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boss goes through my things, haircut drama, and more
- A receptionist who is new to the job has reported that while she is on her lunch break, her boss sits at her desk and goes through her things, and even on one occasion went into her purse to leave her company-branded items. She has also been known to annotate the notes she has left on the trainee at the desk, which has left her feeling that she has lost her privacy. The expert commenting on this case says that it is inappropriate and violates boundaries but it is harder to deal with. However, it sounds like the situation is unresolved, so she may need to assert herself more clearly.
- Another post from Ask A Manager, back in 2017, detailed how one systems manager in a large organisation was finding that a haircut was causing too much disruption. One member of the team had responded to another’s cut by having an ill-fitting one that they hated and that caused them to get very emotional. HR discovered that the cut was sending such shock waves through the department that the employee who triggered the craze was considering leaving. HR recommended the direct approach. Mika was told that her crying fits over her newly acquired short locks were making others uncomfortable and that the conversation needed to be cut out of the office environment.
- A job seeker has asked whether it is a red flag if all his interviewers are running late. One worker complained of waiting for more than 45 minutes beyond the appointment time at each of his three interviews with the same firm, adding that while lateness of under 15 minutes wasn’t a deal-breaker, it made him wary of the company’s culture. The expert response here was different; short delays to start don't usually signify anything. The job seeker was advised to take the delays in the context of everything he had learned about the company’s culture, rather than judging such lateness alone.
- A query into whether to tell a candidate they have something in their teeth during an interview was raised. The asker wondered what would have been best to have done in a situation in which a candidate had a large clump of lipstick on their teeth for a considerable part of their interview. Ultimately, the expert response was that if the interviewee could not fix it privately, it might be something that organisers would need to ignore, on the grounds that pointing out lipstick on teeth would make candidates too nervous.
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