we'll put it behind us and we won't
see you in that bathroom with anything in the basin
every again, Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
All right? Okay, so he did agree to stop washing
in the wall. Wait, why do you try to use
the head drawer often
My Heart podcasts, hear more kids podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free Hard I'll tell you why a
bride is potentially getting sacked because there's something to do
with a wedding very shortly.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
But right now, thirteen one oh sixty five is our number.
If you work in HR human is it Human relations.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Or is it a human resources?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So they deal with all the all the complaints and
stuff within a world.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
It's even called HR much all these days. No experience
with them, but.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
HR deal with they do with complaints and inappropriate activities. Yeah, sure,
all that. Anyway, if you work in HR, I call it,
don't understand it. I would like to hear from you,
and specifically, I want to ask you what's the weirdest
complaint you've ever heard? I believe you want that's what
you're dealing with in HR. So if you can share
(01:02):
the weirdest complaints you've dealt with, I'd love to hear
from you. You can remain anonymous if it's an issue
in the position, you can remain anonymous.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And earlier I think there. Yeah, there definitely is a
confidentiality element to it, so you'd hope so anyway.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Definitely well, you can keep their names out of it,
you can remain anonymous. But yeah, I would love to
hear about the weird complaints that you get. And the
reason I'm talking about it will is because this story
is it's popping off online. Effectively, There's this bride who's
in trouble at work because she's getting all these complaints
at work about her because she hasn't invited a whole
(01:41):
bunch of co works. So one there's one in particular
uninvited coworker who is who is very angry, and she
has said that the bride is creating a hostile environment
at work by not inviting her on the half of
them or inviting nine.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Is we run into trouble?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well, so obviously I've got married late last year and just.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Everyone, but well not well everyone, the tech team, the cleaners, everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Had a great relationship with the was coming. I invited
everything beautiful in our direct team. But I did think
it was interesting that like, should I have invited my boss?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I'm pretty sure I had.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
I had the conversation with Pooye where I was like,
do you think dB would would want to be invited
to the wedding? Did he want to be well we
we we run it past never how can I run
it past him?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I don't think you wanted to go?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, well that's what that's what that's what poo he said.
Poo he said he doesn't want to come to your wedding, mate,
and that kind of buried it. Anyway. I do think
that that is interesting, but that's not the topic. The
topic depends on the boss.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Though. I had bosses that would have loved to have
gone to weddings. Sure to your wedding.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Sure are we going to name them?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I think Tony would have liked an invite when he.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Was around, Well he was at that at the time.
At that time he was still around. He wasn't invited anyway.
Thirteen one oh sixty five is the number. If he's
called different Tony, I imagine that. Surely this isn't Tony
my boss, is it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, Okay, we'll get sector, we'll get doing a sect. Okay,
So topic he is, imagine complaints at work. I want
to hear about the weirdest complaints that you've heard of
at work. So whether this was a complaint made about
you or you work in HR, those are the calls
I want to take Let's take Tony. Let's take Tony
before the song Tony, do you work in HR?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What you do?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
And it's called people a culture?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Now? Yeah, people culture. I told you the name that
changed people, people and culture, People in culture.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
People in the culture. Okay, so what people in culture?
What's the weirdest complaint that you heard in the people
and the culture?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Oh, I'm going to a name where I am so
I managed a legal team and some past three months
we've had to change the toilet for how he got
to ply to PLI and so forth.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yes, well, I've had to go through six supplies or
toilet paper because one of the principles decided the one
ply was a little bit too course, so we went
to three ply, and then the three ply then couldn't
flush that we had all these plumbers coming in and out,
(04:32):
and then we went to a more biodegradable paper softer
on the bum. So that is probably probably in my
in working the industry as s PNC, that's probably topped
it for me.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
How did you bring it up with you? Tiny like
the because he said he's a principal, so he's a partner.
So he comes and sits down and how did that conversation?
Speaker 4 (05:01):
It was not just the principle, there a few others
that I said. That was two course. So I said,
all right, so did submit sit down facilities and listening
to guys?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Investigation? Investigation? Did you put together a crack team? Mind
the fun.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I've seen the team of interns, because that's what you
use your interns for in the loop department. You seen
your interns into.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Just some beta toilet paper testing. That's that's three roles.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I said, here you go.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wow, some homework for all for all of you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I wanted to come back to me with analysis of
which mine works best to.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
A blind blind wife. I reckon the blind wife and
tell me which run was most cousinstranges that six y five?
