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 →It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 12 more mortifying stories. 1. The disk Grad school in the late 90s. I was a female graduate student working at a computer lab. One professor had written a computer program on a […]
Read the full article →It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 12 mortifying stories to kick off today. 1. The socks I had to go into site one weekend and found the security officer doing his rounds while wearing socks but no shoes. This […]
Read the full article →It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 13 more mortifying stories to enjoy. 1. The mustache party My partner and I were in our 20s and we had just moved across the country for my grad school program. He got […]
Read the full article →It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 14 mortifying stories to kick off today. 1. The sweater I flashed my coworkers during a video call. All men. I was wearing a thick, flowy sort of sweater and sitting next to […]
Read the full article →It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 15 more mortifying stories to enjoy. 1. The zipper Last year I had to give a very important presentation in front of very important customers, part of a week-long roadshow. I had packed […]
Read the full article →Welcome to Mortification Week, where we’ll be talking all week about how we’ve mortified ourselves at work. To start us off, here are 15 stories people have shared here (or submitted via email) about work moments they now cringe over. 1. The unexpected video call During the pandemic, when we were all just learning how […]
Read the full article →It’s almost time for Mortification Week 2024, and in preparation we need to hear your stories of mortifying experiences at work — yours or other people’s. Maybe you mistakenly emailed erotica to your entire team … or accidentally told a coworker it was “great to hear” of a colleague’s death … or gave a person two noses […]
Read the full article →Earlier this month, I asked you to share stories of bombed interviews and other job search mortifications. Here’s part two (part one was last week). 1. The phlebotomist I once applied for a job where it could reasonably be assumed that you would need phlebotomy experience. The ad did not explicitly say that, though, and […]
Read the full article →Last week I asked you to share stories of bombed interviews and other job search mortifications. It turns out … there were a lot of stories. So many that I couldn’t fit my favorites in one post. Here’s part one, and part two is coming next week. 1. The coffins An interviewer once asked how […]
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