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I was just as shocked as all of you. I couldn’t believe what had just happened. I finally got mad enough to walk out of that comfy-corner-office-HR-Director job… with no notice. Who does that? Mad HR people. That’s who. Eight years doing HR at a car dealership can wear a girl out, to the point of breaking. I totally broke. …
In case you’ve missed it, I’ve recently quit my HR job. You can read about that here and here. It was a total Jerry Maguire moment. I was surprised once I put myself out there how many job offers I was able to get in a two week time period. So if any of you are riding the unemployment train, …
Facebook makes me geeky. I love it. I love using the social graph search tool to source folks. I love posting jobs on Facebook. And I love looking up my ex-boyfriends to make sure my life is better than their life. Admit it, you do that, too. I’ve listened to Facebook employees speak about Edgerank. If you’re posting jobs on …
Yesterday, a customer fell in our showroom. I was called in to deal this customer. You’re probably wondering why HR would deal with an injured customer, and the answer is simple. The answer is… I don’t know why. I guess that since I deal with injured employees, somehow dealing with injured customers has fallen into my wheelhouse of things-to-do-that-no-one-else-really-knows-how-to-handle. Actually, the …
I finally did it! You’re going to be so HR-jealous! I have ditched the annual performance review! A third of you of you just fell over dead. A third of you think I am a complete idiot. A sixth of you will stop reading now. And the other sixth of you already ditched your performance reviews. Here’s the thing, folks… …
Light and fun post today. Isn’t that what you want before a holiday break? No one ever puts me on their HR-PEOPLE-WHO-ROCK-LIST. Bump you guys! I am making my own ridiculous HR list! And I am putting myself on it! Why? Because I can. But my list is for realsies important, unlike your dumb popularity lists. Why? Because this is life or …
FOT was proud to take over a session at the SHRM Student conference on Saturday. The topic? 7 ways to find your first (or a better) HR job. Of course, we gave them eight. Maybe nine. I’m not sure. Counting isn’t really our “thing”. With Tim Sackett on the mic as the moderator, and Laurie Ruettimann, Jennifer McClure, and me (Meredith Soleau) on …
I broke about five rules in the employee handbook to hire someone. And I don’t even care. Meet Rad: Rad is driving the creative bus at the dealership now. Which? Is awesome. We needed to hire someone for our digital marketing spot. We needed someone artistic, creative, and talented. I went to a …
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 you had someone who wasn’t a real person, trying to manage real people. I’ve worked my way up through this company from an HR Assistant to the HR Director, I’ve …
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 apart the email, based on not only the content – but also on the email signature. So just in case anyone ever feels like emailing me, I want to make it …
