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Comment on E-Mail Message Tone: Choose Words Carefully by Jeryl Baker

Jeryl Baker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:18:17 +0000

Marcia,
What a great blog this is. I just read it and had a comment about almost every lising. I like the informality yet the lessons learned from every story.

Comment on Workplace Culture: Pitting Employee Versus Employee by Marcia Hall

Marcia Hall — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:31:45 +0000

This sounds like quite a toxic situation and certainly one where it would be difficult for employees to thrive. Thank you for describing it.

Comment on Workplace Behavior: Watch What You Say by Marcia Hall

Marcia Hall — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:20:59 +0000

Thanks for all your comments. I appreciate your kind words. I write a monthly column for the Capital Gazette Newspapers in Maryland. It is called, “Soft Skills at Work.”

Comment on Workplace Culture: Pitting Employee Versus Employee by CJM

CJM — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:14:59 +0000

Sure. A public school district. Support positions (with no supervisory authority) to teachers and principals were required to serve as ‘reporting agents’ of teacher infraction. Reporting infractions, of course, instigated adverse relationships. The support positions were presented as helpful agents, yet were required to find and report infractions.

The pitting results from this continued practice (even when supervisors were replaced over a period of years) and the request to either change the position to supervisory, or eliminate the punitive aspect of reporting requirements being ignored.

Furthermore, any information reported was brought to the attention of the teachers (creating dicension) and was rarely actually used for improvement efforts. My experience was that it ‘pitted employees’ repeatedly against each other.

Efforts to rectify the situation were viewed as contentious. The only choice for action were to comply and report or not report and be found incompetent of job responsibilities.

Poor work environments are one thing, requiring employees to aggressively attack one another with no apparent outcome except for employee upheaval is another. Children? teaching? Education?????

Comment on Workplace Behavior: Watch What You Say by Kouba

Kouba — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:58:54 +0000

Very interesting and amusing subject. I read with great pleasure.

Comment on Workplace Behavior: Watch What You Say by Bunker

Bunker — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:54:57 +0000

Are you a professional journalist? You write very well.

Comment on Workplace Behavior: Watch What You Say by Arsento

Arsento — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:34:49 +0000

I liked it. So much useful material. I read with great interest.

Comment on Workplace Culture: Pitting Employee Versus Employee by Marcia Hall

Marcia Hall — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:28:26 +0000

Thanks for your comment. Would you say a little more about the type of work environment you’re describing?

Comment on Workplace Culture: Pitting Employee Versus Employee by CJM

CJM — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:06:54 +0000

What about work environments that require infighting in the workplace, then supervisors document any act to address the problem as ‘non-compliance?’

Comment on Introducing CONNECT! A Soft Skills Coalition by Manaswini Sridhar

Manaswini Sridhar — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:45:56 +0000

This is very true. The office requires a different kind of language. It is also not appropriate to say, “Chill!” to your boss or senior colleague when they are upset. It is important to unlearn some of the ‘cool’ vocabulary learned in college.