Workplace signs have increasingly moved toward pictographs so that their messages may be communicated to people who don’t read English. As one blogger shows on his Web site, not all of these pictographs are works of art, and some are just plain funny.
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Tags: pictographs, signs, wet floor
Scores of nonprofits have used calendars with nearly nude, average people as fundraisers for the last decade. But for one Long Island town, it decided a similar calendar started by some of its employees was too much.
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Tags: calendar girls, firefighters, nude calendar
A police officer in England was sent to investigate a suspected brothel. Looks like he took his investigation a little too far.
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Tags: brothel, police officer fired, prostitute
W.C. Fields once said, “Never work with animals or children.” Perhaps this is one reason why: Have you ever tried to negotiate a contract with a dog?
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Tags: contract dispute, contract negotiation, TV weather dog
The man claimed he was too disabled to work at all. Then someone saw him on TV in drag, trying to win Hannah Montana concert tickets.
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Tags: fraud, man in drag, workers' comp
What do HR and hiring managers do in their spare time? Why, they create Web sites that make fun of job applicants’ blunders, that’s what they do!
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Tags: cover letters, interviews, resumes
Doesn’t this belong in the Personal ads? Someone wants a drinking buddy for his 88-year-old, widowed father.
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Tags: beer, help wanted, personal ads
Have you ever had to try to hire someone for a highly undesirable job and had to “put some lipstick on the pig?” At least you’ve never had to tell anyone they’d have to swim with piranhas.
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Tags: circus, piranhas, snakes, undesirable job
They say truth is stranger than fiction. So, maybe your true HR stories will prove stranger than the most popular office-based comic strip.
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Tags: Dilbert, funny, HR stories
Time to play the popular HR Blunders game, “Comp or No Comp.” Here are three recent court cases in which employees sought comp for unusual accidents. Did the workers get comp? Read each case, then check to see whether you guessed right at the end of this post.
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Tags: candy machine, court rulings, workers' comp
