Improve Your HR

I was in Junior High in 1987. So, even though I’ve always been an evil genius, I wasn’t in HR yet. However, that didn’t stop me from getting the phone call from our company’s legal department. We were being sued. For what, I don’t know (I don’t ask–the

Where are all my presents? Hmmm, did you forget to send them? All right, it is my birthday (I’m 22 this year! Well, I look 22 anyway…) For my birthday I would like to start an HR Carnival. If any of you HR or Business types–or people who

Have you run into one? I have. One in particular was a fellow HR person. She would call me and scream and yell and tell me I wasn’t doing my job right. She was nasty. In fact, my whole department hated her–but the HR VPs thought she was

In honor of the holiday of love, go buy an I love Human Resources T-shirt. No, I’m not selling them. My t-shirts would be much different, which reminds me–I need to work on my campaign bumper sticker. Evil in 2010. To celebrate the Evil Family is trapped in

CNN Money has a list of the 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. My favorites so far– Number 3 In August, McDonald’s runs a promotional contest in Japan in which it gives away 10,000 Mickey D’s-branded MP3 players. The gadgets come preloaded with 10 songs – and, in some

Hi Evil HR lady, I was fired yesterday. The reason HR gave me was basically “It didn’t work out.” I was so shell-shocked at the time that I didn’t ask for a clearer explanation, but the real reason is that my supervisor and I had a personality conflict.

You think you know your co-workers, but do you really? Of course not. Most of us aren’t in jobs that require psych evaluations (although I could make a case that employee relations people really should go through such a thing–dealing with problems all day long can be quite

A friend sent me a link to an NPR interview with Annabelle Gurwitch, who has a new documentary out called Fired. The NPR interview is great. Best part his her advice to “not answer the phone” when HR calls. “They’re not calling to see if you want a

In January my job share partner and I did a ton of work on a huge project for people in a different department. (Still HR, but not my department.) It was complicated, technical and critical and everything went well. Yippee! The other department people were wonderful and worked