Christmas weekend free-for-all – December 24-25, 2016 by Alison Green on December 24, 2016 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 no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.) Recommendation of the week: The House […] Read the full article →
updates: a good employee who’s really a terrible employee, boss has banned hot take-out food at lunch, and more by Alison Green on December 24, 2016 Continuing our annual December “where are they now” series, here are five more updates from people who had their questions answered here this year. 1. A good employee who’s really a terrible employee I did take a lot of the advice that was suggested to me in the AAM post and comments. I brought my concerns […] Read the full article →
update: my manager is urging me to drop truth bombs on the CEO by Alison Green on December 23, 2016 Remember the letter-writer who manager and other colleagues were urging her to tell the CEO how bad a coworker was who he wanted her take an internal job working for? Here’s the update. First, I wasn’t forced into taking the job, though it was a real possibility that the CEO could have insisted. While we are […] Read the full article →
open thread – December 23-24, 2016 by Alison Green on December 23, 2016 It’s the Friday open thread! 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, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted […] Read the full article →
asking for a big raise to take on a second role, employees held a party without asking us, and more by Alison Green on December 23, 2016 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Can I ask for a big raise to take on a second role? I’m a first-time manager, overseeing two staff members at a nonprofit. One of the staff members I supervise recently told me that she is applying for jobs, and I’m mentally preparing for […] Read the full article →
update: employer wants us to install invasive GPS trackers on our personal vehicles if we use them for work by Alison Green on December 22, 2016 Remember the letter-writer whose employer was insisting on installing invasive GPS tracking devices in employees’ personal vehicles? Here’s the update. The GPS installs went ahead pretty much as anticipated soon into the new financial year so I’ve had the wonderful contraption in my car for the last five months or so and … It’s been an interesting […] Read the full article →
how to say no to something you don’t have time to do, how to create deadlines you’ll stick to, and more by Alison Green on December 22, 2016 Over at the Fast Track by QuickBase today, I take a look at several big work-related stories in the news right now: how to say no to something you don’t have time to do, how to create deadlines you’ll actually stick to, and more. You can read it here. Read the full article →
the worst boss of 2016 is… by Alison Green on December 22, 2016 We have a winner! 9,181 votes are in, and the worst boss of the year is the manager who showed up while an employee was having chemotherapy to talk about work … with 28% of the vote. Congratulations, terrible manager of the year! You suck. The seven runners-up, who managed to be pretty terrible themselves: * the […] Read the full article →
update: my male coworker makes more money than I do by Alison Green on December 22, 2016 Remember the letter from the person whose new male coworker was making significantly more than her to do the same job? Here’s the update. The new coworker, Fergus, was legitimately the worst. I’m still cleaning up the mess three months later. New Manager continued being awful until I complained enough about Fergus to make him, y’know, manage […] Read the full article →
should I report my former boss’s Twitter account, bringing a coworker to a disciplinary meeting, and more by Alison Green on December 22, 2016 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should I report my former boss’s Twitter account to my old company? A few days ago I was bored and decided to google my former boss from a job I left earlier this year. Most of the search results weren’t very interesting and had nothing to […] Read the full article →