Work Emails- Are you Paid for Answering on Weekends? What might happen if the law changed and your work had to pay you overtime whenever you used your smart phone for business during weekends and evenings? Brazilian Law Brazil just introduced a new law that would require companies to pay their staff overtime should employees use their company phone to make business ...
Anger Management Games Ready to Play? Imagine the following: Your manager insults you in front of your team during a meeting. Let’s say she picked on you and accused you of something you never did. Instead of defending yourself immediately in front of your peers, you wait – 45 minutes – until the meeting is over and confront the manager privately. Choose a partner, ...
Ever thought you’d lose your job for NOT deleting company emails? The planning department from a city government recently ordered workers to delete any emails that reflected badly on city leadership. The employees were told they could face disciplinary action if such emails weren’t purged. Then, a week later, the Mayor dubbed this decision to delete old and potentially unflattering emails a “mistake." ...
Dumb and Dumbest During a long meeting with a client, stretching into early evening hours, Daren -- an advertising exec -- tweeted dozens of messages while pretending to pay attention to the discussion with a difficult client. “Dude, I should thank this agency for letting me stay here until 7:30. Who needs an evening to oneself?” “X Industries asks the dumbest questions. I ...
When Pigs Run the Lunchroom On her way to an appointment to close an important deal, Mary opened the refrigerator in the lunchroom at her insurance company that morning and a pile of leftover beef stroganoff fell off the shelf onto her shoes, splattering gravy all over her new white skirt. “I was so PISSED OFF,” she told me. “They ...
Poor Bedside Manner In the movie 50/50, a doctor speaks to the family after performing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor on their 27 year old son and recites everything that went wrong during the operation, bloody detail after detail, never mentioning until much later in the conversation, the possibility of full recovery. Do Doctors Really Talk That Way? A few film critics ...
What About Bob? Bob, a highly skilled production manager for a kitchen design company, sits in his office drawing blue prints when he hears the bell ring in the showroom, indicating a client has walked in. Normally, one of three people helps the client: the salesperson on the floor, the secretary, or the office manager. But none of them seem to be ...
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