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JANUARY 19, 2015

My employer is requiring the office manager and me (creative director/product development/sales) to attend an industry show in Atlanta. Both the office manager and I are on tight budgets, so it is going to take the money we need to pay bills with in order to pay our expenses during the show.

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JUNE 28, 2016

I managed to get a last-minute place in a course that runs for a few days, but I am terrified. The course is an intensive business/finance sort of thing, with speakers and lots of team work on the four days with a final presentation at the end. I am job hunting in New York City for a luxury retail sales jobs. It’s not a thing.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

employees violated the spirit of office gift exchange, sales team won’t tell us their schedules, and more I’ve become the office seamstress, is it OK to block someone from being hired, and more was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. To be clear, I don’t mind this unofficial role.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How to get a senior coworker to stop spamming the office email list. Could you advise on how to tell an office manager to stop spamming the entire office with random supermarket deals, random events, motivational speaker sales pitches, irrelevant travel alerts etc?

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