Your ChatGPT history as a hiring test? That's a hard no.

"Take out your phone and open your ChatGPT app."

In a Reddit post that has gone viral, that's what someone claims just happened to them during a job interview.

If that interview scenario is real, the issues aren't just ethical. They're also potentially legal.

The 2nd nominee for The Worst Employer of 2026 is … The (Not) Joking CEO

At a company keynote in Las Vegas, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited the international employees to stand. He then joked that ICE agents were in the back of the room, ready to deport them. He doubled down with more immigration-enforcement punchlines. The crowd responded with faint boos. Slack lit up with employees calling the comments "deeply horrifying" and "not funny." 

Here's the part that makes this more than just a bad attempt at humor: this comes on the heels of multiple fatal shootings involving federal immigration agents, increased enforcement that ignores people's civil rights, and other acts of violence. People are dead. Families are grieving. And a billionaire CEO thought it was a good idea to riff on deportation for laughs.

Read the room.

Pro tip from pop culture: Don't fire your employees while they are in the ER

"If you fire her, she will sue you and I will testify."

That's not a plaintiff's lawyer talking. That's Dr. Robby, the chief of emergency medicine on The Pitt, grabbing a patient's phone and putting her boss on notice while she's being treated for what looks like SIRS—a systemic inflammatory response that's threatening her leg and possibly her life.

Debbie Cohen is in the ER. Her rash is spreading. Three senior physicians are at her bedside. And her biggest fear is missing work.

Her boss keeps calling, accusing her of exaggerating, dangling termination if she doesn't show up. At one point she pleads, "Please! Please don't fire me!"

WIRTW #789: the 'while my guitar gently weeps' edition

Fifty-three today.

That's either mid-50s or early-50s depending on how generous you're feeling. I'm choosing the latter.

Staying young has less to do with age and more to do with intention. You don't stumble into it. You choose it. It's a mindset, not a calendar.

For me, that means leaning hard into the stuff that makes life feel big.

Family first. Always. My family and I are soon heading to London soon to tour universities with my son as he chases a future studying sports and football management. My wife and I keep stacking travel plans instead of excuses. There is never not a good reason to travel, and this happens to be a really good one.

It also means restarting the daily exercise habit. Again. Because nothing says "53" like making noises when you stand up. Movement is the antidote. So I'm trying to move more every day.

And concerts. Loud ones.

Next up: a Valentine’s Day date with my daughter. Descendents and Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls at the House of Blues. We'll be in the pit. Look for us if you're there, too. As a concession to my age—and my hearing—I invested in a good set of ear plugs for the first time. Growth comes in many forms.

Staying young is saying yes to the pit. Ask me Sunday if it was a wise choice. I’m hoping for sore legs, ringing ears (muted responsibly), and zero regrets.

On this week's episode of the Norah and Dad Show, we talk through our expectations for this show, as well as the importance of wearing sensible shoes to a rock show. We also mourn the untimely passing of Norah's beloved Martin acoustic guitar, Eleanor. Listen to this week's episode of The Norah and Dad Show, available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Overcast, Amazon Music, in your browser, and everywhere else you get your podcasts.

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Here's what I read this week that you should read, too.

Beware the legal risks of AI meeting agents

AI meeting agents are everywhere. They join Zoom calls, transcribe conversations, summarize action items, and promise to save employees hours of note-taking. From a business perspective, the upside is obvious: better documentation, fewer "I don't remember saying that" disputes, and cleaner follow-up.

But like most shiny tech, AI meeting agents come with real employment law and litigation risk—especially if you don't think through how (and when) you use them.

Workplace investigations are hard. Until they’re not.

Workplace investigations are hard.

Witnesses forget. Memories conflict. Motives get murky. HR is left piecing together timelines, credibility, and intent from incomplete information, while everyone involved insists they did nothing wrong.

And then there are the easy ones.

Take the paramedic who now faces nearly two dozen criminal charges for allegedly urinating all over his workplace — on a supervisor's keyboard, into communal coffee creamer, an ice machine, orange juice, hand soap, ChapStick, canned vegetables, an air-conditioner vent, even a pot of chili. According to prosecutors, he didn't just do it. He filmed himself doing it. In uniform. Then allegedly posted the videos online to sell.

Federal court provides road map for lawful DEI programs

I keep getting asked how employers can legally maintain DEI programs in today's political climate. A federal judge just answered that question in a lawsuit the Missouri Attorney General brought against Starbucks—and in dismissing it, handed corporate America a roadmap.

The AG argued Starbucks' DEI policies were illegal because they "favored" BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ employees through mentorship, affinity groups, partnerships, and "quotas" tied to executive pay.

The court held that allegations without facts are just theories—and theories don't establish jurisdiction or liability.