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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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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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