Everyone in HR has heard some pretty wild excuses from employees about why they’ve taken days off. But wait until you hear how far this employee went for a personal day.
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Tags: absence excuses, day off, police
These days, we’ve been hearing a lot of stories about crazy stunts job seekers are pulling to find employment. Well, here’s one that actually worked.
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Tags: job applicants, job search, resume
Would your company think twice about firing an employee who was repeatedly caught sleeping at her desk? According to one recent court case, you should.
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Tags: firing, napping, sleep apnea
In your HR career, have you ever come across a well-meaning employee doing something he or she thought was helpful — but was really stupid?
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Tags: resigned, spray painting, well-meaning
So much for poetic license. Bangladesh’s information secretary has been sacked for a poem he wrote three years ago.
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Tags: dried plum, retirement, sacked
Fireable offense, or just incredibly bad judgment that merits less drastic discipline? You make the call in the case of the principal, the six-year-old and the toilet.
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Tags: discipline, fireable offense, principal, student, toilet
In this tough economy, it’s hardly unusual for people to look for second jobs to make ends meet. Example: A teacher advertised online that she was looking for extra work because her bills were piling up. Unfortunately, her ad was on the “casual encounters” section of a popular Web site. And her school computer was involved.
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Tags: Craigslist, prostitution, second job, teacher, tough economy
A restaurant worker trashed a restaurant in Madison, WI, in hopes of getting fired so he could collect unemployment.
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Tags: fired, quit, unemployment
Sound the alarms! Ted in accounting is dating Alice in marketing! Is it HR’s job to break them up before an office romance wreaks havoc on your company?
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Tags: dating, new survey, office romance
When twice the usual number of employees call out sick — and it happens on Super Bowl Sunday — is it a case of couch potato fever? Or, as union representatives suggested in one case, was it burnout because of staff cutbacks? You make the call.
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Tags: burnout, cutbacks, furloughs, overtime, sickout, Super Bowl
