From Fat Doctor: PaniniFreak emailed me that the secretary at the high school where she teaches got a panicky call from a parent this afternoon. The mom wanted to know who would clear the freshly-fallen snow from her son’s windshield before he came home. I kid you not.
Hi Evil HR Lady, I am an exempt employee (recruiter/sales) and never get paid overtime. Our evil admin lady is a real clock watcher and wants to deduct from our sick and or vacation time anytime we are out of the office “unaccounted for”. For example one day
I came across your website this morning and I think it’s great! I have a very complicated question that I’m hoping you can help me with or at least point me in the right direction to get my answer. It’s a little complicated, but here it goes…. About
Dear Evil HR Lady I know that you’re evil. You work in HR and you even mention it in your name. But still, I think you’re the person who could give me some precious advice. I’ve been working in HR for almost 10 years and am looking for
I got sent a question about interviewing a potential HRIS manager. I punted to Evil HRIS Guy and he answered, in part: Have you any experience with outsourcing, or dealing with a SaaS vendor? Chances are your senior management is going to read a trade rag or buy
I am an HR manager for a retail outlet. In the last year our company has gone through management changes. When I originally started there was a CEO, Controller, three District Managers, a VP, and Office Manager and three accounting personnel. In August of last year, they hired
I’ve worked as a wholesaler (employee benefit specialist) most of my career and came over to the retail side simply because I didn’t like what “so-called” benefit consultants were doing to their clients (i.e. HR professionals like yourself) or not doing. I believe I can do a better
I work at a relatively small financial institution in a large city. My division is running a month-long promotion to attract new customers. My boss has pretty much being signing off on all the promotional materials we will be needing from our design department. I haven’t been allowed
Just found your blog and have a question you can post 😉 So I took a job recently and was 6-7 weeks pregnant and didn’t reveal it until 13 weeks. I wonder how that is perceived in the industry from an HR perspective…. I wouldn’t ever reveal a
My office has a serious dress code interpretation problem. Business casual is taken to mean 1 step above how you would dress to go to Wal-mart at midnight. The dress code was lax and poorly enforced long before I was hired. My problem is when there is a
