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A school in New Prague, Minnesota used this video as HR training for their teachers. See if you notice anything weird about it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok · Follow Staff at @isd721 reportedly had a professional development training which included this bizarre and racist video comparing white people to mosquitoes. Source: https://alphanews.org/new-prague-school-staff-training-video-depicts-white-people-as-mosquitoes/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There's a word for the way people are portrayed and treated in this video used to train teachers in Minnesota... I just can't think of it. Oh yeah! Microaggressions! White people are just like mosquitoes! They suck the life right out of you slowly! And if...

"Either way, best of luck to you. Recruiters are watching. HR is watching everywhere, and we hate you. We hate you so much. And you think we can't do anything? Oh we can. We have the power," she said In a TikTok video that recently surfaced on Twitter, a woman that claims she has a long background in human resources said that those who supported or attended freedom convoy protests in Canada could lose their jobs, or find it difficult to get a new one. The woman, who identified herself only as Tammy, said that she has spent over 10...

This was a half-baked idea. An Oregon property maintenance company is being accused of harassment by a former employee who says the HR manager sent him a penis-shaped cake and told him to “eat a d–k,” a new lawsuit says. Steven Urenda, who was the janitorial operations manager at Dasher Lights LLC and Aspen Ridge Property Services, is seeking over $500,000 in damages after he was forced to resign over the “increasingly hostile work environment,” according to the lawsuit filed in Multnomah County court. Urenda said in the suit filed Aug. 25 that the trouble began when he received a...

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced a hiring pause, but that’s not all. He also stated the company plans to replace nearly 8,000 jobs with AI. Krishna noted that back-office functions, specifically in the human resources (HR) sector, will be the first to face these changes. The transition will happen gradually over the next few years, with machines potentially taking over up to 30% of noncustomer-facing roles in the five years. This means that workers in finance, accounting, HR and other areas will likely find themselves facing stiff competition from robots and algorithms. The decision highlights the increasing reliance on automation...

More Google employees will be at risk for low performance ratings and fewer are expected to reach high marks under a new performance review system that starts next year, according to internal communications obtained by CNBC. In a recent Google all-hands meeting and in a separate presentation last week, executives presented more details of its new performance review process. Under the new system, Google estimates 6% of full-time employees will fall into a low-ranking category that puts them at higher risk for corrective action, versus 2% before. Simultaneously, it will be harder to achieve high marks: Google projects 22% percent...

First, the behavior coming from my daughter is not her. It’s as though someone has taken her away. My daughter started a new job end of November. She has always had a strong working ethic and went to college for human resources. We just recently found out she had been partying with girls from work and they have been encouraged her in having an affair. Well, her husband found out she is having an affair and all of us have been losing sleep and are emotionally stressed. He (husband) did talk to her and they had a plan to work...

Runa Jiang, a hiring manager based in the U.S., often shares various tips and tricks for scoring a new position and giving the best answers in job interviews to TikTok, where she has racked up more than 11,000 followers. However, she left the internet stunned when she admitted that recruiters often don't look for the most qualified employees, but instead, the people who they believe will last the longest. She explained that hiring managers don't get paid more depending on how well the people they hire perform, but if they give someone a job who quits soon after, it looks...

Dear business owners and CEO's: As a headhunter, I've been dealing with HR for 25 years, and I implore you to fire them now! All of them! Ninety-nine percent of them are liberal, woke, CRT-pushing pukes who prioritize personal pronouns over production and profit. I see them stalking social media to ensure that resumes of 'undesirables' are never seem by hiring managers. These elitist group-thinkers have an agenda, and it's not yours! The CEO of a Fortune 100 company told me last week that he's "scared to death" of his VPHR. Sound familiar? They're your enemy, not your friend; a...

We asked HR managers about the best ways to catch their attention – and to keep it. It’s anxiety on steroids when you enthusiastically invest in your application for your dream job and keep waiting to hear back from the hiring manager. If you don’t get an answer for a few days or weeks, you can say hello to that familiar spate of self-questioning coupled with debilitating attacks on your self-esteem. It’s anything but healthy and certainly not productive. According to a survey done by job aggregation site Indeed, employers have been ghosting their candidates more after the pandemic struck....

