my coworker is hovering, staring, and making me uncomfortable by Alison Green on June 13, 2016 A reader writes: I have an issue with a male coworker of mine. When I started out at the job, we became good friends and I had joined his family for dinner a few times but it always felt a little awkward and began to feel like he was getting too close to me. He […] Read the full article →
Blue Apron will feed you dinner tonight by Alison Green on June 13, 2016 And now a break to talk about a sponsor… I like to cook and I love to eat, but I hate, hate, hate figuring out what to make for dinner night after night after night. I’ve long felt that if I can’t have a live-in chef on hand to cook me meals to order (which […] Read the full article →
a friend is aggressively trying to get a sales lead from me, I was offered a new job but they won’t tell me the salary, and more by Alison Green on June 13, 2016 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My boyfriend’s friend is aggressively trying to get a sales lead from me A guy from my boyfriend’s gaming group is going way overboard trying to contact me because he wants me to introduce him to people at my company. Two days ago, I got Facebook […] Read the full article →
weekend free-for-all – June 11-12, 2016 by Alison Green on June 11, 2016 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: Modern […] Read the full article →
I feel weird about turning down jobs and interviews, telling an interviewer I want to open my own business, and more by Alison Green on June 11, 2016 It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. I feel weird about turning down jobs and interviews I have had several situations arise lately where I ended up withdrawing from the interview process after I developed concerns about the position or company. Each time, I don’t think I handled it well. The first […] Read the full article →
update: my boss gave everyone a Christmas gift but me by Alison Green on June 10, 2016 Two Christmases ago, in a round-up of weird office holiday stories, a reader shared a story of her boss giving each of her coworkers at a holiday lunch a $100 gift card and pointedly leaving her out. The story made it into this compilation of workplace holiday disasters. Now, we have an update! Well… Today […] Read the full article →
me on a podcast, and other places too by Alison Green on June 10, 2016 Look, it’s Ask a Manager in a bunch of places other than here — * I’m interviewed on this week’s episode of the Copeland Coaching podcast. We talk about interviewing, how to negotiate for more money, working in nonprofits, and more. You can listen to it here. * Bravo’s website featured AAM again — this time […] Read the full article →
open thread – June 10-11, 2016 by Alison Green on June 10, 2016 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 →
new hire said I’m too relaxed to be a manager, coworkers keep calling me the “compliance lady,” and more by Alison Green on June 10, 2016 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. New hire said I’m too relaxed to be a manager I recently had four new staff members join my team, as did the other three managers in our company. As with all new starters, we conduct a “temperature check” a couple of months in to […] Read the full article →
my boss refused to pay my husband’s invoice for contract work by Alison Green on June 9, 2016 A reader writes: I have a tricky situation. Previously this year, my husband was hired by my boss to do some contract video work for the company I work for. I was in charge of the art direction and we completed the assignment to (what I thought) were my boss’s specifications. My office had also […] Read the full article →