I am far more productive at work if I stay in the office late after everyone else has gone home and the phones aren’t ringing ...

There’s a man, “Bobby,” who works in an adjacent team to mine. We often collaborate on bigger projects across departments and occasionally get assigned to do things together. But I can’t stand him. He ...

I have always struggled with organization at work. Now it has come to hurt me. I work for the county, and last week we were notified that we are going to start preparing for an audit of our records.

I work in a progressive public school in a small department where I am the only man. Much of my time is spent in meetings where there is an ever-present thread of, quite frankly, misandrist commentary ...

Despite somehow annually winning a place on the “Best Places to Work” list for our city, my firm actually sucks. Please trust me when I say I have my reasons for staying on—that is not why I’m writing ...

One Black woman CEO‘s organization is making a big difference. Sheena Meade is the CEO of The Clean Slate Initiative, a national bipartisan organization “dedicated to advancing policy that ...

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How do I “look busy”? I work in an office, and rule number one is to “look busy at all times.” Except that my role is limited, and our department definitely has a slow season where there isn’t much ...

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Long before I was the editor in chief of Slate, I was a devoted reader, and Dear Prudence was at the top of my list of Slate favorites, along with departed features like The Breakfast Table (where two ...