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overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs, my boss won’t give me a budget, and more

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Overweight employee keeps breaking office chairs. We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. As a result, she has used other chairs in the office and broken them. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Here we go….

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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I manage about 15 events every 12 weeks (each event being 3-4 days long) and am in charge of every aspect of the events (on-site logistics, travel, venue accommodations, food and events, agenda and educational sessions, sponsors, speakers…the list goes on). But if that doesn’t work, be ready to go elsewhere.