HR BESTIES - LinkedIn Cringe

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

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So a bit ago, we shared her most embarrassing story at work. And it got me inspired to share my most embarrassing story at work with you all. And inevitably, I'm going to say this and other people are going to reach out and remind me of a more embarrassing story. Quite a bit of content. Of course they are. But let's set the stage and we're in Amsterdam. Oh, not that city. I didn't live in Amsterdam, but I was there for work. And I worked for a large

global consulting firm. You can go to my LinkedIn to figure that out. But a very well-known consulting firm. And I was there because I was on a project. And I got together with a number of colleagues around the world. I was leading this project. I said, I really thought we needed to sit in the same room. Just want to go to Amsterdam. Yeah, obviously. Obviously. So we are in Amsterdam and the office there was right on the canal. It was a multi-story office. And so we're working very, very hard as we tended to do. And one of the guys on

our project worked in that office and he's like, let's go upstairs because they have all free food, all free food. And while we're enjoying our free lunch, we can go and look on the rooftop because it's a beautiful rooftop overlooking these canals. And so we're out there having our food and you know, all that and I was going to get something. He's like, actually, there's this cool periscope. And when you look off the top, you can see the whole city.

And I'm like, oh, that's so cool. And so I was going to get some more food. And so my colleagues had gone and we're looking at periscope. They walked away. They're like, oh yeah, that was very cool. And so I walk up to it and I'm like, and I look and I'm like, what the hell? I'm like, how did you all reach this? And I look, I'm like, y'all tall fuckers.

All my colleagues, I'm five three. They were all at least five, how did you all reach this? And I look, I'm like, y'all tall fuckers. And all my colleagues, I'm 5'3", they were all at least 5'7", 5'8", they're like, at least high. And so this colleague was like, oh, just pull it down. If you just pull it down, it's movable. I'm like, okay. So I pull and I pull so hard. A big cloud of smoke comes out in this thing. I fall to the ground.

A periscope falls from the ceiling, along with like, clubbing everywhere. And it's like this big golden thing. And my colleague gets big eyes, he's like, oh my God, I was just kidding. It's, oh my God. And I was like, what do you mean? What do you mean you were kidding, motherfucker?

He goes, that's not, that's not a movable periscope. That's a piece of art that was installed for the 50th anniversary of this office. Oh! And you literally dangled on it with your whole weight. Oh my God. He fucking did you dirty. Yeah, he did you dirty.

And I was like, what the fuck? And I'm like, what the fuck do I do? Walk away. And it was like a hotel. Like, I work there. Not in that office, ever, obviously. But I was like, fuck. And so I'm like, it's lying there on the floor.

Are you injured? No, thank you. Nobody else asked me that. Thank you. But they were, they were my friends, but like, no. And so I'm like, oh, okay. I need to report. He's like, well, you need to go down and report this to the receptionist and she's not the friendliest.

And I was like, Oh, great. What? I goes, anybody else want to come with me? Fucking hands down. Crickets. So I go and I slink down and take the elevator down and go to the receptionist. And I'm like trying to explain this and tell more details than is necessary in this room. Of course.

Fucking stares at me. And she's like, what? And she's like, where is it? And I'm like, I leaned it against the wall just to put it there. And she's like, what? And just looked at me. And she's like, why did you think it would move? It could actually move down. I was like, my colleagues said it could.

And so she's like, I don't even know what we're going to do about this. And so I went back upstairs and I'm trying again, trying to do things, but I went back to the U S and for weeks I would email my colleague, like any update on the Paris scope? Did they put the art in? And they had a bullet. He was like, look, they have a book right next to it. Did you not see the book? No, I didn't look at this book. I was trying to look at the beautiful skyline of Amsterdam. I've got a commemorative book for it. And so he's like, nope, still not up yet. It's leaning against the wall. But we had like a Secret Santa and one of

my colleagues in the US office gave me a kid's toy periscope for my secret Santa. And so, but that was pretty fucking embarrassing to destroy property. Yeah. On a well known organization. Well, that'll teach them. They should have put a stool there. That wasn't a very inclusive office. That's what I said.

I'm like, there you go. That's what I would have said. That's what I would have said. Yeah. Damians are tall, but I will on our Instagram story. I have a picture of it. I was just about to say. On our Instagram story, I have a picture of it. I was just about to say, I'm like, do you have a picture of it? I do.

