You knew Satan runs a training company, right? Well, his fall brochure is out. Fortunately, our friend, The Cranky Middle Manager has posted a copy. I think I’ll take this class: 3. Communicating With Difficult People- How to Avoid It What you’ll learn: Business is full of people
We’re thinking of having one of our secretaries handle the internal/desk top support for our office. We are a small firm that pays a quarterly consulting fee to an IT firm. The secretary’s time would be split 50/50 between IT and secretary. The secretary would be responsible for
My previous post on salary history generated several comments, two of which are below (both by anonymous posters, by the way). What planet do you live on?? In a perfect world, people’s salaries increase with responsibility. In the REAL world, however, people’s salaries can stay the same or
Hi Evil HR Lady, I need your help! This will be the first year my company uses SMART approach to do the performance management. As a manager, I am supposed to set up measurable objectives for my subordinates. It’s not a problem for me to set up measurable
I updated my HR Blogroll. I know I missed some people that I shouldn’t have, so there may be revisions. If you believe you should be included, state your case in the comments.
Hello, I have a question, I applied to a Fortune 500 company with over 50,000 employees. They did a very extensive background check on me and haven’t let me know anything as of yet. My start date was due to be July 16th. There was one issue and
I have an HR person (probably not evil) insisting that I must provide my salary at each previous employer so they can do a background check before I start. This is all after I’ve already accepted a written job offer (they asked me to complete an application at
I’ve been tagged. Repeatedly. First by Stephanie Black, then by Simon Meth, the Career Encourager and by Deb. Stephanie’s tag was different than the others, so I will combine. She wanted to know, among other things, what I was doing 10 years ago. Well, this was the summer
