Continuing our December slew of updates from letter-writers, here are five updates from people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. I’m spending too much of her own money on cupcakes and snacks for my team So, unrelated to the query but something that helps with my overall frustration: I finally got a raise […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: Our office recently let an employee go for numerous reasons after several warnings. It for was for minor things such as frequent lateness, too many personal calls and emails on company time, and general friction with other coworkers, to more serious things such as a very sharp decline in his work quality, […]
Read the full article →Here are updates from four people whose letters were answered here in the past. 1. My male coworker makes more money than I do (first update here) In my last update, I mentioned that I was given responsibility for filling the spot vacated by Fergus (who we now refer to as Voldemort… me, bitter? Never!). I […]
Read the full article →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 →It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker gave me a smaller gift than she gave everyone else I work in a doctor’s office with mostly women but my department is all women. There are 10 of us and for the most part we get along great and work well as a team. My […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter-writer whose employee was recovering from cancer and was sometimes too sick to call in sick? Here’s the update. I’m the boss with an employee who is/was dealing with some serious health issues that meant he wasn’t always able to call out according to our procedures. Per the suggestion of several commenters, we went to […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter from the person whose coworker responded to everything she asked him to do with profanity, name-calling, flat refusals, and and “your mom” jokes? She updated earlier here and here and here, and here’s the latest. The good news: RudeClerk still works here, but we basically never see each other ever. The upstairs (where he is) and […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter-writer who didn’t feel qualified to find a new job? Here’s the update. Last year, I wrote in saying that I felt unqualified to search for a new job because my nonprofit job of several years had so many unrelated responsibilities, many of which I’d had to learn on the fly. I kept […]
Read the full article →We have a winner! 11,748 votes are in, and the worst boss of the year is the manager who made someone leave a work note at a grave (update is here) … with 56% of the vote. The four runners-up, who managed to be pretty terrible themselves: * The boss who got drunk and angry that someone […]
Read the full article →Remember the letter-writer whose coworker was treating their Spanish-speaking clients poorly? Here’s the update. Right after I sent in the letter to you I was feeling really uneasy and couldn’t focus, so I did the less-than-brave option of writing in an anonymous complaint because it felt like something I could do right then and there. […]
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