Sorted Table

Employee ID	First Name	Last Name	Date Hired	Notes
Sorting functionality provided by SortedTable
8888	Bob	Billiards	5/13/1993	Drinks too much coffee
1234	Carmen	Sandiego	8/29/1983	Hasn't shown up to work in weeks. Where in the world is she?
1169	Theodore	Logan	10/15/1989	Goes by Ted. Has a rock band called Wyld Stallyns.
3141	Laszlo	Hollyfeld	1/31/1980	Odd fellow. Works in a closet.
3142	Laszlo 2	Hollyfeld	1/31/1981	Inactive
3143	Laszlo 3	Hollyfeld	1/31/1982	Crazy
5678	Cookie	Monster	04/01/1974
5	Johnny	Dangerously	05/04/1983
4A	John	Dillenger	06/06/1986
3	Calvin	Coolidge	08/02/1923	Succeeded Warren Harding

Issues

Whitespace characters included in sort. Suggestion: trim, then sort.
HTML within <TD> included in sort. Suggestion: strip HTML, then sort.
Date sorting doesn't work well with American-style dates (I haven't tested others).

Update: you can easily get around the HTML issue by putting the value to be sorted in the title field.