Perhaps had the CIA’s use of waterboarding not been in the news, the waterboarding employment case out of Utah would have never seen the light of day.  But, of course, there’s plenty of light.  (Click here and here for previous posts.)
One thing I’ve failed to point out previously is that the lastest question in this […]

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I did a post on this earlier.  It’s back in the news, as the lawsuit filed by the employee who was waterboarded during a team-building exercise is proceeding.  It appears the employer intends to mount a vigorous defense.
Workplace trainers everywhere are watching this case with intense interest.  If the employer wins, it could open the […]

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Working women still have a rough go balancing family responsibilities with full-time jobs.  Consequently, some women drop out of the workplace, take part-time jobs for which they are overqualified, or struggle mightily to have a family and keep a good job.
As an article in the Washington Post indicates, some employers are figuring out ways to allow […]

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Does your company have a soccer tournament?  Can you ride a scooter in the halls?  What about roller-hockey games in the parking lot?  Scrabble tournaments at work?
According to a recent article in the New York Times, these are ways employers are trying to put fun back in the workplace, because it’s believed that employees who […]

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You’ve long heard of motivational training. Now there’s demotivational training as shown in this YouTube clip.

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I’m not making this up.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, an employee says he was subjected to waterboarding by a motivational business coach in front of fellow employees to demonstrate to the employees that they should work as hard as the employee being waterboarded was working to breathe.  The employee being waterboarded was apparently unmotivated.  He quit and […]

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Maybe I should start writing about this topic.  For all I know, there’s already a blog that covers this sort of thing.  In any event, I ran across what I would call an unusual job in today’s Washington Post.

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That’s what they were saying when Eli Manning was drafted by the New York Giants in 2004.  Since then, Eli’s coming morphed into talk about Eli’s going.  He just hadn’t been the quarterback, the leader, the game changer Giants fans expected.  There was a lot of talk about it being time for Eli to go during the […]

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The high number of boomers heading toward normal retirement age is causing consternation everywhere.  Can social security pay them what they’re due?  With so many of them leaving the workforce, can employers stand the brain drain that will occur?  If a lot of them don’t retire, how does business allow the advancement of younger employees […]

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On December 19, I wrote a post about the Mitchell report on baseball and steroids, trying to take an employment law look at this mess.  If you watched 60 Minutes this past Sunday, you saw Mike Wallace interview Roger Clemens about the allegations against him contained in the Mitchell report.
During the interveiw, the question of […]

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