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Years ago, we had a problem with food disappearing from a refrigerator in a breakroom that was specifically only used by employees of our department. We all respected what the others who worked in our area kept in there, but then the boss noticed t…
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I guess my question would be, how strictly do they enforce minor no-smoking laws in your area? I've known store clerks who have gotten in trouble for selling cigarettes to people under 19, but I don't think they really enforce it around here excep…
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In FDIC-insured banks, there is a guideline that we operate under that says that bank employees should take ten consecutive days off per year, for exactly the reason mentioned by Nae. It's not a law, but it's a pretty firm guideline and we are peri…
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I send out a questionnaire about a week before the employee leaves to give them time to fill it out and get it back to me before their last day of work. Or, if they leave abruptly, I send it in the mail, with a postage-paid return envelope. General…
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We have employed high school students on the teller line for years now, generally using them as extra help during their summer break from school, although a few have worked for us a couple hours a day after school also. Several of them have started…
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I probably return 95% of phone calls (0% for somebody who's just trying to sell me something) and 80% of e-mails. Often with e-mails a response isn't required but I'll still reply with "okay, thanks for letting me know" or something else to acknow…
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I first became familiar with the term "helicopter parent" several years ago (the term hadn't been coined yet back when my mother was behaving that way). They did a show about it on Dateline and it was mostly about college students and I could not b…
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This thread jogged my memory about something that happened to me as a kid. I was looking for my first job just out of high school, and I spent the whole summer applying all over town. When I finally got a job I was so excited and so proud that …
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I ceased being amazed at the behaviors from so-called adults long ago. Sometimes I feel like "babysitter" should be part of every supervisor's job description. It's a shame people just can't put their personal differences aside and work together pr…
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Tere, the issue here was not two employees having an affair, it was one employee having an affair with the spouse of another employee. The cheating spouse is not an employee of the company. So any policies regarding dating wouldn't apply in this si…
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Okay, so if I understand the situation correctly, Employee A had an affair with Employee B's husband. What I don't understand is why anyone would even be talking about firing Employee B. Isn't she the wronged party in this situation? I mean, unl…
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We occasionally have had employees in certain areas bring their dogs or even cats to work and as long as the area they're working in can accommodate it and the animal is well-behaved, we've never had any problem with it. My husband had a co-worke…
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We have an employee directory on our intranet site, and I agree that it's great to have to put a face with a voice. Ours is strictly optional, and while most employees don't mind having their photo out there we've had a few that absolutely refuse.…
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All of the ones that have been mentioned above are ones we include as "immediate" family, and we also state that "special consideration will be given to any other person whose association with the employee was similar to any of the above relationshi…
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Ours is six months also.
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I originally wanted to be called Goddess of Human Resources but a thunderclap from the heavens told me I probably shouldn't even ask!
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Personally, I've always wanted my title to be Queen of Human Resources, but they won't let me put that on my business cards.
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We use the designation I, II, III, IV for most of our positions where there are differences in complexity. We've also switched from calling some of our positions "clerks" to calling them "specialists" because somehow there is a perception that a s…
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Same here. I don't want to know about "maybe" days, just days off that have definitely been taken. It shouldn't be up to HR/payroll to determine whether the person was at work or not.
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I know...I'd love to understand how an executive was even hired with such an "over the top" style. We won't even hire entry-level positions if they show up for the interview with neon pink hair or some other ridiculously unnatural haircolor, which …
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I ran head-long into the fact that one person's "over the top" is another's Sunday best some years back. I worked with a woman who thought her "most professional" outfit was a skin-tight pleather outfit....granted, it was technically a suit in that …
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Definitely check your state laws. In my state it's 20 years, much longer than is federally mandated and longer than pretty much any other state I've heard of.
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We do this every once in awhile, particularly if the employee is leaving to work for a direct competitor of ours or if they are underperforming in such a way that it's more of a problem to have them at work those last couple of weeks. We just tell …
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That's what I was thinking. There should be toilet paper in every stall and I can't think why they couldn't use that. Makes me think this is more of an acting-out type behavior than anything else...I know, adults shouldn't be "acting out" at all,…