February 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Did you ever find yourself giggling at the absurdity of a spam email just when you needed a break from the chaos of life's juggling act? Warren and Cee Cee did, and they're here to share those lighthearted moments amidst the everyday hustle of work, school, and personal errands. They kick things off with reflections on improvements since their last episode. Listen as they recount relatable stories of home maintenance mishaps and the unexpected productivity that comes with bad weather, reminding us all that laughter can be the best tool for managing a busy week.
We then shift gears to the magical world of internships, with a spotlight on Disney's meticulous application process. Ever wondered how to nail an interview for one of the world's most coveted intern programs? Warren's son embarked on this journey, and we've got the inside scoop! From dodging the embarrassment of revealing personal browser bookmarks during a screen share to mastering Disney's 13-page interview guide, filled with STAR method tips, this episode is packed with golden nuggets for young hopefuls chasing their career dreams.
And just when you thought that was all, we take a whimsical turn into the realm of robots and unionizing AI, pondering a world where machines demand personal days. Plus, there's a special teaser for our upcoming discussion on Diversity Day from The Office rewatch. Throughout, we share everyday tales of kindness—from empathetic agents at Southwest Airlines to the flexibility of employers during bad weather. So, tune in for humor, insights, and a few "WTF" moments, as we help you navigate the unpredictable world of HR.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Had you actually read the email, you would know that
the podcast you are about tolisten to could contain explicit
language and offensive content.
These HR experts' views are notrepresentative of their past,
present or future employers.
If you have ever heard mymanager is unfair to me.
I need you to reset my HRportal password, or Can I write
(00:24):
up my employee for crying toomuch?
Welcome to our little safe zone.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome to JDHR, the podcast by two HR professionals
who want to help you get throughthe workday by saying
everything you're thinking, butsay it out loud.
I'm Warren.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm Cece.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So, yeah, our last episode ran incredibly long, but
the audio is better Not great,but better.
This episode will be able tomake it even better.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I blame the old fashioned, I was just on it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We need to do it more often.
Encourage it, encourage it.
So yeah, it was really good.
We're not going that long today, y'all, I promise.
I actually only have like oneor two things on my agenda for
this, so yay.
But before we get too far along, I want to thank our original
jaded hr rock star hallie,michael and bill, our other
(01:38):
patreon supporters.
You too can support us onpatreon, follow the the show
links.
Yay, get that out of the way,but we're really proud to have
some supporters on Patreon.
I was thinking just the otherday I've been getting a hell of
a lot of solicitations fromthese companies that haven't
listened to JTHR, wanting topromote their persons on the
(01:59):
speaking bureau or whatever touror whatever, and like, oh, this
person has a PhD and can bringthis to your case.
Okay, yeah, you haven'tlistened to us.
You know that if you'd listenedto one episode, you'd know
that's not what we're about.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We're not your target demographic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, we're not going to.
We're not going to fit that toowell, but I haven't gotten one
in a long time, but I would getthese just god-awful type of
solicitations.
Would you advertise our product?
Non-name, brand personal bodytrimmers and uh, uh, uh,
medicines and things like that?
like no, no, no see that makesyou shit your pants yeah, lose
(02:38):
20 pounds tomorrow, uh, but, uh,I haven't gotten any of those
along.
Not that I'm complaining that Ihaven't gotten any of those
along.
Not that I'm complaining, but Ihaven't gotten any of those in
a long time.
Nice, yeah.
So yeah, it's been a busy weekfor me and yeah, between work
and school and personal, but I'mlooking forward to recording
(02:59):
this.
We talked about maybepostponing it, but I'm like no,
I got to do it today becausenothing else is going to fit
before we have to publish myschedule.
But yeah, but I survived twowhole weeks at home all by
myself and I didn't burn downthe house.
I didn't starve to death.
Actually, the house is inbetter condition.
I did some touch-up paintingfrom little dings and dents that
(03:20):
happened when we moved inalmost a year ago and did some
other little things around thehouse.
It was a crappy three-dayweekend and I ended up doing
chores.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I kind of enjoy those weekends once in a while when
it's just like the weather iseither extremely cold or just
crappy and you just get stuffdone around the house.
I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I got a lot done and I thought I did one
thing, but this morning it wasour refrigerator.
You have this Frenchrefrigerator doors where you can
open the left one.
It has a little flap and itdoesn't always catch.
I thought I fixed it yesterdayand then this morning I go and
open the refrigerator and it didnot.
So that might be for theupcoming weekend, if we make it
(04:04):
out alive after, depending onwhich station.
40 inches of snow innortheastern North Carolina,
what?
No, that's crazy.
It's legitimate apps and thingslike that are putting us
somewhere between 18 and 24inches the next two days and,
yeah, it's going to be hecked by.
(04:25):
We'll say they're out theretreating the roads in mass right
now, and I saw some plow truckslined up.
I'm like, okay, they'replanning ahead and things like
that, so maybe it won't be sobad I need to there's a weather
guy here in ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's just like.
I'm trying to look it up reallyquick.
This is going to kill me.
Southwest Ohio weather freak.
He's just this amateurmeteorologist and he's right
more often than the news.
So I follow a dude in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't have any of those local things.
Gosh, what was the weather appI used to have?
I took it off, but it wouldjust say it's fucking hot as
balls oh yeah, it was calledlike wtf weather, I think it
would.
Just, I loved it.
I ended up taking it off forwhatever reason, but I was like
it's hot as balls, don't gooutside, you'll die, yep.
(05:20):
So I guess on to the wonderfulworld that is HR.
First, to follow up on our lastepisode no new executive orders
, but no further guidance eitheron anything.
I've been doing some webinars,and it's just sort of everybody
holds, still, holds, still likeokay, well, that was my plan all
(05:40):
along, but, yeah, no furtherword.
But I will say that thatepisode got a lot of downloads.
It seemed to be, even though itwas an hour long, and 70
percent of people listened allthe way to the end.
So, thank you if you.
You people made it to at least95.
I think when they get, though,and the final goodbyes or
whatever, as people click nexton their little podcast player,
(06:01):
they don't need to hear us saythe ending.
So yeah, so if y'all like thattype of stuff, let us know.
We can do more of that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
What's going on?
We can just hide under ourdesks and eat our hair together.
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We don't know what's happening.
We really don't.
It's crazy.
Out there, I don't have anyhair left to eat.
It's been gone.
