Ask a Manager’s traffic continued to climb this year, with 8 million unique visitors, nearly 14 million visits, and more than 24 million page views. Thanks for your part in that! Here are the posts that interested people the most this year, via two lists: the most commented on posts and the most viewed posts. […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter-writer whose creative role had turned into the very drudgery she was trying to get away from when she took the job? Here’s the update — and it’s the last in our 2014 update series.. As you suggested, I explained to my manager that I wished to be taken off Project Tedious and […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My interviewer turned out to be a distant cousin I recently went for an interview and spent half the time trying to figure out why one of my interviewers looked so familiar. It didn’t dawn on me until on the way home it was a […]
Read the full article →I wasn’t going to do a list of favorite posts of 2014 because technically I’m on vacation and being lazy, but then at the last minute, the urge struck. So here they are. 10. my coworkers heard my roommates having sex while I was on a conference call Because I’m 12. 9. our European clients […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter-writer wondering how important it is to answer every question perfectly during a job interview? She worried that she’d flubbed two questions in a recent interview and was wondering how much it would matter. Here’s her update. Your advice, as well as that of your knowledgeable and thoughtful commenters, was extraordinarily helpful to […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: I have been interviewing for several months now and had two good job offers come in a week apart from each other. Job # 1 could not give me additional time to weigh my options, so I declined job #1 and chose job #2. I declined in good standing, explained my understanding […]
Read the full article →If you’re like a growing number of workers, you might have one or more coworkers who telecommute. It’s a great benefit for them, but sometimes it can make life harder for people back in the office – if they’re less accessible, or have important information tied up on their local hard drives, or are simply […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Am I trying too hard if I call employers every other day? After filling out an application, what should I be expecting? I would call the hiring managers back and ask for my status on my application and they would reply with, “I will be […]
Read the full article →We have a winner! 3,313 votes are in, and the worst boss of the year is the manager who spoofed an employee’s caller ID to make her think her hospitalized mother was calling … with 30% of the vote. Congratulations, terrible manager of the year! You suck. The five runners-up, who managed to be pretty terrible themselves: * the manager […]
Read the full article →Here are another three updates from people who had their letters answered here this year. 1. When a coworker missed a deadline, I told her it’s a good thing she’s pretty My situation worked out fine. Not a whole lot to tell. Appreciated your input. I will admit I was shocked by the response of commenters to […]
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