It always amazes me when the career advice offered by so-called experts could be really funny if it weren’t so off the mark.
Take this example from Yahoo Finance’s “Brazen Careerist”. What is this woman thinking exactly? Among her suggestions is taking time off without first getting approval, keeping your headphones on [...]
According to this article in Wired, nearly 10 percent of companies have fired employees for violating company rules while blogging. Another 19 percent have disciplined employees for similar infractions.
Goes back to what I always say, making it clear to employees what is and isn’t acceptable in terms of what is communicated about the company [...]
when they really are after you.
And while I feel that employees should spend their time at work working, I don’t feel that companies should be monitoring what employees are doing outside of work, provided that they are not disparaging the company in any way.
This company apparently doesn’t agree. [...]
And just when we thought that it couldn’t get any worse than the Radio Shack situation, there’s always further down to go.
According to a “non-scientific” survey reported by MSNBC, 14% of the men polled and 11% of the women polled stated that they would fire someone via IM (with an emoticon of course).
Oy.
(Thanks [...]
I found this to be really interesting from an HR point of view. [via laughingsquid.com]
According to San Francisco Chronicle’s Matier and Ross, an employee has lodged a complaint that her supervisor retaliated against her because she would not act as a surrogate and carry a fetus for her supervisor. The kick is this allegedly took place at the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board! And the employee [...]
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