Hello Evil HR Lady! I would like to say I love your website – I just stumbled upon today and I think it’s great. My question is – how do you fire someone with a medical condition? We have an employee who isn’t very competent and her skills
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Bootstrapper has published their choices for the Top 100 HR Bloggers. I’m pleased to join several of our Carnival Colleagues on the list. And pleased to find some new sites I haven’t been to before.
Dear Evil HR Lady, I am currently at university (in Sweden) and will have my degree from a program aiming at HR (including i/o psychology, some other behavioural sciences, economics and labor law). I am just about to start applying for “real” jobs. 🙂 I have some experience
I’ve been working a temp position since August 20th, but it is currently set to end later this month. How long should you work at a position, before putting it on your resume? The reason I ask, is because my last long term job ended June 22nd. I
Please help! I am the HR Assistant for the HR Manager at my job. It is just the two of us in the department. She has reprimanded me on three different occasions regarding the clothing I wear to work. And each time I ask her specifically, what can
Remember the threat from your elementary school teachers? If you do something bad it will go in your permanent record! Horrors. You would never get into college, let alone live any sort of productive life with a black mark on your permanent record. It was enough to keep
Another scenario: A woman with a heavy accent walks into your office and explains that she is returning to her native Russia this spring and as such she needs today, September 12th, off. You are a bit confused and asks for an explanation. She sends you to this
A while ago I made a comment over at Ask a Manager that I preferred e-mail over telephone calls and meetings. (I couldn’t find the actual post, but it’s a true statement.) I got the following e-mail from Rachel Prosser:Dear (not so) Evil HR Lady. I really enjoy
The Evil family just got back from a fabulous Canadian vacation. We spent most of our time in Ottawa, which is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria making Ottawa the capital of Canada. (It was an utterly fantastic city, by the way. I highly recommend it.) We
Miss South Carolina was on the Today Show and re-answered the question given her at Friday’s pageant. Since I posted the video of her first answer, I think it’s only fair to post the video of the second one. She seemed quite well spoken and did a great