DISQUS

The first U.S. President who does away with DST will be a hero! He/she will have my vote for sure...finally addressing an issue that causes these problems might be the most productive and appealing move ever.

Vi

History repeating?
As an identifiable profession, HR was populated with many veterans of the armed services (and the previous recession) during the great U.S. corporate growth period of the 1950s and 1960s. These individuals exhibited those qualities that many find sadly missing in today's inbred HR operatives. A 'tour of duty' in HR was part of(but hardly the career path to) development of executive mgmt. It was considered additional subject matter to be learned by individuals (both men and women) who already had experience and aptitude in leading people, making growth happen, and producing goods and services to sell. It's interesting to see business practices come full-circle, to some extent, and again value business acumen over stultifying processes and a "dotting the i" mindset.

Oh, so good !
My most bizarre brush with folks like this (believe it, please!) was during a stint with a state gov't agency when a couple of frustrated wannabe marketing clones decided that a poster and a logo (in that order!) needed to be developed. (Most likely they had bombed out of private sector marketing.) Three months later and countless wasted hours of 'underlings' time and effort resulted in a poster-in-search-of-a-logo being brought forward to the top agency person for approval to use in an in-house pilot program ! Thank goodness, a lightning strike occurred and the top person looked questioningly at the ersatz 'marketers' and said "NO".
BTW: No appropriated or tax funds can be used by state agencies for such purposes, a detail overlooked by the wannabe marketers in their zeal.

Here's another that is seldom asked, even when it could well be part of the position's duties:
Have you fired someone? What were the reasons and how well do you now think the termination was conducted?