Mortification Week: the security tape, the marital argument, and other stories to cringe over by Alison Green on August 1, 2024 It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ve been revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here’s the final installment — 12 more mortifying stories people have shared here over the years. 1. The pumping room I had just started a new job shortly after having my first child and had […] Read the full article →
updates: the disgruntled fired employee, the raise that didn’t come through, and more by Alison Green on August 1, 2024 Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. A disgruntled fired employee says he’s coming to a work event I’m planning (#3 at the link; first update here) I just thought I’d send a final update on the situation with Sam, the fired employee who threatened to attend a work event I was planning. The […] Read the full article →
let’s discuss people who find themselves in a hole and just keep digging by Alison Green on August 1, 2024 Let’s talk about people who found themselves in a hole and just kept digging. Think, for example, of the person who didn’t get a job because a woman she bullied was a rock star employee at the company where she was applying … which somehow ended with her screaming at the rock star and rock […] Read the full article →
I think a company leader is faking his work history, a burned-out coworker, and more by Alison Green on August 1, 2024 It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I think a company leader is faking his work history A coworker and I discovered that a member of our company’s C-suite is very likely misrepresenting his work history. We both noticed that his executive bio, which is provided to press, doesn’t align with his […] Read the full article →