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31 Jul 02:03

Dear Businesslady: A Garden Of Job Advice

by Businesslady

Email us questions at advice@the-toast.net, subject line “businesslady.” Previous installments can be found here.

Greetings, Toasties!

Dear Businesslady has been around for long enough that I’ve accrued a robust backlog of unanswered letters, and a lot of them present issues that seem to have pretty straightforward solutions. Leaving them unpublished feels like a violation of my advice-giver mandate—and it’s starting to make me feel guilty. (You know that thing when an old friend writes you a “let’s catch up!” email, and then you take so long to respond that you feel like you’d have to write a Tolkien trilogy to justify the delay, and then that burden seems so overwhelming that you just never reply at all, and you hate yourself? It’s kind of like that.)

To clear both my inbox and my conscience, here are some shorter answers to (somewhat) simpler questions. If you have alternate takes to any of these scenarios, feel free to weigh in via the comments.

I've never written to an advice column before, but my coworker has me stumped. We work together well and get along with each other on a personal level. We are also the only two people who report directly to our boss.

Since I started, I have noticed some possessiveness, for lack of a better word, on the part of my coworker.

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17 Feb 15:45

Link Roundup

by Mallory Ortberg

HI there is a Tumblr devoted to photographs of famous people who used to date called OLD LOVES and some of them are SURPRISING and some of them are NOT SURPRISING and some of them are WONDERFULLY TERRIBLE and I'm on page 45, how far back are you?

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18 Dec 07:50

Friday Open Thread

by Mallory Ortberg

I write this to you at an ungodly hour (BEFORE 8AM) from a local Starbucks, as California's first storm in 100 years has knocked the Internet clean out from my grandmother's house. (I've been staying there this week, I didn't just go to a Starbucks in, like, SOLIDARITY.)

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