http://www.hrhumour.com Blog about Employee Humour Techniques Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:08:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I loved the Sha la la story in People Management’s 27th August 2009, written originally on Lou Burrows blog. Experiences I have witnessed over my work history make me chuckle but that’s probably due to my “sense of humour”, watching people agreeing with the boss all the time. Being a young ... http://www.hrhumour.com/sha-la-la/ People Management Magazine reported in their magazine a report on TV program “Can You Bank On Me? BBC1 24 August 2009” the program was about City high-flyers that were sent to work in struggling business to come up with ways of saving the real business. According to the write up ... http://www.hrhumour.com/hr-on-the-box/ The new sick note system has been heavily published recently but I have to chuckle and think is it needed? As an operational HR professional who deals with sick notes often I believe the current system does what it is needed to do. Within the industries I have experience in ... http://www.hrhumour.com/will-employer-policies-be-%e2%80%98fit%e2%80%99-to-run-alongside-new-sick-not-system/ It’s not often I look at the front of a magazine and laugh, but when I looked at the cover of the 10th September 2009 People Management Magazine it had a male “migrant worker” doing manual labour and in the back ground two well dressed people with high visibility jackets ... http://www.hrhumour.com/who-is-responsible-for-getting-a-fair-deal-for-migrant-workers/ I imagine I’m like many operational HR professionals who read things surrounding HR issues and smile at the article. I often chuckle and think, why do they really work in HR or are they just debating things for the sake of it! While reading an article in the Metro on April ... http://www.hrhumour.com/new-equality-bill-sometimes-you-read-things-that-make-you-smile%e2%80%a6/ Try this on a Friday afternoon for a bit of fun.... Phone up someone in your business that is in a different office (or out of hearsay). Ask for Mr Walls, when you get the response no one called Mr Walls work here ask for Mrs Walls. When they reply that ... http://www.hrhumour.com/friday-afternoon-fun/ This made me smile, because I identified with it so much! I wonder if you will too? Not that I'm suggesting that any of you are loosing the plot......!!! Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder! This is how it manifests: I decide to ... http://www.hrhumour.com/sounds-familiar/ I’m sure many of you have experienced or read about an employee’s being disciplined for carrying out a funny act or stupid act that breaks the rules of the work place, but when do their actions deem a disciplinary? What about common sense? If the employee is breaking a technicality but ... http://www.hrhumour.com/when-breaking-the-rules-for-fun/ Over the last few years’ technology has flooded into businesses, yet at a place I was employed on an interim basis they operated with an old fashioned clocking in system. What amused me the most was that the old fashioned clocking in system used three different sized clocking in cards! ... http://www.hrhumour.com/food-for-thought/ For my first entry I wanted to make sure I wrote something that everyone could find funny and everyone would relate to, I think this fits both... Whose Job? This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody ... http://www.hrhumour.com/whose-job/