Quantum Workplace
JUNE 29, 2025
Career pathing is one of the most effective ways to keep employees engaged, grow your talent from within, and prepare your workforce for what’s next. But for many organizations, it remains a missed opportunity.
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JUNE 29, 2025
Aliina Rowe is an experienced Executive Assistant and certified Change Management Practitioner. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Aliina shares her career journey and talks about managing constant change as an assistant. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start. – Simon Sinek CONNECT WITH ALIINA Aliina on LinkedIn Article from Aliina Aliina’s Executive Support Magazine Profile ABOUT ALIINA Aliina Rowe is a proud, experienced Executive Assistant who b
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Success
JUNE 29, 2025
In 2024, 76.4 million workers chose freelance careers. I was one of them, and I have to say, the flexibility that comes with freelance work is extremely rewarding. However, finding success in the freelance market isn’t always easy. Whether you’re just contemplating making the jump from traditional work to freelance work or you’ve been freelancing for years, one challenge many freelancers face is knowing how to calculate their personal freelance rate.
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JUNE 29, 2025
LW3: as someone who has worked in high tech fields for thirty years? THREE MONTHS is too long to wait. Any company that lets its admin & operations departments suffer from understaffing longer than that is a company that doesn’t value such things and never will. It’s a management thing: lots of high level managers see admin/ops as nothing more than a cost center.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
Mad in America
JUNE 29, 2025
A mere 13 years after being written about by Mad in America and others, NPR realises that SSRI antidepressants might be difficult to get off. “A growing number of people who take SSRIs are saying they’ve suffered difficult withdrawal symptoms from long-term use, including dysphoria and sexual dysfunction.” Article → The post People Say They’ve Faced Withdrawals from SSRIs.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Jackalope. This is really good advice. Undergrads just don’t have the context to know what info to provide without very clear guidelines, and a lot of them will have very little experience getting to propose their own framework instead of being handed a list of requirements. A few additional things: – I used to teach undergrads, and a lot of them are painfully polite.
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JUNE 29, 2025
#2, while it’s no doubt frustrating to get vague requests from undergrads, I wouldn’t take it as a red flag. They probably think they are being accomodating and considerate in their initial approach by indicating willingness to accomodate the organisation’s needs. They are likely unaware of what specific information a company needs to assess an initial internship proposal.
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JUNE 29, 2025
Thinking about my undergraduate internships (gulp, 30 years ago), I would have been hard pressed to say what I hoped to get out of them other than “improve my résume” There was definitely an element of “find out if this is a career I would be interested in” but I am not sure if I could have articulated that at the time. But beyond that very high level, I didn’t really have goals.
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JUNE 29, 2025
LW 2, we do exactly what Allison says. We have an OpenForm for the intern to fill out. Doing so in he correct manner is their first “test.” It asks their major, goals for internship, availability, hours needed, if it’s for a class or not (if so, what is the class and requirements), why they are interested in interning with us, what their strengths are, how they would get to the internship, etc.
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JUNE 29, 2025
I worked at a small company that got acquired by a much bigger one. There were definitely some issues but I kept them to myself, kept my head down, and just did my work to its usual standard. Got pulled into a meeting with my new boss who scolded me for doing my work “too perfectly” and said it was so good that it was making the members of her team feel bad about themselves.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
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JUNE 29, 2025
There are people who manage to convey anger, resentment or unapproachability without saying/doing anything. But I very much think OP would know if she were in such a frame of mind entering her office. So if she interrogates herself and can confirm she isn’t regularly in a bad mood when coming to the office, she should go back to her boss and ask for actions the boss thinks she can take in this situation (and „this situation“ is: „my colleagues complain about a thing I am very much not doing“).
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Undergrads. Yes, I read letter #2 and immediately thought that creating a structured application form with all the information you want would save everyone a lot of time and frustration.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Abuja. Depending on the work of the charity, an activity that fits with its purpose with the executive director or board president. A bike advocacy group would have “A Bike Ride with Our Executive Director”, for example. Include a stop for coffee/snacks or a meal as part of the package. You mention artwork by student beneficiaries, so maybe a painting class with some students?
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to The thrifty Canuck. One thing to keep in mind with car loans in the US is that they’re not like mortgages: you don’t save money by paying them off early. With a mortgage if you make extra payments, you’ll actually wind up paying them fewer dollars. With typical car loans, when you’ve signed the paper, you’ve agreed to pay them the full amount of whatever you borrowed plus the finance charge (the interest × the length of the loan).
