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AUGUST 12, 2015

Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Here we go….

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Remember the letter-writer who was worried she was less likely to get hired if she could only do video interviews ? (#2 It’s been a little over a year since you published my question about remotely interviewing for a job in a different country, and oh my goodness, it almost feels like a completely different world, doesn’t it?!

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MARCH 22, 2023

I’ve been seriously job-hunting for the last three months and have had zero interviews despite sending out dozens upon dozens of applications. Is this something I should bring up later in a “hey, maybe educate yourself on what’s legal and not” way? How much prodding should I do as an interviewer?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m interviewing for a job where I’d work at a small table in my boss’s office. I have a second interview coming up for an admin position in a small company (less than 30 employees). No desk, no shelf, no drawer, not even a proper office chair, at least as far as I could tell in my first interview.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

I keep breaking my office chairs. A year or so ago, upper management bought new chairs for our entire office. My current supervisor, a woman, asked me during the interview process if I would have a problem working for a woman. I also said that it was inappropriate the first time she asked in the interview.

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JANUARY 22, 2023

I agree employers shouldn’t be policing employees’ undergarments but legally, employers are permitted to require women to wear bras despite not requiring it of men (as long as they make exceptions for medical or religious accommodations ). I cannot sit comfortably in an office chair unless I have one foot tucked up under me.

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