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Everything published by I Hate It Here.
May 2026
- MAY 26Candidates Are Writing Their Confessional Booth Scripts About Your Company Right NowCandidates Are Writing Their Confessional Booth Scripts About Your Company Right Now You know that moment in basically every reality dating show where the producers cut to someone crying in a confessional booth with mascara halfway down their face, and they’re saying something like, “I just don’t understand why we can’t communicate?” 😭 That’s literally […]
- MAY 25you need a day offYes, you!! And to help you i’m talking about what to do with a day off!
- MAY 22the AI identity theft era
- MAY 21promoting the wrong peopleThe leaders people want and the leaders people have share zero traits in common
- MAY 20300+ applications and people are still missing hiring goals. Totally normal, right???
- MAY 19Why You Should Care About Women’s Health, Finances, and CareersWhy You Should Care About Women’s Health, Finances, and Careers You know what I look forward to every May, besides that one Justin Timberlake meme that refuses to die?? Something WAY more important. National Women’s Health Month. AKA the time of year when our LinkedIn feeds get a fresh coat of pink, someone in #general […]
- MAY 18the pace of the gameget ya head in the game, i'm so sorry sports analogies incoming…
- MAY 18S12 E6: We Regret to Inform You That This Episode Is About Firing People (with Jennifer Laurie)Nobody talks about their first termination the way they should, which is with a little bit of trauma, because we never forget the people we have to let go of.
- MAY 15Better Decisions: It Turns Out, Ignoring Women’s Health at Work is Extremely Expensive For Everybody (with Kembre Roberts and Kevin Fyock)Women make up nearly half the workforce, and somehow, their health is still being treated like a line item someone might cut. Make it make sense!
- MAY 15120 employees & no HR??
- MAY 13$1.28M, but who's counting? Job scams and toxic managers are just a normal Wednesday around here!
- MAY 11are working moms okay?VOL 2 with an update for 2026… and the update is looking not good…
- MAY 11S12 E5: Certified System Girlie Meets Another Certified System Girlie with Liz ClarkeYou know that feeling where you’ve been sprinting all day and somehow your actual to-do list hasn’t moved an inch?
- MAY 8zero signatures, zero consent
- MAY 6AI Readiness Gap: There’s No True Playbook for AI Development, So Here’s the Next Best Thing with Lauren GregorFun fact: 56% of HR leaders expect AI to change how we develop and train employees.
- MAY 6sir, this is a Wendy's Your next great hire is somewhere between the produce section and a party.
- MAY 4not your decision but your problem?
- MAY 4S12 E4: The Emotional Tax of Doing HR Correctly with Stacey NordwallHR has this fun little quirk where almost nothing is black and white, and the concept of “right” and “wrong” is rarely as simple as it sounds in a policy doc!
- MAY 1this leadership is cooked
April 2026
- APR 30The World Is On Fire (Literally) and Your Employees Are Feeling ItThe World Is On Fire (Literally) and Your Employees Are Feeling It I have a confession to make…I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of time lately doing homework on myself. 😵💫 What I mean is, I’ve been Googling research and going down rabbit holes at 11pm wondering why I feel the way I feel. And every […]
- APR 29AI Readiness Gap (Part 1): We’re Not Ready (And That’s Okay) with Parijat SarkarThis episode kicks off a four-part mini-series called the AI Readiness Gap, produced in partnership with TriNet, where we’re cutting through the noise and getting into the actual numbers behind AI readiness in the workplace.
- APR 29it's a mess
- APR 27an emotional labor tax??
- APR 27S12 E3: Your Job is NOT Your Whole Personality, and We Need to Talk About It with Lauren SchneiderWe talk a lot about career pivots like they’re these well-planned, LinkedIn-announcement-ready moments.
- APR 24Better Decisions: You’re Data Rich And Decision Poor, And It’s Showing with Doug MeltonWe have more data than ever, and somehow we’re still making people decisions that feel like they were made with a Magic 8-Ball and a prayer.
- APR 24data hurt their feelings
- APR 23We’re All Disconnected, And Work Is Making It WorseWe’re All Disconnected, And Work Is Making It Worse We are living in a pretty strange moment, aren’t we? I promise, I’m not saying that to be a Debbie Downer! I say it because I think about it constantly, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you did too. Society is legitimately lonelier than it’s ever […]
- APR 22loyalty or what?
- APR 20we need to talk
- APR 20S12 E2: Courage Over Compliance: A Conversation We Should’ve Had Already with Keisha ToussaintIf you’ve been in HR long enough, you know this feeling.
