End of T-shirt giveaway

System

All good things must end, and so it is with Margaret Morford's Ask-James-for-a-free-T-shirt deal, which has been going on for several months. If you haven't e-mailed me asking for a free shirt yet, sorry, but it's too late.

But we can look forward to photos from Shadowfax, mjindra, and Human Resources Manager, who should've received their shirts recently. And jmpmo, s moll, LindaD, and ray emser have had their shirts for a while and probably have been scouting exotic locales for their photo shoots. (Parabeagle and scottorr: e-mail me if you don't have your shirt within a week.)

Everyone else is still welcome to post your photo on Employers Forum -- either wearing an HR Hero T-shirt or something else. Instructions are in the Forum FAQ: [url]http://www.hrhero.com/employersforum/Employers_Forum_FAQs.html#photo[/url]
(Technophobes can just e-mail the photo to me at [email]WebEditor@HRhero.com[/email] .)

If you don't have your own HR Hero T-shirt, there are two ways to get one. For a limited time, you'll get a shirt at no extra charge when you renew your Employment Law Letter subscription. (Contact your customer service representative at (800) 274-6774 or [email]custserv@mleesmith.com[/email].) Or you can buy a shirt for $15 here: [url]http://www.HRhero.com/t-shirt.shtml[/url]

This has been a lot of fun. Keep those photos coming, folks!

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com
[email]WebEditor@HRhero.com[/email]

Don D

This should make the unopened T-Shirt I have even more valuable. I'm thinking Auction! Here's what I'm wondering....Was I absent the day James S. posted his own photo?

System

Uh, Don. You probably won't get more than $15. Auction off the worn shirt. It's like bidding on clothes once touched by Pete Fonda.

(smile face here)

"Sam"

By the way James, my picture is on it's way this week.

Don D

I prefer to think of myself as Steve McQueen jumping that barbed wire fence in The Great Escape; not Peter Fonda stoned flippin' the bird toolin' down the highway x:-). The bidding starts at $32.

WOCO Frank

I will send my picture in this weekend. I will, I will, I will.

I think.

mjindra

me too, me too, me too

rad

I may buy a digital camera for this reason only! I feel kind of dumb asking a friend to take my picture to post. They are NOT HR people and would not understand.

mjindra

Use a regular camera and send the film to [url]www.snapfish.com[/url] to be developed. They will send you the pictures, but also load the pictures on the internet for you and Voila! You can then use the picture for us HR folks!

Leslie

Psst...folks...one HR Hero T-shirt, gently worn. Cheap. Make me an offer I can't refuse.

rad

Great idea, thanks!

Margaret Morford

If you don't, we'll make you write haikus until you pee in a jar. (See Frank's winning entry in the HR haiku contest brought to you by Paul in Cannon Beach).

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

System

Don D as Harrison Ford - now there's a concept I could buy into!

System

OK, Don, here's my picture.

[url]http://www.hrhero.com/forum/homershirt.jpg[/url]

Some people say I look like an actor, but I don't see it.

My real photo is in my profile.

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

Leslie

Thanks James - I just started the second half of the 2004 calendar!

HRQ

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-09-03 AT 05:09PM (CST)[/font][p]Thanks James. I needed the laugh today. (I'll fill y'all in on my office situation eventually!) Remember I'm the Evil Dir of HR. I'm not as evil as I was yesterday, but will probably regain the title again after I have a performance-related talk with someone in my office. x:-(

marc

I think this title rapidly rotates around the globe. I've had it for the last couple of days for instituting a Service Animals Only policy in our office. I will be glad to give it up if you want it back.

WOCO Frank

Sorry guys... the title's mine for the next few days. This week I released a memo to all employees stating that our "no firearms allowed at work" policy supercedes the state's new concealed carry law.

I was told yesterday that I am "unconstitutional". I'm not sure how a person gets to be unconstitutional, but apparently I am.

HRQ

You ARE evil. No firearms at work?

All of our schools were recently converted to "Nut Free Zones" due to the increase in children with severe nut allergies. Of course there were many irate parents - "my child will ONLY eat peanut butter sandwiches, you can't do this". Some of the worst complaints came from employees, who apparently felt they had a constitutional right to eat peanut M&M's at work.

Seems that the right to eat nut products is more important than a severely allergic child's right to life. (Some allergies are so severe that even being NEAR nuts can cause the child to break out in a rash and ingestion can result in death.)

I bet there are some other great "Evil Director of HR" stories out there too.

WOCO Frank

The scary part is that the biggest uproar has been from our drivers. These are guys who are hauling 7,000 gallons of flammables, pumping thousands of gallons more, and they don't understand why firearms could be a problem.

Whatever

Slightly changing the topic but I never understood drug-free zones by schools. It seems to imply that in the rest of the community it's okay to use or sell drugs.

ray a

LOL. Several years ago a "drug free zone" sign was installed by the village, two doors down from my house. I always thought it strange thinking maybe drugs were legal elsewhere. We threw away our aspirin.

safety

We're going to have to share the title, I have the unpleasant task of employee meetings this afternoon and tomorrow morning giving the insurance increase bad news to all ee's.

HRQ

Goodness - another truly evil HR person. Can't believe you are increasing your insurance premiums. I bet you don't allow your employees to carry firearms at work either.

safety

Nope.

WOCO Frank

Back to the original topic...

This all reminds me of the greatest episode ever of Pinky and The Brain.

For those of you unfamiliar with the show, The Brain is a mouse genius who finds a new way to try to take over the world in every episode. In the best ever, he builds a full-size replica of earth (somehow), and connects the two worlds with a giant footbridge. Now... how to get all the humans to walk to the fake earth? Aha! He puts up a sign with an arrow pointing to the replica. The sign simply reads: "Free T-Shirts".

WOCO Frank

>>> All of our schools were recently converted to "Nut Free Zones"

Where did the teachers all go?

HRQ

That joke was passed around quite a bit when the big red "NFZ" signs were posted. I'm sure you thought of it first, though. x;-)

WOCO Frank

"The Ancients stole all our good ideas."

-- Mark Twain

marc

The shirt I received is the wrong size. Unfortunately, still too small, can I get a replacement?

WOCO Frank

The shirt is the correct size. It is you who are the wrong size. j/k

marc

This is, unfortunately, too true. I am working on it, but haven't seen that size since ??, if I was younger, I could remember. Is this a good excuse not to post a picture?