How to Deal With Work Stress, With Ask A Manager's Alison Green (RECAST)
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Whether you’re dealing with a bad boss or disgruntled employees (or a great boss and enthusiastic employees) you’ve got an opinion on the employer/employee dynamic. This week we heard from the Lifehacker audience about their worst bosses. Then Lifehacker’s managing editor Virginia Smith talks to Ask a Manager’s Alison Green about what your manager wants you to know. Finally, Alice and Melissa talk about the out-of-office auto-reply: does anyone really need it?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, upgrade listeners, it's Melissa. We're hard at work, getting a new slate of episodes for 2020 ready for you. Happy New Year. In the meantime, please enjoy how to deal with work stress with Asca managers, Alison Green, one, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, |
| 0:39.1 | Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking about how to deal with work stress. Bad bosses, |
| 0:45.3 | disgruntled co-workers, and a coffee machine on the fritz. That old problem. |
| 0:52.9 | Later in the show, LifeHackers managing editor, Virginia K. Smith will be speaking with |
| 0:57.8 | Allison Green of the Ask a Manager advice column who has a new book called Ask a Manager. |
| 1:03.6 | Managers, I think, are some of the worst offenders when it comes to not wanting to have |
| 1:07.7 | uncomfortable or awkward conversations or deliver bad news. I mean, managers are |
| 1:11.3 | human. The thing about bad bosses is they become the most salient feature of your life. Yeah. |
| 1:18.6 | When you have a bad boss. Tell me about your bad boss. I had a bad boss who was selectively mean. |
| 1:27.9 | Much in the way of a parent who runs hot and cold, this boss was sort of begrudgingly |
| 1:34.3 | respectful of me and also really resented me for something. |
| 1:38.6 | And one of the things she would do was pull me into a stairwell away from everybody where she |
| 1:46.3 | smoked cigarettes in the stairwell of the office building and yell at me where no one else |
| 1:51.9 | could see it, which was very disorienting in the workplace. And then I would have to go back to |
| 1:57.9 | work and I would be, you know, like a blubbering mess. |
| 2:02.1 | She once didn't believe me when I had jury duty and there was meant to be a like a team offsite |
| 2:09.6 | at her house. And I said, I can't go. I have jury duty. She made me bring the letter that |
| 2:15.5 | verifies that you were at jury duty. She made me bring that into her, |
| 2:19.2 | and I was yelled at in the stairwell over that. She also kind of sexually harassed me once. |
| 2:24.8 | She told me to like turn around so she could check out my ass in jeans. I remember at the time |
| 2:32.0 | feeling very uncomfortable, and she was kind of complimenting me, like I looked good in the jeans. |
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