Jaded HR: Your Relief From the Common Human Resources Podcasts
Jaded HR is a Human Resources podcast about the trials and tribulations of life in a human resources department….or just a way for Human Resources Professionals to finally say OUT LOUD all the things they think throughout their working day.
Episodes
HR Is Not Your Friend? Debunking Another Viral HR Hate Rant
Another week, another internet expert explaining why HR is supposedly ruining the workplace.
This week on Jaded HR, Warren and CeeCee dive into a viral anti-HR LinkedIn post claiming companies would be better off eliminating Human Resources altogether. The article argues HR creates unnecessary problems, protects weak performers, and acts as a "shadow governme...
What happens when a CEO publicly blames HR for “creating problems that didn’t exist” and then fires the entire department? In this episode of Jaded HR, Warren and CeeCee dive headfirst into the viral Bolt controversy, startup culture chaos, and why HR somehow always becomes the corporate punching bag when leadership decisions go sideways.
The conversation starts with a jaw-dropping workplace h...
What happens when a company decides HR experience doesn’t actually matter?
In this episode of Jaded HR, Warren and CeeCee dive headfirst into the frustrating reality of how many organizations still view HR as little more than paperwork, party planning, and administrative busywork.
The conversation starts with a real-world story that’ll make HR professionals cringe: a small company passes over an internal e...
Quiet Cracking, AI Trust, and Training the Next Generation
After an unexpected week off, the hosts catch up on a kitchen remodel and debate gas versus electric cooking, then touch on Cinco de Mayo drinks and missed Star Wars Day plans. They shift to workplace trends, defining “quiet cracking” as employees who are burned out and disengaged but staying due to an unstable job market, alongside &ldquo...
Season 7 kicks off the only way Jaded HR knows how: with questionable life decisions, corporate chaos, and HR stories that make you wonder how some companies are still functioning.
Warren almost dies test-driving a 50-year-old truck (worth it), Cece is out here installing gas appliances like a DIY queen, and somewhere in the middle… we actually talk HR.
This episode dives into the latest mass layoffs at Oracle ...
This week on Jaded HR, we dive into an HR nightmare that somehow checks every single box of what NOT to do.
A pregnant employee. A doctor’s note. A simple work-from-home request.
And a company that said… “nah, come into the office.”
What happened next? A $22 million lawsuit that has HR professionals, employment lawyers, and workplace experts all asking the same question: what were they thin...
You know those polished corporate videos that are supposed to scream “we have a great culture!”?
Yeah… this is not one of those.
In this episode, we break down a marketing video that was clearly meant to attract talent, boost morale, and make leadership feel good about themselves… but instead managed to do the exact opposite. Think less “employer branding win” and more “unin...
This episode has a little bit of everything: the Olympics, employee side hustles, and a workplace debate that is guaranteed to make at least one person in HR deeply uncomfortable.
We kick things off with a question no one asked for but everyone has an opinion on:
Can women mansplain?
(And more importantly… should you be having that conversation at work?)
From there, we dive into:
- The reali...
What happens when a company decides the bottom 5% of employees just… shouldn’t be there anymore?
Well, if you’re Accenture, you call it a strategy.
Everyone else might call it something closer to corporate survival of the fittest.
In this episode, we break down Accenture’s approach to upskilling employees while simultaneously cutting the lowest performers — because nothing motivates ...
Let’s address the elephant in the office:
Nobody likes HR.
Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration… but not by much.
In this episode, we dive into the long-standing (and very vocal) frustration people have with HR — where it comes from, why it persists, and whether some of it is actually… deserved.
We get into:
- The most common reasons employees say they don’t trust HR
- ...
Just when everyone got comfortable working from home…
companies have decided it’s time to bring everyone back.
Because clearly, that’s what employees wanted.
In this episode, we break down the return of return-to-office mandates and the completely predictable reaction from employees: resistance, frustration, and a whole lot of updated LinkedIn profiles.
We get into:
- Why companies ar...
It’s been quite a year in HR… so naturally, we decided to let ChatGPT weigh in.
But before we get there, we start with a story that’s a little more serious (and a lot more expensive): SHRM and an $11.5 million reckoning that raises some uncomfortable questions about leadership, accountability, and how things can go sideways even at the top of the HR world.
Then, because we like to balance chaos with...
Every company assumes they know who’s on their payroll.
That assumption might be doing a lot of heavy lifting.
In this episode, we break down a situation where someone ended up on payroll who absolutely, positively… should not have been there. Whether it was a breakdown in hiring, onboarding, or basic oversight, this is one of those stories that makes you wonder how often things like this happen without a...
When AWS goes down, a lot of things stop working.
Including, apparently… people’s patience.
In this episode, we start with the AWS outage and how a tech failure quickly turns into a workplace stress test. Because nothing exposes operational cracks faster than systems going offline and everyone scrambling to figure out what they actually do all day.
From there, we expand into the bigger picture:
- Wh...
It’s spooky season… which means it’s time for something truly terrifying:
Workplace stories that actually happened.
In this encore episode, we revisit some of the most ridiculous, uncomfortable, and borderline unbelievable HR situations that prove you don’t need ghosts to have a horror story at work.
We get into:
- The kind of HR nightmares that make you question everything
- Wo...
SHRM is trying something bold.
Or depending on how this goes… something that could turn into a very expensive mess.
In this episode, we break down SHRM’s upcoming “Blueprint” event — including a high-profile DEI debate featuring two very different perspectives — and why it’s getting so much attention (and pushback) across HR circles.
At around $1,300 to attend, the conversatio...
Ever wonder what’s actually sitting in your coworkers’ desk drawers?
This episode kicks off with a workplace discovery that goes from strange to deeply unsettling in a hurry. When maintenance opens a former employee’s desk, they uncover journals filled with explicit ratings of female coworkers’ appearances. Yeah… exactly as bad as it sounds.
We break down:
- Whether this creates a...
Every HR professional knows there’s a massive gap between what’s in the employee handbook…
and what actually happens at work.
This episode lives firmly on the “what actually happens” side.
We kick things off with one of the most unhinged workplace investigations we’ve ever come across — starting with rumors of cocaine use and, somehow worse, very questionable noises ...
LINKS for context:
https://youtu.be/9vGQ1VvylS8?si=to_V9RELAhvz4Gnm
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/rrCihdYAtK
Ever witnessed management decisions so shocking they leave you speechless? This episode dives into three workplace scenarios that'll make your jaw drop – and your blood boil.
First, we discuss why water parks might be the worst team-building venue imaginable. As Warren shares from his ...
Ever look back at a job and think:
“That was actually pretty good… why didn’t I appreciate it at the time?”
That’s where this episode starts — with the idea that most people don’t realize they’re in the “good old days” of their career until they’re already past them.
We get into how easy it is to normalize stress, frustration, and burnout while you&rsqu...
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