Ask a Manager
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Ask a Manager
@AskAManager
Creator of Ask a Manager – home to all your questions about lunch-stealing bosses, coworkers who won't stop hugging you, and how much you can drink at work.
- Just got an email from someone who just discovered that men are asking out his scheduling bot (literally a bot that just schedules meetings via generically written emails), just because it signs off with a female-sounding name
- the only appropriate response here is murder, and any jury will acquit youAITA for going over my wife and speaking candidly to her boss? bit.ly/2LKeqm7
- This is seriously f'd up: at-will workers quit their jobs for higher pay, old employer asks court to block them from starting said new jobs until they can re-hire, judge grants injunction preventing them from starting their new jobs. AT-WILL WORKERS.
- Until now, in 16 years of writing Ask a Manager, I've never had a flood of people from one specific field write to me to ask about how to leave their field. But it's happening now with teaching -- every day I have another letter from a teacher who's trying to get out
- it's very common for deeply dysfunctional employers to staff extremely young because anyone more experienced will see right through their bullshitThe obvious corruption aside, why are Elon’s cronies all like 20 year old college kids? You’d think the world’s richest man would have a more seasoned pack of henchmen?
- my employee wasn’t respectful enough after the company messed up her paycheck
- I had an abortion when I was 16. Planned Parenthood gave me the kindest care I've ever received. It made my life immeasurably better than it would have been otherwise.
- YOU GUYS. Remember the letter from the manager who wouldn't let their best employee go to her college graduation so she quit on the spot? After all these years, the employee stumbled across the letter and just emailed me to say what a jerk the boss was. askamanager.org/2016/07/my-bes…
- We did it! We made it through months of training and background checks and education on trauma and questions about our marriage and childhoods, and as of today we are licensed foster parents for teenagers!
- My mom, who 13 months ago was given 8-11 months to live, graduates from chemo today, with her stage 4 pancreatic cancer shrunk so small it's barely visible on a scan:
- Replying to @mmwajblog and @jessicaliebmanHard disagree. And it'll discriminate against candidates from backgrounds where they don't get this kind of job search training, which has nothing to do with skills & ability to excel on the job. I like thank-you notes but making them a requirement is a terrible practice
