Dear Evil HR Lady: I find myself in a strange situation. I like my job – but it pays peanuts, has a really long commute, and doesn’t use my rather expensive college education. I can do it because my husband makes enough for us to get by, though.
Oh, how I wish I had thought of this analogy. John Sullivan at Workforce Online, however deserves the credit. He writes: The movie “Snakes on a Plane” depicts the terror of being trapped in a confined space with life-threatening pythons, rattlesnakes and the like. While some might see
Ford Motor Company just hired a new president and CEO, Alan R. Mulally, who was formerly with Boeing. He has no automotive experience, but is being given the reins. William Clay Ford Jr., gave up those titles, but is retaining the Chairman title and responsibility. I think this
That is, if your name is Carolyn Kepcher. Donald Trump and Carolyn (you know her from The Apprentice) have parted ways. Carolyn, as you might expect if you were a fan of the show, issued a very classy statement: After 11 years with the Trump Organization, Donald and
You just knew that sooner or later I was going to have to start blogging about celebrities, right? Blech. Truth be told, most of my music was purchased when I was still in high school and the last movie I saw in the theatre was “Wallace and Gromit:
I know several of you felt bad that Pluto was transitioned out of planethood. It seems we are not the only ones. From Fox News: LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Size doesn’t matter. That was the message as friends and colleagues of the late Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who
I promised I would comment further on Keith B. Hammond’s article, Why I Hate HR. I figure since it’s a holiday, it’s unlikely that any company is doing something truly stupid today, so I thought I’d come back to this. I’d like to answer this question today: Why
This week’s Carnival of the Insanities is up at Dr. Sanity Click over and read about Al Gore to Pluto to everything inbetween. If you’ve never read at Dr. Sanity’s, you are missing out!
I had plans to defend (well and do a little bit of mocking) HR today, but I’m afraid some HR VP has spent too many hours at the hairdresser and too little talking to actual humans. Radio Shack just fired 400 people via e-mail. Please, let us pause
I found this article, Why I Hate HR, today. I realize that the article is over a year old. What can I say? Perhaps I can quote Mr. Hammonds: “HR people aren’t the sharpest tacks in the box.” I would say something both witty and withering, but I’m