A few weeks, ago I was speaking about social media and the workplace to a fabulous audience at the 2014 SHRM Annual Conference and Expo. (Email me if you want a copy of my slidedeck). One of my session themes was that there is no such thing as employees using…
I remember a high school classmate of mine who had his mom send in a permission slip to excuse him from missing school for the Philadelphia Phillies’ home opener. Mom’s note indicated that her son was suffering from “Vernal Flu.” Get it? Vernal Flu = Spring Fever. Pretty creative, huh?…
And most of them revolve around technology. According to a CareerBuilder survey, here are the top ten:
And by coffee, I mean turkey legs and frozen blueberry-mango rum lemonade. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down… You see that badge over there? You know what I had to do to get that badge?Buy the full version of Photoshop Spike the Kool-Aid of everyone on the SHRM Annual Conference Speaker…
Meet Delaware lawyer, Brian Zulberti. According to his website, back in 2013, after getting his DE bar license, Mr. Zulberti emailed every Delaware lawyer asking for information about job openings. In each email, he included this photo of himself in a sleeveless t-shirt. Mr. Zulberti claims that this mass email,…
Why, just last week, I was saying that the Facebook stupidity scale had shifted away from teachers in favor of bar/tavern staff. I stand corrected. For future reference, you can never go wrong with Vining the one-year-old slugger. Image Credit: Facebook
I used to say that teachers were the most irresponsible Facebook user group. Now, I’m leaning towards the bar and nightclub industry. Last month, a worker at a downtown Philadelphia bar displayed a Heineken chalkboard with the message “I like my beer like I like my violence… domestic.” to…
Within the past week, two states have passed laws, which will provide employees with more workplace protections. Truth be told, I wasn’t sure that the internet had yet arrived in either Oklahoma or Louisiana, the latter of which is still controlled by a French monarch, I’m fairly certain. (But since…
Here are some Tennessee fun facts: The city of Kingston served as Tennessee’s state capital for one day (September 21, 1807) There are more horses per capita in Shelby County than any other county in the United States. Tennessee ties with Missouri as the most neighborly state in the union.…
Yesterday, my buddy Jonathan Segal and I joined forces on Twitter to answer eight questions from SHRM’s We Know Next about the state of the law governing social media and the workplace. A big thank you to SHRM and to those who were able to join us and participate. ICYMI,…