Takeover Unfiltered

Brianna Rooney: Hello? Hello. Hello. Welcome to another fun episode of talent takeover, unfiltered, where we're gonna go over, what employees can do to stay relevant during these uncertain, scary times. Taylor, you take it away.

Taylor Bradley: I'm cringing over here. because, although this is a topic I'm excited to discuss. I'm just, I'm like the whole thing is horse. So anyways, we will get into that, but make sure you guys listen all the way to the end for my broke to boss tip of the week. Um, this one is gonna be, I, I say they're all good, but maybe I just really think that highly of myself or I just read a lot and I'm like, these are nuggets. I love other people will love these nuggets. So, um, all about sharing information with everybody and this one, I, I would love to get people's feedback at the end of this. So make sure you guys listen, reach out to us, write a review. Um, really, really would love y'all's feedback. Uh, so getting right into it,

Brianna Rooney: Welcome to talent takeover

Taylor Bradley: Unfiltered.

Brianna Rooney: When it comes to working hard and keeping it real, we know our, self care, happiness, inner peace and time. I'm Brianna Rooney. And this is Taylor Bradley. Hey y'all and we have thrived in chaos and turned it into in art form. So, Taylor, what are we doing here today?

Taylor Bradley: We're here to give you a raw under the hood view of all things recruiting and finally give credit where credit is due to a long underrated industry. That's full of experts.

Brianna Rooney: All right, well then let's take this show

Brianna Rooney: To the road.

Taylor Bradley: So I was reading this article that basically talked about given our, the current state of the economy, what employees can do to stay relevant during these uncertain times. And I read through all of it and I was like. Okay. That's that's just stupid. You know, it was like frustrating to me, I guess, because from my perspective, the state of the layoffs, the state about the economy, all of that, it, it, these things it's telling you to put in place these behaviors, or, you know, way to conduct business within the workplace. It's, it's things that I feel you should do all of the time. It's not going to ensure that you don't get laid off, so let's get right into it. So, you know, obviously in a fostering job market, nobody wants to be the one let go, and it's gonna be harder to find a new job.

Taylor Bradley: When a large number of companies in the industry are laying people off. It's just a fact, this article just basically was like, you must ensure that you are not replaceable to do this. You have to prove to your bosses that they need more. They need you more than they need anyone else on the team. And I'm like, okay, I can't wait to see they, how they go about saying we should do this. So the first one, which obviously given, what is it? 80% of companies are remote now. But the first one said show up to the office. Even if you're a remote worker.

Brianna Rooney: no, it didn't. It did.

Taylor Bradley: It said it.

Brianna Rooney: Wait, did, did Elon Musk write this?

Taylor Bradley: Yes. Right, right. Yeah. He, he probably did. He probably did

Brianna Rooney: One of his opinions.

Taylor Bradley: Yes. It said there's a known proximity bias. If show FaceTime it curries favor with managers compared to the folks at home who can come out of sight out of mind. I'm just like,

Brianna Rooney: That's so. That is so wrong. It is. That is that who, okay. First of all, who I wanna know, you don't have to say it on live, but I would love to know who wrote this because I would love that person on our podcast. I would love to talk to this person. Yeah. And I wanna know who told them to write this.

Taylor Bradley: Yeah. I'll definitely GA I have the article. So I'll definitely share it with you. I won't say it online, but I'll definitely share it with you because I think that would be fun. I love that that's controversy that we like, like let's have healthy dialogue.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. And, you know, trust me, I, I love being put into my place. Right. Like, okay, cool. Like now I know something great. Um, but to say that you can prevent being laid off. Come on. Yeah. Now we all we all talk about. Okay. So this brings me to like, I, my boss would always, he would tell us all the time as a fear tactic, that, um, everyone here is irreplaceable, get to work, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I took that as I'm gonna be indispensable cuz that, to me, like there's a difference. Could you replace my seat? Absolutely. With someone's like maybe with a tighter. Yeah, sure. But that's not the point, right? Like, like I'm gonna, sorry. Could help up. I wanna make sure that I'm going to be the best version of myself. I'm gonna not only do my job, I'm gonna, you know, help others to do their job. I'm gonna see what else I can do. Like that would help the business. You know what I mean? Like you just show that you care. Yeah. I get that. But guess what? If they have layoffs because it's a business decision, that's not like necessarily, like there's so many amazing, incredible indispensable employees that have got laid off.

