A Small Scheduling Problem and an Enormous Fairness One: How December Coverage Gets Read
Holiday coverage takes an hour to arrange and is remembered for a year. Staff read the schedule as a statement about how the place is actually run.
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Ninety Days With Dates on It: How a Probation Period Is Actually Meant to Run
A probationary period nobody manages is just three months of hoping. It is meant to be a structure with dates attached, and it runs in both directions.
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A Job Posting That Filters Honestly Will Bring Fewer Applicants and Better Ones
Forty applications and nobody hireable means the advertisement did its job badly. The purpose of the writing is to help the wrong people decide against you.
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Profitable on Paper and Empty in the Bank? The Questions a Bookkeeper Opens With
The month closed with more revenue than costs and the checking account still went down. Both facts are usually true at once, and the reason is almost never an error.
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The Quarter Everyone Manages Cash: Why Invoices Slip in Fall and What Recovers Them
An invoice mailed in early October can sit until Thanksgiving without anybody deciding it should. The sequence that gets it paid is mostly settled before the job starts.
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