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Am I the (pregnant) fall guy?



Dear Office-Politics, I took a job 3 years ago with a start-up tech company as a software engineer. Dream job, but my boss turned out to be not so good at business and less good at managing people. The business is losing money like crazy, and worse, my relationship with my boss ...

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The Office Crab criticizes everyone



Dear Office-Politics, I am writing on behalf of a group of diverse and hardworking coworkers among whom morale is at an all time low. Our often bumbling managers have a history of granting knee jerk behind the doors promotions, creating new positions without posting them and making surprise staffing changes. Some ...

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Marginalized like a fly on squat



Dear Office-Politics, The rundown of players: My Boss: Overall a good guy, with a great work ethic but appears to have misplaced his balls. In all honesty, he lacks leadership ability and there were many of times I was forced to sit in his office and hear him bemoan the lack of ...

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Defensive supervisor poisons workplace



Dear Office-Politics, I work in a small office, and have been an employee here for about 2 years. In the last 12 months, my supervisor (the department director) has changed from an involved team leader who made us feel like she was in our corner, to an absent, uninterested person, forgetting ...

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Company appears to be run from the bottom up



Dear Office-Politics, I am a temporary worker in an accounting department, which recently lost its manager and several other senior level employees. I was brought in to cover one of the accountant positions and report to a senior accountant who, for a long period of time has been covering not only ...

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Stuck in the Law Firm from Hell



Dear Office-Politics, Help! I am stuck in the law firm from hell, and I am not the only one that thinks so. I wish I could say the partners were bad, but they are not...they are all approachable and patient for the most part. The problem here are the senior associates...they ...

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Part II: No one else has the guts to stand up…



Linda Kaplan Thaler, co-author of The Power of Nice, and CEO of The Kaplan Thaler Group has answered the letter below. Read the Office-Politics book review on The Power of Nice. Dear Office-Politics, Here's my job situation: I work as a subcontractor for a government agency, who I'll refer to as Alphabet. ...

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