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Everything published by I Hate It Here.
October 2026
- OCT 95 years of waitingHalf a decade of work, and still no straight answer about a raise…yikes!
- OCT 7ho ho holy burnout The holiday staffing plan appears to be…just hoping nobody calls out.
- OCT 5Show Me The Receipts When accountability takes the stage.
- OCT 2Before You Blame the Hiring Manager, Check Who Built This Haunted HouseThere are a few hiring managers out there who have gotten on my very last nerve, if we’re keeping it 💯. Still, I feel like I need to speak in their defense real quick… Because I’ve learned they’re actually victims of the same haunted system HR is trapped in, except it inconveniences them for like […]
- OCT 2clock in, crash outLeadership has a favorite. Guess whose documentation keeps getting ignored???
September 2026
- SEP 30HR Therapy: The AI Numbers Nobody's ExplainingThis session digs into the WHY behind HiBob's AI skills research: why managers are stuck holding the bag, why so much AI upskilling isn't adding up, and why you're probably not as behind as you think
- SEP 30hired under false pretenses Sometimes...a job description is completely different from the actual workload.
- SEP 29We Investigated Where HR’s Time Goes, and the Findings Were Deeply EmbarrassingA lot of HR tech stacks have basically become a home renovation show hosted by people who hate houses. 😒 Imagine if you lived in a house where every single room was built by a different contractor, and none of them ever spoke to each other. To get from the kitchen to the bathroom, you […]
- SEP 29📓 your systems have beef Payroll and time tracking are no longer on speaking terms.
- SEP 28let me build pls?what 3 things are standing in your way?
- SEP 25Everything Everywhere All at Once, but It’s Just Your Compliance ObligationsOne employee moves to Colorado, and all of a sudden, your job posting needs a salary range, and your leave policy has developed regional dialects. Multi-state compliance can get confusing that fast, folks! 😵💫 You open hiring beyond headquarters because you want access to great people, which is smart! Talent has no borders, but then […]
- SEP 25she applied AGAIN???One employee is retiring, and another is reapplying. Lots of emotions involved with both!
- SEP 23retention is looking shaky Half a generation is eyeing the emergency exit BTW
- SEP 22Your Employees Are Using AI, and Absolutely Nobody Knows What Good Looks Like YetI regret to inform everyone that we’re going to keep talking about AI for a little while longer! I know, I KNOW, some of you are already tired of hearing about it. Trust me, I’m also tired of hearing about it, and I literally host convos about it regularly! 🤪 “Can we talk about something […]
- SEP 22📓please define “AI-skilled” Quickly, before you tie it to someone’s performance rating and ruin their entire week!
- SEP 21buy or build?which path to pursue and why
- SEP 18Before Open Enrollment Takes Over Your Life, Could Your Benefits Improve Someone Else’s?Paid non-client. Views may not be representative. See G2 reviews. Learn more. Somewhere in your benefits package is a perk that has outlasted three executives and helped approximately four people. And you’re about to renew it again! 😬 Open enrollment is right around the corner, which means HR is approaching that magical season when everyone […]
- SEP 18the compensation conspiracy The pay structure is raising eyebrows, and management is testing everyone’s last nerve.
- SEP 16sloooow doooownThe people building AI would like everyone to remain calm-ish
- SEP 144 years of I Hate it HereThe edition celebrates important milestones of I Hate it Here
- SEP 14S13 E10: My HR Trauma Has Officially Reached the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Metaphor StageI started this solo episode planning to talk about the evolution of HR, and ended up using one of my fav shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to explain why this job can be emotionally unhinged, and suspiciously dependent on one exhausted woman saving everybody.
- SEP 11acquired & abandoned How do you lead confidently when nobody upstairs will answer a damn email?
- SEP 9Information Overload Is Eating Up Half Your WorkdayListen…I’m NOT reading your 47-page memo, sorry! It only takes a few of those to feel like you’ve basically joined a book club, and I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be reading Harry Potter fanfiction. Sometimes I do kinda wish I were the type of person who opened every attachment immediately and settled […]
- SEP 9when flexibility is fakeOffering flexibility means very little when using it gets you professionally grounded.
