Blog Categories

Employment Background Check Guidelines: Complying with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, conducting credit background checks and running a criminal check to avoid negligent-hiring lawsuits

Care to share special memories of former employees?

By John Wilcox, Moderator
7/22/2008 - 2:30am
Terminations

John Wilcox, Moderator

Follow John on

John Wilcox is senior editor of 15 HR Specialist newsletters covering employment law, compensation and benefits, as well as theHRSpecialist.com. A journalist who has covered HR, training, organization development and business management for more than 15 years, John keeps his finger on the pulse of what’s working in HR through daily contact with some of the nation’s top HR pros, business people and employment law attorneys.

View all articles by John Wilcox, Moderator

Question: A story circulating on the web tells of a New York woman who got even when she got fired. After a couple of days, a foul stench began wafting through the office. Workers followed their noses to a locked file cabinet, which some brave soul opened to find ... what was once a whole salmon! Have any of your former employees left behind more than bad memories? Have they made off with anything more than a few pens? Dish the dirt on the dearly departed!—The HR Specialist Editors