What is the most important relationship at the office? It just might be with your peers. Here are 6 ways to manage these sideways relationships and get ahead doing it. 6 Ways to Manage Sideways
Month: May 2011
What if you had unlimited paid vacation days? Would this be a good thing, or it would it just bring additional frustration, because who has time to take a day off work? What If You Had Unlimited Vacation?
Dear Evil HR Lady, There is a great job with a great company that I am interested in and well qualified for. I took a lot of time to customize my resume and cover letter and applied for the job three weeks back but haven’t heard anything. Unfortunately,
Nothing sells like sex. But, in the office, sex may lead to bigger problems than you bargained for. Sex in the Workplace
Are your employees not as engaged as you’d like them to be? Perhaps the rewards you’re offering leave much to be desired. Here’s what you’re doing wrong and how to fix it. Your “Rewards” Aren’t Appreciated By Your Employees
The internet is full of advice for making your resume better. People hire “experts” (who may or may not really be experts) to write and revise resumes. We fill them with key words so that we’ll get plucked out of obscurity by a computer. And what if all
Dear Evil HR Lady, I just got laid off. I had a signed agreement that the company reimburses tuition for grades of C or higher, but I’m in the middle of a class. Are they still required to pay it? What about relocation costs? My agreement was that
In the past few days I’ve had one person quote me without providing links back to the original article, and another take huge chunks of text (more than 50%) and print it on his blog. Both of these practices bug me. Now, I write with the hope that
My BNET Colleague, Penelope Trunk recently wrote a column titled Why Women Should Lie Even More Than They Do, in which she advised women to lie about everything from their height to their salary. She argues that lying just makes everything “fair.” It may have been a little
Dear Evil HR Lady, Quick and dirty version, we have a long term employee that is soooo cranky! She talks down to people, demeans them, and everyone, even the executive director is afraid of her. Her superior attitude shuts down all discussion and we are actually supposed to