That's what happened to it.
I'll use that as an excuse.
Let's see.
Well, one of the main things Ihad was and the story I read
(06:34):
wasn't related to HR, it wasabout the vocal minority and the
silent majority and it wasn'teven politics.
It was more like familypolitics versus Republican
Democrat type stuff, but usingthose terms.
But some of the things it saidin this it was a dumb article.
I think it was BuzzFeed orsomething, one of those places
that you hate to go.
(07:02):
So, but one of the things thisarticle was talking about was
how you have like an aunt orsomebody like that who is a
know-it-all and puts out theseideas, regardless how right or
wrong they are, and tries to putit out as the gospel of the
world that they live in.
(07:22):
Essentially and I was sort ofpertaining that to an influencer
so that aunt would be like asocial media influencer who's
putting out garbage that we weretired of hearing, like quiet
quitting and like the rage,resignations and all these
wonderful terms that we've hadto put up with the last couple
of years.
I don't think a lot of people.
(07:43):
Well, I should go back.
I don't want to believe.
A lot of people think that thisis the norm, but you do have
that very small group of peoplethat are super highly
influenceable and they think, oh, I need to rage quit, or I need
to do this, or this is what'shappening to me, whether all
this ghosting stuff on theinternet people, companies are
(08:06):
ghosting you, applicants areghosting you, and things like
that.
So I just sort of I took itthat the vocal minority are
these influencers and the silentmajority are the rest of the
family is like, okay, yeah, goahead and have another drink,
aunt Susie, we know what's goingon here and you can say what
you're going to say.
We're just whatever, but a fewof them, oh, yeah, yeah, that's,
(08:27):
that's absolutely right.
Anyways, that's that's what Iwas I took away from the article
that like said, I don't knowhow I ended up down that rabbit
hole in the first place to toget there.
So, yeah, I just I just can'tthink people are that dumb and
gullible as like we see onsocial media.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, they are no Like what it is.
It's the same stuff we've seenover the past few decades.
We're just putting a snazzy newlabel on it and then people get
like you know it's all in themarketing, so people buy into it
.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Quiet quitting.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, the marketing is everything it's bad to it.
Quiet quitting marketing isthat it's?
It's the same shit that's beengoing on in the past, or at
least in similar economic times,where you kind of see these
patterns, but now we just marketit so it looks cute on a
hashtag yes, that's, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Cute on a hashtag?
That's that's exactly what,because it's all soundbites and
it's all like.
I have several news aggregatorsand part of the things I
aggregate is HR news and I seeall these things that come from.
One thing that's irritating meis I go through these.
Now I mentioned BuzzFeed.
Everybody knows they're justgod awful, just got awful.
(09:47):
It's somebody with maybe barelya high school education that
found something and wants towrite 250 words on something
stupid they saw on social mediaand have no clue what they're
talking about most of the time.
But there's companies like I'llcall them out Forbes and Inc
and some other companies thatused to do really good work and
now I'm saying you're just doingthis clickbaity stuff.
That's style over substance andif that's the way you want to
(10:09):
take it, it's like is I?
Before I click on things,generally speaking, I look at
the source and if it's not asource, I want to read it from,
and a lot of times I'll evenblock if it keeps coming up as
something, for whatever reason.
I still haven't blockedbuzzFeed, but I see these
sources and I know what I'mgetting into as soon as I see it
.
But, anyway, that was my littlething that happened to me this
(10:33):
week.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I feel like BuzzFeed is the current day National
Enquirer, like it's the stuffyou read while you're in the
bathroom or waiting in a waitingroom.
Like that's what BuzzFeed is,and I just feel like it's kind
of a guilty pleasure.
You know what you're getting.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And if you are gullible enough to think that
anything they say has anyvalidity.
Oh, and I'm an HR professionalwith 27 years of experience and
I say this is the secret If anarticle starts with a HR
professional of 25 years sayswhatever, that instantly says
99.9% chance.
(11:11):
I'm not clicking unless it'sjust pure morbid curiosity.
And when I click it I say Iknow what I'm getting into and I
accept my punishment for doingit.
But yeah, I got the secret, andthe secret that's going to get
you a job interview with Googletomorrow.
I got the offer tomorrow.
(11:31):
That's one rabbit hole.
I went down, but you had alittle story to share as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
So I giggle because we'recoming up on that time of year
where we're going to have alittle pop and turnover because
people like to stick around,didn't wait for their bonus to
come, and then they peace out.
And I was on a call the otherday and someone who was
(12:04):
presenting on the call wassharing their screen and as they
were sharing their screen, theyclosed the window and continued
the conversation.
However, they forgot that theywere still sharing their screen.
They closed the window andcontinued the conversation.
However, they forgot that theywere still sharing their screen
and, unbeknownst to them, theyshared their most recent
documents, which happened to betheir resume, which it said
(12:25):
right under there thank you,windows 10.
Like this individual has beenedit was editing it earlier this
morning, to which I was like,oh my gosh, there's people on
this call.
Like this person's manager wason the call, by the way, but I
was like I need a texter, but Idon't know people.
(12:45):
It was just not payingattention.
Beware when you share yourscreen.
Just a friendly PSA.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and I told you and I'm not going to name the
university involved in this, butit went viral, on my algorithm
at least.
Apparently, a universityprofessor was sharing his screen
if it's Canvas, blackboard,whatever they Moodle, whatever
they use on it, and you can seeall their tabs that they have
(13:12):
open.
So they have these universitytype tabs, and then one of the
tabs they had open in thebackground was Pornhub.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's like, yeah, that that's a fail oh my gosh, you
absolutely take a screenshot, bythe way.
That is the correct course ofaction in that situation
screenshot and share.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I always laugh when people put like their personal
bookmarks on their browser andwhen they share their screen you
can kind of see, like what itis they do when they're not
working, especially if you'rebroadcasting to an entire like
audience or you're sharing yourscreen for you know the whole
organization Like why are youputting that on there?
Why are you putting suchdivisive things on there?
(13:54):
Why can't you just be a littlesavvy about what you're putting
out there?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And sometimes I think people do some of these stupid
things sort of on purpose forattention.
I don't know if the Pornhubwould be something on purpose
for attention.
I don't know if the porn hubwould be something you do for
attention.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't think.
I don't think that.
I think this person just made amistake.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh, man.
So yeah, it's, it's crazy, um,but oh, another thing I wanted
to share and I don't know if Italked to.
