Dear Evil HR Lady, SO glad I stumbled across your website, as I need some direction. 5 years ago and fresh out of college, I got a DUI. I did not learn my lesson, because in March of 2006, I got a second after happy hour w/ a
From the Houston Chronicle: CHICAGO — Anything made by McDonald’s tastes better, preschoolers said in a study that powerfully demonstrates how advertising can trick the taste buds of young children. Even carrots, milk and apple juice tasted better to the kids if it was wrapped in the familiar
Giant Lego Man Found in Dutch Sea I keep trying to come up with some HR related thing to say about it. I keep failing.
Is up over at Compensation Force. Since it’s the 13th Carnival, Ann has managed to get exactly 13 posts and talks about being either lucky or unlucky. Do you think it is just coincidence that Satan’s new training brochure came out at the same time as the 13th
You knew Satan runs a training company, right? Well, his fall brochure is out. Fortunately, our friend, The Cranky Middle Manager has posted a copy. I think I’ll take this class: 3. Communicating With Difficult People- How to Avoid It What you’ll learn: Business is full of people
We’re thinking of having one of our secretaries handle the internal/desk top support for our office. We are a small firm that pays a quarterly consulting fee to an IT firm. The secretary’s time would be split 50/50 between IT and secretary. The secretary would be responsible for
My previous post on salary history generated several comments, two of which are below (both by anonymous posters, by the way). What planet do you live on?? In a perfect world, people’s salaries increase with responsibility. In the REAL world, however, people’s salaries can stay the same or
Hi Evil HR Lady, I need your help! This will be the first year my company uses SMART approach to do the performance management. As a manager, I am supposed to set up measurable objectives for my subordinates. It’s not a problem for me to set up measurable