Employee Of The Month

love is all around, no need to waste it — i didn’t think janet’s dunkin donuts’ employee-of-the-month notice could be easily topped, but then this little ray of sunshine beamed in…and made an otherwise nothing cyber-monday suddenly seem worthwhile. writes a longtime reader in minneapolis: “i normally overlook memos like these, but i’m so glad i took time to read this one. i promptly stole one of the many copies posted around my department and highlighted my favorite parts.” adds our submitter: “i have yet to find out who wrote this little treasure, but i plan to sleuth it out.” stay tuned for more on this developing story! related: cloudy... [Tags: cyber monday, dunkin donuts, employee of the month, hate mail, little ray of sunshine]

Can An Ant Be Employee Of The Month? — Ants specializing on one job such as snatching food from a picnic are no more efficient than "Jane-of-all-trade" ants, according to new research from the University of Arizona in Tucson. The finding casts doubt on the idea that the worldwide success of ants stems from job specialization within the colony.... [Tags: ants, doubt, employee of the month, job specialization, picnic]

A Reminder To Read Your Receipts — One of my favorite blogs is PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, and today they've got a doozy. Apparently, this branch of Dunkin Donuts really loves to reward their employee of the month by congratulating him or her personally on their receipts: If you're going to make fun of someone for being "slow," at least use spell check.... [Tags: blogs, doozy, dunkin donuts, employee of the month, receipts]

The 90/10 rule of marketing a job — Most hiring managers don't understand organizations that go to extraordinary lengths to find and retain amazing people. And from their point of view, they're completely correct. Pay market wage, run a classified, process the resumes. Done. It only takes 10% as much effort to hire someone in the bottom 90% of the class. And it takes the other 90% to find and cajole and retain the top 10%. Most hiring, especially in a down market, is handled as a mostly bureaucratic task. Find people who fit in, do a rudimentary background check to eliminate problems, try not to break any... [Tags: background check, bottom fishing, ebay, employee of the month, fortune]

Jason Calacanis, Valleywag's new Apple analyst [Employee Of The Month] — "Valleywag’s Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at ZDNet. Adrian, if your editor tries to make you go back and erase what you wrote, because his drinking buddies from Columbia Journalism Review think it's fatal to publish a huge factual fuckup in the first three words of an article, call me. I'll come over and slap J. Jonah Jameson with a printout of exactly how many people have already seen it. Tell him, "It's not the crime, it's the coverup." Has-been journalists love a Watergate reference. On the upside, you've given Owen... [Tags: adrian kingsley hughes, afternoons, apple, columbia journalism review, coverup]

Amy Ephron: The Terminator — Without a qualm, or a thought to the people's lives he was affecting, Governor Schwarzenegger signed an order yesterday to reduce government employees salaries to the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour, (which could affect 200,000 people) because of the budget stalemate. Luckily, State Controller John Chiang, who writes the checks, is refusing to comply with the payroll cuts. (I think Chiang and Nancy Pelosi should get Government Employee of the Month award!) But am I the only person who remembers this Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign mantra, "I understand business. I will make the economy and budget of California work." Then,... [Tags: amy ephron, arnold schwarzenegger, arnold schwarzenegger campaign, budget stalemate, california work]