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JULY 20, 2015

A reader writes: I am an office manager and am responsible for distributing the mail at my office. The mail in my office building is delivered inconsistently (different mail carriers, inconsistent delivery times, delivered to the wrong office suite, etc.). She has never replied.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

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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? Our workplace mails us donation requests.

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APRIL 14, 2020

I was an office manager for a small company that shut down mid-March due to COVID-19. However, the owner expects me to continue working to keep Accounts Receivable active, by making collection calls, going to the office once a week to collect mail, making deposits, and meeting with him, “for the good of the future of the company.”

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m the letter writer who was worried about having to make a personal e-mail for work business. Not only did I get to retain my e-mail, but I got to talk to the IT person under Old Ownership, who shed a little more light on the background of the problem. Coincidentally, things moved very fast on the day the letter was posted.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Finally, the office manager started hinting that if I wasn’t actually working, I didn’t need to be at work. The ED asked me to handle all the legal paperwork for transferring the deeds and titles and whatnot. I am dying thinking about it now. One of our donors gave us a bunch of time shares for the auction.

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