Category: advice

Can you help me? If an employer wants to rehire an employee who had quit and had given written 2 weeks notice but did not comply with finishing the two weeks. Can the employer rehire this employee even if the employee had not completed the resignation agreement as

I have an HR person (probably not evil) insisting that I must provide my salary at each previous employer so they can do a background check before I start. This is all after I’ve already accepted a written job offer (they asked me to complete an application at

Hi, I am Working in an Electronics Security Company as HR Executive. I was in need of new Hirings and tried, Local Consultancies, Newspaper Advertisements, Campus Interviews, Referals and still didn’t get a Quality Staff. (My Product is a Construction Magazine that is Market Leader in South and

Hi, HRLady, After reading the last entry in your blog, I start wondering what would be your take on my current situation, so here goes a question for you. I’m working as a contractor for a 100 Fortune company in the US, while I wait for my greencard

Dear Evil HR Lady, In the past, I have been frustrated with the silly, inane, irrelevant, and insulting questions that some of your HR brethren throw at me. It is almost as if interviews are a game to them and I am a performing chimp, wearing a silly

Hi The email id is sure a misnomer..having followed your blog for many months now, I have to admit, it has completely altered my image of the work done by HR professionals. Often enough, we as employees feel that the sole job of the HR department is to

I just started with a small nonprofit organization and one of my tasks is to look at their classifications. The former COO had a soft heart and wanted everyone to be treated equally. Thus, she classified every employee as Exempt. Now I need to go in and make

Hi Evil HR Lady! I have a question for you: I am an exempt employee traveling to Australia from CA next week for a conference. The conference starts on a Saturday and goes through Wednesday of the same week. This means I will have to work Saturday and

I live in a major metropolitan city and am currently drastically underpaid, so much so that over the past year I have worked up to 4 jobs at a time. Clearly, this is no way to live a life and short changes my career which I love. I’ve