In this week's Got a Minute column, Dr Kirstin Ferguson has some advice for a manager who pipped three colleagues for a promotion and now has to deal with their pretty behaviour, cranky emails and a complete lack of co-operation
Each week, Dr Kirstin Ferguson tackles questions on the workplace, career and leadership in her advice column “Illustration: Dionne GainFour of us were encouraged to apply for the job as our boss’s deputy. I got it. The three others have now gone wild. They send me cranky emails about trivial matters all day, every day and over the weekend and are totally uncooperative when it comes to basic necessary tasks.
I’m a graduate working as a consultant for a larger company. My work can be quite varied and sporadic. However, every couple of weeks I will have a day or two where I don’t have much work to get on with and I sit around doing nothing for hours at a time. It usually happens because I am either waiting for someone to send me files or tasks to get started on, or I am waiting for someone to review my completed work.
My daughter is in year 11 and was employed by a national pharmacy chain to work three hours on the same day every week. Instead of being employed as a casual on $13 per hour, she was employed as a part-time employee on $11 per hour with promises of a Christmas bonus, sick leave and annual leave. None of that has eventuated. Her employer argued about her request to take annual leave, she is repeatedly rostered on days when she is unavailable and changes are made with little notice.
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