It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My good employee is angry about my bad employee I have two employees who have both worked here for over 20 years. One works days, the other works evenings. The employee on evenings has had many, many, many years of disciplinary issues and is on […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My former coworkers crashed my networking party I can’t believe I am asking this, but is it okay to crash a networking event if you’re friendly with the host? After the first day of a large conference (1,000+ people) put on by a former employer, […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Our CFO is obsessed with shooting rubber bands at people I am a CPA at a public accounting firm. There is a bunch of cubicles outside of the CFO’s office where about eight of us sit. The CFO is obsessed with shooting rubber bands at […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Can I discipline a candidate who didn’t show up to a job interview? I went to send a Discipline Email Form to a candidate who hasn’t attended his interview even though we called him to choose interview time and then we sent a confirmation email […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. How to respond to “Sorry I’m late” when it inconvenienced you Recently, I had a meeting scheduled at two colleagues’ request to help them work through some challenges in an area where I have more expertise. They were about 10 minutes late, with no notice […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I walked in on two amorous coworkers I work backstage at a theater. One evening during a show, I went to use the bathroom in an unused dressing room and I walked in on our diction coach getting a blowjob from someone. I said “sorry!” […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My office keeps pranking my coworker who’s afraid of clowns I have a coworker who is terrified of clowns. He is popular in the office, and once in a while one of my other coworkers thinks it’s funny to change his wallpaper on his laptop […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Our “unpaid intern” is paid $42,000/year I’m an executive assistant for a small nonprofit agency. I have access to people’s salary information and I’ve never really been concerned about the salaries and fairness before now. Occasionally we take on graduate student interns, very rarely are […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I tell employers “I’m the ideal candidate for this role” I regularly include the following claim into my job applications: “My skills and experience in X mean that I am the ideal candidate for this role.” I have been criticized for doing this on the […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should I tell my mom she’s unprofessional? I’m wondering if/how I should tell my mom that her unprofessional attitude is unacceptable and hindering her career. She is a financial analyst for a very large corporation. She tends to be sort of bitter in general, but […]