This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Should I accept my employee just isn’t well suited to a task? We are a small team of very silo-ed job types. Twice a year, for about a week each time, we have a meeting with lots of external stakeholders to review content for...

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week, I asked about the strangest things you’ve ever seen in cover letters and resumes. You shared some amazing stories — here are some of my favorites. 1.  “A candidate happily let me know ‘I just got laid this morning’ (I assume he meant ‘laid off’ but it made me laugh).”...

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I like my job and my coworkers, but there’s one thing that keeps bugging me: There’s a real culture of gossiping, and I keep getting sucked into it. I used to be a huge gossiper myself, but at a previous job I was the target of some untrue and hurtful gossip,...

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I recently joined a public agency as a director after working in the private sector previously. One of my employees, let’s call her Anna, works with various employees from the IT department in a working team on projects that are very much needed to advance our...

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Does being salaried just mean I work a ton of overtime with no extra pay? My position became salaried a while back and, while I understand the general idea of it (no overtime compensation), I’m wondering how working overtime...

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s Memorial Day! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. You may also like:how to take feedback gracefully, without getting defensiveshould I be worried by how pushy an employer was with...