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OCTOBER 12, 2016

We have to provide food to our managers for Boss’s Day. The staff where I work have received the usual cringe-worthy email from the office manager, notifying us we are to provide a breakfast potluck plus afternoon desserts for our bosses. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Coworkers keep eating the food for meetings that they’re not attending. I work in an office where it is common to have catered lunches for executive meetings. It’s entirely reasonable and normal to tell people to leave food alone if it’s for a meeting that they’re not part of. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The fast food revenge. Our manager promptly responded by disappearing to the back. His only help was to tell them that they had to get their food and leave before he ran away. They then wandered around asking their friends if their food was right. Setting: 1980, legal deposition. ” and they all laugh.

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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. For example, we recently attended a show in Tennessee and our food allowance was $30 per day. For this Atlanta trip, the food expense will be $50 per day. I have one problem with that.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

I leave the office every day to jog during my lunch break. I am required by my office to take an hour lunch, at a designated time slot specified by the office manager. I was in my jogging gear for 10 minutes in the office before I left the building. Like, legally? And it is an unpaid hour.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Our office nurse thinks Covid is a hoax. The food-service manager at our site who was also employed by the state was deeply disturbed by the fact that the nurse wouldn’t wear a mask. Finally, the food-service manager contacted the nurse’s supervisor and reported her.

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AUGUST 2, 2022

My mom, who is the boss-boss, is only in the office a couple days a week and when she is it’s a couple hours a day. Because of this I have the title “office manager” but that doesn’t really mean a thing. Is this legal? It’s almost like she’s getting paid twice. I’m so confused.

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