HR directors locked up - by own staff!

Whilst an employee who has just been laid off might feel they have nowhere to turn, few consider taking immediate and physical revenge on their managers (ok, maybe more than a few think about it!). Recent examples of managers feeling the force of their employees' anger and distress are starting to emerge.

HR Review tell the story of one such incident in France, and suggest that there may be plenty more such cases out there.

The little white lie that grew

This is a sorry tale of a top Australian judge who got into trouble for telling a lie. It is one of the best examples of a story that illustrates how those in a hole just can't help keeping on digging. The poor man even tried to pass off his crime onto a lady who had been long deceased!

Here is the BBC article that tells of the fall and fall of Judge Einfield. .

Employee wellbeing: a board level issue?

What does employee wellbeing mean to you? Is it a "nice to have" irrelevance floated by HR departments that distracts from the business of staying afloat in these tough times?

Well, perhaps it should be the business of the Financial Director as well as the HR team. This story argues that for every £1 spent on employee wellbeing there is a £3 return - now there's something worth listening to.

Read the article in Personnel Today and contact us here to get information on docleaf's Employee Wellbeing solutions.

Why Powerpoint is Evil

Is there anyone out there who hasn't endured a painfully bad presentation, where the speaker has hidden his total and abject failure to engage with his audience behind a mask of tacky and unnecessary MS Powerpoint wizardry?

If you are a fellow victim, then you will enjoy this article from Edward Tufte in Wired. It may be 6 years old, but the advances in Office have not curbed the excesses of the worst offenders.

docleaf Briefs

The UK government seems to be getting itself into regular trouble with pornography these days. In the latest blunder a government page was mistakenly linked to a Japanese pornography website, a government spokesman said last week (AFP)

The Home Office, which has since removed the link, was alerted to the issue by the BBC on Monday after a private Internet user informed the broadcaster. "It was a link from the Home Office website to the Technical Advisory Board, which is an external website," a ministry spokesman told AFP. "It is their website that was hacked and re-directed to a porn site."

"We were alerted today, we took immediate action, we removed the link and we are now investigating."

According to the BBC, the Home Office said the site it had initially linked to had since become defunct, and a new company had taken it over, without giving details.

And finally a tale of extreme bad luck (or exceptionally bad driving)... A German woman was involved in three car accidents in less than an hour that left a total of seven vehicles damaged but she suffered only slight injuries from the series of mishaps, police said last week (Reuters)

The 69-year-old woman from Berlin first crashed into three cars while trying to pull out of a supermarket car park on the Baltic resort island of Usedom. Then, she accidentally stepped on the accelerator and sped across a lawn before crashing into a nearby house, police said. She was taken to hospital in an ambulance but that vehicle was then hit by a truck.

"She was actually fortunate that no one was seriously hurt in any of the accidents," said Zinnowitz police spokesman Axel Falkenberg. "The accidents were a little bit like dominos toppling."