Have you ever messaged a friend about a manager who just won't stop texting you after hours?

Or a coworker who keeps posting weirdly suggestive Austin Powers gifts and slack?

Will you not alone?

I'm Ann Helen Peterson and on my new podcast Work Appropriate,

I set out to find solutions to these oddly specific, yet somehow completely universal listener questions.

Whether you work in an office chair or a six grade classroom,

my guests and I are here to help.

Listen to Work Appropriate every Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.

I was one of those people who thought,

I have the electoral map is fine.

I can go about my business and not be as politically involved as I was when I was younger.

And then Donald Trump won.

Alan Fire is the chair of the Madison County Democrats,

like the movie The Bridges in Madison County, which I didn't see either,

but it's southwest of Des Moines.

The day after the election in 2016,

like so many other despondent Democrats across the country,

Alan and his wife had a moment of reckoning.

And Julie and I sat there at the table the next day and said,

we have to do something. What are we going to do?

Alan decided to run for county chair, any one.

We talked in November at an event called the Liberty and Justice Dinner.

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