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Recently, Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show started a trend on Twitter with the hashtag, WorstSummerJob. The hashtag phenomenon took the world by storm, becoming the number one trending topic for 4 hours. While I can honestly say that I have never had a bad summer job, some of you can!
If you thought having a computer screen attached to your glasses means so-called “wearable technology” is 21st century, think again. Smithsonian magazine tells us that wearable technology was a phenomenon—in the 19th century!
Click through for the HR Strange But True articles from this week on the HR Daily Advisor.
Have you ever seen the Kia car commercials with the dancing hamsters? They look pretty innocent, but that is the exact opposite! One of those hamsters is actually a fraud!
Most casinos have strict antitheft policies. But a casino in Ohio carried its policy pretty far when taking a replacement for a cracked plastic cup ended up costing an employee his job.
Cases of workplace violence usually end up in a court, not start in a court! So it must have been backwards day in Orlando when a dispute turned into a scuffle in a courthouse hallway.
Reading excerpts from a deposition transcript of a famous Ponzi scheme is almost similar to reading a script for the sequel to Wolf of Wall Street. Except in this case, the protagonist is a lawyer, not a stockbroker!
According to the Illinois Employment Law Letter, a county is not responsible for an employee who tries to extort sexual favors in return for a job that does not exist. Felice Vanaria tried to do just that! He “created” a job within a Cook County hospital in the hopes of receiving sexual favors.
Would You Hire Jeopardy Star Julia Collins?
In the recently released “Equilar 100 CEO Pay Study,” an examination of the compensation of the CEOs of the top 100 public companies in the United States, the difference from the top paid to the bottom of the barrel was $78,399,999. Huh?