I have a picture of it leaning against the wall and I have a picture of my kid's parent, the kiddo periscope that I got a secret Santa. But I do. So you can see what it looks like. And it was real. I mean, it looked like you were on a ship. So yeah, fucking embarrassing. Oh gosh, that's brutal.

Yeah. The work pranks. Not funny. Yeah. No, that, that's brutal. Yeah, the work pranks, not funny. Yeah, no, that's his fault. Yeah, so anyway, that's it. But that was my embarrassing story. Again, I have plenty of stuff there. Did it get fixed, you know? I stopped asking, honestly.

And then I left and started managing everything. That was nice that you even asked. I'd be like, oh, hey, good luck with this, I broke it. Well, you know, see, that's, you know me. I overthink it. I would have just walked away. I would have told the receptionist nothing. Thinking about it. Oh, hell no, see, that's, you know me, I overthink it. I would have just walked away. I would have told the receptionist nothing. I would have woken up in the middle of the night thinking about it. Oh, hell no.

I'm talking to more people about it while we were still at the office. That's a multi-billion dollar business. They're going to be all right. You know what I mean? That'll be fine. But I would like bring it up to people just in case you see it. Well, fucking everyone should see it. I did that.

And they're going to be like, damn American coming from, coming from, you know, that's coming over and conquering shit. Coming over and breaking property. I wasn't even high. Yeah, but that was- No, I wasn't, literally. It was a great question, though. No substances.

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Touch anything. Exactly. Exactly. Just don't. Well, we will transition into our cringe corporate speak and Jamie is at bat for that. And then for our meeting hot topic, it's all about the LinkedIn cringe. Oh my gosh, LinkedIn is on fire of late for just being the cringiest place. It's gotten cringier than ever. The last year. People are just out of control. They really, really are. So we are going to dive into that and maybe share some of the herbifically hilarious things

that we see there on the LinkedIn. And then of course we will save time for those questions and comments. All right, Jamie, what do you got from a cringe corporate speak? Noodle it or noodle on it. So I know I've talked about the consulting firm that I had to work closely with at one of my jobs and they were notorious for using the cringiest of the corporate speak, but another one was noodle on it. So what this essentially means is think about it, right? Or we need to think about it. We need to maybe, you know, brainstorm, come together. But for some reason, it really bothered me. Like, yeah, it just gives me the ick, but it's like noodle. Yeah.

That word sounds funny. It's like a lunch for your kids. Yeah. I'm like a little wet noodle and it's noodle on it. Cause what noodles, another word for brain, right? Yeah. Is that your noodle? Right? Yeah. Your noodle. Yeah. I would never say that to a grown adult or a child actually. Like your noodle. Now that's noodle on that. Like what? Noodle it around. Yeah. Like I'll eat some noodles. But it's kind of like that parking lot of like, again, you're saying it and you're saying

something that makes it sound you're never going to hear about that topic again. Yeah. And they're not going to, they're actually not going to do an audio on it. Think about it. Yeah, that's true. They won't do anything about it. That's pretty much what at least half of the cringe corporate speaks, right? Yeah.

They're just excuses for us not doing the work. Yeah, that's true. But if you're going to have a new, I think it's probably going to be a good one. Yeah, they're just excuses for us not doing the work. Yeah, they're false expectations. Yeah, that's true. But if you're going to have a new, I'll probably question and comment, but if you were going to order like a noodle, what would you get? A bucatini. What?

Like a fancy shit. Oh, good. Her bougie ass. What is that? If you said that to me. It's a hollowed out spaghetti noodle. Honestly, if you said that. So it's thick and it's good, you know, because the sauce will get in there.

I definitely have eaten that. But if you had just said, what's a bucatini? I would have said cheese. I would have said like a brand of shoe. Yeah, that's right. Brand of shoe. What about you? What about you Jamie?

I mean, I love a good penne pasta. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I love a good penne pasta. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's very like, you know, but like, you know, if, if you depends on what you're eating, right? Like, yeah, what kind of sauce is going to compliment what the noodle is? Cause you wouldn't want like buttered noodles with like a ziti. Yeah.

That'd be animalistic. It really depends. Like I do love a good egg noodle, but doesn't make sense with like, ziti. Yeah, that'd be just animalistic. It really depends. I do love a good egg noodle, but it doesn't make sense with like, so. I got a pasta maker once that I made fettuccine. And I made it like three times. And then it's hard. It should be easy.