- SEP 7Vol 2: labor day then vs now100ish+ years… what’s changed - 2026 edition!
- SEP 7S13 E9: HR Is Done Cleaning Up These Terrible-Ass AI Rollouts (with Shirley Baumer)HR keeps getting handed the mop after someone else’s AI strategy floods the building, and frankly, I’m pretty sure you’re already over it!
- SEP 420 years…now what?How to survive workplace sabotage and find your spark without fleeing into the woods.
- SEP 2hiring by hotness?The worst part about it is everyone still thinks they’re making objective decisions.
August 2026
- AUG 31Second JanuaryAKA September!! I have one sided beef and here's why
- AUG 31S13 E8: When Your Company Has an AI Tool, but Absolutely No Plan (with Val Jensen)AI is already crashing the workplace party, but apparently, the humans were left off the guest list!
- AUG 28We’ve Personalized Everything at Work Except the ONE Thing That Matters MostThere’s nothing I hate more than a one size fits all approach. Modern work is FINALLY in its personalization era and I couldn’t be more excited. What I mean is, we’ve spent years and years personalizing sooo much of the employee experience from top to bottom. Career development, how people receive feedback/recognition, whether they want […]
- AUG 28Friendship request: deniedBeing approachable doesn’t mean your coworkers get a complimentary professionalism waiver.
- AUG 26the anti-DEI scam Imagine abandoning your programs for absolutely zero financial upside.
- AUG 24you’re the AI person nowNobody asked IF you wanted to be and yet… here HR is!
- AUG 24S13 E7: Your Uncoordinated Org Restructure Is Giving Everyone Trust Issues (with Kaity Jacobsen)Change is inevitable, but apparently at some orgs, explaining it to people is optional!
- AUG 21when HR gets HR’d Leadership won’t communicate, and your team won’t stop communicating about each other.
- AUG 20choose your burnout characterThere are a LOT of priorities fighting for your attention, so how do you choose which one needs you first?
- AUG 20Decoding the Hype: What’s Worth Your Panic TODAY, And What’s Just Noise🩺 Vitals check: patient’s pulse is racing, and they’re showing signs of exhaustion. Does that kinda sound like a cold open from Grey’s Anatomy? Yeah, probably, but that also might be a regular Tuesday morning in your inbox these days! The thing nobody tells you when you become the strategic partner is that you’re now […]
- AUG 19📓great tech, trash leadershipYou can’t just automate your way out of a toxic workplace, but plenty of corporate execs appear deeply committed to trying anyway.
- AUG 17fake(ish) values?Like Troy, I'm willing to bet on it. Find out how I know what’s real and what’s corporate theatre.
- AUG 17S13 E6: The AI Confidence Gap Nobody in HR Wants to Admit (with Theresa Fesinstine)AI conversations are everywhere right now, but confidence and competence aren’t actually moving together, and that gap should worry you more than it does.
- AUG 14The Breakup You’ve Been Avoiding: You and Your Dead-Weight ATSYou know that feeling when you’re like 5 months into dating someone, and you catch yourself explaining their questionable behavior to your friends before they even ask? “He’s just gets a little emotional when he’s hungry, that’s all.” “She’s not ignoring me, her phone died.” Well…that’s what most of you sound like when I bring […]
- AUG 14📓Lol @ SHRM certificationsWe’re questioning the credentials, but also helping brand new HR folks find a good way forward!
- AUG 13The Leadership Divide (Episode 4): Trust, Belonging, and the Cost of Getting It WrongThis is The Leadership Divide, a special series with Hogan Assessments in partnership with I Hate It Here!
- AUG 12📓I’m tired of this, grandpaGen X is holding two generations together while employers offer the equivalent of thoughts and prayers.
- AUG 10the trust fall nobody wants to doare exit interviews the trust falls of corporate America?
