Take away the Hollywood, glamour, and awards, and say you have two employees–we’ll call them Will and Chris. Chris makes a tasteless joke about Will’s wife, and Will slaps Chris. What do you do? I asked HR managers in my Evil HR Lady group what they would do. Let their
“Most of our employee base and potential employee base live paycheck to paycheck. Any increase in gas price cuts into their disposable income.” That statement comes from an Applebee’s Executive. It seems like it’s the beginning of a compassionate message, and, indeed, his email ends with this: “Do things
Job hunting is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing. Even in Australia. Lately, I’ve been hearing people be angry with companies for not hiring them after being dragged through multiple rounds of interviews. I’m a big fan of shortening the interview process, but you should know
Eluned Anderson received a rejection email from a job application. That part is normal. What isn’t normal is why the hiring manager rejected her. The email contained this explanation: It was decided that your strong Welsh accent, accompanied by your regional activities, would not suit the office environment. This is
Russia invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainian lives changed forever. Work had to stop, soldiers and civilians mobilized, people evacuated, and grandmas learned how to make Molotov cocktails with instructions from Google. If you’re living safely in the United States or anywhere outside Ukraine, it shouldn’t affect your work. Your employees should
I’ll tell you the truth: I’m tired of cultural fit. It seems to have evolved into this “let’s get around discrimination laws” thing. Yeah, I know some of it is valid. If everyone else in the company adores working in the office, hiring someone who hates the office
Business owners might have some smug satisfaction upon learning that, according to a Fox News Survey, 72 percent of employees who resigned during the ongoing great resignation have regrets. But you shouldn’t experience schadenfreude. Businesses should be examining their own hiring practices., as that is a clear contributor to
Way back in the dark ages of 2019, it was pretty obvious how you should pay people, and location was a big part of that decision calculus. Everyone understood that if you lived and worked in Silicon Valley, your salary would be higher than if you lived and
Yesterday, in most of North America, people lost an hour of their time. Unless you’re a person who goes to church or work on Sunday, the time change didn’t really hit you until you woke up this morning. Or, rather tried to wake up, because it’s freaking early. So, work from home
One of the purposes of good Human Resources is to prevent lawsuits. But your HR person and your employment attorney don’t follow you around all the time. So, business attorney Josh Joel, Counsel at Stanton Law, put together a list of phrases that often come out of managers’ mouths. When