It looks easy when I look up the things. And when I'm trying to make it and I look up the people on YouTube, make it look so easy and so fun. And I'm like sweating and the flower puff is coming from my head. Start over. You know, egg on the kitchen table. But I like to go out or make, you know, like some just plain old macaroni and cheese. Maybe Annie's to make it a little bit.

A shell. I feel like I'm doing something healthy. A shell. A shell. All fancy. Yeah, for sure. A shell. A shell. All fancy. Yeah, for sure. Okay. Okay.

Oh, awesome. All right. Well, very cringy. That gives us the ick. And what else gives us the ick? What an incredible transition is LinkedIn, honestly. We love the LinkedIn. I mean, you know, but it's some of the content that is showing up on the LinkedIn of late.

There seems to be a turn of the tide post COVID and boy, is it an interesting place to be. I mean, it's become a personal diary for some. Oh, damn. Because LinkedIn, I got a sense of like, there's things I've learned from LinkedIn and as a LinkedIn learning instructor. Shout out LinkedIn. No, we love it.

I love that. But it's like anytime you open a platform, allow people to do unfettered things. They will. A playground it is. It's like the interview. Just have an open interview and just let people talk and give people the floor. People will fill that with content. And sometimes it is so freaking weird. Yeah. There's some weird things. It really is.

All right. Let's some weird things. It really is. All right. Let's hit Jamie. Let's go. What do you got? What do you got? Fringe us out. I'm obviously not going to name names here.

No, we have to be okay. People can search. Yes. Obviously, you know, one thing that I found a lot is people like blasting their own personal lives on there. So like their marriage qualms on LinkedIn. I'm like, this is social media, but this is a professional business networking site. No one gives a shit about your husband cheating on you. Save that for the Facebook. Put the

cryptic quote on Facebook with you all of a sudden changing a picture to a sexy selfie with your cleavage hanging out. Save that for the Facebook. Maybe not the LinkedIn's, but I know I've shouted them out before, but there's an Instagram page. It's a meme page called the best of LinkedIn. They daily find the most cringiest LinkedIn post. So one recently was a man was holding his crying son and it was he posted the photo

and basically about daddy you can't go to work. But yeah, using his son, it's just so gross. Was it his real face? As post-baked. Was it his real face too? It was the child's real face, but of course the creator of Best in Blink didn't blurt out the child's face. Right. But the man who made the post left his child's crying face.

And Lord knows if the kid was really crying about his daddy. Like you know what I mean? You had to pinch him right before the picture. Just like- Yeah. Well, do you even know when integrity like that? Can you imagine how you're crying? You're like, real quick, let me get the next album. That's what I'm saying.

To hell with his spouse. Just get this. What are you going to do with it? What the fuck is wrong with you? Just give the kid the uncrustable he was actually crying for. I'm going to influence my professional network with this. Right? Whatever it takes.

Oh my God. Because there's also, like there's Reddit. So just like I talk about, I'm not good at Twitter. I'm not good at Reddit. We do have an HR Besties page on Reddit. I think I've made a couple posts. Subreddit, like, bad. But there's a Reddit page called LinkedIn Lunatics.

And people put things on there. And I tell you what, it is kind of the same thing as best of lightning. You look at this stuff and it's like, I mean, look like, like this article taking creepy pictures of women inside their homes early in the morning. I mean, this is it. People are posting like I was out for a walk this morning at 7 45. I saw this woman already working, but not at work.

I saw myself in her. This is a man taking a picture outside of someone's home of a woman working inside her house and does a whole post. And again, like, or this is a woman that made this, who is then like talking about that. I stood there for this woman is making a post with a picture of a stranger. I stood there for a minute, like a cold stone creeper and watched her complete focus. Yeah, you were. Let me noodle on it. You fucking are.

That's, that's, you know what, you should noodle on those things. But like, and people do that. So she literally documented how she's a stalker. She documented that. Single white female vibes. That's mad creepy. I just can't believe how people are using it almost for...

It's no longer become a professional networking site. And also, which is really bad, is people... you know, a lot of people are constantly stealing content, right? Because everyone is a quote unquote content creator. But it's literally copying and pasting someone else like a LinkedIn influencer's post and just copying and pasting it as your own. And then so you can get the likes and the comments and accolades.