Conservatives have sat in paralysis for a good part of the past 25 years now not knowing how to address the left’s radical transformation of society that is canceling conservatives and forcing the left’s rules on everyone. Amazon bans our books and only a few people who are ridiculed compare it to George Orwell’s 1984. It’s because we think the takeover is being done by private corporations and actors in a free society, so we don’t know how to react. Most of us aren’t ready to call it communism or socialism; it doesn’t seem to violate the Constitution. The reality...

The business world’s discrimination against anything “Trump” has reached an epidemic level, touching former aides to the president, anybody pictured near the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, and now those who endorsed him on social media posts. A new survey of hiring managers provided to Secrets found that backing Trump on social media is the top reason to reject a job applicant. The apparent reason: Human resources departments want to avoid “tiffs” between employees. “Likely to avoid future office tiffs, a significant portion of hiring managers admitted to negatively judging candidates based on the political content posted. For 27% of hiring...

A job applicant found a way to stand out from the crowd by hand-delivering his CV hidden in a box of food for the office - but people were divided as to whether the tactic would workApplying for a new job can be a disheartening process as it often feels impossible to stand out from the hoards of other applicants. But one man found a creative way to ensure his CV gained attention in the office after he pretended to be a delivery man to drop off his application hidden inside a box of doughnuts. A picture shared to Reddit...

Current human resource (HR) policies deliberately misuse terms such as diversity and equity to achieve political ends. That isn’t news. But the process by which those terms were twisted into their current shapes is worth a look. Likewise, it is important to see how their current usage is grounded in economic ignorance and unsound ethics. Sadly, the resultant HR policies -- including microaggression training and gender-and-race training -- feed a growth industry of diversity hucksters. These quick-buck artists subvert productive corporate meritocracies and replace them with systems that enshrine mediocrity, manufacture complaints, and generate resentment – not to mention whining...

I worked in Human Resources for 15 years. You may think this is the group that processes payroll and plans the company picnic. However, when I entered the profession, it was becoming a differentiating factor. The performance management model at General Electric had become a strategic advantage. The focus of my graduate program was measuring and maximizing human capital. Saying human capital is a dirty word now. However, at that time, it was viewed as the ability to measure the knowledge, skill, productivity, skill, and potential of individuals in the workforce. Then the goal was to translate that information into...

Here's Nancy's resolution: RESOLUTION Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes. Resolved, That the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committees on Financial Services, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary, Oversight and Reform, and 3 Ways and Means, are directed to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for...

Major League Baseball’s remarkable home run surge has led to countless records being broken this season. Now the biggest one has fallen. When Jonathan Villar of the Baltimore Orioles launched a three-run home run during Wednesday’s 7-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers, it was No. 6,106 hit across MLB this season. That breaks the previous record of 6,105 hit in 2017.

A woman and her employer reached a settlement on Wednesday in a case over how she was fired without notice from her job of 30 years over eating a colleague's chocolate bar. The woman, Juliane L., had been employed as a care worker at a facility for disabled children for more than three decades, when she was fired in February without notice over accusations that she ate a colleague’s chocolate bar worth €2.50, and also used a work washing machine for private purposes. The employer had argued that these were violations of house rules, and that she had repeatedly stolen...

The various media pundits and news stories are calling H.R. 1180 a “new overtime bill”. However, in reality the ‘take pay or take time off’ concept is more than 50 years old; we used to call it “compensatory time” or “comp time”...... The basic principle can be awesome for employees for a variety of reasons. However, few young workers today have an understanding of how it works. Say you work 60 hours in a week. If ‘compensatory time’ options are available you can take your standard 40 hour paycheck and defer the 20 overtime hours to future time off at...

President Trump has been walking a difficult road since he entered office just under a month ago. Compared to what he is facing while in the White House, his “impossible” election looks simple. Every action he takes is scrutinized and criticized by liberals, the media, and even some Republicans. They have joined forces to try and make it impossible for President Trump to actually accomplish anything. They have had a fair amount of success and many of Trump’s actions are taking longer than they should to complete. While the world is focusing on the Commander-in-Chief, waiting to see how they...

Question: What does human resources have in common with the U.S. presidential campaign? How about taxes, foreign trade, labor relations, minimum wage, rights for women, immigration, wage stagnation, education, health care, religion ... Every one of them is a core HR issue. Your employee's core beliefs track those of the candidates who have been shouting, lying and name-calling for months. Being “politically correct” may not sound great but it’s a survival skill that could keep your company productive and keep you out of court. That's why we have updated our popular 75-minute "Being Politically Correct at Work" training course with...