Lauren Ellerman

This past weekend I was in Washington DC for a conference. A friend and I went to dinner at this great Greek, Turkish Tapas place where we ate, and ate and ate some more. We also had some wine. The food was amazing.The chef was a recent contestant on the…

A few years ago I received a call from a very thoughtful mother, who was calling our office on behalf of her daughter.She was a recent college graduate, in need of work, who agreed to work for peanuts, OK, maybe pennies, as a staffing recruiter in the retail industry. She…

Yikes.Friends. Come on. Please use your “thinking cap” as my 7th grade Latin teacher Ms. Bineau would say. Before you quit one job, to take a second in the same industry, think about how to handle the transition. The following actions will get you into trouble, and possibly a lawsuit, almost every…

I mean really. Don’t you hate it when someone steals your stuff?Like the time the employment defense attorney who runs this blog, http://legal.entrepreneur.com/2010/05/18/to-compete-or-not-to-compete-that-is-the-question/, stole my line from a blog I wrote many weeks ago: http://virginianoncompete.blogspot.com/2009/09/to-sign-or-not-to-sign-that-is-question.htmlOr the time she quoted me as a reliable source on the subject of non-competes in…

Now, there are many things that can ruin your morning.Spilled coffee. Baby spit-up. The paper not being delivered. Over sleeping. Having to go to work while a spouse takes the day off. Truly, the possibility of things that can ruin your morning, are endless.But what about when your favorite radio…