What’s the line between “teaching” an intern and treating an intern like an employee? Does it ever make sense to fire one, or should you just suck it up until the internship ends? How far am I expected to help an intern if they are underperforming? Also, our
ChatGPT can make managing people easier. You can use it to create SMART goals. You can use it to create a script for a fun open enrollment video. And many other things. But ChatGPT and other AI software tools come with their own problems. They’re big enough that
Elon Musk asked everyone to pay $8 to be verified on Twitter, and it made headlines and trended on Twitter (naturally). LinkedIn recently began offering free verification, and it’s gone largely unnoticed. “Authenticity online has never been more important,” said Alex Weinert, vice president of identity security at Microsoft, which
A lawyer, presumably in a hurry, submitted documents to the court that included references to “hallucinated cases.” Where did these hallucinations come from? ChatGPT, of course. Judge Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.) is threatening the lawyer with sanctions. ChatGPT has an annoying habit of making up information (hallucinating) rather than
One of the purposes of good Human Resources is to prevent lawsuits. But your HR person and your employment attorney don’t follow you around all the time. So, business attorney Josh Joel, Counsel at Stanton Law, put together a list of phrases that often come out of managers’ mouths. When
Röbynn Europe worked as a personal trainer manager for Equinox, a fitness center. They fired her after 10 months for being late an excessive number of times. Europe claimed this was pretext–an excuse–to cover up for the racial discrimination she faced. It’s pretty easy to prove that an
Are you biased? Of course, you are. We all are. And this isn’t a bad thing. We make decisions every day based on our previous experiences. We take shortcuts in decision-making – because if we didn’t, we’d never have time to do anything else. For example: which line
While we can all agree that calling a white woman “a Karen” (which is different than someone whose name is Karen) is offensive, and we shouldn’t call women that. But, employees don’t need a presentation–or two–on why they shouldn’t do that. Bo Young Lee, Uber’s head of diversity,
A reader sent me an email asking if a “1.75 percent raise” was appropriate for a salary in the $90,000 range. “It’s like giving a waitress a $7 tip on a $300 meal,” he wrote. First of all, wouldn’t it be awesome to get a 15 to 20 percent raise
When is the best point in your career to marry? This “hot take” by Tim Kempton, who advises startups, went viral on Twitter: Hot take: Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose. Your career will thank you. — Tim Kempton (@kempton_timothy) May 19, 2023
