Celeste Blackburn SPHR
Celeste Blackburn is the Managing Editor of Diversity Insight, Technology for HR, HR Insight, and 50 Employment Laws in 50 States. She has written about human resources for a variety of publications, including Basic Training for Supervisors and Frontline Supervision, as well as writing and editing a series of White Papers covering employment trends and developments. Before coming to BLR, she was the Business Editor for The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee. Celeste earned her bachelor’s degree from David Lipscomb University and a master’s from Middle Tennessee State University, where she also taught writing.
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[URL="http://hrhero.com/techforhr/2010/11/nlrb-makes-a-play-for-your-social-networking-policy/"]One of the cases that we've been following[/URL] and that caused quite a buzz late last year was the NLRB stepping in when a company fired an employee fo…
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Paul, it does seem like of desperate, and they've been doing it for a while now. I'm starting to wonder if they get some sort of bonu$ for ever 1,000 friends or so. Coffee, I know a lot of people who look at Facebook or other short bouts of Interne…
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Nae, I have a friend who watches most of the final four basketball games on a site that has an "emergency spreadsheet" button like that. Frank, It's [I]satellite [/I]radio -- that makes it new fangled and stuff.
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Welcome to the forum rkosnik! I write [URL="http://blogs.hrhero.com/diversity/"]Diversity Insight, a monthly ezine,[/URL] here at M. Lee Smith. You should check it out for ideas and tips for not only promoting diversity in your workplace but dealin…
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The second post is up! [URL="http://hrhero.com/techforhr/2010/12/pauls-lovehate-relationship-with-facebook-a-cautionary-tale-part-2/"]To read it, click here.[/URL]
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The general idea of dirty Santa is that everyone brings a gift that could be for anyone. You don't put your name or anyone else's on the gift. You put the gifts on a table and everyone draws a number -- that's the order you pick your gifts in. So t…
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When I saw Paul's first post in this thread, I asked him if he would write a post for our [URL="http://www.hrhero.com/techforhr"]Technology for HR blog[/URL]. He graciously complied -- giving me enough material for three blog posts. [URL="http://hr…
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Sounds like catching employees in the act has less to do with high tech or low tech and more to do with employee stupidity/overconfidence/underestimation of HR.
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Definitely Ralphie! My family has actually eaten at a Chinese place for Christmas dinner. My mom was always annoyingly right in her predictions of bad ends to ill advised gift wishes (I never shot my eye out, though). Unlike Ralphie, I would love …
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Our office benefits expert, Jessica, sent out an article from yahoo yesterday ([URL="http://yhoo.it/glFv5F"]click here to read it http://yhoo.it/glFv5F[/URL]) about the extreme measures and new technologies employers are using to catch employees abu…
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None of us are very big on Turkey so we usually have ham. My mom has been known to get a turkey breast or sliced turkey cause day-after-Thanksgiving turkey, cranberry, and stuffing sandwich is something my family does appreciate.
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I have another question: Has anyone ever had a problem with an employee being offended by Halloween celebrations (in general or a response to a particular costume/decoration/etc)? I do a lot of research/reading on workplace diversity and there seem…
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Slater has plead guilty and "accepted responsibility" for his actions. You can read about it all here [URL]http://bit.ly/9tuuAY[/URL]. The thing I find most interesting is tucked down at the bottom of the story where they are conceding that Slater'…
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I would like to clarify that Molly only suggested doing the check on your final few candidates -- even after the first face-to-face. Otherwise, you'd be spending way too much time trolling the Internet. And she also admonished that you need to be c…
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My post today on the Technology for HR blog is about companies that will monitor and fix your Internet reputation (to read it go to [URL]http://bit.ly/9N7tRS[/URL]). Has anyone ever used this sort of service? Nae, you seem to be on top of monitori…
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Since this is the current Facebook thread, I'm going to put it here, even though it's a little off topic. A school board in Connecticut has agreed to a settlement where a newly hired superintendent resigns but get his $150,000 salary and benefits f…
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I am a huge fan of snopes.com for checking on stories like this. I wonder how many people read the article in the Post and realized they were part of the crowd that didn't appreciate the renowned violinist and what their reactions were.
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snopes.com says it is [URL]http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bell.asp[/URL] In 2007, [I]Washington Post[/I] writer Gene Weingarten enlisted renowned violinist Joshua Bell, a winner of the Avery Fisher Prize for outstanding achievement in class…
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Paul, do you know if the Facebook post was what ultimately got him the help or if he texted someone? I hate to imagine my mom or dad logging on to Facebook one morning and seeing that and being really upset. But, on the other hand, maybe one of my …
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I agree with ritaanz that you have to go with your gut. But I've been fooled more than once by someone who basically convinced me to mistrust that gut feeling. I've ordered the book because I think it will be useful to have this sort of information…
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I'm not sure if this is a joke or not. It's a message that is supposedly on the answering machine at a school in Australia. Real or not, I know that there are several educators out there who feel like this. I sent it to my dad, who is a guidance cou…
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[I]4. Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave. [/I]I wonder if this is for people who need maturity or who have it. Cause if it's the first, I think I have some time coming to me . . . [I]9. Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget deta…
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More and more, I have seen news outlets and people being interviewed questioning the role of the passenger and if that person should face any charges. There are reports that the passenger repeatedly ignored "orders" to sit down. While we all know th…
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I saw him referred to as a "folk hero" and even an "icon" for all the workers who are fed up with their jobs, bosses, and coworkers on different news casts last night. He should be making the rounds of the day and night talk shows soon . . .
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Sort of creepy how half the comments on that post are asking for an interview. I'm disappointed that he didn't have more to say about the actual show down. And Paul, I'm with you -- taking the beer and going down the emergency slide is a grand exit.
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Nae, Thank you for pointing out the white paper! Here is a link: [URL]http://www.hrhero.com/whitepapers/index.cgi?wphcr[/URL] The white paper is completely free, all we need is your e-mail. (If you've already signed up for a white paper before o…
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I clicked on the "13 tweets that got people fired" link at the end of the article. The one I found most interesting was a guy who was the company's official "tweeter." ([URL]http://huff.to/ddKYKS[/URL]) He worked for a phone company in Europe and po…
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I wrote a post about the woman fired for blogging from her non-profit job (the article Nae originally posted in this thread) on the Technology for HR Blog. You can read it at [URL]http://bit.ly/bzLh3P[/URL] Celeste
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Good news Frank! There is another Maslanka review up on the blog (go to [url]http://bit.ly/95rsfH[/url]). This time he tackles [I]Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd [/I]by Youngme Moon. Hope you enjoy! Celeste [B][URL="http://employment…
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I have been doing some research on this topic lately and a lot of what I have found points to having a policy that addresses things like inappropriate uses (dissing a coworker on Facebook) since for many workplaces blocking the Internet would be too…