“No one is allowed to give notes to anyone else,” Basel English Panto Director Sarah Thomforde explained to our group of amateur actors. While my professional actor friend assures me this is standard in the theater–the last thing you want is a bunch of people running around acting like
Recruiting is far more complicated than filtering through eager candidates’ resumes and submitting the top five to the hiring manager. It’s all about building relationships, figuring out transferrable skills, and acting as a bridge between the hiring manager and the candidate. The problem is the mindset between candidates and recruiters
The holiday season brings work holiday parties. And with it, holiday party disaster stories. These five true stories collected from members of the Evil HR Lady Facebook group have a common thread. See if you can pick it out. The boss’s wife: “When we were a small company, we had
On November 22, a Walmart employee killed six people and himself. It’s a nightmare that no one wants to experience. Business owners are limited in how they can protect people from customers off the street, but they can and should do more about employees. According to a lawsuit filed by another
It’s the holiday season, so everyone wants a party to celebrate their employees. Plus, everyone feels an obligation–we have to have a party! But December is full. In addition to whatever year-end processes you have (especially if your fiscal year operates on a calendar year), your employees are busy with their personal
Good office parties are great. Bad ones? Well, they are more fun to read about. Here are some holiday party nightmares from Inc.com readers. Make sure to share your story in the comments: The one with the live fish “We no longer have Christmas white elephants because, well, about
On Saturday night, an attacker at Colorado Spring’s Club Q killed five people and injured 17. While we all hope and pray that no violent person shows up at our businesses or businesses we patronize, if it can happen there, it can happen wherever you are. This wasn’t a
Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the Twitter meltdown while munching popcorn and wondering what amazing thing will happen next. As an HR person, I know that many people in big corporations could disappear without affecting the company’s product–including many HR positions. It is abundantly clear that Twitter had a
Elon Musk is looking to rehire some of the people he just notified on Friday. As people laugh about his incompetence in firing people that, it turns out, Twitter still needs some of. While this makes for good jokes, and it does look horrible, it also is very typical.
Rumor had it that Elon Musk planned to fire 75 percent of Twitter’s staff, prompting an “open letter” from some Twitter employees who called it a “transparent act of worker intimidation.” That sounds scary and illegal. How dare Musk intimidate employees? Well, while there are some National Labor Relations Act rights
