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Is body odor protected by freedom of religion?
Which restroom should a trans-sexual use?
May the receptionist moonlight as a stripper?
Can I wear the same outfit to work every day?
Is it still sexual harassment if I take advantage of it?

While it may surprise you to learn about some of the strangest HR questions, it won’t surprise you to find out that there’s someone making a living out of providing answers to these questions. John Putzier, M.S., SPHR, author of Weirdos in the Workplace! The New Normal…Thriving in The Age of the Individual, published by Financial Times Prentice Hall, points out, “The workplace is a microcosm of society, and as goes the world, so goes the workplace. We have moved from the Age of the Organization Man (the 50s and 60s) when people were “normal,” to the Age of Diversity (the 70s and 80s) defined by law, to the Age of the New Economy (the 90s) when new workers thought they could have it all, to the Age of the Individual (going on right now) where it’s every man (and woman) for him/herself.

Chapters in the book include:

• Walking Art
• Carpal Tunnel Crapola
• Pets are People Too
• Helen the Hypochondriac
• Long Live the Confederacy
• Feng Shui Phoebe

The book also offers tools, techniques, and organizational change ideas for organizations in search of weirdness solutions.

To order a copy of Weirdos in the Workplace, click this link.