I have noticed that when cases don’t settle at mediation it is because of one of two reasons. REASON ONE: EMOTIONS One reason is emotions. It is rare, but sometimes the parties come to mediation only because it was mandated by the court. The parties just don’t want to...
Year: 2012
Evaluations May Be A Problem
One of my employment workplace pet peeves are evaluations improperly done. The problem all started with the employee manual. Someone, way back when, put a clause in the manual that stated that evaluations would be performed every year in January. This got copied by...
Smells At Work
When I do discrimination trainings, I always talk about smells at work. Maybe I have a sensitive nose, but smells at work can be a real distraction. Smells include the stinky ones like body odor but they also include the more subjective obnoxious smells such as...
When is Weight an Issue at work?
As a society today, weight is starting to effect the workforce more and more. Specifically, what happens when an employee gets so large (obese but “large” sounds better) that they can no longer effectively do their job. Are they really not able to do their job or is...
The Two Worse Sounds
There are two sounds that I never want to hear. I can avoid one, for the most part, by driving carefully but the other is designed by the phone company to drive me crazy. What am I talking about? These two sounds are 1) the sound that metal makes when your car has hit...