- APR 17your boss did what?
- APR 16The Mental Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight at Your OfficeThe Mental Health Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight at Your Office I think we all know deep down that there’s a pretty significant mental health crisis happening right now. And if you didn’t? Welllll, I don’t think it’s gonna take much convincing! Even if it’s not because of work, it still shows up at work, […]
- APR 15AI mutiny is here
- APR 14Nobody Told You Payroll Could Do All ThisNobody Told You Payroll Could Do All This Real quick, can we just pour one out for a particular era of working in HR? I’m talking about the era of seventeen browser tabs and the very specific kind of existential dread that hits when you realize the answer to a question your employee asked three […]
- APR 13the eras of HR
- APR 13Newsflash: You’ve Been Doing Compensation Wrong This Whole Time (with Candor IQ’s Haris Ikram)It’s kinda wild how many people of are still dealing with compensation issues today!
- APR 10you’re still working???
- APR 8stability, or salary?
- APR 6totally fine, completely normal
- APR 3you got beef?
- APR 1they promised us less
March 2026
- MAR 30behind the scenes
- MAR 27The Ethical Hiring Dilemma: How to Use AI Without Becoming the VillainThe Ethical Hiring Dilemma: How to Use AI Without Becoming the Villain Why on earth are we letting robots make decisions that they aren’t qualified to make??? – the million dollar question!! We need to talk about AI in hiring because, unfortunately, it has a high potential to be utterly catastrophic. Like hiring managers using […]
- MAR 27late & leaderless
- MAR 27Better Decisions: The Leaders Getting AI Right Are Doing Something Most Orgs Refuse to Do with Marinus van DrielMost AI conversations I sit through are either full of hype that doesn’t hold up or sooo doom-and-gloom that I leave feeling like I should update my resume and move to a cabin.
- MAR 25Patty’s watching you
- MAR 23we can do new things
- MAR 20Three Things Keeping CPOs & CHROs Up at Night (Besides Everything Else)Three Things Keeping CPOs & CHROs Up at Night (Besides Everything Else) Real quick, let me paint you a picture of what it looks like to be an HR leader right now! 1️⃣ First, you’ve got AI reshaping every single function you oversee. ⏭️ Next in line, fraud is getting more sophisticated by the day…and […]
- MAR 20director dreams & employee schemes
- MAR 19Your Blanket Policy Is IllegalThe Background Screening Playbook: Do’s, Don’ts, and How to Stay Compliant in 2026 Hiring is hard enough without accidentally alienating great candidates or inviting a class-action lawsuit because you forgot to get proper consent before running a background check. But here we are, experiencing our lord and savior 2026, where AI is screening resumes and […]
- MAR 18mandatory or nah?
- MAR 16she’s so lucky
- MAR 16S11 E10: Engagement Scores Don’t Lie, But the Way You’re Using Them Absolutely Does with Anne MalteseWe have all handed an engagement score to a CEO, watched them nod confidently, say something completely incorrect about what it means, and had to just sit there smiling while dying a little inside.
- MAR 13we’re all winging it
- MAR 12Work Feels Empty, And It’s Not Just You Experiencing ItWork Feels Empty, And It’s Not Just You Experiencing It How many of us are feeling that unexplainable cloud over our heads right now? Some days, work feels empty…like genuinely, soul-level hollow. You open your laptop and go through the motions of the day, then by the time you’re finished, you’re sitting there in deep […]
- MAR 11doing more & feeling worse?
- MAR 9S11 E9: Your L&D Strategy Is Broken and No, a Workshop Won’t Fix It with Hanan SahouriehL&D gets done dirty constantly and I have been saying this for years!!!
- MAR 6this feedback won’t land
- MAR 4the rankings got reshuffled
- MAR 2metrics that matter
- MAR 2S11 E8: The Most Important Hire I Ever Made Ended Up Replacing Me with Morgan T. StanleyOkay so this episode is a little different, because the layers here are a lot.
February 2026
- FEB 27The AI Hiring Revolution That Ended Up Breaking EverythingThe AI Hiring Revolution That Ended Up Breaking Everything Do you ever get deja vu from looking at applications…like you’ve seen that application a thousand times before? Well then, it’s time to address something about AI in hiring real quick that, quite frankly, not enough folks seem to be talking about in my humble opinion! […]
- FEB 27Better Decisions: We’ve Been Running Retirement Plans on Autopilot and It Shows with Melissa ElbertRetirement planning is one of those topics that always feels confusing and overwhelming…until someone finally comes along and breaks it down in a way that makes sense.
