Truth, Lies & Work

# expectations

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47:10Workplace Surgery: Why is my team working hours I never asked for?Al Elliott: Okay, so question number 3, as you requested. Uh, hi, Alan and Ian. I run a— and Dr. Jake. I run a small consultancy, fully flexible, no core hours. As long as the work gets done, I don't care when people do EP 312 · 23 Jun 2026·workplace surgery· 47:10–53:292:43Career catfishing: when job promises don't match realityAl Elliott: Of course. What is it? Leanne Elliott: Career catfishing Al Elliott: Now, if you haven't listened before, Leanne comes up with a new word. I try and guess what it is. Invariably get it wrong. Career catfishinEP 246 · 5 Nov 2025·news roundup· 2:43–9:369:06Question 13 — what happened faster in old age than expected?Al Elliott: Unlucky Leanne Elliott: What's something that happened much more quickly in old age than you were prepared for? Becoming irrelevant. Yeah. I didn't, I don't, I'm not sure at what point it seemed to happen oveEP 222 · 12 Aug 2025·other· 9:06–12:2320:23Managing millennials and Gen Z expectationsLeanne Elliott: Yeah, it sounds really great. And are you getting good feedback from employees about the Sweet Factory? Ed Williams: Yeah, I mean, it's been incredible. We actually went through a round of feedback with tEP 125 · 5 Sept 2024·interview· 20:23–23:4963:06Millennials, the American Dream, and higher expectationsAl Elliott: I completely agree with Claire Leanne Elliott: I think that our expectations from work are higher. I think that we are a generation that grew up and we were told that we could follow our dreams Al Elliott: WeEP 35 · 19 Apr 2023·other· 63:06–77:5828:40Great expectations: setting clear communication normsLeanne Elliott: Mm-hmm Al Elliott: You know, I have another chapter called Great Expectations. I I believe when people start working with each other, and whether it's in person or virtually and remotely, that we could doEP 34 · 12 Apr 2023·other· 28:40–31:3025:56Generational shifts in workplace expectationsAl Elliott: We also asked Will about these generational shifts in the workplace Leanne Elliott: I think there's a change happening in how we think about work now. I think expectations are changing as millennials and Gen EP 20 · 10 Jan 2023·other· 25:56–31:1424:57Gen Z and millennials — what they actually wantLeanne Elliott: So, Millennial is 1980 to 1994 and Gen Z will be probably about '95 to 2010. So, the Gen Zs are starting to come into the workforce now as Millennials have been around for a little while. Ultimately, you EP 03 · 15 Jul 2022·other· 24:57–25:51

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