The Carnival of HR has a new home! Yeah! All the updates and info you need is over there. Ask A Manager has taken over the responsibility of tracking and guiding the carnival. She’s awesome. Party on!
This week, I had an employee come to me and complain about other employees not washing their hands after using the bathroom. They wanted me to put up signs telling people they need to wash their hands before returning to work. Needless to say, I do NOT work
There has been some serious slacking in the Carnival world and we don’t want to get bad performance reviews because of it. If you hurry up and make a submission, you just might make today’s carnival at Sharp Brains. Send an e-mail to alvaro at sharpbrains dot com.
I was reading your blog about Tuition Policies. I’m in a very unique situation and wondered your advice. My previous company paid for my Tuition for 1 year, then they informed me that they were going to outsource my job, and I wouldn’t have to pay this back.
Check this out. It’s a parody of a school form. I need to get more creative and make up a new hire form.
I am currently looking for employment (I was laid off) and was wondering about how to ask for a few days off that I know I would like to take. I am completing my MBA in December, and the graduation is in a neighboring state, which would require
I’ve been tapped to choose an important service provider for our small business. In taking bids, I’ve discovered that one of the bidders may have run afoul of the law in another state, but likely settled without any criminal charges (a white collar crime). I learned this from
We have an employee that has had consistent attendance problems over the course of her employment (4 years). There are times where it is better and then she falls back down again. A two week stretch of good then a bad run for a week. Recently she has
Me? I’m a fan of transparency, efficiency and as little paperwork as possible. It seems the school system tries to be opaque, mind-numbingly slow and filled with paper. As I navigated the system, I started to think “this is why people hate HR,” because as much as I
I’m in HR and currently have a job where I was responsible for creating a training program. I was the first person to do this for the company and everyone thinks I’m doing a fantastic job. Actually, I’m in 2nd gear. I came from a completely different industry