Your HR Daily Advisor peers have spoken! Here is a list of the top 9 most popular HR Daily Advisor articles so far this year: HR Strange But True Edition. Click on the links below for your must-read articles
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Trick or Treat: Employee Hands Out Pot Brownies to EmployeesWe’ve covered a fair share of office pranks. The lighter ones usually involve a desk object, like a coffee mug glued to the desk, but others are more extreme and can get employees into serious trouble—faking a robbery, using a taser on colleagues, etc.
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What’s the Strangest Thing You’ve Seen at Work?If you’ve worked long enough, you’re bound to have a few strange but true stories about the workplace. From outrageous interviews to shocking coworker behavior to audacious exits, we’ve heard many over the years. Here are a few readers’ stories:
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Oops, I Didn’t Mean to Attach ThatTIf you are, or ever have been, in charge of hiring employees, you have probably seen your fair share of résumé bloopers. We’ve heard a few stories from our readers about confusing cover letters to disastrous spelling mistakes. Usually, culprits keep the mistakes to themselves. However, one woman has broken the norm and received national attention for making her résumé mishap public.
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The Quesadilla ClaimA T.G.I. Friday’s® (TGIF) waiter, “Russell,” was encouraged, but not required, by his employer to sample new menu items, so that he could make recommendations to customers. During a food sampling, the waiter choked while eating a quesadilla.
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What’s Leaving Work Early Really Worth?A New Hampshire worker with girlfriend problems wanted to leave work early after one of her texts made him anxious. But was his idea to get out before the shift change worth a potential $250,000 fine and up to a life term in a federal prison?
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Birthday LuckMove over horoscopes, birthdays have a new prophetic power. According to a recent study, “The relative-age effect and career success: Evidence from corporate CEOs,” the month you were born in has a “long-lasting influence on career success.”
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110-Year-Old’s VA Pension IncreasesA 110-year-old woman had been receiving a $36 monthly pension for her husband’s military service. Her husband, a WWI veteran, had died in the 1970s.
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Survey Ranks Worst Workplace Distractions that Defy Dress Codes, Grooming PoliciesDigital media company Captivate Network has issued its latest “Office Pulse Report” on white-collar office worker behavior, and results show that office attire and grooming can be a major distraction for some employees—especially short skits, tight clothes, cleavage, tattoos, bare legs—and the inevitable flip-flops.
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