Cxjo

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  • I think Melanie and I are the same person! My first job out of college was also in a staffing agency. After about a year, I went to an HR Assistant job at a bank which allowed me to see all the various aspects of HR in action. I was promoted afte…
  • Yikes -- sorry Pork... I feel like I was slammed. (as for my profile -- didn't realize it was not viewable -- guess I best rectify that) It's not a matter of doing it alone or realizing when we need more HR staff; however.... I have run into many …
  • I have also always heard this ratio thrown out there. I recall a seminar I attended where the speaker opened his presentation with the question of "what is the ratio?" Everyone in the room pretty much said 1:100 and he then went into explaining th…
  • The policies I have written (or re-written as the case may be) have been very similar to Porks. I tend to like the vague... keeps our hands less tied. The health care setting I worked in had, for years, had a point system. (this was all written in…
  • When working at a nursing home we did tell employees that they should NOT dress as "death" or the grim reaper.....
  • I would think this is akin to requiring that all employees have a pre-placement physical -- the company must pay for that, therefore if it's required as a condition of employment, I think the company would have to pay for the MVR. Now -- when I hir…
  • Oh yes indeed Don -- those were pretty much the words I have used. Unfortunately, at this particualr company, HR was in the lower level, faaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrr removed from other people, no security and with a separate entrance door to the street (al…
  • I tend to do the same as eveyone else; a generic sort of TY letter to everyone who fills out an app or sends a resume (when I managed the Employment Office for a "4000 ee and 500 apps a week" organization we sent postcards - mid size with only 50 ap…