The Form: Performance Review The Scenario: When it comes performance review time at the Offices of the International Polo League, human resources starts stressing. This is namely because the offices are staffed in the lower ranks by the just-undertalented-enough-to-not-make-it-into-the-league bourgeois youth, whose dreams of equine days filled with sun shine/dresses were superseded by a life [...]
Signing forms and documents online still gives more than a few people pause. Electronic and digital signatures (two different things) are here to stay, and their use has become more and more standard since Bill Clinton capped his presidency with his greatest achievement: the Esign Act, which legalized non-ink signatures. Since then it has come [...]
The Form: Salary Agreement The Dream: Think of the most stereotyped, cold and socially unconscious corporate-y corporation you can possibly mentally muster, with its C-level executives administering themselves raises faster than human resources can keep up with them. It would be, I think you can agree, a total nightmare. The human resources department needs a [...]
The Form: Employee Expense Report An imaginary scenario: Say you work for a public relations company with international clients, and some of the more important employees at your company travel the world in order to catch up with these clients in a few schmooze sessions over drinks and food. The international schmoozing is a key [...]
Summer is nigh, and that means predominantly one thing: free things! From outdoor shows to indoor…shows (I guess I didn’t really take full advantage of last summer), this schweatiest of scheasons is a pretty good time for most people. Excepting one group–a group providing many times more free services than the rest of the free [...]
The Form: Employee Policies/Handbook Agreement Imagine this Scenario: You have just stepped in to fill a position previously occupied by a total derelict failure of a worthless human. What was it that turned your predecessor from decent human to worthless human? EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK NEGLECT. That’s right, this person epidemically forgot or neglected to have many [...]
The Form: Non-Disclosure (NDA) The Theoretical Scenario: Imagine, just for a totally brief moment, that you were privy to some information that was about to unleash utter disruption on the carnivorous plant industry. You are about to market carnivorous plants that eat the run of the mill household spider, thus returning it to the circle [...]
FEATURE FEATURE TIME Y’ALL. In today’s insanely highly anticipated feature feature, we’ll be going over something as integral to forms as a hat is to the pope. I speak of the submissions page, the http utopia where you go to view and make use of all the scrumptious information collected via your form. On paper, [...]
If you work in human resources, will you have a job in seven years? Based on the predictions released this week by Erin Osterhaus, esteemed managing editor of Software Advice‘s HR blog The New Talent Times, the answer is resoundingly it depends. And what does long term job security depend on? The answer lies within you. True story. [...]
The Form: Replacement ID The Scenario: The most serious problem facing ID losers is not necessarily the lost ID in itself, but the paperwork they face obtaining a new one. Whether a school ID, driver’s licence or medica marijuana card, the prospect of obtaining a new one causes considerable stress. Such was the case [...]
