It’s been many years since I have had interns, so I said yes when the opportunity popped up. Meet the summer interns: This is Havana. She’s 14 months old and loves climbing and wet food. She hides whenever one of the supervisors comes by, but you can lure
The Supreme Court handed down a decision on Friday, 24 June 2022, in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the 1973 Roe V. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States. For non-healthcare businesses, this shouldn’t affect your daily operations, but people are talking, and their focus may be somewhere
I have been with my company for 25 years. I LOVED my job until about 18 months ago as the Division I worked for was sold. My job duties started to decrease, and I could no longer fill my day. I told my boss this in my review
The only thing that should matter when you apply for a job is your ability to do the job. Your race, gender, religion, national origin, or age shouldn’t matter. Neither should your sexual orientation, so why is DoorDash asking applicants to share their sexual orientations as part of the job application
When we talk about labor shortages, we should be honest: there aren’t shortages in all areas. It can be challenging to find jobs in a lot of fields. But the one thing that is consistent just about anywhere is that employers are desperate for entry-level employees for service
We had a conference that required us to work weekends. I worked two weekends in a row, plus the week. So, I worked 19 days straight when it usually would be 15. (3 weeks, plus two weekends.) My boss said I could take four comp days, but they
I cannot count the number of online trainings I’ve given, written, and been through. Well, I could count them, but it would take a lot of effort to go back through old calendars, and who wants that? I’m going to share my tips and tricks for online training
I’m running into a weird problem with employees working from home: power and internet outages. California will undoubtedly have rolling blackouts again, plus unexpected outages. My employees do customer service over the phone. They cannot work without power and the internet. Do I have to pay them when
Like every other company, Amazon sent all employees who could work from home to work from home in 2020. But what they didn’t do was start paying for internet and electricity costs for their employees, according to a lawsuit filed by an Amazon engineer in California. On the surface,
How do you find a job? Everyone is hiring, but it sometimes feels like no one can find a job. This is not true! Companies hire all the time, and there are some things you can do to make job hunting more manageable and less painful. Keep in
