It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I’m the interim manager while my boss is out — can I make a play for the job? I work with a small team of people who historically have only had a team lead. About eight months ago, we hired a true manager for our […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. New employee is hinting he wants me to give him money A new project manager started work on Thursday. On Friday, he spent most of the day telling me about his desperate financial situation and how he had exhausted all of his resources. He said […]

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker tags our CEO on Twitter to point out my mistakes I’m part of an incredibly progressive, supportive team, where one of my responsibilities is my organization’s social media. In six months, I have made three errors within tweets, two of which were mixing up […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t want to stay in an Airbnb with coworkers I just started to work at a small company (under 15 people) that hosts conferences a few times a year in different parts of the country. Everyone in the company is required to be on […]

A reader writes: Recently, I was called into an “emergency” meeting with my grandboss, supposedly to discuss budget problems on a program I am leading. This worried me, because I hadn’t thought there were any budget problems, and I hardly ever talk to her (and, wouldn’t expect to, unless something was Very Wrong). When I […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t want to talk shop when I run into a coworker outside of work I have a coworker who I am sharing a few really challenging, long-term projects with. They’re great to work with and we’re getting a lot done. Only problem is that […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Older coworkers asking about my relationship with my girlfriend My girlfriend and I (we’re both in our late 20s) have been dating for just about a year and things are going very well. She’s an elementary school teacher and during her summer vacation she came […]

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. I’m a picky eater — how do I handle team lunches? My team is culturally diverse and so are the restaurants around the office. My own tastes in food are admittedly narrow. If my boss organizes a team lunch at a restaurant with cuisine I […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker gets angry when we chew I have a coworker who has undiagnosed misophonia. She has never been formally diagnosed, and as I understand it, has never even mentioned it to her family doctor. But she hates chewing sounds so much that she actually […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Friend is pranking coworkers by repeatedly falling down I was having a chat with my friend the other day, and they told me that they were having fun at work by pretending to fall down in front of coworkers and dropping all their papers as […]