I don't think we talked aboutit on the last episodes.
We were all down the DEexecutive order rabbit hole.
I've been speaking for monthsabout my son and his search for
an internship.
Oh, yeah.
(14:39):
And one company, I'll just sayDisney.
He applied.
So he applied on Wednesday,january 29th for a position on
Disney and they only had it uponline for five days and it went
down.
You go to LinkedIn.
It says no longer available,closed X many days ago, and
things like that, and you go totheir website.
(15:00):
It's not there period anymore.
But he applied on the 29th andthen on Friday, the 31st he got
a questionnaire to answer and hefilled that and turned that in
immediately.
And then, leon February 7th, hegot an unmanned video interview
where they tell you what thequestion is.
Give you 30 seconds to composeyourself, get it, come up with
(15:22):
an answer.
Then it records you making youranswer.
We had one of those interviews.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I have a pinball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, they're interesting.
But he had that on the 7th andthen, like on the 12th, they
sent him an email following upwith him and saying, basically,
we're going to do a real human Iforget what they call it online
interview with you using Zoomor whatever the tool is that
they use.
They sent him this 13-pageinterview guide from Disney what
(15:54):
to expect and what to thinkabout and things like that and I
was like wow.
I read through it.
The only thing that I would sayis the links on the PDF they
sent him did not work and Ifound it, the document title.
I Googled it and I found it onDisney's website itself and
still the links didn't work,because it talked about it had
an FAQ section you could go, butit was still really cool,
(16:17):
really well done.
The interview guide told themabout behavioral interview
questions and how they want themanswered, and it was just like
they're giving you a roadmap notto fail the interview.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I did too.
I thought it was really the endof February and early March,
and they gave them a whole timeframe of everything, all the
steps from here.
I was like this is they've beenon the ball.
Oh, and they even told you tostart following the people on
LinkedIn.
So he followed the recruiterwho he's been in contact with
not directly, just only viaemail, and we cyber stalked the
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head of the department that thisposition would be working on.
But it tells you everybody hasa LinkedIn profile, Please
research them and all this otherstuff.
I was really impressed,especially for a entry-level
position, helping a college kidwith not much experience get
through, be ready for theinterview.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
First of all, I wonder if this is the same thing
stuff that they provide likehigher level roles, or if this
is just part of their likeinternship it's geared more
toward entry level.
Yeah, yeah, like I'm thinkingthat that's just cool.
I think that's such a goodservice to put people who are
doing that entry-level role theydon't people don't know.
(17:39):
This is awesome, that they'rebasically giving you the roadmap
to success and I.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I downloaded a bunch of behavioral-based interview
questions and I started quizzingmy son.
And they even give you, theywant you to use the STAR method
I think that's what it's calledto answer the questions.
Yeah, and so I quizzed him insome of the most common
entry-level interview questionsfor behavioral interview
questions and I would help themwork through going through the
(18:08):
STAR method and I said let's getfive or 10 of these down so
that you know if the question'snot exactly the same, you can
manipulate it into how it'sgoing to be close enough,
because you don't have any realin-depth experience that they
can drive into.
But I said if they ask youabout school stuff, you've got
that, that's what you're doing.
So I'm looking forward tohearing how the interview stage
(18:31):
goes for him.
But I can only imagine he'smoved pretty far along because
to apply do the questionnaireI'm sure everybody submitted a
resume, got a questionnaire andthe questionnaire weeded some
people out.
That little video interviewweeded some people out.
So I got a feeling that there'snot a long list.
But oh, and they said you must.
They'd say must.
It was like super highlyencouraged to have questions to
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ask your interviewees.
So we thought of about 10questions and he's like why do
we need 10?
I said they may answer some ofthese questions during the
course of the interview andyou're not going to ask the
question that they just answered.
It looks like you're not payingattention.
You're not ready.
So, I said just have it on yourpiece of paper and if they say
something that we came up withjust during the course of the
(19:15):
conversation, scratch through itand move on to the next slide.
Between he and I, we came upwith some really unique
questions.
I told him you don't want toGoogle this, you don't want to
chat GBT questions, askinterviewers.
You're going to get somethingreally stupid that the
interviewers heard a billiontimes and they don't want to
hear it again.
So I said let's use our mindsand come up with some questions
(19:35):
of our own.
And yeah, I think we came upwith a nice list.
So I'm really excited.
Hopefully this will go well.
This will be a dream for him.
I think I've mentioned beforehe's obsessed with roller
coasters and theme parks and towork at one.
(19:56):
For, oh, this is a six-monthinternship too, it's not just a
summer internship.
So, yeah, we're hopeful, butwe're still applying.
We're still chugging along anddiscussing it every day.
I'm probably overly involved.
I don't want to be a helicopterparent or something like that,
but I think he does get the gistthat I've been in HR and I've
recruited.
I've spent many years.
When he was very young, I was acollege recruiter and I did
this and worked with it.
(20:16):
So I think he can appreciate myhelp.
At least he's pretending, atleast to me, that he appreciates
my help.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh, that's everything .
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, so yeah, that's what's going on in our little
neck of the world, other thanwe're.
I don't know if I mentionedthis earlier because of our
technical difficulties, butdepending on which app and
weather station you watch, we'regoing to get at least 10 inches
of snow in the next couple ofdays, maybe two to three feet,
(20:44):
nobody knows.
There's someone on Facebookthat posted something.
I don't know if it's real ornot.
Of course it's Facebook, soit's got to be real.
But someone was calling for 40inches of snow here and I'm like
geez, louise, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And if you are an employer, don't make your people
come to work.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, my boss sent out an email saying it's
not supposed to start tillmidday tomorrow.
And she sent out an email justdon't come to work and be safe
and take your computers home.
And yada, yada, yada.
And when I was leaving tonightI told her yeah, it was like
I'll see you when I see you,because I'm not coming tomorrow.
(21:24):
I'm probably not comingThursday.
Friday is up in the air,depending on everything, how
things look.
But yeah, she's like, yeah,just if you can make it on
Friday, make it.
She's like I'm not expectingyou Thursday either.
She knows I have an hour and ahalf one-way commute and she was
really cool about that.
Oh, story Not related to HR atall.
(22:05):
She was actually scheduled tocome in tomorrow, but I know the
airport's going to be closeddown here in the South.
They don't prepare everything.
