chap 5 blog

one section that i thougt was really intresting was the section about Early-retirement programs. this caught my eye because my dad is retireing and is having a very hard time adjusting "into a new way of life" I can see how early retirement couls help push poor preforming older people out but I think the idea of slowly phasing them out is such a better option. not only to help them adjust to having more time away from work but it would also help the buisness slowly fill in that spot.

Refections of 1-26-10

it is always very intresting to hear about the different reasons ppl sue other ppl. the poor city trying to do the right thing by taking the time to make up a test to treat ppl fairly and still was sued. it seems like that things should have gone there way because they were trying to correct a problem. where is there justice? I think that there are a lot of laws that get taken the wrong way, and over compinsate for the few ppl that do the wrong thing.

Chap 4 blog

most of the stuff in this chapter is common sence with a few ineresting facts mixed in. The only problem that i have is the buisness that im planing on starting is a small operation. I did really like the section about job enlargment/ enrichment. the only problem that i really saw with enlargment is when that person leave or advances then you have to get someone to take on that huge load and you might have to hire on 2 ppl to replace that one person. I wish my current job (office depot) would give me a little more enrichment. =(

refection of the 21st

This was a fun class to get togeather with the group and start getting to know eachother. even if we are bigger we seem to get along with eachother well.
it was very ineresting to go over the articals that we all read, and some of the issues that ppl are having with HR. I personaly am really inteasted in the hopital not hireing ppl that use tobaco, since i don't use it I feel that this would be a good change. however i can see how ppl on the flip-side could get very angry about it.
I know a little about the EEO's that we went over. mostly it was just a good review for me

HR issue

Top Five Legal Issues for Employers in 2010
basic overview
1. Wage-and-hour class action suits
being allowed to take a 30 min Uninterupted meal brake.
takeing a 15 min brake
Reimbursment for company exspences
getting paid for overtime
2. Retaliation arising out of discrimination
any negitive action based off of age, color ect
3. The Employee Free Choice Act
dealing with unions
4. Increasing challenges to retirement plan administration
issues with stock drop and ppl lossing their 401k's
5. Social networking and electronic media
using social networks to screen applicants as well as employees to check up on them, and collect information. openly or covertly

refection of the 19th

-I think that most of us would stay late to watch a snip of Office =). A lot of the internal vs. external hiring I’ve always had the point of view that the internal is always best because you know what you’re getting. But I never really looked at the pros or external.
-My dad has been a very high demand Satellite communications engineer for several decades and at his last job more than anything he was just there to help the new people get the real world experience needed to really excel but in the end it was my dad's EXP that get the project finished.
-I’m glad that education has been such a big drive in our country to get those highly skilled ppl to fill some gaps. I just wish that there was more of a push to get those ppl sitting on their butts living off their unemployment checks filling some of the grunt work tasks that are being pushed off to the Illegal immigrants. Too many ppl are too lazy to do some real work.
-working in retail I know about the lack of Employee encouragement. it seems the only time my boss talks to me is to tell me what to do or what I did wrong. on top of that as much as I suggest really good ideas to my managers I always get told that "that is not the way corporate told us to do it" they have broken my spirit I have become an unsatisfied drone.

blog chap 3

I know that they are important but reading though all the "Acts" was very boaring. one that i have heard about but never paid any attention to is the "Age Discrimination in Employment act" that would be really sucky to be coming up on your retirement and the companie decides that you cost to much and bump you off for a new person that will work for far less money.
Also I hear about OSHA all the time at work but I never really knew what it was there for. its very nice to know that my work is safer because of it.

refection of the 14th

I wasn't in class on the 14th I had to go out of town.

try this thing out

hi lets see if this works