Did you ever have an employee post a status update from his termination meeting with HR?
I wrote about it a few years ago. It seemed shocking then, and if anything, we’ve only seemed to be shocked more and more as each new tweet or blog post gets distributed with some outrageous behavior from an
Yesterday, I made a spectacular dive.
Unfortunately, it was not in a pool. It was in the middle of the street.
But it’s what happened AFTER that unfortunate fall, that I find most compelling.
Let me first say, however, that I’m FINE. Really, I’m fine. I’ve said that over and over the last 24 hours
Over the last few years, my kids have started to get interested in this “thing” called a blog. “What do you write about?”
Um, employment law issues, I’d reply. And then I’d say something about how I talk about things that happen at work.
Recently, they asked if I had written about their passion. (Disappointingly, when I said I had already written about the Yankees, they said that wasn’t what they were talking about.)
No, they were talking about Minecraft.
Which led me on down a strange path of asking myself why any self-respecting employment lawyer would write about a computer game in the first place? (Though I’ve written about such games before). But also asking whether employers should even care about this game.
I think I have the answers to both, but let me first fill you in on what I’m talking about.Continue Reading What an Employment Lawyer Can Learn From Minecraft (or Not)