Basically, long story short, I started a job a year and a half ago. All went well for the first 6 months, then my boss got very angry at being passed up for a promotion. Now, his whole attitude is, “If I’m not happy then no one can be happy.” Everyone is miserable because of him. He calls me into meetings on friday afternoons at 5pm and I don’t leave until 9pm. He yells, slams his fist on the desk and shoots pens across the room in his rage. He is so angry at me for taking one sick day when I had bronchitis or for having a bad result on one project out of 100’s I’ve worked on. Others in our office all have kids and are afraid to report him and possibly be fired. Our VP is above him and adores him b/c he kisses butt to her all day. Should I go to HR and report him for harrassment. I have lots of e-mails, quotes and tons of examples with dates of how he treats me. Our industry is tight and small and word travels fast so it may be hard to get another job later on. Please help me??

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I have been suspended with pay for 5 weeks now while my case is in review. I just started a marketing company as a hedge against the current economy. The company thought I was doing business with clients on the side. I did help one client with an internet site and I was helping another non-profit for free. I am in sales and marketing and I have not taken any money from the customers I have helped. I did send an e-mail to a one of my marketing customers that has no relationship with my company. They went through my computer/e-mail records and I’m sure found a few things that were against the company policies but far less than I have witnessed the managers do. They are now bringing me in for a follow-up interview with the HR director. The first interview was an ambush and I am expecting the same thing on Monday. The Director of HR wants to “clarify” some of my answers to the original HR reps questions. I want to know what rights, if any, I have when responding to their questions. The original reason to fire me doesn’t exist but they told me I used the company’s assets for personal business and that is reason for termination. Why didn’t they just fired me 5 weeks ago?

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My company employs around 200 people. There is an HR department run by the HR Director who is seriously inadequate in the role. She has a shared PA with other directors and there is also a part time admin assistant. I’d like to know if there are any legal requirements regarding the size of HR department and their legal responsibilities to us as employees. Is there any kind of governing body that they would have to report to (and that we could complain to). I have no complaints about general admin, more to do with the care side that is seriously unsupportive. e.g. one of my staff has needed random time off work to care for a sick relative, and will need more time off whilst the relative undergoes treatment. I emailed HR to ask how to deal with this, after a week a reply from the director said she was going home sick and would deal with it on her return. This was several weeks ago and still hasn’t been sorted, this is typical of the director. Any advice gratefully received!

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just wondering how I should ask him that’s politically correct and also if I should ask him or HR?
I’m pretty ticked off, my boss got a bonus and every VP that reports to him but not me (I’m his assistant)
I feel like calling, in confidence, another secretary I know to see if she has one but not sure if that’s a good idea.
I’d really appreciate your input. Thank you.

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I had interviewed with 3-4 different people about three weeks ago at their corporate headquarters in Los Angeles and I felt like the interview went great. I have been going back and forth with the HR director and she has told me that they are really close in making a decision. It has been three weeks since the day I interviewed and the only response I am getting is we are close in making a decision. How long do background checks take anyways?? I have never waited this long for a job. What should I do?

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More than 25,000 illegal immigrants a year stay in Britain due to Government inaction, official figures reveal. Thousands of enforcement cases and tip-offs are not followed up by the Home Office because they are not considered important enough, immigration officials have revealed.Their claims came after a Home Office memo was released ordering frontline immigration staff to stop deporting foreign students who are refused permission to stay in the UK once their visas run out.
In 2006, 28,540 foreign immigrants living in Britain – excluding asylum seekers – were refused permission to stay here by the Home Office. But in the same year only 12,830 were thrown out of the country or left voluntarily, leaving a backlog of almost 16,000.
Figures also reveal that 4,000 foreign prisoners complete their sentences each year without being deported, while the backlog of failed asylum seekers not sent home is growing by 6,000 each year.
The Home Office claims some cannot be sent home on human rights grounds because their home countries are too dangerous. But insiders insist that in most cases the Border and Immigration Agency’s lack of resources is to blame.
Across the country 1,500 immigration officers are tasked with catching and deporting the backlog of illegal immigrants, estimated at more than 600,000.
And thousands of those who are caught have to be released almost immediately because there is nowhere to lock them up.
John Tincey, of the Immigration Services Union, said: “The ‘harm agenda’ (the Home Office system for gauging how harmful it is for an illegal immigrant to stay in the country) gives directors a basis for concentrating on one area but not another.
“Immigration officers used to be allowed to weigh up tasks based on their experience and judgment. Now we have a series of targets to hit and boxes to tick.”

