Here are three updates from letter-writers who had their questions answered here this year. 1. New hire is plotting a coup. spoke with my manager regarding the employee’s behavior and comments after your advice, and the coworker’s behavior was being closely monitored after my disclosure (hearsay, I guess). However, her time with us was destined to be short, due to continued tardiness/periods where she was unaccounted for (several times in a short amount of time) and a sudden conflict that erupted between her and a coworker. She was terminated after just three weeks of employment. MORE

Remember the letter-writer whose company was asking internal candidates for a promotion to give presentations about how to foster positivity at work , all because of one person who’d been causing a lot of drama? Here’s the update. wrote in a month or so back about my office’s internal hiring process, which changed to involve the candidates creating a “positivity presentation” because one of them was causing drama. Well, they are finally giving their presentations and they sound like they’ve been an utter flop. updates MORE