Archive: January 2018

Every now and again it’s worth pulling a post out of the archives for a rerun. Today, I look all the way back to April 15, 2008, for on...

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It’s a situation that plays out all too often. An employee emails a slew of documents to a personal email address, or drags them into a pe...

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How do you discuss sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct with your friends and colleagues? Saturday Night Live, in one of its most...

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Last Friday, Fake ID played to a packed house at The Symposium, an old school rock club in Lakewood, Ohio. And, they absolutely brought dow...

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Wile E. Coyote. Forever chasing the Roadrunner. Always ending up falling off a cliff or crushed under a giant boulder. Noncompete litigati...

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I’m typing today’s post from my bed, where I convalesce with the flu. Since I’m at home with the flu, I thought it worthwhile to discuss t...

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Image by Sven via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month, Walmart announced sweeping additions to how it compensates its employees.

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The third nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018 might be the creepiest I’ve shared yet. From the Tampa Bay Times (c/o the ABA Journal...

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Mental illness, especially among our youth, is an issue about which we do not pay nearly enough attention (to wit: this week’s suicide of ...

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Can an employee, terminated for refusing to submit to a “reasonable suspicion” drug test, sue the employer for discrimination? According...

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I am declaring today New Year’s Day 2.0. To put it bluntly, the first 16 days of 2018 sucked. I need a do over. This has been my 2018 ...

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Are you tired of seeing your Facebook feed littered with the results of your friends’ quizzes, with titles such as, “Which Game of Thrones...

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A date appropriate reminder that our nation works better when our leaders seek to unite rather than divide. We should strive to tak...

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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a family rock ‘n’ roll update, so here it goes. If you’re in the Cleveland area, you have three chances...

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about death. These past few days have been the first time I’ve had to deal with it on a family level as ...

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There are lots of correct ways to respond to employee complaints. Handcuffing and arresting the employee is most definitely NOT one of...

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We are incredibly sad today, as my mother-in-law passed away. Norah told me that her head was swimming and that she couldn’t process ...

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Amber Bridges, the former Lead Staff in the City of Indianapolis Magistrate Court, claims that her efforts to ease employees’ complaints a...

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When one of your biggest stars loses his high-profile job in one the year’s biggest sexual harassment scandals, how to you react? With a...

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The inaugural nominee for the Worst Employer of 2018  is a doozy. I bring you ( courtesy of the New York Post ) the holy harasser.

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