The Evil family just got back from a fabulous Canadian vacation. We spent most of our time in Ottawa, which is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Queen Victoria making Ottawa the capital of Canada. (It was an utterly fantastic city, by the way. I highly recommend it.) We
Scenario 1: A high performing department manager walks into your office. She has been highly successful at turning a low performing group into a high performing group. In the past 3 years, she has won two awards for her work. Senior management is highly impressed with her and
The Next Carnival of HR will be held September 5th over at Fortify Your Oasis. Click on the above link because it is truly worth it. What would we do without Rowan? Entries to rowan dot manahan at gee mail dot com by 6.00pm GMT on Monday folks.
Miss South Carolina was on the Today Show and re-answered the question given her at Friday’s pageant. Since I posted the video of her first answer, I think it’s only fair to post the video of the second one. She seemed quite well spoken and did a great
I live in a really good (read: high taxes) school district. We’ve lived here for 7 years, and specifically bought the house we are in now to be in this school district. It came at a premium, but we were willing to pay it to be in a
I’ve had to turn on the word verification. I hate the word verification. But, I’m spending more and more time deleting spam comments. Hopefully this will help. And now a word for my spammers. You aren’t very bright with your spam. Your grammar is terrible. And, furthermore, every
In response to the YouTube video about demographic changes, Michael Moore (the lawyer, not the other Michael Moore) posted a link to this video about the upcoming labor shortage. I thought it was very good and should be seen, but I wasn’t planning to blog about it, until
Dear Evil HR Lady: I just discovered your site, and it really is great! And as fate would have it I now have an evil HR question. My employer recently implemented an ERP system and took the occasion of scrapping all the existing HR data as an opportunity
This video is long, but very interesting. I wonder if any of us HR types are truly prepared for a changing workforce.
Is now up over at Three Star Leadership. Hope on over and read. The September 5th Carnival will be hosted by Rowan Manahan at Fortify Your Oasis. The September 19th Carnival will be hosted by Evil HR Lady at, well, Evil HR Lady. The October 3rd Carnival will