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i looked it up on the internet…there have always been citizens siding with the wolves, but this is a wilderness problem. here is the game dept statement:
Wolf Management in Alaska
Wayne L. Regelin,
Director, Division of Wildlife Conservation, Alaska
Public attitudes toward wolf management, and wolf control in particular, are based on deeply held values. Conflicts between people with divergent values have fueled the controversy for decades, and I expect this will not change. Some people and organizations have no desire to understand and accept the values of others on this issue. This conflict of values makes setting wildlife policy difficult.
Most Alaskans are proud that we have large and healthy wolf populations, and many recognize that we have a special responsibility to manage wolves to ensure their continued abundance. Wolves do have an impact on moose and caribou populations, and this impact, in combination with factors such as severe winter weather or bear predation, can depress moose and caribou populations to very low levels leaving little harvestable surplus for humans.
Man has the ability to influence this system by reducing wolf populations and allowing ungulate populations to recover from depressed levels. The controversy centers on whether — or when and how — it is appropriate for man to decrease wolf numbers to increase ungulate harvests
The department tried a new approach to resolve the long-standing issue of wolf control. We proposed the concept of developing a statewide wolf management plan using a stakeholder process. We hoped a strategic plan built with a lot of public involvement had the potential to defuse the issue and allow development of a stable wolf management policy.
The board agreed, and we selected team members, hired a facilitator and developed a charter for the group. Twelve citizens, representing a wide variety of wildlife values, served on the team. The team included advisory committee members, Alaska Natives, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, Alaska Outdoor Council, National Audubon Society, hunters, trappers and the environmental community at large.
From the hisroricalperspective, of these long-held conflicts, these resolutions have come:
1. The department will never again conduct widespread and continuous wolf control to increase ungulate populations. The monetary costs are too high and the public does not want their wildlife to be managed in that manner.
2. Wolf control by department personnel may be possible in small areas to help restore moose or caribou populations. In order to gain public acceptance, it will be necessary to have citizen participation in a planning process, guided by reliable scientific information.
3. Public acceptance is more easily gained if non-lethal methods of wolf population reduction are used, but this practice is probably not feasible in most places in Alaska.
4. A statewide planning effort, as was done in 1990, is unlikely to be productive. Such a plan can only provide general guidelines for wolf control. We must address each area individually with a planning team that includes local residents.
5. In most places in Alaska, local residents and other hunters must reduce predator populations on their own, through legal means of hunting bears and hunting and trapping wolves. The board and department will need to consider seasons, bag limits and methods needed to reach to this goal, as part of an overall wildlife management strategy.
6. The intensive management statutes are difficult to use and time consuming. Their emphasis on predator control is contradicted by public opinion, as represented through successful ballot initiatives.
7. Wolf management is complex, because sociological considerations are more influential than biological information. The majority of the American public and a sizeable proportion of the Alaskan public do not want the department to undertake wolf control.
8. The public supports department and board actions that recognize and provide for a diversity of wildlife values and uses. One way the board has demonstrated this balanced view has been to provide viewing opportunities by protecting wolves. The department will continue to support providing for appropriate viewing opportunities.
9. The public has an important and legitimate role in managing public resources. We must continue to discuss predator and prey management objectives with a broad-based public.
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What do you think now?

