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The Week Ahead

By Laurie on January 1st in Human Resources

Happy 2012! Welcome back. I’m glad you didn’t die in a drunk driving accident. Congratulations for making it to another year. Hooray! Today marks the beginning of my annual birthday week. I love my birthday. It’s fun. Ken and I always do something great. And I always hope that people will back off, bite their [...]

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Day Off

By Laurie on December 31st in Human Resources

See you next year!

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2012 Resolutions

By Laurie on December 30th in Human Resources

Resolutions are still for suckers. Happy New Year!

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2012 Predictions

By Laurie on December 29th in Human Resources

I’ve been asked to write my ’2012 predictions’ on other blogs and I said yes because I don’t want to crap up my blog with HR garbage. Instead, I thought I would look at last year’s predictions and see how I did. You won’t get a big raise. CORRECT. The average pay increase in 2011 [...]

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2011 Failures: #1

By Laurie on December 28th in Human Resources

Thanksgiving 2011 was one for the record books. My husband and I took an awesome vacation to Paris. If you ever want advice on how to avoid holiday stress, my best recommendation is to travel 3,000 miles away from your family. And go somewhere where they don’t speak English. Unfortunately, I had a moment and [...]

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2011 Failures: #2

By Laurie on December 27th in Human Resources

I’m not someone who is addicted to many drugs. I take allergy medication and a pill for my Rosacea. When I’m feeling crazy, I take an ibuprofen. But I do have a prescription for Ambien and it’s my 100% required drug for international travel. A few months ago, I went to Manchester. I had a [...]

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2011 Failures: #3

By Laurie on December 26th in Human Resources

Last year I wrote about my accomplishments, failures, regrets, resolutions, and predictions… …and I regret that series because it was totally boring. And this year, I can’t write about my accomplishments because I coasted through much of the year and tried to adjust to a new job as a HR marketing chick while managing a [...]

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Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You

By Laurie on December 25th in Human Resources

Christmas is the time to say I love you. Or eat Chinese food. Or go see a movie. Or all of the above. It’s also a time to watch XTC sing about Christmas because you can’t get this song on iTunes. Have a great day, yo.

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Day Off

By Laurie on December 24th in Human Resources

¿Donde Esta Santa Claus? I look for him because it’s Christmas Eve.

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F@%k It Friday: Movie Season

By Laurie on December 23rd in Human Resources

We are in my favorite season — movie season. I’ve already seen Hugo and Young Adult and Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I’m excited to see The Descendants, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Carnage, Iron Lady, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, My Week With Marilyn and even Mission Impossible. I still need to see The Muppets. I don’t want [...]

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Performance Management Manifesto

By Laurie on December 22nd in Human Resources

Look out. Email messages are rolling in about year-end reviews, merit increases, and general dissatisfaction with performance management processes. We are even talking about performance management at my own company. I once tried to write a ‘performance management manifesto‘ while working at Pfizer. It was awful. I sounded like Andy Rooney. And although there are [...]

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Why My Christmas Cookies Are Being Shipped Via The USPS

By Laurie on December 21st in Human Resources

I love getting good mail. Most of my bills are delivered electronically but I love postcards, notes, and fun little packages from my girlfriends. I hate junk mail but I love good catalogs. This year, I’m shipping all of my holiday gifts and Christmas cookies via the United States Postal Service. I don’t have any [...]

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Great Sales People

By Laurie on December 20th in Human Resources

I constantly bag on ‘sales professionals’ on this blog but I really only mean to bag on the bad ones. You know who I’m talking about. The ladies and gentlemen who affect a certain ‘Tony Robbins‘ persona. Barf. I’ve worked in some very competitive industries — technology, HR, chemical, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, insurance — and [...]

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