- AUG 10S13 E5: The Group Hosts an Award Series and Starts a Cult with RyanMae McAvoy Pepin & Josiah HernándezWelcome to the first-ever HR Glow Up Awards! The trophies are fake, but the workplace trauma is real.
- AUG 7leadership is leadershipping againHow do you lead when the people in charge keep choosing chaos?
- AUG 5you've been algorithm'd You SHOULDN'T USE AI for that - she screams into the void
- AUG 5The Leadership Divide (Episode 3): Performance vs. PotentialFeatured Guest: Jackie Sahm (Vice President of Integrated Solutions, Hogan Assessments)
- AUG 3did you actually unplug on PTO?orrrrr were you still checking in constantly?
- AUG 3S13 E4: Why HR Owns More Of Company Culture Than People Like To Admit (with Dani Herrera)I swear every company says culture matters… right up until someone has to make an actual decision.
July 2026
- JUL 31nobody trained you, huh?This week we're covering what happens when nobody trains you.
- JUL 29loyalty costs more nowA reminder that good culture doesn't cancel out being underpaid.
- JUL 29The Leadership Divide (Episode 2): The Dark Side of LeadershipFeatured Guest: Jocelyn Hays (Director of Hogan Applications, Hogan Assessments)
- JUL 27your 1:1 is doing the job of 4 meetingsstatus update, therapy sess, blocker removal, which is it?!
- JUL 27S13 E3: Proof That The AI Productivity Obsession Is Making Everyone Worse (with Aubrey Blanche)I feel like every AI conversation somehow ends up in one of two places: either “AI is taking all our jobs!” or “Just use ChatGPT for everything!”
- JUL 24where’d you get bubbles?One boss won't stop oversharing, another org won't stop lying about its values.
- JUL 23I got scammed, now what? I fell prey to hiring fraud and here’s everything I learned.
- JUL 22hey…are we exclusive?Nobody's committing, but nobody's leaving either
- JUL 22The Leadership Divide (Episode 1): Leadership at an Inflection PointFeatured Guest: Allison Howell, CEO of Hogan Assessments
- JUL 20kill the surveyinstead you are going to do this...
- JUL 20S13 E2: What If HR Stopped Playing Therapist and Started Designing Better Workplaces Instead? (with Stephanie Lemek)Apparently, we can’t simply leave our trauma at the door and transform into perfectly functioning corporate robots every morning.
- JUL 17unsupported managers, uniteThis week: unaccountable bosses and the never-ending comp benchmarking
- JUL 15is this job real?You're competing with scammers for credibility & you don’t have much of a choice
- JUL 13day one, but make it goodyour first 90 days might be *the most* important!!
- JUL 13S13 E1: The Return of the Cackle Queens (with Jess Winder)My unofficial co-host and forever hype woman Jess Winder joined me to kick off this season, and we did something new.
- JUL 10HR Has Plenty of Data, So Why Do Things STILL Feel Like Guesswork?When was the last time you made a people decision and felt completely confident you were seeing the full picture? For real though, take a second to think about it! If the honest answer is “I’m not sure I ever have,” you’re deff not alone, and you’re not wrong to feel that way, either. Sometimes […]
- JUL 10one org with NINE cultures???AI is complicating jobs, and PE firms are complicating company culture.
- JUL 8the robots f*cked upTurns out, humans were kinda necessary the whole time!
- JUL 6build mode: activatedThis quarter I’m activated in the way Lindsay Hubbard warned about
- JUL 3she’s avoiding HR completelyThe coworker who ghosts HR and the art of the graceful exit story.
- JUL 1men, look awayWomen-led companies have more women leaders.
