Last year the wonderful folks at Shabby Apple gave a dress to one of my readers. This year they have offered to do the same thing! Yeah! A beautiful dress to one of my readers. Men, again, I’m sorry, but feel free to enter for your wife, mother,
Month: November 2011
Sooner or later all small business owners will have to terminate an employee, and there’s a right way and a wrong way to do it. The Evil HR Lady explains which is which. To read click here: How to Fire Someone
Dear Evil HR Lady, Is there any law prohibiting an employee’s wife from visiting him in the office at any time To read the answer, click here: Stop being a wimp and manage your people
Dear Evil HR Lady, My colleagues and I are all salaried exempt employees. We are not people managers; we are project managers, even though that is not what we are called. Recently, there has been what I like to call “Much Ado About Hours” throughout our office, and
Billy E. Hyatt claims Pliant Corp. fired him for refusing to wear a sticker with 666 on it. Now, lest you think that the plant was run by Satan himself, it wasn’t a random sticker–the plant had been counting up the number of days in a row they
Dear Evil HR Lady, Your most recent post about plagiarism reminded me about the CEO of the company I’m working for right now. The company is an online seller and I have to say that some (if not most) of the products we sell are from questionable sources.
Today’s Dear Abby columnincluded a letter from a man who said that if he received business correspondence addressed to “Dear Robert” instead of Dear Mr. C, he would throw it straight in the trash. Abby, predictably, responded by offering to sell us her booklet that reminds us that
Have you thought about what you’d do if one of your employees started tweeting about what a terrible boss you are? Or wrote Facebook status updates about your stupid business problems? And what about the positive side? That sales person who built up a fabulous list of contacts
Before you file a complaint, make sure you use these tips to help you be heard. To read more click here: The keys to getting your HR Manager to act on your complaint
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have an employee out on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). His wife had a baby, and he opted to take the full twelve weeks of leave. I know this is the law, and we are holding his job for his return. However,