It just makes me want to bomb. It's like people's charitable donations. This one here is one in multiple people post this. There's got to be some award when multiple people post the same post in LinkedIn Lunatics. This is someone who was making a, they were traveling on the road and to save money for their company. They weren't going to eat out. They did this.

Oh God. And the this is a picture. Thank God for the further picture capability is them cooking a piece of chicken with a fairly shitload of butter on top of it in the coffee maker. And they say, allow my company allows me to expense dinner. I wanted to save money because I know every dollar counts in the PNL. It's the little things that can get you promoted. What the fuck? So you give the person who uses the coffee maker, San Manila? That's a great point. Yeah, like right. Anyway, but people post this. And so sometimes people will be like, is this satire? Is it?

Yeah, that wasn't though. I don't know. I don't know. Oh gosh, yeah, but it's still cringy. It's still, it's, it's cringy, but I saw the Baltimore Bridge tragedy. This, this person who's, who's a frequent flyer on LinkedIn, and she does every post has one line of texts and then a space and one line of texts. I saved so many lives and careers through my, you know, wizardry, da, da, da, da, but she, this one's a,

she, she did a post at the Baltimore Bridge tragedy. I'm reading it and talks about how she went out and bought the Amazon's smash hammers, which I actually had just bought. Those windows, smash doors. Yeah, window. Just before that, based on a recommendation of a friend, it was like, you know, the algorithm knew that

and probably popped this up. But she does this whole post about, a long, long post, about how she bought these for her family, and then Dan says, you always gotta be prepared for anything in life, including job loss. Hashtag resume writer. Because that's what this person does. Like you are literally taking people who lost their life.

And she didn't. And then there's like an asterisk, asterisk, asterisk. It's like thoughts and prayers to all those affected. I'm like, it's like, bitch, please. You're just trying to get money. Like, did she? And I wish you could, um, like the way back machine for the internet where you can see how pages are edited over time. I wish you could see if that was in the original poster. But I'm looking at the comments and these people are like, wow, you know, so inspirational.

Like, yeah. Oh my God. And I'm like, who are these thoughts? I will comment it. And I was like, do you think that this is an appropriate hashtag for this type of post? I'm sure she deleted it, but I know I just can't like the delusion and then the literal, the people that follow these people with their comments, like in full support, I'm like, do you not see how fucked up this is? Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm getting very fired up about this. We're able to bring you HR besties thanks to sponsors like Yahoo Finance. I personally use Yahoo Finance.

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You post on much? Not anymore because the content just doesn't move me the way other platforms do. It's very different. Yeah. And I think, you know, as a content creator, it's fascinating the uniqueness of each platform. Like I love that. I can tell you the exact like mood, the feel, the followers, the tone, the attitude, the language, like everything of each platform.

They're all different, right? And LinkedIn's one where it just has some nuances to it. Like we were already joking about how, like when you write, you have to put spaces in between your sentences, right? And you have to put just the handful of hashtags at the end. And people love to do the repost and recycle, right? Like there's just certain like verbiage like you use in the LinkedIn write-ups, right? But I was wondering, I was trying to recall, when did I notice really that LinkedIn was getting

ultra kind of cringy or overly self-promoting to where it's delusional, like you were saying, totally delulu. To me, it was when that CEO was crying. Oh, yeah. Remember that crying CEO? Yeah, of course. That was two years ago, I wanna say,

year and a half, right-ish. It was a layoff, I'm in a layoff. I'm in a layoff. Yeah say a year and a half. Yeah, it was definitely during COVID. Not be laid off, but do get laid off. That's when I really started seeing content where it was like, wait, what? It really took me aback. I guess when you say COVID, I think that's the thing because you might talk to your colleagues about some things, but now that more people, you talk about the isolation and all that, people don't have colleagues to talk to. So I think they actually, I still, I do get, I still do get plenty of value out of LinkedIn

and some things, but I do chuckle because it's like, it's like any type of platform really. Did you just, I mean, for all the things that you guys have talked about, but I do think it's the thing that used to talk to other people about, and people just don't talk to people. So they put Absolutely. Yeah, and I think like tick things like tick tock Where you're seeing people kind of build these people are now are like, oh I want to build my personal brand on this I mean I I laugh because I look at LinkedIn lunatics and I personally I'm afraid I would show up on there That's why you that's why you read through it really That's why you read through it, really? Yeah.

