Interviewing While Pregnant

A person interviews while noticeably pregnant and the manager tells her...

Tags: hiring, job, job requirements, hire, 2008, interviewing

A Quarterly Performance Meeting

A manager meets with his direct report to evaluate her performance...

Tags: sheila, objectives, goals, giving goals, feedback, performance

Recruitment Puffing

A recruiter makes exaggerated promises regarding a job opportunity to entice...

Tags: recruiters, hiring, recruiting, interviewing, interview, hire

The Tense University Department

A Professor who heads up a Department at a University makes...

Tags: harassment, protected, trait, characteristic, protected trait, definition

The Annoying Texter

An employee pesters his coworker with numerous personal texts throughout the...

Tags: robert, doreen, electronic communications, social media, preventing harassment, harassment

The Aftermath of Workplace Romance

After a workplace romance ends, the female manager does not want...

Tags: branching, series, kelly, jason, workplace dating, workplace romance

Going Too Far

Co-workers continue to tease another employee about being black and one...

Tags: jeff, rob, stereotype, series, preventing harassment, 2009

A Boondoggle

An employee tells his co-worker how a vendor gives him free...

Tags: vendor, procurement, client, payments, ethics, code of conduct

Shredding the Documents

An employee gets angry at her co-worker when she learns that...

Tags: enron, shredding documents, shredding, accurrate record-keeping, document retention, retention

Setting Prices

Two friends who work in the same industry but competing companies...

Tags: business development, sales, price, setting prices, ethics, code of conduct

How About Some Chicken Wings?

Two employees laugh over lunch about ethnic and cultural foods while...

Tags: 194, branching, series, harassment, protected traits, protected categories

He's a Fixer-Upper

Two employees chat about dating and then speculate about a male...

Tags: visual, verbal, physical, forms, ph9, 2009

I'm Just Kidding

An employee makes several sexual innuendos and suggestions to his co-worker...

Tags: branching, hostile, harassment, work environment, hostile work environment, types of harassment

Just Deal With It

An employee complains to a manager about a co-worker's conduct and...

Tags: manager, harassment, responsibility, liability, supervisor, ph9

Good Faith Investigation

A manager gets angry when he is terminated as a result...

Tags: dave, good faith investigation, good faith, lawful termination, fire, terminate