Taylor Bradley: Right. Well, and it's not like just popping up in the middle too, when everybody's still kind of cautious, given the pandemic and being like here in somebody's office, you know, is like, okay, that ensures that I'm not gonna get, let go at any point because I stuck my face in their office, you know? It's just, I just wait.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah, go ahead. I send a, can I send a cardboard cut out? does that count

Taylor Bradley: To sit in your chair for the people that pop up?

Brianna Rooney: No. No. I mean like if I'm an employee, can I send my, my boss a cardboard cut out? You

Taylor Bradley: Want a promotion?

Brianna Rooney: That what I mean, can I, does that count?

Taylor Bradley: yeah. I mean, because it's just hilarious. They're

Brianna Rooney: In office. Yeah. They're seen my face.

Taylor Bradley: Yeah. That's it's or like hire a courier to go and just like, have it like pop your head over. Just so people are like, oh, when, so and so here. No, they actually live in Michigan. They live in a different state, but they hire somebody to come by once a month. They' doppelganger goes by. I don't know. I just thought it was crazy. But cuz I just think that one is it wouldn't go over well with a lot of employers because the one,

Brianna Rooney: Well it's also, it's not fair. You know? It's not it's

Taylor Bradley: Like no,

Brianna Rooney: No. Okay.

Taylor Bradley: Okay. So going down to number two, volunteer for assignments, take the task that no one else wants. Find out what you can do to help your boss look good. Then take action and make sure that important people know that you are working hard and delivering every day. Keep track of your accomplishments and share that data with your supervisor.

Brianna Rooney: Okay? So that's something like you just should do, right?

Taylor Bradley: I think you should absolutely volunteer for assignments. I don't think it's like, I think just saying, take the task. No one else wants I my mind goes, well, why doesn't anybody else want the tasks?

Brianna Rooney: Yeah, it's true.

Taylor Bradley: Are they actually efficient? Are they going to contribute in a positive way to the business? Why is there a task that nobody wants? And then the find out what you could do to help your boss look good. I was just like, woo Wolf like that. For that to be the mentality. Find out what you can do to make your boss look good. I think that you know this about me. I think that you should always go into anything with, how can you save the company time or money. And I think that that should be applied to everything, but I've never once thought how can I make my boss look good? Or never once thought of any of my bosses. That that's what they want out of me. I want you to make me look good. It's like, that'll happen naturally if I'm doing my job.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. And also your, I don't know that's I'm not gonna even go down that route because it will make me tangent on so many bad bosses, which let's add that to an episode. Because if your boss does, is relying on employees to make them look good. They shouldn't be a boss and actually, sorry, but that's why I got rid of my business partner. It's like he wanted that everyone else to do the jobs and us just like reap the benefits. And it's like, I know that's why a lot of people start businesses. I get it. I get that. Like, you know, you work really hard to build something. So then you can step back. Like that's the dream, right? But that shouldn't be their job, you know, is to make you look good. Like it's, it's like you make the organization look good. You just do a good job.

Taylor Bradley: Right. It's exactly. And if you hire the right people, that will be their mentality is that they wanna, they wanna take the task that not that nobody else wants, but that are somewhat difficult or may not be the sexiest most glamorous task. But it's like, they're just down for the cause having those employees and being able to recognize those employees. I think that in turn you have people that are down for the cause, but in turn you have a, a leader. If you've got employees that are down for the cause you've got a leader that is typically down for the cause and isn't like, oh, how can you make me look good? Mm-hmm I don't feel like the two go hand in hand, those employees don't typically stay working for a leader like that.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. Uh, no, I totally agree. But yeah, so I, I love that, that we're, we're spinning this on being like, look, some of this stuff you guys should just be doing anyways. Yeah. But is it gonna save you for a layoff? We can't guarantee that because layoffs are for different reasons. Well, from save you from getting fired. Yes. Will it advance your career? Yes. You know, so, but

Taylor Bradley: Yeah. And I think it's like do all these things anyway, but do them with the right motive. Yeah. Not the right motive of like, I want more money. I wanna make my boss look good. It's like you, these are the employees, the type of employees that you want the down for the, cause the riders you want those employees that are like, okay, I know I'm gonna make her look good or him look good just by doing my job.

