New Year’s free-for-all – December 31, 2017 – January 1, 2018 by Alison Green on December 31, 2017 It’s the New Year’s open thread free-for-all! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything that you want to talk about — work-related, not work-related, doesn’t matter. Happy new year! Read the full article →
most popular posts of 2017 by Alison Green on December 31, 2017 Ask a Manager’s traffic continued to increase this year, with 31 million visits and 70 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. Until last year, historically the “most viewed” list […] Read the full article →
weekend free-for-all – December 30-31, 2017 by Alison Green on December 30, 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: Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield, by David Nadelberg. I’m obsessed with the Mortified podcast (based on the Mortified stage show where people […] Read the full article →
update: my coworker won’t stop caressing me — or the kids we work with by Alison Green on December 30, 2017 Remember the letter-writer in 2015 whose coworker kept caressing people — including the kids they worked with — even after she’d been told to stop? (First update here, and second here.) Here’s the latest. I’m the OP who wrote in a few years ago about Kim, my then-coworker who couldn’t keep her hands off of coworkers […] Read the full article →
updates: the travel anxiety, the chilly interviewer, and more by Alison Green on December 29, 2017 Here are updates from four people whose letters were answered here in the past. 1. Can I refuse to go on a work trip because of my anxiety about traveling? (#2 at the link) I went on the trip and (obviously) survived. The longer answer is I was pretty anxious the whole time and didn’t […] Read the full article →
updates: telling a candidate I have cancer, the diabetic coworker, and more by Alison Green on December 29, 2017 Here are updates from four people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. Telling a job candidate that I have cancer (#3 at the link) I’m a hiring manager who wrote to you about sharing with a job candidate (Jane) that I had breast cancer, wondering if I’d overshared. That job was […] Read the full article →
my favorite posts of 2017 by Alison Green on December 29, 2017 Here are my favorite posts of 2017, in no particular order: 1. Update: I manage someone who was terribly harmed by my family — what do I do? Because this was handled with incredible care and compassion. 2. What’s the deal with advice columns? Because it’s a subject I’m fascinated by. 3. My coworker came […] Read the full article →
open thread – December 29-30, 2017 by Alison Green on December 29, 2017 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 →
getting a rejection email on Christmas, manager suggested I take antidepressants, and more by Alison Green on December 29, 2017 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Employer sent me a rejection email on Christmas The awful treatment of job applicants is nothing new, but I wanted to share this. After applying for a job via LinkedIn a couple weeks ago, I just received a rejection email from the company that was time/date stamped […] Read the full article →
updates: the group project, the kid-obsessed coworkers, and more by Alison Green on December 28, 2017 Here are updates from four people whose letters were answered here in the past. 1. My partner on a group project is holding everything up I had done some of what you advised previously and towards the end told her I would be finishing up my part of the assignment. As expected (by me anyway) […] Read the full article →