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In reply to General von Klinkerhoffen. Yeah, this. Maybe I’m biased because where I live, most parents with young children reduce their hours at least somewhat and part-time work is much more normal than it appears to be in the US. But full-time work with childcare responsibilities is so hard and in this case, it doesn’t appear to be working!
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In reply to Sandi. Absolutely. Having money gives you the freedom of choice, and the choices aren’t just this job/this job in renegotiated form/no job. Part of what time + renewed energy gives you is a sense of the choices AND excitement about them. But it’s so (understandably) hard to see that in OP’s situation–a situation for which I’m tremendously sorry, and I do hope you can take some extra time off regardless of everything else.
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In reply to Ellis Bell. Good question. I had a manager that nitpicked everything, including my preferred route to work. I got questioned about PTO after returning from maternity leave. I think it was firstly that she rarely took time off herself (to our collective detriment, IMO) and secondly that she’d had problems with other people running into the red.
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LW2, PTO is part of your compensation package. Your new boss is being very weird here; if they are unhappy with how much PTO you get then they can take this up the same way if they thought you are overpaid. Besides, I wonder what our CTO would think if I allowed employees, especially expensive employees, to carry 500 hour PTO balances with any sort of regularity.
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I was a talker, a people pleaser. If I was at a party with someone who was shy and nervous, I would find them and offer some hot dip, a cocktail, a sympathetic ear or all of the above. At dinner parties, I was often seated between strangers by the host on account of my reputation as a chatterbox. I made the smallest of talk, and I had more icebreakers than the Navy.
I am only giving these tips bc they are things I tend to struggle with. I am 40, a woman, Mom and tend to have ADHD type tendencies. 1. Try not to interrupt or interject too much 2. No one upping (this is a big on I do on accident ALOT and something I am really working on. I tend to see it as trying to relate. Someone gently told me it comes across as one-upping and not great) 3.
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In reply to Artemesia. Yes and it risks becoming a distraction if there isn’t a clear pattern or statements that support it. It is not okay to be verbally abusive at work. Full stop. You don’t get to take issues out on your coworkers through abusive behavior, no matter the cause. I once worked with someone who was undergoing cancer treatment and would regularly scream at people at work for extended periods (this person was a yeller before but they got a lot worse after they got sick)
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In reply to Artemesia. I can see where LW is getting this – the manager is framing Jane’s behaviour as something that’s normal for women in heterosexual couples trying for a baby and making it clear that she and Jane are in the same group, and LW is not. I’m a lesbian and I’ve seen this kind of thing happen as a pattern of exclusion.
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In reply to Hannah Lee. +1 on the details making the difference. A formal event calls for a dress watch and small-ish clutch handbag, not a smartwatch & big day-to-day handbag. Tailoring and correct undergarments are also keys to success for looking and feeling confident and put together. And, don’t forget to remove the tacking stitches on the back vents of jackets, as well as the tacked-on sleeve labels.
In reply to Anon Attorney. Yep: my mum was always a big hit at my dad’s company dos because she enjoyed having a good chat with everyone under the sun! A really good piece of advice for conversation I saw recently was ‘focus on being interested, not interesting’ In other words, be more interested in other people than focusing on being the most fascinating person in the room.
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In reply to Been There. Good point – I suspect LW1 should be job searching as it sounds like Jane is just the most obvious manifestation of a lot of dysfunction, but no reason to put up with Jane in the meanwhile! Every time Jane is crappy, tell Jane that their behavior is not ok, tell jane’s manager, tell HR, etc etc; be the squeeky wheel.
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