Brianna Rooney: Mm-hmm

Taylor Bradley: And those are the words you talk about being indispensable. Those are those

Brianna Rooney: Employees. Yeah. You know, we actually have lucky for us, like give myself chills again. We have a lot of those employees. And so you do think about some of the ones that aren't, you know, raising their hands, super jump to quick, you know, super quick to jump in and stuff like that. Yeah. The other ones that don't do that are definitely left in the dust, like a hundred percent,

Taylor Bradley: A thousand percent. Yeah. And you know, that's interesting. So it's like, to me, that's almost how you accomplish what it's saying. You do in number one by popping your little head out of your, you know,

Brianna Rooney: Like a Groundhog hole. Yeah. Woo

Taylor Bradley: I'm here. It's like, I feel like that's how you get the visibility that you want is by doing number two. Not by okay. I'm physically doing number two, getting my, oh my God.

Brianna Rooney: that's a kid, adult. Sorry she is. But

Taylor Bradley: That's why we love her. Um, but yes, by going number two, you accomplish number . No. So, um, but I, yeah, I definitely think by doing your job, volunteering for those assignments, like stepping, just stepping up, stepping the up, actually let's put a F bomb in there. You will accomplish what it said in number one that you have to do by physically having your body in an office.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah, exactly. I mean, this was just worded all so incorrectly. Okay. Well what's the next one? What else we got?

Taylor Bradley: Okay. So this one is like another one. You're gonna be like, oh my certain I'm gonna lose it. Insert eye roll. Have a good positive attitude. Do not complain gossip or criticize. It's called playing the game. The object is to win by keeping your job or at least hanging on until you can find something else outside the company

Brianna Rooney: It's called playing the game. It's called being a good person and employee.

Taylor Bradley: Amen. Play

Brianna Rooney: The

Taylor Bradley: Game. Amen. Sister

Brianna Rooney: Game.

Taylor Bradley: I'm not kidding you when I read this. That's why I was like, we've gotta talk about this cuz this whole thing I'm just like is, as I stated earlier, it is absolute or. It is insulting. It's like who doesn't want an employee that has a good positive attitude every day, as much as, I mean nobody's perfect. Right? Everybody's gonna have an off day, but in general, nobody wants to work with EOR every day. You know? Or like whoever it is that has the rain cloud over their head all the time on that cartoon. You know what I mean?

Brianna Rooney: I see you got it.

Taylor Bradley: Yo. Oh, Ooh. Nailed that one. Um, so I, I do think that you should apply these things. I think they're important, but I agree with you. Like it's not playing a game. This is being a good in person. Good person, good employee.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. Again, as an employer, I'm reading that and I'm like, you. Like, why are, why do I want anyone playing a game with me? This is like, I can go down a whole rabbit hole of like the dating game. You know? It's like, no, why don't you just go on these apps because Hey be honest, one I wanna. Or two, I wanna find a life partner. Great.

Taylor Bradley: Amen.

Brianna Rooney: Like, why are we playing games?

Taylor Bradley: It's crazy. One of two categories

Brianna Rooney:

Taylor Bradley: Well, and I thought that what I also thought when reading all of this is I'm like, this is crazy that this is actually out there for people to find. I found it, Reddit, people will take this to heart and believe that this is what you need to do. And especially that last sentence, the object is to win by keeping your job or at least hanging on. So basically, you know, pulling some kind of trickery or Jedi mind somebody by thinking, okay, I've, you've got this rockstar employee, but meanwhile, they have completely different motives and intentions and I'm just hanging on until I find something better. You know, the way that last sentence reads, I was like, oh, Brianna's gonna hate that. And I'm gonna love it

Brianna Rooney: When she hates it. Oh my God. I do hate that. You know, I just, I hope that when they're reading this, that they're at least taking away the good things out of it, because again, a lot of these things they should do, but yeah. The way it's worded, I'm not happy about.

Taylor Bradley: Yeah, I think, and I think it's, it was taken advantage of again, the economic situation. Like I don't, again, I don't know why anybody would believe this. I feel like this is just completely ridiculous, but I do feel like, okay, there's people out there that are gonna read this or maybe are younger, just starting their career and think this is the move. This is what you need to do. And it's like, this is so not what you need to do. Y'all like, you don't need to do this with the wrong motives. You need to do these things every single day, just to be a good employee, a good person. And hopefully your integrity matters more than like, okay, well I wanna be visible. I wanna make more money. If it doesn't then you know, you probably need to find a manager that aligns with your values and beliefs and what's incentivizes you. That's also a whole nother episode, but yeah, I just was like the popping up at the office and acting like that.

