Being a parent is the world’s hardest job. But it’s also the most world’s most rewarding one. Which is why we keep doing it. The rewards are worth celebrating.
Last Friday night, I got to watch my daughter and her band absolutely blow the glass-pyramid roof off the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Cleveland Magazine’s Best of Cleveland Party.
“An example,” you ask? Here’s their latest original song, called “3.5” (which, in this proud dad’s very unbiased opinion, rips).
I love seeing the looks on people’s faces when the realize the sounds they are hearing are coming from a bunch of kids. At the Best of Cleveland event, I really loved seeing the band that followed them transform from, “We have to follow some kid band” (which was the look on their faces before soundcheck), to “How in the hell are we supposed to follow that?!” (which they actually said as they were walking onto the stage for their set.)
Here’s some photo memories of the evening, set to the soundtrack of a local radio show’s A+ review of Fake ID.
If you’re so inclined to check out all of Fake ID’s goings-on, they have a website, FakeIDofficialband.com.
Here’s what I read this week.
Discrimination
- You CAN Legitimately Beat Discrimination Claims — via Janette Levey Frisch’s The Emplawyerologist Blog
- Study: Hiring Managers Discriminate on the Basis of Class — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas
- Is gender dysphoria an ADA-protected disability? — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider
- Are Gender Dysphoria and Gender Identity Disorders the Same? Why Does it Even Matter? — via Understanding the ADA
- Inclusion for trans, nonbinary workers won’t come from mere ‘core values’ — via HR Dive
HR & Employee Relations
- What A Letter Of Workplace Abuse Really Looks Like — via The Empowered Employee
- How the Misconception of ‘Free Speech’ in the Workplace Persists through High-Profile Examples of Social Consciousness — via EntertainHR
- Employment Law Checklist Project: Protecting the Sacredness of Jury Duty — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog
- My mother is tracking my comings and goings at work — via Ask a Manager
- Are You Ready for When an Employee Dies? — via HR Hero Line
Technology
- Yes, you can be fired for sharing Elmo poop memes. It’s another lesson on at-will employment. — via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog
- Rudy Giuliani needed Apple genius help to unlock his iPhone after being named Trump cybersecurity adviser — via NBC News
- Lawyers Get a Poor Cybersecurity Grade: ABA Report — via Ride The Lightning
- Employers view worker training, policies as key to data security — via HR Dive
- Cybersecurity’s ‘Moral Imperative’ — via Dark Reading
- One in Four Law Firms Have Experienced a Security Breach — via Technologist
- Appeals court tosses slip-and-fall award because of admission of Google Maps image — via ABA Journal Daily News
Wage & Hour
- Employers: Don’t Be Part of the Department of Labor’s Statistics — via The Employment Brief
- Can Employees Be Disciplined When They Exceed the Frequency on Their FMLA Medical Certification? A Court Finally May Have Given Us an Answer — via Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights
Labor
- No more ‘Scabby’? A Philly case means Trump’s NLRB could outlaw the ubiquitous union rat — via Billy Penn
- Laboring Towards 2020 — via Labor Relations Institute
- Over the Last Week, At Least 85,000 Workers Were Out on 13 Different Strikes — via Workplace Fairness
OSHA & Safety
- National Safety Council Endorses Zero Tolerance Prohibition on Cannabis/Marijuana for Safety-Sensitive Employees — via Employment Law Lookout
- Can I require my employees to get a flu shot? — via FisherBroyles
- How to Handle Alcoholism in the Workplace — via Take It Personel-ly