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Speaker 1: Listen to this and tell me how it makes you feel.
Speaker 3: Bosses are training employees to be influencers after long discouraging
Speaker 3: social media posts about work.
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, which is it?
Speaker 3: Which is it? Listen to this. It's an article from Forbes.
Speaker 3: After Emily Durham detailed her day in the life as
Speaker 3: an Intuit recruiter on TikTok and her career advice podcast
Speaker 3: began climbing Apple's podcast charts, she grew nervous about what
Speaker 3: her employer would think. She had talked about controversial topics
Speaker 3: like salary negotiations and racism in the broader job market.
Speaker 3: My first thought when my podcast started blowing up was
Speaker 3: I'm getting fired, hands down. I was fully prepared for
Speaker 3: management to call me and shut it down. Makes sense, right,
Speaker 3: because we've seen so many even in doing our show.
Speaker 3: How many times have I told you another person got
Speaker 3: fired for posting on TikTok, not about work, just having
Speaker 3: a social media your account, So.
Speaker 1: This is unsurprising.
Speaker 3: However, her company at the time encouraged her to make
Speaker 3: more content, keep posting, keep publishing podcast episodes and now
Speaker 3: they even encourage other employees to post about their work experiences.
Speaker 3: How many people do you think have been unlawfully fired
Speaker 3: for existing on the internet as a person? And you
Speaker 3: can say, hey, this is a different industry, right, she's
Speaker 3: a recruiter. This is what recruiters do. They expand their network,
Speaker 3: they talk about jobs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: I've seen people get fired for less.
Speaker 1: Bring back the period of time where people, do you
Speaker 1: want to bring it back?
Speaker 4: No, the period of time about five or six years
Speaker 4: ago where regardless of your job, you had to write
Speaker 4: views my own if you ever went on Twitter, you
Speaker 4: really come back club.
Speaker 1: Like literally though.
Speaker 3: But here's the thing, Like four years, companies have been
Speaker 3: quite stringent on their guidelines about social media usage, right,
Speaker 3: and I think broadly we've struggled to figure out is
Speaker 3: social media an extension of you as a person or
Speaker 3: is that your persona and how different should you have
Speaker 3: to make it? Should you as the individual take precautions
Speaker 3: and be private or be more mindful of what you say?
Speaker 3: Isn't it annoying enough that you have to give on
Speaker 3: average thirty eight hours of your life every week to
Speaker 3: this place, and now the time you spend outside of
Speaker 3: this place has to be monitored to ensure that it's
Speaker 3: in line with that place that you work. But what
Speaker 3: I'm finding really strange is I don't think it's too
Speaker 3: big of an ask to assume that in this field
Speaker 3: that it's appropriate, even working in social media. I don't
Speaker 3: think that it's odd that your bosses are encouraging you
Speaker 3: to post you work on social media.
Speaker 1: What I'm thinking about is all the.
Speaker 3: Other people on the periphery who don't have any business
Speaker 3: being visually tied to their workplace, who are now getting
Speaker 3: roped in to being the face of a business they
Speaker 3: just work here.
Speaker 4: It's like when they've brought in like a gen Z
Speaker 4: social media marketer and they're like, came we getting a
Speaker 4: video in the office.
Speaker 3: Yeah, They're like, it's like every UNI picking their three
Speaker 3: most diverse looking people to plaster all over billboards for free.
Speaker 1: You should be getting free tuition. It works both ways.
Speaker 3: In the same way, companies didn't want you to be
Speaker 3: identifiable as an employee there for their own safety. They
Speaker 3: didn't people need to knowing they work so closely with you,
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, especially given the way
Speaker 3: that we moralize everybody's behavior from what they do personally
Speaker 3: what they did professionally. Think about if you were caught
Speaker 3: in the background of a company who was like getting canceled.
Speaker 3: Like let's say insert company is getting canceled on TikTok
Speaker 3: and here you are plastered all over their fee because
Speaker 3: you're the graphic designer and someone's asking how you made
Speaker 3: their logo.
Speaker 1: That happens, It always happens.
Speaker 2: It's not fair.
Speaker 3: Already companies get away with being this like omnipotent.
Speaker 1: Like nameless, facelessned patent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the company like omnipotent, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnipotent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you think, becky omnipotent.
Speaker 1: American, UK English omnipotent?
Speaker 4: You said, yeah, me potent pronounciation, omnipotent.
Speaker 1: What was that?
Speaker 3: Sorry? One more time?
Speaker 1: Omnipotent? Do you say yosamite too instead of yosemite? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bigfoot?
Speaker 3: As I was saying, if you work in social media
Speaker 3: marketing or you co signed to being the face of
Speaker 3: part of the brand, sure, But if you just happen
Speaker 3: to work in accounts and someone's like, hey, what are
Speaker 3: you wearing today?
Speaker 4: Like, is that is that all we're doing, not the
Speaker 4: accounts first, because I leave them out of it.
Speaker 1: I just work here. I just work here, you know.
Speaker 4: I find it funny how it becomes an individual and
Speaker 4: the company's done something wrong, and yet per when the
Speaker 4: company is winning, it's a team effort despite one person
Speaker 4: working overtime.
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