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In reply to Constant Reader. unless you go to a gigantic company there likely will be less HR and no interim level managers. I’ve either worked at places with a single HR person who does everything or at the larger places one HR manager with 1-2 generalist subordinates. I’ve never personally worked at a company with interim level HR managers (I’ve worked at tiny orgs – employee#4 twice – and huge orgs – 10k+ employes – and many sizes in between) but I di
Sarah Fulton manages hotel sourcing worldwide, facilitates hotel communications, coordinates site tours, and negotiates contracts to maximize value and secure favorable terms for assistants and their teams. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Sarah shares tips on marketing yourself on LinkedIn, sourcing hotel venues, negotiating contracts, and more.
When I left my last job my coworkers were livid. They had to pick up the on call of both me and my colleague who left at the same time (essentially doubling it because our boss couldn’t be bothered) and were working 24/7 about 50% of the time. Our jobs absolutely required 24/7 coverage and the owner wouldn’t budge about overextending our resources to non-clients, deadbeats, and current clients who traveled outside our service area and still expected us to come to them.
In reply to Rarctic. A former department director smelled of alcohol when I started at my current job but was otherwise not at all problematic as a very senior coworker. Office gossip claimed he kept a bottle of vodka in his desk. Things came to a head one morning when he was found passed out in the supply closet [!] and sent to rehab as a condition of employment.
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In reply to Anon for this. I’m really sorry–this does sound like early stages of dementia. I understand completely why “go to the doctor” seems like great advice but is actually really not helpful here. Unless you’ve been in this position, it’s hard to see how frustrating is is that going to the doctor IS the right thing to do, but the person with early stages of dementia will never acknowledge there is a problem.
In reply to Just me, Vee. I briefly ran a Meetup group for self-directed learners, and we did things like library study dates, mini talks on topics of our interests, coffee and chat dates etc. It was a really nice way to meet a range of interesting people and learn stuff.
In reply to Emily Byrd Starr. Yes, and angry. According to the Meidas Touch podcast, where they break down Paramount’s recent financial quarterly report, the whole financial argument for firing Colbert is extremely fishy/ridiculous since Paramount is losing money on one or two specific sectors that does not include Colbert AND Colbert is one of their most popular shows both on CBS and on their yt channel.
In reply to Emily Byrd Starr. Yes, and angry. According to the Meidas Touch podcast, where they break down Paramount’s recent financial quarterly report, the whole financial argument for firing Colbert is extremely fishy/ridiculous since Paramount is losing money on one or two specific sectors that does not include Colbert AND Colbert is one of their most popular shows both on CBS and on their yt channel.
In reply to Glitsy Gus. Those clear sheet protectors can also serve as white boards (some are easier to erase than others) – maybe try a thicker sheet of paper or cardstock inside the sheet protector and you can put the Post-Its on the paper so it’s protected by the sheet protector. If the Post-It loses stickiness and falls off, it’ll still be inside the sheet protector.
In reply to Reba. ISPs are notoriously difficult to cancel. What I’ve found that has worked for me is 1) Going to a store if they have one. I did this to cancel my Xfinity service. The lady who helped me was extremely nice and took care of the cancellation in less time than it took me to drive there. And it was only a ten minute drive. 2) If in-person cancellation isn’t an option, I’ve told a former ISP my (completely fictitious) husband had received new orders and we were being transferred to G
In reply to Emily Byrd Starr. It’s prevalent in specific corners of social media, but the belief that US grocery stores sell no “real” food, there is no produce available anywhere, even our milk has HFCS in it (people see carbs in milk and don’t know milk has natural sugars). The belief comes from outside of the US. To the point that I got on Whatsapp with my sister who lives overseas while I was grocery shopping in my regular normal supermarket so she could see.
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In reply to Life Resets At 65. I’m nearly your age and was a hiker in my younger years. One thing you didn’t mention is to leave a detailed plan with someone, and estimated times, and don’t change your mind. So, if they haven’t heard from you by X time, they are to alert SAR. SAR will know where to look for you. It’s not a bad idea to hike alone (it’s a much better idea to hike in a group, but that’s not always possible), but if you twist your ankle, who
In reply to Life Resets At 65. I think it’s fine, but the main thing is to let someone know where you are, which trail head you entered, what time, and what time you expect to be back/when to start worrying.
regarding the low quality potentially AI writing…while it does seem a supervisor okayed the current arrangement, typically a promotion either means a change in duties with the lower position opened for backfilling (so the others filling in would be temporary) or it means an addition of responsibilities (so original responsibilities would not be pushed onto others who has no say or consent into whether this person took a promotion).
