I came across your website this morning and I think it’s great! I have a very complicated question that I’m hoping you can help me with or at least point me in the right direction to get my answer. It’s a little complicated, but here it goes…. About
Dear Evil HR Lady I know that you’re evil. You work in HR and you even mention it in your name. But still, I think you’re the person who could give me some precious advice. I’ve been working in HR for almost 10 years and am looking for
I got sent a question about interviewing a potential HRIS manager. I punted to Evil HRIS Guy and he answered, in part: Have you any experience with outsourcing, or dealing with a SaaS vendor? Chances are your senior management is going to read a trade rag or buy
I am an HR manager for a retail outlet. In the last year our company has gone through management changes. When I originally started there was a CEO, Controller, three District Managers, a VP, and Office Manager and three accounting personnel. In August of last year, they hired
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)