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If you’ve been shocked at how some younger employees seem not to know how to behave in the workplace or with coworkers, you might be heartened to hear that a school in New York has cancelled its annual talent show in order to prepare students for careers and the workplace.
The dress code was relaxed at a Canadian Google campus when staffers decided to lose half of their wardrobe for No Pants Day.
Click through for the HR Strange But True articles from this week on the HR Daily Advisor.
Click through for the HR Strange But True articles from this week on the HR Daily Advisor.
Over the past few weeks, we heard from our readers about their strange experiences from the HR trenches. For example, there was the employee who was too honest during a g-chat and the applicant who blew the interview with an inappropriate joke.
Former football players get a lot of publicity when they are arrested or sentenced for breaking the law. But in this case, the charges are kind of unusual—workers’ compensation fraud.
No, he wasn’t in a production of “Batman the Musical,” but an actor did a damn good job of thwarting the impact of a workplace accident that could have injured others.
Have you ever been halfway through your workday and thought, “I’m really bored today!” If you have, chances are (we hope) that you kept it to yourself and found some work to tide you over until the next project was ready to go.
Interviews seem to be the source of many HR Strange but True! stories. There were the dance auditions, the preemptive request for leave to pick up a mail-order bride, and even calling a spouse mid-interview to check what’s for dinner, just to name a few.
We asked our readers for stories from the wacky world of HR—and they delivered. Thank you for all of the submissions; we will be featuring them over the next few weeks! Here’s the first about a manager behaving badly at a workplace gathering: