Lance Haun » Phone/Email http://lancehaun.com Life between the brackets Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:09:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Your HR guy has caller ID http://lancehaun.com/your-hr-guy-has-caller-id/ http://lancehaun.com/your-hr-guy-has-caller-id/#comments Thu, 15 Jun 2006 18:22:54 +0000 Lance Haun http://www.yourhrguy.com/2006/06/15/your-hr-guy-has-caller-id/ Continue reading →]]> I know it comes to a shock to some of you but the HR guy has technology that has existed for the past 15 years known as caller ID.  That means when you hit redial every 30 seconds for 20 minutes straight, I know about it.  And guess what, it isn’t going to get me out of my meeting, lunch or interview sooner by calling me every minute.  So here is what I suggest: leave me a message and send me an e-mail confirming the fact that you left me a message, a callback number and the best time to reach you.  If you do this and do not annoy my co-workers, you will get the equivalent of a gold star next to your name on the board. If you do not follow my advice, I will furrow my brow and think mean things of you.  Will it disqualify you from a job? Not entirely (unless of course when I do answer, you simply breathe heavily and then hang up). But remember, your HR guy is going to be working with you and more importantly, he is going to be working very closely with your direct supervisor who will rake the HR guy over the coals, throw him under the bus, etc… if he hires a stalker-lite person (again).

I am all for being forward in your job search but there is a fine line between being a good job candidate and being an obsessive job candidate. Find it, learn it, love it.

]]> http://lancehaun.com/your-hr-guy-has-caller-id/feed/ 4 Offering Copious BJ's at Work — Part 1 http://lancehaun.com/offering-copious-bjs-at-work-part-1/ http://lancehaun.com/offering-copious-bjs-at-work-part-1/#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:48:38 +0000 Lance Haun http://www.yourhrguy.com/2006/06/12/offering-copious-bjs-at-work-part-1/ Continue reading →]]> It’s not a joke, it’s one of the first problems I had to deal with as a manager. I was working as a manager in an administrative portion of a major university. I worked with a mixed group of classified employees and student staff. Since there were shifts between students and things always came up, we had a way of students requesting for people to take their shifts. We basically had them send out a request to the listserv to be distributed to all staff regarding when their shift was available and whatever reasons they were looking to get it filled. One day as I was about to leave at 5:30, I get an e-mail that says:

To: listserv
From: “Matt”
Subject: Shift available

Thursday 3/31
5:00pm – 9:00pm
Building C

Reason: I have a big lab I have to do. Copious BJ’s to the person who takes this shift.

I froze. I re-read. I froze again. I heard footsteps coming towards my office. A quicker pace than usual. In walks my boss, Director of the department. He says the four words I didn’t want to hear at 5:30: “Take care of it.” Guh. I call Matt and tell him to come to the office right now. I call my IT guy to have him come in. In between that time, I get e-mails from three people on my staff that can’t believe the e-mail. One of them is going to file a complaint with the Human Rights Department. The IT guy comes in first so I have him sit with me to fire Matt.

Whenever Matt comes in, he is completely unapologetic. Whenever I tell him he is going to get fired, he gets defiant and starts asking me to cite what policies he has broken. I told him we work for a university that has a zero tolerance policy on sexually harassing words. This isn’t one of those things I could overlook, it is something that we had to take care of right now.

After he leaves, I tell the IT guy to take care of his e-mail access. He says he will do it. He doesn’t. And guess what happens? To be continued…

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