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
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JUNE 29, 2025
#2: In my capacity as a former student who applied for a lot of internships and a current professional whose responsibilities include supervising interns, I’ve never been exposed to a situation where things like number of hours, timeline, what you accomplish, etc. are up to the student or even are things the student has a say in. The intern’s train of thought is “I should do an internship because that’s a good way to get work experience.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to nnn. I read somewhere recently that women with families have usually done a full day’s work at home even before they get to their place of employment. Admittedly OP doesn’t mention their family status, but I’d say that a very high proportion of the women I’ve worked with over the years – and me included – tended to arrive at work every day still going through a mental checklist to make sure they haven’t forgotten anything important they were
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Past Lurker. I often work on sites that have weekly fire or gas drills. Everyone take them very seriously. People off-shift may be excused (in writing) if the drill falls right into their sleep cycle or some uninterruptible task, though.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to dreamofwinter. Yes!! please read A Bra That Fits and perhaps browse r/ABraThatFits. The subreddit has a “beginner’s guide” in the sidebar. The main things to understand are that most people don’t really grasp what cup sizes really mean, and most bra companies just lie about how to measure yourself for a bra. The Bra That Fits system asks you for 6 measurements and suggests a size or two to try.
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JUNE 29, 2025
LW #2: Alison said something similar to this, but if you’re getting a lot of undergrad contacts I would recommend writing up an FAQ of some of the things you’d need in order to do this for them and what kind of intern opportunities might be available at their level. That way you can send them the list whenever you hear something from someone new without recreating the wheel each time.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Crencestre. I was coming here to say this same thing! I remember being a young student talking with a colleague of my dad’s about potentially interning at her organization, and I was terrified to answer the “What are you looking for?” question. I assumed they were just asking broadly about what sort of work I’d be up for doing (it didn’t even occur to me that the question could be referring to the specific guidelines of my program, which I figured they&#
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to nnn. Yeah, this is what internships in most industries are like: regular jobs. The company decides what they want an intern to do, then lets people apply if they want to do that. If it works differently in LW’s company or industry, that’s fine, but you should recognize that you’re the outlier and nobody has any way to know that’s how it works unless you tell them.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Gingerblue. – Students from more privileged backgrounds are more likely to have an idea of how internships work and what to ask for than students from less privileged backgrounds. The more initiative you want from potential interns, the more you’re going to wind up screening out, for example, first generation college students who might do great as interns but have fewer models for how to get an internship.
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JUNE 29, 2025
#4 I can’t think of any jobs for a company that come with an NDA before they tell a candidate anything about the position they are being considered for. So I would be curious enough to sign it just to find out more. Though I would be looking carefully over the NDA for things that interfere with: – getting legal advice from outside the company. – reporting the companies illegal activity.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Scholarly Publisher. Thanks for the advice, everybody. This is exactly what I was looking for—different angles on a decision I’ve been mulling over for a while and needed a fresh perspective. Scholarly Publisher, you even went above and beyond and provided scripts and cues to consider. This level of help is why I read AAM.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Been There. What the actual f?
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to OneLuckyDuck. Brilliant! I used to run a nonprofit that had a live and silent auction and we probably could have done this. We did a paddle raise for donations with an auctioneer and that always brought in a big chunk.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Red Reader the Adulting Fairy.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Tired toddler parent.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to The thrifty Canuck. I live in a city with limited parking. Most families I know only have one car but it’s new/nice enough to not have to worry about non-routine maintenance. When I lived in the suburbs it was necessary to have a car for every driver and the cars were more likely to be driven longer. I always maintain a vehicle loan because I don’t have a mortgage anymore.
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JUNE 29, 2025
What’s weird about #1 is the complaining co-workers specifically said it’s her face when she comes in. Not her face in general – they see her facial expression modulates throughout the day. It’s so bizarre that they arrived at complaining to management rather than just “Yeah, she has RBF first thing in the morning, that’s just the way she is.
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JUNE 29, 2025
#3 – in my experience, management often don’t see the need for extra IT staff if everything is working. Your manager should be using any available data to push for an extra resource, and in a good company it *will* happen, but he either needs to push harder or there’s extra crap up higher that makes it difficult. For what it’s worth, we just got bought by a global company and they replaced my same-level coworker with an MSP guy for less hours a week than my coworker worke
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JUNE 29, 2025
LW1: before bringing this to upper management, consider that the useless feedback might have come from *them*. This would explain why your manager felt obligated to pass it on even if she thought it sounded stupid.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In my experience (signing up to a couple of recruiting agencies for low level marketing roles) recruiters have about the same chance of using shady tactics as salespeople (stereotypical). They need to fill the role, and I think the one I used also got paid for the number of applicants they could provide. So they’d contact me if a job even vaguely hit like 3 keywords in my CV, hard sell it to me, and then I wouldn’t hear anything else unless I got through to interview.
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JUNE 29, 2025
In reply to Kuddel Daddeldu. To add context: I’ve been with the company for 15 years, believe in the mission, and like the job (that I have the freedom to reinvent every few years). Still, it’s the time to decide between sticking for a few years, taking early retirement, or doing something new.
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