So on Sunday I called theairline and I got a customer
service agent.
Well, first I tried to make thechange online myself, but they
wanted like a $400 change feeand I said look, there's a
(22:25):
winter storm coming and I thinkthis will make it easier for you
.
You have to deal with one lessperson on Wednesday and we don't
have any headaches.
And the customer service personwas sticking to the book and
said, well, we can't, unlessthere's a winter storm warning
in effect.
We won't make those changeswithout the fee.
And I was like, oh okay, well,I figured Sunday or no Monday.
(22:48):
That was Sunday.
Monday I called again, got adifferent customer service agent
and she started going down thesame list oh, I see there's not
a winter storm warning in effectfor the destination yet, so we
can't do anything.
I said, oh really, I don't wanther to be stuck in Baltimore,
for who knows how long is that'swhere her layout is.
It would have flown her fromUtah to Baltimore, no problem,
(23:10):
but getting from Baltimore homewould have been the problem and
she'd be stuck there.
And I said I really would liketo see if there's anything that
can be done.
And she said hold on one sec.
And so she Googled the weatherfor Norfolk, virginia, and she
goes oh my God, and it wassaying like 18 inches of snow on
Wednesday.
She goes oh no, I'm changingthis.
No fees.
(23:31):
And it just took.
Someone did OK, there's nowinter storm advisory, which the
policy probably says is twopeople said it to make the
change without a fee.
But this lady, she took it onherself to Google the weather
for Norfolk, virginia, and itsays 18 inches of snow on
Wednesday.
She goes oh no, oh no, I'mchanging this for you and I mean
it made us very happy.
(23:53):
Obviously it didn't takeanything off of her nose and
we're happy to continue.
It's Southwest Airlines.
I'll say if I do book generally, I like booking with them.
You have your Frontier and yourSpirit, the discount airlines,
but by the time you pay thebaggage fees and this and that
and the other thing.
it comes out the same day.
(24:13):
Trap you with that low oh, flyto Utah for $99.
Well, oh, but each bag is $50.
And they charge you forcarry-ons too $25 for carry-ons
With Southwest, you get twochecked bags.
Anyways, that's my littleunpaid advertisement.
But if you want to pay usSouthwest I will gladly take
your money.
But of our little experience Iwas just thinking that's the
(24:36):
type of employee I want to haveas the second plane.
You know the first one.
Yeah, they were doing their job, they were following the
procedure.
But it took the second lady.
Just, she said, oh, hold on twoseconds.
She Googled the weather andsaid, oh, no, we're changing
this.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And now they have one less person to put up in a
hotel in Baltimore tomorrow orwherever it is.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Listen, I'm all for a solid, but today's flight was
an adventure of its own.
Yeah, exactly, I'm glad she'sback home safe.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I can appreciate a standard operating procedure,
but I also appreciate thatlayered with some common sense
of the situation, exactly,You're not always going to be
able to bend the rules, but I'mnot asking for anything special.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The change fee when I went online to try and do it
myself was like $400.
Yeah, the change fee when Iwent online to try and do it
myself was like $400 a change.
I was like I've spent enoughmoney recently that I don't want
to take on a $400 change fee.
But yeah, shout out, it was agood experience.
They made it happen.
Unfortunately, Today, when shedid fly back today was my
(25:44):
daughter's day off.
They had some plans to go outto this that the other day,
shopping essentially but theydidn't get to do that.
So, anyways, they had two weekstogether, still Nice.
So, yeah, Anything else fungoing on in your village?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
No, you know, we ended performance management
just to begin it all over again.
So that's where we are rightnow, with work, that goal
setting happening.
But other than that, life'squiet.
This is a week where nobody issick, which is magical.
My voice is still cracking.
I had strep.
Oh, I don't think we talked, Ihad the best birthday of my life
(26:22):
, because I got strep throat onmy 40th birthday.
So I had like we had theseplans we were going to go out,
we were going to meet friendsfor dinner, we were going to go
to a bar, the baby was going tostay at my parents house, like
all this stuff.
And like the Thursday beforeI'm like, oh, I'm sick.
And then I went to the doctorand he's like you got strep.
(26:44):
I don't ever get strep throat.
My strep throat was worse thanCOVID that I got a few weeks
earlier.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah Well, you've knocked all the illnesses out
for 2025 already.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't know man, Tuberculosis is out there and
measles is out there, so hey,there's still a chance.
Oh gosh, it's okay, I've beenvaccinated yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, and the bird flu.
Don't forget the bird flu.
I could always get the bird flu.
There are $9 eggs in someplaces.
They're saying I haven't boughteggs but $9 a dozen for eggs.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So eggs are kind of a big thing in our house, like we
eat eggs almost every morning.
The baby's eating and I guessthat's our luxury now is egg I
don't know you might go get eggsor starbucks honestly, it's
probably this.
Actually, I think the eggs aremore expensive uh, well, I
(27:46):
mentioned the snow.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I did make the mistake.
I told my wife I'd go to thegrocery store and pick up some
things.
I told her I'd do it Mondaywhile I was out and about, as I
did run a couple errands Mondayand I forgot to get them.
So I went to the grocery storetoday, the day before snowstorm,
and I got what I needed and itwas a zoo.
(28:08):
It was an absolute zoo thereand I was just like if I, and
then, like two of the selfcheckout registers didn't work,
they only had two cashiersworking with lines out the union
everywhere.
That was not.
That is not a good thing.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Honestly, could you imagine managing that situation,
like people call out you'reunderstaffed, machines are down
and everyone's in there for milkand bread, that is a nightmare
situation that I don't wish onanyone.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, no, I do not either.
I think that most of the peoplein the store were behaving
themselves.
I was getting a little grumpyat the lines.
I was thinking, if you don'thave that many cashiers, you
have lines and you don't haveall your self-checkouts working,
you should get like 5% off foreach self-checkout.
That's not either working oropen.
Don't get me started on Walmart, my least favorite place on
(29:03):
earth, when they have 30self-checkout registers and only
six of them are open and theydon't care.
Just yeah, we don't have thestaff.
You don't have staff forself-checkout.
Anyways, that's my loathe forWalmart as a whole.
Different story.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well wait, I thought the robots were supposed to take
the jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Why don't they please takethose jobs?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The robots are calling out this is where we are
.
Ai has totally come full circle.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
There we go.
