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We have a part-time hourly employee (20 hours per week) who does light clerical work. She has been asked by her manager to travel out of the country to be a "host" for a program that our company prese
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posted at 6/21/2011 4:11 AM EDT
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And the quote from that book comes from a publication I received in 1995 from a law firm in Atlanta giving FLSA seminars. (It looked familiar so I looked it up, the odds are the original wording came from the DOL itself) So the veiled allegation of plagiarism may well extend to who now? |
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posted at 6/21/2011 10:29 AM EDT
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hrbth I teach on occasion so I very much understand the need for proper citation. However, when an expression of text has been used and diluted so many times by so many people where and who does one cite? At some point you simply have to say it is common knowledge and ignore the citation requirement.
Of course there the time that I interviewed someone for an HR Manager position and they brought me an example of "their" work. I was looking it through and stopped. I asked the candidate to bear with me as I pulled something from the files of my computer. I turned the monitor so the candidate could read and showed them the passage. I had written what they claimed as their own and shared it with a Best Practices publication several years before. The person was speechless. I didn't hire them. |
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posted at 6/21/2011 12:45 PM EDT
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Interesting..I quote from that Handbook quite often, but do always try to cite it...I don't see anything above though that came from there, unless they had Workforce delete a message (possibly written by me! I'll have to check the dates!) |
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posted at 6/22/2011 2:50 AM EDT
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HRPro, I'm a trained and experienced journalist so I too understand the need for citation/attribution. However, I think it's a bit OTT for someone from a government agency to get all worked up - five years after the fact! - about unattributed phrases from that agency's public website made by an unidentifiable person on a public internet forum. |
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