One week ago, a New York City-based copywriter named Lauren Baer posted on LinkedIn saying that she had recently withdrawn her candidacy from a job. She loved the company. She was a strong candidate. So what went wrong? In the post, Baer explained precisely why she said enough is enough — and her
A toxic employee, “Bob,” engaged in unethical behavior; we wrote him up, and then he ran his mouth about it to the whole department. He is not speaking with his boss and is now resorting to name-calling. We have a good policy handbook to back us up to
A company credit card can remove a lot of administrative hassle when reimbursing employees for company purchases and travel. But just what are your employees doing with their company cards? Upgraded Points, a travel site that focuses on strategies for maximizing rewards and travel perks, recently looked at how employees use company credit cards. Here’s
The Evil HR Lady has teamed up with Brabo Payroll to bring you a series of FREE webinars! This is the first in this series, presented by Suzanne Lucas. You’ll learn some of the ins and outs of ChatGPT and why it shouldn’t put you into a panic
Massachusetts has joined 13 other states in removing the college degree requirement from many government jobs. The Brookings Institute describes this move as “low-cost ways to open state hiring processes to more applicants and improve economic mobility for qualified workers who have been largely excluded from state hiring systems.” The private
Tom Hollander has earned a pretty penny in films and shows like Pride and Prejudice and the recent hit White Lotus, but nothing near Spider-Man‘s Tom Holland. So when he got a seven-figure check meant for the similarly named star, he had to give it back. This is a payroll mistake of epic proportions, and even
During the Cabbage Patch Craze of 1983, I wanted one for Christmas, as did every other little girl. I did not get one, but my cousin “Geraldine” did because her mom was a department store manager. (Even though the statute of limitations on policy-violating toy purchases from 1983 has
Everyone hates the WebMD come-back-to-the-office video, except for me and perhaps the people who made it. It was actually made by WebMD’s parent company, Internet Brands, but apparently WebMD is the division we all know about, so that’s what is getting the press. Note: this was published publicly
“Terrible decision, insensitive, and selfish” aren’t words leaders should ever need to say. But those were the words that Kyte Baby founder Ying Liu used to describe her own behavior after the company terminated an employee named Marissa Hughes. What happened does seem terrible, insensitive, and selfish, but it was also 100 percent legal.
Okay, so legally, age discrimination isn’t illegal unless you are discriminating against people who are over the practically dead age of 40. (At least from a federal perspective – some US states prohibit age discrimination from 18.) However, discrimination is happening frequently to the youngest members of the workforce – Gen Z.
