weekend open thread – March 18-19, 2023 by Alison Green on March 17, 2023 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: Vintage Contemporaries, by Dan Kois. This is about friendship in your 20s and how it changes as you get older and try to […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on March 17, 2023 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “After many years freelancing part-time while being a full-time parent I decided to return to the workforce. Job-hunting is stressful and full of disappointment. I’ve been ghosted more times than I can count and I stopped counting how many jobs I applied to a long time ago. To say […] Read the full article →
open thread – March 17-18, 2023 by Alison Green on March 17, 2023 It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions 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 take your questions to […] Read the full article →
how can a teenager get a job when her family travels full-time, new coworker gave herself a better title, and more by Alison Green on March 17, 2023 It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. How can a teenager get a job when our family travels full-time? I am a teenager (16) and I want to get my first job but I don’t know how. My family lives in a 5th wheel camper and we travel around the country full-time. […] Read the full article →
how to request time off for a last-minute interview by Alison Green on March 16, 2023 A reader writes: I’m currently interviewing for a new position and I passed the first two rounds of interviews (yeah me!). Those two interviews were done online and I could manage my workday around them easily. However, the next round of interviews is an on-site all-day kind of meeting, and that would require a couple […] Read the full article →
updates: asking for a raise when your company doesn’t do raises, crawling at work, and more by Alison Green on March 16, 2023 Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. Should I ask for a raise at a company that doesn’t do raises? (#2 at the link) I have a GREAT update! I took your advice and decided to ask for a raise anyway, after some calculated thought and planning, and it worked! Just today I got […] Read the full article →
let’s discuss egregiously clueless “celebrations” at work by Alison Green on March 16, 2023 Earlier this week we had a letter about a company that inexplicably decided its sole observance of International Women’s Day would be … to interview a man about sexism. Let’s talk about other cases of egregiously oblivious “celebrations” — the office that sent out weight loss tips for Women’s History Month, the nurses told to wear […] Read the full article →
interviewer was bothered that I didn’t ask any questions, boss is on personal calls all day long, and more by Alison Green on March 16, 2023 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Interviewer was bothered that I didn’t ask any questions of my own I recently completed a fourth interview with a company. The interviews consisted of a 30-minute screening interview, a 40-minute screening/informational interview with one of the higher up directors, an hour-long interview with that […] Read the full article →
the baked cheese thief, the missing pot pie, and other stories of office kitchen drama by Alison Green on March 15, 2023 Earlier this month, we talked about office kitchen wars, and here are 10 of my favorites. 1. The baked cheese I used to work in an office where we would routinely have a lunch for a small group of people. There were usually leftovers from this lunch, and after the group had left, the people […] Read the full article →
does it look bad to send emails late at night? by Alison Green on March 15, 2023 A reader writes: Does it look bad to send/respond to an email late at night? I am generally forgetful, and the smaller a task the more likely I am to forget about it until later that evening. Randomly, at 10 p.m. I will remember, “Oh shoot, I didn’t tell Jane that Wednesday doesn’t work for […] Read the full article →