This has nothing to do with HR (well, maybe the aspect of getting some lazy jerk to actually do work), but it amused me, so I’m sharing. The couple was stunned when they walked in the door to find the place ransacked, with many of their possessions scattered
Consider this: In the San Francisco area, a nurse with a bachelor’s degree can hope to start out with a salary of $104,000. The salary for a nursing professor with a Ph.D. at University of California San Francisco starts at about $60,000. This goes a long way toward
Is up over at the HR Capitalist. It’s a baseball theme, so grab your bat and head on over. The next Carnival of HR will be held on Halloween and hosted by HRO Manager, so get your goblins in a row and send over a post.
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been let go from a small community bank were I worked as a personal banker and I am not sure if I was fired or laid off. I loved my job and co-workers I never made “critical” clerical errors, never called in
Isn’t there a law or best practice on how to approach employees who prefer to speak their foreign tongue in the workplace in front of other employees who do not understand what they are saying? Grant it, the majority of our investors are foreign, however, the company is
I work for an organization that runs two professional minor sports teams and so I have a question about exempt vs non-exempt. I have searched for information, but sports entertainment doesn’t pop up in the discussions. Most of our staff is labeled exempt by the organization including our
My question is two fold… Can someone get fired for dating a coworker? If an employer has GPS technology on company vehicles and the company policy is that company vehicles are for business use only, to what extent can the employer go if someone used the vehicle for
One of the jobs of HR is to understand the business. This means we need to understand what people do all day. Here some videos to help you understand. Anesthetists Moms Teachers
Dear Evil HR lady, I’ve been reading your blog for a few months, and feel like you give honest, straightforward answers, so hopefully you can help me understand my HR department’s strategy. I have learned that our HR department has been looking at company turnover. I realize that
I am the HR Specialist in an office of about 50. Most of us have been here for years. In March a new company took over our office however, the only thing that changed was the boss. He is an expert in our line of work but has
