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There’s a very interesting article in Ad Age about how in Spain, Pepsi is called “Pesi.” The embedded video below shows soccer star Fernando Torres being reprimanded by an American director who wants Torres to say, “Pepsi.” He says, “In my neighborhood they call it ‘Pesi.’”
Would you consider listening to how the locals in your company pronounce words and call things what they call them? It would be killer communication.
What regional items can you think of? For instance, a “steak” in Philly has a particular meaning. Yours?
Posted on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 by Frank Roche
If you had to design your company (and HR) from scratch, would you:
–have performance reviews?
–build walls in your offices?
–ever use the word “boss” in a non-ironic way?
–hire average employees?
–keep a slacker?
–write a bereavement policy?
–pay women less than men?
–pay anyone unfairly?
–conduct “warm body” recruiting?
–hire more HR people to make up for bad managers?
–keep bad managers?
–use the word “engagement”?
–have so many layers?
–have chairs in your meeting rooms?
–have a policy manual?
Just wondering. What would you do if you could start from scratch? As George Clooney’s character said asked in “Up In the Air,” what would you keep in your backpack?
I saw this question/plea on Ask Reddit this morning. For those of you in HR making hiring decisions, here’s your master’s class in the impact that credit check policies have on hiring decisions. Read the article and the comments. Here’s the setup.
I was out of work to fight an illness and can’t get a job now because my credit is bad. I have 13 years of IT experience -will work my a** off for you.
Since early 2008 I have been out of work. I had to bow out and go full time to Rochester, MN for medical care. I stayed current with my skills and I am better than ever before. My last two job offers have been rescinded due to bad credit. I’ve had hiring managers desperately want me on their team and go to bat for me but with no luck. I didn’t run up credit cards on a shopping spree, I fell ill and was financially destroyed. I lost my cars, home -the works in order to get the care I needed in order to stay alive. I have designed data centers, managed global IT teams, designed, implemented and managed Global WANS, network security, route\switch, worked for dot coms that you’ve heard of and Fortune 50 Companies. Are there any hiring managers that want a top-flight employee with a proven track record that can deliver you and your team results? I am open to constructive ideas. Thank you Reddit!
Edit: I had ‘good corporate’ Health Insurance. The Insurance was a paperwork trap and they basically said everything was ‘experimental’ or ‘not covered’ as my condition was extremely rare so basically Insurance was like a 10% off coupon and my ticket to get let in. I was wiped out financially in 6 weeks.
