Dear Evil HR Lady: I have a question. I am currently looking for work and have been on a handful of interviews. I have been asked a couple of times if I am currently working which I am not. What is the purpose of this question? I can
Month: April 2007
The real cast is now on and it’s purple. And waterproof! This means we can still go swimming and not worry about it getting wet at Disney World. The Offspring is quite happy with all the attention she is getting for this broken arm. I’m afraid she’ll
Next Wednesday is Carnival time. Get your submissions to humanresources.guide at about dot com! The May 2nd Carnival will be hosted by Susan Heathfield at About: Human Resources. The May 16th Carnival will be hosted by Carmen Van Kerckhove at Race in the Workplace. The May 30th Carnival
Dear Evil HR Lady, Annually my company’s HR lady requests us to review and acknowledge reviewing all documents pertaining to corporate policies. She does this without informing us which documents have actually changed forcing us to re-read the same documents every year. It takes days to re-read the
Diagnosis: Buckle Fracture. 1.5 weeks before leaving for Disney World. Poor Offspring. It happened while she was (theoretically) watching television. I was cleaning the bathroom. Lesson from this? I should not do housework.
Dear Evil HR Lady, First, may I just say that I really enjoy reading your blog. It’s always funny and informative. Back in college I was an Evil HR Lady Intern for a Fortune 500 company and I actually really enjoyed it but have gone on to a
I got the e-mail below on March 29. Somehow, it didn’t register in my brain so I didn’t respond. Here’s the e-mail: Hi there – love the blog! The situation is as follows: Smart, single, long-time employee at management level evades meetings with, but texts senseless messages at
I drive past a school on my way to work. The school zone lights flash and the speed limit is 15. This is good. I prefer not to have any small children run over. However, during spring break, the school was not open. Still, the lights flashed and
Dear Evil HR Lady, We have a problem with staff taking their sick time as soon as they earn it. This leaves us with reduced staff coverage in several departments and problems. What suggestions do you have to reward a team or staff for not taking their sick
Carnival of the Insanities is up over at Dr. Sanity’s blog. Go read it and see that there are insane things outside of HR as well.