Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 13, 2008

We have a situation in which an individual in the family was let go and given 6 months’ severance. This person presented a letter saying he had one year of severance in his contract. Since the company had been bought out, they responded that their severance offer superseded any previous offer. This employee was never notified of the change when the company was bought out, nor would he have agreed to go on with the new employer had the terms of his contract been changed to a six-month deal.

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Josh Bersin

AUGUST 29, 2008

I have to smile. Today I read an interview with Harry Debes, the CEO of Lawson Software, discussing why he thinks the SaaS (Software as a Service) model will fade and die. While I dont agree 100% with his discussion, I do agree with much of what he has to say. I also have lived. Read more» The post SaaS will never Kill Licensed Software appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 3, 2008

James Robertson of StepTwo posted his slides for a recent presentation entitled, Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration (with audio). Along with the tips, he includes some background around the ideas he presents. Nice. Ten tips for succeeding at collaboration [+ audio]. view presentation (tags: blogs sharepoint wikis openpublish08 ). Here are the enumerated tips (in American English :-).

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Reviewsnap

AUGUST 15, 2008

'MyBusinessBooks has just released our new Marketing Plan Manual! Writing a comprehensive and sound marketing plan can mean the difference between success and failure. The Marketing Plan Manual is a complete guide that includes all of the instructions, forms and templates needed to write the kind of plan that will help ensure high levels of success.

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Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

Transparent Office

AUGUST 12, 2008

A recent conversation with Brook Manville reminded me of a question that has been puzzling me for a while: Why don't philanthropic foundations think more about networks? The traditional philanthropic model revolves around money. Foundations have it, and nonprofits need it. So the foundations give it to the nonprofits in the form of a grant. There's a lot more to it, of course, but that's the basic idea.

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Josh Bersin

AUGUST 19, 2008

I just completed a series of interviews with three organizations going through the important, challenging, and time consuming process of implementing a new performance management system. In each case (a large healthcare provider, a global mining company, and a global call center operations company), the company is using the implementation of a performance management system.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 27, 2008

I attended a webinar by Marty Cagan of the Silicon Valley Product Group, where he discussed some a "top ten" elements from his new book, Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love. The webinar will be archived at the FeaturePlan website. He started out by reiterating the highlight of his webinar from March : The job of the product manager is to discover a product that is valuable , usable and feasible.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 23, 2008

People like to get their knickers all twisted up over discriminatory hiring practices. (And for the record, it's not illegal to discriminate in hiring; it's only illegal to discriminate based on certain protected classes. Certainly you can discriminate against idiots, if you would like. You can also discriminate against smart people, which I have known some bosses to do on the misguided theory that they'll look smarter if all their underlings are dumb.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 23, 2008

People like to get their knickers all twisted up over discriminatory hiring practices. (And for the record, it's not illegal to discriminate in hiring; it's only illegal to discriminate based on certain protected classes. Certainly you can discriminate against idiots, if you would like. You can also discriminate against smart people, which I have known some bosses to do on the misguided theory that they'll look smarter if all their underlings are dumb.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 12, 2008

The TOC Thinkers blog is in the middle of a series of articles on management and Theory of Constraints by Bryan Logan. The whole set is interesting (and long), but the 4th entry, NEW MANAGEMENT THINKING - Increasing Productivity , has a quote that amazes me every time I see it used in real life. Regrettably far too many executives remain firmly convinced that the only way to increase productivity is for their employees to work harder or faster.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 27, 2008

My issue is that I've recently had a conversation with my HR manager about what I believe to be an uncomfortable working environment. The talk made me feel better along with a few days off. However, a friend at work has informed me that some employees there were gossiping about who I am engage to. I told my HR manager and she apparently told my fiance's supervisor.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 27, 2008

My issue is that I've recently had a conversation with my HR manager about what I believe to be an uncomfortable working environment. The talk made me feel better along with a few days off. However, a friend at work has informed me that some employees there were gossiping about who I am engage to. I told my HR manager and she apparently told my fiance's supervisor.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 25, 2008

Knowledge management has been interesting to pharmaceutical companies for a long time. In the 1990's Monsanto and Novartis were well-known for their efforts at taking advantage of the intelligence of their people to come up with the next great innovation. Both companies were also looking for innovation across varied disciplines. Now the focus seems to be on stemming brain drain, moving scientists away from paper and enhancing the use of online tools.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 26, 2008

A friend pointed to this brief article in Business Week from 12 June 2008, May We Have Your Attention, Please? by Maggie Jackson. It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow. Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers set aside whatever they're doing and start something else—anything else. It could be answering the phone, checking e-mail, responding to an instant message, clicking over to YouTube (GOOG), or posting something amusing on Fa

