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I'm not sure where army judge saw you are in the UK-but he is correct if so. I don't think any of the regular posters here are familiar with UK law. I can tell you that in the US, while it is not legally required to obtain the applicant's permission to check references, it is definitely bad...

Oh fun. What kind?

Finally had to get Owner involved in New Employee who is a disaster. She has been here since January and I think the only time she put in a full 40 hours since was her first week. I would just fire her but owner's have no guts...(I would use other words but family board). Culminated with her...

This is one of my personal pet peeves. Everyone should be treated fairly; in the adult world that does not mean everyone gets treated exactly the same. I don't have a problem with the ban if it's too big a problem to address one on one; I also don't have a problem making an exception for...

Did you explain why it was really, really important that they do it your way? j/k

This page from Cook County: http://www.cookcountycourt.org/FORJURORS/FrequentlyAskedQuestions.aspx states that employers do not have to pay people on jury duty but has the same basic cannot punish, coerce, etc. language regarding jury duty. I think it's safe to assume the same principle...

Assuming you run on calendar year, I don't usually have a lot of sympathy for someone who has exhausted all their leave by July barring some exceptional circumstances, if your company provides a decent PTO package to begin with. So making the time unpaid doesn't bother me. The discipline for...

It gets better with the employee I was ranting about in my original post. After I disciplined her, she went whining to the owner who totally fell for that favoritism and "being singled out" stuff. I'm pretty sure she turned on the tears too. So I got called in with the owners the next day and...

In need of mental health: When I bring up a performance issue to you I am SO not interested in hearing "So and so does such and such and you don't say anything. I'm being singled out." This is NOT #$&(* elementary school and I don't want to hear that crap. We are discussing you and YOUR...

good luck, txls. hope the kids are ok.

I called Two Men and a Truck to move my piano. After my dad and I about killed ourselves getting it on the truck, when we arrived at the house, I had them to unload it. It took them five minutes flat to pick it up, carry it up the four patio concrete steps and into the house.

Or worse, their gender, race, etc....Yeah, txls I think you'd better give that supervisor some termination coaching. :-) And, if the girl's family thinks that a constructive way of dealing with it is to call, use profanity and threaten physical violence, I'm maybe getting a clue why she...

Dealing with something similar here. If you don't have a job description already with extensive and specific details about the physical requirements of the job (must be able to climb in and out of boats x times a day, must be able to lift x pounds up to x times per day, must climb x stairs to a...

You were smart to get the painting done though. We also had plans to paint before moving in, but long story short the timing just didn't work out like we hoped, and practically we decided we'd rather get the boxes and furniture out of our way and paint at a later date. Been there five years...

Haven't directly experienced it, but a lot of it depends on the condition of your parents, what kind of situation they are going to, etc. Are they still competent to handle their own affairs? Are they moving to an apartment living situation where they are mostly independent or do they need a...

It's Opening Day in our town. Every salesman is gone, only office people left. I'm closing up early!

So sorry Cynthia. Know that you did the best you could for her.

Normally the warehouse guy is allowed to be pretty slovenly-he's a big guy, and sweat pants and T-shirts are about as dressed up as he does, and that's fine for that position. But we have VIPs visiting today so I asked him to look better and he readily agreed to at least wear nice jeans....It...

I replaced someone who...let's just say didn't know half as much about certain legal responsibilities of the position she held as she thought she did. I have finally trained employees that the quickest way to insure they won't get their way is to say, "When Gerri was here..."

txls, I think a person like that is just wanting to vent and get attention. I'd suggest simply responding in a not very interested tone, "That does sound hard" or "I'm sure you can work it out" or "it has been tough" or something like that and excusing yourself as quickly as possible. Anything...