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
Scenario 1: A high performing department manager walks into your office. She has been highly successful at turning a low performing group into a high performing group. In the past 3 years, she has won two awards for her work. Senior management is highly impressed with her and
The Next Carnival of HR will be held September 5th over at Fortify Your Oasis. Click on the above link because it is truly worth it. What would we do without Rowan? Entries to rowan dot manahan at gee mail dot com by 6.00pm GMT on Monday folks.
Miss South Carolina was on the Today Show and re-answered the question given her at Friday’s pageant. Since I posted the video of her first answer, I think it’s only fair to post the video of the second one. She seemed quite well spoken and did a great
