Today, I thought I’d take a look at some of the best songs ever written about working. Here are my first five. (These are not necessarily the “top 5,” and are not in any particular order; they are just the five that came to mind.) They hurt you at home, and they hit you at schoolThey hate you if you’re clever, and they despise a foolTill you’re so fucking crazy, you can’t follow their rulesA…

James Scott’s employer fired him for accumulating 10 points under its no-fault attendance policy. He claimed FMLA retaliation, alleging that his employer unlawfully assessed some of his points while he was taking FMLA-protected leave to care for his ill wife. At his deposition, however, Scott admitted that the FMLA had nothing whatsoever to do with his termination. Q. Paragraph 31 [of the complaint] says that you believe that your FMLA leave to attend to your wife…

A recent study suggests that there has been a backlash against the #MeToo movement. According to  the Harvard Business Review, men have are treating their females co-workers differently because of #MeToo. 19% of men said they were reluctant to hire attractive women 21% said they were reluctant to hire women for jobs involving close interactions with men 27% said they avoided one-on-one meetings with female colleagues This isn’t a #MeToo problem. It’s the problem…

“Bob is such a NASTY MOTHER FUCKER don’t know how to talk to people!!!!!! Fuck his mother and his entire fucking family!!!! What a LOSER!!!!” “Hey, did you bring enough KFC for everyone?” “Go back to Africa, you bunch of fucking losers.” “Hey anybody smell that? I smell fried chicken and watermelon.” You’d think that if any of your employees lobbed any of these bombs at a supervisor or coworker, you’d have no legal issue…

With a 13 year old with one foot dangling in the music business, I do a lot of reading about the music business, and what it means to live that life in 2019 and beyond. This article, written by Rhett Miller late last year, perhaps sums it up better than any I’ve read. It’s titled, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Rocker. And it paints a fairly bleak, isolating picture of what it’s like…

Jordan does not explain how being disciplined for her unplanned absences and tardy arrivals created a hostile work environment. Without evidence indicating that she experienced severe or pervasive conduct, Jordan’s hostile work environment claim fails. Every now again it’s refreshing to review a common-sense judicial opinion. Jordan v. United Health Group is just such a case. Annette Jordan, disciplined by her employer for unplanned and unexcused absences, and repeated late arrivals, argued that the discipline…

If you rely on social media to paint for you a full and complete picture about your job applicants and employees, you are going to be very disappointed. According to a recent survey, 43% of workers use privacy settings to keep material hidden from employers, and 46% have searched for their own names and taken further measures to conceal their social media presence based on what they found. What types of information are they…