# expectations
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38:25Tip 4 — Expect the guiltLeanne Elliott: Yeah Dr Rachel Morris: Trying to please everybody all the time, and we'll just accelerate the burnout and the heat will rise and we'll end up with that frog totally frazzled in the boiling water Al ElliotEP 327 · 13 Aug 2026·interview· 38:25–40:1547:10Workplace 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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