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Protected Classless

Protected Classless

Written by: Protected Classless
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Protected Classless is the HR podcast for workplace stories that make you stop and ask, “What. The. Fuck.”

Hosted by two HR professionals who have seen enough workplace nonsense to know that sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry, and sometimes you have to call Legal.

We dig into outrageous workplace stories, questionable management decisions, employee-relations disasters, leadership fails, and the HR issues hiding underneath all the chaos. We’ll talk about what happened, what HR should have done, what the law might have to say about it, and occasionally share a few of our own HR war stories...without naming names or getting ourselves fired.

It’s educational. It’s occasionally inappropriate. It’s definitely not your corporate HR training video.

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Episodes
  • Episode 3: HR AITA

    Episode 3: HR AITA
    Sep 4 2026

    Workplace drama, questionable decisions, and situations where somebody is definitely the asshole… but who?

    We’re bringing you real and ridiculous workplace scenarios and breaking them down from an HR perspective. Was the employee wrong? Was the manager out of line? Did HR completely screw this up? Or is everybody just a little bit of a mess?

    You decide.

    Welcome to HR AITA, where workplace chaos meets “Am I the Asshole?”

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    47 mins
  • HR Groundhog Day

    HR Groundhog Day
    Aug 29 2026

    HR Groundhog Day: where the attendance excuses never change, nobody reads the email, managers want people fired with zero documentation, and somehow HR is explaining the same policy for the 47th time. Join us as we talk about the workplace chaos that keeps coming back... again and again and again.
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    55 mins
  • Episode 1: Tied Down. Pied. WTF?

    Episode 1: Tied Down. Pied. WTF?
    Aug 13 2026

    We’re popping our cherry pie.

    For our very first episode, we’re digging into a workplace case involving an employee who was tied down and pied. Yep. This is a real HR case.

    We’ll break down what happened, where things went spectacularly WTF, and what HR and leaders can actually learn from it.

    No corporate fluff. No sanitized HR speak. Just the case, the lessons, and our completely unscientific WTF rating.
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    35 mins
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