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This supervisor is totally unacceptable and if they worked for me, they wouldn’t be working for me very long. To expect an employee to get a task done and give them two minutes to get it done is totally unacceptable. The employee was absolutely right in saying that this is an unrealistic expectation and your...

This is an interesting one because the employee really is not doing anything wrong. If there was no policy or if the policy just said they can work remotely, where they work shouldn’t matter. Working from home or working from the forest, working from a cruise ship shouldn’t matter if the policy is written properly....

Oh, this is an interesting one. HR always gets the blame for people getting promotions, and that really is not the case. HRs role is to ensure fairness to all employees. So in this case, when the supervisor said, “I need to go to HR, ’cause they’re the ones that decide”, they really don’t decide....

This is an interesting one because in this case, the employee is right. The supervisor really should have set down with the employee and said, okay, we’re giving you an extra project and now your workload is such that you don’t see you’re able to finish it within the 40 hours that you typically work....

This is an interesting discussion that the supervisor had with the employee because what she is asking reflects on the Portal to Portal act, which is a piece of legislation that explains how you pay employees for time, personal time when they are traveling. And so in this case, the employee, depending upon whether they’re...

This is an interesting video. ’cause you look at it and you go, okay, so employees are asking for money. Well, that violates the solicitation policy that the company should have in their handbook that everybody should have signed off on having received solicitation. Policies are in handbooks and are implemented in a company to...

This really is a shock. This is the fact that, again, HR should be involved and employees should be trained on how to discuss performance, whether it be positive or negative. I always say it’s like a cookie. You have a positive, then you talk the negative, but you end with a positive. This coworker,...

Well, there’s a lot to unpack in this, in this particular video. First of all, HR needs to be involved. A company that does not, that has an HR department as the supervisor mentioned but not involve them is trouble. The employee should have been given a job description with the new duties and the...