Remember the threat from your elementary school teachers? If you do something bad it will go in your permanent record! Horrors. You would never get into college, let alone live any sort of productive life with a black mark on your permanent record. It was enough to keep
Remember to get your Carnival submission into Evil HR Lady (that would be me!) buy Monday night, September 17. (I’ll let you define night by when you go to bed. I’m flexible that way.) Also, the HR Capitalist has his HR Power Blog listing up. I’ve dropped by
Another scenario: A woman with a heavy accent walks into your office and explains that she is returning to her native Russia this spring and as such she needs today, September 12th, off. You are a bit confused and asks for an explanation. She sends you to this
A while ago I made a comment over at Ask a Manager that I preferred e-mail over telephone calls and meetings. (I couldn’t find the actual post, but it’s a true statement.) I got the following e-mail from Rachel Prosser:Dear (not so) Evil HR Lady. I really enjoy
I’m the Controller for a small, but, what used to be, rapidly growing firm, 135 employees total. We’ve always had weak HR, but our recently hired VP of HR seems to take the cake–or at least want to make cake. We have equity problems, no performance appraisal system,
Read part I and part II. Make sure you read the comments. They are, as usual, brilliant. So, who is the problem employee? Karen or the manager? Or is it a little bit of both. My gut is to take Karen’s side, but that’s probably because I’m the
Hi Evil HR Lady, I was working as a contractor for this company for about 5 months. Company offered me a Permanent position and I accepted it. When I fill up backgound check form I mentioned DUI but I was afraid to mention details about it. As a
Scenario I, part II (read part I) and Part III) As a skilled employee relations expert, you manage to convince the high performing manager to not proceed to a written warning stage at this time. You explain that you would like to speak with Karen and give her
Is up over at Fortify Your Services. Once again it’s a fabulously informative set of articles. I do have to say that the carnival seems to get submissions from the best and brightest minds in HR. The September 19th Carnival will be hosted by Evil HR Lady at,
The Evil family just got back from a fabulous Canadian vacation. We spent most of our time in Ottawa, which is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria making Ottawa the capital of Canada. (It was an utterly fantastic city, by the way. I highly recommend it.) We
