I’ve worked as a wholesaler (employee benefit specialist) most of my career and came over to the retail side simply because I didn’t like what “so-called” benefit consultants were doing to their clients (i.e. HR professionals like yourself) or not doing. I believe I can do a better
I work at a relatively small financial institution in a large city. My division is running a month-long promotion to attract new customers. My boss has pretty much being signing off on all the promotional materials we will be needing from our design department. I haven’t been allowed
Just found your blog and have a question you can post 😉 So I took a job recently and was 6-7 weeks pregnant and didn’t reveal it until 13 weeks. I wonder how that is perceived in the industry from an HR perspective…. I wouldn’t ever reveal a
My office has a serious dress code interpretation problem. Business casual is taken to mean 1 step above how you would dress to go to Wal-mart at midnight. The dress code was lax and poorly enforced long before I was hired. My problem is when there is a
Is now up over at Race in the Workplace. Go over and read about orthopedic shoes, quiet employees and Munchausen Syndrom at work. The next carnival will be over at The Cranky Middle Manager, so start getting crabby and get your submissions into Wayne.
Hello, I am in the process of trying to get rehired by a company. To be honest I was terminated about 1 1/2 years ago basically due to job abandonment. It’s no excuse, but to explain my circumstances I was getting divorced-becoming a single mother (not by choice)
Dear Evil HR Lady: In the office that I currently work in all the CSR sit out in the open. No this isn’t the problem, the problem is that one of the lady’s in the office seems to have, what I would call a hygiene issue, however you
#1 Dinosaur is a primary care doctor who encountered a sneaky plastic surgeon. It appears that said plastic surgeon sent a patient to #1 Dinosaur with a form to fill out. Fine. Except that at the bottom of the form it said this: Surgery and alternative treatments were
Get your posts into Carmen at Race in the Workplace pronto if you want to be included in this week’s Carnival!
Hello Ms. Evil!I learned that we are interviewing someone for an engineering position who is asking for a salary of $110K. I don’t know that my manager or our boss are willing to pay this. I just know that the email from HR to my manager, that he
