I’m sorry to leave you all alone
you’re sitting silent by the phone
but we’d always known there would come a day
the bus is warm and softly lit
and a hundred people ride in it
I guess I’m just another running away
I’m gonna pick it up
I’m gonna pick it up today
I’m bound pack it up
I’m bound pack it up and go away
—I’m Bound to Pack It Up, The White StripesDon’t get scared. This blog lives on. But, from this point forward, February 2nd will no longer be know as Groundhog Day, but as the day The White Stripes broke up.
As for me, I’ll always have the memory of the first time I heard the opening chords of Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and was hooked for life.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Protip: Do Not Buy A Vibrator For Any Lady At Your Office – from Above the Law
- There’s That Word Again - Bully – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer
- Trouble ensues over office artwork with Bible reference – from Work Matters
- Is age discrimination running rampant, or is there another explanation? – from Employment and Labor Insider
- What Is Facebook, Really? – from Harvard Business Review
- An employee filed a complaint? Facebook probably isn't an appropriate place to vent – from HR HQ
- Pew Research Center Study Finds Older Americans are Becoming More Active on the Internet Through Social Networking and Blogging – from the Digital Workplace Blog
- A Minute to Lose It: Why Every Health Care Professional Needs to Have a Social Media Policy. Now. – from Daniel Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- Sharing The Love On Twitter - Does Courtney Love Become Less Defamatory By Using Social Media? – from Social Media Employment Law Blog
- Senators Restate Opposition to Becker Re-Nomination – from Seth Borden’s Labor Relations Today
- So Much for Comity: Business Groups To Fight Becker Renomination for NLRB – from Joe’s HR and Benefits Blog
- Becker Nomination Redux – from The ChamberPost
- 47 Senators oppose Becker nomination to NLRB – from LawMemo Employment Law Blog
- Do the New NLRB Rules Really Help Workers Organize? – from Workplace Fairness
- The NLRB Is On The Offensive – from The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
- Can I Throw Away the Paper I-9 Once It's Been Scanned and Saved? – from the Delaware Employment Law Blog
- It's a Snow Day! Dealing with Inclement Weather and the Proper Payment of Wages – from Colorado Employer’s Law Blog
- More Employees Look To Employers For Medical Advice – from Workplace Diva
- Getting Down to Management Basics: My 5 Postulates of Employment Law – from TLNT
- Nepotism in the workplace – is this illegal? – from Employment Law Bits
- Dealing With Workplace Bullies: “There are a Lot of Fake Tough Guys Around Here” – from The HR Capitalist, Kris Dunn
- “Dirty Jobs” in HR – from Michael Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- Record Keeping Requirements Under the Fair Labor Standards Act: How Employers Can Best Protect Themselves – from Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights
- You Just Found Out Your Coworker Is Making More Than You. Now What? – from Evil HR Lady
- As FMLA Absences Mount, the Employer Must Lay Down the Law – from FMLA Insights
- Your employees are using more FMLA – from The Employer Handbook Blog
- No Triggering Event, No Duty to Preserve – from Bow Tie Law’s Blog
- Guess Who’s Coming to the Deposition? – from From the Sidebar
- E-Discovery - Litigation Hold Rule on the Way? – from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space
- Should You Negotiate Your Non-Compete? Yes, and Here’s 5 Reasons Why – from Legal Developments In Non-Competition Agreements
- Why you should negotiate your non-compete – from Rob Radcliff’s Smooth Transitions