“Fired within 3 hours of my first shift at a fast food joint” headlined a now-deleted Reddit post. The original poster went on to explain how
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Join me tomorrow for a free webinar on the human side of HR! Courtney Bock-Hencken and I will discuss the daily realities of HR
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I’m the HR manager, and I report to the company president. I’ve already talked to him about the Friday 4 p.m. happy hours he hosts
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A Chick-fil-A franchise is being sued by the EEOC for allegedly refusing a religious accommodation for a Christian employee. Given Chick-fil-A’s reputation as a faith-based
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Amanda Taub’s New York Times piece, Actually, Democracy Dies in HR, centers on the idea that it doesn’t take a whole bunch of evil people to destroy a
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A lot of people dislike HR. Founders sometimes feel like an HR person is a weight around their neck–always saying no or objecting to new ideas.
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If you were thinking of getting training from AIHR now is the time. From now until Friday, May 28, at midnight Pacific time, you can
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“Chris and Jan have broken a Swiss law. What law is it?” This is a question I use all the time for an improv prompt.
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You have more HR work than hours in the day. Leadership keeps saying “just use AI.” Easy to say — but which tool, used how,
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A Monster survey found that 80 percent of US workers felt their employers had catfished them. Career or job catfishing is a dumb game employers play
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If your hiring managers and recruiters are using AI tools to evaluate resumes, you’ll hire the best robots out there. Okay, so there are humans attached to
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A highly sought-after position opened up. The manager over the position was new to managing and insisted that the position required a specific certification. I
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One hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds. That’s the winning time for Sunday’s London Marathon winner, Sebastian Sawe, who did something no human had ever done
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“Do you have any rules in your house?” I asked this question of the three-year-olds I teach in my Sunday School class. The lesson was
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If you’ve ever felt like you couldn’t compete with the big companies, things are shifting. Deloitte is slashing its employee benefits, according to Business Insider. Things like
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A job interview is a conversation between two liars. It’s a fairly common phrase, and we can all chuckle at it because, of course, the
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While scrolling through X, I saw a video that made my HR blood boil. The scene is a young woman speaking with her boss through
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“You should know that they need gym shoes in third grade.” This was an actual line my son’s teacher said to me (albeit in German).
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What’s better than free New York Mets tickets? New York Mets tickets that cost $10. While you may think free is an ideal price, a
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“There is no ‘P’ in hamster.” This is not a controversial statement. Any dictionary will agree with it. Any pet store will too. But Carol Blymire
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Billionaire Bill Ackman fired an employee, who is threatening to sue. He wrote 2,400 words on X asking for opinions. The quick summary is that Ackman
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Katyayani Shukla posted this on Twitter. Now she is in India, and I don’t know anything about Indian employment law, and generally write from a
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Oracle laid off thousands of employees yesterday. Numbers vary, with some reports saying up to 30,000 employees. Regardless, they conducted the mass termination via email.
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In television shows, it’s your work friends who are your bridesmaids at your wedding and who show up to the hospital when you have a
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I saw this on Reddit: They lied about 100% Remote until the very last stage of the interview I am actually fuming right now and
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Headhunter Nick Corcodilos calls exit interviews the “cockroaches of the employment world” because “no one knows why they exist, no one can justify or eliminate them,
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Last week, I hosted a conference called Spring Forward HR. Participants submitted stories about the problems they had to handle and the employees and managers they encountered. With
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(Note: In putting together some of the stories from Spring Forward HR, I went on a search for these and was not disappointed. If you
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Monday was Spring Forward HR 2026. It was an amazing success and you can mark your calendar for Spring Forward HR 2027. (Monday, March 15!)
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Andrea Lucas, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), recently sent a letter to the 500 largest companies in the United States, warning them that
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“We are hiring young engineers to come grind in nyc. Must be under 26” 3.1 million views later, Drew Levin, founder of SideShift App, deleted
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Everyone’s racing to use AI – but few have paused long enough to ask, “Do we have rules for this?” Learn how develop your policy.
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I got a press release proclaiming, “CEO spends over $500/month to avoid burnout!” Burnout is a huge issue, so it is important to consider what
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I had a second-round interview at a top-tier company, and the final question completely threw me off: “What’s your astrological sign?” It felt unprofessional and,
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I surveyed HR people and found that their number one recruiting problem was the sheer number of applicants for each position. It’s a situation where we’re not struggling
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