It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker always assumes someone will drive him to meetings I have a coworker who always assumes that someone will drive him to and from meetings outside our facility. He owns a car but usually takes public transportation to work since it’s cheaper and his […]

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker cooks fish at work — and the smell makes me vomit I work in a multi-floored corporate building with break rooms on each floor. Some are walled in with doors and others open into the floor. I work on an open floor and I’m […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. The other intern is making me look bad I’m about a quarter of the way through an internship I’m really enjoying in a field I could see myself in long-term. I generally think that following an adjustment period, I’ve been professional, my work has been […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I have an awful employee I can’t fire I am a supervisor at a facility that serves the public. Our job can be very rigorous and requires working long hours on our feet in all kind of weather conditions. It is often labor intensive and […]

It’s four answers to you questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker flaked out on pet-sitting and won’t return my keys I am a legal secretary and earlier this year asked one of the law students at work to mind my apartment and cats in exchange for free rent/utilities/etc. for two weeks. All was well, a […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Giving a reference when you have a moral objection to the employer I have a former employee who is fantastic, and I’m always happy to act as a reference for her. She just applied for a position with a company that has a pretty controversial […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworkers are in a self-help cult A few months back, my coworker Jason, then new to the team, was hawking a program which from Googling appears to be a for-profit self-help cult. Jason has done the full program and volunteers with them in his […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Employee keeps leaving early I’ve been a manager for two months, coming from an individual contributor role and building a new team in my organization. I’ve hired a few people, they are all settling in well, and the team is gelling. I’ve tried to set […]

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I’m being physically bullied at work I’ve worked in the same office for about five years now. The department I work in seems to be run by a large clique of tight-knit friends (we’re all women), who are also close with management (they all hang […]

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 […]