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Las Vegas -- Craftsman's Eugene Kulig has one of the longest titles in hardware, for one of the biggest brands.

Kulig's business card reads: "product manager, Craftsman work shop, stationary & bench top tools, power tool accessories."

A store manager’s inability to be physically present at work during the busy season was a legitimate business reason for her termination, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.

Cynthia Lawler had managed a Montblanc retail store in a mall for nearly a decade. The store made a third of its sales during the holiday season. Thus, from Thanksgiving to Jan. 2, Lawler was required to work 60 to 70 hours per week.

Jim McCorkle, a 35-year veteran of 84 Lumber, will retire on Jan. 18. McCorkle began his career as a manager trainee at the West Mifflin Junction in 1978. (Junctions were stand-alone home centers that were next to 84 Lumber stores.) A year later, he became co-manager in Canonsburg, Pa. McCorkle then moved to the Murrysville, Pa., location, serving in the same position. In 1984, he became store manager at Butler, Pa.

Do it Best Corp. promoted of Don Randolph to the position of retail performance manager.

In his new role, Randolph will oversee and lead co-op efforts in aiding the growth and improvement of member stores through enhancement of retail performance programs. 

Randolph is a nearly 10-year veteran of Do it Best Corp., serving as a territory sales and business development manager in the southwestern United States. 

MMC Contractors, a commercial builder with offices in four states, has hired a new president for the Las Vegas market. Dan Coppinger will be responsible for business management and operations in the Las Vegas office, as well as helping achieve overall strategic goals for the MMC Contractors nationwide brand.

Coppinger spent the last 10 years as VP and division manager of Southland Industries in Las Vegas. He started his career 30 years ago as a sheet metal apprentice, moving up to foreman, superintendent and then transitioned into management.

Home Depot chairman and CEO Frank Blake addressed the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business on Oct. 25, joined by his son, Home Depot district manager Frank Blake Jr., who also serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Business' Executive M.B.A. Program. The senior Blake spoke as part of the business speaker series at the Charles G. Thalhimer Family Executive-in-Residence program.

A PPG Paint rep who claimed overtime for the hours he worked at several Lowe’s stores won $24,400 -- double his back pay -- in a Washington State court, according to a summary in the Washington Employment Law Letter. Counting the plaintiff’s attorneys’ fees, PPG Industries was ordered to pay $470,000 in a case that could reverberate through the aisles of big-box stores across the nation. 

When asked to rate their manager on a list of specific behaviors, most employees agreed their boss is open to suggestions, acts in an ethical manner and listens to employees’ concerns. However, 41% disagreed when asked if their boss handles workplace conflict effectively.

In June 2012, Healthy Companies International, a management consulting firm, surveyed 2,700 employees from its in-house database of senior managers, HR executives and C-suite leaders to examine employee perceptions of 20 specific manager behaviors.

The responsibility of full engagement does not fall solely on employees. An employee may be engaged in one organization or department and disengaged in another environment. Or, the employee may start off engaged and then slowly move into the disengaged, or transactional, category. Managers often hold the keys to whether employees are engaged or transactional because employees’ level of engagement often depends on the manager’s.

Distributor PACOA hired 40-year industry veteran Mike Kudiak as senior merchandising manager, effective July 16.

Based in Port Washington, N.Y., the wholesale distributor of paint, hardware, lumber, janitorial, and building supplies serves independent retail dealers throughout the New York Tri-State area. It operates a 92,000 sq. ft. warehouse with 15,000 skus on premises.

“We are excited to have Mike on our team and to use his experience to assist in PACOA’s continued growth,” said Steve Geismar, president.

Do it Best Corp. has created a new position -- national retail performance manager -- and promoted Scott Sproul into the job.

“This place is a hell hole. If I had a car today I would up and quit.”

This is a real Facebook status update referenced in a discussion on the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) member bulletin board. The question raised: What should be the next step for the manager? Discussion? Termination? Nothing?

It’s a scenario played out in workplaces all over the world, experts say -- people tattling on their Facebook friends.