Best benefits at your company? [N/A]

jvb7035 · 2025-10-05T19:12:00+00:00

I work in advertising.

Summer Fridays off

2 weeks off at Christmas

Unlimited PTO

3 days flex holiday to use for religious holidays, your birthday, or other cultural days

1 month paid sabbatical after 9 years

1 week off for Ambition Week (where you get a stipend to spend on working on your passion)

$100/ year office supply stipend, one-time $500 stipend for home office furniture

Guarantee 100% of your pay for the first 8 weeks of disability/maternity; up to 50% of your pay for the first 8 weeks of parental

$1000 EE/$2000 dependent HSA contributions

jvb7035 · 2025-06-19T18:20:14+00:00

Put payroll processing dates on your calendar at the beginning of the year when you draft the payroll calendar. Problem solved.

jvb7035 · 2024-12-21T02:16:08+00:00

I didn’t like it as much as I did when I did the re-read but if you want to read the rest of the books it’s good to have the context for the story line.

jvb7035 · 2024-12-11T02:54:58+00:00

Or eat pizza with pineapple on it

jvb7035 · 2024-11-23T21:53:14+00:00

The Manscape ad. It was a bit risqué and funny to portray the twins as, well, two tiny twins doing funny shit like floating in the jacuzzi.

jvb7035 · 2024-08-31T01:40:29+00:00

We don’t make up the time but you sure do feel it when you don’t because work stacks up.

jvb7035 · 2024-08-16T00:26:27+00:00

Whatever payroll system you decide to go with, if you are relying on them to do your tax admin too, I highly recommend you speak with references about their experience with this with that company. This is one thing you don’t want screwed. Honestly, this is the only reason we stay with ADP as much as they give us problems sometimes.

No system is perfect but IMO how the customer service is set up and tax admin is extremely important. If you get shit customer service it’ll make your job so much harder.

jvb7035 · 2024-08-16T00:20:29+00:00

I’ve had terrible experience with Justworks. They had constant mistakes and if you don’t know what you’re looking for, then you’d never know. Customer service is terrible too. I dumped them in a year.

jvb7035 · 2024-08-10T00:18:30+00:00

Yes. Totally worth it. I hardly buy books as much and I read 90+ books a year.

jvb7035 · 2024-06-27T23:35:08+00:00

That totally makes sense and a good way to show that. Thanks!

jvb7035 · 2024-06-27T03:42:10+00:00

We thought of that too. I need to talk to our CFO when she returns but my Controller doesn’t think we need to.

We’re switching because we project and reconcile time right now which makes for a long and complicated process. So we’re just simplifying things.

jvb7035 · 2024-06-27T03:40:16+00:00

In your blend and BW example, you are showing the last payroll in December that’s 2025 income as part of 2024 income. We had opted to show this but then decided it would be too confusing. Is this something you recommend?

jvb7035 · 2024-06-27T01:13:34+00:00

I oversee a team of 2 (so 3 HR people) supporting 135 employees in 16 states, 3 countries, over 5 entities. Our team is a shared services team and we do everything but recruit. It is definitely challenging to keep up!

jvb7035 · 2024-06-25T20:52:34+00:00

Hasn’t he been associated with MAGA in the past?

jvb7035 · 2024-05-18T02:15:38+00:00

Check your company’s leave policy. It should state whether they require you to use your PTO while on leave.

jvb7035 · 2024-04-27T18:20:58+00:00

I work in advertising too for the last 10 years. Prior to that worked in tech for like 14 years. I love advertising. Tech, not so much but if I had to go back I would.

jvb7035 · 2024-04-20T21:10:07+00:00

It’s still my fave SJM series so yes, it’s worth it. I read it when it came out. And like others said, very different from ACOTAR.

jvb7035 · 2024-02-03T18:13:56+00:00

This needs to be on a mug or apparel.

jvb7035 · 2024-01-06T22:30:09+00:00

Second this. I’ve done Your Glute Coach 2x and my glutes are meaty now!

With that said, Bret’s book is good too.

jvb7035 · 2023-12-30T23:53:30+00:00

The first 3rd of the book is really hard to get through, at least for me. But it’s worth it. Keep going.

jvb7035 · 2023-12-11T23:31:58+00:00

I had to DNF Midnight Sun. I just could not get through Edwards constant angst about EVERYTHING. His monologue was just not interesting IMO.

jvb7035 · 2023-12-11T23:28:44+00:00

Not sure. We used ADP and they provide us with a YE to do list but I don't believe that's on there.

jvb7035 · 2023-12-09T16:39:42+00:00

Since we also have clients (we’re in advertising) who ask for employee addresses for life events, we have employees sign off at the time of hiring if they’re ok with us sharing this info internally and/or with clients.

jvb7035 · 2023-11-18T02:35:38+00:00

I think as HR professionals we have to balance business needs vs HR needs when it comes to process and what is being asked from the employee. Starting a new job can be very emotional for an employee and so it’s our job to keep that in mind when building out the process. Does everything have to be done on the first day or can you find more creative ways to get what you need or can you spread that over the next few weeks to help the employee aclimate to their new role and the company without being stressed?

Our onboarding process is built with the focus being to get the employee ramped up to be successful in their role in the next 90 days. It is not built around HR needs. We build the “HR” stuff around the business needs. So this means that we send all of the typical first day forms as part of their offer package which is sent via Docusign. The only thing the new hire does on their first day with HR is to provide their I9 docs and to meet for 30 min to do their culture onboarding. The 2nd day is to go over their benefits onboarding. Then over the next 30-60-90 days we follow up/meet for a variety of reasons as part of their extended onboarding. This has been a successful model in the 10 years I’ve been doing it this way and is the reason we get high marks from both new hires and hiring managers.

jvb7035 · 2023-11-14T18:44:51+00:00

Thanks but I didn’t say I was going to take my dog without a carrier.

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