Is up over at the HR Capitalist. It’s a baseball theme, so grab your bat and head on over. The next Carnival of HR will be held on Halloween and hosted by HRO Manager, so get your goblins in a row and send over a post.
Month: October 2007
Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been let go from a small community bank were I worked as a personal banker and I am not sure if I was fired or laid off. I loved my job and co-workers I never made “critical” clerical errors, never called in
Isn’t there a law or best practice on how to approach employees who prefer to speak their foreign tongue in the workplace in front of other employees who do not understand what they are saying? Grant it, the majority of our investors are foreign, however, the company is
I work for an organization that runs two professional minor sports teams and so I have a question about exempt vs non-exempt. I have searched for information, but sports entertainment doesn’t pop up in the discussions. Most of our staff is labeled exempt by the organization including our
My question is two fold… Can someone get fired for dating a coworker? If an employer has GPS technology on company vehicles and the company policy is that company vehicles are for business use only, to what extent can the employer go if someone used the vehicle for
One of the jobs of HR is to understand the business. This means we need to understand what people do all day. Here some videos to help you understand. Anesthetists Moms Teachers
Dear Evil HR lady, I’ve been reading your blog for a few months, and feel like you give honest, straightforward answers, so hopefully you can help me understand my HR department’s strategy. I have learned that our HR department has been looking at company turnover. I realize that
I am the HR Specialist in an office of about 50. Most of us have been here for years. In March a new company took over our office however, the only thing that changed was the boss. He is an expert in our line of work but has
In my experience, the biggest conflicts I’ve seen in departments are due to a diverse set of personalities, not differences in race, gender and age. For example, Bob is a 8 to 5 type of a guy. You could set your watch by his comings and goings. He
Hi Evil HR Lady, I just found your blog, and it’s great. I’m writing because I am considering a career switch into HR. I’d love to focus on employee relations and helping to create work environments that are supportive, intellectually stimulating, and high achieving. The negative-nancy part of