Oh yeah, the robots have becomesentient and they're having an
emotional day and they need totake a personal they're
unionizing, they're sick outing,uh.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So yeah, we'll land the plane right there.
Please join us next week forour very special Diversity Day
episode of our rewatch of theOffice.
So it's going to be a lot offun.
So be sure to check it out,share, give us any ideas you
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So, with all that wonderful,the fun stuff said, I want to
thank Andrew Coppa, the voiceartist, for the introduction and
the intro.
Outro music is the underscore,orchestra with the song the
Devil, the Devil, and, as always, I'm Warren.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm Cece.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And we're here helping you survive HR one.
What the fuck moment at a time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah.
Had you actually read the email, you would know that
the podcast you are about tolisten to could contain explicit
language and offensive content.
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present or future employers.
If you have ever heard mymanager is unfair to me.
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Welcome to our little safe zone.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Welcome to JDHR, the podcast by two HR professionals
who want to help you get throughthe workday by saying
everything you're thinking, butsay it out loud.
I'm Warren.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I'm Cece.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So, yeah, our last episode ran incredibly long, but
the audio is better Not great,but better.
This episode will be able tomake it even better.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I blame the old fashioned, I was just on it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
We need to do it more often.
Encourage it, encourage it.
So yeah, it was really good.
We're not going that long today, y'all, I promise.
I actually only have like oneor two things on my agenda for
this, so yay.
But before we get too far along, I want to thank our original
jaded hr rock star hallie,michael and bill, our other
(01:38):
patreon supporters.
You too can support us onpatreon, follow the the show
links.
Yay, get that out of the way,but we're really proud to have
some supporters on Patreon.
I was thinking just the otherday I've been getting a hell of
a lot of solicitations fromthese companies that haven't
listened to JTHR, wanting topromote their persons on the
(01:59):
speaking bureau or whatever touror whatever, and like, oh, this
person has a PhD and can bringthis to your case.
Okay, yeah, you haven'tlistened to us.
You know that if you'd listenedto one episode, you'd know
that's not what we're about.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
We're not your target demographic.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah, we're not going to.
We're not going to fit that toowell, but I haven't gotten one
in a long time, but I would getthese just god-awful type of
solicitations.
Would you advertise our product?
Non-name, brand personal bodytrimmers and uh, uh, uh,
medicines and things like that?
like no, no, no see that makesyou shit your pants yeah, lose
(02:38):
20 pounds tomorrow, uh, but, uh,I haven't gotten any of those
along.
Not that I'm complaining that Ihaven't gotten any of those
along.
Not that I'm complaining, but Ihaven't gotten any of those in
a long time.
Nice, yeah.
So yeah, it's been a busy weekfor me and yeah, between work
and school and personal, but I'mlooking forward to recording
(02:59):
this.
We talked about maybepostponing it, but I'm like no,
I got to do it today becausenothing else is going to fit
before we have to publish myschedule.
But yeah, but I survived twowhole weeks at home all by
myself and I didn't burn downthe house.
I didn't starve to death.
Actually, the house is inbetter condition.
I did some touch-up paintingfrom little dings and dents that
(03:20):
happened when we moved inalmost a year ago and did some
other little things around thehouse.
It was a crappy three-dayweekend and I ended up doing
chores.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I kind of enjoy those weekends once in a while when
it's just like the weather iseither extremely cold or just
crappy and you just get stuffdone around the house.
I don't mind.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, I got a lot done and I thought I did one
thing, but this morning it wasour refrigerator.
You have this Frenchrefrigerator doors where you can
open the left one.
It has a little flap and itdoesn't always catch.
I thought I fixed it yesterdayand then this morning I go and
open the refrigerator and it didnot.
So that might be for theupcoming weekend, if we make it
(04:04):
out alive after, depending onwhich station.
40 inches of snow innortheastern North Carolina,
what?
No, that's crazy.
It's legitimate apps and thingslike that are putting us
somewhere between 18 and 24inches the next two days and,
yeah, it's going to be hecked by.
(04:25):
We'll say they're out theretreating the roads in mass right
now, and I saw some plow truckslined up.
I'm like, okay, they'replanning ahead and things like
that, so maybe it won't be sobad I need to there's a weather
guy here in ohio.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
He's just like.
I'm trying to look it up reallyquick.
This is going to kill me.
Southwest Ohio weather freak.
He's just this amateurmeteorologist and he's right
more often than the news.
So I follow a dude in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't have any of those local things.
Gosh, what was the weather appI used to have?
I took it off, but it wouldjust say it's fucking hot as
balls oh yeah, it was calledlike wtf weather, I think it
would.
Just, I loved it.
I ended up taking it off forwhatever reason, but I was like
it's hot as balls, don't gooutside, you'll die, yep.
(05:20):
So I guess on to the wonderfulworld that is HR.
First, to follow up on our lastepisode no new executive orders
, but no further guidance eitheron anything.
I've been doing some webinars,and it's just sort of everybody
holds, still, holds, still likeokay, well, that was my plan all
(05:40):
along, but, yeah, no furtherword.
But I will say that thatepisode got a lot of downloads.
It seemed to be, even though itwas an hour long, and 70
percent of people listened allthe way to the end.
So, thank you if you.
You people made it to at least95.
I think when they get, though,and the final goodbyes or
whatever, as people click nexton their little podcast player,
(06:01):
they don't need to hear us saythe ending.
So yeah, so if y'all like thattype of stuff, let us know.
We can do more of that.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
What's going on?
We can just hide under ourdesks and eat our hair together.
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
We don't know what's happening.
We really don't.
It's crazy.
Out there, I don't have anyhair left to eat.
It's been gone.
That's what happened to it.
I'll use that as an excuse.
Let's see.
Well, one of the main things Ihad was and the story I read
(06:34):
wasn't related to HR, it wasabout the vocal minority and the
silent majority and it wasn'teven politics.
It was more like familypolitics versus Republican
Democrat type stuff, but usingthose terms.
But some of the things it saidin this it was a dumb article.
I think it was BuzzFeed orsomething, one of those places
that you hate to go.
(07:02):
So, but one of the things thisarticle was talking about was
how you have like an aunt orsomebody like that who is a
know-it-all and puts out theseideas, regardless how right or
wrong they are, and tries to putit out as the gospel of the
world that they live in.
