How to Deal With Work Stress, With Ask a Manager’s Alison Green

The Upgrade by Lifehacker

Lifehacker

Tech News, News, How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 47 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? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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1:07.9	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.
1:10.6	And I'm Alice Bradley,
1:11.9	Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking about how to deal with work stress.
1:17.0	Bad bosses, disgruntled co-workers, and a coffee machine on the fritz. That old problem.
1:25.6	Later in the show, LifeHackers Managing, Virginia K. Smith will be speaking with Allison Green of the Ask a Manager advice column who has a new book called Ask a Manager.
1:36.4	Managers, I think, are some of the worst offenders when it comes to not wanting to have uncomfortable or awkward conversations or deliver bad news.
1:43.4	I mean, managers are human.
1:44.7	The thing about bad bosses is they become the most salient feature of your life.
1:51.0	Yeah.
1:51.4	When you have a bad boss. Tell me about your bad boss.
1:54.1	I had a bad boss who was selectively mean.
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