I found your blog through Punk Rock HR and love it. I check it everyday and feel not so alone in my HR-ness. I am hoping you can help me with an existential question about relocation. I’m not expecting you to make a decision for me as much
This is a salary rounding question. A non exempt is hired at a salary rate. The HR system contains an hourly rate since they are non exempt. The employee is given their merit raise of 5%. The merit raise paperwork they sign has only a percentage raise, say
Having a Bachelor’s degree is generally a requirement for a professional job. Sure, there are people who have such jobs without one, but I don’t recommend it as the way to go. But, what does having one really mean? Charles Murray argues, in the Wall Street Journal, that
We have a situation in which an individual in the family was let go and given 6 months’ severance. This person presented a letter saying he had one year of severance in his contract. Since the company had been bought out, they responded that their severance offer superseded
We just got home from vacation. We had to rent a car. Which meant we had about a zillion places to choose from. We flew into Las Vegas (we don’t gamble, but we sure can eat, and the food there is quite good). (Side note, we stayed at
I’m back home. I know you missed me. (Or at least my trolls missed me! I know they wanted to pounce on me for something and I wasn’t writing anything! Sob.) We had a marvelous time. Although, I will warn you that red-eye flights sound good in theory
I’m going on one. I am taking a vacation from the internet. So, I shall miss all of you. I’ve sworn to my family that I won’t even check my e-mail. We’ll see if I last.
We pre-employment drug screen all applicants. Manager started someone, against my better judgment, before we got drug screen results. Of course, came back positive for Marijuana. Manager told applicant to stay home today, but this manager is in love with this applicant and wants to make exception to
I got the following comment on my post on networking: Stop naming it networking, call it nepotism. Hiring people based on who they know is unprofessional. I work in HR and someone’s recommendation means squat, I have enough of a brain to evaluate skills and not relationships. If
I can’t write a real post today. Why? Because I found Not Always Right and I must sit here and read every single entry. It’s like some sort of strange compulsion. One other interesting thing I found yesterday was this listing of HR bloggers and their start dates