updates

Here are updates from people who had their work questions answered here in the past. Find out what happened!

update: recovering professionally after an internet hate campaign

Remember the letter-writer trying to recover professionally after an internet hate campaign against her? Earlier updates are here, and here’s the latest. So much has happened since then (I can’t believe it’s been eight years!) both in the industry and professionally. After I left my former company, I took some time working for other companies […]

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update: can I offer to pay a coworker’s vet bill?

Remember the letter-writer wondering if they could offer to pay a coworker’s vet bill (#2 at the link)? Here’s the update. I reached out to my coworker the evening that the letter was published. I texted him and made the offer to cover the testing for a diagnosis, up to a certain amount of money, […]

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update: my boss is abusive and blames it on PMDD

Remember the letter-writer whose boss was abusive and blamed it on PMDD? Here’s the update. I have an update for my boss who was blaming her abusive behavior on PMDD. It ended how I was starting to suspect it would. After your response, my husband and I started working on moving our kids onto his […]

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update: I reported my boss’s boss for racism and now feel guilty

Remember the letter-writer who felt guilty about reporting their boss’s boss for racism? Here’s the update. I’ve switched careers from nonprofit program manager to home caregiver and haven’t looked back. The nonprofit I left is still alive and kicking. But they killed the program I used to manage, which actually made me feel less crazy […]

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