HR Girl, Interrupted
“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”
- Mae West
When she isn’t setting the world on fire with her cynical approach to Corporate America, Laurie Ruettimann is a (self-identified punk rock) Human Resources Professional with over 12 years experience gained in a large Fortune 500 organizations.
The world works in mysterious ways, so Laurie is now unemployed. To fight the good fight, Laurie is a full-time Human Resources blogger and an all around nice woman to know.
As a Human Resources professional, Laurie possesses strong project management skills and advanced knowledge of the full lifecycle of HR Generalist practices in the US and European marketplaces. Her knowledge includes experience in employment law, organizational design, employee training and employee development programs. Laurie has significant experience with coaching high performing, high potential colleagues and executive leaders. She also realizes that most people don’t really care about her Human Resources background and stumble upon this blog because they want to see naked pictures.
Laurie is the author of several anonymous, highly regarded, and now defunct blogs. She has been punk rock in her own mind since 1988 and blogging on the interwebs since 2003.
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1. Please note that the views expressed here DO NOT in any way represent the views of my current, former, or future employers.
2. The views expressed in each blog post are mine.
3. Additionally, I am not responsible for the content of any website or resource linked to or from these pages.
4. Click at your own risk, yo.
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If you’ve scrolled down this far, feel free to peruse the random pictures.
Laurie - your blog has changed so much since it read it last. What a fun read! Congrats on your first day of unemployment
Best,
RG
Laurie,
If you’d like to consider submitting a version of your manifesto as a guest column for our Friday edition, email me for details. We mail HRDA to about 104M HR professionals a day.
JS
Roberta - I miss you already. xxxooo
JS - Thanks for the opportunity. Will be in touch!
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Hi Laurie,
This is the only way that I could find you (out side linkedIn) so I will take a chance that you will respond to this email. I am an executive search consultant sourcing for a Director of Human Resources with a Medical Devices company. The salary is $180~$190 plus bonus. I can send you more spec once I have received a reply.
My number is 708-672-7700
Laurie–
That sounds like a good job.
–JM
That does sound like a good job!
is that one hundred eighty dollars per week, or per year?
kidding.
Laurie-
Just found your blog… and laughing a lot as I read through it. If you’re still “on the beach” or even if you’re back in the workforce, I’d love to chat with you sometime.
Although I’d agree that *most* team building is for suckers…. I’m a team building and leadership dev consultant…. and I could use some help in Chicago.
- JP
I can be reached at jpalace@gelcorp.com
Dear Ms. Ruettiman,
I’m writing to you on behalf of The Human Factor, and I’d like to request you for permission to publish entries from your blog in our HR journal.
“The Human Factor” is an HR journal, published by The Indian Institute of Planning and Management, New Delhi. This journal focuses on collating articles related to the present HR scenario, best practices in the area and, various tools and current issues in the industry. You can find out more about our content at http://www.iipmthinktank.com/publications/the-human-factor.html
The Human Factor is circulated to a large number of top companies and universities (both in India and abroad), and has a substantial subscription base. It will also be available at select bookshops and stalls in India from February 2008.
We are currently in the process of finalizing the contents for forthcoming issue, due to be published by February 2008 and, as I mentioned, I would love it if we could publish parts of your blog as a section in our magazine.
The wit and humour expressed in your entries makes them very interesting reads, and, while switching from journal to magazine, we at The Human Factor are trying to redesign our content from purely academic, to more practical and easy – to – read.
I’d like to send you a complementary copy of our previous issue so you can look through it – please send across your postal address for that.
I look forward to hearing from you soon,
Thank you, and have a good day!
Best regards,
Aditi
Damnit. No naked pictures. What the hell kind of HR blog is this anyway?
The naked pictures are on my other website:
http://www.hrhooker.com
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Hey Laurie,
I was turned on to your site by a colleague. Hopefully you remember me… I was one of your Pformer colleagues working in the aviation group. I just wanted to say that I thought you were pretty awesome before, but now after reading your blog I think you are the BOMB!! (not that my opinion matters) Hope all is well with you!
KS
Kelley - You are so awesome & of course I remember you. Drop me a personal line and let me know how you are doing!! xxxxooo
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Hey Laurie,
Okay normally I consider myself somewhat intelligent…but I cannot figure out how to send you a personal note. I have looked on this site but cannot find an email address for you. Or, is there a link on the site I should be using??
Thanks,
Kelley
Kelley, my blog design sucks if you can’t see my email address. Hit me here: laurieruettimann@yahoo.com
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