Ford fired an employee for stealing a $1.95 cookie. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do. Normally, I’m a big supporter of enforcing the small rules—after all, if you don’t enforce a rule, then the rule doesn’t exist. So, if you catch someone, on camera, stealing a cookie,
Most HR and benefits tools sound better in theory than they feel in practice. If you work in benefits, HR, payroll, compensation, recruiting, or people ops, you know when something actually makes sense for your role — and when it doesn’t. That’s the feedback companies want before they
“Fired within 3 hours of my first shift at a fast food joint” headlined a now-deleted Reddit post. The original poster went on to explain how the day went badly. They wrote: “Went there early, dressed properly for the job which was about helping with making burgers in a
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I’m the HR manager, and I report to the company president. I’ve already talked to him about the Friday 4 p.m. happy hours he hosts in the office. I told him I don’t think it’s appropriate and that it could create real liability issues — especially if someone
A Chick-fil-A franchise is being sued by the EEOC for allegedly refusing a religious accommodation for a Christian employee. Given Chick-fil-A’s reputation as a faith-based company, that’s probably the last lawsuit you’d expect to see. Chick-fil-A famously closes on Sundays, a nod back to founder S. Truett Cathy’s devout
Amanda Taub’s New York Times piece, Actually, Democracy Dies in HR, centers on the idea that it doesn’t take a whole bunch of evil people to destroy a country, but rather just a few evil leaders at the top and a whole bunch of dummies and paperwork, and voila, the end
A lot of people dislike HR. Founders sometimes feel like an HR person is a weight around their neck–always saying no or objecting to new ideas. It’s not because the HR person wants your business to fail. On the contrary, they want your business to succeed. That success, however,
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“Chris and Jan have broken a Swiss law. What law is it?” This is a question I use all the time for an improv prompt. The audience then suggests a law and the scene begins. Now, while Switzerland has all the normal laws about not stealing and not
