Bad News for HR—Get Ready to Change the Name of Your Department
Throw out the employee handbooks and get out the mechanical manuals—your future employees may not be human!
Category: HR Strange But True
Catch up on the latest odd, offbeat, and humorous HR stories.
Goin’ Negative—Didn’t Your Mother Tell You that If You Can’t Say Something Nice About Someone …
You know about employment policies: You can have them in place, but that doesn’t mean all your employees will follow them—even employees in the human resources department!
Their Résumés May Be Thin, but These Applicants Are Heavyweights
These applicants may have some gaps in their résumés, but their skill sets, interpersonal and management skills, versatility, and ability to multitask are awesome. Who could they be?
Working at This Innovative Company Is Really a Trip
An innovative company in San Francisco not only has a unique way of securing new products but also an out-of-the-box way to get its employees carried away—literally.
You All Fail, and I Quit!
College is meant to be a time of exploration and learning, not a time for backstabbing, cheating, and bad behavior. Those are traits you’re supposed to leave behind … in middle school!
That Woman on the Restroom Door—Who Is She Really?
Maybe you’ve never thought about those traditional restroom icons—the man in the pants and the woman in the skirt—but they are actually a hot topic in today’s workplace. These traditional icons not only leave out transgendered employees but they are also seen as depicting women in a stereotypical way by using the skirt as a […]
Fired BEFORE You Start Your New Job … It’s Not the First Time, Either!
Imagine going through the application process, then the interviews, and finally learning that you got the job, only to be fired from it before you even start working!
Millennial Gets ‘Big Shot’ At Unusual Career
A well-grounded psychology major with a degree caught the attention of executives for some unusual skills she possessed (that aren’t mentioned in O*NET) and was offered a “huge opportunity,” she told the Hartford Courant. But why did the newspaper interview her? Her job is being a human cannonball for the circus!
Cities With The Longest Workweeks—Big Apple At The Core
Scott M. Stringer, New York City Controller, knows his city is among the hardest working in the nation. And Chicago is the “City of the Big Shoulders,” according to Carl Sandburg. But Stringer recently issued a study of which cities in the United States had the longest workweeks. How do you think the city where […]
Your Managers Are Sleeping With … And Bragging About It!
A new study by two professors from prestigious business schools has dropped a bombshell about managers, and what they are bragging about doing in their bedrooms. No, don’t get out your sexual harassment policy. They are sleeping with their Smartphones!