Recently, an employee, described as an organization’s “most difficult,” received a scathing performance review. Among his faults detailed in an unearthed internal memo — he failed to file his expense reports on time, ignored phone calls and meetings, and did not undertake any spectacular operations.
Any guesses on the identity of the organization? Believe it or not, it’s Al Qaeda. The Daily Beast provides all of the details.
I have two thoughts about this news. First, this story gives a whole new meaning to “this memo will self-destruct in 10 seconds.” Secondly, when you are terminated from Al Qaeda, you are really terminated from Al Qaeda.
Here’s the rest of what I read this week:
Discrimination
- Minimizing Potential Liability for Workplace Harassment Issues — from Workplace Insights
- Abraham Lincoln: Employment Lawyer — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
- You Can’t Use The “N-Word” - Not Even Once - But You Can Make Sexually Offensive Comments Four Times — from Employment Discrimination Report
- Harassment Is Equal Opportunity — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog
- Why Men Still Can’t Have It All — from Esquire
- The Problem with Boobs — from The Careerist
- Exxon Shareholders Reject Gay Discrimination Ban — from The New York Times
- Self-Destructing Messages Enter the Workplace With Browser App — from Bloomberg Businessweek
- Lawmakers seek to bar bosses from asking for Facebook passwords — from The Hill
- Employees assume bosses track their work computers, survey finds — from the LA Times
- Our Email Addiction: Can We Keep it From Following Us Home From Work? from TLNT
- Ten Steps You Can Take to Avoid Social Media Meltdowns — from Social Media Strategies Summit Blog
- Business Cloud Computing: Privacy Is Just As Important As Security — from ReadWrite
- You’re Lawyers, Not Luddites: Why Attorneys Can’t Ignore Tech — from The Sociable Lawyer Blog
- Employees: Better think twice before suing your employer — from Robin Shea’s Employment and Labor Insider
- “Why Can’t We Get Rid of Bad Teachers?” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
- The modern rules for workplace romance — from Real Business
- 13 Things Every Teen Needs To Know About Workplace Rights — from Donna Ballman’s Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home
- USERRA: Honor the Military by Obeying the Law Redux from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions
- You’re probably making awful assumptions about Millennials in your workplace — from ZDNet
- Dealing with mean girls — and boys — in the workplace — from Fox News
- How Do I Deal With a Coworker’s Horrible Manners? — from Lifehacker
- FLSA Lawsuits On The Rise — from Overtime Lawyer Blog
- Employment Law Alert: Wage and Hour Suits on the Rise — from i-Sight Investigation Software Blog
- Courts Make it More Difficult for Employees to Pursue Tip Theft by Employers — from Texas Employment Law Blog
- Dear Evil Skippy: Will I Look Like A Slacker If I Take Paternity Leave? — from Evil Skippy at Work
- Georgetown Law official exemplifies new stats on rise of breadwinner moms — from ABA Journal Daily News
- Why Men Work So Many Hours — from Harvard Business Review
- I Believe My Employee is Unfit to Return to Work. Can I Require a Full Medical Examination — from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
- President Obama Nominates Lafe Solomon to be NLRB General Counsel — from Wyatt Employment Law Report
- Broad limit on appointments urged — from SCOTUSblog