April 23, 2025 advice about your boss 0 Comments my new manager is upset I didn’t tell her I was pregnant when I interviewed — Ask a Manager A reader writes: I recently interviewed for and accepted a job as a nurse at the very small hospital in my very small midwestern ... Read More
April 8, 2025 advice about your boss 0 Comments my team received a suspicious text — and we wonder if our boss sent it as a way to secretly gain info — Ask a Manager A reader writes: This one’s weird. I would love your thoughts, if you can. Some of my coworkers and I got a text from ... Read More
August 21, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments I’m worried a wedding vendor will complain about me to my boss — Ask a Manager A reader writes: This starts with my wedding. To make a very long story short, my wedding dress alterations were a complete disaster. The ... Read More
June 26, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments do I have to refuse to use first names because my manager won’t? — Ask a Manager A reader writes: I just started with a new organization three months ago. I was hired to lead a newly-formed team. In case it ... Read More
May 30, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments how do I work for an insecure boss who thinks I’m spreading rumors about her? — Ask a Manager A reader writes: A few weeks ago, my boss mentioned that she’d been hearing rumors about herself and said if I was the one ... Read More
May 22, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments our boss is being a jerk about bereavement leave for miscarriages — Ask a Manager A reader writes: My company recently updated our bereavement policy. While reviewing it in our company-wide staff meeting, a staff member asked if a ... Read More
April 24, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments my boss wants us to meet with a spiritualist to fix the negative energy in our building — Ask a Manager A reader writes: I work at a small nonprofit and recently the employee with the longest institutional knowledge just left her position because of ... Read More
April 18, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments should I ask my boss why I was their second choice for my job? — Ask a Manager A reader writes: For the last nine months, I’ve been doing a (paid) internship at a foundation that is aimed at recent graduates looking ... Read More
April 16, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments why don’t bosses realize people will leave if they’re not treated well? — Ask a Manager A reader writes: A buddy of mine just quit her job, and her boss, a truly evil person, countered with a raise and a ... Read More
April 15, 2024 advice about your boss 0 Comments when your awful coworker is the boss’s kid — Ask a Manager when your awful coworker is the boss’s kid by Alison Green on April 15, 2024 There are a lot of perks to being the ... Read More