After yesterday’s super-serious Animal House post — Toga! Toga! Toga! — let’s lighten things up a bit with a list of the most memorable tardiness excuses employers shared in a recent CareerBuilder Annual Survey. Employee dropped her purse into a coin-operated newspaper box and couldn’t retrieve it without change (which…
– “Mr. Dorfman?” – “Hello!” – “0.2… Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” * * * – “That’s Left Ear. Demolition and explosives. When he was ten, he put one too many M-80s in the toilet bowl. Lost the hearing in his right ear.…
While some people; namely, hockey players with local ties, use Twitter to congratulate an ex-wife on end of divorce payments, others spew venom about their bosses. I know. I should have warned you to sit down first. Let me know when the shock subsides. K-thx. And the latest 15-minutes-of-fame, there’s-an-app-for-that, spotlight…
I’m a little late to the game on this case (Gatto v. United Airlines). It’s about a personal injury case in which the defendant sought discovery of a the plaintiff’s Facebook page. Yadda, yadda, yadda, plaintiff deletes his Facebook page and the court sanctions the plaintiff. But here’s the part…
Unquestionably, when it come to tackling the Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the biggest issues affecting the workplace and accommodating disabled employees is providing leave as a reasonable accommodation. Anecdotally, a question that plagues most employers is just how much leave is enough? We know that an indefinite…
Welcome citizens of the Utah. I’d say welcome back, but, according my blog stats, so few of you have seen my blog a first time. How could that be? Some of my best posts involve the Beehive State: “144 ‘N’-words, but black employees can’t prove they were offended“ “Fifth of…
For much of the week, I’ve blogged about Adria Richards, the employee who got fired for tweeting complaints about discrimination. On Monday, I offered my legal analysis (here). On Tuesday, I followed that up with this simple poll that purported to remove the law from the equation: Was the decision…
I went back and forth on whether to include “BREAKING” in the title to this post. Twas a close call. Close, like that time Bar Rafaeli almost dialed my number by accident (and by almost, I mean she was 7 numbers off — out of 10). No, feeling “maybe overworked”…
Whew! Got a little carried away with yesterday’s post about the employee who got fired for tweeting complaints about discrimination, didn’t I? Then again, I’m not the one who came up with the hashtag #donglegate. Yesterday, I offered my legal analysis. Today, I want your non-legal opinion: SendGrid’s decision to fire…
Is this Retaliation 2.0? Two weeks ago, Adria Richards attended an industry conference at which she overheard sexual jokes from two attendees sitting behind her during a session. So, she complained…on Twitter: Not cool.Jokes about forking repo’s in a sexual way and “big” dongles.Right behind me #pycon twitter.com/adriarichards/… — Adria…