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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 ...

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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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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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Not fitting in



Dear Office-Politics, I have recently moved from New York City to San Diego to start work at a new job. At my new office I don't feel like I fit in. Everyone is quiet. No one expresses themselves. Our Receptionist/Office Manager does not even answer the phone or greet people when they ...

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They say I am not a team worker but I am the only one on the team



Dear Office-Politics, I work for a Corporation in a department where I am the only unionized worker and the others are all managers. Three Occupational Health Nurses, one Doctor and one Administration Support (who does very little). I have recently been accused of not being a teamworker. I am ...

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