By Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsOn February 5, 2018, the Detroit Lions named former New England Patriots Defensive Coordinator Matt Patricia as the team’s new Head Coach. Maybe, Lions ownership missed Super Bowl LII and the 41 points that the Philadelphia Eagles dropped…
Image Credit: YouTube Screenshot I have trained you well. We’re gonna cut the ropes to let you fight Tong Po. (Maybe, going with a random Kickboxer reference wasn’t the best metaphor for this audience.) Ok, let’s start over. Yesterday, I had this post about a guy who allegedly lost his job over…
Taken with a selfie stick and way too much effort. Easy there, folks. My servers can only handle so much traffic on a Thursday. Legally Weird, indeed. It’s not often that I get my scoop from an online publication called Legally Weird. Then again, touché. No one is mistaking me…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Remember that time one of your employees: rode her bike, passed the President’s motorcade, was photographed giving him the middle finger, and became a national celebrity/spectacle (depending on your point of view)? For an employee of a Virginia GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR (oops!), it resulted in her termination of…
By Dennis Hill from The OC, So. Cal. – misc 24, CC BY 2.0, Link When will people learn? (Although, if they do, I’ll have less about which to blog.) Hosting a White Supremacist Internet Show Is a Bad Look For a Middle School Teacher It’s a bad look for…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/cartoon-interview-news-program-2897720/) Ok, enough with New Jersey for this week. Today, I blog on a lighter note. It’s Career Builder’s list of “The Most Unusual Things People Have Done in Job Interviews.” When you’re interviewing a job candidate, how long does it take you to figure out whether…
By No machine-readable author provided. Moberg assumed (based on copyright claims). [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAt least she didn’t have too many personal belongings to pack up. (Too soon?) TheGrio.com has all the details (here): The New York Times fired a writer just hours after they had hired her after they learned…
Image Credit: By lil wayne (Youtube) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsI know of one employer that did (allegedly) [Cue music] Fired for posting rap lyrics back in high school. Over the weekend, I read this story from Jessi Turnure on ArkansasMatters.com in which Ms. Turnure reports that the Little Rock Police…
A few years ago, one of my colleagues emailed me and asked if I would review a particular question on a client’s job application. Specifically, the client wanted to know whether a certain health-related inquiry was something the client could do before extending a conditional offer of employment. Well, not…
Back in 2016, Kathleen M. Jungclaus was the full-time Vice President of Human Resources for a Pennsylvania continuing care retirement community. She had worked for the company since 2007. On July 24, 2016, Ms. Junclaus went on her personal Twitter page and tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump I am the VP of HR in a comp…