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APRIL 8, 2015

A week after resigning, during a work interview with a new employer, the interviewer confronted me about contradicting dates and statements in my CV vs LinkedIn profile. Confused and upset, I left the interview and checked my LinkedIn account. I got in touch with the office manager at my old job.

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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? How do I tell a bunch of interviewers I’ve decided to stay at my current job?

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

You could say it this way: “I love that y’all make me feel like family, but to protect everyone, I want to recognize that I don’t have the same family ties that you do, legally or otherwise, and figure out how we’d handle things if Percival and I ever weren’t together. Offering to take an interviewer on a tour of my current company.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

The manager who asked me to stay in touch is now gone. About six months ago, I applied to a company I was interested in, and the hiring manager had a phone interview with me. Would you be willing to include a guaranteed X days off our agreement?” They can’t force me or require me to actually bowl, can they?

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JANUARY 27, 2015

Recently, the task of hiring interns for the office has fallen on me. I have been asked to review resumes, conduct interviews, and advise the office manager about which candidates to send offers to. Is she legally allowed to do that? Additionally, I have a feeling that some employment laws are being broken.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

I’d lean toward the last one, but if I’m an office manager who’s told one of our employees is masturbating in the bathroom and needs to stop, I have no idea how I’d approach that conversation. No one would ever know if I used it to do a phone interview so I’m mostly just curious about what the ethical move is.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

My agency contact had set up an interview for me for my dream job, the day after my birthday. I showed up at the interview not just hung over but still drunk. The person conducting the interview asked me if I was sick, and if I was we could reschedule. I am dying thinking about it now.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

I recently interviewed for an analyst position at my firm along with three coworkers. After four weeks of hearing nothing from HR, the director of client services, or the hiring team’s manager (who is also the manager of three of the candidates), we were finally emailed a meeting invitation.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2016

Our boss is hanging terrible artwork in our new office space. I am the office manager of a small, tight-knit consulting firm of 15 employees. We recently relocated our offices to a larger, more modern location. Interviewer got angry that I called so many times while she was out sick. Here we go…. I’m sorry.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Asking for an office as a condition of accepting a job. Recently I had an interview for a HR manager position with a small organization of approximately 100 employees. I was told that they are tight on space, so the HR person will get a desk but not an office. Yet others like the office manager have an office.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

You can put that name on your resume — a resume isn’t like an official legal document where you have to present your entire full and legal name. It sounds like you prefer initials or a nickname. Either of those is fine. Nicknames aren’t unprofessional or young; people of all ages use them.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It came down to a final three: two older, high achieving students with great references and on-point experience and a first year student who blew everyone away in the interviews, but had little to no experience. And Jane found our phone number and called the office manager asking for me. I totally understand and accept this.

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JULY 7, 2020

Let her know it’s illegal to allow people to work while they’re not being paid, and if people are reading and responding to work emails, that’s potentially a legal issue. I’m being called back to the office but I’m a single mom with no child care. I have worked for the same small business for 5-1/2 years as an office manager.

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AUGUST 14, 2022

I worked as a special education teacher, so I am very used to preparing extensive, legally binding paperwork, supporting my team and supervisors, meeting multiple deadlines with few resources, and in general being detail-oriented and highly organizational. You may also like: is it OK to look very different from your online photos?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The office managers also tend to set their schedule up in advance, and the mom usually sets her schedule for the week at the beginning of the week. My husband interviewed and was offered a job with a much better company, but unfortunately, it turned out that they couldn’t offer him full-time at that point, so he had to decline.

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JUNE 13, 2016

It all came to a head recently when he and the guy he shares an office with decided to fire their office manager. I interviewed for one job, got referred to a different one, and want to ask about the first one again. I recently was invited for a Skype interview with a great company. ” I am not okay with this.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

But given that he’s talking about a serious legal violation, just point that out: “We actually can’t do that — it’s illegal to reimburse campaign contributions, and there are big fines and even jail time for doing it.” Could we look at other options for covering the office manager work, like bringing in a temp?”.

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JULY 17, 2018

Or do hiring managers understand that candidates may get a lot of help on their cover letters, especially if they are weak writers? And if the former is true, how can a candidate who is good at their profession but bad at writing increase their chances of getting an interview? How can I back out of an interview with a staffing agency?

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

How can I tell employees that their friends/family will not be receiving a phone call to come and interview without telling them why? ” Because it’s a chronic problem, you might also consider giving your staff as a whole more information about what it takes to get an interview. It gets very tiring because 99.9%

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MARCH 5, 2015

My boss is insisting that all interview feedback on candidates be in writing. My office is currently in the process of hiring a new office manager. My associate dean subscribes to the idea that everyone in the office should be involved in the interviews and then provide written feedback. The right legally?

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

When the position for manager in her department opened, she applied and didn’t get an interview. She keeps applying for internal positions and not getting interviews, or not hearing back back after the first round, and acts like she has no idea why. It’s not discriminatory in the legal sense, no.

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JUNE 10, 2019

I am an office manager and just hired a new staff member. could land your company in boatload of legal trouble, not to mention a PR disaster. If we hassle her about this, let alone fire her, we could get in a lot of legal trouble — as well as cause huge PR problems in the community and with the rest of our staff.

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