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Archive for February, 2007

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



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 ...

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Look What Happened At NASA!



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 ...

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Dribbling my future away in the NBA



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 ...

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Chief of staff passed over for a promotion



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 ...

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Lies told to Homeland Security Analysts



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 ...

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