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A look back at what we were talking about around this time in previous years:

One year ago…

should I not have gifted money to an intern?

It’s the Friday open thread!

The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to take your questions to other readers.

* If you submitted a question to me recently, pl...

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…

1. I was the victim of a well-known violent crime, and interviewers ask me about it

I was a victim of a violent crime that took me out of the workforce for a little over a year. The crime was significant/interesting enough to be featured by some “true crime” style YouTube channels.

Now that...

It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ve been revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here’s the final installment — 15 more mortifying stories people have shared here over the years.

1. The criticism

I’m a marketing copywriter. At a job several years ago, the creative director was showing me a...

Here are four updates from past letter-writers.

1. Our meetings always start with a discussion of bad things that have happened to my coworkers

Life and wo...