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Work Drama: Your questions, our advice

Marketplace All-in-One

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News, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ever wrestled with a work problem and didn’t know where to turn? We’ve got you. In our new advice column, “Work Drama,” we try to find answers to your sticky work situations. 


This week, “This Is Uncomfortable” host Reema Khrais is joined by career coach and podcaster Mandi Woodruff-Santos to unpack your workplace problems -- from messy, toxic bosses to dealing with salary negotiations.


Got workplace drama you need help dealing with? Shoot us an email at [email protected] to tell us about it, or call ‪(347) 746-4848‬ and leave a message. 


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0:00.0

I was trying to pull up for like old emails to stitch together a timeline and I can't,

0:07.1

but maybe you'll remember better than me.

0:09.5

I have no idea what you're referring to.

0:12.2

I'm afraid that you're going to tell me that the work conflict was with me.

0:15.1

I mean, you were involved.

0:17.2

Oh, no.

0:18.6

I'm chatting with my colleague, Haley Hirschman.

0:20.7

She used to work on This is Uncomfortable as a producer. And we were talking about something almost all of us deal with at some point when there's drama at work. It's like about a year before the pandemic. And you, me, a lot of people in the podcasting unit and the digital team were in this section of the office that we called the swing space.

0:41.1

And it was really fun because, you know, we were just like in this big open space work environment with like people that are our friends.

0:48.7

But at some point along this journey, everyone started bringing their dogs into work.

0:54.5

Oh, yeah.

0:55.9

It was, you know, it started off with, like, one person who, like, I don't even want to name any.

1:01.8

I'm not going to name any names.

1:02.4

Yeah, we're not going to name names.

1:03.6

But, like, slowly everyone started bringing their dogs into work.

1:07.3

And I have allergies to dogs.

1:10.3

And at the time. I was very fearful of dogs.

1:13.4

You were fearful.

1:13.7

Like, you didn't grow up with dogs.

1:14.9

That's so funny.

1:15.9

I forgot about this.

1:17.1

But, like, everyone was doing it.

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