your coworkers with kids are not OK by Alison Green on February 14, 2022 With children under 5 still not able to be vaccinated and day cares frequently closing for COVID exposures, parents of young kids are struggling. Without reliable child care, they’re regularly forced to take time off work—often unpaid if they’ve already used all their PTO—or to try to work from home while caring for kids so […] Read the full article →
my employee is having an affair with a client’s spouse by Alison Green on February 14, 2022 A reader writes: I have a very difficult question about an employee who is having an affair with a client’s spouse. This employee happens to be a personal friend, which is why I know about the affair. However, a scorned spouse could cause ramifications to my business in a small town. I have already told […] Read the full article →
I’m 35 and my job wants me to live in a college dorm for 6 months by Alison Green on February 14, 2022 A reader writes: I have been reading your advice for years and was able to use everything I learned to be offered a position in my company with a $20K pay bump, which also is a much better fit for me. But that is also why I am writing to you… The new position comes […] Read the full article →
I always have to cover for my sick coworker, director thinks I’m an intern, and more by Alison Green on February 14, 2022 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker always calls out sick and I have to work her shifts I work in a medical esthetics office. We have one doctor who takes patients every day all day, as well as an esthetician, Amy, who has been here 10 years. Amy takes […] Read the full article →
weekend open thread – February 12-13, 2022 by Alison Green on February 12, 2022 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: My Italian Bulldozer, by Alexander McCall Smith. A Scottish food writer, reeling from a break-up, heads to Italy to finish his latest book. Mishaps abound (including […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on February 11, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I had been alternating between being miserable and being indifferent to my job for several years. I knew I wasn’t happy but I just felt stuck and I didn’t think I was capable of finding something better. I also didn’t really know what I wanted. That feeling worsened the […] Read the full article →
open thread – February 11-12, 2022 by Alison Green on February 11, 2022 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 →
an unreasonable tattoo policy, I went to a college run by a religion I no longer follow, and more by Alison Green on February 11, 2022 It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. My new job didn’t tell me their no-visible-tattoos policy until after I was hired I am an early childhood professional who works directly with young children and their families. I have over a decade of experience and am wrapping up a masters degree in my […] Read the full article →
how can I hire people when my company won’t negotiate on salary or remote work? by Alison Green on February 10, 2022 A reader writes: With the Great Resignation going on and employees having more negotiating power than ever to go after what they want, how does an HR person recruit when their company isn’t willing to negotiate? I am an HR generalist, a department of one in a design and manufacturing company. Hiring is tough right […] Read the full article →
update: my best employee quit on the spot because I wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation by Alison Green on February 10, 2022 Remember the manager back in 2016 whose best employee quit on the spot because he wouldn’t let her go to her college graduation? She had been raised in foster care and had no living family, was homeless for a while, and managed to get herself through school and graduate. He wanted to “teach her professional […] Read the full article →