I was the dream. Or at least, I thought I was doing everything right. I got the degree. Landed the remote tech job. Worked my ass off—nights, weekends, grinding through the launch of a massive project that kept getting pushed up in the timeline but never down in...
Ah, maternity leave in the US. Or should I say, the mythical creature that every new mother dreams about but never actually gets to see? Seriously, it's 2024, and we're still pretending like giving mothers a decent amount of time off is some sort of luxury. Spoiler...
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go… 1. Working from a one-bedroom apartment with a baby and nanny I work in tech and have worked remotely for my whole career. I live in a one-bedroom...
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: A few weeks ago, my boss mentioned that she’d been hearing rumors about herself and said if I was the one spreading them, I could just come to her and talk to her. I assured her...
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Here are three updates from past letter-writers. 1. My boss keeps leaving her kid with me I am the person who kept having to watch over their manager’s kid during my shift (from this post). I...
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s the Thursday “ask the reader” question. A reader writes: I will preface the question with a warning: I’m currently enormously over-privileged in that we are very financially comfortable and I...
Episode 789: Neal and Ann dive into why Netflix has walked away from acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount makes another counter offer. Then, Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of his staff due to AI, and he thinks companies will ultimately do the same....
Episode 788: Neal and Ann recap Nvidia’s reported earnings that buoy the AI sector by beating expectations. Then, Kalshi reveals a couple cases of insider trading on its prediction markets platform, including one from MrBeast’s production team. And, Anthropic's safety...
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