Is up over at Dr. Sanity’s place. My favorite this week is 25 tips from the frugally insane. 11. Why pay for expensive jigsaws? Just take a bag of frozen fries from the freezer and try piercing together potatoes. 12. Smell gas? Locate the suspected leak by striking
Why aren’t you married yet? Are you dating anyone? Umm, hi Mom! Okay, not hi, my mom because I’m happily married, but unless you got married at 19, your Mom has said that or is saying that to you. So, it looks like your mom just got a
Welcome to the first Carnival of Human Resources! Many people have submitted fabulous posts about this lovely world of HR. The next Carnival will be in two weeks (March 7), so please submit your posts by March 6, and you can join the carnival. Submissions can be sent
Kidnapping faked to avoid wife’s wrath. SAN RAFAEL, California — A man who allegedly faked his own kidnapping to keep his wife from finding out he crashed her new car could face criminal charges, police said. Police said the 35-year-old man told them two kidnappers held him up
Jet Blue messed up in a big way. With last week’s ice storm, instead of canceling flights, they loaded up planes and stuck people on the runway–hoping the storm would break. It didn’t and people were stuck for hours and hours and hours. Just thinking about the horror
I was in Junior High in 1987. So, even though I’ve always been an evil genius, I wasn’t in HR yet. However, that didn’t stop me from getting the phone call from our company’s legal department. We were being sued. For what, I don’t know (I don’t ask–the
Where are all my presents? Hmmm, did you forget to send them? All right, it is my birthday (I’m 22 this year! Well, I look 22 anyway…) For my birthday I would like to start an HR Carnival. If any of you HR or Business types–or people who
Have you run into one? I have. One in particular was a fellow HR person. She would call me and scream and yell and tell me I wasn’t doing my job right. She was nasty. In fact, my whole department hated her–but the HR VPs thought she was
In honor of the holiday of love, go buy an I love Human Resources T-shirt. No, I’m not selling them. My t-shirts would be much different, which reminds me–I need to work on my campaign bumper sticker. Evil in 2010. To celebrate the Evil Family is trapped in
CNN Money has a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. My favorites so far– Number 3 In August, McDonald’s runs a promotional contest in Japan in which it gives away 10,000 Mickey D’s-branded MP3 players. The gadgets come preloaded with 10 songs – and, in some
