an overly Photoshopped job candidate, do I have to put dates on my resume, and more by Alison Green on August 25, 2020 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Company’s phishing test made my coworker think she was being fired I have a question about my company’s IT practices. We’re in education and we have a lot of employees who don’t use technology too often, so they’re not the most sophisticated at spotting phishing. […] Read the full article →
can my husband’s employer constantly record all the conversation in our house? by Alison Green on August 24, 2020 A reader writes: I am a stay-at-home mom living a work life vicariously through your blog. My husband is still working at home due to corona. His company has been very cautious. All of their on-site campuses have been closed, with all employees working from home. They were given company computers and phones to use, […] Read the full article →
is my employee abusing her medical leave? by Alison Green on August 24, 2020 A reader writes: One of my staff, who has been with us for three years, takes sick leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on a regular basis. Her FMLA allowance based on her doctor’s notes is that she can miss up to three days a month; she always takes all of them. […] Read the full article →
how can we keep involving our laid-off staff in our work? by Alison Green on August 24, 2020 A reader writes: I work at a nonprofit organization that has recently (and hopefully temporarily) laid off most of its programming staff because social distancing requirements and the dangers of Covid-19 made it impossible to provide safe and meaningful experiences for our participants. Our budget has been dramatically cut because most of our income was […] Read the full article →
calling out sick in your first week, my ideas are ignored unless I submit them anonymously, and more by Alison Green on August 24, 2020 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I was late my first week — and now I need to call out sick It seems like five minutes after I started a new job, I hit a brick wall. And that brick wall is COVID-19 symptoms a day after I managed to misread […] Read the full article →
weekend open thread – August 22-23, 2020 by Alison Green on August 22, 2020 This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley. A man rescues a young boy after the plane they’re on goes down, and when the boy turns out to be […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on August 21, 2020 It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. I’ve been searching for a job since last October and got to several second-round interviews but was never selected… and then COVID hit and my large state university set a hiring freeze. There are a few exceptions to the […] Read the full article →
open thread – August 21-22, 2020 by Alison Green on August 21, 2020 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 →
should my unpaid internship have been paid, offering to give up a bonus, and more by Alison Green on August 21, 2020 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should my unpaid internship have been paid? This summer, I was looking for a remote internship because all of the in person summer internship programs I applied to were cancelled due to Covid. To preserve anonymity, let’s say I’m someone who designs postcards for tourist […] Read the full article →
am I really supposed to bug my coworkers to get my projects handled? by Alison Green on August 20, 2020 A reader writes: I have been “working from home” from my parents’ house recently due to landlord issues. It has brought up a debate between my mother and me, and I was curious to hear your thoughts. For reference, my mother is a recently retired IT professional who wrote code and made websites for internal […] Read the full article →