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Archive for January, 2007

Landed in a political minefield

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I've just joined an organization, and I feel I've landed in the middle of a political minefield! One of my co-workers is a lady (lets call her Linda) ... whose been with the organization for 15 years. She's well connected in terms of informal networks ... as ...

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The Diva is bad-mouthing me

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, Work in audiology, a very strange set of office politics - is a common problem at every office. Every office has a "diva" audiologist whose agenda is to prove that the other audiologists are inferior to incompetent and that she (usually she) is superior and everyone must ...

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Promoted but no bump in salary

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I'm a seasoned EA who joined a small firm a year ago. Because of my experience and background, I've stood out to the firm's management. Yesterday, I was told by the CEO that I will now be supporting him, and his current assistant (who is lacking) will be reassigned. ...

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Getting everyone in a room just made things worse

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work in a small office with 7-8 people, with about 23 guys that work outside of the office, in the plant. We have all "got along" for many years, but this year was a hard one. We have lost people due to budget cuts. We have one ...

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Desperately seasick in the Navy

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I am having an awful time at my job. I'm in the U.S. Navy, so I can't quit. And AWOL or a dishonorable discharge is out of the question. However, the problems I'm having are not specifically military ones. I would just like to know what to do in ...

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Boss’ new ‘pet’ is an incompetent brown-noser

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, First of all, thank you for this gorgeous website, which has provided good advice to me in many situations. Therefore I hope you may be able to help me with the following problem: I work for a boss who never chooses achievers as team leaders but employees with ...

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Taking the heat for slacker coworker

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I am a project manager for a consulting company. One of my co-workers was hired by the Regional Team Leader who worked with him at their previous company. There are two others that were hired by the Team Leader from the same company and they are without ...

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Toxic environment fed by candy-pushing coworker

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work in a very toxic office. I am on a team with 2 other people. The female, who worked with the male previously, as an assistant and still does, resents me. On the surface she is pleasant and is always pushing candy on people, etc. She has low ...

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What can we do about a coworker’s messy desk and body odor

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work in an office which is made up primarily of cubicles. One of our co-workers has worked here for a very long time (more than 20 years), and keeps her cubicle distressingly messy. There is no surface which is, without exaggeration, less than 10 inches thick with miscellaneous ...

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Better route? Business or Technical?

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Dear Office Politics, Amongst the companies I've worked for (all have been petrochemical), the professionals that chose the technical route seem to have less opportunity than those professionals that chose the business route. Even women that get engineering degrees tend to go the business route or they can get boxed ...

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Just enough rope to hang herself

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work for a small company with only about 20 employees. Recently my boss hired two women who are sisters on a 3/4 time basis, which has been unheard of in our company, both the shift hours and the fact that they are related. The older of ...

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My supervisor and I bid on the same job…

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, My supervisor and I bid on the same job. Through office gossip, it was pretty clear that this was a set up to let her go. In fact, the hiring supervisor asked to me to apply for this job. I ended up with the position and she ...

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