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 24, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments The FTC Just Voted to Ban Noncompetes for Everyone. Here’s Everything You Need to Know — Evil HR Lady This ban not only looks forward, preventing employers and employees from entering into new agreements, but invalidates current noncompetes for everyone but senior executives (defined as ... Read More
April 24, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments coworker is bitter that I wouldn’t play a game, employee has bad BO, and more — Ask a Manager It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My coworker is bitter that I wouldn’t play a game with her I (19M) ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments have we changed our views about working from home? — Ask a Manager A reader writes: I’d love to have your take and the readers’ take on whether society as a whole has changed its view on ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments there’s nothing I can do about my nightmare workload … right? — Ask a Manager I wrote in about getting through a staffing crisis after both my coworkers quit right when one of my company’s two owners went on ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments I feel overwhelming guilt about taking time off work — Ask a Manager A reader writes: I genuinely don’t understand how folks deal with the overwhelming guilt of taking time off work. I’ve had this problem since ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments I Wish I Had a Goat — Evil HR Lady Sometimes, the universe hands you the perfect thing that you need at the moment. Sometimes, it hands you the worst possible thing. Regardless, you ... Read More
April 23, 2024 Employee Relations 0 Comments I don’t want to participate in my office’s steps challenge, returning to a job I criticized, and more — Ask a Manager It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t want to participate in my office’s steps challenge My office is getting ... Read More
April 22, 2024 ask the readers 0 Comments the noise complaint, the romantic violin, and other business trips gone awry — Ask a Manager Last week we talked about business trip mishaps and here are 12 of my favorite stories you shared about business trips that went very ... Read More
April 22, 2024 being the boss 0 Comments former employee is lying about her job with me … to cover up her time in jail — Ask a Manager former employee is lying about her job with me … to cover up her time in jail by Alison Green on April 22, 2024 ... Read More