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Hey Besties!

Happy Wednesday! Hopefully we ordered the email recipients correctly, because we’re talking Office Politics. Listen to this week’s episode, and read until the end of this email for some fun (in the HR sense of the word) news.

In this week’s episode:

• Intro Story: Jamie tells us about her first day on a job, where she was asked to get coffee for everyone. (Spoiler alert: it didn’t go as smoothly as you - or rather, Jamie’s new boss - might think).

• Corporate Cringe Speak: Something stinks - and it might be that pig that someone’s covering in lipstick (also, as Leigh points out, please don’t denigrate “Babe” like that).

• Hot Topic - Office Politics: Personal preferences. Unspoken rules. Whispered rules. Micro-feminisms. It’s all in this episode (including ways to address them the best you can). 

• Questions & Comments: What term Ashley recommends when you’re trying to get something approved at work (we’re telling you all of our secrets in this episode).

Discussion Guide - Your weekly podcast club or team meeting questions:

• Coffee Run: Have you ever been asked to do errands for others at work? How did you handle it?

• Navigating Politics: What do we spend energy on that shouldn’t be necessary?

• Hairy Arms: What are your strategies for successfully influencing others at work?

  Tune in and use these questions to keep the conversation flowing. Each episode aims to help you feel more connected and less isolated at work, to help make real change and improve workplaces.

  We did promise some fun news at the end of this email - and here you are! Hold on, we’ll put it below the “Listen” buttons to make sure you click one of those while you’re reading…

OK, thank you for that - and if you’d like to give us a rating and review (especially if it’s been a while), that helps us!

Now the fun news - if you’re headed to SHRM, so are we! Well, 2/3 of us. We’ll talk about it on the Happy Hour episode this Friday, but Leigh and Ashley are headed to SHRM in Chicago next week. Follow us at @hrbestiespod on Instagram to see where we’ll be during the conference, and click below to drop a note through our website if you’ll be there!