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Please get your Carnival of HR Submissions into info [AT] hromanager .com by October 30th. (That’s tomorrow!) The carnival will be posted Wednesday at HRO Manager.

Like most of your legions of fans, I was hoping for some advice. Review season is upon us at my anonymous law firm. I work for a section head and an associate. I have been with them for over a year and have implemented the following systems for

(hat tip Highly Trained Monkey)

Dear Evil HR Lady, I love your blog. I work for a small entertainment company (25 people). I was hired as a production manager, and was expecting to be mentored by the producer who hired me. Unfortunately, the company lost a bid and the expensive producer was the

Deb at 8 Hours & a Lunch and Kris, the HR Capitalist have been discussing Family Friendly workplaces. They both bring up great points about being employee friendly, rather than just “employee-with-small-children” friendly. I find myself agreeing with them. But, then I read Confessions of a Community College

This has nothing to do with HR (well, maybe the aspect of getting some lazy jerk to actually do work), but it amused me, so I’m sharing. The couple was stunned when they walked in the door to find the place ransacked, with many of their possessions scattered

Is up over at the HR Capitalist. It’s a baseball theme, so grab your bat and head on over. The next Carnival of HR will be held on Halloween and hosted by HRO Manager, so get your goblins in a row and send over a post.

Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been let go from a small community bank were I worked as a personal banker and I am not sure if I was fired or laid off. I loved my job and co-workers I never made “critical” clerical errors, never called in

Isn’t there a law or best practice on how to approach employees who prefer to speak their foreign tongue in the workplace in front of other employees who do not understand what they are saying? Grant it, the majority of our investors are foreign, however, the company is