(07:22):
Essentially and I was sort ofpertaining that to an influencer
so that aunt would be like asocial media influencer who's
putting out garbage that we weretired of hearing, like quiet
quitting and like the rage,resignations and all these
wonderful terms that we've hadto put up with the last couple
of years.
I don't think a lot of people.
(07:43):
Well, I should go back.
I don't want to believe.
A lot of people think that thisis the norm, but you do have
that very small group of peoplethat are super highly
influenceable and they think, oh, I need to rage quit, or I need
to do this, or this is what'shappening to me, whether all
this ghosting stuff on theinternet people, companies are
(08:06):
ghosting you, applicants areghosting you, and things like
that.
So I just sort of I took itthat the vocal minority are
these influencers and the silentmajority are the rest of the
family is like, okay, yeah, goahead and have another drink,
aunt Susie, we know what's goingon here and you can say what
you're going to say.
We're just whatever, but a fewof them, oh, yeah, yeah, that's,
(08:27):
that's absolutely right.
Anyways, that's that's what Iwas I took away from the article
that like said, I don't knowhow I ended up down that rabbit
hole in the first place to toget there.
So, yeah, I just I just can'tthink people are that dumb and
gullible as like we see onsocial media.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Yeah, they are no Like what it is.
It's the same stuff we've seenover the past few decades.
We're just putting a snazzy newlabel on it and then people get
like you know it's all in themarketing, so people buy into it
.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Quiet quitting.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, the marketing is everything it's bad to it.
Quiet quitting marketing isthat it's?
It's the same shit that's beengoing on in the past, or at
least in similar economic times,where you kind of see these
patterns, but now we just marketit so it looks cute on a
hashtag yes, that's, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Cute on a hashtag?
That's that's exactly what,because it's all soundbites and
it's all like.
I have several news aggregatorsand part of the things I
aggregate is HR news and I seeall these things that come from.
One thing that's irritating meis I go through these.
Now I mentioned BuzzFeed.
Everybody knows they're justgod awful, just got awful.
(09:47):
It's somebody with maybe barelya high school education that
found something and wants towrite 250 words on something
stupid they saw on social mediaand have no clue what they're
talking about most of the time.
But there's companies like I'llcall them out Forbes and Inc
and some other companies thatused to do really good work and
now I'm saying you're just doingthis clickbaity stuff.
That's style over substance andif that's the way you want to
(10:09):
take it, it's like is I?
Before I click on things,generally speaking, I look at
the source and if it's not asource, I want to read it from,
and a lot of times I'll evenblock if it keeps coming up as
something, for whatever reason.
I still haven't blockedbuzzFeed, but I see these
sources and I know what I'mgetting into as soon as I see it
.
But, anyway, that was my littlething that happened to me this
(10:33):
week.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I feel like BuzzFeed is the current day National
Enquirer, like it's the stuffyou read while you're in the
bathroom or waiting in a waitingroom.
Like that's what BuzzFeed is,and I just feel like it's kind
of a guilty pleasure.
You know what you're getting.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
And if you are gullible enough to think that
anything they say has anyvalidity.
Oh, and I'm an HR professionalwith 27 years of experience and
I say this is the secret If anarticle starts with a HR
professional of 25 years sayswhatever, that instantly says
99.9% chance.
(11:11):
I'm not clicking unless it'sjust pure morbid curiosity.
And when I click it I say Iknow what I'm getting into and I
accept my punishment for doingit.
But yeah, I got the secret, andthe secret that's going to get
you a job interview with Googletomorrow.
I got the offer tomorrow.
(11:31):
That's one rabbit hole.
I went down, but you had alittle story to share as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
So I giggle because we'recoming up on that time of year
where we're going to have alittle pop and turnover because
people like to stick around,didn't wait for their bonus to
come, and then they peace out.
And I was on a call the otherday and someone who was
(12:04):
presenting on the call wassharing their screen and as they
were sharing their screen, theyclosed the window and continued
the conversation.
However, they forgot that theywere still sharing their screen.
They closed the window andcontinued the conversation.
However, they forgot that theywere still sharing their screen
and, unbeknownst to them, theyshared their most recent
documents, which happened to betheir resume, which it said
(12:25):
right under there thank you,windows 10.
Like this individual has beenedit was editing it earlier this
morning, to which I was like,oh my gosh, there's people on
this call.
Like this person's manager wason the call, by the way, but I
was like I need a texter, but Idon't know people.
(12:45):
It was just not payingattention.
Beware when you share yourscreen.
Just a friendly PSA.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, and I told you and I'm not going to name the
university involved in this, butit went viral, on my algorithm
at least.
Apparently, a universityprofessor was sharing his screen
if it's Canvas, blackboard,whatever they Moodle, whatever
they use on it, and you can seeall their tabs that they have
(13:12):
open.
So they have these universitytype tabs, and then one of the
tabs they had open in thebackground was Pornhub.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
It's like, yeah, that that's a fail oh my gosh, you
absolutely take a screenshot, bythe way.
That is the correct course ofaction in that situation
screenshot and share.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
I always laugh when people put like their personal
bookmarks on their browser andwhen they share their screen you
can kind of see, like what itis they do when they're not
working, especially if you'rebroadcasting to an entire like
audience or you're sharing yourscreen for you know the whole
organization Like why are youputting that on there?
Why are you putting suchdivisive things on there?
(13:54):
Why can't you just be a littlesavvy about what you're putting
out there?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
And sometimes I think people do some of these stupid
things sort of on purpose forattention.
I don't know if the Pornhubwould be something on purpose
for attention.
I don't know if the porn hubwould be something you do for
attention.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't think.
I don't think that.
I think this person just made amistake.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Oh, man.
So yeah, it's, it's crazy, um,but oh, another thing I wanted
to share and I don't know if Italked to.
I don't think we talked aboutit on the last episodes.
We were all down the DEexecutive order rabbit hole.
I've been speaking for monthsabout my son and his search for
an internship.
Oh, yeah.
(14:39):
And one company, I'll just sayDisney.
He applied.
So he applied on Wednesday,january 29th for a position on
Disney and they only had it uponline for five days and it went
down.
You go to LinkedIn.
It says no longer available,closed X many days ago, and
things like that, and you go totheir website.
(15:00):
It's not there period anymore.
But he applied on the 29th andthen on Friday, the 31st he got
a questionnaire to answer and hefilled that and turned that in
immediately.
And then, leon February 7th, hegot an unmanned video interview
where they tell you what thequestion is.
