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It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Can I tell a coworker I dislike him? Is it ever safe to tell a coworker you dislike them on a personal level? There’s a colleague I find very annoying. He hasn’t done anything wrong, but his personality is extremely different from mine. He’s far
A reader writes: My fiancé and I just broke up after 6.5 years together. The underlying factors contributing to the split had been percolating for a long time, but the actual break-up happened very suddenly and unexpectedly, and I’m in a lot of pain right now. I was wondering if you had any scripts for
A reader writes: What do you do when you work with a team that seems to ignore the reality of a job? I’ve been seconded to a team within my organization. Thank God, it’s only for a few months. The team is absolutely huge and amount of work we have is light at best. I’ve
It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker is using work as his hunting grounds for flings I recently got roped into a situation at work between several coworkers. Turns out my coworker Jim has been engaged in relations with several different women at work. He has a girlfriend of five years
A reader writes: I work as a full-time contractor for a large company as a data analyst. I don’t receive PTO. I’m interviewing with other companies. Most of the time, these interviews are remote and less than an hour, so I just work from home and don’t tell my company while I interview. However, I
It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I found our new hire napping in my office I recently took a day of PTO but ended up having to stop by the office mid-afternoon to pick something up I’d left behind. I have a large private office with a couch, but I do
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It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Managers won’t coach our coworker, even though he takes feedback well I work in a fast food restaurant. Recently, a former coworker who had moved on to another job, “Clark,” came back to work with us again. He was never a rock star, per se,
Though 2024 is only about halfway over, I think most of us can agree that this year has been anything but predictable. Hiring is all over the place, with some sectors facing layoffs while others continue to staff. Even the monthly BLS jobs report offers little clarity amid the relative chaos. And that’s without
