A reader writes: I graduated in May 2020 and started a great job in my field with good pay that I love. I’m in a same-sex relationship. My coworkers are a healthy trail mix of political and religious beliefs, but I can also only deduce this from snippets I’ve heard occasionally since related topics usually […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Is getting yelled at by angry customers just part of life? I studied accounting in school, then got hired for my first-post college job in the tax audit field (not federal; I have worked at state and local level agencies). Fast forward seven years, and […]
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: Girl A, by Abigail Dean. Lex is known in the media as Girl A, who escaped from the house where her parents had kept her and her […]
Read the full article →It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. I graduated in 2020 into a dismal job market. The only things I had lined up were abroad, so of course they all became impossible. Disappointed and uncertain about what to do next, I applied for every job that […]
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 (that includes school). If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My colleague won’t leave me alone after my former employee died I have been employed at my company for three years, although I spent one summer in college interning for this organization. One year ago, I transitioned from a supervisory role to my current role in […]
Read the full article →A reader writes: A few weeks ago I had a bizarre experience with my usually great boss, and I’m not sure if I handled it right. I had a medical emergency over the weekend and ended up having an emergency appendectomy on Sunday morning. (Side note: ouch.) Sunday evening, while recovering in the hospital, I […]
Read the full article →1. All the foreign editions of the Ask a Manager book! Top row: U.S., UK, Poland. Bottom row: Ukraine, South Korea, China. 2. Separately, an announcement: When you are reading a letter in the archives that later had an update, you will now see a note at the bottom of the post with a link […]
Read the full article →So many people hate networking — they worry it feels slimy, they don’t quite know how to do it, or it just makes them uncomfortable. It doesn’t help that most of us have had run-in’s with bad networkers. So let’s talk about good networking. What’s the most satisfying or useful networking experience you ever had? How […]
Read the full article →It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My company is skin-crawlingly positive I am lucky to work for a wonderful company in a full-time capacity since I stopped being a college adjunct over two years ago. I love my company and the people that I work with and would never consider leaving. […]
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