Jaded HR: Your Relief From the Common Human Resources Podcasts

Send us Fan Mail Quiet Cracking, AI Trust, and Training the Next Generation After an unexpected week off, the hosts catch up on a kitchen remodel and debate gas versus electric cooking, then touch on Cinco de Mayo drinks and missed Star Wars Day plans. They shift to workplace trends, defining “quiet cracking” as employees who are burned out and disengaged but staying due to an unstable job market, alongside “job hugging,” and discuss low applicant flow, burnout at big tech, and the need for ...

Send us Fan Mail Season 7 kicks off the only way Jaded HR knows how: with questionable life decisions, corporate chaos, and HR stories that make you wonder how some companies are still functioning. Warren almost dies test-driving a 50-year-old truck (worth it), Cece is out here installing gas appliances like a DIY queen, and somewhere in the middle… we actually talk HR. This episode dives into the latest mass layoffs at Oracle Corporation, including: The brutally cold layoff email that feels ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Jaded HR, we dive into an HR nightmare that somehow checks every single box of what NOT to do. A pregnant employee. A doctor’s note. A simple work-from-home request. And a company that said… “nah, come into the office.” What happened next? A $22 million lawsuit that has HR professionals, employment lawyers, and workplace experts all asking the same question: what were they thinking? We break down the now-viral case involving Total Quality Logistics and unpack the...

Send us Fan Mail You know those polished corporate videos that are supposed to scream “we have a great culture!”? Yeah… this is not one of those. In this episode, we break down a marketing video that was clearly meant to attract talent, boost morale, and make leadership feel good about themselves… but instead managed to do the exact opposite. Think less “employer branding win” and more “unintentional documentary on workplace dysfunction.” We get into: How employer branding videos can ba...

Send us Fan Mail This episode has a little bit of everything: the Olympics, employee side hustles, and a workplace debate that is guaranteed to make at least one person in HR deeply uncomfortable. We kick things off with a question no one asked for but everyone has an opinion on: Can women mansplain? (And more importantly… should you be having that conversation at work?) From there, we dive into: The reality of workplace double standards (and how they actually play out) &nbs...