She's searching out manager method. No, but I literally like I chuckled on that. No, but my Reddit name is manager method. And so I thought about that because I post on HR besties. I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to be so embarrassed if someone's like this lunatic. And I'm like, oh, I mostly post my videos. I post TikToks on there periodically. And I do. but I did laugh.

I'm like, oh my God, I'm sure that someone could find something. And they'd be like, you're LinkedIn lunatic. And I'd be like, oh, I'm guilty. But so there we are. I've started using LinkedIn as like a Twitter to just like say my jokes. Because I just don't, it's not that I don't care, but it's like I'm, everyone else is using it for a stupid ass function. This is now my Twitter.

Right. And I've seen more of that. Yeah. Of course, Corbett Swin. Corbett Swin. Yes, Corbett Swin. He does that. He posts it.

But the thing is, he posts on Instagram and does videos. But when he posts on LinkedIn, he does it and posts as if he was the CEO of the map. I don't know how many people have caught on that it's a joke, which makes me laugh even more. I think you're right on that. So that's funny because people are like, oh my goodness. I know, I can't believe it. Is this an effective management strategy?

I'm like, you're a fucking idiot. And you know, like respond right along with him. He does a very good job of playing that role. I've met people on LinkedIn that I still haven't met in real life that I like message with people from that professional level. I like it. But again, there's a lot of cringe. I think one of the cringiest things that I saw was last year and it still sticks with

me as a LinkedIn influencer, a few hundred thousand followers, you know, posting to get her son a job without the son knowing about it. And the son was just a loser. And I mean, and you can just tell the way she talked about him. You know what I mean? She was just describing just the biggest loser, like you, I mean, just the most unreliable worker. I mean, you know, can't finish anything.

He starts, but he's cute. Like talking like that, like really weird language. Like real talk. The clear communication we appreciate, but we want the substance Like talking like that, like really weird language. The clear communication we appreciate, but we want the substance. That's the part she wants to speak. And I ran to the comments. I mean, I sprinted Olympic style to the constant. Because I just knew like it was just going to get eaten alive, right? Yeah.

No. People were like, what a great mama. Oh, mama bear in the house. I house. I was like, I choked on my drink. I was like, it was so crazy. This boy, he's not like 16. No, he's like a grown man. He's like 35. No, literally. It was like 20s. You know, I mean, and it's just like, oh my gosh, without any clue.

And she's using the platform like that and begging. And it was just, oh my God. It was, I mean, I had a like a physical like reaction to it was so gross. And then the fact that people were cool with that. I'm telling you, they're just like, they've become like computer programmed. Almost people are like, the one thing I'll say about LinkedIn that it has going for it is that you generally have to use your real name with, again, some exceptions and all those things.

But unlike our other social media channels we post on, which will be like, you know, the biggest insults come from like user 272. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With a private profile, no real profile picture. But LinkedIn, people are putting themselves out there. And the stuff people said, you know, you'll have the comments of people getting hit on in the DMs. Oh, yeah.

Just super inappropriate. I've gotten lots of photos. Yes, but those same thing of the people like, or the people will post an opportunity, like a lawyer, let's say, like a law firm that will say like, oh, I'm going to hire someone, not going to, you know, going to be W9 to start like already. Okay. So you're not going to employ them. That's engaging. You're going to engage them and going to do all this shitload of work.

Really need to have experience. Really need to be from a top school and we're going to pay them $75 an hour. And then you're like, wait, but I know you're going to build them out at like $750 an hour. And you're like, this is not like us. And so people in the comments, oh my God, commenting to amplify. What an amazing opportunity. And you're like, I wish you could cut like it. So there's less, I think there's less people calling people out on shop because people don't feel as comfortable. People will never say things to your face that they would say under an on me. But I've commented on things like that. I have to message the person. And I'm like, this is actually like,

yeah, fairly exploitative. Yeah. This is interesting. Yeah. Like this is not like how much are you telling me? What are you going to build them out at? Whoa, whoa, whoa, I take on so much. Yeah. No, no, no, no. Like if if cringe corporates speak was a platform, it would be LinkedIn. Like there's a lot of just fakeness, pleasantries.

It's like every response is canned. I mean, you know, it's just like that is LinkedIn. Right. And you know, it's also out of pocket and I'll you guys might have experienced this, but really I was very, very private on LinkedIn because of my social media presence. I didn't want people to know where I worked. Yeah, you just turned yours on. I literally just turned mine on and like the last six months.

