The Workplace Professor Blog brought a fabulous new way to label a termination to my attention: To Upgrade. As you’ve been upgraded immediately so you can go get a new job. Seriously. Come on, people, this is an embarrassment to a grim reaper like me.
Phillis Dewitt was fired from her job as a nurse. The hospital maintains it was due to insubordination. Dewitt claims it was because her husband was dying of prostate cancer and costing the hospital a boatload in insurance claims. Obviously, I wasn’t involved in any termination discussions, but
Hey, everyone, our favorite Ask-a-Manager is up for the Best Business Blog award for 2008. Go here and vote for her. You can vote once every 24 hours. She’s awesome. And I’m not even jealous that she’s a finalist and I’m not.
I work as an administrator for an accounting firm. Each December we seem to be understaffed due to vacation time to handle year end and month end client responsibilities. We are working to create a restricted vacation policy for the period of 12/15 through year end. There is
I work at a small company that has been struggling for a long time now. A couple years ago the I was faced with a choice. Get paid under the table, accept a 25% pay cut, and lose health insurance or lose my job. I chose to become
The latest Carnival of HR is up over at The Career Encourager.
I checked my site stats and found this:I’m not sure what I think of that.
Two thoughts on Holiday Parties: One from the lawyers and one from HR. I hate work holiday parties. Unless they are during lunch and involve good food. (Good food can be pizza, as long as it’s not ordered from the company cafeteria.)
I may have hinted a few times that I know a thing or two about layoffs. This would be true. I do. In fact, if you see me coming, it’s best to start packing up your things right now because it will save us all hassle later on.
A long-time employee went out on sick leave a couple of months ago, and has recently expressed the intention of remaining on leave for the next six months. The person is genuinely unable to work and has indicated informally that a return to the workforce is unlikely even
