Archive for January, 2007

Landed in a political minefield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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