You're working, h give us the call. What's the weirdest
complaint you've had? That is pretty good? That's pretty good.
So let's go to Kelly here. Now, Kelly, you don't
work in people in the culture. You actually had a
complaint made about your two people in the culture. Yes,
(06:05):
I did. What was it about? Kelly?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (06:08):
So when I was nursing, I was looking after this
station in rehab and her daughter actually complained that I
was looking after it too well because she didn't want
to go following.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Jesus did So when the person sits you down and
runs this complaint by you, are they kind of giggling
at the same time or do they kind of have
to take that seriously?
Speaker 6 (06:32):
No? No, she was quite serious.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Right right? So then did you did you tone it down.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
And complain to the nursey the manager that I was
looking after her mother too well?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So did you did you rein it in? Did you
rain it in a little bit? Did you did you
rain in your care?
Speaker 3 (06:49):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Not at all. I just kept doing what I was doing.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
How much were you doing? Was it giving foot rubs
and like making treats?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Like was it just usual just making her comfortably.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Looking after doing your job? I can't, for the life
of me figure out what's wrong with that.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Obviously, it's an issue you for the daughter there that
Kelly set the bar so high that she if she's
given foot rubs for example, and for example, it's a neglectful.
So my dad comes home from Hsbital and it's like,
was giving me a foot rub every day? But I
going to call people in culture.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You'd be going people in culture at the hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Rub And I'm definitely not saying that Kelly was giving
the foot rubs there. I think she said that she
was just giving custard. I might have misheard her. Now
we've got a call from anonymous here. Hello Anonymous. I
love it when someone calls anonymously.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
The voice distor as well.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Now you you work in people in culture, I certainly do.
Okay formerly known as hr okay. What's the weird everyone
years news to me? What's the weirdest complaint you ever heard?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, one day I was in my office and one
of I heard that one of our contractors had to complain.
And he came up to see me and said that
there was one of our staff members washing his private
parts in the bathroom.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
What in the in the sink?
Speaker 2 (08:24):
In the sink, that's impressive and so and how's you
reach the right levels? Or a small stool? So?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Did he did he name the basin washer?
Speaker 6 (08:40):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Did was the was the basin washer named?
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Yes? Yes? And I met with the person?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Hang on, hang on? So you had to you had
to arrange a meeting a person who was washing their
privates in a basin? Yes, what did you say? The
meeting was about.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
That somebody had seen you washing your private parts in
the basin and and what was the reason for that
end And he said, well he saw a prostitute at lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Whoah, God, that's honest.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Whoa what do you do with that?
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Well? I would have probably sacked him, but okay, he wasn't.
He stayed on.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he stayed sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You told you told management And they were like, well,
that's that's not against company policy.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yes, oh so does he does he? I'm not sure
if you're across his information, but so is he continuing
to do the thing that he does.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
I don't work there anymore. He doesn't work there anymore.
Before many years ago, but a very memorable story.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, was he ducked out to see them, Like he
didn't see that.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
He ducked out. He ducked out. It was his lunchtime.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It does raise an interesting question, doesn't it, Like, well,
I mean, ultimately, what someone does in there private life
outside of work, you start to getting into discrimination areas there.
Because he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Anything illegal that I think he needs to go to
a public basin. Then he's bringing it to the workplace
when he washed.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Where do you draw the line with what somebody washes
in the workplace bathroom?
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I think someone using the communal work basin to wash
the downstairs. I think that crosses the line. Yeah, I
think Maca's toilet.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
And goings has got to deal with it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Maas.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Let me just ask you anonymous though, so like obviously,
like legally, you've got an issue there, right, because if
you start saying to him, you know you can't do
this in that in your workplace, then he goes, will
you discriminating against me for my choice is outside of work?
Speaker 6 (10:47):
Mm hmm. That that didn't happen. We didn't get that far.
He just yep, it was just well, it was a
mistake and we'll put it behind us and we won't
see you in that bathroom with anything in the basin
every again, Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
All right? Okay, so he did agree to stop washing
in the wall. Wait, why do you try to use
the head drawer often
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