Insight into the HR World
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I have to admit that I get fired up about Human Resources and employment issues. I just do. Chris Ferdinandi over at Renegade HR asked me if I got tired of being a thought leader in HR. I kind of laughed it off because I don’t think people look to me for thought leadership in [...]
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One of the unique things about HR is our exposure to a lot of losers.
Hold on now, let me pull that back. I already started this post in the hole. I am going to have to dig myself out and quick before you go off to other posts that praise everything you do!
Being a loser [...]
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If you haven’t been following the Brett Favre unretirement story, bless your heart. From the perspective of an HR person, it is a gut wrenching affair that I hope I never have the pleasure of dealing with. Here is the scenario from my demented HR side:
Your longest serving and best employee (and one of the [...]
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If people must know one thing about my blogging pet peeves, it is that I hate when people do not read through the entire post. There is one post in particular that often gets wrongfully credited to me even though it is a blogswap post (first sentence) and the person introducing herself is clearly a [...]
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And honestly, it breaks my heart a little bit each day to read stories like the one I am posting below. I know that it really doesn’t affect me or my abilities to be successful but it still makes me sad that people cannot see why others have problems with Gen Y
Obama Supporters Take His [...]
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And who can blame them?!
I certainly can’t. I would be irritated as hell with the work environment if I were a Gen X’er because they are supposed to be entering the earning years of their life (the one where you bank your retirement, put your kids through college and pay off your mortgage) and it is getting turned upside down by a variety of factors.
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You need to check out this post by Pinny Cohen about why people get burned out on their jobs.
An excerpt:
People are Special
One of the things that sets humans aside from other animals is our unrelenting interest in novelty, and learning. Indeed, one of the best ways to keep our brains sharp is by challenging it [...]
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I have found that there are roughly two types of bosses in the world:
This boss is totally cool with you mentally checking out of work on Fridays and before major holidays. Heck, he or she may be doing the same.
This boss is not pleased with people slacking off before the weekend and/or holidays.
Guess which one [...]
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Your boss probably doesn’t care about “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving where retailers typically put on a barrage of sales). Unless you work in a handful of positions, you probably had it off and it probably gave you a good reason to come in this morning. After all, your credit card won’t pay for [...]
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Everybody wants to be passionate about what they do but they have a hard time finding what they are passionate about in the first place. It seems that all sorts of people are having a hard time figuring out exactly what they want to do in life. Even people that shouldn’t know what they are [...]
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