It’s super frustrating when an employee quits or, worse, walks out mid-shift. According to a picture that’s been going around the internet, a McDonald’s is trying to stop it by prohibiting quitting. I don’t know if it’s real. My best guess is that it was the bright idea of a
The American Trucking Association estimates that by 2028 there will be a 160,000 person truck driver shortage. So you would think that discrimination against any group would be the last thing on the mind of any business that needs truck drivers. When there is a shortage, you can’t afford
Gerald Groff, an evangelical Christian postal worker, specifically took a job at the US postal service because he wouldn’t have to work on Sundays. Enter Amazon, which signed a contract with the USPS to deliver on Sunday. While this was a financial benefit for the USPS, it meant
The other day, I posted on Twitter about a job interview I had had when I was straight out of graduate school. The back story is I had a master’s degree in political science and I was living in Rochester, New York–that’s a five-and-a-half-hour drive to New York City. No
Workin’ 9 to 5 What a way to make livin’ Barely gettin’ by It’s all takin’ and no givin’ They just use your mind And you never get the credit It’s enough to drive you Crazy if you let it You know this great Dolly Parton number from
In the absense of mandates, Salesforce is hoping a more charitable option will prod employees to come back to the office. Every time an employee comes into the office between June 12 and 23, the tech giant will give $10 per employee to a local charity. The goal is $1
‘”But we can’t promote her, I’m pretty sure she’s pregnant.” There’s some logic behind that. A pregnant woman will be taking some time off, no matter what, and you may not want someone to have any time off as they are getting up to speed on a new position.
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
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,
