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Ep 242: Nicki Cave on Managing a Team of Assistants and Finding Happiness in Your Work

Go Burrows

She mentors, trains, and coaches EA/AAs across the region. ezCater’s simple-to-use platform provides a network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, business-grade reliability, food spend management tools, and 24/7 support from their highly trained customer service team. While supporting J., And so nice. Is it a dotted line to you?

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Mortification Week: the winter party, the wet socks, and other stories to cringe over

Ask a Manager

The office was totally empty, but there was one other person, a graduate student (who I do not supervise), who had also, unbeknownst to me, come in to work that day. I’ll preface this by saying I was in my early 20s and never had anyone to mentor me about professionalism until I found this site. I was trying to be funny I guess.

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I have a weird patchwork of responsibilities, sharing a desk, and more

Ask a Manager

I have little direct supervision, and there is no one else here who is directly responsible for the same broad categories of work. And I’m afraid I have shot myself in the foot in terms of my professional development by spending a good chunk of my 20s in this job where I have such undefined responsibilities and no mentor.

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employee got pregnant to avoid working on Christmas, did I burn a bridge with a former manager, and more

Ask a Manager

She was paid double and my friend even made food available because she knew that this employee was upset. The weird part is, other managers in my department who do not supervise this staff, including MY manager were invited. I had a strong and positive relationship with my supervisor, whom I considered both a mentor and a friend.

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Ask a Manager speed round

Ask a Manager

To save costs, they’ve started rotating between fast food places, wings, and premade sandwich boxes, none of which have vegetarian options. Would I be out of line to request some more inclusive food options, or at the least a la carte sides? My mentor and some peers say my policy is dumb, controlling, or a waste of my time.

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Mortification Week: the wizened coworker, the hot cheetos, and more

Ask a Manager

” It wasn’t until after I clicked send that I realized I accidently sent it to my assigned mentor instead, who had been at the company for 15 years, was on track to a VP role, and was super tight laced. My mentor quietly canceled our weekly one on one meetings the next week. The wrong word. The wrong word, part 2.

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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

Mad in America

The system relied on rules and constant supervision, enforced by simple rewards and punishments. She soon met her mentor there, Samuel Shantz. They were expected to dine at the table, make polite conversation over tea, and do regular chores. The role of the alienist (psychiatrist) was to encourage rational behavior.

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