Brianna Rooney: The worst to me, that's the worst one. It that's. And it also talk about scaring people. Yeah. Like just about that first sentence. It's like now everyone, or let's say like, uh, I don't know. We have stay-at-home parents who are like, finally, like they're able to have that remote life or, you know, oh. So I can go down for hall of reasons. Why remote work has been so beneficial for so many people, but it's like talk about making them feel like.

Taylor Bradley: Well, yeah. And then I think it's like, if you are one of those employees that works in a hybrid environment and you have to go into the office, it's I just think about it. Like one of those things, how insulting, you know, how insulting that this is just saying that basically, if you want, if you wanna be a standout, you know, that star employee, you need to be here even when you're not required to be here when nobody's doing that anymore. That is not, nobody really rarely works in the office. Yeah. Or like I said, it's hybrid. So I just find that so interesting that again, it's like here I am, even if they go and they sit their in the chair for eight hours or on, you know, YouTube for eight hours straight and don't actually do their job, but they're physically present that. That means that, okay, I'm gonna move up. My stock will rise.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. You brought me to something. And I just remembered, um, with, so my, my first recruiting job, there was this person that would show up like six 30 in the morning. And so the first person in the office and they would leave at like seven o'clock at night. And it was the worst performer, but that person never got let go because the boss would see that person before, when they got in and that, you know, and they would see that person close up and they're like, oh, well done. So I think about that old school mentality of him at the moment. And it's like, that is just, that is so silly. Like we know better. Why are we not doing better?

Taylor Bradley: Absolutely. And it's like, okay, with that mentality, the person that, the person that wins as it talks about here is the person that sits their in the chair. The longest mm-hmm, like one of those contests that you see, like who can hold onto the car the longest. And then they win the car,

Brianna Rooney: You know, wait where's that. I wanna do that.

Taylor Bradley: I don't know. I did one in high school. And then I've heard about them since then, where like some people sit out there for like two days. I mean, it was in like the summer in Texas. I think I lasted four minutes. I was like, this it's hot. But you know, that's kind of like what that is to me, a contest of like, all right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure that I'm sitting here longer than everybody else. And I'm not even gonna take a lunch either.

Brianna Rooney: Yeah. So I think that, that this article was really written for companies that micromanage the out of you. Like that's if you're at that company. Yeah. Maybe this works because I even think back to, we had call counters. We had had a certain time, like we had to be on the phone a certain amount of time and make a certain amount of calls. He would literally have this little box and he'd go take a little notepad and write down, you know, how many calls and times and stuff. And we would literally like, I would see people get out, well, there was the yellow pages, sorry. But like they would get out like the yellow page, just like, you know, fake dial and. Mm-hmm it's like that just promotes fake work. It does. Doesn't make any it's fake busy. That drives me crazy. Fake busy,

Taylor Bradley: A thousand percent. And this whole article, I feel like promotes fake. Be fake. Play the game. Yeah.

Brianna Rooney: Pop up into the office. Yeah. Oh man. All right. You got broke to boss tip on this one.

Taylor Bradley: Well, I mean, besides

Brianna Rooney: Don't read this article.

Taylor Bradley: Yeah. I did have one and then I'm like NABA. It's like, don't read this article, don't follow this article and don't be fake. You know, be your, we talk about being your true, authentic self and showing up to work. But, um, what I would say to people is like completely debunking everything. This article says, don't, don't follow this and what you do follow do it in your every day. But my broke to boss tip is just in this rapidly changing world and economy, stay ahead by continuing to adapt and evolve.

Brianna Rooney: Oh, I love that you have to evolve. Like, you know, what's so crazy is when you think about people have trouble changing. Mm-hmm we're gonna we're we're gonna do an episode on that. I love, love that tip. Nailed it. Yay.

Taylor Bradley: Again.

Brianna Rooney: No, I'm kidding. I love that you brought this article to us. Thank you so much. I'm sure a lot of listeners are thanking you as well. Cuz they're gonna up their game. See you next Tuesday.

Taylor Bradley: Yeah. Make sure to write us some reviews. We'd love to get your feedback and um, join us next week. We're excited for that one too.