Give you 30 seconds to composeyourself, get it, come up with
(15:22):
an answer.
Then it records you making youranswer.
We had one of those interviews.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I have a pinball.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah, they're interesting.
But he had that on the 7th andthen, like on the 12th, they
sent him an email following upwith him and saying, basically,
we're going to do a real human Iforget what they call it online
interview with you using Zoomor whatever the tool is that
they use.
They sent him this 13-pageinterview guide from Disney what
(15:54):
to expect and what to thinkabout and things like that and I
was like wow.
I read through it.
The only thing that I would sayis the links on the PDF they
sent him did not work and Ifound it, the document title.
I Googled it and I found it onDisney's website itself and
still the links didn't work,because it talked about it had
an FAQ section you could go, butit was still really cool,
(16:17):
really well done.
The interview guide told themabout behavioral interview
questions and how they want themanswered, and it was just like
they're giving you a roadmap notto fail the interview.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I did too.
I thought it was really the endof February and early March,
and they gave them a whole timeframe of everything, all the
steps from here.
I was like this is they've beenon the ball.
Oh, and they even told you tostart following the people on
LinkedIn.
So he followed the recruiterwho he's been in contact with
not directly, just only viaemail, and we cyber stalked the
(16:56):
head of the department that thisposition would be working on.
But it tells you everybody hasa LinkedIn profile, Please
research them and all this otherstuff.
I was really impressed,especially for a entry-level
position, helping a college kidwith not much experience get
through, be ready for theinterview.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
First of all, I wonder if this is the same thing
stuff that they provide likehigher level roles, or if this
is just part of their likeinternship it's geared more
toward entry level.
Yeah, yeah, like I'm thinkingthat that's just cool.
I think that's such a goodservice to put people who are
doing that entry-level role theydon't people don't know.
(17:39):
This is awesome, that they'rebasically giving you the roadmap
to success and I.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I downloaded a bunch of behavioral-based interview
questions and I started quizzingmy son.
And they even give you, theywant you to use the STAR method
I think that's what it's calledto answer the questions.
Yeah, and so I quizzed him insome of the most common
entry-level interview questionsfor behavioral interview
questions and I would help themwork through going through the
(18:08):
STAR method and I said let's getfive or 10 of these down so
that you know if the question'snot exactly the same, you can
manipulate it into how it'sgoing to be close enough,
because you don't have any realin-depth experience that they
can drive into.
But I said if they ask youabout school stuff, you've got
that, that's what you're doing.
So I'm looking forward tohearing how the interview stage
(18:31):
goes for him.
But I can only imagine he'smoved pretty far along because
to apply do the questionnaireI'm sure everybody submitted a
resume, got a questionnaire andthe questionnaire weeded some
people out.
That little video interviewweeded some people out.
So I got a feeling that there'snot a long list.
But oh, and they said you must.
They'd say must.
It was like super highlyencouraged to have questions to
(18:54):
ask your interviewees.
So we thought of about 10questions and he's like why do
we need 10?
I said they may answer some ofthese questions during the
course of the interview andyou're not going to ask the
question that they just answered.
It looks like you're not payingattention.
You're not ready.
So, I said just have it on yourpiece of paper and if they say
something that we came up withjust during the course of the
(19:15):
conversation, scratch through itand move on to the next slide.
Between he and I, we came upwith some really unique
questions.
I told him you don't want toGoogle this, you don't want to
chat GBT questions, askinterviewers.
You're going to get somethingreally stupid that the
interviewers heard a billiontimes and they don't want to
hear it again.
So I said let's use our mindsand come up with some questions
(19:35):
of our own.
And yeah, I think we came upwith a nice list.
So I'm really excited.
Hopefully this will go well.
This will be a dream for him.
I think I've mentioned beforehe's obsessed with roller
coasters and theme parks and towork at one.
(19:56):
For, oh, this is a six-monthinternship too, it's not just a
summer internship.
So, yeah, we're hopeful, butwe're still applying.
We're still chugging along anddiscussing it every day.
I'm probably overly involved.
I don't want to be a helicopterparent or something like that,
but I think he does get the gistthat I've been in HR and I've
recruited.
I've spent many years.
When he was very young, I was acollege recruiter and I did
this and worked with it.
(20:16):
So I think he can appreciate myhelp.
At least he's pretending, atleast to me, that he appreciates
my help.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Oh, that's everything .
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, so yeah, that's what's going on in our little
neck of the world, other thanwe're.
I don't know if I mentionedthis earlier because of our
technical difficulties, butdepending on which app and
weather station you watch, we'regoing to get at least 10 inches
of snow in the next couple ofdays, maybe two to three feet,
(20:44):
nobody knows.
There's someone on Facebookthat posted something.
I don't know if it's real ornot.
Of course it's Facebook, soit's got to be real.
But someone was calling for 40inches of snow here and I'm like
geez, louise, it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And if you are an employer, don't make your people
come to work.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Yeah, yeah, my boss sent out an email saying it's
not supposed to start tillmidday tomorrow.
And she sent out an email justdon't come to work and be safe
and take your computers home.
And yada, yada, yada.
And when I was leaving tonightI told her yeah, it was like
I'll see you when I see you,because I'm not coming tomorrow.
(21:24):
I'm probably not comingThursday.
Friday is up in the air,depending on everything, how
things look.
But yeah, she's like, yeah,just if you can make it on
Friday, make it.
She's like I'm not expectingyou Thursday either.
She knows I have an hour and ahalf one-way commute and she was
really cool about that.
Oh, story Not related to HR atall.
(22:05):
She was actually scheduled tocome in tomorrow, but I know the
airport's going to be closeddown here in the South.
They don't prepare everything.
So on Sunday I called theairline and I got a customer
service agent.
Well, first I tried to make thechange online myself, but they
wanted like a $400 change feeand I said look, there's a
(22:25):
winter storm coming and I thinkthis will make it easier for you
.
You have to deal with one lessperson on Wednesday and we don't
have any headaches.
And the customer service personwas sticking to the book and
said, well, we can't, unlessthere's a winter storm warning
in effect.
We won't make those changeswithout the fee.
And I was like, oh okay, well,I figured Sunday or no Monday.
(22:48):
That was Sunday.
Monday I called again, got adifferent customer service agent
and she started going down thesame list oh, I see there's not
a winter storm warning in effectfor the destination yet, so we
can't do anything.
