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Archive for February, 2007

Managing Up to protect your turf…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, It has just been announced that my department is going to be restructured. Currently there are two teams of two people each, and a manager. I head up one team and another woman heads up the other team. My colleague (I'll call her Lisa) has engineered to have her ...

My boss has employed her nephew’s girlfriend…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, My boss has employed her nephew's girlfriend. I told my boss that i was unhappy about her telling me to come off my lunch and answer phones and things have gone downhill since. When i told my boss she did agree that nobody should be telling each other what ...

Surviving Control Freaks: Advice from OP reader

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

I’ve survived several control freak bosses and maybe this will work for other people too. Here are my thoughts... 1) You can run, but don’t ever run away. Always design a strategy to run TO, otherwise the control freak will think you couldn’t take the pressure. So, for example, ...

Former brownnoser seeks to be trusted

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work for a boutique consulting firm with around 15 employees. I have always worked for large fortune 500 companies so this is a bit of a change for me. When I first joined (3 months back) I was a bit insecure and I sort of brown nosed one ...

Don’t want to be friendly at work…

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I was wondering if someone can help educate me on how to politely decline business invitations? I work in a small office (100 people), with a small team (12) of people who mostly dislike each other but try to get along professionally. Almost everyone in my group has an ...

Unable to function

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, Please help me deal with my situation at work. My company hired an old employee a few months ago, who was fired before from another company under our present bosses or so I was told by my boss. I am supposed to be in charge of this employee’s day to day ...

Entry-level office aide is poisoning our office

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, Please advise us on our very odd situation. We recently hired a non-academic as an entry-level office aide in our scientific department. She denies that it is entry-level, and after being here only 2 months, she has decided that she knows all about academia and academicians and has told ...

Should I warn the Newbie about my manipulative, backbiting co-worker?

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work with a manipulative, backbiting woman of 32 who spends a great deal of time and effort on gossiping, cultivating cliques and especially by pretending to be your best friend to your face and talking badly about others behind their backs. We just hired a well educated young ...

Look What Happened At NASA!

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Pre-Valentine’s Day Challenger Survey SURVEY: MORE THAN ONE-THIRD OF COMPANIES HAVE NO OFFICE DATING POLICY Workplace romances – real or imagined – can be a legal and public relations minefield for any employer. Just ask NASA, which is caught in a bizarre imbroglio as one of its female astronauts allegedly attempted ...

Dribbling my future away in the NBA

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, I work at the NBA. So naturally, people would think, wow working with the NBA, you get to see all these glitzy and glamorous things. But like every other company, it has its share of office politics. I am a college graduate that's currently working in the NBA Mailroom. I ...

Chief of staff passed over for a promotion

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, Let me begin by stating what a wonderful website that you have. I found the content very informative and thought provoking. I worked for the largest financial services company in the world and it was of course filled with office politics as you can imagine. However ...

Lies told to Homeland Security Analysts

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Dear Office-Politics, Hello! Here's the dilemma facing myself and four other coworkers: we are contractors working on a government project as 'homeland security analysts.' The project itself is great, but it's our contracting company that has lately been causing some issues. For some history, we were the first 'analysts' hired by this ...