This Is Goodbye.

Friends, colleagues, HR professionals, risk managers, compliance nerds, and the occasional law student who wandered here by mistake, I never thought this day would come.After over a decade of blogging about workplace shenanigans, EEOC misadventures, court decisions involving hugging managers and rogue FMLA requests scribbled on napkins — I’ve decided to shut down The Employer Handbook.Yes, it’s true. I’m pulling the plug. Closing the book. Hanging up my blogger hat (which, if you must know, is an imaginary fedora with “reasonable accommodation” embroidered on the brim). The site will go dark this week.

Why?

Because after so many years of writing about employees behaving badly and employers trying desperately to follow the law — or at least Google it — I’ve decided to pursue a simpler, quieter life.

I’m becoming a TikTok influencer.

That’s right. Starting next week, I’ll be focusing full-time on employment law-themed dance challenges, lip-sync videos reenacting HR investigations, and a 47-part series called “What Not to Say in a Termination Meeting” — all set to Taylor Swift remixes. (It’s what the algorithm demands.)

My legal career will continue, of course. I’ll still be counseling employers, litigating when necessary, and mediating disputes like a slightly sarcastic Jedi. But The Employer Handbook is taking its final bow.

Thank you for reading, subscribing, sharing, arguing with me in the comments, and emailing me weird employment hypotheticals that definitely weren’t about your company. You’ve made this journey rewarding, hilarious, and occasionally confusing.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to finish choreographing my next video: “ADA Interactive Process (but make it a duet).”

Wishing you all good judgment, solid documentation, and no calls from the DOL.

— Eric

P.S. April Fool’s. I’m not going anywhere. Nice try, HR.
The Employer Handbook lives on. See you tomorrow.