Last week I read an article about a startup called Code42, based in Minneapolis. After raising additional funds and seeing 100% year over year growth employees might have felt pretty good about their future. Or maybe not… The company recently laid off 30 employees. Of course in today’s business environment it isn’t shocking that […]
Layoff
Have You Failed?
I read an article this week about the personal failure of a former TV writer. After working 12 hour days on TV shows like Roseanne, he took some time off to reconnect with his family and made some bad financial decisions that resulted in losing his house and becoming homeless. His story ends with a […]
Don’t Get Lost in Transition
Today’s post is courtesy of Tim Baker from Markham Ontario, I “met” him on the Twitters and found that he always has something interesting and challenging to add to the conversations. Make sure you connect with him. Thanks for the post Tim! Recently, during a Twitter chat (apologies for not remembering which one) someone […]
Advice I never took Part 3: Don’t be so nice
The advice I never took series has been on hiatus but its back today talking about being “nice.” The first two posts in this series were about smiling and business cards check them out if you have a minute. One of the hardest things an HR professional has to do is participate in a termination […]
Everyone should get laid off once
Yes, you read that correctly. Why on earth would I want you to go through a layoff? Well…I don’t really want that to happen to you. Getting laid off and searching for another job sucks. A lot of people struggle to find a new job and when they do they often earn less money then in […]
It won’t happen to me
I was at a party recently and managed to get cornered by “that guy.” You know the one…you are just nice enough too and now he won’t stop talking to you. So there I was cornered, trying to be polite but also scanning the room for an escape hatch. The conversation took an interesting turn when he […]