The holiday season brings work holiday parties. And with it, holiday party disaster stories. These five true stories collected from members of the Evil HR Lady Facebook group have a common thread. See if you can pick it out. The boss’s wife: “When we were a small company, we had
I’m new to investigations and employee discipline and also relatively new to this company. My concern is that I’m on my fourth investigation within one year about racial slurs and comments. The company size is less than 100 employees. Each incident has been in a different department, so
On November 22, a Walmart employee killed six people and himself. It’s a nightmare that no one wants to experience. Business owners are limited in how they can protect people from customers off the street, but they can and should do more about employees. According to a lawsuit filed by another
It’s that wonderful present time of year! But businesses are hierarchical and presents go down and not up. See this horror of an example from r/antiwork. Do not do this. Ever. If you absolutely, positively have to give the boss a present, it should be small and consumable.
It’s the holiday season, so everyone wants a party to celebrate their employees. Plus, everyone feels an obligation–we have to have a party! But December is full. In addition to whatever year-end processes you have (especially if your fiscal year operates on a calendar year), your employees are busy with their personal
What if you could offset some of the cost of hiring without impacting your applicant experience or burdening your hiring managers? It sounds like a dream, but it can be done with a properly managed process around the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC). What’s WOTC? The Work Opportunity
Good office parties are great. Bad ones? Well, they are more fun to read about. Here are some holiday party nightmares from Inc.com readers. Make sure to share your story in the comments: The one with the live fish “We no longer have Christmas white elephants because, well, about
On Saturday night, an attacker at Colorado Spring’s Club Q killed five people and injured 17. While we all hope and pray that no violent person shows up at our businesses or businesses we patronize, if it can happen there, it can happen wherever you are. This wasn’t a
New York City’s new law requiring job postings to have salary ranges went into effect earlier this month, and the response was stunning. Stunningly awful in many cases. CitiGroup, for instance, posted a job with a salary range of $0 – $2,000,000. This is a ridiculous case of a company
‘Worst onboarding experiences’ sounds like a great topic – one that would have lots of fabulous stories. So I asked my readers, expecting the responses to flood in. They didn’t. I got: “I started a new job, and IT hadn’t set up my computer yet,” and “the new
