A Reddit member writes: I have an employee who was my friend before I became his boss. We’ve been good friends for more than a decade. At times,…
Read more Ethics: My Direct Report and Friend Wants PTO When We’re Understaffed. What Should I Say?A reader writes: I have a part time employee who has been with me for several years now. She’s never been able to do more than 10 hours…
Read more Ethics: My Employee Is Hiding Her Job From Her Husband. It’s Become Everyone’s ProblemOR State Rep Greg Smith https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/smithg SALEM, Ore — The longest serving representative in the Oregon State House is facing at least his 4th ethics investigation. The republican…
Read more OR State Rep Greg Smith Facing Ethics Violations Investigation – KXLPEABODY — Three Peabody students at Bishop Fenwick High School have received awards for their contributions to the school’s community. Junior Elias Rodriguez, sophomore Emily Legault and freshman…
Read more 3 Peabody students honored at Bishop FenwickA reader writes: I am the business manager in an automobile dealership when we received a notice from the manufacturer: several vehicles had been placed on the hold…
Read more Ethics: New Cars Have Been Put on Hold by the Auto Maker. My Manager Says to Sell Them AnywayA reader writes: I started a new job and inherited a completely demoralized staff. A transformation was in order, and I began working through it. One director, however, apparently disagreed…
Read more Ethics: My Direct Report Is Countermanding My Instructions. What Do I Do?Former Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler abruptly resigned after Chair Jerome Powell refused to grant her a waiver to address financial holdings that ran afoul of the central…
Read more Ex-Fed Governor Kugler quit after more trading violations | FortuneA Reddit member writes: I manage a product development team of ten. One person is objectively our top performer, smart, fast, clean work. A huge asset. But lately…
Read more Ethics: My Best Performer Is Quiet Quitting. What Should I Do?Pope Leo XIV tries to head off claims that chatbots are sentient beings with rights. Kristen Ziccarelli Source link
Read more Opinion | AI Is a Tool, Not a SoulA Reddit member writes: I’m a new manager working with a very entry level person (1-2 years of working experience). We have a project with a very high…
Read more Ethics: I Sent a Harsh Email to a Failing Employee. They’re in Tears. How Do I Fix This?Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for serving a single purpose: snark. The site lets…
Read more Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don’t Copy and Paste an Answer From a ChatbotA Reddit member writes: My colleague and I were both promoted by my boss a few months ago, I was promoted to Head of, and they were promoted…
Read more Ethics: My Newly Assigned Second-in-Command Keeps Undermining Me. What Should I Do?A Reddit member writes: Our senior leadership keeps dropping this “One [company name] mindset” slogan and they are using it to ask employees to perform functions beyond their job description…
Read more Ethics: Management Is Reassigning Jobs Under a “One Company” Slogan. My Team Isn’t HappyA Reddit member writes: I’m a team lead, and recently our CEO introduced a leaderboard to track completed tasks. Yesterday, I assigned a documentation task to a full-time…
Read more Ethics: My Intern Stole a Task–and Leaderboard Points–From an Employee. What Should I Do?“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes, no one’s going to think of these issues,” says Kathleen…
Read more When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a FaceA reader writes: I have a new employee who is refusing to do some parts of her job. She hasn’t done this with me directly, but when I…
Read more Ethics: My New Employee Refuses to Do Some Parts of Her Job. Should I Fire Her?VANCOUVER, Wash. — An ethics complaint filed against Vancouver City Councilor Kim Harless will move forward to an independent hearings examiner for investigation. The…
Read more Ethics Complaint Against Vancouver Councilor Kim Harless Sent to Hearings Examiner – KXLThe Denver Board of Ethics has cleared Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington of using his position for private gain when he flew himself and eight other executives…
Read more Ethics board clears Denver airport CEO over flights costing as much as $19,000, but is ‘appalled’ by responseA reader asks: My former boss once required our entire team to work through the weekend, completing a quarterly financial report. The report wasn’t really urgent. My best…
Read more Ethics: My Boss Told Me to Skip My Best Friend’s Wedding. Now He Wants Help Getting a JobSome experts think the overtly political messaging could run afoul of the Hatch Act, a federal law that places specific limits on the political activities of civil employees…
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