it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on September 2, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I have worked in the same role for 3 years, on a two-person team: just me and my supervisor. Our working relationship was decent at first, but during the summer of 2020 my boss started treating me terribly, likely due to the stress we were all under working in […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on August 26, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I just wanted to share that Friday is going to be my last day at the toxic company I’ve spent the last 7 years at and I couldn’t be happier! I was one of the go-to employees for just about everything and the workload, requests, and more just became […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on August 19, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I’ve read your site for a few years now, and found it when I started searching up whether weird stuff my boss did in my student job was normal. Obviously it wasn’t, and from being paid below the legal minimum, to weird sexist stuff, it hasn’t been the best. […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on August 12, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I have a Friday Good News entry from a friend, who agreed I can share her story with the AAM readership: A little while back, my friend successfully interviewed at and received an offer from a company she’s very excited about! Yet after she accepted the offer and before […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news … with updates by Alison Green on August 5, 2022 It’s your Friday good news — but this week it’s a little different. Here are four updates from people who shared good news here in the past. 1. The person with the new teaching job (#5 at the link) “I LOVE my job and could not be happier. My leadership team is amazing, my peers […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on July 29, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I’m a long time reader and recently saw a Good News Friday submission where a reader mentioned avoiding those posts because they felt like those types of success stories were unattainable for them and realized that I was having that exact feeling-but now I have good news! I’d been […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on July 22, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “Sometimes bad news turns out to be good news. A few years ago I applied for my ‘dream job’: more pay, exactly in the specialism I want to work in, and in a city I’d like to live in. But I went into the interview overconfident and underprepared, didn’t […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on July 15, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I wrote you about 6 months ago about finding out as the only female employee on my team, I was being paid $10K less than my male coworker ‘Steve’ despite us having the same job title and similar levels of experience and skill sets. I found this out from […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on July 8, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “Three months ago I was summarily fired by my main employer (75% of my job, health insurance, 401(k) match, etc.). A Zoom meeting I thought was going to fine tune my role was instead him reading from a legal statement about laying me off as of that day. I […] Read the full article →
it’s your Friday good news by Alison Green on July 1, 2022 It’s your Friday good news! 1. “I worked for nearly 3 years in a clinic, 2 years of that being in this current pandemic situation. It was stressful enough working in healthcare during a global pandemic. It certainly didn’t help that my boss for the last little over a year of that time was a […] Read the full article →