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An ultimate guide to supporting your colleague with hearing loss

Work Life

A friend of mine, who asked to remain anonymous and works in the legal and compliance field, who also has a hearing impairment, explained to me that in a professional setting, it can be hard to advocate for yourself. “No You might notice a friend isolating in their cubicle, with headphones on all day and not being very communicative.

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can I change teams because of my coworker’s values, I’m working for my parents’ business, and more

Ask a Manager

I used to work in the corporate world in advertising and had an amazing yet strict boss who made me work hard and I loved it! Is this legal? One or two days a week there is someone else sitting in a cubicle in my area and the rest of the week it’s just me in a cubicle and one or two people in one of the surrounding offices.

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coworker’s grisly Halloween decor, I don’t want to dance in my office’s TikTok videos, and more

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The woman in the cubicle next to mine must have emptied out her storage area of Halloween decorations. Besides team-building, I know my boss also thinks it will be a good way to advertise the business so I’m not sure if I have standing to say no. Obviously I can’t accept because it would expose them to legal liability.

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employee threatens to sue us when we tell her to save work files, I don’t want to put up holiday decorations, and more

Ask a Manager

However, our ownership does not want to spend money on legal advice to address the concern. I find the abundance of Christmas lights, and decorations, and sales, and advertisements, and everything that pops up as soon as Thanksgiving is over… exhausting. What advice do you have for us? Talk some sense into your owner.

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Ask a Manager speed round

Ask a Manager

And having this rule is legal under the laws here and so is letting people go for breaking it. I don’t have cupboards here, and since I don’t have food every day I need to ‘advertise’ that it’s there by leaving it in the open. My company just went through a merger with two other companies.

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posting about a new job on Facebook, my coworker is a harlot, and more

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She periodically has different men in her cubicle. ” Employees have complained they saw her having sex in exam rooms and they saw her in a too close for comfort position in her cubicle several times. That said, they’ve advertised these two jobs in our school’s student newsletter. What can we do?

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