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In reply to Emily Byrd Starr. My eldest is going into engineering, and one of her favourite things to do is go to Goodwill or similar places and find old broken electronic toys to rebuild and repair. The 2′ long robot velociraptor was very cool, but her latest ‘treasure’ is a Furbee. It was broken and blissfully silent, but a half-hour with a soldering iron later, it’s alive.
In reply to Considerate Helper. I have had a very similar experience and I sympathise! In my experience, taking the test made me feel very exposed and vulnerable but that didn’t carry over into the actual work day and group activities, which stayed pleasingly surface-level and it was easy not to share anything too revealing. Don’t know how it will play out for you, of course, but for me the amount of dread I felt about the Big Day turned out not to be warranted.
In reply to Teapot Translator. I’m a translator and I’m not thinking of changing fields yet. My employer’s strict data security policies have stopped any attempts to introduce machine translation or AI assisted translation tools, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time. That said, AI translations to or from English are improving, but my main language pair is Finnish-Swedish and that’s still mostly useless.
In reply to OK to not be available by phone at work? On my voice mail, I leave a blurb stating that you can also reach me by email, which is what I’m on practically all day compared to the phone. I have Cisco Jabber, but I let my phone calls go to voice mail. I always try to get back to them within 10-15 minutes of receipt if it’s not urgent, or 1-2 minutes if it is.
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In reply to Hello God, it’s me, Margaret. I always think of the goal of that sort of comment as purely to reflect what they just said back at them. Figure out the descriptive term that matches the tone of their comment & just plug it in. Very much on the ‘that sounds really hard/I was awful at that in school/I hated in school/you must be really smart’ comments.
In reply to WoodswomanWrites. I’m 70 and about to swap my old Zoleo for a Garmin In-Reach. Both can call for help but the Garmin is better about letting you know that a trouble call reached someone and they’re responding. There’s a lot of comfort in having one of these satellite linkers so that in an emergency you could call for help from anywhere regardless of cell signal quality.
In reply to Anon for this. Paranoia might have a number of causes but dementia is certainly one. As my father got older his mail was full of suspicious demands for money from people who, he said, were trying to cheat him. I looked at them. They were his bills. He just didn’t recognize them anymore. When life gets unfamiliar it only makes sense to imagine that there’s evil afoot and someone is to blame.
In reply to Bookworm Beta. Ellis Bell – I’m not sure what you mean by build in time? We’ve been meeting to swap our books 5-6 weeks so everyone has over a month to read their book. If you mean at our book club meeting, people could certainly add notes then before we actually swap them, but again then they don’t get to read the notes others left behind.
In reply to Girasol. Fun fact: I needed to do a piece about conspiracy theories some years back, and decided that “History is shot through with shape-shifting lizard people who secretly control society” was a good example–it was a real conspiracy theory, but seemed obscure enough that I expected most people wouldn’t uncomfortably get defensive because this was something they or someone close to them believed.
In reply to BellStell. For all of July it’s been upper 80s temp and upper 90s humidity, sometimes 100% humidity, which is darned humid. Thunderstorms with heavy rain for a few hours almost every afternoon and/or late evening. A few days ago I was driving in the mid-afternoon when it started pouring rain. I detoured to where I could park for about 15 minutes as the rain was so incredibly heavy I could barely see ahead.
In reply to Raspberry chocolate. It really annoys me when the customer service rep definitely deserves 5 stars…but it took me hours on hold to get to them, or it was deliberately difficult to find the number, or (in the case of a bank) they closed down all branches local to me but also won’t let me do what I need to do online so I have to wait in their phone queue.
In reply to Anonymoosely. it sounds like this job definitely doesn’t suit you, but your manager are coworkers are nice and it’s not toxic. So no need to choose to be jobless – just wait until you have a firm job offer then give your 2 weeks notice.
In reply to HannahS. If you have a computer setup where your desktop/documents are the same when you sign on regardless of location – I live by my Excel todo list. With lots of color coding.
In reply to Phteven. It’s unkind and ableist to throw shade on people who are not able to read or write, but it’s not unreasonable to feel that they might not be the right people to join a handwritten letters pen pal club.
In reply to Elle Woods. I find this hilarious, not because the requirements are inherently egregious (though they almost exactly describe the kind of books I’d prefer to avoid) but because they’re so specific that they surely must have realised it wouldn’t go down well with the others. Sounds like what they needed was a book club at their church.
In reply to Texan in exile on her phone. As someone who may need gum grafts in the future, thank you for sharing this! Were they expensive? Covered by insurance?
In reply to Neither Here Nor There. What, what? I’m a stranger to insurance systems but surely to heaven they use individual patient numbers or social security numbers or something to keep all the John Smiths of the world separated????! Of course someone is going to have been born on the same day.
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