I work in a small creative firm and have an employee who is technically very good, but a few times now has expressed this “what’s in it for me?” attitude when asked to consider contributing to something that is outside the realm of their regular job. (And don’t
I am a Superintendent in a unionized maintenance shop. I’ve terminated many employees over the years. Most deserved it as they had violated rules over and over. I recently terminated a man with three kids and a wife who was out of work. He had been with us
I work for a state university. One of the requirements for evaluating our employees is that we establish “development” competencies for each employees. We must establish at least two for every employee. The state considers that every employee can improve their performance all the time. Here is my
My question is regarding a relocation pay-back clause. I accepted a postion with my company that involved moving from CA to TN in February of 2009. The company gave me a lump sum (after tax) of $10,000 to cover relocation and moving expenses. Since that time, I’ve decided
On Friday night I had a delightful conversation with Jared from Human Resource Executive Online. He asked me what HR blogs I read regularly and I had to (gulp!) confess that I don’t read too many of them. It’s not because I don’t love you all (I do!
Today is September 11. On September 11, 2001 I lived in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which is a short drive from NYC. Today, I live in Switzerland, which is not quite so close and I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t think about this day as I should have. It
I went through the weirdest interview yesterday. I interviewed with a panel of managers. The managers had five key questions. I was told at the beginning of the interview that they had received 200 applications and that staffing used the resumes to select 25 qualified people to interview.
An Auckland accountant was sacked for sending “confrontational” emails with words in red, in bold and in capital letters. Now, I don’t happen to think termination is a proper consequence for sending e-mails in all caps. I think beheading, or perhaps execution via firing squad would be more
I work for a rather large company. A friend of mine, who was an hourly employee, got fired for inaccurate time recording. However, she had worked there for around 9 years, did a very good job and was loved by all. She got a new boss who took
I posted a little story yesterday about a pharmacist who made several inappropriate remarks. Not surprisingly, most of those who commented identified the man as a jerk and alternately asked for his dismissal, write up or behind in a training class. The thing that concerns me the most