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The opening ceremony was amazing, truely exceptional and quite possibly the best we will see for decades to come.
Beijing looks amazing, much much cleaner and with far better facilities than I ever imagined possible.
Yes there is still a lot of pollution but your achievement in reducing the pollution levels, as well as the long term polution reduction steps you have taken in a very small period of time are truely amazing. In terms of actual reductions in pollution, you have delivered something that my government (Australia) and many others around the world can not even bring to the planning stages. This is an amazing accomplishment for a developing country with such a huge population and such massive resource and manufacturing requirements.
I am touched by the sacrifices individual chinese people have made for these games, many willing, many forced by the government, I don’t approve of the old traditional houses being cleared out of many parts of Beijing for the olympics, but I can not deny that the China and Beijing we are seeing at these olympics looks amazing, and more importantly, was built on the sacrifices of regular chinese people. You deserve to be proud of what your sacrifices achieved, even if there are those in the chinese government who should be ashamed of asking for those sacrifices. You paid too much so that we could have a more modern Olympics.
The chinese people and military have performed some amazing feats of people power, both in the opening ceremony and in other areas such as clearing the sailing area’s of algae after the massive algal blooms, this is a big problem in some areas of Australia too, but we have never succeeded in clearing the algae away, let alone by hand and in such a short time. This is thankless work and I know the world will be very quick to complain if the algae reblooms during the olympics. Some people fail to recognise how hard some people, real people have worked to try to present their country in the best possible light, no matter what it takes and regardless of what you had to work with (you can not compare the work it takes to make a highly polluted area pristine to doing the same in a relatively clean area).
The security of these games is astounding, it may have been perceived as excessive and has brought some ridicule from western media, but I think you have done a fantastic job. The criticism china has received for its city wide security crackdowns are nothing compared to the outcry that would have occured if a major (or minor) terrorist attack took place during the games. Never before has the risk of terror attacks been so real and you have done everything conceivable to protect the athletes, media and spectators.
On the topic of the chinese military, people and government. I am amazed at how much you have done to help your own people when the earthquake disasters struck. I would suggest more was done that in other recent disasters in much more developed countries. I am also amazed that in the face of this disaster you have still been able to produce such a magnificant olympic games.
Your athletes have been phenomenal so far, while i do not approve of the extreme training programs your athletes have gone through, I must give them credit for what they have achieved, their sacrifice was perhaps unnecessary, but the individual athletes deserve our respect as they have been through training most of us, even our top athletes, might not be able to imagine.
People of China, you have every right to be proud of what you have given us and what you have shown us. I think there is still a long way to go so that the governments of the world can accept the chinese government, but you have shown us you are capacble of great things and great change, I hope that in the future the area’s of human rights and freedom of speech will also show as much progress.
ON THE SAME TOPIC:
The chinese government has been asking for the olympics to be kept politics free, this has been widely ridiculed for obvious reasons given the differences of opinion around the world relating to the chinese government and numerous issues such as human rights abuse etc.
But I can’t help but feel they have a point, I love the olympics, never before have I been so excited about them, including the sydney olympics which were held in my own country, Australia.
But my enthusiasm is dwindling because of what I am seeing in the media, the spirit of the olympics, racial tollerance, amazement in seeing what some exceptional people are capable of, is all being dirtied by media obsession with picking at every perceived flaw in the beijing olympics. In Australia the only broadcaster is channel 7 who have not spent a cent getting anyone with any knowledge of china, it’s history or people to commentate on the games. As a result we have been bombarded with racist commentary and news announcers with 0 acknowledgement of the good things about the games.
On the internet it is even worse, people are hiding behind the annonimity of the net and bashing china for all their worth whenever a flaw is found. The reason china has controlled these olympics so closely is EXACTLY that reason, no tollerance is being shown, no respect, every flaw is being made into a huge issue. The olympics should be about more that this, they should be about the best things in human kind, the best the worlds people can achieve, not an excuse to point out the flaws of others.
The flaws need work, but noone would take advice from someone who follows them around pointing out every minor mistake they made and never saying a positive word.
look at the current situation, every eye is turned on Beijing, there has never been so much negativity aimed at such a well executed event. The issues currently being discussed in the world media have been blown out of proportion in my opinion, not taking into account the two sides of the story or the facts on hand. Do faked images of real fireworks which were actually launched in exactly the way shown in the faked footage really matter this much? Lipsyncing, is this such a crime, has it never before been seen outside of china? Has anyone bothered to report on how proud the actual singer of the opening song was, how happy her family were and how insitant the director was to let the world know about her? Somehow the western media have changed her from a happy and proud performer, supported by a happy family and well respected director, into the ugly girl noone wanted who we should all pity. I put it to you that mistakes with losing 3 seconds of a national anthem, might be forgivable. I even suggest that an official in a shooting competition, might be human, and might have made a single bad call in one round of a single olympic event.
Give peace a chance, give china a chance, they are trying to show us their best, regardless of our political differences.

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Can someone explain to me what role a human resource manager takes in their job an affirmative action, EEO plans and experience?
Do you conduct training and have caseloads involving this?

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This has been talked about for years now.. How the globalist want to depopulize the world by 2/3rd!
Many can confirm that the swine flu was man made, and now many countries such as England and Canada are making students take 4 vaccine shots this fall! No one really knows what is in most of those shots.
Can this be another reason for Obama to impletement his Nazi health care plan where the governemnt decides who lives and who dies like Hitler did? If you think Im crazy go ahead and goggle some of these topics. Also, read some quotes from your liberal globalist and tell me that their not crazy!
Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.” – Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.” – Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace
“We’ve got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.” – Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony… climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.” – Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.” – emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
“We require a central organizing principle – one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change – these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary.” – Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?” – Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programme
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.” – Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” – Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control.” – Professor Maurice King
“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.” – Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.” – Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” – Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
“The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.” – Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.” -Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” – Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.” – Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” – Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” – John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.” – Christopher Manes, Earth First!
“Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” – David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club

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