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 21, 2008

Our friends over at Overlawyered write about the tale of a 63 year old woman who was terminated and then sued for age discrimination. Yawn. I know you are thinking that this is about the most boring post ever. (Well, there was one that had a heated discussion about armpits.) It's not. And the reason it's not boring is the company this woman is suing, for age discrimination is.drum roll please.the AARP.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 21, 2008

Our friends over at Overlawyered write about the tale of a 63 year old woman who was terminated and then sued for age discrimination. Yawn. I know you are thinking that this is about the most boring post ever. (Well, there was one that had a heated discussion about armpits.) It's not. And the reason it's not boring is the company this woman is suing, for age discrimination is.drum roll please.the AARP.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 21, 2008

Andrew Meyer has created the Project Management Excuse List. Have you ever sat in a status meeting and thought, "I've heard that excuse before, and that one and that one too."? He's created a nice list of excuses for why your project is late this time. And, as with similar lists, he suggests using the excuse number as a shortcut for your explanation.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 20, 2008

I'm an exempt, salaried employee. I've been in my position for a year. I recently learned that my employer has been using a full 8 hours of PTO for every full day I'm gone - regardless of whether I still managed to put in a full 40-hour work week. For example: I work 8 hours each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, am sick on Thursday, and work 8 hours each on Friday and Saturday.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 20, 2008

I'm an exempt, salaried employee. I've been in my position for a year. I recently learned that my employer has been using a full 8 hours of PTO for every full day I'm gone - regardless of whether I still managed to put in a full 40-hour work week. For example: I work 8 hours each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, am sick on Thursday, and work 8 hours each on Friday and Saturday.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 19, 2008

Tom Humbarger gave us some musings about similarities between Community Managers and Quarterbacks. Here are some of the things I did to build and grow the B2B niche Catalyze community (for professionals who design and define software) from 0 to over 4,000 members in 13 months - and things that define “Active Community Management”: Member communication.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 18, 2008

I just read some of the best advice ever, for someone in this situation. Hop on over to US News and read Ask A Manager's Alison Green's advice. For example: 2. Next, drop your ego some more, and go to your manager with your guard down. Tell her that you know she hasn't been happy with your performance and that you'd like her advice on how to improve.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 18, 2008

I just read some of the best advice ever, for someone in this situation. Hop on over to US News and read Ask A Manager's Alison Green's advice. For example: 2. Next, drop your ego some more, and go to your manager with your guard down. Tell her that you know she hasn't been happy with your performance and that you'd like her advice on how to improve.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 16, 2008

I found your blog through Punk Rock HR and love it. I check it everyday and feel not so alone in my HR-ness. I am hoping you can help me with an existential question about relocation. I'm not expecting you to make a decision for me as much as offer an opinion as someone who is not me or my spouse, who are no longer objective about this situation. About a month ago I decided it was time to start looking for some career opportunities that do not include my current employer.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 16, 2008

I found your blog through Punk Rock HR and love it. I check it everyday and feel not so alone in my HR-ness. I am hoping you can help me with an existential question about relocation. I'm not expecting you to make a decision for me as much as offer an opinion as someone who is not me or my spouse, who are no longer objective about this situation. About a month ago I decided it was time to start looking for some career opportunities that do not include my current employer.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 15, 2008

This is a salary rounding question. A non exempt is hired at a salary rate. The HR system contains an hourly rate since they are non exempt. The employee is given their merit raise of 5%. The merit raise paperwork they sign has only a percentage raise, say 5% and does not note any hourly or annual rate on it. This paperwork is signed by the employee and their management.

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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 15, 2008

This is a salary rounding question. A non exempt is hired at a salary rate. The HR system contains an hourly rate since they are non exempt. The employee is given their merit raise of 5%. The merit raise paperwork they sign has only a percentage raise, say 5% and does not note any hourly or annual rate on it. This paperwork is signed by the employee and their management.

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 14, 2008

Oh, pretty. Marcel Salathé has created a java applet that builds a network of your blog (or any other website) based on the internal HTML. I think the big "flowers" are the articles. What do the colors mean? blue : for links (the A tag) red : for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green : for the DIV tag violet : for images (the IMG tag) yellow : for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags) orange : for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags) black : the HTML tag, the r

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Knowledge Musings

AUGUST 14, 2008

Jens Poder has a great piece on productivity / multi tasking, Stop doing half-actions. One of the main productivity tips I have been given is this: eliminate half-actions in your daily habits. Focus on getting the job done to a level, where the value of the job is achieved. "It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement." - Shigeo Shingo.

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