WIRTW #496 (the “troll” edition)

Troll:

“One who posts a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument.”

– Urban Dictionary

Trolls are a sad an unfortunate part of life on the internet. I put myself out there on a daily basis, and there will be idiots in the comments below, or on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook, who will feel the need to have their ignorant say.

Courtney Barnett feels my pain, and crafted, via song, the perfect response:

Don’t you have anything better to do?
I wish that someone could hug you
Must be lonely
Being angry
Feeling over-looked
You sit alone at home in the darkness
With all the pent-up rage that you harness
I’m real sorry
’Bout whatever happened to you

 

Thanks CB!

Here’s what I read this week:

Discrimination

• Beyond Legal Risk — via Kate Bischoff’s tHRive Law & Consulting
• Is HR/diversity information a trade secret? — via Employment & Labor Insider
• Sexual Harassment Allegations Lead to Shareholder Lawsuits — via Financial Services Employment Law
• Ex-Googler’s explosive sexual harassment lawsuit says she found a coworker hiding under her desk — via Boy Genius Report
• Work After #MeToo — via Harvard Business Review
• Avoid Mark Cuban’s mistake when dealing with sexual harassment at work — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
• Does Your Harassment Policy Meet These 12 Requirements — via California Employment Law
• Second Circuit: Title VII Bars Sexual Orientation Discrimination; Impact in Connecticut Muted — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Executive Employment and Discrimination — via Workplace Prof Blog

Technology

• Are You Prepared to Avoid Netflix-Like Corporate Social Media Snafus? — via EntertainHR
• Text Messaging: Almost Dead or Alive and Kicking? — via Fistful of Talent
• New case involving employee Facebook privacy — via Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space
• 5 exiting employee strategies to keep your data safe — via HR Dive
• 6 Cybersecurity Trends to Watch and How & Why the Cybersecurity Landscape Is Changing — via Dark Reading
• New SEC Rules on Public Companies’ Cybersecurity — via In House
• Blockchain: Can Smart Contracts Replace Lawyers? — via Above the Law

HR & Employee Relations

• Episode 16 – A Crazy Sexist Pig — via Hostile Work Environment Podcast
• Can You Stop Someone from Secretly Recording Conversations at Work? — via EntertainHR
• How to Handle 5 Generations in the Workplace — via HR Hero Line
• Dodd-Frank Whistleblowers: Supreme Court Holds Internal Complaints are Not Enough — via Currents

Wage & Hour

• How a $608 Mistake Cost This Business Over $40,000 — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
• Mythbusting the Gig Economy — via TLNT
• Grubhub trial: Gig economy survives another day — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered
• Despite New DOL, Independent Contractor Misclassification and Joint Employment Remain Risky — via Who Is My Employee?
• Next Time You Want to Conduct FMLA Surveillance on Your Employee, Have a Good Reason Why — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights

Labor

• The Supreme Court will soon decide whether workers must pay unions — again — via Wonkblog
• Union workers rally ahead of major Supreme Court case — via Workplace Fairness
• The Return of Browning-Ferris and Other Legal Mysteries for Employers — via CUE, Inc.

OSHA & Safety

• Federal Court Finds That OSHA Has An Unlimited “Look-Back” Period to Search Employer Citation Histories For Issuing Repeat Violations — via Labor & Employment Law Navigator
• Another Update from the ABA OSHA Conference — via Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog