Dear Evil HR Lady, I want to preface this by saying how much I love my job and [most of] my coworkers. However, our HR woman is heinously incompetent. She doesn’t know the answer to any of our questions and spends hours doing things manually that computers can
Businesses often collect donations at this time of year for the less fortunate. But what if the less fortunate you are asking your employees to support are other employees? “Making Change at Walmart” — a coalition of workers, faith-based organizations and other groups linked with the United Food
I recently had a first phone interview and I thought things went well providing honest and through answers to questions asked but it was the end of the phone conversation that has me puzzled. The interviewer wanted me to “dwell on the conversation we had” and if I
If you have to work on Black Friday (or worse, on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday), you’re probably already bracing yourself the longest, most stressful day of the year. Americans love a good bargain, but they sometimes lose their manners in pursuit of it. To help you survive,
Have you seen this video? It’s popped up on my Facebook feed numerous times from friends all over the world: I wanted to know how they did it and made it go viral, so interviewed director, Jared Shores. To read that interview, click here: Anatomy of a Viral
The happier you are, the less able you are to empathise with others, but you think you are empathising with them. Clear as mud? Your life is going great, and you’re positive and upbeat, and are anxious to be mindful of others, but somehow your own happiness puts
At the end of September, I got a message from the managing editor of MoneyWatch. It said, “I need to talk to you about some changes at MoneyWatch. Can you let me know a good time to call you?” I responded with times I was available and then
Last year, you all helped me out by telling me the best presents from bosses. I want to do two articles this year. 1. Best office holiday parties. What worked? What did you enjoy? What made everyone happy? 2. Worst office holiday party. Tell me your nightmares! Who
This question came up as a search term that landed someone on my blog. It’s a good question. The person also used the word exempt twice in their google word string, so to be clear, this is a variation of the question, but I’ll answer it from both
I stumbled upon this video today: Hilarious. Now, to be honest, I already knew about Kid Snippets, but I hadn’t seen this one before. I want you all to change your job interviews to match this one. Especially the salary negotiation with fingers and multiple firings.