She's like free balling. Yeah, free balling. Yeah, free balling. But the amount in the last six months of just people in my DMs asking for advice, like free advice, or the sales pitches, oh, I see you work at so-and-so, I would love to show you this. And like, I just can't, like, you know, it's just, I'm like, y'all don't understand.

This is, like, I do have a real job. Yeah. And now you're bombarding me with sales pitch. And my Jamie, I have a franchise opportunity for you. Exactly. I have a lot of those in my day. I sure do. I'm going to have this MLM people also then they'll savage you. I've noticed your I've noticed your LinkedIn probably your website, my YouTube, my social

media. They could use a lot of work. They are all showing videos. I've mocked up this video and I'm like, but that's not my side. That's somebody else's. Oh my goodness. Okay. Let me.

Oh, I know. Now they got me engaged. Now for the record, to close the hot topics, right, is that we could have this sort of conversation about every platform and we do. You know what I mean? So again, like heart hands out to LinkedIn. You know, there is a lot of goodness there. We are all on it and participating.

And if you go to some of our content, I'm sure it's cringes hell too. I know we are. I've got servant leader in my headline and shit like that, okay. That's what I have on it. I gotta give them a little razzle dazzle. But hey, shout out, you know,

and I highly recommend to LinkedIn from a getting a job perspective. Everyone's going to go Google on there and try and search for you. You know what I mean? Amazing tools, right? Yes. Amazing tools. Thank you. Shout out to LinkedIn Learning. But they also, I actually personally have used their salary insights tool. Yeah. Yeah. That's good.

You know, they obviously have jobs as well, like job hosting. I've not only applied to jobs on LinkedIn, but I've, as a recruiter, posted jobs on LinkedIn. So, I mean, LinkedIn has some amazing. Oh, yeah. It's just the people. It's like a podcast. People be people on the LinkedIn.

You give a mic to people, and people will say all sorts of crazy shit. We're guilty of that. Absolutely. But it is some good entertainment. You have that Instagram page and then LinkedIn Lunatics on Reddit. You'll get some eyefuls on there. I've got to check that out. I haven't. Oh, God.

It's so good. Best of LinkedIn. It's so good slash bad. Exactly. You'll get good cringe. That's how I exercise. Instead of working out as much as I should, I do. I get abs from

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Try one today. Terms and conditions apply at participating restaurants in Canada. Gosh, well, LinkedIn will never disappoint from a cringe perspective. That's a good way to sum up this hot topic. But now shifting gears, do you like that? To questions and comments. What do you all have? I was just thinking, you know, on the topic of LinkedIn cringe, once they shenan, they'll shenan again.

That is true. They will. I like that. I like that. I'll put that in my LinkedIn profile. You already should. You should put it in your bio. Yeah, I'll put it in my bio.

Once they shenan, they'll shenan again. That is profound. I know. Yeah, that is true. If you were to have like one, if you could only put things on one social media platform, what would you put them on? Like if you had to have all the others taken away? Oh man.

Instagram for me. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, yeah. Yeah. Oh man. It's kind of my go-to. You're in a love-hate relationship right now. I'm in an abusive relationship with TikTok and I always have.

TikTok's not the easiest to work with, but it's my primary platform and it's what I'm good at. I build everything on TikTok and then it gets taken other places. But Instagram, I'm going to be honest with you because it is a commercialization app and it's the only one. So, I mean, there's a lot you can do with the links and the connection of people is far greater on Instagram. It just is. You know, you're not in a void. It really is connective, right?

It's crazy. So I feel closer to my followers on Instagram, which I enjoy. Jamie has meme pages, which means she'll take content and put you, but there are a lot of people that get out there and they just take content and repurpose it and don't give people credit and steal it. Jamie goes out of her way to like she'll repost people and credit them do things and so I like I grew like from like, you know, like a thousand maybe less to like 20,000 in a pretty short period of time from Jamie posting my content But I have to say probably LinkedIn But probably because I but because like my business is business.

Are you sure you don't want a noodle on that? I'm like, ah, you're so good at that. You're so good at that. So I am. Again, that's why you can see me on LinkedIn. I think that makes sense for your business. That makes sense. Yeah, it does.