- FEB 27less hours, same chaos?
- FEB 26The AI Hiring NightmareThe AI Slopocalypse Is Flooding Hiring, And HR Is Drowning AI has done something truly magical, but not in the way you’re initially thinking. Yeah, it may have made some annoying tasks easier, but it also created a whole other challenge: It gave literally everyone the ability to look qualified enough. And when everything looks […]
- FEB 2518 months, still nothing
- FEB 234 manager use cases for AI
- FEB 23S11 E7: The Authenticity They Want vs. The You They Can’t Handle with Madison ButlerToday, we’re talking about a topic that shouldn’t be controversial but somehow still is, which is being authentic at work!
- FEB 20perfectly timed PIPs?
- FEB 19The Reality Check Your Healthcare Budget Strategy Desperately NeedsLet’s just rip the band-aid off and immediately acknowledge the current reality that healthcare is facing some major challenges right now. At this point, I couldn’t sugarcoat it if I tried, although I do feel like I’m still being somewhat generous about it! 🤷♀️ And no, this isn’t some abstract problem that’ll work itself out […]
- FEB 18Delta did the thing
- FEB 16S11 E6: Your Old Playbook Died and Nobody Told You with Various GuestsI’m doing something a little different today and revisiting Season 6 where I asked every single guest the same question:
- FEB 16laws every HR person should know
- FEB 13thoughts of quitting?
- FEB 12does your hiring process suck?How to Build a Talent Dynasty And Stop Pretending Hiring Just Happens There’s a very specific moment when hiring goes completely off the rails. Can you guess when that moment is??? Here’s a hint: It’s not when the role opens, or when the candidate ghosts after round three. It’s earlier than that, believe it or […]
- FEB 11turnover is costing you
- FEB 9is calling it a crisis extreme?
- FEB 9S11 E5: We’re Rewriting Leadership Rules Because Yours Were Never Meant for Us with Amanda LitmanWe’re out here constantly hearing that Gen Z is “so different” and Millennials “just don’t get it,” but nobody ever stops to ask how or why they’re different.
- FEB 6fighting over green peppers
- FEB 4country fried cost-cutting chaos
- FEB 2S11 E4: Decentering Work: What Happens When Your Job Isn’t Everything with Ayanna KellyWhy does work feel so empty right now?
January 2026
- JAN 30Why Not All Data Is Created Equal, And Some of It Is Already ExpiredWhy Not All Data Is Created Equal, And Some of It Is Already Expired Not me sounding like the start of a memorial service, but… Some of the data we’re still using to make compensation decisions in 2026? She expired months ago…possibly last year. She is no longer with us. 🪦🥀 My point in saying […]
- JAN 30when satisfaction is impossible
- JAN 29Your Most Expensive BlindspotNew Year, Same Question: Where the Hell Is Our People Budget Going? The new year is SOOO EXCITING, isn’t it?! We all get fresh starts, clean calendars, and that very brief moment where everyone pretends this is the year they’ll finally drink more water. (I’m trying!!) And then reality kicks in, and HR remembers what […]
- JAN 28spent billions, forgot training
- JAN 26your HR performance review
- JAN 26S11 E3: R.I.P. to Traditional Careers as we Know Them with Cassandra BabilyaI’ve been thinking a lot about how aggressively we were sold the idea of career growth, and how nobody ever explained what happens when you get there and it still doesn’t feel good!
- JAN 23can I wear this?
- JAN 22Thriving vs Breaking: The Four Conditions That Will DecideThriving vs Breaking: The Four Conditions That Will Decide So check this out…I know a pretty important secret about you that your org may not even know. 👀 Normally, I’m supposed to keep this sort of stuff confidential, but since I brought it up, I guess I owe it to you to spill the beans! […]
- JAN 21more effort, same results
- JAN 19S11 E2: Is Industry the Most Honest Show About Modern Work? with Dave GarciaThis week I’m feeling extremely pop-culture-brained because my fav show Industry is back, and if you think it’s just a show about finance…I’m here to inform you it’s actually a horror story about work.
- JAN 16where tf is my seat?
- JAN 14the great corporate paradox
- JAN 12what’s the first rule of HR?
- JAN 12S11 E1: HR’s Ins and Outs (and What We’re Officially Done Tolerating) with Jessica WinderWelcome to a new season of your favorite podcast!!!
- JAN 9choose your battle
- JAN 7fraud runs rampant
- JAN 5new year, new vibes?
- JAN 2this isn’t sustainable
