weekend free-for-all – August 30-31, 2014 by Alison Green on August 30, 2014 It’s the weekend free-for-all. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly non-work only; if you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.) Have at it. Read the full article →
I hate my promotion and want my old job back, horrid interviewers, and more by Alison Green on August 30, 2014 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I hate my promotion — can I ask to have my old job back? I have been with my current company for almost three years now, my first position out of college. The first two years, I was in another department. I really enjoyed my […] Read the full article →
what should I look for when interviewing college students? by Alison Green on August 29, 2014 A reader writes: With this blog and your book for reference, I now feel much more confident interviewing candidates. (Thank you!) While I’ve had plenty of practice interviewing experienced hires, I’m feeling stumped preparing to interview college students. We are coming up on fall campus recruiting for interns and new hires, and I’m having trouble […] Read the full article →
open thread – August 29, 2014 by Alison Green on August 29, 2014 It’s the Friday open thread. This post is for work-related discussions only. Please hold anything off topic for the free-for-all open thread that’s coming this Sunday. The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, […] Read the full article →
how to turn down requests to visit our office, retroactive pay decreases, and more by Alison Green on August 29, 2014 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. How to turn down supporters’ requests to visit our office I work for a high-profile animal welfare charity, and we often get requests by supporters to visit our office. Unfortunately, we are a small team with limited time and there really is nothing to see […] Read the full article →
how do I tell my coworkers that I have incurable cancer and it’s progressing? by Alison Green on August 28, 2014 A reader writes: I’m a 59-year-old professional woman with Stage 4, metastatic breast cancer; my original disease was diagnosed and treated in 1996, but multiple metastases emerged and were officially diagnosed in 2007. I received a very aggressive course of chemotherapy at that time, achieved symptomatic remission, and have continued on maintenance therapy ever since, […] Read the full article →
what to do when an employee makes a serious mistake by Alison Green on August 28, 2014 Assuming that you don’t employ robots, at some point you’ll have employees who make mistakes. (Although if you do employ robots, no need to read further.) Some mistakes are routine – a typo here, a misunderstood instruction there. But what do you do when a mistake is more serious? Here are four key principles for […] Read the full article →
what’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen at work? by Alison Green on August 28, 2014 On a post last week, commenter Joey said: “I used to work with a guy that did triathlons and biked 12 miles to work in the Texas heat. He’d wear his Lance Armstrong wear on the way to work, strip down in the staff bathroom, use a wash rag to take a bath in the […] Read the full article →
listing a brothel job on a resume, blocking coworker from Facebook posts, and more by Alison Green on August 28, 2014 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. How do I list a receptionist job in a brothel on my resume? I work in a place with a legalised, regulated sex industry. I worked as a receptionist in a brothel for over a year and for the most part, I was really good […] Read the full article →
how to tell a coworker to stop touching you by Alison Green on August 27, 2014 A reader writes: There’s a guy on our small work team that’s mostly made up of women, let’s call him Chumley. Whenever we go to a team lunch or outing, he puts his arm around or puts his hand on the lower back of a coworker. She’s horrified when it happens, and the other female […] Read the full article →