I said, oh really, I don't wanther to be stuck in Baltimore,
for who knows how long is that'swhere her layout is.
It would have flown her fromUtah to Baltimore, no problem,
(23:10):
but getting from Baltimore homewould have been the problem and
she'd be stuck there.
And I said I really would liketo see if there's anything that
can be done.
And she said hold on one sec.
And so she Googled the weatherfor Norfolk, virginia, and she
goes oh my God, and it wassaying like 18 inches of snow on
Wednesday.
She goes oh no, I'm changingthis.
No fees.
(23:31):
And it just took.
Someone did OK, there's nowinter storm advisory, which the
policy probably says is twopeople said it to make the
change without a fee.
But this lady, she took it onherself to Google the weather
for Norfolk, virginia, and itsays 18 inches of snow on
Wednesday.
She goes oh no, oh no, I'mchanging this for you and I mean
it made us very happy.
(23:53):
Obviously it didn't takeanything off of her nose and
we're happy to continue.
It's Southwest Airlines.
I'll say if I do book generally, I like booking with them.
You have your Frontier and yourSpirit, the discount airlines,
but by the time you pay thebaggage fees and this and that
and the other thing.
it comes out the same day.
(24:13):
Trap you with that low oh, flyto Utah for $99.
Well, oh, but each bag is $50.
And they charge you forcarry-ons too $25 for carry-ons
With Southwest, you get twochecked bags.
Anyways, that's my littleunpaid advertisement.
But if you want to pay usSouthwest I will gladly take
your money.
But of our little experience Iwas just thinking that's the
(24:36):
type of employee I want to haveas the second plane.
You know the first one.
Yeah, they were doing their job, they were following the
procedure.
But it took the second lady.
Just, she said, oh, hold on twoseconds.
She Googled the weather andsaid, oh, no, we're changing
this.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And now they have one less person to put up in a
hotel in Baltimore tomorrow orwherever it is.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Listen, I'm all for a solid, but today's flight was
an adventure of its own.
Yeah, exactly, I'm glad she'sback home safe.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
I can appreciate a standard operating procedure,
but I also appreciate thatlayered with some common sense
of the situation, exactly,You're not always going to be
able to bend the rules, but I'mnot asking for anything special.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
The change fee when I went online to try and do it
myself was like $400.
Yeah, the change fee when Iwent online to try and do it
myself was like $400 a change.
I was like I've spent enoughmoney recently that I don't want
to take on a $400 change fee.
But yeah, shout out, it was agood experience.
They made it happen.
Unfortunately, Today, when shedid fly back today was my
(25:44):
daughter's day off.
They had some plans to go outto this that the other day,
shopping essentially but theydidn't get to do that.
So, anyways, they had two weekstogether, still Nice.
So, yeah, Anything else fungoing on in your village?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
No, you know, we ended performance management
just to begin it all over again.
So that's where we are rightnow, with work, that goal
setting happening.
But other than that, life'squiet.
This is a week where nobody issick, which is magical.
My voice is still cracking.
I had strep.
Oh, I don't think we talked, Ihad the best birthday of my life
(26:22):
, because I got strep throat onmy 40th birthday.
So I had like we had theseplans we were going to go out,
we were going to meet friendsfor dinner, we were going to go
to a bar, the baby was going tostay at my parents house, like
all this stuff.
And like the Thursday beforeI'm like, oh, I'm sick.
And then I went to the doctorand he's like you got strep.
(26:44):
I don't ever get strep throat.
My strep throat was worse thanCOVID that I got a few weeks
earlier.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah Well, you've knocked all the illnesses out
for 2025 already.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't know man, Tuberculosis is out there and
measles is out there, so hey,there's still a chance.
Oh gosh, it's okay, I've beenvaccinated yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
No, and the bird flu.
Don't forget the bird flu.
I could always get the bird flu.
There are $9 eggs in someplaces.
They're saying I haven't boughteggs but $9 a dozen for eggs.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
So eggs are kind of a big thing in our house, like we
eat eggs almost every morning.
The baby's eating and I guessthat's our luxury now is egg I
don't know you might go get eggsor starbucks honestly, it's
probably this.
Actually, I think the eggs aremore expensive uh, well, I
(27:46):
mentioned the snow.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I did make the mistake.
I told my wife I'd go to thegrocery store and pick up some
things.
I told her I'd do it Mondaywhile I was out and about, as I
did run a couple errands Mondayand I forgot to get them.
So I went to the grocery storetoday, the day before snowstorm,
and I got what I needed and itwas a zoo.
(28:08):
It was an absolute zoo thereand I was just like if I, and
then, like two of the selfcheckout registers didn't work,
they only had two cashiersworking with lines out the union
everywhere.
That was not.
That is not a good thing.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Honestly, could you imagine managing that situation,
like people call out you'reunderstaffed, machines are down
and everyone's in there for milkand bread, that is a nightmare
situation that I don't wish onanyone.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
No, no, I do not either.
I think that most of the peoplein the store were behaving
themselves.
I was getting a little grumpyat the lines.
I was thinking, if you don'thave that many cashiers, you
have lines and you don't haveall your self-checkouts working,
you should get like 5% off foreach self-checkout.
That's not either working oropen.
Don't get me started on Walmart, my least favorite place on
(29:03):
earth, when they have 30self-checkout registers and only
six of them are open and theydon't care.
Just yeah, we don't have thestaff.
You don't have staff forself-checkout.
Anyways, that's my loathe forWalmart as a whole.
Different story.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well wait, I thought the robots were supposed to take
the jobs.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, yeah.
Why don't they please takethose jobs?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The robots are calling out this is where we are
.
Ai has totally come full circle.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
There we go.
Oh yeah, the robots have becomesentient and they're having an
emotional day and they need totake a personal they're
unionizing, they're sick outing,uh.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So yeah, we'll land the plane right there.
Please join us next week forour very special Diversity Day
episode of our rewatch of theOffice.
So it's going to be a lot offun.
So be sure to check it out,share, give us any ideas you
have for other shows to make anHR tie into.
(30:04):
So, with all that wonderful,the fun stuff said, I want to
thank Andrew Coppa, the voiceartist, for the introduction and
the intro.
Outro music is the underscore,orchestra with the song the
Devil, the Devil, and, as always, I'm Warren.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
I'm Cece.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
And we're here helping you survive HR one.
What the fuck moment at a time.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yeah.
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