All posts by Meredith Soleau

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The Seven Habits of Highly Successful (and YOUNG) HR Pros

I hear it all the time, “We’d be so screwed if we had a normal HR person. I’m so happy we have you.” Not really. You’d just be screwed if… Get the Rest

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Kindest Regards

I am super weird about people's email sign offs. I over-analyze everything, and I assume that the sender has a brain that works like mine, so I start picking

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Corporate Mumbo Jumbo

I realize that every business has its own lingo. For example, at car dealerships, we say things that might not make sense to other people. Under water = Negative

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American Idol Accused of Racism

Who better than to report on the latest American Idol scandal than FOT's best karaoke star? Nobody! I should have tried out for the show. Hindsight is always 20/20. Anyway, in case

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Go home when you're sick.

The dealership has been hit with an epidemic, which makes absolutely no sense to me since I made them all get a flu shot (myself included). Side note,

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I Pushed the Envelope Too Far. Or Did I?

Last week, my Facebook status update had the word "boner" in it. It was very funny, in my opinion, and talking about how I cannot deal with such things

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One Hat, Two Hats, Red Hat, Blue Hat

Tim Sackett will tell you the best way to find out about what's going on at work is to hang with the smokers. Like, even if you don't smoke, go

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Office Politics Suck

With me, you will always know where you stand. I promise you. I wear these damn emotions on my sleeve. If I am upset with you, I will say to

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Conferences: Find Better Speakers

Over the past two months, I have been to three conferences (Ohio SHRM, Recruiting Trends, and Digital Dealer). Each conference had good sessions and bad sessions. I want to

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Prepare Your Company For A Zombie Apocalypse

If there's one thing that keeps HR people up at night, it's threat of a zombie apocalypse. Can we all agree on this? The threat of a zombie take