Improve Your HR

Okay, this post is about being a slacker. Or, more specifically, I am a slacker. I didn’t get the Carnival of HR posted yesterday. And I’m off to work in a few minutes and I don’t blog from work. (No use getting fired!) So, think of this as

  I don’t know what happened to my picture yesterday. I’m trying again—because it really is a funny picture. Poor Offspring.

Hi – I have a question. I was called in to interview for a position as Office Manager and offered the job. (I had previously worked at this office years ago and they contacted me.) The office manager at the time was going to semi retire for a

Slate.com gives this headline: The Theory of the Leisure ClassAn economic mystery: Why do the poor seem to have more free time than the rich? Ummm, let’s see. Because, perhaps, maybe, there is a cause and effect relationship going on here. If I spend more time working then

Hello, I am new to this board but love your site. My question is: An applicant applied for a job that we had posted and we did not screen her in for an interview because we know that she was fired from her previous position for lack of

For me, it’s food. Just kidding, although food is nice. Penelope Trunk at the Brazen Careerist, posted a video blog by Bruce Tulgan regarding employee requests. He tells a fabulous story about an absurd request for different cubicle furniture. Why is that our first reaction when someone asks

Another blogger posted his thoughts about people who consider their employment a profession verses those who think of it as a job. He got pretty seriously blasted and ended up deleting the post (just when I was planning to link to it, curse him!). To respect his decision,

Harvard is doubling the available money to pay doctors who teach. I would have thought they were making enough money as is, but it turns out that even for doctors, teaching is not terribly lucrative. Some doctors are only getting $30 an hour for teaching. Now, if you