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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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Toxic environment fed by candy-pushing coworker



Dear Office-Politics, I work in a very toxic office. I am on a team with 2 other people. The female, who worked with the male previously, as an assistant and still does, resents me. On the surface she is pleasant and is always pushing candy on people, etc. She has low ...

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What can we do about a coworker’s messy desk and body odor



Dear Office-Politics, I work in an office which is made up primarily of cubicles. One of our co-workers has worked here for a very long time (more than 20 years), and keeps her cubicle distressingly messy. There is no surface which is, without exaggeration, less than 10 inches thick with miscellaneous ...

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Better route? Business or Technical?



Dear Office Politics, Amongst the companies I've worked for (all have been petrochemical), the professionals that chose the technical route seem to have less opportunity than those professionals that chose the business route. Even women that get engineering degrees tend to go the business route or they can get boxed ...

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Just enough rope to hang herself



Dear Office-Politics, I work for a small company with only about 20 employees. Recently my boss hired two women who are sisters on a 3/4 time basis, which has been unheard of in our company, both the shift hours and the fact that they are related. The older of ...

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