Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/facebook-glasses-privacy-privacy-policy-267372/) Asking for a friend, of course. A bunch of your employees just resigned, set up a competing venture, plundered a bunch of your trade secrets, and have begun contacting your customers. But, hold up! Your IT administrator examined their company laptops and struck gold! He reviewed…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/twitter-facebook-together-292994/) I haven’t covered a social media firing in a while. Here’s one I read about yesterday. It’s a doozy! Laura Wagner reporting at Deadspin’s The Concourse has more on the story (here): Yesterday, HuffPost fired a recently hired, Los Angeles-based social media editor after her managers…
Font Awesome Free 5.2.0 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com [CC BY 4.0]Let’s do something a little different today. I’m giving my typing fingers (and your reading eyes) a little extra R&R. Last week I hung out with my HR friend Ira Wolfe and his co-host, Keith Campagna, to discuss a variety…
By Highway Patrol Images (Code 3 combination LED & rotating beacons) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia CommonsHold on, let me proofread that. Employee makes racist Facebook posts, and company must pay him $100,000. Yep, that’s it. How’s that work anyway? Everton Bailey, Jr., writing at the Oregonian, explains: An…
Here’s a pro tip for you: The next time you land an awesome internship, avoid exchanging tweets similar to the redacted ones in the screenshot up there. Especially with someone who is on the council that oversees the company with which you just received the internship. This pro tip applies…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/snapchat-mobile-phone-social-media-1374859/) A recent American Medical Association study suggests that it could. What is Snapchat? (f/k/a “It’s nice to see you surface from under that rock.”) For those who aren’t familiar with Snapchat, it’s a smartphone app that allows users to share pictures and short movies briefly before…
Source: https://eeotraining.eeoc.gov Yep, it’s that time of year. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Training Institute is hosting its Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference in Washington, DC. The EEOC touts EXCEL as “the premier national training conference for federal and private sector EEO managers, supervisors, practitioners, HR professionals, attorneys and Alternative…
By dbking (Presidential Motorcade, PA Ave NW) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia CommonsRemember the woman who… flipped off President Trump’s motorcade, got photographed in the act, became a viral sensation, got fired from her job, and sued claiming a violation of public policy. Whatever happened to that lawsuit? According to multiple…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/social-social-networks-1206612/) I use the term “professional” loosely. That is to say, not at all. “Roseanne Barr, hold my drink,” is what I picture a former Human Resources Supervisor for a Fortune 50 company saying to herself before she allegedly went all racist in a recent Facebook post…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/shirt-dress-white-clothes-clothing-2345417/) My thorough rundown of all things Bryan Colangelo will have to wait until next week when I serve as a guest contributor to the Philadelphia Business Journal. Today, however, I’ve got your hook up! On Wednesday, Pamela Wolf, J.D. of Wolters Kluwer moderated a webinar entitled Check-In: EEOC, DOL,…