A friend and former coworker, let's call her Sarah, recently saw on LinkedIn that my friend, we'll call her Tammy, works for a company she was applying to. Sarah has never met Tammy, and Sarah said that she wasn't 100 percent sure she was qualified for the job (she took...
I'm a junior vice-president for a large Wall Street company, and every year one of the junior VP's is chosen to oversee the incoming class of recent college graduates. It's considered an honor to be chosen, and is described as a "promotion," but it's really just a side step with...
For several months, Ive been having a secret relationship with another executive at my company. We dont like living in the dark, but our company "frowns upon" office romance. She wants to take our relationship public, but I worry that it will hurt our careers with the company. Wheres the...
Dear Conscience,Im a young female lawyer at a large law firm, and I have been planning for some time to get a large tattoo around my left wrist. I mentioned this to a male colleague, and he lectured me and told me the tattoo would kill my career. Did this...