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Lynne Curry: You can decide whether your job is lousy

Q. I work in a humiliating job. Part of what makes it lousy is my boss thinks customers are holy. If any of them has an issue with any of us, he automatically takes the customer's side. I just got written up for giving a woman customer an "evil eye."

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Curry: If you don't look the part, you don't get the job

Do you have to "look the part" to get and keep a job?
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Curry: Encourage workers to get flu shot, stay home when sick

Q. Our office looked like a ghost town last November. A couple employees came to work with the flu and before the month was over nearly every employee had caught it. This morning "Robert" showed up looking like death warmed over. He's been coughing nonstop and working on the same report all day...
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Lynne Curry: Employees wanted extra holiday time off

Q. My office manager just forwarded me a series of emails our administrative assistant sent one of our accounting people. Both ladies have spouses who work for overly generous employers who gave employees Dec. 31 as well as Jan. 1 as paid holidays.
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Lynne Curry: 'Irresistible attraction' cause for firing

When a 53-year-old dentist fired his 32-year-old dental assistant Melissa Nelson for being too attractive, he acknowledged she'd been the best dental assistant he'd ever had and a stellar employee for more than 10 years.
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Lynne Curry (12/31/12): Get a grip on the job trapeze

You expect to feel angry when unfairly fired from a job. You expect to feel scared when unexpectedly laid off from a job at which you felt secure. You don't expect, however, to feel rotten when you leave a job you've outgrown and landed an exciting new position -- except sometimes you do.
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Lynne Curry: Should a hero employee lose his job for violating policy?

As employee Devin McLean and his manager were closing their AutoZone store one evening, a robber burst in. The robber forced the manager to his hands and knees in front of the store safe.
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Lynne Curry: When needs of workers, bosses agree, everybody wins

When the National Basketball Association's Houston Rockets selected forward Royce White as their top 2012 draft pick, they knew he had an anxiety disorder that included a deep-seated fear of flying. They signed him to a $3.5 million, two-year guaranteed contract that allowed him to drive and not...
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Lynne Curry: Woman fired after revealing ex-boyfriend was stalking her

Q. When I told my supervisor my ex-boyfriend was stalking me, she seemed sympathetic. She asked lots of questions; when I said I didn't want to talk about the details, she insisted I "brief" her so she could evaluate what to do.
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Lynne Curry: As BP, peanut butter plant prove, profit isn't everything

What do three BP officials and peanuts have to do with you? Everything.
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Curry: Supervisor invaded privacy

Q. When I was at lunch last Friday, my supervisor sat at my computer, pulled up my latest documents and found and read my personal diary.