Tag: EMPLOYMENT

This week, an attorney from Brooklyn will attempt to make U.S. legal history by using a lie-detection brain scan to prove that an important witness is telling the truth. Attorney David Levin is currently representing Cynette Wilson, who claims that her temp agency employer, CoreStaff Services, gave her less desirable assignments after she complained about sexual harassment at her job site. Another ...

In December, we told you about a group of police officers in Ontario, California, who had taken their Chief to court after discovering that he'd been reading sexually explicit text messages they had sent on pagers provided by the police department. After a lower court ruled in favor of Sergeant Jeff Quon and the three other plaintiffs (two of whom were Quon's wife and mistress, both policewomen), ...

The economy may be showing signs of improvement, but it's still hard out there for job seekers. If you're going to get hired in today, you'll have to get noticed first. Inventive job hunters, then, are turning to the Web and dreaming up some rather innovative techniques to make their resumes stand out. The good people at the Huffington Post (or HuffPo, to its friends) have assembled a slide ...

Share Text messages are great for conveying quick, easy information -- movie times, limericks, racy photos. Other topics of discussion, though, are far too delicate for clumsy thumbs, or awkward SMS shorthand. Firing someone is one such topic. Shane Bolsher, 39, had spent just under a year working as a manager at Fife Fine Foods in Leicestershire, U.K., before getting axed last weekend -- ...

Remember when, not too long ago, "guru" was one of those corporate words du jour? We had "Web gurus" and "customer service gurus" and inspiration-gurus-at-large. These self-styled titles were hot like UGGs, and fell out of vogue almost as quickly. [Ed. Note: Yes. Out of vogue. Dead. Kaput.] Well, now people have taken to "ninja" as the cool new nom de whatever, and it's a broad enough trend that ...

Share Employees and job seekers are learning, slowly it seems, that anything they post online is fair game for employers. We don't need the recent survey commissioned by Microsoft to tell us that managers and recruiters are turning to social networks to review applicants, but a little reinforcement of the point doesn't hurt. Rather than exercising some well-advised self-censorship, though, new ...

As we've informed you, the new monitoring service Social Sentry allows nosy vigilant bosses to read exactly what their employees are saying and talking about on Facebook, all in the name of "corporate protection." Created by Teneros, Social Sentry allows bosses to set up alerts and real-time notifications about their employees' Twitter or Facebook activity, and can even monitor workers who social ...

Peter Kazanjy is either completely shameless, or the best boss in the world. His new start-up, Unvarnished, is a social networking site for people to go and post critiques of their professional peers. By that, we mean to say that you can hop on the site to slam your former employer for cutting back your vacation days, or publicly sneer at the PR rep who had arugula in his teeth throughout his ...

We knew that 'FarmVille' was popular, and potentially addictive, but we were always under the impression that it was bored stay-at-home parents and 13-year-old girls that were driving its popularity. We never imagined that the Facebook-based game would prove to be a major concern for the City Council of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A couple of weeks ago, several members of the council were found playing ...

Any company worth its salt has a social-media policy these days. But a new piece of software released by Teneros called Social Sentry allows employers to keep an even closer eye on how much time their workers spend on Facebook and Twitter. According to The New York Times, the software costs a company between $2 and $8 per employee, depending on the size of the company and the level of scrutiny ...

When will people learn what is and isn't appropriate to post on Facebook? Judging by the news we see on a daily basis, probably never. According to the Omaha World-Herald, three Nebraska state prison guards have been suspended this week after posting comments on Facebook about beating up an inmate. Caleb Bartels posted on his wall on February 8th: "When you work in a prison a good day is ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/'; Share We know you've probably had the date circled on your calendar for months now, but, in case you needed reminding, today is the 4th annual Data Privacy Day. The Microsoft-sponsored non-holiday was created exclusively to raise the public's awareness of major online privacy issues. ...

HuffPo reports that a man in St. Louis lost his job at a local school after posting a vulgar response to an online poll, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last Friday asked readers the following question: "What's the craziest thing you've ever eaten?" Spotting a hanging curveball, the employee posted a one-word vulgarity, alluding to a certain female anatomical feature. Web site administrators ...

Ever since they started cutting costs in the face of an industry-wide slowdown a few years ago, airlines haven't exactly been Mr. Popular among traveling consumers. Long lines and delays have left most passengers dismayed and disgruntled. And now, one airline in particular faces a growing PR crisis after firing one of its employees over... defending his company? The former worker, identified ...

Many of us are fascinated by Google's super laid-back, just-wanna-have-fun work environment, especially when juxtaposed with its massive financial success. The company having long been considered one of the world's best employers, dorks people like us have always wondered what it takes to land a cushy position in those San Francisco offices. Now, thanks to the release of some alleged sample ...