Either tell your employees how you appreciate them or fire them. Strange? Not at all. Your employees deserve to know that you appreciate their hard work. And if you don’t appreciate their hard work, then why on earth are you paying them? Get rid of them. Oh wait, your
Devon Schuler is an airplane designer. He spends a great deal of time thinking about ways to improve flying and he loves sketching airplane designs. There is just one problem: Devon is only 9 and no one is paying him for his ideas. Since when has a lack
With job applications come job rejections. They are inevitable in a world were applicants outnumber available positions. It is frustrating and sometimes frightening and no one blames you for wanting to throw something at the wall when you get rejected yet again. And feel free to do so,
It’s flu season. And you know what that means: Not only might you get sick, but your whole office could get infected. That scenario should obviously be avoided, as sidelined employees can dig into your bottom line. How can you keep your employees in the pink? Here are
Dear Evil HR Lady, We had an employee we had to put on leave….he decided he was going to file unemployment he assumed he was fired. We never said anything about firing him. So we took him out of our system and the payroll service closed his file
You’ve worked hard. You’ve performed well, and your boss says, “Yes, you will be promoted during the next few months.” Whew! You’ve made it, right? What does that really mean? Well, first of all a caveat that every company is slightly different and your situation may, of course,
There is this guy at work who is always in a bad mood and rude. He says things to you like, “Shut up” or “You’re fired” but in a non-joking way. He is a colleague and not management. He gets away with that because it’s his “personality” and some
If you like routine and hate the unexpected, a low-stress job may be the way to go. It’s not all about the money, either. Many stressful jobs offer mediocre pay, while some more laid-back kinds of work provide good, steady income. But what jobs are likely to pile
Horizons Healthcare Services fired pregnant nurse Dreonna Breton for refusing a flu shot. Sounds harsh, right? But the flu is no laughing matter, and people who are receiving health services should expect to get better, not worse. The Center for Disease Controls (CDC) estimates that last year 381,000 Americans were hospitalized
