Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
I need to know where I stand with this issue. I was offered a job with a company, they sent me an offer letter, I accepted. I passed the tox screen test and the background check. I was to start on Monday 1/28/08. They called me yesterday, the HR director and told me that the he would need to rescind the offer letter due to the position is going away.
Josh Bersin
FEBRUARY 27, 2008
Last week I spoke with some of the business and HR leaders at Freeport McMoRan, one of the nation’s largest producers of copper, gold, and molybdinum. This company, which recently acquired Phelps Dodge, produces over 4 billion lbs. of copper each year, from its mines in North America, Indonesia, Chile, and Peru. The company generates. Read more» The post Performance Management Creates Agility in Copper Mining appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.
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Strategic HCM
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
Following my own post on the need to redesign performance management ( music not measurement ), TalentQ research suggesting that bad appraisals could be costing Britain's economy in the region of £2.29 billion a year. Evidence based management campaigner Bob Sutton suggests that “the performance evaluation process is fundamentally flawed fundamentally flawed.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 20, 2008
Knowledge is weightless - so it ought to exhibit a low carbon footprint, right? Well perhaps not, if you have to travel widely to gain or impart knowledge. Tacit knowledge, in particular, is not something that you can just download from the Web. In my younger days as a computer analyst and sales person in the 1970s, I would think nothing of hopping on a plane, often more than once a week, for meetings in Geneva, Munich, Paris or even shorter hauls like London to Manchester.
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Transparent Office
FEBRUARY 16, 2008
Transparent Office Michael Idinopuloss Blog on Social Software in the Enterprise Home Archives Subscribe « Supply and demand 2.0 | Main | McKinsey on Informal Networks » February 16, 2008 A Moment of Clarity I do my best thinking when Im talking. That may sound funny, but its true. When I write, I tend to overthink the issues and get ahead of myself.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 28, 2008
Susan Heathfield , shares a story of a clueless candidate she interviewed. (He listed his wife as a reference--depending on who did the dishes the previous night, that reference may or may not have been positive.) She asks for additional stories about bad interviews. I think there are equally frightening stories from the worker's side of the table. Once, an interviewer asked me, "Do you need health insurance?
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
I've just been reading an interesting article in Time Magazine by former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer (and before that Energy Minister), Nigel Lawson, entitled Darkness Looms. In it, he argues that all our concerns about getting environmentally-friendly energy sources come up against the practicalities of an energy short-fall in the coming decades.
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
This is the hardest e-mail, esp. to a stranger, and I'll bet the oddest one you've received. I am a veteran with 13 yrs. served in the Air Force. I was injured in Desert Storm and medically discharged. Here lies the problem, my doctors told me I talk as if I'm drunk or high on something. My question is this; should I tell potential employers before an interview about this affliction?
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 21, 2008
As a former political scientist (yes, yes, after years of recovery I can finally say it in public that I voluntarily studied politics, which all of us now strive to avoid, but can’t because any time you turn on the radio, television or happen to glance at a newspaper, presidential candidates are shrieking out at you to vote for him or her or somebody other than that [insert evil opponent of choice]), one would think that I would be writing about the big news of yesterday: The Teamsters just endo
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
My co-worker, a peer has accused me of not doing my job, leaving early and skipping assignments. (NOT TRUE) He pulled me aside at work to accuse me of these things and did not tell management. He did say all of my other co-workers agreed with him that I was not "pulling my weight". Is this a form of harassment? He did not threaten to tell management, was just letting me know. but I feel like this is a scare tactic to get me to quit, or some sort of other targeting ploy to harass me.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 18, 2008
Two recent things prompted me to address this topic. One is for a voluntary organisation I work for where one of our supporters would like our volunteers (people like me) to become accredited advisors. After all we would "tick all the boxes". However, since there is no demand from our beneficiaries (out of work managers and professionals who we help) and to become accrediated would cost us the equivalent of year's rent of the premises we use, I question its value.
