Dear Evil HR Lady, I started a new job about two months ago after a very long period of work instability and unemployment. I spent many hours preparing and studying for how to be successful in a new job and walked into this new situation with a very
Dear Evil HR Lady, Any thoughts about how to convince a Millennial to stay in a perfectly good job? My sister is 25, and she has a really “awesome” pattern of employment — get a job, stick around long enough to get insurance and quit. I think that
AOL just fired several hundred employees. According to Business Insider, here’s how it went down: 1. Patch employees were assigned to one of two rooms 2. Employees in room A were all terminated 3. Employees in room B were told they were being retained A few days earlier, CEO
Every time I hear or see an overly controlling policy change I can guarantee there is a problem employee that the boss won’t confront/discipline/fire directly. Instead, a blanket policy goes out to try to and change the behavior of the errant employee. Does this ever work? Seriously, if
You’ll hear people talk about the high cost of turnover, but when you try to press for the actual costs they don’t really know. It seems like a mysterious thing that people talk about. And it’s true–the costs are largely hidden. It doesn’t hit your profit and loss
It’s a great American tradition: people dress up in their best clothing, parade in front of a judge and answer questions, hoping to sound intelligent yet totally inoffensive. A beauty pageant? No, I’m talking about a job interview. But it shouldn’t be that way. A pageant judge never sees
Telecommuting is either the best thing since sliced bread or the cause of all problems. After all, it was telecommuting that Melissa Mayer banned at Yahoo in order to combat waste and phantom employees. Many managers feel that they if they can’t actually see their employees, the employees aren’t working. But
Dear Evil HR Lady, We recently had a female employee accuse her direct supervisor, a male, of sexual harassment. Now, we are very small, and don’t have an HR department. Could you point us in the right direction on how to handle this? We have separated the two
Dear Evil HR Lady, I am looking to leave my job and have saved up enough money to take some time off afterwards. However, I would still like to negotiate an exit where I would commit to working for five months, provided that the company can
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been doing a lot of interviews lately and for whatever reason seem to not be getting very far because almost all the positions were filled internally. When I ask for feedback, I am told that I interview well and that they just