Losing Disability Benefits Because of Facebook/Chippendales
The Lede from The New York Times had this as a title: "Depressed Woman Appears Happy on Facebook, Trouble Ensues."  When you read through the story (first reported from CBC News), it's another lesson to employees to watch what you post on sites like Facebook: A 29-year-old Canadian woman who says she’s too depressed to do her job claims that her employer’s insurance company stopped paying her disability benefits because she posted some photographs of herself on Facebook in which she appeared to be happy. Nathalie Blanchard, who has been on sick leave from an IBM office in Quebec since “she was diagnosed with major depression” 18... (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE C

A Few Restaurants in Park Slope You May Not Want To Work For
From New York Magazine's always excellent Grub Street: When Marc Murphy testified against a proposed bill mandating that restaurateurs provide paid sick leave, his director of operations made sure to point out that Landmarc treats its employees very well, thank you (among other things, they get five sick days after they’ve worked there a year). But here’s something interesting — another restaurateur who testified against the bill on Tuesday, Irene Lo Re, also happens to be the owner of one of 25 Park Slope restaurants that were busted by the state Department of Labor for underpaying workers. Though the eateries weren’t named in... (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE CLIC

Astronology - Giving Thanks to Our Top Performers
Astronology Volume X Issue 19   November 17, 2009 Dear Andrew, Astron Solutions provides high-quality, low-cost, innovative human resources consulting services to organizations like yours. Call us for advice, innovative program design, and user-friendly Web/PC based software. ... (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE CLI

Bill Belichick, Advice and Lists, and a Stress-Free Holiday Season
Let's start out on this Tuesday with The HR Capitalist who talks about the most-talked-about head coach in the NFL so far this week, Bill Belichick (picture on right from same article) who was under fire across the country for a decision to make a non-convential decision in a big spot (and to be fair, some agree with his decision). The blog defends Belichick saying that unconventional decisions like that are what you need to do to win and how Tom Brady, the New England Patriots' quarterback, backed up his head coach. The truth is that you do have to make big decisions that leave yourself open to second-guessing if you are to be a... (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE CLICK THE LI

Nightmare Bosses who Make Every Day Friday the 13th
Saw this picture on the New York Post website today. The Post lists Anna Wintour, Dick Cheney, George Steinbrenner, Martha Stewart, Naomi Campbell, Donald Trump, Steve Phillips, Gordon Ramsay, Scott Rudin, Marge Schott, David Letterman, Lenny Dykstra, Leona Helmsley, Dov Charney, James Dolan, Bonnie Fuller, Bob Barker, Bernie Madoff, Ronald Perelman, Sumner Redstone, Ken Lewis, Ken Lay, Al Dunlap, Faith Popcorn, Sam Zell, J. Edgar Hoover, and Paul Pressler as the worst bosses. I think you could add the fictional bosses of Michael Scott from The Office, Bill Lumberg from Office Space, Mr. Burns from The Simpsons and Don Draper from Mad Men... (THIS IS ONLY A PREVIEW. PLEASE CLI