Scary HR Story

After terminating a production employee, I sent her home with instructions to return at a given time that afternoon for her official “exit” proceeding. I had the employee’s supervisor with me at the time the employee returned, and we were flabbergasted to see she was dressed in a white, “angelic” dress, had put on makeup [...]

Ghost Hours and Vanishing Materials

An anonymous fax was received in the company’s engineering department alleging that the Tool & Die Shop Foreperson (“John Doe”)  in a nearby sister facility was stealing raw materials.  John was also allegedly disappearing from the premises after morning meetings and reappearing in time to end the first shift. We monitored John’s comings/goings for a [...]

Are you kidding me moment

I should have known better, but being unemployed at the time, I was happy to have been made a job offer. Back to the beginning.  I applied for an administrative assistant position. After two interviews, I thought I had it but received a call on a Thursday to say, “it was a tough choice, but [...]