I am a production manager at a trade org/not for profit. I love my boss, who is a great guy, but not the best manager. As long as things get done, he’s satisfied, but procedures and work flows have suffered. About 80% of all projects cross my desk.
I work for a large company. Every year we are asked to fill out evaluation forms, supposedly anonymously, about our coworkers. Our Manager picks many of the people who fill out the forms about us; although most of the Managers let the staff pick their own people to
We spent 3 days in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. You didn’t even know it was a Grand Duchy, did you? Well, you do now. There were castles, of course, and cool tunnels under Luxembourg City, but this post is about sinful vending machines. This is a picture
I work for a small non-profit organization and we have no HR. Because I have some seniority, I’ve been assigned as a supervisor to one of our part-time workers, who also happens to be a friend of mine from high school. She is in communications and often makes
No real post here. Just writing to say, I’m going to Paris this weekend. Neener-neener. And, no, I won’t eat escargot. I don’t care that it is delicious. Blech.
I’ve put my thoughts on why HR isn’t responsible to guess what medical problems you have over at US News. Check it out and leave your comments.
It’s that wonderful time of the year–flu season! And to add to it, this year adds in the lovely schweingrippe to the mix. So, I imagine that hospitals are putting together all sorts of plans for how to handle this. I like to have positive attitudes (ha!) towards
I work in a small creative firm and have an employee who is technically very good, but a few times now has expressed this “what’s in it for me?” attitude when asked to consider contributing to something that is outside the realm of their regular job. (And don’t
I am a Superintendent in a unionized maintenance shop. I’ve terminated many employees over the years. Most deserved it as they had violated rules over and over. I recently terminated a man with three kids and a wife who was out of work. He had been with us
I work for a state university. One of the requirements for evaluating our employees is that we establish “development” competencies for each employees. We must establish at least two for every employee. The state considers that every employee can improve their performance all the time. Here is my