HR Humor

• Evaluating Santa’s dual roles as employer and employee
  We haven’t taken a good close look at Santa in the last few years so we are taking another look at his dual roles as employee and employer. Santa as an employee While Santa is most famous in his role …
• Inspiration of the day – More than funny
  Every now and again, we like to make a post about someone or something that we find to be an inspiration. Recently, someone passed along this 20 minute video of a comedian named Michael Jr. It sat in …
• HR News Roundup: Service animals at work, drug testing, office designs, lighter side & more
  In this edition of HR News Roundup, we feature news about drug testing and opioids, service animals at work, leaderships styles, how Siri and Alexa are changing the workplace and more. Plus, as a bonu …
• Annoying Colleagues: A Taxonomy of Troublemakers
  Dr. Jody Foster, a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, is coauthor of a book with a compelling title: The Schmuck In My Office: How to Deal Effectively with Difficult P …
• Lighter side: Wacky boss behavior
  The last few weeks in August are popular for vacations. People try to enjoy a few more days of summer weather or take time off to get families ready for back to school. With that in mind, it seems lik …
• The lighter side: Parody TED video from a ‘Thought Leader’
  As you’ve probably noticed, we love our TED videos and we think we’ve found and posted some of the best business topics here on HR Web Cafe. All the more reason we found this generic TED T …
• Read this now, not later: Understanding procrastination
  If you’ve ever postponed a project to the facial-tic inducing last minute, or even if you haven’t, you will enjoy this humorous TED Talk video with a serious message. Tim Urban says that w …
• Jargon watch: Business buzzwords driving people to distraction
  Business buzzwords are the basis of a unique language spoken by CEOs and managers, but it drives the rest of us crazy. Catch up on the latest jargon. The way business leaders talk is apparently drivin …
• From the recruitment trenches: Job interview oddities
  What’s your funniest or worst war story of a job interview gone awry? Have you ever had a job candidate put lotion on her feet during the interview? No? How about a candidate who brings a pet bi …
• The most ‘creative’ sick day excuses, 2015 style
  As we approach peak sick day season, a CareerBuilder-Harris Poll survey looks at sick day trends and some of the most absurd sick-day excuses that have been offered to employees. Managers, fine tune y …

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