It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Company’s phishing test made my coworker think she was being fired I have a question about my company’s IT practices. We’re in education and we have a lot of employees who don’t use technology too often, so they’re not the most sophisticated at spotting phishing. […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: I am a stay-at-home mom living a work life vicariously through your blog. My husband is still working at home due to corona. His company has been very cautious. All of their on-site campuses have been closed, with all employees working from home. They were given company computers and phones to use, […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: One of my staff, who has been with us for three years, takes sick leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) on a regular basis. Her FMLA allowance based on her doctor’s notes is that she can miss up to three days a month; she always takes all of them. […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: I work at a nonprofit organization that has recently (and hopefully temporarily) laid off most of its programming staff because social distancing requirements and the dangers of Covid-19 made it impossible to provide safe and meaningful experiences for our participants. Our budget has been dramatically cut because most of our income was […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I was late my first week — and now I need to call out sick It seems like five minutes after I started a new job, I hit a brick wall. And that brick wall is COVID-19 symptoms a day after I managed to misread […]
Read the full article →This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley. A man rescues a young boy after the plane they’re on goes down, and when the boy turns out to be […]
Read the full article →It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. I’ve been searching for a job since last October and got to several second-round interviews but was never selected… and then COVID hit and my large state university set a hiring freeze. There are a few exceptions to the […]
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 five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should my unpaid internship have been paid? This summer, I was looking for a remote internship because all of the in person summer internship programs I applied to were cancelled due to Covid. To preserve anonymity, let’s say I’m someone who designs postcards for tourist […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: I have been “working from home” from my parents’ house recently due to landlord issues. It has brought up a debate between my mother and me, and I was curious to hear your thoughts. For reference, my mother is a recently retired IT professional who wrote code and made websites for internal […]
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