“Do you have pictures of your daughter in her new school uniform?” When a woman asked this question, it was fine. When a 44-year-old man asked, he got fired. And just about everyone at r/legaladviceUK agrees it was right to fire him because it was super creepy. But
Evil HR Lady turns 20 this year, and I wanted to celebrate with something a little more fun than cake. So I’m inviting you to a murder. On Tuesday, October 6, at 12:00 pm Eastern, join me and the team at Vortex Events for a live-hosted comedy murder
Your business depends on getting quality employees into the right roles, and sometimes your biggest barrier to that is your managers. A Reddit post on r/recruitinghell shared a story of a job interview where the hiring manager damaged the company’s reputation. Redditor ghosteagle shares how he was in
Saturday morning, I was on a train from Basel, Switzerland, to Bern, and the sun was at just the right level to blind me, so I pulled the shade down. At the first stop, a woman got on, sat down across from me, and immediately raised the window
I heard you. Out Front HR is a conference for the HR people who support shift workers. But when I announced it, the free ticket only let you attend live. That doesn’t make much sense if you’re covering a shift, dealing with a staffing emergency, or simply can’t
HR is a white-collar function trying to manage a blue-collar workforce. This isn’t to say there aren’t white-collar workforces, but 80 percent of employees are frontline workers, and when HR is focused on a laptop-driven world, we know it won’t work in the warehouse. HR needs to be
The internet is having a meltdown over a recruiter’s advice: Don’t bring an iced coffee to a job interview. A TikToker called Caitlin Recruiter posted this TikTok warning Gen Z applicants to skip Starbucks on their way to their job interviews. Caitlin explains: “When you show up with
I was at a social event with a manager, “John,” who told me what he thought was a “funny” story. The story was about a former employee–who had been gone for almost a year. She had come to him to complain about coworkers who were using slurs around
Dear Evil HR Lady, I started my current job in April. When I accepted the job, I had a hard time deciding between it and another offer from a similar company. The deciding factor was that I really liked the manager of the group I was interviewing with
Whew! Compliance training is finished. Everyone knows precisely what they are supposed to do, and HR can breathe a sigh of relief until next year when you need to run the training again. But we all know that training isn’t enough. You have to reinforce the training, and
