running clothes at work, my coworker lost her daughter and keeps giving me her things, and more by Alison Green on July 6, 2017 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Running clothes at work I’m writing with a question about running at work. In my workplace’s employee handbook, we are given an hour for lunch each day. I started work here in January and since then have made a habit of taking that hour to […] Read the full article →
I’m terrified of graduating and am panicking about finding a job by Alison Green on July 5, 2017 A reader writes: I am a year out from graduating college (that is, in the summer between my junior and senior year.) I’m working at a fairly prestigious internship (in academia) but I think I’m figuring out that it’s not really what I want to do and I have no idea what I DO want […] Read the full article →
why are employers so rude to job candidates? by Alison Green on July 5, 2017 A reader writes: I’ve been job hunting for about 18 months and I can’t handle all of the broken promises. I’ve had people make offers of help and then disappear. I’ve had interview offers rescinded (mostly involving scheduling conflicts until I find that the job has been filled). I’ve been told to follow up and […] Read the full article →
CEO’s wife ruined my job prospects by Alison Green on July 5, 2017 A reader writes: I have been going through a very rigorous interviewing process for a permanent job in a firm where I have been undergoing a two-month post-college training program/paid internship which is very prestigious and only very few trainees are offered the permanent job. It would be my first proper job after finishing university. […] Read the full article →
breakfast on business trips, employee’s chair is way too big, and more by Alison Green on July 5, 2017 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Eating breakfast with coworkers when traveling for business I often travel on business with colleagues, and there seems to be an accepted pattern that you get together with your colleagues in the morning for breakfast, and then head off to whatever client you’re visiting. For […] Read the full article →
4th of July open thread by Alison Green on July 4, 2017 I’m taking the day off for the holiday, but this comment section is open for any discussion you’d like to have with other readers — work, non-work, whatever it may be. Happy 4th of July! Read the full article →
can I ask my boss to tell me more about why she wants to meet? by Alison Green on July 3, 2017 A reader writes: My manager has the bad habit of sending emails that say things like “can we meet tomorrow?” or “can we talk tomorrow?” at like 4:30 p.m., leaving people to wonder what the topic of conversation will be about. At the end of my six-month probation, she emailed me on Friday at 4:29 […] Read the full article →
my otherwise lovely coworker keeps picking her nose in public (and the return of a niece) by Alison Green on July 3, 2017 My 13-year-old niece, A., has appeared here before — when she was 9, she and her older sister helped me answer this letter about a boss who was always making out with his girlfriend in his office, and when she was 10, they helped me answer this letter about a boss stopping up a toilet […] Read the full article →
my office won’t buy tissues, avoiding new projects when you’re preparing to quit, and more by Alison Green on July 3, 2017 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My office refuses to buy tissues This may sound like a trivial question compared to others, but it’s one of those little things that adds up with others. For context, my company is in the U.S., a little less than 50 people, and my office […] Read the full article →
weekend free-for-all – July 1-2, 2017 by Alison Green on July 1, 2017 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.) Book recommendation of the week: The Humans, by Matt Haig. An alien comes to earth with a mission, sure that he knows what humans are like. He is […] Read the full article →