Blog Profile / Evil HR Lady
| URL : | http://evilhrlady.blogspot.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Career & Jobs / Career Advice | |
| Posts on Regator: | 699 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.7 | |
| Archived Since: | June 7, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
What do your employees want for Christmas?
When you’re standing in the store trying to figure out holiday presents for you employees, stop vascillating between the desk calendars and the coffee mugs and figure out a way to get your employees what they really want. The people at Glassdoor have a new survey out on employees’ wishes. To find out, click here: What do [...]
I’m not sure if I’ve been fired
Dear Evil HR Lady, I was fired over the phone for what my supervisor is calling “an untruthful absence” for which I used vacation days for. They are now emailing me demanding that I come into the office at my scheduled start time and report to our General Manager once there. I don’t feel it [...]
Should parents get preference for the holidays?
Do you have to work on Christmas day? While we tend to think of it as a big vacation day for everyone, many, many people are still punching the clock. Hospitals, pharmacies, gas stations, airlines, restaurants, movie theaters and call centers all have people working while the rest of us are opening presents. But, even [...]
How much does it cost companies to lose employees?
Pop quiz: An average performing employee comes to you with evidence that he is underpaid by 5 percent. Your company’s budgets are already tight. He makes $50,000 a year. Should you: A. Offer a 1-2 percent raise; B. Offer nothing. In this economy he’s lucky to have a job; C. Offer a 5 percent raise; [...]
An EvilHRLady Newsletter!
I’ve gotten a few requests over the years for a newsletter, and I finally said, “Yes, that is a great idea!” The ever fabulous Laura Moore at Smallestdecisions.net set it all up for me. If you look to the right there is a place to sign up. Then, everything that I post here will end [...]
My boss has a secret– could it get me fired?
Dear Evil HR Lady, I work at a Fortune 500 company. I recently found a scanned document that indicated that my vice president (female) and a peer (male) were buying a house together. I sent an email to my peer, Dave, telling him I had found the real estate doc and he should get his [...]
What are the attendance rules if you’re sick?
Dear Evil HR Lady, I work in a small department of a very large company, and we have very strict paid-time off (PTO) rules and guidelines that I feel my manager applies to most, but not all, employees. There is an employee that has the same job title as I do, with the exact same [...]
Do you know what your references will say? True quotes from reference checks
Every time I write an article about reference checking I get a comment like this one: “This article is a waste. Nobody gives bad references – they are too afraid of being sued.” While it’s true that some people won’t give out references, many, many will.Allison & Taylor, a company which specializes in reference checking, helpfully provided [...]
Failed Entrepreneur? Hope lives for your job search
Dear Evil HR Lady, My mom is 50 years old and is on the verge of losing her second startup in 15 years. Both cases are due to her partners (different people) embezzling money and leaving the company in more debt than can be handled. She seems to have finally had enough of this [...]
How to bounce back after being fired
Dear Evil HR Lady, I worked for what I thought was a pretty good guy. He actually hired me. I had the job I always wanted in the industry that I loved. I managed a staff of 5 very talented individuals. Then one day, the tables turned. He was removed from one VP role he [...]
Famous by Friday–Free e-book offer
I got an email from Jim Breese offering me and my readers a free copy of his ebook. I like free, so I thought I’d share it. Here’s the info: I know that you are in the business of making people more effective in their work, and I bet that some of your younger clients [...]
Forced to Resign–A Rant
A few months ago I wrote this piece, Forced to resign: What are your options? in which I pointed out that no one can force you to resign. Because if you don’t resign, what are they going to do? Fire you? For some reason this concept is exceedingly difficult to swallow for people and I’ve gotten [...]
Why tracking employee hours is dumb
Dear Evil HR Lady, We have a part-time pastor at our church who is required to work 30 hours a week. He has signed a contract that states he only works 30 hour weeks. He is an “exempt” employee. He doesn’t tell the personnel people in our church when he is on vacation or when [...]
And the winner for Best Management Quote is
From James Robbins: Suzanne asked me to read through all of the entries for the Nine Minutes on Monday give-away contest. There were so many great quotes, and pieces of advice that it was really hard to pick one. The winning entry was from Christine. Here is what she wrote: My brother once told me [...]
How online job searches worsen the jobs crisis
If tens of thousands of people applied for one job, what are the odds that not a one would be qualified for the position? That’s not a theoretical question. Peter Cappelli, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, recently noted such a case after a company’s resume-screening system concluded that [...]
Why is my lazy coworker making the same as I am?
Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m responsible for a regional project (Project A) for one of our clients. There is another coordinator in charge of another project (Project B) for the same client. We both started out having basically the same amount of work and scope of responsibilities but our client decided to move most of [...]
What to do when an employee skips out early
Dear Evil HR Lady, We have an employee who periodically leaves early. When she does, she skips lunch and tells her supervisor an hour before she is leaving that she is leaving early and didn’t take lunch. While my answer would be to document this and issue a memo/warning, we are a small company. This [...]
Bad credit, criminal record? Time to apply for jobs!
Businesses aren’t doing background checks as frequently as they used to, according to a new SHRM survey. To read more click re: Bad credit, criminal record? Time to apply for jobs!
Why men get bigger pay hikes than women do
A new study in the journal Organization Science finds that when managers have to explain their pay-raise decisions to employees, they give more money to men than they do to women — even if the workers’ performance is equal. to read click here: Why men get bigger pay hikes than women do
Women hit hardest in the mancession’s mancovery
The Los Angeles Times is fretting over men leading the economic recovery. The paper reports: Even as women have moved up the economic ladder and outpaced men in earnings growth over the last decade, they are lagging behind in a crucial area — getting new jobs. Translation: Even though women are doing better in the workforce [...]