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minoanmissContent advisory: all sorts of harassment from bigoted speech to unwelcome touching. ( Read more... )
minoanmissThere is no way I can properly copy this over because the links are numerous and important, so here is the link
https://www.askamanager.org/2025/01/questions-from-federal-workers-who-are-currently-under-attack.html
https://www.askamanager.org/2025/01/questions-from-federal-workers-who-are-currently-under-attack.html
minoanmissRemember the letter-writer who wanted to speak up about a portrait of a child abuser in their office (#2 at the link)? Here’s the update.
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Crime and etiquette
Aug. 2nd, 2023 09:25 ampetrea_mitchellAAM: My coworker is vandalizing my car (letter #2)
Another employee and I work for the same company but at different locations. I noticed strange things happening to my car when I go to the store. My car is getting keyed and nails are forcefully in my tires when I go in the building. When I return, I always find something wrong with my car. I decided to put cameras in my car and I caught this other employee doing more crimes to my car. Do I come forward with the footage and show it to the manager? Is this a fireable offensive for the employee that’s been doing it to my car?
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Miss Manners: I’m fairly certain my mother-in-law is stealing from her company. Do I turn her in?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother-in-law works for a company by ordering products and shipping things out. For several years, I’ve noticed she will spend the company’s money on herself. She pays for shipping her Christmas gifts with the company account, and her house is furnished with their “damaged goods.”
I’ve mentioned to her that I thought she could get in trouble if they caught her, but she is a fierce know-it-all type. The more it happens, the less I like her. What she does is simply wrong, and I don’t know how to look the other way.
Do I need to just turn my head, or is it OK to reach out to her company?
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Another employee and I work for the same company but at different locations. I noticed strange things happening to my car when I go to the store. My car is getting keyed and nails are forcefully in my tires when I go in the building. When I return, I always find something wrong with my car. I decided to put cameras in my car and I caught this other employee doing more crimes to my car. Do I come forward with the footage and show it to the manager? Is this a fireable offensive for the employee that’s been doing it to my car?
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Miss Manners: I’m fairly certain my mother-in-law is stealing from her company. Do I turn her in?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother-in-law works for a company by ordering products and shipping things out. For several years, I’ve noticed she will spend the company’s money on herself. She pays for shipping her Christmas gifts with the company account, and her house is furnished with their “damaged goods.”
I’ve mentioned to her that I thought she could get in trouble if they caught her, but she is a fierce know-it-all type. The more it happens, the less I like her. What she does is simply wrong, and I don’t know how to look the other way.
Do I need to just turn my head, or is it OK to reach out to her company?
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ermingarden Several years ago I was frustrated with the way people went about looking for jobs. I’m a small business owner and even before running my own company, I always networked. Through networking I’ve managed to do so much. Today I run six networking groups.
Again, several years ago I created a t-shirt designed to network for you. It lists various fields, each with a checkbox by it, and comes with a small sharpie so you can check off the type of job or career you desire. By wearing the t-shirt everywhere you go, it starts the job seeking conversation.
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Again, several years ago I created a t-shirt designed to network for you. It lists various fields, each with a checkbox by it, and comes with a small sharpie so you can check off the type of job or career you desire. By wearing the t-shirt everywhere you go, it starts the job seeking conversation.
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azurelunaticFirst letter:
HR won’t do anything about a coworker who’s angry about my weight loss
https://www.askamanager.org/2023/02/hr-wont-do-anything-about-a-coworker-whos-angry-about-my-weight-loss.html
& original community discussion https://agonyaunt.dreamwidth.org/594086.html
Update:
https://www.askamanager.org/2023/04/update-hr-wont-do-anything-about-a-coworker-whos-angry-about-my-weight-loss.html
( OP lawyers up, high-up HR's response, and Aubrey's lawn tantrum )
HR won’t do anything about a coworker who’s angry about my weight loss
https://www.askamanager.org/2023/02/hr-wont-do-anything-about-a-coworker-whos-angry-about-my-weight-loss.html
& original community discussion https://agonyaunt.dreamwidth.org/594086.html
( Dramatic clothing size drop due to removal of dangerously large )
What on earth. ( More of Alison's response )
Update:
https://www.askamanager.org/2023/04/update-hr-wont-do-anything-about-a-coworker-whos-angry-about-my-weight-loss.html
( OP lawyers up, high-up HR's response, and Aubrey's lawn tantrum )
ermingarden(#5 at the link.)
I am a PhD student graduating this summer, and I have just signed on to a fantastic job that I am really excited about. I’m moving from the east coast to California, where I will work for the University of California with my salary paid by a federal grant.
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I am a PhD student graduating this summer, and I have just signed on to a fantastic job that I am really excited about. I’m moving from the east coast to California, where I will work for the University of California with my salary paid by a federal grant.
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minoanmissI slightly amended the original title: HR won’t do anything about a coworker who’s angry about my weight loss. ( Read more... )
gorgeous AAM parody
Dec. 26th, 2022 06:12 amgingicatI must share this with you all.
my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more (2007 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots, Ask a Manager Blog - Alison Green
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alison Green (Ask a Manager)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Llamas
Summary:
my wife doesn't know I hench, the evil sex ray made my employees do it, and more (2007 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots, Ask a Manager Blog - Alison Green
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Alison Green (Ask a Manager)
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, Llamas
Summary:
It's hench week at Ask a Manager!
minoanmissNow former. I'm posting this here in part in case Alison is forced to take it down. ( Read more... )
petrea_mitchellAAM has an update to a letter previously posted here, "My employee is freezing out a manager after he joked about King Charles".
The update:
( Not so much about Charles III as underlying issues )
The update:
( Not so much about Charles III as underlying issues )
minoanmisscontent advisory: Christian religious harassment directed at a Jewish person. ( Read more... )
minoanmiss[n.b. That's not the best possible title. I think a more accurate one would be:
I'm Autistic. I have been invited to a pow-wow. How do I manage this? ( Read more... )
I'm Autistic. I have been invited to a pow-wow. How do I manage this? ( Read more... )
minoanmissAt Slate today, I wrote about the terribly-named “quiet quitting” trend — how it mirrors a larger change in people’s relationship to work, and why a lot of workers are disgusted with the idea that they should do more than “quietly quit.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/quiet-quitting-terribly-named-work-trend.html
https://www.askamanager.org/2022/10/all-this-talk-aboutquiet-quitting-is-absurd.html
https://slate.com/human-interest/2022/10/quiet-quitting-terribly-named-work-trend.html
https://www.askamanager.org/2022/10/all-this-talk-aboutquiet-quitting-is-absurd.html
minoanmiss(n.b. this doesn't have comments as of the last time I looked at it. I look forward to watching both conversations unfold together) ( Read more... )
green_grrlmy male colleagues wait for me to set up all our meetings (even meetings I’m not in)
A reader writes:
A reader writes:
I am a senior manager at a nonprofit. I am also female. I do not have an assistant.
Increasingly I have noticed that my male colleagues at other organizations or divisions, equal to me in stature (and even people I consider close friends), are deferring to me to schedule meetings for them. Even if it is a meeting the male colleague requested, they will not take the initiative to set up the meeting.
Increasingly I have noticed that my male colleagues at other organizations or divisions, equal to me in stature (and even people I consider close friends), are deferring to me to schedule meetings for them. Even if it is a meeting the male colleague requested, they will not take the initiative to set up the meeting.
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