LABOR OF LOVE
This document contains the rules everyone swears they’ve read, but somehow still asks HR to interpret.
What is a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA)?
This is what happens when a Jira ticket is submitted and is lacking information.
What are follow-up questions?
Instead of saying “Hey guys” to a group of coworkers, this approach helps make sure nobody feels accidentally left out before 9 a.m.
What is inclusive language?
This is the magical process of finding someone who meets the qualifications, wants the job, and actually answers your emails.
What is recruiting?
This training technique involves putting people in small groups and hoping at least one person read the instructions.
What are breakout groups?
This process begins when someone says, “I’d like to formally dispute that,” and ends several steps later with everyone having read a lot of emails.
What is the grievance process?
This is what happens when you submit a Jira ticket with every detail, document, position, and employee number included.
This workplace program allows a tiny new coworker to attend meetings, contribute absolutely nothing to the agenda, and still somehow become the most popular person in the room.
What is Infant at Work program?
This document describes the job, but somehow still results in applicants asking, “So… what would I actually be doing?”
What is a job announcement?
This document explains the rules everyone is expected to follow but is usually opened only after someone gets in trouble.
What is a policy?
The person who can turn the phrase “I have a question” into a three-hour meeting with twelve follow-up emails.
What is a Union Rep?
This important HR activity involves making sure an employee is still named correctly, assigned to the right position, and not accidentally working in three locations at once.
What is data verification?
This type of diversity occurs when one coworker remembers life before the internet and another has never experienced the pain of a dial-up modem.
What is generational diversity?
This recruitment tool allows candidates to demonstrate their qualifications while everyone secretly wonders if the Wi-Fi will cooperate.
What is a virtual interview?
This is what trainers hope happens after a training session, as opposed to everyone immediately forgetting everything the moment the Zoom meeting ends.
What is knowledge retention?
This magical phrase can turn a simple workplace issue into an hour-long discussion: “But that’s how we’ve always done it.”
What is past practice?
This recurring HR ritual involves carefully entering, reviewing, and verifying employee information before every pay period—because “I think that’s right” is not an approved payroll process.
What is quality control?
This workplace concept reminds us that employees are human beings with lives outside of work—including appointments, families, hobbies, and occasionally the need to stare silently at a wall.
What is work/life balance?
This happens when a hiring manager says they need someone “ASAP,” but takes three weeks to schedule the interviews.
What is the hiring process?
This HR process helps employees understand how they're doing, what they're doing well, and why they should probably stop using “Reply All.”
What is performance management?
The Labor Relations version of “let’s take this outside,” except everyone stays inside and brings their union contract, notes, and possibly an attorney.
What is arbitration?
This is the final step before payroll where someone asks, “Did we check everything?” and everyone suddenly checks everything again.
What is an audit?
The WERG, NERG, and VERG are all names of what kind of programs?
What is an Employee Resource Group?
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What is a Business Resource Group?
This occurs when you find the perfect candidate, only to discover they accepted another job yesterday.
What is a missed opportunity?
This person's go-to phrase might be, “I have absolutely no idea, but I know who to ask.”
"What is an HR Consultant?