Working Girl

APRIL 27, 2010

I recently watched the Barbie Fairytopia series with my daughters and had the following conversation with my 6-year-old: Daughter: Why did the fairy guardians have to teach the younger fairies the Dance of Spring? Me: They were doing succession planning. Blank stare. Me: In case something happened to one of the guardians they''d still have someone who could do the dance. Me: Yes. Me: Yes. Me: Hmmn.

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45 Things

APRIL 27, 2010

I sort of feel like I've been holding my breath since last fall when the economy started to fall apart and people were losing their jobs right and left. While I've always taken the job of writing career advice seriously

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 30, 2010

What should employees do when the company isn’t even performing regular performance reviews in the first place? Note that we’re in an industry which is largely sheltered by the recession, we’re growing and we’ve recently received some huge new clients. Go over and read why a performance appraisal isn't what you need. If you like it, recommend it

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Josh Bersin

APRIL 28, 2010

Today the corporate training industry is evolving from ten years of focus on e-learning and blended learning towards a serious and transformational focus on “we-learning.&#   We named this. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. collaborative learning e-learning skillsoft we-learning

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 28, 2010

Why is it that you can have a perfectly nice boss who goes loopy when you resign? Find out what your boss is thinking over at BNET

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 26, 2010

So, I finally saw this movie. If you haven't seen it, it's probably supposed to be this deep movie about life choices and blah, blah, blah. But, what it really was about was firing people. This is something I know about. If you want to see it and don't want any spoilers, stop reading. Oh, I'm not going to share the big plot twists, I'm just going to talk about firing. liked some of the dialogue used in the firings, but this line Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it. And (spoiler alert!)

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 26, 2010

The IT people in my company are seriously underpaid. If we ever complain about, management says they could always outsource our jobs to India, so we better stop whining. So, a year or so ago a co-worker and I had a great idea: we got permission to buy the old computers that were going to be discarded and then we fix them up and sell them on Ebay. A few months ago, I took it a step further. When I’m asked to fix someone’s computer, I’ll declare it unfixable instead. What’s going to happen to me if my boss finds out? Your boss will be really mad. Yes, he/she will.

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 26, 2010

So, I finally saw this movie. If you haven't seen it, it's probably supposed to be this deep movie about life choices and blah, blah, blah. But, what it really was about was firing people. This is something I know about. If you want to see it and don't want any spoilers, stop reading. Oh, I'm not going to share the big plot twists, I'm just going to talk about firing. liked some of the dialogue used in the firings, but this line Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it. And (spoiler alert!)

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Evil HR Lady

APRIL 26, 2010

The IT people in my company are seriously underpaid. If we ever complain about, management says they could always outsource our jobs to India, so we better stop whining. So, a year or so ago a co-worker and I had a great idea: we got permission to buy the old computers that were going to be discarded and then we fix them up and sell them on Ebay. A few months ago, I took it a step further. When I’m asked to fix someone’s computer, I’ll declare it unfixable instead. What’s going to happen to me if my boss finds out? Your boss will be really mad. Yes, he/she will.

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