February, 2007 - Office-Politics

Archive for February, 2007

Managing Up to protect your turf…

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 ...

Posted in Climbing the Ladder, office politics | 1 Comment »

My boss has employed her nephew’s girlfriend…

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 ...

Posted in Nepotism & family matters, office politics | 3 Comments »

Surviving Control Freaks: Advice from OP reader

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, ...

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Former brownnoser seeks to be trusted

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 ...

Posted in Brownnosers & Sycophants, office politics | 1 Comment »

Don’t want to be friendly at work…

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 ...

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Unable to function

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 ...

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Entry-level office aide is poisoning our office

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 ...

Posted in office politics, Rumors, Gossip and Buzz | 1 Comment »

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