company wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them, telling a former intern to honor time commitments, and more by Alison Green on March 27, 2024 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Potential job wants me to tell my current job I’m interviewing with them I had an initial phone interview today with one of current company’s vendors. This vendor provides the software that tracks all the manufacturing and inventory activities for the product we make. They […] Read the full article →
I was promised a raise for doing a lot more work … and it didn’t come through by Alison Green on March 26, 2024 A reader writes: I’m feeling bamboozled by how my compensation situation has shaken out. I am a non-exempt salaried employee and have been the entire time this all went down. I joined my current company almost two years ago at a salary that was slightly below market for my level of experience and competency. At […] Read the full article →
I sent a text about my problem employee to the wrong person by Alison Green on March 26, 2024 A reader writes: I find myself in a pickle and am a nervous wreck. I have been a manager for two years and it has not been easy. The manager before me was stepping down and badmouthed me during a staff meeting she held with the employees prior to my arrival. It was hell when […] Read the full article →
my coworkers are obsessed with talking about their kids … and I’m the only childless one here by Alison Green on March 26, 2024 A reader writes: I work in a small public-facing office of a government agency. Due to some staffing changes in the past few months, my coworkers are now exclusively mothers of young children, with one exception who is the grandmother of young children. I am now the only man and only non-parent in the office. […] Read the full article →
wearing revealing exercise clothes around coworkers, telling an employer I have another offer, and more by Alison Green on March 26, 2024 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Wearing revealing clothes to exercise around coworkers I’m a young woman at my first corporate job in a male-dominated field. I go to the gym across the street after work on most days; it’s not affiliated with the company. For comfort and convenience, I often […] Read the full article →
the plant saver, the altruistic horse, and other stories of kindness at work by Alison Green on March 25, 2024 Last week we talked about kindness at work. Here are 15 of my favorites of the stories you shared. 1. The teachers I’m a teacher. Ive been at schools where our faculty has arranged housing and supplies for families after devestating fires. Currently, we’re gathering money to support one teacher (medical bills, heating issues) and […] Read the full article →
the surprising agony of office coffee culture by Alison Green on March 25, 2024 You would think supplying employees with coffee would be a relatively straightforward task and yet … sometimes it’s anything but. At Slate today, I wrote about office coffee wars — from workplaces with intense bureaucratic in-fighting over coffee supplies, to meetings that get hijacked to debate coffee issues, to outrage when people bring in their […] Read the full article →
employee uses the bathroom stall with the door wide open by Alison Green on March 25, 2024 A reader writes: I have (what I think is) an outlandish question for you, but I promise it’s true. It comes from my coworker’s spouse. At her place of employment, they have found it difficult to retain anyone in the administrative assistant position. It sounds like there was a lot of turnover in that role, […] Read the full article →
coworker wants to withhold PTO as punishment, religious gifts for colleagues, and more by Alison Green on March 25, 2024 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker wants to withhold PTO as punishment We have a series of educational seminars by coworkers every month. I am expected to attend 80% of these seminars, online or in person (preferred). Attendance is monitored through completion of an anonymous survey with a follow-up page […] Read the full article →
weekend open thread – March 23-24, 2024 by Alison Green on March 22, 2024 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: You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, by Stephen McCauley. A man going through a break-up and his niece, who’s in a professional crisis, […] Read the full article →