Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. CEO will ask how things are going … but she just yanked a promotion away from me (#2 at the link) I wanted to follow up with a happy update! I was so grateful you posted my letter, and for the feedback I received from you and […]

Remember the letter-writer whose coworker’s son is interning for their office and it wasn’t going well? Here’s the update. I’m happy to report that I took your advice and mostly left the situation alone. There was one situation in which I had to shut down Luke: He was complaining about a receptionist who doesn’t speak […]

Remember the manager back in 2016 whose best employee quit on the spot because he wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation? She had been raised in foster care and had no living family, was homeless for a while, and managed to get herself through school and graduate. He wanted to “teach her professional […]

Remember the letter-writer who discovered her new office had a no-humor policy? Here’s the update. I wrote in early last summer about working at a job with a no-joke policy. It’s been about 9 months, and I’m still working there. The no-humor rule is definitely still a thing, but I’ve learned to live with it. […]

Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. Director is so bad that everyone is leaving (#3 at the link) In the last 3 months no more people have left and we finally managed to hire on a few people to manage the overflow. The director finally hired my coworker to be the new manager […]

Here are four updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. 1. My trainee got pulled over during a Zoom meeting Thank you for your advice on this. Your answer was about what I was thinking, and I think what I did worked out well. The new employee immediately apologized during […]

Remember the letter-writer who hated her boss’s mandatory Zoom happy hours? Here’s the update. The advice was, in fact, very helpful—thank you. In the next meeting that was held after my letter was published, with your advice, I just … didn’t attend. I didn’t give an excuse, just declined the RVSP and waited for the […]

Remember the letter-writer wondering if they could ask for a raise after covering for remote coworkers for over a year (#3 at the link)? Here’s the update. There have been a lot of recent developments at my work in the months since I’ve written to you and I finally have an update to share! I took […]

Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. My new boss is someone I used to drink on the job with Monica started yesterday and one of the bosses gave her a tour and did brief introductions. When she got to me, she said “Nice to meet you.” I just said “Thank you, you too” […]

Remember the letter-writer whose awful former boss worked at the new job she was about to start? Here’s the update. My update is kind of an update on both nothing and everything all at once. So for the specifics of my concern with my old boss: nothing to update there. I have not once yet […]