June 2026
- JUN 29pick a path, any path Choose your own adventure, HR edition
- JUN 26500 humans & no backup Write-up in retaliation & 500 employees worth of recruiting as the one HR person
- JUN 25The $11.7 Trillion Well-being Wake-Up Call Your Exec Team Is Actively IgnoringPeople are using AI as their therapist, BTW. *Cue internal screaming* That almost sounds like a joke, but unfortunately, it’s become an actual coping mechanism for some folks! But honestly, that tells you everything you need to know about where we are with well-being right now. 😒 I feel like the pandemic cracked this open […]
- JUN 25$11.7 trillion ignored by leadership The return on prioritizing well-being is waaaay bigger than healthcare costs.
- JUN 24the doomjobbing epidemic, explainedThe hiring loop is pretty jacked up, and we all know it!
- JUN 22decoding departmentsWhat do diff departments want from HR? And how do you talk to them?
- JUN 22S12 E10: A Few of My Own First-time F*ckups + Some Jaw-Dropping HR Horror StoriesOkay, so as we wrap up this podcast season, we’re gonna make this final episode a little different…featuring Hebba and her thoughts, and apparently zero filter!
- JUN 19it’s not our fault, tbhYou can't retention-strategy your way out this
- JUN 18The Global Hiring Mistakes CEOs Are Too Confident to See ComingSomeone, somewhere right now, is managing international payroll in a spreadsheet. 😱 Does that make your stomach do backflips too, or is it just me??? I know this the way I know that somewhere a company is “circling back” on an offer they made like six weeks ago, because some things are just always happening, […]
- JUN 18401(k) drama incomingYour retirement plan might be creating legal risk right now. Let's talk about it
- JUN 17the ghostbusters of NYSooo, ghost jobs are illegal now (in New York, at least). Baby steps, people!
- JUN 15that's not HR's jobeven though everyone seems to think it is???
- JUN 15S12 E9: We Watched People Blow Up Their Lives on Summer House, and Our ATS Implementation Lowkey Feels Similar (with Madison Montgomery)Madison Montgomery is back, and in this episode, we did what Paul Downs and Meg Stalter inspired us to do…turned our 1:1 into a podcast episode.
- JUN 12a divided, toxic officeWe’ve got accusations and lawlessness...and it’s exactly what you would expect.
- JUN 10AI Readiness Gap: Your Two-Year HR Preparedness Countdown Starts NOW (with DeAnn Alcantar & Kelly Pacatte)55% of orgs expect AI tool experience to be their most in-demand skill within two years!
- JUN 10TikTok taught them that?The employee AI rollout is happening with or without you... mostly without you.
- JUN 8nobody read your emailthe annoying aspect of presenting important info to stakeholders
- JUN 8S12 E8: Why You Can’t Build a World-Class Company With a Zip Code Mentality with Sagar KhatriGeography shouldn’t be the reason you can’t hire your next best person.
- JUN 5The Term “AI Coaching” Is Cringe, But Thankfully the Concept Isn’tI have to admit that “AI coaching” is one of the cringiest terms to come out of the HR tech space in recent memory. Honestly, that’s saying something, because we’ve been through plenty of terms that you just can’t help but wince at, like “we’re a family,” anything framed as a “great learning opportunity,” or […]
- JUN 5motivation with $0Proving impact through metrics + keeping people engaged without a budget.
- JUN 3employees quit bc of thisFront-line workers & leadership are in two universes, HR is stuck in the middle!
- JUN 1proving HR’s valuedidn't mean to trigger you on a Monday but here I am... pls don't hate me!!
- JUN 1S12 E7: Your First Time Joining a Startup With No HR or Systems…What Could Go Wrong?! (with Christine Song)There is a lot to say about joining a startup, and I’m saying that as somebody who has been a part of four of them.
May 2026
- MAY 29choose a sideOne person is taking up all your bandwidth
- MAY 28comp built on nothingSummer reviews are coming, and your managers are about to improvise.
- MAY 27AI Readiness Gap: The AI Competency You’re Hiring for Today Might Not Even Exist Tomorrow with Kristin Russum37% of HR leaders are already saying that evaluating AI skills in candidates is going to be a real challenge.
- MAY 27did you forget too?Employee skills are atrophying thanks to AI, and ethics are being compromised.
