HR Managin'
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Hormonal and Crabby
So I’m planning our fall family event at work. It will be a weekend in late October, when the air is crisp but not too cool, when the nights don’t get dark terribly early, but just early enough, when the leaves are turning and the smell of fall is in the air – in short, when it is a fabulous time to be outside enjoying the natural world. Almost all of our employees have small children, and this fun day is for them. So I decide to plan a trip to a pumpkin patch, where we’ll have a pig picking, go on a hayride, pick a pumpkin, pet the…
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Boo
It’s a hazy, sunless, windless, sticky hot weekend. We’re listless, drifting around the house. I’m taking pictures of nothing in particular. The Professor isn’t feeling well. I’m thinking of ditching him with a bath and some movies and tea, and taking myself on a hike, or I may lose my mind. My high flying mood of Thursday Eve is gone. Late Friday afternoon I slipped in the boss’s office while the Israeli boss was in the loo, and asked how the raise-for-RG talk went. He wrinkled his nose in a “not good” way, and then Israeli boss reappeared and U.S. boss said “See me about that issue Monday.” Sssssssssssssss. Hear that…
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Relay for Life Update
People, it’s time for an update. First, go to the Wonder Women site and get hungry. Then come back here and get guilty. Except you don’t need to get guilty, because you all are great! So far, my little company, my little team of 12 people, has raised our goal of $1500.00. Already. And we still have two months to go. Our walk is on October 12, and on that day we have tons of employees who want to walk all night (which is cool), and tons of employees who have survived cancer or are still fighting who want to do the Survivor’s lap (sad and cool), and tons of employees…
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Slap My Hand!
At the place where I work, we make stuff. We make stuff that has to stay clean, because it can be used in medical supplies, baby wipes, and other similar need-to-be-sanitary type products. When making this stuff, in order to avoid the deposit of human DNA and other nasties, we wear uniforms and hair nets. You get so used to seeing people walk around with big white bouffants on their heads, you don’t even notice it. Except sometimes you do – in the most inappropriate of places. So I was in a disciplinary meeting the other day. There were four of us in there along with the offender – something…