Bullies have vulnerabilities you can exploit if you don’t want to leave your job
Workplace advice: You need to know how you can take down a bully before he or she takes you out.
Have a problem employee? Start documenting their behavior before it gets worse
Workplace advice: While Alaska is an employment-at-will state, employers unwilling to risk legal problems refuse to fire employees without adequate documentation.
When workplace cyberbullies strike, take action
Workplace advice: There’s a lot that employers, HR professionals and employees who don’t want be part of or allow workplace meanness can do.
My boss is a functional alcoholic. What can I do?
Workplace advice: Don’t assume you can convince your boss to change his behavior until he decides the risks he takes drinking excessively outweighs the benefits.
Use a thorough vetting process to avoid being duped by job candidates
Workplace advice: Avoiding a bad hire is a hundred times easier than getting rid of a problem employee.
Keep toxic employees from bringing down your business
Workplace advice: While toxic employees often act as if we must allow their behavior, we don’t. Stop it before that toxicity spreads through the workplace.
I have more experience, but others get promoted over me. Now I think I know why.
Workplace advice: If you feel you’ve been passed over due to prejudice, you can file a complaint with the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission or the Alaska Commission on Human Rights.
Mental illness and employer obligation: Walking a fine line
Workplace advice: An employer may only ask if an employee needs an accommodation when it reasonably believes that the employee may need an accommodation and the employee has a known disability.
I’m number two - but I didn’t even know there was a contest
Workplace advice: I thought Joe and I were peers, but my boss said, “Joe is one of our up-and-comers, being groomed for senior leadership.”
What to do when your boss doesn’t connect with you
Workplace advice: You need to fix the problem — if, and that’s a big if, you’re reading the situation correctly.
Fighting to keep a job amid transition, plus best practices for applying to job board listings
Workplace advice: When you interview with individuals who decide your job future, demonstrate respect by listening to any information they offer and their questions.
When mismatched reactions to the earthquake shake a longtime friendship
Workplace advice: You don’t have to “get it,” you just have to listen.