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Can you ban your employees from wearing Nike apparel at work?
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Controversy. Continue reading
If you’re considering adding pole dancing to your new-employee orientation, you should reconsider.
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Allow me to educate you, limerick style. Continue reading
I can’t unsee a chicken eating jerk chicken
Other than the crappy WiFi aboard this cruise ship, that was the low-light.
A chicken eating chicken – even with those lovely Bahamian spices – is bad. Continue reading
Would-be NASA intern gets vulgar with another Twitter user — turns out he’s a NASA legend — promptly loses internship
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 even if you don’t know that the person is on the council when you tweet. It’s a bad look and doesn’t bode well for your long-term internship prospects. Continue reading
You and I, we need to have a talk about yesterday’s survey.
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Ok, enough kidding around. You want to know how messed up everyone else’s workplace is. So, let’s pull that band-aid right off.
Oops, wrong one. Continue reading
What perks are your company offering to land top talent?
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Here’s where I’m going with this. Continue reading
It appears that, yes, you can be fired for flipping off President Trump’s motorcade.
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- 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? Continue reading
Racist posts on Facebook are apparently a really bad look for an HR professional. #shrm18
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I use the term “professional” loosely.
That is to say, not at all. Continue reading
Meanwhile, a former company executive was apparently fired because of his wife’s tweets
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In case you missed it, last Friday I slipped into the vortex to detail the amazing story of the 76ers’ president of basketball operations and general manager, Bryan Colangelo, and five Twitter burner accounts with which he may be associated. Several of these accounts were used to talk smack about 76ers players, other league Executives, leak medical information, and more!
One theory that was gaining traction was that a few of the accounts were possibly linked to Colangelo’s wife!
That’s original. Except, maybe not. Continue reading