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For over 5 years, I’ve feverishly pounded away at the keyboard with (ir)regular frequency in the hopes that readers and passersby alike would be entertained, enlightened, humored, or pissed off by what I’ve said. And for the most part, I’d say I’ve succeeded by the feedback I’ve received. But as you have probably noticed, recently my posts have been getting few and far between, quite simply because I’ve been running thin on topics to cover or things to talk about–or my willingness to share at

Let me give you a list of resignation circumstances which most unemployment administrators would consider as “just cause” and grant benefits to the worker: Give 2 or 3 chances with formal warnings to improve before sacking. As a small company owner, it is probably that you’ll not have a Personnel representative or a third-party contractor that will conduct exit interviews.

p>   Media release from www.hawaiisenatemajority.com The Senate Ad-hoc Committee chaired by Sen. Russell Kokubun is hosting a series of info briefings to address recent proposed changes by the Lingle administration and discuss the potential impact these changes will have on the state.

We’ve been bouncing back and forth with Above the Law, speculating about what was certainly meant to be an innocuous comment in a Washington Post article about a layoff consultant.  We, ATL, and the ATL commenters have been trying to figure out what firm called the consultant.    The criteria: 2 rounds already this year, considering laying off a dozen more this month, with possibly more to follow in the fall.

Remember, your small business saw potential in this employee at one time and hired the individual. For the most part a representative from Human resources is a good choice. Generally when a manager fires someone, he or she has valid reasons

Media release from www.hawaiisenatemajority.com The Senate Ad-hoc Committee chaired by Sen. Russell Kokubun is hosting a series of info briefings to address recent proposed changes by the Lingle administration and discuss the potential impact these changes will have on the state.

Sources familiar with the talks, speaking on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are confidential, said the administration’s offer involves a 7 percent pay cut and about 18 furlough days a year for two years. The administration’s proposal is in response to a union offer last week of a 5 percent pay cut. The combination pay cut and 1 1/2 furlough days a month would save the state roughly the same amount of money as Gov.

No, no…not to be confused with the online ‘game’ Second Life, although I enjoy that too, I’m referring to my ‘Third Life’.  When I first entered the ‘nine to five rat race’ at the age of 15, my ‘first life’ was in the area of accounting.