boss makes us discuss all our mistakes in a group, elf work on a resume, and more by Alison Green on September 21, 2022 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My boss makes us discuss all our mistakes in a group I hate my boss. She has this policy that she believes works where she insists on discussing your mistakes on a video call with our team of nine. No member of our team finds […] Read the full article →
Ask a Manager speed round by Alison Green on September 20, 2022 It’s part 2 of this year’s Ask a Manager speed round! (Part 1 was last month.) Until 4 pm ET today, I’ll be answering questions live (using some of the questions that were submitted but not answered in part 1). Last month I answered 78 questions in two hours; we’ll see if I can match that today. […] Read the full article →
my coworker keeps trying to undermine me by Alison Green on September 20, 2022 A reader writes: I left a toxic job back in June, and accepted a higher-paying, higher-title job at a nonprofit organization I respect very much. The culture here is wonderful, my manager is fantastic, and, for the most part, so are my coworkers. There is one coworker, though, who I’m having a tough time with, […] Read the full article →
my boss only wants to hire attractive young women by Alison Green on September 20, 2022 Announcement: At 2 pm ET today, it’s part of 2 of last month’s speed round! Last month’s speed round had 700+ questions submitted, so this time I’ll be answering some of the questions I didn’t get to in round 1. Follow along live on the home page later today. A reader writes: My boss, Todd, […] Read the full article →
my coworkers are sick of me having cancer, replying to late-night messages, and more by Alison Green on September 20, 2022 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworkers are sick of me having cancer I am living with Stage 4 breast cancer. I’m doing well and working full-time in an outpatient healthcare setting. We have a loose rotating schedule of taking various roles in the office during the week. Some weeks, […] Read the full article →
the wallets of destruction, the backpack indignity, and other corporate gifts gone very wrong by Alison Green on September 19, 2022 On last week’s post about corporate year-end gifts, some readers shared stories of company gifts that went terribly wrong. Here are 10 that made me laugh. (Also, who would have anticipated the surprising enjoyment of umbrellas as a corporate gift that was revealed in that post? But for the record: the only two universally loved […] Read the full article →
my assistant thinks she’s my peer by Alison Green on September 19, 2022 A reader asks: My assistant does her work well. However, we’re similar in age, and I think that makes her speak much more candidly with me than she otherwise might. She borders on rude in conversations, especially if I correct her on anything or ask her to do something differently, and she asserts herself in […] Read the full article →
some of my employees have a butts-in-seats mentality … and some just disappear by Alison Green on September 19, 2022 A reader writes: In the remote time period following 2020, I took over supervision of a small team. We are finally back on-site and I’m encountering an issue I didn’t have in the fully remote setting. Our work is only sometimes coverage-based. The times this is the case are firm and established. Other times, it […] Read the full article →
CEO attacked me in an all-staff email, I can’t give my employee satisfying answers, and more by Alison Green on September 19, 2022 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Our CEO attacked me in an all-staff email for scheduling a happy hour on Rosh Hashanah I work at a nonprofit in lower management. Two folks who report to me and I report to a VP who reports to the CEO. One of my reports […] Read the full article →
weekend open thread – September 17-18, 2022 by Alison Green on September 16, 2022 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: Happy-Go-Lucky, by David Sedaris. As always, he’s both funny and dark while writing about his family, and this time the pandemic too. * I make […] Read the full article →