Improve Your HR

I was reading Confessions of a Community College Dean and this struck me: I learned this week that The Boy ‘s kindergarten class breaks up every few days for different reading levels, with TB and a few of his friends staying in their classroom while most of the

I’m going to criticize a professional advice columnist again. Here’s the letter in today’s Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY: I am writing on behalf of my friends at work. We have a co-worker, “Madge,” who had a stillborn baby last year. It was tragic. Our problem is, she keeps

I didn’t watch the Super Bowl. In fact, I didn’t even know who was playing until last night. But, I did manage to catch this commercial:Ha! It applies to your job as well. Make sure you have marketable skills up to date. This is especially important for people

A whole bunch of people are going to get their rear ends fired–not laid off, I hope–but fired. And I hope they start with whoever the top person is that approved this stunt all the way down to the admin who knew about it but didn’t do anything

While cleaning the greasy gunk out of the crevices of my stove, I had an epiphany: The reason HR is so female heavy is that HR fills that motherly role in the business. Some examples. Mom: Has to clean up messes made by other people.HR: Has to clean

Another thought on liability from Fortune: In today’s Sarbanes-Oxley world, the chief financial officer post – once a finishing school for future CEOs – has become the crummiest gig in the corporate suite. Combine the workload necessary to comply with the controversial 2002 legislation and the knowledge that

Did you know you can be held legally responsible for things in your professional life? Ahh, ’tis true. Granted, doctors are aware of this–they carry malpractice insurance. So, do other professions. Do you? I don’t. (So don’t bother suing me–you may win a judgment but all I’ll be

One of my employee relations colleagues informed me that she can’t help it–she just sees all managers as walking lawsuits. I laughed along with her, but it’s really not funny. Managers do stupid things all the time–ask wrong questions in job interviews (Do you have children? You do?

Dear Evil HR Lady I have a question about firing people. Let’s say that someone is being fired for siphoning off company client lists and selling them to a major competitor. We obviously are going to fire the person, but we want to get as much information from