After working in HR for 30 years, I was told today that I was “too aggressive” and that I came across as if I had an agenda. I have never had someone say this to me before — I have been told to speak up more and be
I’ve worked under the “Evil HR Lady” brand since 2006. On Tuesday, I changed it to “Improve Your HR.“ Evil HR Lady was a solid brand name with good recognition. I still think it’s funny, and I’m very glad I chose it when I started blogging about HR back in the
Something horrible happened recently at a Wells Fargo office. A woman, Denise Prudhomme, died and nobody noticed. Headlines emphasize that no one noticed for four days, but keep in mind that includes a weekend. If Prudhomme died at the end of the day on Friday, it was really only on Monday that people
Oh, no! Is it possible that presidential hopeful Vice President Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonald’s? The Washington Free Beacon breathlessly points out that saying, “Would you like fries with that?” wasn’t on her resume, even one year after graduating from college! Admittedly, I’m not doing a fact-check on this.
Is it just me or are you surrounded by narcissists? We aren’t diagnosing anyone, not even my, uhhh, your ex. We’re HR. We don’t diagnose, but narcissistic traits are on the rise. I’m not joking about the increase in people who demonstrate narcissistic traits (see how I didn’t
“The days of feeling guilty for taking a sick day will soon be over.” This is according to Danielle Farage, an expert on Gen Z. And over at Business Insider, Emily Stewart recently explored a related idea–that sick days are actually about setting boundaries–although she cautions against taking too many days off. But here again, an increase in sick days
A judge in Texas just blocked the FTC’s new noncompete rule, which was set to go into effect on September 4. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s ban “is arbitrary and capricious because it is unreasonably overbroad without a reasonable explanation.” What
My boss, Rudolph, is micromanaging me. Rudolph wants to read emails before I send them out, view my schedule, sit in on meetings and send him a list of what I do each day. I can hardly function like this. How do I handle a micromanaging boss? To
Surveys show bad behavior when it comes to job hunting. A survey of over 1400 Gen Zers showed abundant reliance on parents for their job search. For instance, the survey showed: 25 percent brought their parents to interviews 70 percent asked their parents for help with job hunting Out
Starbucks is obviously a place where you need to come into work. You can’t make a frappe from your home office. Of course, people who work in the corporate offices aren’t handing out beverages with misspelled names on them and so can do their jobs remotely –approximately twice per week. The