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OMG! I've been in the workforce for roughly 50 years and this is the first time I've ever been off for 3 weeks straight. Doc cleared me to RTW last week with only a minor lift restriction. Only residual effect is suffering a major overdose of Olympic TV. Got a verbal reprimand from my boss...

We've lost several in the last three months moving to better paying jobs. Just had a comp survey run last year but I finding that it's low, especially in the panhandle. LDA

I hear ya Betty, stay warm up there. I wonder if the cold has anything to do with the SHRM board being down the last few days?

I hear ya Betty, stay warm up there. I wonder if the cold has anything to do with the SHRM board being down the last few days?

The companies that I've worked for that did permit space heaters required that they have tip-over switches (pretty much std. these days) and a timer so they wouldn't accidentally be left on over night. Beats building a fire in your wastebasket.

Space Heaters? Watch out for the safety committee patrolling for violations . From the frigid office files: - After banning space heaters I once had an employee ask if she could build a fire in her waste basket. - I once found the IT guy with twelve PCs cranked up in his office for...

OP: Welcome to the "Royal Order of Scapegoats". Many of us are members. Just be prepared to explain the circumstances of your departure when interviewing. If you took all reasonable/mandated steps in closing the store this shouldn't be a career ending event unless the employer cited steps...

Elle, your sister's a brave soul. A very long time ago (just out of college) I worked for a small fly-by-night TV station. Sold ads, cut commercials, took out the trash and yes, read news when the equipment was working. Commercial grade camcorders were just coming out back then, most...

Years ago my wife di a lot of advertising production at TV stations and knew the local staff well. She said the production staff always joked about which up-and-coming news reporter would put themselves in the most dangerous location or worst weather for a story. Each seemed to try to out-do...

Last work day for this year!!! And just a half-day at that! Have a merry What-ever ya'll

Office party today, starting to feel like "Patty Lewis, HR Director". They do their best to turn me from Santa into the Grinch every year at this time. (note to self: take the month of Dec off next year)

I don't envy you that freezing rain Betty. It looks like we have a one week respite from the nasty stuff, but they say more in on the way. Just in time for Christmas.

Growing up in several north-central states snow was no big deal and seldom a cause for shutdowns. I recall missing one day due a blizzard in ND back in HS. They actually had school that day but those of us on rural bus routes were excused since the bus got stuck. However the lack of snow...

This is my first day back in the office since last Thurs. afternoon. Darn ice storm sure scrambled my schedule for the week. Had no power for one day, but was luckier than some folks. The roads were mostly dry this morning except for bridges, overpasses and elevated roadways which still had...

We have no HVAC in the men's room. We refer it as our Alaskan outhouse at this time of year. Our Admin. offices are on a long hallway. My end of the hall gets most of whatever is coming out of the vents, while the folks down in accounting get very little. This worked fine until they...

Any time you break a large open space up into smaller ones, it's going to require more HVAC even if the system is reconfigured to deliver air to each office. The places I've worked that did permit space heaters required a timer be used on it to eliminate the possibility of it being left on...

OOOooooooo! a space heater, wait until the safety committee hears about that! After having been in the workforce nearly half a century I can say that I've never worked in a building where the a/c-heat was evenly distributed except my home-office. (and that's only if my wife quits messing with...

it supposed to be in the upper 70s today, then drop into the 20s tomorrow night with sleet, snow and freezing rain. That's Texas weather for ya.

OMG! They've erected a 15' Christmas tree in the lobby over the Thanksgiving break (12' ceiling, they had to put the rest in a skylight) Little stockings are now stuck to our nameplates by our office doors. Wow, five days off and I can't remember all my passwords or where I am on each of...

That's the way it was when I worked for a retail chain. The corporate office staff was expected to work if the stores were open, and they only closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas days.