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Category: Corporate Culture

Manager pressured team to discuss personal updates at work

April 19, 2018 Catherine Goetze

Having to discuss deeply personal topics in the workplace may often be uncomfortable – how can employees avoid such discussions while also being team players?

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Toxic manager tolerated despite ‘healthy culture’ being a ‘top priority’

December 4, 2017 Catherine Goetze

How can employees effectively combat harassment from a superior in a context of poor HR management? What happened? I had been working as a Sales

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My firm covered up serial harassment to avoid firing senior partner

October 23, 2017 Catherine Goetze

How can employees successfully handle harassment coming from a superior who is protected by the HR department? What happened? My first job out of college

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I quit after my managers wouldn’t stop drinking on the job

October 4, 2017 Catherine Goetze

 Illustration by Charlotte Goff, http://www.charlottediane.com Having values and behaviors that don’t resonate with the corporate culture is often detrimental for employees – how can managers be

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How I responded to “How old are you?” in front of an entire company

July 29, 2017 Catherine Goetze

How can employees handle superiors’ attacks with grace and strength? What happened? I joined a startup where on my first day the founder purchased a

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My advisor would not take no for an answer

July 29, 2017 Catherine Goetze

Sexual advances from potential investors pose both professional and emotional doubt and frustration. How can entrepreneurs handle and overcome such behaviors coming from superiors? What

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