“You should know that they need gym shoes in third grade.” This was an actual line my son’s teacher said to me (albeit in German). Please understand that from Kindergarten (two years’ worth) through second grade, gym shoes were forbidden, and they needed “Stoppersocken” (those socks with rubber
What’s better than free New York Mets tickets? New York Mets tickets that cost $10. While you may think free is an ideal price, a recent Mets giveaway shows the big problem with free: People don’t value what they don’t pay for, and many people will say they
“There is no ‘P’ in hamster.” This is not a controversial statement. Any dictionary will agree with it. Any pet store will too. But Carol Blymire overheard a conversation between a young employee with her boss, and this came up. The boss wanted a correction. The employee insisted that the
Billionaire Bill Ackman fired an employee, who is threatening to sue. He wrote 2,400 words on X asking for opinions. The quick summary is that Ackman discovered his family office, Table, had become bloated and inefficient after years of minimal oversight, so he brought in his nephew to investigate
Katyayani Shukla posted this on Twitter. Now she is in India, and I don’t know anything about Indian employment law, and generally write from a US (and sometimes European) perspective, but this is a question that comes up often. Why are employees expected to give two weeks’ (or
Oracle laid off thousands of employees yesterday. Numbers vary, with some reports saying up to 30,000 employees. Regardless, they conducted the mass termination via email. Employees received notification early Tuesday morning, and many of them were not happy. Writing at the subreddit, r/employeesofOracle, one former employee wrote: “I was
In television shows, it’s your work friends who are your bridesmaids at your wedding and who show up to the hospital when you have a baby. It seems like that’s how work relationships should be–warm and full of friendship and trust. In real life, there should be a
I saw this on Reddit: They lied about 100% Remote until the very last stage of the interview I am actually fuming right now and I feel like I just wasted three weeks of my life for absolutely nothing . I applied for a Senior Analyst position that
Headhunter Nick Corcodilos calls exit interviews the “cockroaches of the employment world” because “no one knows why they exist, no one can justify or eliminate them, and they will likely survive into the third millennium.” I love the idea of exit interviews in theory, as they could gather valuable data that
Last week, I hosted a conference called Spring Forward HR. Participants submitted stories about the problems they had to handle and the employees and managers they encountered. With more than 1,000 registrants, the stories were abundant. If you ever want to ask, “Why do we need HR?” the answer is (in
