update: my coworker is upset that I’m pregnant by Alison Green on December 8, 2020 It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer who shared an office with someone who’d been struggling with infertility and started treating the letter-writer coldly when she suspected she was pregnant? (#2 at […] Read the full article →
vote for the worst boss of 2020: round 2 by Alison Green on December 8, 2020 It’s round 2 of the Worst Boss of 2020 voting. Yesterday you narrowed the pool from 12 nominees to four. The four winners from yesterday (see results here) are paired off in two match-ups below, as we move closer to declaring a winner. Voting is now closed. The results in this round were: 1. A […] Read the full article →
vote for the worst boss of 2020 by Alison Green on December 7, 2020 It’s time to vote on the worst boss of the year — and we have so many terrible nominees that this year we’re voting in brackets. Today we’ll for the worst in each of four match-ups … tomorrow the winners from today will go head-to-head … on Wednesday we’ll vote on the final two … […] Read the full article →
“I will confront you by Wednesday of this week” by Alison Green on December 1, 2020 Several years ago, a reader shared with us this epic email that was sent by their company’s boss after a holiday party gone terribly awry, and as we enter the holiday season we remember its glory. “This happened about ten years ago, but the email I received from our boss was so epic I preserved […] Read the full article →
send in your updates! by Alison Green on November 19, 2020 This is a reminder to send in your updates if you haven’t already! Every December, I publish a slew of “where are they now” updates from people whose questions I answered here in the past. If you’ve had your question answered here in the past, please email me an update and let us know how […] Read the full article →
your reminder that there is much good in the world by Alison Green on November 4, 2020 In case you need these posts today: update: my boss wants to give me his kidney (original post here, and second update here) update: my company wants to sponsor me for a service dog, but I’m not sure I should accept (original post here and later update here) update: I don’t want my coworkers to […] Read the full article →
if you need a distraction tonight, here are some classic Ask a Manager letters by Alison Green on November 3, 2020 Looking for a distraction tonight? Here are some of my all-time favorite Ask a Manager letters, and some notorious ones too. a coworker stole my spicy food, got sick, and is blaming me (and the update) my coworker wants us to call her boyfriend her “master” (and the update) I ghosted my ex, and she’s […] Read the full article →
where are you now? (a call for updates) by Alison Green on October 29, 2020 At the end of each year, I publish a slew of “where are they now” updates from people whose questions I answered here in the past. In past years we’ve had several hundred each December and it was amazing (and has let me take most of the month off, so thank you). If you’ve had your […] Read the full article →
planned maintenance later today by Alison Green on October 20, 2020 Just a heads-up that comments will be be closed for a few hours later today, starting around 4:30 or 5 pm ET. You’ll be able to read the whole site but not leave comments. It’s possible the site itself might have a little downtime tonight as well. It’s nothing alarming — just upgrading the server […] Read the full article →
a tech update by Alison Green on October 2, 2020 If you’ve had trouble accessing this site in the last few days: On Wednesday, my web hosting company had a major outage that affected numerous sites and lasted over four hours. This site was completely inaccessible during that time. On Thursday night, the site was attacked by … something. It was inaccessible to some people […] Read the full article →