Two years ago, I went into business with one of my oldest friends, opening an Internet sales company. Our first year went well, but business stalled our second year and my friend argued that we needed to bring in a consultant to help us gauge our status and develop new...
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 work in a publication department designing and expediting print materials. Recently, we hired someone new to take a high-pressure design position in our department. I don't know how this person got through the intense scrutiny of our hiring process but I overhear a lot of scrambling to cover up...
I'm the manager in charge of a new sales team at my company, and a guy on the team told me that for the first six weeks of training, he had been cutting his kidney dialysis short to make it to work by 8 a.m. During the next six months,...
I joined a firm this winter as the vice-president in charge of recruitment, and part of my job is to screen and select the summer interns. We received hundreds of candidates, including five who are the children of current employees. As I was in the process of selecting the...
Im the owner of a mid-sized company, and were experiencing some hard financial times. To survive, we need to downsize. I put a team in charge of coming up with a plan, and they recently presented me with their recommendations.Job cuts are inevitable, but the team presented an option where...
I recently started a new job, and the man who is supposed to be training me is instead using me to pass off his own shoddy work. Hell email me something that I know is not up to speed - but he has not yet taught me how to fix...
Dear Conscience,I share a cubicle with a colleague who spent the last several months job-hunting on company time. Hes constantly on Internet job sites, calling headhunters, and faxing his resume. Twice, he called in sick during to go on job interviews. Our company has a clear policy against this sort...