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 17, 2008
I was in a locker room, getting changed when a woman asked the above question. Someone offered a cough drop. "No," she said, "I'm diabetic and I'm starting to feel shaky." Well, everyone went into overdrive. One of the staff managed to pull out a bottle of juice they keep on hand for just such an emergency. I offered her a nutri-grain bar that I had in my purse.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
I happened to be doing a search on Google yesterday, found a link I was interested in, and lo and behold - up pops a page of my book ( Knowledge Networking ) from Google Books. Two opposite immediate thoughts came to mind: 1. Why should people be able to read my book for free and deprive me of roylaties? 2. That's nice - I know it's difficult to get hold of now - so at least others can read it.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
I get more questions about DUIs, public drunkenness and other similar problems than anything else. I'm not an expert in this area and I think I've pretty much said all that there is to say about it. As such, I'm not going to answer any more questions regarding "oh no, I have a DUI! Do I have to tell a prospective employer?" unless it's a really interesting question that will cause tons of people to link to me, thus increasing my hit count.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
While updating my research for an update supplement to the report Public Sector - Public Knowledge I came across the Ideopolis research programme of the Work Foundation (see this report ). It draws on the term coined by two US commentators - John Judis and Ruy Teixeira (see WordSpy for citations) in 2002 - to describe a knowledge-city region. The idea is that a city which is knowledge-intensive (e.g. more than around 25% of workers in knowledge intensive jobs) will act as an economic powerhouse
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
Hmmm, after watching a few reality shows, I know I wouldn't eat live bugs, or live on some island without indoor plumbing, while competing with other people who don't even own toothbrushes. No, $140,000 isn't worth that to me. (You, of course, may be willing to eat buckets of cockroaches for the same amount of money. To each his own.) Would you be willing, however to give up you job?
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
I got tagged by William the Coroner. I normally don't play tag, but he said I was "hysterical." I am assuming he means that as "funny" and not as "some freaky crazy lady". Since I'm a sucker for compliments, I'll play his silly game, which is to list 6 habits/quirks/things about me and tag others. I draw the line at tagging others, but I'll list 6 quirks. 1.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
I finished my BA back in October 2006 and received it in Human Resources Management. I haven’t worked since but am contemplating it now. I know that while I have the degree I lack real world experience and as such have been looking for an entry level HR job with moderate success. My question though goes to education. My friends and family have encouraged me to begin looking at getting my Masters degree.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
What use is a blog that has only two postings - both dated 2004? Not a lot, you say - and I agree. One of my 2008 New Year resolutions was to blog more regularly, and here mid-February I am just starting to act on it. 2008 is also the year when I bring my website up to date, probably for the last time before full retirement. It's still a major resource for many KM practitioners and students around the world and has had several new items of content added over the last year - see What's New.
Knowledge Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2008
In fact, I published more than I thought - too much easily to move across. So follow this link for a number of postings, including: Knowledge is neutral Quick Thinking = Bad Knowledge The Power of Visualization Knowledge Fatigue Enjoy!
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 12, 2008
I took an entry level position in customer service at an inbound call center (inbound! not evil! well, mostly) a couple years ago, and have gradually been broadening my experience. I've taken classes at the local college and accepted every opportunity for job-related training. I transferred departments at the beginning of last year with a pay raise, but was still considered to be at basically the same rank.
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
Most recently I switched jobs due to an enticing “creative & leadership” role and have been there for 3 months. Upon starting, I was asked to complete a presentation for my manager and “higher-ups”. I did a rough draft, presented it to manager and explained that I was planning to transition this into a more formal document. She told me to leave the document as is.
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
I am currently on Short Term Disability for birth of my baby for 6 weeks. I have arranged to take 6 more weeks after that--FMLA. The company and department annual review period and increases fall during the time frame I will be out. My manager e-mailed me that my review and increase will occur after I return to work and will not be retroactive. I was wondering if this is typical and/or legal?
Transparent Office
FEBRUARY 8, 2008
Transparent Office Michael Idinopuloss Blog on Social Software in the Enterprise Home Archives Subscribe « Email overload: what went wrong? | Main | Supply and demand 2.0 » January 22, 2008 McAfee on Widening the Flow HBSs Andrew McAfee recently blogged on " widening the flow " Building on my distinction between in-the-flow and above-the-flow , McAfee argues eloquently that the organizational benefit of Enterprise 2.0 depends largely on organizations bringing more of their
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 5, 2008
I'm in California, in a mortgage company. Can I require employees to pay to use Funding Suite, a tool to run credit for clients? They are abusing the right. The bill is way out of hand. What can I legally do. Legally, I have no idea. I am not a lawyer. I don't work in California. I don't want to be a lawyer (although I did score in the 95th percentile on a practice LSAT).
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Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 4, 2008
Bootstrapper just put together a list of the top 100 articles every HR person should read. I haven't had enough time to read many of them yet, but there seems to be a lot of good info out there. Go check it out!
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 2, 2008
I was dismissed from a job. I've been applying to other businesses and just found out that when someone calls this company to verify employment, etc., they say that I was dismissed. Why does that seem wrong/unfair? Or am I being a baby about this? There are two sides to every story but no one wants to hear this garbage. Just out of curiosity, what did you expect them to say?
Evil HR Lady
FEBRUARY 2, 2008
I am a manager of a very small, service oriented company(20 employees). I was promoted 3 years ago to my current position from the bookkeeper's position. I came with no previous HR experience, training or college degree. I have learned what I do know, right or wrong, by researching. I cant seem to find the answer to this question though. Do employees HAVE to take a 1/2 hr break after 7.5 hours of work, or do we just have to allow them to.
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