I'm a salesman, and my travel and client expenses are pretty steep. Luckily, my company has always been very good about reimbursing me every two weeks.Recently, the woman who handles our expense accounts left the company, and we have been told that company policy requires her replacement to go through...
My boss is a golf fanatic. During the warmer months, he'll sneak out of work early once or twice a week and take a bunch of the guys from the office with him to the local linksBecause I don't golf, I never get asked to go with them. Yet I...
I head up a branch of a large company, and we have a luxury box for our Major League Baseball team. It's supposed to be used for our executives to entertain clients and as a reward for lower-level employees who do good work. I know that occasionally our execs will...
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...
I work for a non-profit health care organization. My director came to my office with some glossy brochures of projects the organization is working on. I was asked if I would be interested in making a payroll deduction to help meet these goals. When I asked if she could leave...
My boss is a big, fat donor to the Republican party, and he recently sent out a memo saying employees would be encouraged to attend a big, fat party he's throwing for a candidate. For him, encouraged is a gentle attempt at a word. He only deals in required.I don't...
I have somebody in my own team who keeps spreading rumors about the other colleagues. She targets the employees with good track records and good reputations. Say someone is very good at their work and gets an appreciation from our boss, then this lady will start spreading rumors about them....
My buddy and I used to call our boss "The Tyrant" because he was so unnecessarily ruthless. We were very happy when he left for another job and my buddy was promoted to succeed him. But now my buddy has turned into an equally vicious ruler -- some of...
I was recently promoted to senior manager at a small marketing company, and on my first week in the position I caught one of my employees faking an illness. He had called in that morning to say he had the flu, but I had to run an errand at the...
I recently saw a document lying on the copy machine that listed the salaries for everyone in the office, and noticed that most of my direct colleagues make considerably more money than me. This is really bothering me, but I havent mentioned it to anyone. Id like to ask for...
Im a senior manager at a large company, and I just learned that I have to layoff a dozen people. This will come as a shock to the employees and I feel terrible, but Im also very concerned that those who are terminated will steal confidential company documents as a...
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...
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...
Dear Conscience,My lunch occasionally disappears from the office refrigerator. Is it worth making a stink? Absolutely. While it may seem small and petty, this type of thing is office poison. Its really no different than having someone steal $10 from your desk. Youve been robbed, and the result is that...
Dear Conscience,I’m the only person in my office without children, and it seems as though I’m always the person asked to travel or stay late. Is this fair?So you’re Joe Single and the soccer moms get to go home at 5:00 while you’re left finishing the TPS reports because watching...
Data envelopment analysis is used to measure the technical and scale efficiency of the domestic waste management function in 103 New South Wales local governments. After allowance is made for nondiscretionary environmental factors that may affect the provision of these local public services,...
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