should I tell a new employee that her facial piercings are limiting the work we’ll give her? by Alison Green on June 15, 2015 A reader writes: We have a new employee at our small office with multiple facial piercings. It’s not a problem in our daily office environment and we hired this employee with the facial piercings in place. The issue is that prior to this employee being hired, our boss required us to remove some of the […] Read the full article →
dealing with a work crush, our boss lied about a family emergency to skip a meeting, and more by Alison Green on June 15, 2015 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Our boss skipped a meeting for a family emergency — but we saw on Facebook that it was a party I work part-time at a pool (I do have a professional IT job) and each month there are required staff meetings. Last month, our boss […] Read the full article →
weekend free-for-all – June 13-14, 2015 by Alison Green on June 13, 2015 This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.) Book Recommendation of the Week: […] Read the full article →
did I cross the line with our fun office survey, handling a boss’s birthday, and more by Alison Green on June 13, 2015 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Did my fun office survey really cross the line? I work for a market research company and in lieu of a company newsletter, I design and send out a fun survey every Monday, and then distribute the answers on Friday. Each week is a different theme. […] Read the full article →
should you warn employees before you fire them? by Alison Green on June 12, 2015 A reader writes: I am a partner in a small business. I need to terminate one of our admins for performance problems. Do you think I should give her “notice” before I fire her? I am a bit concerned because we’ve let her slide without formally saying anything–no verbal or written warnings for things that […] Read the full article →
open thread – June 12, 2015 by Alison Green on June 12, 2015 It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted […] Read the full article →
former boss keeps trying to pull me into drama, interviewer told me that I was “misleading” him, and more by Alison Green on June 12, 2015 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My former boss keeps trying to pull me into drama at my old job I left a job where I had a horrible micromanaging boss who created a toxic environment. I left on good terms, feeling like it was better not to say anything to […] Read the full article →
company doesn’t want departing employees to send staff-wide “goodbye” emails by Alison Green on June 11, 2015 A reader writes: What do you and your readers think of good-bye “blast” emails that departing employees might send on their last day — the ones that say “it’s been great here and here’s my contact info,” etc.? Some of the executives in my company are not a fan of those emails and we often get […] Read the full article →
how to adjust to a more demanding job by Alison Green on June 11, 2015 A reader writes: I start a new job at the end of the month (thanks in part to your wonderful advice). It’s going to be a lot more work than my current job and a lot more visibility. My current company has thousands of people here and the people I work for don’t really notice […] Read the full article →
have a telecommuting horror story? by Alison Green on June 11, 2015 When telecommuting goes wrong, it can go really, really wrong – because when problems aren’t right under your nose, it can take longer to spot them. That’s how you end up with the remote guy who hasn’t done any real work in two months (like Marissa Mayer’s discovery at Yahoo! that some remote workers hadn’t signed […] Read the full article →