Dear Evil HR Lady, I’ve been with my current company for 10 years .. While I do get good performance reviews they, like all companies, are making changes. I never really know if the changes made will trickle down to the department to which I belong. We sort
Dear Evil HR Lady, My department is hated/mocked/ignored by most of the other departments. I would say that the actions within the department (lack of quality work, not understanding needs, etc.) contribute to the ongoing and poor reputation. Senior management has done nothing. I, however, have managed to
Dear Evil HR Lady, We have an issue with an employee regarding hygiene. In a nutshell, he has bad body odor. His belief system is that soaps, deodorants are chemicals are harmful. He interacts with our customers a great deal. How do we address? Help! –In The Breeze
Did you know that the IRS and the Department of Labor have teamed up to audit businesses? If that doesn’t make you shake in your boots, you either don’t employ any contractors or you are hopelessly naive about what a fun and exciting thing it is to have the
Dear Evil HR Lady, I started working on a project with one woman, we’ll call her Heidi, over a year ago. I was the first person she started managing (she had been kept at an entry level position for three years and then promoted twice in 6 months).
These two emails came this week. While they’re similar, I promise they are not from the same person: Dear Evil HR Lady, How can we deal with this kind of HR Lady? A few weeks ago she went to a club and got so drunk she needed help.
Would you agree to wear a tracking device that told your boss not only where you were every second of the day, but also how loudly you were speaking, to whom you were speaking and how many people were in the group? My gut instinct is to say
This week is Global Telework week. Over 100,000 people pledged to telecommute for at least part of this week, through an organization called Mobile Work Exchange. Last year, according to Mobile Work Exchange, 71 percent of the organizations that participated saw an increase in productivity during the week and
When that afternoon drowsiness hits, do you: A) Grab a cup of coffee? B) Take a brisk walk around your office building? C) Plow through and wait for it to pass? D) Pay about $10 to lie down in bed and take a nap? If you answered D),
In January, my Inc.com colleague Selena Cuffe wrote that, though her evidence was purely anecdotal, she believed that entrepreneurship was highly correlated with a better sex life. Turns out the evidence isn’t just anecdotal. PlanetSoho, which sells online management tools to small businesses and home business owners (5 employees