It does. Yeah. So let me see. Not a question, but a quick comment for me. Who was sharing the story earlier? Like, God, it's only been a few minutes and I can't even remember about saving the money with the chicken. Me.

Me. I'm the go-go. Yes, yes. That's what it was, right? Yes. The coffee maker. Yeah. Just a quick comment, which is actually a story, but I'm calling it a comment, was that my

first week of work at an employer, I went on a business trip. And that's pretty much the shittiest thing you can do to a new employee. It really is. Because they have to book all your shit and whatever. It's just horrific. You get no choices or freedom or whatever. And then, of course, I was traveling with my boss and that can be hard.

Very uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable first week. You don't even know this person yet. So we go somewhere and we eat lunch. and that can be hard. Very uncomfortable first week, whatever. So we go somewhere and we eat lunch. We're on travel, we're in a different state. We had a fly there. And he tells me over the lunch that he bought on the company card that in this instance though in the future, you shouldn't use your company card because you are on another company

property and you would have eaten lunch, right? You know, naturally you would eat lunch just like everyone else around here works here and they're paying for their own lunch. They're paying for their own, like they're bringing their lunch. And literally I was like, no, absolutely not. I will be using the corporate card on all travel and all purchases. You can show me where that's different.

And the travel policy is like, oh my God, okay, She's crazy. No, but I mean, what is, is that a travel policy? That is a data IV topic for a full episode. Oh, I know. All things TNL. I bring my lean cuisine. I bring my dollar, I get the savings on my dollar cuisine. I can't bring that with me on the plane. I'm not bringing my cooler. So when I'm eating my $16 salad bar salad, which I feel pressured to eat because I'm with my boss on the first week. And so I feel like I need to get a big box of sadness rather than eat my cheeseburger

and cut. Exactly. That's what I did. I had a salad and cut. Fuck that. I'm having a burger. Yeah, same. But I've also been cussed out over purchasing a 32 ounce, 89 cents Buc-ee's drink while on business because no purchases should be made under a dollar on the corporate card. Show me in the policy, bitch. It's not there. That's bullshit. That's just your own financial bullshit. Exactly. Tell me what?

Like that's the weirdest... Tell me why. Like literally. Tell me why. And you should sing too. Because it's bullshit. Because that's your own shit. Show me. That's what I always say. I have to receive, motherfucker.

Oh, please. Like, can you show me the... And the T.M.L. policy? That's why HR is such a thankless job. Because what happens is, is senior most... Perpetuation of that bullshit. And then senior most person comes and says, I need you to add language to the handbook. Yeah, that says a dollar. And you're like, this is how we all need to be spending our time.

And then you feel like you can't push back. This is probably again another topic. But if you sum up, if you have policies you've been required to add to your handbook, you drop those in our hrbesties.com contact site. And please, because we know, and we all know when you're also in HR, you know how to read the code of handbook. You drop those in our HR besties.com contact site and police because we know when we've all know when you're also in HR, you know how to read the code of handbook. And when you join a new company and you're reading that whole handbook because you're in HR and you read and you're like, what on earth? Oh, yeah.

That's just a CEO. It's like you just know it's personal. We know when something's been added because there is an issue. Exactly. Susan, Bill, we know. I hated how Lee always wants to buy those 89 cents. There are two of these drinks. So you put some bullshit in there. She's not right.

She should bring her own dollar. Oh my gosh. And Beaver, we trust. Give me a seven dollar raise and I'll buy them. Exactly. He's like, why can't you just use a dollar? Because bitch, I don't have a dollar. Yeah.

Who cares cash? I don't carry cash. And why would I pay for it myself? I am on business travel. Yeah. It's against I pay for it myself? I am on business travel. Exactly. It's against the rules for me too. I always say that shit. You know what I mean?

It's actually against the rules for me to pick this up. Rules you all made, right? Oh gosh, but on that final comment, which is really a story that I said was a comment. You should post a story. Crying selfie. I got in trouble. Yes, with my drink. For my bucking strength.

I got yelled at over making a purchase for hydration while on business travel. Can you believe it? Oh my gosh. Oh, fun times, everybody. Fun times. Well, gosh, thank you for joining us for this HR Besties meeting. We love we love your attendance. Thank you so much. But we have a hard stop now. Jamie does always.

Jamie, it's Jamie's fault really. I'm feeling busy. All right. Bye everybody.