my coworker sent a snotty message about me on a Zoom call by Alison Green on May 4, 2020 A reader writes: I was on a Zoom call recently with the president of our company and two junior staff members. My position is above theirs, but I do not manage them directly. I made a comment during the meeting, and suddenly a snarky Slack message about me from one of the junior members of […] Read the full article →
my coworker accidentally fractured my arm by Alison Green on April 30, 2020 A reader writes: I recently started a new job as a courier who delivers essential supplies to several businesses and industries. I am very fortunate that my job has not been affected by Covid-19 due to how important our services are, especially now. I’m currently being trained by a woman named Melissa. She is teaching […] Read the full article →
my coworker keeps telling me how to do my job (and she’s often wrong) by Alison Green on April 27, 2020 A reader writes: I started a new job at the end of February as the communications manager for a small nonprofit. I’m really lucky that our grants and the work that we do haven’t been disrupted by COVID-19, but it’s been a bit of a rocky start. I’m having some trouble with one coworker in […] Read the full article →
my awful coworker put us through something traumatic and now she’s coming back to work by Alison Green on April 21, 2020 Note: Contains mention of a suicide threat. A reader writes: I have been with my current job now for 10 years. It is a very professional and corporate setting. Approximately six years ago, Sansa was hired on. Sansa was very crude and what she herself would call an HR nightmare. She would openly make inappropriate […] Read the full article →
my boss’s son constantly yells at him in the office by Alison Green on April 20, 2020 A reader writes; I work for a family-owned company. My boss (let’s call him Rob) employs both of his sons and his daughter-in-law, and they all get special treatment within the company. For instance, his daughter-in-law comes in about five hours a week and is paid for 40 and his son was gone for more […] Read the full article →
our coworker came to work when his family had COVID-19 symptoms by Alison Green on April 8, 2020 A reader writes: I work in a small department of six that is family-like. One of our coworkers, “Claude,” is nice enough but he tends to do things that offend. He always grabs the first donut, or jumps to the front of the line during office potluck or pizzas. Afterwards, he disappears and doesn’t offer […] Read the full article →
my coworker is trying to manage me — and she’s not my boss by Alison Green on April 1, 2020 A reader writes: I’ve been working in the same department since I graduated college four years ago. Due to a few sudden departures amid a restructuring, I was promoted much more quickly than is typical at my workplace. (I went from the department assistant to an “associate manager” within a couple of years, though I […] Read the full article →
how do I interrupt a senior colleague’s monologue during my meeting? by Alison Green on March 31, 2020 A reader writes: I would love some feedback/advice for how to deal with a particularly annoying colleague in a different department. We work with this department to handle legal stuff for our group, so we have to liaise with him occasionally (and for important things). However, he is a terrible communicator. Every time we meet […] Read the full article →
my coworker/friend is abusing work-from-home privileges by Alison Green on March 30, 2020 A reader writes: My company started everyone on work from home recently due to COVID-19. I have two close work friends and we still chat regularly online. All of us take little breaks for non-work activities (switching laundry over, grabbing a snack) but I have tried to make sure I walk away from my computer […] Read the full article →
let’s see your animal coworkers by Alison Green on March 26, 2020 With so much stressful content lately, we need more animal photos. Since so many people are working at home right now, we need to see photos of your animal colleagues — your cat on your keyboard, your dog in your desk chair, your ferret on a conference call. Submit your pets-working-at-home photos to pets@askamanager.org and […] Read the full article →